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