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 EXPERT
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_INTEL_MID
47 bool "Early printk for Intel MID platform support"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && X86_INTEL_MID
50 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
51 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
52 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
54 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
56 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
57 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
58 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
59 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
60 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
62 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
63 bool "Check for stack overflows"
64 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
66 Say Y here if you want to check the overflows of kernel, IRQ
67 and exception stacks. This option will cause messages of the
68 stacks in detail when free stack space drops below a certain
73 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
74 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
77 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
78 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
79 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
80 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
85 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
87 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
89 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
90 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
91 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
94 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
95 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
96 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
99 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
100 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
103 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
104 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
107 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
108 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
109 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
110 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
111 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
112 If in doubt, say "N".
115 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
116 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
118 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
119 and the software setup of this feature.
124 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
127 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
128 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
129 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
133 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
134 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
137 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
138 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
139 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
140 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
141 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
142 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
143 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
144 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
145 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
149 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
151 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
152 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
153 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
157 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
158 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
160 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
161 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
163 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
166 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
167 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
170 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
171 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
179 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
183 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
187 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
191 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
196 prompt "IO delay type"
197 default IO_DELAY_0X80
200 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
202 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
203 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
206 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
208 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
209 often used as a hardware-debug port.
211 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
212 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
214 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
215 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
218 bool "no port-IO delay"
220 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
221 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
226 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
228 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
232 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
234 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
238 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
240 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
244 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
246 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
249 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
250 bool "Debug boot parameters"
251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
254 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
257 bool "CPA self-test code"
258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
260 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
262 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
263 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
265 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
266 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
267 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
268 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
269 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
270 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
271 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
272 is there to test gcc for this.
276 config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
277 bool "Strict copy size checks"
278 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
280 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
281 copy operations into compile time failures.
283 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
284 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
285 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
288 If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.
290 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
292 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
294 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
295 that the NMI behaves correctly.
297 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to