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
116 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
118 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
120 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
121 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
123 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
125 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
127 or like this, if the check failed:
129 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
131 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
132 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
133 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
134 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
136 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
137 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
139 If in doubt, say "Y".
141 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
142 bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
145 This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
146 kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
147 of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
148 patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
149 against certain classes of kernel exploits.
150 If in doubt, say "N".
153 tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m
156 This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability
157 and the software setup of this feature.
162 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
164 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
165 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
166 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
169 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
170 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
176 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
177 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
178 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
179 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
180 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
181 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
182 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
184 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
186 If in doubt, say "N".
189 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
190 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
193 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
194 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
195 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
196 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
197 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
198 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
199 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
200 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
201 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
205 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
207 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
208 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
209 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
213 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
214 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
216 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
217 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
219 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
222 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
223 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KPROBES
225 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
227 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
228 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
236 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
240 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
244 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
248 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
253 prompt "IO delay type"
254 default IO_DELAY_0X80
257 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
259 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
260 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
263 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
265 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
266 often used as a hardware-debug port.
268 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
269 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
271 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
272 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
275 bool "no port-IO delay"
277 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
278 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
283 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
285 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
289 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
291 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
295 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
297 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
301 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
303 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
306 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
307 bool "Debug boot parameters"
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
311 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
314 bool "CPA self-test code"
315 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
317 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
319 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
320 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
322 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
323 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
324 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
325 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
326 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
327 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
328 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
329 is there to test gcc for this.
334 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
335 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
337 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
338 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
339 exits or otherwise impact performance.
341 This is currently used to help test NMI code.
345 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
349 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
350 that the NMI behaves correctly.
352 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
357 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
358 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
362 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
363 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
364 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
365 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
368 If unsure say N here.
370 config X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
371 bool "Debug alternatives"
372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
374 This option causes additional code to be generated which
375 fails if static_cpu_has() is used before alternatives have
381 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
385 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
386 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
387 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
392 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
393 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
397 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
398 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
399 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
400 The current power state can be read from
401 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state