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  1. menu "Kernel hacking"
  2. config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  3. def_bool y
  4. source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
  5. config STRICT_DEVMEM
  6. bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
  7. ---help---
  8. If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
  9. of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
  10. access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
  11. be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
  12. enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
  13. use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
  14. If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
  15. userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
  16. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
  17. /dev/mem.
  18. If in doubt, say Y.
  19. config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
  20. bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
  21. default y
  22. ---help---
  23. Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
  24. (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
  25. see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
  26. config EARLY_PRINTK
  27. bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
  28. default y
  29. ---help---
  30. Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
  31. port.
  32. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
  33. early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
  34. it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
  35. with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
  36. unless you want to debug such a crash.
  37. config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
  38. bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
  39. default n
  40. depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
  41. ---help---
  42. Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
  43. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
  44. early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
  45. it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
  46. with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
  47. unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
  48. config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
  49. bool "Check for stack overflows"
  50. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  51. ---help---
  52. This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
  53. drops below a certain limit.
  54. config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
  55. bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
  56. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  57. ---help---
  58. Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
  59. task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
  60. This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
  61. config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  62. bool "Debug page memory allocations"
  63. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  64. depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  65. ---help---
  66. Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
  67. This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
  68. of memory corruptions.
  69. config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
  70. bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
  71. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  72. depends on SMP
  73. default n
  74. ---help---
  75. Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
  76. been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
  77. and decreases performance.
  78. Say N if unsure.
  79. config X86_PTDUMP
  80. bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
  81. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  82. select DEBUG_FS
  83. ---help---
  84. Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
  85. debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
  86. who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
  87. It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
  88. kernel.
  89. If in doubt, say "N"
  90. config DEBUG_RODATA
  91. bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
  92. default y
  93. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  94. ---help---
  95. Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
  96. in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
  97. data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
  98. If in doubt, say "Y".
  99. config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
  100. bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
  101. depends on DEBUG_RODATA
  102. default y
  103. ---help---
  104. This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
  105. feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
  106. If in doubt, say "N"
  107. config DEBUG_NX_TEST
  108. tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
  109. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
  110. ---help---
  111. This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
  112. and the software setup of this feature.
  113. If in doubt, say "N"
  114. config 4KSTACKS
  115. bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
  116. depends on X86_32
  117. ---help---
  118. If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
  119. kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
  120. running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
  121. on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
  122. will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
  123. config DOUBLEFAULT
  124. default y
  125. bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
  126. depends on X86_32
  127. ---help---
  128. This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
  129. would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
  130. option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
  131. hair.
  132. config IOMMU_DEBUG
  133. bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
  134. depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
  135. depends on X86_64
  136. ---help---
  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_64/boot-options.txt for more
  146. details.
  147. config IOMMU_LEAK
  148. bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
  149. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  150. depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
  151. ---help---
  152. Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
  153. are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
  154. config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
  155. def_bool y
  156. #
  157. # IO delay types:
  158. #
  159. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
  160. int
  161. default "0"
  162. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
  163. int
  164. default "1"
  165. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
  166. int
  167. default "2"
  168. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
  169. int
  170. default "3"
  171. choice
  172. prompt "IO delay type"
  173. default IO_DELAY_0X80
  174. config IO_DELAY_0X80
  175. bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
  176. ---help---
  177. This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
  178. It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
  179. config IO_DELAY_0XED
  180. bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
  181. ---help---
  182. Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
  183. often used as a hardware-debug port.
  184. config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
  185. bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
  186. ---help---
  187. Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
  188. while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
  189. config IO_DELAY_NONE
  190. bool "no port-IO delay"
  191. ---help---
  192. No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
  193. delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
  194. endchoice
  195. if IO_DELAY_0X80
  196. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  197. int
  198. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
  199. endif
  200. if IO_DELAY_0XED
  201. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  202. int
  203. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
  204. endif
  205. if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
  206. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  207. int
  208. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
  209. endif
  210. if IO_DELAY_NONE
  211. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  212. int
  213. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
  214. endif
  215. config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
  216. bool "Debug boot parameters"
  217. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  218. depends on DEBUG_FS
  219. ---help---
  220. This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
  221. config CPA_DEBUG
  222. bool "CPA self-test code"
  223. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  224. ---help---
  225. Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
  226. config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
  227. bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
  228. ---help---
  229. This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
  230. developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
  231. do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
  232. compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
  233. enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
  234. this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
  235. decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
  236. is there to test gcc for this.
  237. If unsure, say N.
  238. endmenu