3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
11 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
12 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
14 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
15 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
16 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
18 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
19 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
20 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
25 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
29 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
30 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
31 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
34 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
37 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
40 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
41 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
42 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
43 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
49 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
51 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
53 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
54 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
55 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
56 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
57 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
59 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
60 bool "Check for stack overflows"
61 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
63 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
64 drops below a certain limit.
66 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
67 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
68 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
70 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
71 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
73 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
75 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
76 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
77 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
79 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
80 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
81 of memory corruptions.
83 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
84 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
85 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
89 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
90 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
91 and decreases performance.
96 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
100 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
101 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
102 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
103 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
108 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
112 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
113 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
114 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
115 If in doubt, say "Y".
117 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
118 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
119 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
122 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
123 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
127 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
130 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
131 and the software setup of this feature.
135 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
138 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
139 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
140 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
141 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
142 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
146 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
149 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
150 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
151 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
155 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
156 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
159 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
160 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
161 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
162 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
163 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
164 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
165 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
166 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
167 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
171 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
173 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
175 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
176 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
179 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
183 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
184 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
185 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
186 default and can be enabled at run-time.
188 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
189 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
191 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
192 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
193 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
195 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
196 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
197 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
199 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
205 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
209 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
213 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
217 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
222 prompt "IO delay type"
223 default IO_DELAY_0X80
226 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
228 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
229 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
232 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
234 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
235 often used as a hardware-debug port.
237 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
238 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
240 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
241 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
244 bool "no port-IO delay"
246 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
247 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
252 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
254 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
258 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
260 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
264 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
266 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
270 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
272 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
275 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
276 bool "Debug boot parameters"
277 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
280 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
283 bool "CPA self-test code"
284 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
286 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
288 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
289 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
291 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
292 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
293 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
294 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
295 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
296 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
297 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
298 is there to test gcc for this.