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 EXPERT
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_INTEL_MID
47 bool "Early printk for Intel MID platform support"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && X86_INTEL_MID
50 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
51 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
52 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
54 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
56 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
57 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
58 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
59 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
60 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
62 config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
63 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
64 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
67 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
69 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
70 early before the console code is initialized.
73 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
74 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
77 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
78 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
79 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
80 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
85 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
86 depends on EFI && X86_PTDUMP
88 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
89 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
90 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
94 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
96 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
98 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
99 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
100 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
101 If in doubt, say "Y".
103 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
104 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
105 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
108 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
109 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
112 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
113 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
116 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
117 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
118 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
119 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
120 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
121 If in doubt, say "N".
124 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
127 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
128 and the software setup of this feature.
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 "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
178 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
179 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
180 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
184 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
185 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
187 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
188 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
190 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
193 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
194 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
195 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
196 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
198 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
199 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
207 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
211 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
215 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
219 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
224 prompt "IO delay type"
225 default IO_DELAY_0X80
228 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
230 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
231 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
234 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
236 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
237 often used as a hardware-debug port.
239 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
240 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
242 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
243 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
246 bool "no port-IO delay"
248 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
249 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
254 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
256 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
260 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
262 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
266 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
268 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
272 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
274 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
277 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
278 bool "Debug boot parameters"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
282 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
285 bool "CPA self-test code"
286 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
288 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
290 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
291 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
293 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
294 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
295 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
296 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
297 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
298 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
299 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
300 is there to test gcc for this.
304 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
306 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
308 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
309 that the NMI behaves correctly.
311 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
316 config X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
317 bool "Debug alternatives"
318 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
320 This option causes additional code to be generated which
321 fails if static_cpu_has() is used before alternatives have