x86, numaq: cleanups
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1menu "Kernel hacking"
2
55f327fa 3config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
d013a27c 4 def_bool y
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6source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
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d092633b 8config STRICT_DEVMEM
16104b55 9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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f2d0f1de 11 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
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12 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
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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.
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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
21 /dev/mem.
22
23 If in doubt, say Y.
ae531c26 24
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25config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
27 default y
28 help
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.
32
1da177e4 33config EARLY_PRINTK
076f9776 34 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
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35 default y
36 help
37 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
38 port.
39
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.
45
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46config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
48 default n
9749986a 49 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
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50 help
51 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
52
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.
58
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59config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
60 bool "Check for stack overflows"
61 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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62 help
63 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
64 drops below a certain limit.
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66config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
67 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
68 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
69 help
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.
72
73 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
74
1da177e4 75config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
4a2f0acf 76 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
b1d95f4e 77 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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78 help
79 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
80 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
81 of memory corruptions.
82
c49a4955 83config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
84 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
85 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
3e5095d1 86 depends on SMP
c49a4955 87 default n
88 help
89 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
90 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
91 and decreases performance.
92
93 Say N if unsure.
94
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95config X86_PTDUMP
96 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
fe770bf0 97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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98 select DEBUG_FS
99 help
100 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
101 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
102 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
103 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
104 kernel.
105 If in doubt, say "N"
106
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107config DEBUG_RODATA
108 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
11201e60 109 default y
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110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
111 help
112 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
113 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
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114 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
115 If in doubt, say "Y".
63aaf308 116
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117config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
118 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
119 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
72370f2a 120 default y
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121 help
122 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
123 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
124 If in doubt, say "N"
125
126config DEBUG_NX_TEST
127 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
129 help
130 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
131 and the software setup of this feature.
132 If in doubt, say "N"
133
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134config 4KSTACKS
135 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
d013a27c 136 depends on X86_32
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137 help
138 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
139 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
140 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
141 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
142 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
143
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144config DOUBLEFAULT
145 default y
146 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
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147 depends on X86_32
148 help
149 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
150 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
151 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
152 hair.
153
154config IOMMU_DEBUG
155 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
966396d3 156 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
d013a27c 157 depends on X86_64
102e41fd 158 help
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159 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
160 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
161 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
162 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
163 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
164 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
165 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
166 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
167 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
168 details.
169
170config IOMMU_LEAK
171 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
173 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
174 help
175 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
176 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
177
8b7d89d0 178config MMIOTRACE
d61fc448 179 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
37b36192 180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
f984b51e 181 select TRACING
8b7d89d0 182 help
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183 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
184 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
c6c67c1a 185 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
37b36192 186 default and can be enabled at run-time.
8b7d89d0 187
c6c67c1a 188 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
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189 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
190
191config MMIOTRACE_TEST
192 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
193 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
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194 help
195 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
196 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
197 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
198
199 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
200
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202# IO delay types:
203#
204
205config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
206 int
207 default "0"
208
209config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
210 int
211 default "1"
212
213config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
214 int
215 default "2"
216
217config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
218 int
219 default "3"
220
221choice
222 prompt "IO delay type"
fd59e9e9 223 default IO_DELAY_0X80
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225config IO_DELAY_0X80
226 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
227 help
228 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
229 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
230
231config IO_DELAY_0XED
232 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
233 help
234 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
235 often used as a hardware-debug port.
236
237config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
238 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
239 help
240 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
241 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
242
243config IO_DELAY_NONE
244 bool "no port-IO delay"
b02aae9c 245 help
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246 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
247 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
248
249endchoice
250
251if IO_DELAY_0X80
252config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
253 int
254 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
255endif
256
257if IO_DELAY_0XED
258config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
259 int
260 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
261endif
262
263if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
264config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
265 int
266 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
267endif
268
269if IO_DELAY_NONE
270config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
271 int
272 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
273endif
b02aae9c 274
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275config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
276 bool "Debug boot parameters"
277 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
278 depends on DEBUG_FS
279 help
280 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
281
0c42f392 282config CPA_DEBUG
971a52d6 283 bool "CPA self-test code"
f316fe68 284 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
0c42f392 285 help
971a52d6 286 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
0c42f392 287
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288config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
289 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
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290 help
291 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
292 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
293 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
294 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
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295 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
296 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
297 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
298 is there to test gcc for this.
c9af1e33 299
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300 If unsure, say N.
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