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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index e1983fa025d..d8359e73317 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug" config STRICT_DEVMEM bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" - help + ---help--- If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages" default y - help + ---help--- Enables the informational output from the decompression stage (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP config EARLY_PRINTK bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED default y - help + ---help--- Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial port. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port" default n depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI - help + ---help--- Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port. This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very @@ -59,33 +59,25 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW bool "Check for stack overflows" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space drops below a certain limit. config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. This option will slow down process creation somewhat. -config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC - bool "Debug page memory allocations" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). - This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types - of memory corruptions. - config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on X86_SMP + depends on SMP default n - help + ---help--- Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has been setup. Adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory and decreases performance. @@ -96,7 +88,7 @@ config X86_PTDUMP bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select DEBUG_FS - help + ---help--- Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel. @@ -108,7 +100,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" default y depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables, in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner. @@ -117,7 +109,8 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" depends on DEBUG_RODATA - help + default y + ---help--- This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. If in doubt, say "N" @@ -125,7 +118,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST config DEBUG_NX_TEST tristate "Testcase for the NX non-executable stack feature" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && m - help + ---help--- This option enables a testcase for the CPU NX capability and the software setup of this feature. If in doubt, say "N" @@ -133,7 +126,7 @@ config DEBUG_NX_TEST config 4KSTACKS bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates running more threads on a system and also reduces the pressure @@ -144,7 +137,7 @@ config DOUBLEFAULT default y bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED depends on X86_32 - help + ---help--- This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey @@ -154,7 +147,7 @@ config IOMMU_DEBUG bool "Enable IOMMU debugging" depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL depends on X86_64 - help + ---help--- Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot @@ -170,7 +163,7 @@ config IOMMU_LEAK bool "IOMMU leak tracing" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on IOMMU_DEBUG - help + ---help--- Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings. @@ -203,25 +196,25 @@ choice config IO_DELAY_0X80 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]" - help + ---help--- This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p. It is the most tested hence safest selection here. config IO_DELAY_0XED bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is often used as a hardware-debug port. config IO_DELAY_UDELAY bool "udelay based port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay while not having any side-effect on the IO port space. config IO_DELAY_NONE bool "no port-IO delay" - help + ---help--- No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines. @@ -255,18 +248,18 @@ config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS bool "Debug boot parameters" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on DEBUG_FS - help + ---help--- This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs. config CPA_DEBUG bool "CPA self-test code" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help + ---help--- Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds. config OPTIMIZE_INLINING bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'" - help + ---help--- This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of @@ -279,4 +272,3 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING If unsure, say N. endmenu - |