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
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
88 depends on !PREEMPT_RT
91 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
92 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
93 and decreases performance.
98 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
99 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
102 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
103 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
104 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
105 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
110 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
114 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
115 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
116 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
117 If in doubt, say "Y".
119 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
120 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
121 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
124 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
125 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
129 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
130 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
132 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
133 and the software setup of this feature.
137 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
141 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
142 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
143 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
144 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
145 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
149 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
152 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
153 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
154 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
158 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
159 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
162 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
163 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
164 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
165 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
166 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
167 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
168 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
169 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
170 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
174 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
176 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
178 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
179 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
181 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
188 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
192 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
196 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
200 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
205 prompt "IO delay type"
206 default IO_DELAY_0X80
209 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
211 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
212 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
215 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
217 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
218 often used as a hardware-debug port.
220 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
221 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
223 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
224 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
227 bool "no port-IO delay"
229 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
230 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
235 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
237 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
241 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
243 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
247 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
249 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
253 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
255 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
258 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
259 bool "Debug boot parameters"
260 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
263 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
266 bool "CPA self-test code"
267 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
269 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
271 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
272 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
274 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
275 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
276 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
277 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
278 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
279 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
280 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
281 is there to test gcc for this.