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1 | menu "Kernel hacking" |
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3 | source "lib/Kconfig.debug" | |
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5 | config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW |
6 | bool "Check for stack overflows" | |
7 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
8 | help | |
9 | This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space | |
10 | drops below a certain limit. | |
11 | ||
12 | config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE | |
13 | bool "Enable stack utilization instrumentation" | |
14 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
15 | help | |
16 | Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each | |
17 | task has ever had available in the sysrq-T output. | |
18 | ||
19 | This option will slow down process creation somewhat. | |
20 | ||
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21 | config DEBUG_VERBOSE |
22 | bool "Verbose fault messages" | |
23 | default y | |
24 | select PRINTK | |
25 | help | |
26 | When a program crashes due to an exception, or the kernel detects | |
27 | an internal error, the kernel can print a not so brief message | |
28 | explaining what the problem was. This debugging information is | |
29 | useful to developers and kernel hackers when tracking down problems, | |
30 | but mostly meaningless to other people. This is always helpful for | |
31 | debugging but serves no purpose on a production system. | |
32 | Most people should say N here. | |
33 | ||
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34 | config DEBUG_MMRS |
35 | bool "Generate Blackfin MMR tree" | |
36 | select DEBUG_FS | |
37 | help | |
38 | Create a tree of Blackfin MMRs via the debugfs tree. If | |
39 | you enable this, you will find all MMRs laid out in the | |
40 | /sys/kernel/debug/blackfin/ directory where you can read/write | |
41 | MMRs directly from userspace. This is obviously just a debug | |
42 | feature. | |
43 | ||
44 | config DEBUG_HWERR | |
45 | bool "Hardware error interrupt debugging" | |
46 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
47 | help | |
48 | When enabled, the hardware error interrupt is never disabled, and | |
49 | will happen immediately when an error condition occurs. This comes | |
50 | at a slight cost in code size, but is necessary if you are getting | |
51 | hardware error interrupts and need to know where they are coming | |
52 | from. | |
53 | ||
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54 | config EXACT_HWERR |
55 | bool "Try to make Hardware errors exact" | |
56 | depends on DEBUG_HWERR | |
57 | help | |
58 | By default, the Blackfin hardware errors are not exact - the error | |
59 | be reported multiple cycles after the error happens. This delay | |
60 | can cause the wrong application, or even the kernel to receive a | |
61 | signal to be killed. If you are getting HW errors in your system, | |
62 | try turning this on to ensure they are at least comming from the | |
63 | proper thread. | |
64 | ||
65 | On production systems, it is safe (and a small optimization) to say N. | |
66 | ||
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67 | config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT |
68 | bool "Debug Double Faults" | |
69 | default n | |
70 | help | |
71 | If an exception is caused while executing code within the exception | |
72 | handler, the NMI handler, the reset vector, or in emulator mode, | |
73 | a double fault occurs. On the Blackfin, this is a unrecoverable | |
74 | event. You have two options: | |
75 | - RESET exactly when double fault occurs. The excepting | |
76 | instruction address is stored in RETX, where the next kernel | |
77 | boot will print it out. | |
78 | - Print debug message. This is much more error prone, although | |
79 | easier to handle. It is error prone since: | |
80 | - The excepting instruction is not committed. | |
81 | - All writebacks from the instruction are prevented. | |
82 | - The generated exception is not taken. | |
83 | - The EXCAUSE field is updated with an unrecoverable event | |
84 | The only way to check this is to see if EXCAUSE contains the | |
85 | unrecoverable event value at every exception return. By selecting | |
86 | this option, you are skipping over the faulting instruction, and | |
87 | hoping things stay together enough to print out a debug message. | |
88 | ||
89 | This does add a little kernel code, but is the only method to debug | |
90 | double faults - if unsure say "Y" | |
91 | ||
92 | choice | |
93 | prompt "Double Fault Failure Method" | |
94 | default DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT | |
95 | depends on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT | |
96 | ||
97 | config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_PRINT | |
98 | bool "Print" | |
99 | ||
100 | config DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT_RESET | |
101 | bool "Reset" | |
102 | ||
103 | endchoice | |
104 | ||
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105 | config DEBUG_HUNT_FOR_ZERO |
106 | bool "Catch NULL pointer reads/writes" | |
107 | default y | |
108 | help | |
109 | Say Y here to catch reads/writes to anywhere in the memory range | |
110 | from 0x0000 - 0x0FFF (the first 4k) of memory. This is useful in | |
111 | catching common programming errors such as NULL pointer dereferences. | |
112 | ||
113 | Misbehaving applications will be killed (generate a SEGV) while the | |
114 | kernel will trigger a panic. | |
115 | ||
116 | Enabling this option will take up an extra entry in CPLB table. | |
117 | Otherwise, there is no extra overhead. | |
118 | ||
119 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON | |
120 | bool "Turn on Blackfin's Hardware Trace" | |
121 | default y | |
122 | help | |
123 | All Blackfins include a Trace Unit which stores a history of the last | |
124 | 16 changes in program flow taken by the program sequencer. The history | |
125 | allows the user to recreate the program sequencer’s recent path. This | |
126 | can be handy when an application dies - we print out the execution | |
127 | path of how it got to the offending instruction. | |
128 | ||
129 | By turning this off, you may save a tiny amount of power. | |
130 | ||
131 | choice | |
132 | prompt "Omit loop Tracing" | |
133 | default DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF | |
134 | depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON | |
135 | help | |
136 | The trace buffer can be configured to omit recording of changes in | |
137 | program flow that match either the last entry or one of the last | |
138 | two entries. Omitting one of these entries from the record prevents | |
139 | the trace buffer from overflowing because of any sort of loop (for, do | |
140 | while, etc) in the program. | |
141 | ||
142 | Because zero-overhead Hardware loops are not recorded in the trace buffer, | |
143 | this feature can be used to prevent trace overflow from loops that | |
144 | are nested four deep. | |
145 | ||
146 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF | |
147 | bool "Trace all Loops" | |
148 | help | |
149 | The trace buffer records all changes of flow | |
150 | ||
151 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE | |
152 | bool "Compress single-level loops" | |
153 | help | |
154 | The trace buffer does not record single loops - helpful if trace | |
155 | is spinning on a while or do loop. | |
156 | ||
157 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO | |
158 | bool "Compress two-level loops" | |
159 | help | |
160 | The trace buffer does not record loops two levels deep. Helpful if | |
161 | the trace is spinning in a nested loop | |
162 | ||
163 | endchoice | |
164 | ||
165 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION | |
166 | int | |
167 | depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON | |
168 | default 0 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_OFF | |
169 | default 1 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_ONE | |
170 | default 2 if DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_COMPRESSION_TWO | |
171 | ||
172 | ||
173 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND | |
174 | bool "Expand Trace Buffer greater than 16 entries" | |
175 | depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON | |
176 | default n | |
177 | help | |
178 | By selecting this option, every time the 16 hardware entries in | |
179 | the Blackfin's HW Trace buffer are full, the kernel will move them | |
180 | into a software buffer, for dumping when there is an issue. This | |
181 | has a great impact on performance, (an interrupt every 16 change of | |
182 | flows) and should normally be turned off, except in those nasty | |
183 | debugging sessions | |
184 | ||
185 | config DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN | |
186 | int "Size of Trace buffer (in power of 2k)" | |
187 | range 0 4 | |
188 | depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND | |
189 | default 1 | |
190 | help | |
191 | This sets the size of the software buffer that the trace information | |
192 | is kept in. | |
193 | 0 for (2^0) 1k, or 256 entries, | |
194 | 1 for (2^1) 2k, or 512 entries, | |
195 | 2 for (2^2) 4k, or 1024 entries, | |
196 | 3 for (2^3) 8k, or 2048 entries, | |
197 | 4 for (2^4) 16k, or 4096 entries | |
198 | ||
199 | config DEBUG_BFIN_NO_KERN_HWTRACE | |
e60cb8a9 | 200 | bool "Turn off hwtrace in CPLB handlers" |
74ce8322 | 201 | depends on DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_ON |
e60cb8a9 | 202 | default y |
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e60cb8a9 | 204 | The CPLB error handler contains a lot of flow changes which can |
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205 | quickly fill up the hardware trace buffer. When debugging crashes, |
206 | the hardware trace may indicate that the problem lies in kernel | |
207 | space when in reality an application is buggy. | |
208 | ||
209 | Say Y here to disable hardware tracing in some known "jumpy" pieces | |
210 | of code so that the trace buffer will extend further back. | |
211 | ||
212 | config EARLY_PRINTK | |
213 | bool "Early printk" | |
214 | default n | |
0cfbb323 | 215 | select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE |
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216 | help |
217 | This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel | |
218 | to print messages very early in the bootup process. | |
219 | ||
220 | This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very | |
221 | early before the console code is initialized. After enabling this | |
222 | feature, you must add "earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600" to the | |
223 | command line (bootargs). It is safe to say Y here in all cases, as | |
224 | all of this lives in the init section and is thrown away after the | |
225 | kernel boots completely. | |
226 | ||
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227 | config NMI_WATCHDOG |
228 | bool "Enable NMI watchdog to help debugging lockup on SMP" | |
229 | default n | |
c429886a | 230 | depends on SMP |
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231 | help |
232 | If any CPU in the system does not execute the period local timer | |
233 | interrupt for more than 5 seconds, then the NMI handler dumps debug | |
234 | information. This information can be used to debug the lockup. | |
235 | ||
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236 | config CPLB_INFO |
237 | bool "Display the CPLB information" | |
238 | help | |
cf93425d | 239 | Display the CPLB information via /proc/cplbinfo. |
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240 | |
241 | config ACCESS_CHECK | |
242 | bool "Check the user pointer address" | |
243 | default y | |
244 | help | |
245 | Usually the pointer transfer from user space is checked to see if its | |
246 | address is in the kernel space. | |
247 | ||
248 | Say N here to disable that check to improve the performance. | |
249 | ||
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250 | config BFIN_ISRAM_SELF_TEST |
251 | bool "isram boot self tests" | |
252 | default n | |
253 | help | |
254 | Run some self tests of the isram driver code at boot. | |
255 | ||
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256 | config BFIN_PSEUDODBG_INSNS |
257 | bool "Support pseudo debug instructions" | |
258 | default n | |
259 | help | |
260 | This option allows the kernel to emulate some pseudo instructions which | |
261 | allow simulator test cases to be run under Linux with no changes. | |
262 | ||
263 | Most people should say N here. | |
264 | ||
74ce8322 | 265 | endmenu |