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  1. menu "Kernel hacking"
  2. source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
  3. config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
  4. bool "Check for stack overflows"
  5. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  6. help
  7. This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
  8. drops below a certain limit.
  9. config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
  10. bool "Enable stack utilization instrumentation"
  11. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  12. help
  13. Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
  14. task has ever had available in the sysrq-T output.
  15. This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
  16. config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
  17. def_bool y
  18. config KGDB_TESTCASE
  19. tristate "KGDB: for test case in expect"
  20. default n
  21. help
  22. This is a kgdb test case for automated testing.
  23. config DEBUG_VERBOSE
  24. bool "Verbose fault messages"
  25. default y
  26. select PRINTK
  27. help
  28. When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects
  29. an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message
  30. explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is
  31. useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems,
  32. but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for
  33. debugging but serves no purpose on a production system.
  34. Most people should say N here.
  35. config DEBUG_MMRS
  36. bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree"
  37. select DEBUG_FS
  38. help
  39. Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If
  40. you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the
  41. /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write
  42. MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug
  43. feature.
  44. config DEBUG_HWERR
  45. bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging"
  46. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  47. help
  48. When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and
  49. will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes
  50. at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting
  51. hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming
  52. from.
  53. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
  54. bool "Debug Double Faults"
  55. default n
  56. help
  57. If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception
  58. handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode,
  59. a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable
  60. event. You have two options:
  61. - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting
  62. instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel
  63. boot will print it out.
  64. - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although
  65. easier to handle. It is error prone since:
  66. - The excepting instruction is not committed.
  67. - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented.
  68. - The generated exception is not taken.
  69. - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event
  70. The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the
  71. unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting
  72. this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and
  73. hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message.
  74. This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug
  75. double faults - if unsure say "Y"
  76. choice
  77. prompt "Double Fault Failure Method"
  78. default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
  79. depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
  80. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT
  81. bool "Print"
  82. config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET
  83. bool "Reset"
  84. endchoice
  85. config DEBUG_ICACHE_CHECK
  86. bool "Check Instruction cache coherency"
  87. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  88. depends on DEBUG_HWERR
  89. help
  90. Say Y here if you are getting weird unexplained errors. This will
  91. ensure that icache is what SDRAM says it should be by doing a
  92. byte wise comparison between SDRAM and instruction cache. This
  93. also relocates the irq_panic() function to L1 memory, (which is
  94. un-cached).
  95. config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO
  96. bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes"
  97. default y
  98. help
  99. Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range
  100. from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in
  101. catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences.
  102. Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the
  103. kernel will trigger a panic.
  104. Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table.
  105. Otherwise, there is no extra overhead.
  106. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  107. bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace"
  108. default y
  109. help
  110. All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last
  111. 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history
  112. allows the user to recreate the program sequencer’s recent path. This
  113. can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution
  114. path of how it got to the offending instruction.
  115. By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power.
  116. choice
  117. prompt "Omit loop Tracing"
  118. default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  119. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  120. help
  121. The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in
  122. program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last
  123. two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents
  124. the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do
  125. while, etc) in the program.
  126. Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer,
  127. this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that
  128. are nested four deep.
  129. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  130. bool "Trace all Loops"
  131. help
  132. The trace buffer records all changes of flow
  133. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
  134. bool "Compress single-level loops"
  135. help
  136. The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace
  137. is spinning on a while or do loop.
  138. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
  139. bool "Compress two-level loops"
  140. help
  141. The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if
  142. the trace is spinning in a nested loop
  143. endchoice
  144. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION
  145. int
  146. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  147. default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF
  148. default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE
  149. default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO
  150. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
  151. bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries"
  152. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  153. default n
  154. help
  155. By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in
  156. the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them
  157. into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This
  158. has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of
  159. flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty
  160. debugging sessions
  161. config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN
  162. int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)"
  163. range 0 4
  164. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND
  165. default 1
  166. help
  167. This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information
  168. is kept in.
  169. 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries,
  170. 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries,
  171. 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries,
  172. 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries,
  173. 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries
  174. config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE
  175. bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers"
  176. depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON
  177. default y
  178. help
  179. The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can
  180. quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes,
  181. the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel
  182. space when in reality an application is buggy.
  183. Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces
  184. of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back.
  185. config EARLY_PRINTK
  186. bool "Early printk"
  187. default n
  188. select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
  189. help
  190. This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
  191. to print messages very early in the bootup process.
  192. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
  193. early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this
  194. feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the
  195. command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as
  196. all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the
  197. kernel boots completely.
  198. config CPLB_INFO
  199. bool "Display the CPLB information"
  200. help
  201. Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo.
  202. config ACCESS_CHECK
  203. bool "Check the user pointer address"
  204. default y
  205. help
  206. Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its
  207. address is in the kernel space.
  208. Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance.
  209. endmenu