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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 88 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck | 91 |
4 files changed, 94 insertions, 88 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 68f5578fe38..711b214684e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA + select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK config OUTPUT_FORMAT string diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 3951ebb5f84..d105f29bb6b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -260,94 +260,6 @@ config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE endif -menuconfig KMEMCHECK - bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW - depends on SLUB || SLAB - depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE - depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER - select FRAME_POINTER - select STACKTRACE - default n - help - This option enables tracing of dynamically allocated kernel memory - to see if memory is used before it has been given an initial value. - Be aware that this requires half of your memory for bookkeeping and - will insert extra code at *every* read and write to tracked memory - thus slow down the kernel code (but user code is unaffected). - - The kernel may be started with kmemcheck=0 or kmemcheck=1 to disable - or enable kmemcheck at boot-time. If the kernel is started with - kmemcheck=0, the large memory and CPU overhead is not incurred. - -choice - prompt "kmemcheck: default mode at boot" - depends on KMEMCHECK - default KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT - help - This option controls the default behaviour of kmemcheck when the - kernel boots and no kmemcheck= parameter is given. - -config KMEMCHECK_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT - bool "disabled" - depends on KMEMCHECK - -config KMEMCHECK_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT - bool "enabled" - depends on KMEMCHECK - -config KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT - bool "one-shot" - depends on KMEMCHECK - help - In one-shot mode, only the first error detected is reported before - kmemcheck is disabled. - -endchoice - -config KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE - int "kmemcheck: error queue size" - depends on KMEMCHECK - default 64 - help - Select the maximum number of errors to store in the queue. Since - errors can occur virtually anywhere and in any context, we need a - temporary storage area which is guarantueed not to generate any - other faults. The queue will be emptied as soon as a tasklet may - be scheduled. If the queue is full, new error reports will be - lost. - -config KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT - int "kmemcheck: shadow copy size (5 => 32 bytes, 6 => 64 bytes)" - depends on KMEMCHECK - range 2 8 - default 5 - help - Select the number of shadow bytes to save along with each entry of - the queue. These bytes indicate what parts of an allocation are - initialized, uninitialized, etc. and will be displayed when an - error is detected to help the debugging of a particular problem. - -config KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK - bool "kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory" - depends on KMEMCHECK - default y - help - This option works around certain GCC optimizations that produce - 32-bit reads from 16-bit variables where the upper 16 bits are - thrown away afterwards. This may of course also hide some real - bugs. - -config KMEMCHECK_BITOPS_OK - bool "kmemcheck: allow bit-field manipulation" - depends on KMEMCHECK - default n - help - This option silences warnings that would be generated for bit-field - accesses where not all the bits are initialized at the same time. - This may also hide some real bugs. - config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS bool "Debug boot parameters" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 399ba811ba1..6b0c2d8a212 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -996,3 +996,5 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" + +source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..603c81b6654 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +config HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK + bool + +menuconfig KMEMCHECK + bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW + depends on SLUB || SLAB + depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE + depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER + select FRAME_POINTER + select STACKTRACE + default n + help + This option enables tracing of dynamically allocated kernel memory + to see if memory is used before it has been given an initial value. + Be aware that this requires half of your memory for bookkeeping and + will insert extra code at *every* read and write to tracked memory + thus slow down the kernel code (but user code is unaffected). + + The kernel may be started with kmemcheck=0 or kmemcheck=1 to disable + or enable kmemcheck at boot-time. If the kernel is started with + kmemcheck=0, the large memory and CPU overhead is not incurred. + +choice + prompt "kmemcheck: default mode at boot" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT + help + This option controls the default behaviour of kmemcheck when the + kernel boots and no kmemcheck= parameter is given. + +config KMEMCHECK_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT + bool "disabled" + depends on KMEMCHECK + +config KMEMCHECK_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT + bool "enabled" + depends on KMEMCHECK + +config KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT + bool "one-shot" + depends on KMEMCHECK + help + In one-shot mode, only the first error detected is reported before + kmemcheck is disabled. + +endchoice + +config KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE + int "kmemcheck: error queue size" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default 64 + help + Select the maximum number of errors to store in the queue. Since + errors can occur virtually anywhere and in any context, we need a + temporary storage area which is guarantueed not to generate any + other faults. The queue will be emptied as soon as a tasklet may + be scheduled. If the queue is full, new error reports will be + lost. + +config KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT + int "kmemcheck: shadow copy size (5 => 32 bytes, 6 => 64 bytes)" + depends on KMEMCHECK + range 2 8 + default 5 + help + Select the number of shadow bytes to save along with each entry of + the queue. These bytes indicate what parts of an allocation are + initialized, uninitialized, etc. and will be displayed when an + error is detected to help the debugging of a particular problem. + +config KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK + bool "kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default y + help + This option works around certain GCC optimizations that produce + 32-bit reads from 16-bit variables where the upper 16 bits are + thrown away afterwards. This may of course also hide some real + bugs. + +config KMEMCHECK_BITOPS_OK + bool "kmemcheck: allow bit-field manipulation" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default n + help + This option silences warnings that would be generated for bit-field + accesses where not all the bits are initialized at the same time. + This may also hide some real bugs. + |