3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
11 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
12 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
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.
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
25 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
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.
34 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
37 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
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.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
50 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
52 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
53 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
54 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
55 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
56 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
58 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
59 bool "Check for stack overflows"
60 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
62 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
63 drops below a certain limit.
65 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
66 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
67 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
69 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
70 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
72 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
74 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
75 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
76 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
79 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
80 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
81 and decreases performance.
86 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
87 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
90 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
91 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
92 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
93 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
98 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
100 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
102 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
103 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
104 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
105 If in doubt, say "Y".
107 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
108 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
109 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
112 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
113 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
117 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
120 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
121 and the software setup of this feature.
125 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
128 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
129 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
130 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
131 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
132 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
136 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
139 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
140 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
141 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
145 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
146 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
149 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
150 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
151 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
152 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
153 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
154 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
155 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
156 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
157 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
161 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
163 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
164 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
165 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
169 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
170 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
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.
175 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
178 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
179 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
182 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
183 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
191 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
195 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
199 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
203 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
208 prompt "IO delay type"
209 default IO_DELAY_0X80
212 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
214 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
215 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
218 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
220 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
221 often used as a hardware-debug port.
223 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
224 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
226 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
227 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
230 bool "no port-IO delay"
232 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
233 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
238 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
240 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
244 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
246 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
250 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
252 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
256 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
258 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
261 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
262 bool "Debug boot parameters"
263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
266 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
269 bool "CPA self-test code"
270 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
272 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
274 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
275 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
277 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
278 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
279 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
280 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
281 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
282 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
283 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
284 is there to test gcc for this.
288 config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
289 bool "Strict copy size checks"
290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
292 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
293 copy operations into compile time failures.
295 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
296 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
297 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
300 If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.