1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
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_USB_XDBC
47 bool "Early printk via the xHCI debug port"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
49 select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
51 Write kernel log output directly into the xHCI debug port.
53 One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example when your
54 machine crashes very early before the regular console code is
55 initialized. Other uses include simpler, lockless logging instead of
56 a full-blown printk console driver + klogd.
58 For normal production environments this is normally not recommended,
59 because it doesn't feed events into klogd/syslogd and doesn't try to
60 print anything on the screen.
62 You should normally say N here, unless you want to debug early
63 crashes or need a very simple printk logging facility.
69 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
73 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
74 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
75 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
79 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
85 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
86 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
87 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
88 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
89 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
90 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
91 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
93 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
98 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
99 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
102 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
103 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
104 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
105 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
106 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
107 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
108 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
109 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
110 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst for more
114 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
115 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
117 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
118 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
120 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
123 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
124 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && INSTRUCTION_DECODER
126 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
128 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
129 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
134 prompt "IO delay type"
135 default IO_DELAY_0X80
138 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
140 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
141 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
144 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
146 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
147 often used as a hardware-debug port.
149 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
150 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
152 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
153 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
156 bool "no port-IO delay"
158 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
159 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
163 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
164 bool "Debug boot parameters"
165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
168 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
171 bool "CPA self-test code"
172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
174 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
177 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
180 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
181 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
182 exits or otherwise impact performance.
186 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
188 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
190 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
191 that the NMI behaves correctly.
193 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
198 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
199 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
202 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
203 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
204 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
205 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
208 If unsure say N here.
211 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
215 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
216 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
217 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
222 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
223 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
228 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
229 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
230 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
231 The current power state can be read from
232 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
235 prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
236 default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
237 default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
239 This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
240 traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
241 livepatch, lockdep, and more.
246 select STACK_VALIDATION
248 This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
249 unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
250 a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
252 This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the
253 frame pointer unwinder. It also enables a 5-10% performance
254 improvement across the entire kernel compared to frame pointers.
256 Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage
257 by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config.
259 config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
260 bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
263 This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
266 The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
267 unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
268 overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
270 config UNWINDER_GUESS
271 bool "Guess unwinder"
273 depends on !STACKDEPOT
275 This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
276 traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
277 finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
279 While this option often produces false positives, it can still be
280 useful in many cases. Unlike the other unwinders, it has no runtime
286 depends on !UNWINDER_ORC && !UNWINDER_GUESS