3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
8 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
9 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
12 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
13 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
14 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
17 bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
20 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
23 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
24 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
25 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
26 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
27 unless you want to debug such a crash.
29 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
30 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
31 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
33 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
35 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
36 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
37 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
38 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
39 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
41 config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
42 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
43 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
46 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
48 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
49 early before the console code is initialized.
51 config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
55 tristate "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
56 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
58 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
60 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
61 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
62 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
63 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
68 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
70 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
72 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
73 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
74 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
78 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
79 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
81 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
83 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
84 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
86 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
88 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
90 or like this, if the check failed:
92 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
94 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
95 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
96 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
97 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
99 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
100 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
102 If in doubt, say "Y".
106 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
108 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
109 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
110 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
113 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
114 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
115 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
120 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
121 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
122 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
123 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
124 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
125 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
126 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
128 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
130 If in doubt, say "N".
133 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
134 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
137 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
138 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
139 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
140 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
141 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
142 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
143 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
144 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
145 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
149 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
151 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
152 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
153 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
157 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
158 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
160 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
161 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
163 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
166 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
167 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
169 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
171 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
172 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
180 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
184 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
188 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
192 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
197 prompt "IO delay type"
198 default IO_DELAY_0X80
201 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
203 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
204 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
207 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
209 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
210 often used as a hardware-debug port.
212 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
213 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
215 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
216 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
219 bool "no port-IO delay"
221 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
222 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
227 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
229 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
233 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
235 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
239 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
241 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
245 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
247 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
250 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
251 bool "Debug boot parameters"
252 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
255 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
258 bool "CPA self-test code"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
261 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
263 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
264 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
266 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
267 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
268 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
269 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
270 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
271 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
272 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
273 is there to test gcc for this.
278 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
281 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
282 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
283 exits or otherwise impact performance.
285 This is currently used to help test NMI code.
289 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
291 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
293 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
294 that the NMI behaves correctly.
296 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
301 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
302 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
306 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
307 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
308 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
309 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
312 If unsure say N here.
315 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
319 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
320 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
321 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
326 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
327 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
331 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
332 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
333 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
334 The current power state can be read from
335 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state