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