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.
78 config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
82 tristate "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
83 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
85 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
87 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
88 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
89 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
90 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
95 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
97 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
99 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
100 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
101 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
105 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
106 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
108 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
110 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
111 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
113 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
115 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
117 or like this, if the check failed:
119 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
121 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
122 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
123 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
124 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
126 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
127 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
129 If in doubt, say "Y".
133 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
135 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
136 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
137 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
140 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
141 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
147 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
148 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
149 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
150 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
151 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
152 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
153 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
155 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
157 If in doubt, say "N".
160 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
161 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
164 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
165 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
166 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
167 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
168 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
169 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
170 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
171 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
172 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
176 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
177 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
179 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
180 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
182 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
185 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
186 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
187 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
188 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
190 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
191 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
199 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
203 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
207 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
211 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
216 prompt "IO delay type"
217 default IO_DELAY_0X80
220 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
222 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
223 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
226 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
228 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
229 often used as a hardware-debug port.
231 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
232 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
234 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
235 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
238 bool "no port-IO delay"
240 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
241 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
246 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
248 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
252 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
254 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
258 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
260 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
264 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
266 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
269 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
270 bool "Debug boot parameters"
271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
274 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
277 bool "CPA self-test code"
278 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
280 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
282 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
283 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
285 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
286 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
287 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
288 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
289 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
290 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
291 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
292 is there to test gcc for this.
297 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
298 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
300 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
301 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
302 exits or otherwise impact performance.
306 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
310 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
311 that the NMI behaves correctly.
313 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
318 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
319 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
323 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
324 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
325 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
326 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
329 If unsure say N here.
332 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
336 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
337 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
338 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
343 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
344 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
349 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
350 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
351 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
352 The current power state can be read from
353 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
356 prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
357 default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
358 default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
360 This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
361 traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
362 livepatch, lockdep, and more.
367 select STACK_VALIDATION
369 This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
370 unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
371 a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
373 This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the
374 frame pointer unwinder. It also enables a 5-10% performance
375 improvement across the entire kernel compared to frame pointers.
377 Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage
378 by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config.
380 config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
381 bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
384 This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
387 The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
388 unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
389 overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
391 This option is recommended if you want to use the livepatch
392 consistency model, as this is currently the only way to get a
393 reliable stack trace (CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).
395 config UNWINDER_GUESS
396 bool "Guess unwinder"
398 depends on !STACKDEPOT
400 This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
401 traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
402 finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
404 While this option often produces false positives, it can still be
405 useful in many cases. Unlike the other unwinders, it has no runtime
411 depends on !UNWINDER_ORC && !UNWINDER_GUESS