3 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
6 bool "Verbose fault messages"
10 When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects
11 an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message
12 explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is
13 useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems,
14 but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for
15 debugging but serves no purpose on a production system.
16 Most people should say N here.
19 tristate "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
22 Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
23 you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
24 /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
25 MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
29 bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
30 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
32 When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
33 will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
34 at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
35 hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
39 bool "Try to make Hardware errors exact"
40 depends on DEBUG_HWERR
42 By default, the Blackfin hardware errors are not exact - the error
43 be reported multiple cycles after the error happens. This delay
44 can cause the wrong application, or even the kernel to receive a
45 signal to be killed. If you are getting HW errors in your system,
46 try turning this on to ensure they are at least coming from the
49 On production systems, it is safe (and a small optimization) to say N.
51 config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
52 bool "Debug Double Faults"
55 If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
56 handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
57 a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
58 event. You have two options:
59 - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
60 instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
61 boot will print it out.
62 - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
63 easier to handle. It is error prone since:
64 - The excepting instruction is not committed.
65 - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
66 - The generated exception is not taken.
67 - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
68 The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
69 unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
70 this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
71 hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
73 This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
74 double faults - if unsure say "Y"
77 prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
78 default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
79 depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
81 config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
84 config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
89 config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
90 bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
93 Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
94 from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
95 catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
97 Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
98 kernel will trigger a panic.
100 Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
101 Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
103 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
104 bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
107 All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
108 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
109 allows the user to recreate the program sequencer’s recent path. This
110 can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
111 path of how it got to the offending instruction.
113 By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
116 prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
117 default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
118 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
120 The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
121 program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
122 two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
123 the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
124 while, etc) in the program.
126 Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
127 this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
128 are nested four deep.
130 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
131 bool "Trace all Loops"
133 The trace buffer records all changes of flow
135 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
136 bool "Compress single-level loops"
138 The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
139 is spinning on a while or do loop.
141 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
142 bool "Compress two-level loops"
144 The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
145 the trace is spinning in a nested loop
149 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
151 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
152 default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
153 default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
154 default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
157 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
158 bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
159 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
162 By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
163 the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
164 into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
165 has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
166 flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
169 config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
170 int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
172 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
175 This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
177 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
178 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
179 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
180 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
181 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
183 config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
184 bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers"
185 depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
188 The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can
189 quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
190 the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
191 space when in reality an application is buggy.
193 Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
194 of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
199 select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
201 This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
202 to print messages very early in the bootup process.
204 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
205 early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
206 feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
207 command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
208 all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
209 kernel boots completely.
212 bool "Enable NMI watchdog to help debugging lockup on SMP"
216 If any CPU in the system does not execute the period local timer
217 interrupt for more than 5 seconds, then the NMI handler dumps debug
218 information. This information can be used to debug the lockup.
221 bool "Display the CPLB information"
223 Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
226 bool "Check the user pointer address"
229 Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
230 address is in the kernel space.
232 Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
234 config BFIN_ISRAM_SELF_TEST
235 bool "isram boot self tests"
238 Run some self tests of the isram driver code at boot.
240 config BFIN_PSEUDODBG_INSNS
241 bool "Support pseudo debug instructions"
244 This option allows the kernel to emulate some pseudo instructions which
245 allow simulator test cases to be run under Linux with no changes.
247 Most people should say N here.
249 config BFIN_PM_WAKEUP_TIME_BENCH
250 bool "Display the total time for kernel to resume from power saving mode"
253 Display the total time when kernel resumes normal from standby or