1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
4 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
7 source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
9 config EARLY_PRINTK_USB
12 config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
13 bool "Enable verbose x86 bootup info messages"
16 Enables the informational output from the decompression stage
17 (e.g. bzImage) of the boot. If you disable this you will still
18 see errors. Disable this if you want silent bootup.
21 bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
24 Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial
27 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
28 early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
29 it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
30 with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally say N here,
31 unless you want to debug such a crash.
33 config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
34 bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
35 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
36 select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
38 Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
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 say N here,
44 unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
46 config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
47 bool "Early printk via the EFI framebuffer"
48 depends on EFI && EARLY_PRINTK
51 Write kernel log output directly into the EFI framebuffer.
53 This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
54 early before the console code is initialized.
56 config EARLY_PRINTK_USB_XDBC
57 bool "Early printk via the xHCI debug port"
58 depends on EARLY_PRINTK && PCI
59 select EARLY_PRINTK_USB
61 Write kernel log output directly into the xHCI debug port.
63 One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example when your
64 machine crashes very early before the regular console code is
65 initialized. Other uses include simpler, lockless logging instead of
66 a full-blown printk console driver + klogd.
68 For normal production environments this is normally not recommended,
69 because it doesn't feed events into klogd/syslogd and doesn't try to
70 print anything on the screen.
72 You should normally say N here, unless you want to debug early
73 crashes or need a very simple printk logging facility.
75 config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
79 tristate "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
82 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
84 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
85 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
86 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
87 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
92 bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
94 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
96 Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
97 enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
98 issues with the mapping of the EFI runtime regions into that
102 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
103 select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
105 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
107 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
108 W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
110 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
112 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
114 or like this, if the check failed:
116 x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
118 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
119 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
120 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
121 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
123 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
124 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
126 If in doubt, say "Y".
130 bool "Enable doublefault exception handler" if EXPERT
132 This option allows trapping of rare doublefault exceptions that
133 would otherwise cause a system to silently reboot. Disabling this
134 option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
137 config DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
138 bool "Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
144 This option allows the user to tune the amount of TLB entries the
145 kernel flushes one-by-one instead of doing a full TLB flush. In
146 certain situations, the former is cheaper. This is controlled by the
147 tlb_flushall_shift knob under /sys/kernel/debug/x86. If you set it
148 to -1, the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally. Otherwise,
149 for positive values of it, the kernel will use single TLB entry
150 invalidating instructions according to the following formula:
152 flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_shift
154 If in doubt, say "N".
157 bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
158 depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
161 Force the IOMMU to on even when you have less than 4GB of
162 memory and add debugging code. On overflow always panic. And
163 allow to enable IOMMU leak tracing. Can be disabled at boot
164 time with iommu=noforce. This will also enable scatter gather
165 list merging. Currently not recommended for production
166 code. When you use it make sure you have a big enough
167 IOMMU/AGP aperture. Most of the options enabled by this can
168 be set more finegrained using the iommu= command line
169 options. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for more
173 bool "Enable IOMMU stress-test mode"
175 This option disables various optimizations in IOMMU related
176 code to do real stress testing of the IOMMU code. This option
177 will cause a performance drop and should only be enabled for
181 bool "IOMMU leak tracing"
182 depends on IOMMU_DEBUG && DMA_API_DEBUG
184 Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
185 are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
187 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
190 config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
191 bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && INSTRUCTION_DECODER
193 depends on !COMPILE_TEST
195 Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
196 This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
204 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
208 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
212 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
216 config IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
221 prompt "IO delay type"
222 default IO_DELAY_0X80
225 bool "port 0x80 based port-IO delay [recommended]"
227 This is the traditional Linux IO delay used for in/out_p.
228 It is the most tested hence safest selection here.
231 bool "port 0xed based port-IO delay"
233 Use port 0xed as the IO delay. This frees up port 0x80 which is
234 often used as a hardware-debug port.
236 config IO_DELAY_UDELAY
237 bool "udelay based port-IO delay"
239 Use udelay(2) as the IO delay method. This provides the delay
240 while not having any side-effect on the IO port space.
243 bool "no port-IO delay"
245 No port-IO delay. Will break on old boxes that require port-IO
246 delay for certain operations. Should work on most new machines.
251 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
253 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80
257 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
259 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED
263 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
265 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY
269 config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE
271 default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE
274 config DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
275 bool "Debug boot parameters"
276 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
279 This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
282 bool "CPA self-test code"
283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
285 Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
287 config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
288 bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
290 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
291 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
292 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
293 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
294 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
295 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
296 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
297 is there to test gcc for this.
302 bool "Debug low-level entry code"
303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
305 This option enables sanity checks in x86's low-level entry code.
306 Some of these sanity checks may slow down kernel entries and
307 exits or otherwise impact performance.
311 config DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
313 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC
315 Enabling this option turns on a quick NMI selftest to verify
316 that the NMI behaves correctly.
318 This might help diagnose strange hangs that rely on NMI to
323 config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
324 bool "Isolated Memory Region self test"
328 This option enables automated sanity testing of the IMR code.
329 Some simple tests are run to verify IMR bounds checking, alignment
330 and overlapping. This option is really only useful if you are
331 debugging an IMR memory map or are modifying the IMR code and want to
334 If unsure say N here.
337 bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
338 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
341 If this option is enabled then there will be extra sanity
342 checks and (boot time) debug printouts added to the kernel.
343 This debugging adds some small amount of runtime overhead
348 config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
349 tristate "ATOM Punit debug driver"
354 This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
355 of all Punit North Complex devices. The power states of
356 each device is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.
357 The current power state can be read from
358 /sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
361 prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
362 default UNWINDER_ORC if X86_64
363 default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER if X86_32
365 This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
366 traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
367 livepatch, lockdep, and more.
372 select STACK_VALIDATION
374 This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
375 unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
376 a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
378 This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the
379 frame pointer unwinder. It also enables a 5-10% performance
380 improvement across the entire kernel compared to frame pointers.
382 Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage
383 by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config.
385 config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
386 bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
389 This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
392 The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
393 unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
394 overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
396 This option is recommended if you want to use the livepatch
397 consistency model, as this is currently the only way to get a
398 reliable stack trace (CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).
400 config UNWINDER_GUESS
401 bool "Guess unwinder"
404 This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
405 traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
406 finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
408 While this option often produces false positives, it can still be
409 useful in many cases. Unlike the other unwinders, it has no runtime
415 depends on !UNWINDER_ORC && !UNWINDER_GUESS