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1 | menu "Kernel hacking" |
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55f327fa | 3 | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT |
d013a27c | 4 | def_bool y |
55f327fa | 5 | |
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6 | source "lib/Kconfig.debug" |
7 | ||
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8 | config STRICT_DEVMEM |
9 | bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" | |
ae531c26 | 10 | help |
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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17 | |
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. | |
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25 | config 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 | 33 | config 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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46 | config 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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59 | config 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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66 | config 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 | 75 | config 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 | 83 | config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS |
84 | bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" | |
85 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
23ca4bba | 86 | depends on X86_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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95 | config 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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107 | config 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". | |
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117 | config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST |
118 | bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" | |
119 | depends on DEBUG_RODATA | |
120 | help | |
121 | This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA | |
122 | feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. | |
123 | If in doubt, say "N" | |
124 | ||
125 | config DEBUG_NX_TEST | |
126 | tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature" | |
127 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m | |
128 | help | |
129 | This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability | |
130 | and the software setup of this feature. | |
131 | If in doubt, say "N" | |
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133 | config 4KSTACKS |
134 | bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" | |
d013a27c | 135 | depends on X86_32 |
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136 | help |
137 | If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the | |
138 | kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates | |
139 | running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure | |
140 | on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option | |
141 | will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. | |
142 | ||
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143 | config DOUBLEFAULT |
144 | default y | |
145 | bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED | |
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146 | depends on X86_32 |
147 | help | |
148 | This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that | |
149 | would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this | |
150 | option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey | |
151 | hair. | |
152 | ||
153 | config IOMMU_DEBUG | |
154 | bool "Enable IOMMU debugging" | |
966396d3 | 155 | depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL |
d013a27c | 156 | depends on X86_64 |
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158 | Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of |
159 | memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And | |
160 | allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot | |
161 | time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather | |
162 | list merging. Currently not recommended for production | |
163 | code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough | |
164 | IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can | |
165 | be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line | |
166 | options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more | |
167 | details. | |
168 | ||
169 | config IOMMU_LEAK | |
170 | bool "IOMMU leak tracing" | |
171 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
172 | depends on IOMMU_DEBUG | |
173 | help | |
174 | Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you | |
175 | are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings. | |
176 | ||
8b7d89d0 | 177 | config MMIOTRACE |
d61fc448 | 178 | bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" |
37b36192 | 179 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI |
f984b51e | 180 | select TRACING |
8b7d89d0 | 181 | help |
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182 | Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for |
183 | debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap | |
c6c67c1a | 184 | implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by |
37b36192 | 185 | default and can be enabled at run-time. |
8b7d89d0 | 186 | |
c6c67c1a | 187 | See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt. |
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188 | If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. |
189 | ||
190 | config MMIOTRACE_TEST | |
191 | tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" | |
192 | depends on MMIOTRACE && m | |
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193 | help |
194 | This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous | |
195 | as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. | |
196 | However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. | |
197 | ||
198 | Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. | |
199 | ||
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200 | # |
201 | # IO delay types: | |
202 | # | |
203 | ||
204 | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 | |
205 | int | |
206 | default "0" | |
207 | ||
208 | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED | |
209 | int | |
210 | default "1" | |
211 | ||
212 | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY | |
213 | int | |
214 | default "2" | |
215 | ||
216 | config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE | |
217 | int | |
218 | default "3" | |
219 | ||
220 | choice | |
221 | prompt "IO delay type" | |
fd59e9e9 | 222 | default IO_DELAY_0X80 |
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223 | |
224 | config IO_DELAY_0X80 | |
225 | bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]" | |
226 | help | |
227 | This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p. | |
228 | It is the most tested hence safest selection here. | |
229 | ||
230 | config IO_DELAY_0XED | |
231 | bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay" | |
232 | help | |
233 | Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is | |
234 | often used as a hardware-debug port. | |
235 | ||
236 | config IO_DELAY_UDELAY | |
237 | bool "udelay based port-IO delay" | |
238 | help | |
239 | Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay | |
240 | while not having any side-effect on the IO port space. | |
241 | ||
242 | config IO_DELAY_NONE | |
243 | bool "no port-IO delay" | |
b02aae9c | 244 | help |
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245 | No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO |
246 | delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines. | |
247 | ||
248 | endchoice | |
249 | ||
250 | if IO_DELAY_0X80 | |
251 | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | |
252 | int | |
253 | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 | |
254 | endif | |
255 | ||
256 | if IO_DELAY_0XED | |
257 | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | |
258 | int | |
259 | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED | |
260 | endif | |
261 | ||
262 | if IO_DELAY_UDELAY | |
263 | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | |
264 | int | |
265 | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY | |
266 | endif | |
267 | ||
268 | if IO_DELAY_NONE | |
269 | config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE | |
270 | int | |
271 | default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE | |
272 | endif | |
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274 | config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS |
275 | bool "Debug boot parameters" | |
276 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
277 | depends on DEBUG_FS | |
278 | help | |
279 | This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs. | |
280 | ||
0c42f392 | 281 | config CPA_DEBUG |
971a52d6 | 282 | bool "CPA self-test code" |
f316fe68 | 283 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
0c42f392 | 284 | help |
971a52d6 | 285 | Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds. |
0c42f392 | 286 | |
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287 | config OPTIMIZE_INLINING |
288 | bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'" | |
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289 | help |
290 | This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions | |
291 | developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to | |
292 | do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of | |
293 | compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and | |
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294 | enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully |
295 | this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the | |
296 | decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option | |
297 | is there to test gcc for this. | |
c9af1e33 | 298 | |
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299 | If unsure, say N. |
300 | ||
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301 | endmenu |
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