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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 66 |
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index ac1e31ba479..ae36bfa814e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -6,15 +6,27 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT source "lib/Kconfig.debug" config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM - bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem" + bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" help - The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI - space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for - dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config - option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including - kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is - obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people - debugging the kernel. + If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all + of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental + access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can + be used by people debugging the kernel. + + If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows + userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions. + This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of + /dev/mem. + + If in doubt, say Y. + +config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP + bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages" + default y + 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. config EARLY_PRINTK bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED @@ -56,7 +68,7 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on X86_64_SMP + depends on X86_SMP default n help Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has @@ -125,15 +137,6 @@ config 4KSTACKS on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace. -config X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG - def_bool y - depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC || X86_VOYAGER - depends on X86_32 - -config X86_MPPARSE - def_bool y - depends on (X86_32 && (X86_LOCAL_APIC && !X86_VISWS)) || X86_64 - config DOUBLEFAULT default y bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EMBEDDED @@ -168,6 +171,33 @@ config IOMMU_LEAK Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings. +config MMIOTRACE_HOOKS + bool + +config MMIOTRACE + bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI + select TRACING + select MMIOTRACE_HOOKS + help + Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for + debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap + implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by + default and can be enabled at run-time. + + See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt. + If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. + +config MMIOTRACE_TEST + tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" + depends on MMIOTRACE && m + help + This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous + as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. + However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. + + Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. + # # IO delay types: # |