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1 | menu "Kernel hacking" |
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3 | source "lib/Kconfig.debug" | |
4 | ||
5 | config EARLY_PRINTK | |
6 | bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED && DEBUG_KERNEL | |
7 | default y | |
8 | help | |
9 | Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial | |
10 | port. | |
11 | ||
12 | This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very | |
13 | early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation | |
14 | it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate | |
15 | with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here, | |
16 | unless you want to debug such a crash. | |
17 | ||
18 | config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW | |
19 | bool "Check for stack overflows" | |
20 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
21 | ||
22 | config KPROBES | |
23 | bool "Kprobes" | |
24 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
25 | help | |
26 | Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | |
27 | execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes | |
28 | a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful | |
29 | for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | |
30 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
31 | ||
32 | config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE | |
33 | bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" | |
34 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
35 | help | |
36 | Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each | |
37 | task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. | |
38 | ||
39 | This option will slow down process creation somewhat. | |
40 | ||
41 | comment "Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386" | |
42 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND | |
43 | ||
44 | config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC | |
45 | bool "Page alloc debugging" | |
46 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND | |
47 | help | |
48 | Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). | |
49 | This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types | |
50 | of memory corruptions. | |
51 | ||
52 | config 4KSTACKS | |
53 | bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" | |
54 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
55 | help | |
56 | If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the | |
57 | kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates | |
58 | running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure | |
59 | on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option | |
60 | will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. | |
61 | ||
62 | config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG | |
63 | bool | |
64 | depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER | |
65 | default y | |
66 | ||
67 | config X86_MPPARSE | |
68 | bool | |
69 | depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS | |
70 | default y | |
71 | ||
72 | endmenu |