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_MRST
47 bool "Early printk for MRST platform support"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && X86_MRST
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 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
67 drops below a certain limit.
69 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
70 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
71 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
73 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
74 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
76 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
78 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
79 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
83 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
84 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
85 and decreases performance.
90 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
91 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
94 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
95 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
96 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
97 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
102 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
104 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
106 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
107 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
108 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
109 If in doubt, say "Y".
111 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
112 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
113 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
116 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
117 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
120 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
121 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
124 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
125 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
126 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
127 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
128 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
129 If in doubt, say "N".
132 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
135 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
136 and the software setup of this feature.
141 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
144 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
145 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
146 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
150 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
151 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
154 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
155 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
156 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
157 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
158 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
159 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
160 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
161 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
162 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
166 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
168 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
169 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
170 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
174 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
175 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
177 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
178 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
180 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
183 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
184 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
187 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
188 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
196 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
200 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
204 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
208 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
213 prompt "IO delay type"
214 default IO_DELAY_0X80
217 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
219 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
220 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
223 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
225 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
226 often used as a hardware-debug port.
228 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
229 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
231 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
232 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
235 bool "no port-IO delay"
237 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
238 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
243 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
245 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
249 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
251 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
255 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
257 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
261 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
263 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
266 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
267 bool "Debug boot parameters"
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
271 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
274 bool "CPA self-test code"
275 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
277 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
279 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
280 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
282 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
283 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
284 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
285 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
286 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
287 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
288 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
289 is there to test gcc for this.
293 config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
294 bool "Strict copy size checks"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
297 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
298 copy operations into compile time failures.
300 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
301 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
302 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
305 If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.