Fix typos from signal_32/64.h merge
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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"
7
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8config PROMISC_DEVMEM
9 bool "Allow unlimited access to /dev/mem"
10 default y
ae531c26 11 help
64d206d8 12 If this option is left on, you allow userspace (root) access to all
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13 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
14 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
15 be used by people debugging the kernel.
16
17 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
18 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
19 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
20 /dev/mem.
21
22 If in doubt, say Y.
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24config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
25 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
26 default y
27 help
28 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
29 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
30 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
31
1da177e4 32config EARLY_PRINTK
076f9776 33 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
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34 default y
35 help
36 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
37 port.
38
39 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
40 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
41 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
42 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
43 unless you want to debug such a crash.
44
45config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
46 bool "Check for stack overflows"
47 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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48 help
49 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
50 drops below a certain limit.
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52config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
53 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
54 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
55 help
56 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
57 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
58
59 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
60
1da177e4 61config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
4a2f0acf 62 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
b1d95f4e 63 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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64 help
65 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
66 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
67 of memory corruptions.
68
c49a4955 69config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
70 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
71 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
23ca4bba 72 depends on X86_SMP
c49a4955 73 default n
74 help
75 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
76 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
77 and decreases performance.
78
79 Say N if unsure.
80
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81config X86_PTDUMP
82 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
fe770bf0 83 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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84 select DEBUG_FS
85 help
86 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
87 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
88 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
89 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
90 kernel.
91 If in doubt, say "N"
92
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93config DEBUG_RODATA
94 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
11201e60 95 default y
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96 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
97 help
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
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100 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
101 If in doubt, say "Y".
63aaf308 102
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103config DIRECT_GBPAGES
104 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
105 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
106 help
107 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
108 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
109 pressure.
110
111 This is experimental code.
112
113 If in doubt, say "N".
114
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115config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
116 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
117 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
118 help
119 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
120 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
121 If in doubt, say "N"
122
123config DEBUG_NX_TEST
124 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
126 help
127 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
128 and the software setup of this feature.
129 If in doubt, say "N"
130
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131config 4KSTACKS
132 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
d013a27c 133 depends on X86_32
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134 help
135 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
136 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
137 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
138 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
139 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
140
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141config DOUBLEFAULT
142 default y
143 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
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144 depends on X86_32
145 help
146 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
147 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
148 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
149 hair.
150
151config IOMMU_DEBUG
152 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
966396d3 153 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
d013a27c 154 depends on X86_64
102e41fd 155 help
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156 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
157 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
158 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
159 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
160 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
161 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
162 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
163 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
164 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
165 details.
166
167config IOMMU_LEAK
168 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
170 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
171 help
172 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
173 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
174
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175config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
176 bool
86069782 177
8b7d89d0 178config MMIOTRACE
d61fc448 179 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
37b36192 180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
f984b51e 181 select TRACING
10c43d2e 182 select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
8b7d89d0 183 help
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184 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
185 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
c6c67c1a 186 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
37b36192 187 default and can be enabled at run-time.
8b7d89d0 188
c6c67c1a 189 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
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190 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
191
192config MMIOTRACE_TEST
193 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
194 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
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195 help
196 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
197 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
198 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
199
200 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
201
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203# IO delay types:
204#
205
206config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
207 int
208 default "0"
209
210config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
211 int
212 default "1"
213
214config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
215 int
216 default "2"
217
218config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
219 int
220 default "3"
221
222choice
223 prompt "IO delay type"
fd59e9e9 224 default IO_DELAY_0X80
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226config IO_DELAY_0X80
227 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
228 help
229 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
230 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
231
232config IO_DELAY_0XED
233 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
234 help
235 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
236 often used as a hardware-debug port.
237
238config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
239 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
240 help
241 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
242 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
243
244config IO_DELAY_NONE
245 bool "no port-IO delay"
b02aae9c 246 help
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247 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
248 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
249
250endchoice
251
252if IO_DELAY_0X80
253config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
254 int
255 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
256endif
257
258if IO_DELAY_0XED
259config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
260 int
261 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
262endif
263
264if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
265config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
266 int
267 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
268endif
269
270if IO_DELAY_NONE
271config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
272 int
273 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
274endif
b02aae9c 275
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276config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
277 bool "Debug boot parameters"
278 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
279 depends on DEBUG_FS
280 help
281 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
282
0c42f392 283config CPA_DEBUG
971a52d6 284 bool "CPA self-test code"
f316fe68 285 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
0c42f392 286 help
971a52d6 287 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
0c42f392 288
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289config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
290 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
6d98ca73 291 depends on BROKEN
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292 help
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 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
298 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
299 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
300 test gcc for this.
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