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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 93 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 2a3dfbd5e677..01649e14bd33 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -114,21 +114,10 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner. If in doubt, say "Y". -config DIRECT_GBPAGES - bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64 - help - Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can - improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB - pressure. - - This is experimental code. - - If in doubt, say "N". - config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature" depends on DEBUG_RODATA + default y help This option enables a testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. @@ -186,14 +175,10 @@ 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 @@ -287,6 +272,94 @@ config DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE default IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE endif +menuconfig KMEMCHECK + bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory" + depends on X86 + depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW + depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB) + depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE + depends on !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + 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 @@ -307,10 +380,10 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING 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 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and - disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully - this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can - become the default in the future, until then this option is there to - test gcc for this. + enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully + this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the + decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option + is there to test gcc for this. If unsure, say N. |