3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
8 config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
11 If this option is left off, you allow userspace 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.
16 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
17 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
18 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
23 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
24 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
27 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
28 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
29 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
32 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
35 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
38 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
39 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
40 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
41 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
42 unless you want to debug such a crash.
44 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
45 bool "Check for stack overflows"
46 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
48 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
49 drops below a certain limit.
51 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
52 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
53 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
55 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
56 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
58 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
60 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
61 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
62 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
64 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
65 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
66 of memory corruptions.
68 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
69 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
70 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
74 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
75 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
76 and decreases performance.
81 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
85 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
86 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
87 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
88 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
93 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
95 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
97 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
98 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
99 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
100 If in doubt, say "Y".
102 config DIRECT_GBPAGES
103 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
104 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
106 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
107 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
110 This is experimental code.
112 If in doubt, say "N".
114 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
115 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
116 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
118 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
119 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
123 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
126 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
127 and the software setup of this feature.
131 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
134 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
135 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
136 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
137 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
138 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
142 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
145 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
146 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
147 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
151 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
152 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
155 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
156 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
157 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
158 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
159 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
160 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
161 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
162 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
163 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
167 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
169 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
171 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
172 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
174 config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
178 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
181 select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
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'"
292 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
293 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
294 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
295 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
296 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
297 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
298 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to