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