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
78 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
80 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
81 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
82 of memory corruptions.
84 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
85 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
86 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
90 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
91 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
92 and decreases performance.
97 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
98 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
101 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
102 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
103 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
104 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
109 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
111 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
113 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
114 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
115 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
116 If in doubt, say "Y".
118 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
119 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
120 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
123 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
124 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
128 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
129 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
131 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
132 and the software setup of this feature.
136 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
139 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
140 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
141 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
142 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
143 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
147 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
150 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
151 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
152 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
156 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
157 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
160 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
161 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
162 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
163 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
164 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
165 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
166 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
167 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
168 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
172 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
174 depends on IOMMU_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
186 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
190 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
194 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
198 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
203 prompt "IO delay type"
204 default IO_DELAY_0X80
207 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
209 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
210 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
213 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
215 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
216 often used as a hardware-debug port.
218 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
219 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
221 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
222 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
225 bool "no port-IO delay"
227 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
228 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
233 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
235 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
239 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
241 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
245 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
247 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
251 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
253 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
256 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
257 bool "Debug boot parameters"
258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
261 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
264 bool "CPA self-test code"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
267 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
269 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
270 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
272 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
273 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
274 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
275 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
276 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
277 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
278 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
279 is there to test gcc for this.