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| 1da177e4 LT |
1 | menu "Kernel hacking" |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | source "lib/Kconfig.debug" | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | config EARLY_PRINTK | |
| 6 | bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED && DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| 7 | default y | |
| 8 | help | |
| 9 | Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial | |
| 10 | port. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very | |
| 13 | early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation | |
| 14 | it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate | |
| 15 | with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here, | |
| 16 | unless you want to debug such a crash. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW | |
| 19 | bool "Check for stack overflows" | |
| 20 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| dab175f3 AB |
21 | help |
| 22 | This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space | |
| 23 | drops below a certain limit. | |
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24 | |
| 25 | config KPROBES | |
| 26 | bool "Kprobes" | |
| 27 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| 28 | help | |
| 29 | Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and | |
| 30 | execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes | |
| 31 | a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful | |
| 32 | for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing. | |
| 33 | If in doubt, say "N". | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE | |
| 36 | bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" | |
| 37 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| 38 | help | |
| 39 | Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each | |
| 40 | task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | This option will slow down process creation somewhat. | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | comment "Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386" | |
| 45 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC | |
| 48 | bool "Page alloc debugging" | |
| 49 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND | |
| 50 | help | |
| 51 | Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). | |
| 52 | This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types | |
| 53 | of memory corruptions. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | config 4KSTACKS | |
| 56 | bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" | |
| 57 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
| 58 | help | |
| 59 | If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the | |
| 60 | kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates | |
| 61 | running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure | |
| 62 | on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option | |
| 63 | will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG | |
| 66 | bool | |
| 67 | depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER | |
| 68 | default y | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | config X86_MPPARSE | |
| 71 | bool | |
| 72 | depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS | |
| 73 | default y | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | endmenu |