source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
- bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem"
+ bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
help
- The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
- space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
- dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
- option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
- kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
- obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
- debugging the kernel.
+ If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all
+ of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
+ access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
+ be used by people debugging the kernel.
+
+ If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
+ userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
+ This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
+ /dev/mem.
+
+ If in doubt, say Y.
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
config 4KSTACKS
bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
depends on X86_32
- default y
help
If you say Y here the kernel will use a 4Kb stacksize for the
kernel stack attached to each process/thread. This facilitates
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 PAGE_FAULT_HANDLERS
+ bool "Custom page fault handlers"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Allow the use of custom page fault handlers. A kernel module may
+ register a function that is called on every page fault. Custom
+ handlers are used by some debugging and reverse engineering tools.
+
#
# IO delay types:
#
help
Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
-endmenu
-
config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
bool "Allow gcc to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
- default y
+ depends on BROKEN
help
This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
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.
+
+endmenu
+