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1menu "Kernel hacking"
2
55f327fa 3config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
d013a27c 4 def_bool y
55f327fa 5
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6source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
7
ae531c26 8config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
16104b55 9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
ae531c26 10 help
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11 If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all
12 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
13 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
14 be used by people debugging the kernel.
15
16 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
17 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
18 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
19 /dev/mem.
20
21 If in doubt, say Y.
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1da177e4 23config EARLY_PRINTK
076f9776 24 bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
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25 default y
26 help
27 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
28 port.
29
30 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
31 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
32 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
33 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
34 unless you want to debug such a crash.
35
36config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
37 bool "Check for stack overflows"
38 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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39 help
40 This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
41 drops below a certain limit.
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43config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
44 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
45 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
46 help
47 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
48 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
49
50 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
51
1da177e4 52config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
4a2f0acf 53 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
b1d95f4e 54 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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55 help
56 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
57 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
58 of memory corruptions.
59
c49a4955 60config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
61 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
62 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
63 depends on X86_64_SMP
64 default n
65 help
66 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
67 been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
68 and decreases performance.
69
70 Say N if unsure.
71
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72config X86_PTDUMP
73 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
fe770bf0 74 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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75 select DEBUG_FS
76 help
77 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
78 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
79 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
80 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
81 kernel.
82 If in doubt, say "N"
83
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84config DEBUG_RODATA
85 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
11201e60 86 default y
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87 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
88 help
89 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
90 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
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91 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
92 If in doubt, say "Y".
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94config DIRECT_GBPAGES
95 bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
96 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
97 help
98 Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
99 improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
100 pressure.
101
102 This is experimental code.
103
104 If in doubt, say "N".
105
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106config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
107 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
108 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
109 help
110 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
111 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
112 If in doubt, say "N"
113
114config DEBUG_NX_TEST
115 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
116 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
117 help
118 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
119 and the software setup of this feature.
120 If in doubt, say "N"
121
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122config 4KSTACKS
123 bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
d013a27c 124 depends on X86_32
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125 help
126 If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
127 kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
128 running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure
129 on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
130 will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
131
132config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG
d013a27c 133 def_bool y
1da177e4 134 depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER
d013a27c 135 depends on X86_32
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137config X86_MPPARSE
d013a27c 138 def_bool y
6b0c3d44 139 depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64
1da177e4 140
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141config DOUBLEFAULT
142 default y
143 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED
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144 depends on X86_32
145 help
146 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
147 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
148 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
149 hair.
150
151config IOMMU_DEBUG
152 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
966396d3 153 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
d013a27c 154 depends on X86_64
102e41fd 155 help
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156 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
157 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
158 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
159 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
160 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
161 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
162 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
163 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
164 options. See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
165 details.
166
167config IOMMU_LEAK
168 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
170 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG
171 help
172 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
173 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
174
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175config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
176 bool
86069782 177
8b7d89d0 178config MMIOTRACE
d61fc448 179 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
37b36192 180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
f984b51e 181 select TRACING
10c43d2e 182 select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS
d61fc448 183 default y
8b7d89d0 184 help
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185 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
186 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
c6c67c1a 187 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
37b36192 188 default and can be enabled at run-time.
8b7d89d0 189
c6c67c1a 190 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
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191 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
192
193config MMIOTRACE_TEST
194 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
195 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
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196 help
197 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
198 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
199 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
200
201 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
202
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204# IO delay types:
205#
206
207config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
208 int
209 default "0"
210
211config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
212 int
213 default "1"
214
215config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
216 int
217 default "2"
218
219config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
220 int
221 default "3"
222
223choice
224 prompt "IO delay type"
fd59e9e9 225 default IO_DELAY_0X80
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227config IO_DELAY_0X80
228 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
229 help
230 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
231 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
232
233config IO_DELAY_0XED
234 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
235 help
236 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
237 often used as a hardware-debug port.
238
239config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
240 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
241 help
242 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
243 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
244
245config IO_DELAY_NONE
246 bool "no port-IO delay"
b02aae9c 247 help
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248 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
249 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
250
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252
253if IO_DELAY_0X80
254config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
255 int
256 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
257endif
258
259if IO_DELAY_0XED
260config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
261 int
262 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
263endif
264
265if IO_DELAY_UDELAY
266config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
267 int
268 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
269endif
270
271if IO_DELAY_NONE
272config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
273 int
274 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
275endif
b02aae9c 276
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277config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
278 bool "Debug boot parameters"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
280 depends on DEBUG_FS
281 help
282 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
283
0c42f392 284config CPA_DEBUG
971a52d6 285 bool "CPA self-test code"
f316fe68 286 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
0c42f392 287 help
971a52d6 288 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
0c42f392 289
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290config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
291 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
6d98ca73 292 depends on BROKEN
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294 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
295 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
296 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
297 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
298 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
299 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
300 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
301 test gcc for this.
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