1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
7 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 config EARLY_PRINTK_USB
12 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
13 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
16 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
17 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
18 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
21 bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
24 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
27 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
28 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
29 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
30 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally say N here,
31 unless you want to debug such a crash.
33 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
34 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
35 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
36 select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
38 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
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 say N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
47 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
48 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
51 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
53 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
54 early before the console code is initialized.
56 config EARLY_PRINTK_USB_XDBC
57 bool "Early printk via the xHCI debug port"
58 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
59 select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
61 Write kernel log output directly into the xHCI debug port.
63 One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example when your
64 machine crashes very early before the regular console code is
65 initialized. Other uses include simpler, lockless logging instead of
66 a full-blown printk console driver + klogd.
68 For normal production environments this is normally not recommended,
69 because it doesn't feed events into klogd/syslogd and doesn't try to
70 print anything on the screen.
72 You should normally say N here, unless you want to debug early
73 crashes or need a very simple printk logging facility.
75 config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
79 tristate "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
82 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
84 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
85 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
86 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
87 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
92 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
94 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
96 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
97 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
98 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
102 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
103 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
105 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
107 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
108 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
110 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
112 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
114 or like this, if the check failed:
116 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
118 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
119 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
120 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
121 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
123 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
124 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
126 If in doubt, say "Y".
130 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
132 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
133 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
134 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
137 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
138 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
144 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
145 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
146 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
147 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
148 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
149 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
150 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
152 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
154 If in doubt, say "N".
157 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
158 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
161 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
162 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
163 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
164 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
165 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
166 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
167 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
168 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
169 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
173 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
174 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
176 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
177 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
179 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
182 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
183 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
184 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
185 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
187 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
188 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
196 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
200 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
204 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
208 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
213 prompt "IO delay type"
214 default IO_DELAY_0X80
217 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
219 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
220 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
223 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
225 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
226 often used as a hardware-debug port.
228 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
229 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
231 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
232 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
235 bool "no port-IO delay"
237 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
238 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
243 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
245 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
249 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
251 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
255 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
257 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
261 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
263 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
266 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
267 bool "Debug boot parameters"
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
271 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
274 bool "CPA self-test code"
275 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
277 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
279 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
280 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
282 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
283 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
284 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
285 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
286 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
287 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
288 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
289 is there to test gcc for this.
294 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
297 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
298 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
299 exits or otherwise impact performance.
303 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
305 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
307 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
308 that the NMI behaves correctly.
310 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
315 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
316 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
320 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
321 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
322 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
323 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
326 If unsure say N here.
329 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
333 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
334 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
335 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
340 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
341 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
346 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
347 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
348 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
349 The current power state can be read from
350 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
353 prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
354 default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
355 default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
357 This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
358 traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
359 livepatch, lockdep, and more.
364 select STACK_VALIDATION
366 This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
367 unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
368 a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
370 This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the
371 frame pointer unwinder. It also enables a 5-10% performance
372 improvement across the entire kernel compared to frame pointers.
374 Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage
375 by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config.
377 config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
378 bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
381 This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
384 The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
385 unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
386 overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
388 This option is recommended if you want to use the livepatch
389 consistency model, as this is currently the only way to get a
390 reliable stack trace (CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).
392 config UNWINDER_GUESS
393 bool "Guess unwinder"
395 depends on !STACKDEPOT
397 This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
398 traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
399 finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
401 While this option often produces false positives, it can still be
402 useful in many cases. Unlike the other unwinders, it has no runtime
408 depends on !UNWINDER_ORC && !UNWINDER_GUESS