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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. ---help---
  65. Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
  66. This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
  67. of memory corruptions.
  68. config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
  69. bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
  70. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  71. depends on SMP
  72. default n
  73. ---help---
  74. Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
  75. been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
  76. and decreases performance.
  77. Say N if unsure.
  78. config X86_PTDUMP
  79. bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
  80. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  81. select DEBUG_FS
  82. ---help---
  83. Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
  84. debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
  85. who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
  86. It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
  87. kernel.
  88. If in doubt, say "N"
  89. config DEBUG_RODATA
  90. bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
  91. default y
  92. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  93. ---help---
  94. Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
  95. in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
  96. data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
  97. If in doubt, say "Y".
  98. config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
  99. bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
  100. depends on DEBUG_RODATA
  101. default y
  102. ---help---
  103. This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
  104. feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
  105. If in doubt, say "N"
  106. config DEBUG_NX_TEST
  107. tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
  108. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
  109. ---help---
  110. This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
  111. and the software setup of this feature.
  112. If in doubt, say "N"
  113. config 4KSTACKS
  114. bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
  115. depends on X86_32
  116. ---help---
  117. If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
  118. kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
  119. running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
  120. on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
  121. will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
  122. config DOUBLEFAULT
  123. default y
  124. bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
  125. depends on X86_32
  126. ---help---
  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
  130. hair.
  131. config IOMMU_DEBUG
  132. bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
  133. depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
  134. depends on X86_64
  135. ---help---
  136. Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
  137. memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
  138. allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
  139. time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
  140. list merging. Currently not recommended for production
  141. code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
  142. IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
  143. be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
  144. options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
  145. details.
  146. config IOMMU_LEAK
  147. bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
  148. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  149. depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
  150. ---help---
  151. Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
  152. are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
  153. config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
  154. def_bool y
  155. #
  156. # IO delay types:
  157. #
  158. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
  159. int
  160. default "0"
  161. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
  162. int
  163. default "1"
  164. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
  165. int
  166. default "2"
  167. config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
  168. int
  169. default "3"
  170. choice
  171. prompt "IO delay type"
  172. default IO_DELAY_0X80
  173. config IO_DELAY_0X80
  174. bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
  175. ---help---
  176. This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
  177. It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
  178. config IO_DELAY_0XED
  179. bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
  180. ---help---
  181. Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
  182. often used as a hardware-debug port.
  183. config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
  184. bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
  185. ---help---
  186. Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
  187. while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
  188. config IO_DELAY_NONE
  189. bool "no port-IO delay"
  190. ---help---
  191. No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
  192. delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
  193. endchoice
  194. if IO_DELAY_0X80
  195. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  196. int
  197. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
  198. endif
  199. if IO_DELAY_0XED
  200. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  201. int
  202. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
  203. endif
  204. if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
  205. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  206. int
  207. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
  208. endif
  209. if IO_DELAY_NONE
  210. config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
  211. int
  212. default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
  213. endif
  214. config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
  215. bool "Debug boot parameters"
  216. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  217. depends on DEBUG_FS
  218. ---help---
  219. This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
  220. config CPA_DEBUG
  221. bool "CPA self-test code"
  222. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  223. ---help---
  224. Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
  225. config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
  226. bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
  227. ---help---
  228. This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
  229. developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
  230. do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
  231. compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
  232. enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
  233. this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
  234. decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
  235. is there to test gcc for this.
  236. If unsure, say N.
  237. endmenu