3 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
6 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
11 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) 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. Note that with PAT support
15 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
16 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
18 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
19 userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
20 This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
25 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
26 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
29 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
30 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
31 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
34 bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
37 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
40 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
41 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
42 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
43 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
47 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
48 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
50 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
52 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
53 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
54 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
55 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
56 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
58 config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
59 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
60 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
63 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
65 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
66 early before the console code is initialized.
68 config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
72 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
73 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
75 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
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
85 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
87 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
89 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
90 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
91 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
95 bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
97 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
99 Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
100 in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
101 data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
102 If in doubt, say "Y".
104 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
105 bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
106 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
109 This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA
110 feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
114 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
115 depends on DEBUG_RODATA
117 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
119 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
121 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
122 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
124 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
126 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
128 or like this, if the check failed:
130 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
132 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
133 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
134 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
135 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
137 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
138 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
140 If in doubt, say "Y".
142 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
143 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
146 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
147 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
148 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
149 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
150 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
151 If in doubt, say "N".
154 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
157 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
158 and the software setup of this feature.
163 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
165 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
166 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
167 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
170 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
171 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
177 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
178 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
179 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
180 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
181 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
182 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
183 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
185 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
187 If in doubt, say "N".
190 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
191 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
194 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
195 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
196 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
197 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
198 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
199 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
200 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
201 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
202 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
206 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
208 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
209 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
210 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
214 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
215 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
217 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
218 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
220 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
223 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
224 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
225 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
226 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
228 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
229 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
237 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
241 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
245 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
249 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
254 prompt "IO delay type"
255 default IO_DELAY_0X80
258 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
260 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
261 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
264 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
266 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
267 often used as a hardware-debug port.
269 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
270 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
272 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
273 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
276 bool "no port-IO delay"
278 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
279 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
284 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
286 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
290 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
292 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
296 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
298 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
302 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
304 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
307 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
308 bool "Debug boot parameters"
309 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
312 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
315 bool "CPA self-test code"
316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
318 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
320 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
321 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
323 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
324 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
325 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
326 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
327 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
328 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
329 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
330 is there to test gcc for this.
335 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
338 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
339 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
340 exits or otherwise impact performance.
342 This is currently used to help test NMI code.
346 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
348 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
350 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
351 that the NMI behaves correctly.
353 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
358 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
359 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
363 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
364 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
365 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
366 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
369 If unsure say N here.
371 config X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
372 bool "Debug alternatives"
373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
375 This option causes additional code to be generated which
376 fails if static_cpu_has() is used before alternatives have
382 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
386 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
387 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
388 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
393 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
394 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
398 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
399 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
400 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
401 The current power state can be read from
402 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state