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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-04-17 17:40:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-17 17:40:45 +0200 |
| commit | 926e5392ba8a388ae32ca0d2714cc2c73945c609 (patch) | |
| tree | 2718b50b8b66a3614f47d3246b080ee8511b299e /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | x86: unify arch/x86/mm/Makefile (diff) | |
| download | linux-926e5392ba8a388ae32ca0d2714cc2c73945c609.tar.xz linux-926e5392ba8a388ae32ca0d2714cc2c73945c609.zip | |
x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers
This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional)
/proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel
pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is
going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite
useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be
useful in the future as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: tglx@tglx.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 702eb39901ca..cb7002eca887 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS Say N if unsure. +config X86_PTDUMP + bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" + depends on X86_64 + select DEBUG_FS + help + Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a + debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers + who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel. + It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production + kernel. + If in doubt, say "N" + config DEBUG_RODATA bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" default y |