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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 EXPERT
  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_INTEL_MID
  38. bool "Early printk for Intel MID platform support"
  39. depends on EARLY_PRINTK && X86_INTEL_MID
  40. config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
  41. bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
  42. depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
  43. ---help---
  44. Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
  45. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
  46. early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
  47. it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
  48. with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
  49. unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
  50. config X86_PTDUMP
  51. bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
  52. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  53. select DEBUG_FS
  54. ---help---
  55. Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
  56. debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
  57. who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
  58. It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
  59. kernel.
  60. If in doubt, say "N"
  61. config DEBUG_RODATA
  62. bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
  63. default y
  64. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  65. ---help---
  66. Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
  67. in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
  68. data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
  69. If in doubt, say "Y".
  70. config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
  71. bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
  72. depends on DEBUG_RODATA
  73. default y
  74. ---help---
  75. This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
  76. feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
  77. If in doubt, say "N"
  78. config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
  79. bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
  80. depends on MODULES
  81. ---help---
  82. This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
  83. kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
  84. of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
  85. patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
  86. against certain classes of kernel exploits.
  87. If in doubt, say "N".
  88. config DEBUG_NX_TEST
  89. tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
  90. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
  91. ---help---
  92. This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
  93. and the software setup of this feature.
  94. If in doubt, say "N"
  95. config DOUBLEFAULT
  96. default y
  97. bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
  98. depends on X86_32
  99. ---help---
  100. This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
  101. would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
  102. option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
  103. hair.
  104. config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
  105. bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
  106. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  107. ---help---
  108. X86-only for now.
  109. This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
  110. kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
  111. certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
  112. tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
  113. to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
  114. for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
  115. invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
  116. flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
  117. If in doubt, say "N".
  118. config IOMMU_DEBUG
  119. bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
  120. depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
  121. depends on X86_64
  122. ---help---
  123. Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
  124. memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
  125. allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
  126. time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
  127. list merging. Currently not recommended for production
  128. code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
  129. IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
  130. be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
  131. options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
  132. details.
  133. config IOMMU_STRESS
  134. bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
  135. ---help---
  136. This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
  137. code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
  138. will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
  139. testing.
  140. config IOMMU_LEAK
  141. bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
  142. depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
  143. ---help---
  144. Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
  145. are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
  146. config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
  147. def_bool y
  148. config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
  149. bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
  150. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
  151. ---help---
  152. Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
  153. This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
  154. decoder code.
  155. If unsure, say "N".
  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. config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
  239. bool "NMI Selftest"
  240. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
  241. ---help---
  242. Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
  243. that the NMI behaves correctly.
  244. This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
  245. function properly.
  246. If unsure, say N.
  247. endmenu