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 DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
47 bool "Check for stack overflows"
48 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
50 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
51 drops below a certain limit.
53 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
54 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
55 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
57 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
58 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
60 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
62 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
63 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
64 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
66 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
67 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
68 of memory corruptions.
70 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
71 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
72 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
76 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
77 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
78 and decreases performance.
83 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
84 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
87 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
88 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
89 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
90 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
95 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
99 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
100 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
101 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
102 If in doubt, say "Y".
104 config DIRECT_GBPAGES
105 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
108 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
109 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
112 This is experimental code.
114 If in doubt, say "N".
116 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
117 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
118 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
120 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
121 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
125 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
126 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
128 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
129 and the software setup of this feature.
133 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
136 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
137 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
138 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
139 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
140 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
144 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
147 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
148 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
149 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
153 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
154 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
157 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
158 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
159 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
160 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
161 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
162 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
163 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
164 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
165 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
169 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
171 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
173 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
174 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
176 config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
180 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
183 select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
185 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
186 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
187 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
188 default and can be enabled at run-time.
190 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
191 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
193 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
194 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
195 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
197 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
198 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
199 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
201 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
207 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
211 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
215 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
219 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
224 prompt "IO delay type"
225 default IO_DELAY_0X80
228 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
230 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
231 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
234 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
236 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
237 often used as a hardware-debug port.
239 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
240 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
242 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
243 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
246 bool "no port-IO delay"
248 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
249 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
254 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
256 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
260 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
262 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
266 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
268 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
272 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
274 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
277 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
278 bool "Debug boot parameters"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
282 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
285 bool "CPA self-test code"
286 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
288 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
290 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
291 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
293 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
294 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
295 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
296 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
297 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
298 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
299 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to