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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..05dae05b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB + bool + +# set if architecture has the its kgdb_arch_handle_qxfer_pkt +# function to enable gdb stub to address XML packet sent from GDB. +config HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_QXFER_PKT + bool + +menuconfig KGDB + bool "KGDB: kernel debugger" + depends on HAVE_ARCH_KGDB + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + If you say Y here, it will be possible to remotely debug the + kernel using gdb. It is recommended but not required, that + you also turn on the kernel config option + CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER to aid in producing more reliable stack + backtraces in the external debugger. Documentation of + kernel debugger is available at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net + as well as in Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst. If + unsure, say N. + +if KGDB + +config KGDB_HONOUR_BLOCKLIST + bool "KGDB: use kprobe blocklist to prohibit unsafe breakpoints" + depends on HAVE_KPROBES + depends on MODULES + select KPROBES + default y + help + If set to Y the debug core will use the kprobe blocklist to + identify symbols where it is unsafe to set breakpoints. + In particular this disallows instrumentation of functions + called during debug trap handling and thus makes it very + difficult to inadvertently provoke recursive trap handling. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE + tristate "KGDB: use kgdb over the serial console" + select CONSOLE_POLL + select MAGIC_SYSRQ + depends on TTY && HW_CONSOLE + default y + help + Share a serial console with kgdb. Sysrq-g must be used + to break in initially. + +config KGDB_TESTS + bool "KGDB: internal test suite" + default n + help + This is a kgdb I/O module specifically designed to test + kgdb's internal functions. This kgdb I/O module is + intended to for the development of new kgdb stubs + as well as regression testing the kgdb internals. + See the drivers/misc/kgdbts.c for the details about + the tests. The most basic of this I/O module is to boot + a kernel boot arguments "kgdbwait kgdbts=V1F100" + +config KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT + bool "KGDB: Run tests on boot" + depends on KGDB_TESTS + default n + help + Run the kgdb tests on boot up automatically without the need + to pass in a kernel parameter + +config KGDB_TESTS_BOOT_STRING + string "KGDB: which internal kgdb tests to run" + depends on KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT + default "V1F100" + help + This is the command string to send the kgdb test suite on + boot. See the drivers/misc/kgdbts.c for detailed + information about other strings you could use beyond the + default of V1F100. + +config KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP + bool "KGDB: Allow debugging with traps in notifiers" + depends on X86 || MIPS + default n + help + This will add an extra call back to kgdb for the breakpoint + exception handler which will allow kgdb to step through a + notify handler. + +config KGDB_KDB + bool "KGDB_KDB: include kdb frontend for kgdb" + default n + help + KDB frontend for kernel + +config KDB_DEFAULT_ENABLE + hex "KDB: Select kdb command functions to be enabled by default" + depends on KGDB_KDB + default 0x1 + help + Specifiers which kdb commands are enabled by default. This may + be set to 1 or 0 to enable all commands or disable almost all + commands. + + Alternatively the following bitmask applies: + + 0x0002 - allow arbitrary reads from memory and symbol lookup + 0x0004 - allow arbitrary writes to memory + 0x0008 - allow current register state to be inspected + 0x0010 - allow current register state to be modified + 0x0020 - allow passive inspection (backtrace, process list, lsmod) + 0x0040 - allow flow control management (breakpoint, single step) + 0x0080 - enable signalling of processes + 0x0100 - allow machine to be rebooted + + The config option merely sets the default at boot time. Both + issuing 'echo X > /sys/module/kdb/parameters/cmd_enable' or + setting with kdb.cmd_enable=X kernel command line option will + override the default settings. + +config KDB_KEYBOARD + bool "KGDB_KDB: keyboard as input device" + depends on VT && KGDB_KDB + default n + help + KDB can use a PS/2 type keyboard for an input device + +config KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC + int "KDB: continue after catastrophic errors" + depends on KGDB_KDB + default "0" + help + This integer controls the behaviour of kdb when the kernel gets a + catastrophic error, i.e. for a panic or oops. + When KDB is active and a catastrophic error occurs, nothing extra + will happen until you type 'go'. + CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 0 (default). The first time + you type 'go', you will be warned by kdb. The secend time you type + 'go', KDB tries to continue. No guarantees that the + kernel is still usable in this situation. + CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 1. KDB tries to continue. + No guarantees that the kernel is still usable in this situation. + CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 2. KDB forces a reboot. + If you are not sure, say 0. + +config ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG + bool + default n + help + If an architecture can definitely handle entering the debugger + when early_param's are parsed then it select this config. + Otherwise, if "kgdbwait" is passed on the kernel command line it + won't actually be processed until dbg_late_init() just after the + call to kgdb_arch_late() is made. + + NOTE: Even if this isn't selected by an architecture we will + still try to register kgdb to handle breakpoints and crashes + when early_param's are parsed, we just won't act on the + "kgdbwait" parameter until dbg_late_init(). If you get a + crash and try to drop into kgdb somewhere between these two + places you might or might not end up being able to use kgdb + depending on exactly how far along the architecture has initted. + +endif # KGDB |