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 DIRECT_GBPAGES
118 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
121 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
122 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
125 This is experimental code.
127 If in doubt, say "N".
129 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
130 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
131 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
133 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
134 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
138 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
141 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
142 and the software setup of this feature.
146 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
149 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
150 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
151 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
152 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
153 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
157 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
160 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
161 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
162 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
166 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
167 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
170 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
171 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
172 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
173 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
174 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
175 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
176 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
177 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
178 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
182 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
183 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
184 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
186 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
187 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
190 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
194 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
195 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
196 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
197 default and can be enabled at run-time.
199 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
200 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
202 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
203 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
204 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
206 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
207 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
208 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
210 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
216 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
220 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
224 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
228 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
233 prompt "IO delay type"
234 default IO_DELAY_0X80
237 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
239 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
240 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
243 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
245 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
246 often used as a hardware-debug port.
248 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
249 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
251 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
252 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
255 bool "no port-IO delay"
257 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
258 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
263 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
265 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
269 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
271 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
275 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
277 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
281 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
283 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
286 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
287 bool "Debug boot parameters"
288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
291 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
294 bool "CPA self-test code"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
297 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
299 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
300 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
302 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
303 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
304 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
305 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
306 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
307 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
308 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to