1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
6 # set if architecture has the its kgdb_arch_handle_qxfer_pkt
7 # function to enable gdb stub to address XML packet sent from GDB.
8 config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_QXFER_PKT
12 bool "KGDB: kernel debugger"
13 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
14 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
16 If you say Y here, it will be possible to remotely debug the
17 kernel using gdb. It is recommended but not required, that
18 you also turn on the kernel config option
19 CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER to aid in producing more reliable stack
20 backtraces in the external debugger. Documentation of
21 kernel debugger is available at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net
22 as well as in Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst. If
27 config KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE
28 tristate "KGDB: use kgdb over the serial console"
31 depends on TTY && HW_CONSOLE
34 Share a serial console with kgdb. Sysrq-g must be used
35 to break in initially.
38 bool "KGDB: internal test suite"
41 This is a kgdb I/O module specifically designed to test
42 kgdb's internal functions. This kgdb I/O module is
43 intended to for the development of new kgdb stubs
44 as well as regression testing the kgdb internals.
45 See the drivers/misc/kgdbts.c for the details about
46 the tests. The most basic of this I/O module is to boot
47 a kernel boot arguments "kgdbwait kgdbts=V1F100"
49 config KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT
50 bool "KGDB: Run tests on boot"
54 Run the kgdb tests on boot up automatically without the need
55 to pass in a kernel parameter
57 config KGDB_TESTS_BOOT_STRING
58 string "KGDB: which internal kgdb tests to run"
59 depends on KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT
62 This is the command string to send the kgdb test suite on
63 boot. See the drivers/misc/kgdbts.c for detailed
64 information about other strings you could use beyond the
67 config KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP
68 bool "KGDB: Allow debugging with traps in notifiers"
69 depends on X86 || MIPS
72 This will add an extra call back to kgdb for the breakpoint
73 exception handler which will allow kgdb to step through a
77 bool "KGDB_KDB: include kdb frontend for kgdb"
80 KDB frontend for kernel
82 config KDB_DEFAULT_ENABLE
83 hex "KDB: Select kdb command functions to be enabled by default"
87 Specifiers which kdb commands are enabled by default. This may
88 be set to 1 or 0 to enable all commands or disable almost all
91 Alternatively the following bitmask applies:
93 0x0002 - allow arbitrary reads from memory and symbol lookup
94 0x0004 - allow arbitrary writes to memory
95 0x0008 - allow current register state to be inspected
96 0x0010 - allow current register state to be modified
97 0x0020 - allow passive inspection (backtrace, process list, lsmod)
98 0x0040 - allow flow control management (breakpoint, single step)
99 0x0080 - enable signalling of processes
100 0x0100 - allow machine to be rebooted
102 The config option merely sets the default at boot time. Both
103 issuing 'echo X > /sys/module/kdb/parameters/cmd_enable' or
104 setting with kdb.cmd_enable=X kernel command line option will
105 override the default settings.
108 bool "KGDB_KDB: keyboard as input device"
109 depends on VT && KGDB_KDB
112 KDB can use a PS/2 type keyboard for an input device
114 config KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC
115 int "KDB: continue after catastrophic errors"
119 This integer controls the behaviour of kdb when the kernel gets a
120 catastrophic error, i.e. for a panic or oops.
121 When KDB is active and a catastrophic error occurs, nothing extra
122 will happen until you type 'go'.
123 CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 0 (default). The first time
124 you type 'go', you will be warned by kdb. The secend time you type
125 'go', KDB tries to continue. No guarantees that the
126 kernel is still usable in this situation.
127 CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 1. KDB tries to continue.
128 No guarantees that the kernel is still usable in this situation.
129 CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 2. KDB forces a reboot.
130 If you are not sure, say 0.
132 config ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG
136 If an architecture can definitely handle entering the debugger
137 when early_param's are parsed then it select this config.
138 Otherwise, if "kgdbwait" is passed on the kernel command line it
139 won't actually be processed until dbg_late_init() just after the
140 call to kgdb_arch_late() is made.
142 NOTE: Even if this isn't selected by an architecture we will
143 still try to register kgdb to handle breakpoints and crashes
144 when early_param's are parsed, we just won't act on the
145 "kgdbwait" parameter until dbg_late_init(). If you get a
146 crash and try to drop into kgdb somewhere between these two
147 places you might or might not end up being able to use kgdb
148 depending on exactly how far along the architecture has initted.