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_PER_CPU_MAPS
76 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
77 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
81 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
82 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
83 and decreases performance.
88 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
89 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
92 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
93 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
94 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
95 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
100 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
102 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
104 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
105 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
106 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
107 If in doubt, say "Y".
109 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
110 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
111 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
114 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
115 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
119 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
122 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
123 and the software setup of this feature.
127 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
130 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
131 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
132 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
133 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
134 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
138 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
141 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
142 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
143 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
147 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
148 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
151 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
152 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
153 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
154 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
155 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
156 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
157 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
158 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
159 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
163 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
165 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
167 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
168 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
170 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
177 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
181 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
185 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
189 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
194 prompt "IO delay type"
195 default IO_DELAY_0X80
198 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
200 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
201 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
204 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
206 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
207 often used as a hardware-debug port.
209 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
210 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
212 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
213 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
216 bool "no port-IO delay"
218 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
219 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
224 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
226 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
230 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
232 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
236 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
238 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
242 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
244 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
247 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
248 bool "Debug boot parameters"
249 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
252 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
255 bool "CPA self-test code"
256 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
258 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
260 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
261 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
263 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
264 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
265 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
266 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
267 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
268 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
269 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
270 is there to test gcc for this.