menu "Debugging Options" config DEBUG bool "Developer Checks" default y ---help--- If you say Y here this will enable developer checks such as asserts and extra printks. This option is intended for development purposes only, and not for production use. You probably want to say 'N' here. if DEBUG || EXPERT config CRASH_DEBUG bool "Crash Debugging Support" depends on X86 ---help--- If you want to attach gdb to Xen to debug Xen if it crashes then say Y. config GDBSX bool "Guest debugging with gdbsx" depends on X86 default y ---help--- If you want to enable support for debugging guests from dom0 via gdbsx then say Y. config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile Xen with frame pointers" default DEBUG ---help--- If you say Y here the resulting Xen will be slightly larger and maybe slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of any Xen bugs. config COVERAGE bool "Code coverage support" depends on !LIVEPATCH select SUPPRESS_DUPLICATE_SYMBOL_WARNINGS if !ENFORCE_UNIQUE_SYMBOLS ---help--- Enable code coverage support. If unsure, say N here. config DEBUG_LOCK_PROFILE bool "Lock Profiling" select DEBUG_LOCKS ---help--- Lock profiling allows you to see how often locks are taken and blocked. You can use serial console to print (and reset) using 'l' and 'L' respectively, or the 'xenlockprof' tool. config DEBUG_LOCKS bool "Lock debugging" default DEBUG ---help--- Enable debugging features of lock handling. Some additional checks will be performed when acquiring and releasing locks. config PERF_COUNTERS bool "Performance Counters" ---help--- Enables software performance counters that allows you to analyze bottlenecks in the system. To access this data you can use serial console to print (and reset) using 'p' and 'P' respectively, or the 'xenperf' tool. config PERF_ARRAYS bool "Performance Counter Array Histograms" depends on PERF_COUNTERS ---help--- Enables software performance counter array histograms. config VERBOSE_DEBUG bool "Verbose debug messages" default DEBUG ---help--- Guest output from HYPERVISOR_console_io and hypervisor parsing ELF images (dom0) will be logged in the Xen ring buffer. config DEVICE_TREE_DEBUG bool "Device tree debug messages" depends on HAS_DEVICE_TREE ---help--- Device tree parsing and DOM0 device tree building messages are logged in the Xen ring buffer. If unsure, say N here. config SCRUB_DEBUG bool "Page scrubbing test" default DEBUG ---help--- Verify that pages that need to be scrubbed before being allocated to a guest are indeed scrubbed. config UBSAN bool "Undefined behaviour sanitizer" depends on HAS_UBSAN ---help--- Enable undefined behaviour sanitizer. It uses compiler to insert code snippets so that undefined behaviours in C are detected during runtime. This requires a UBSAN capable compiler and it is a debug only feature. If unsure, say N here. config DEBUG_TRACE bool "Debug trace support" ---help--- Debug trace enables to record debug trace messages which are printed either directly to the console or are printed to console in case of a system crash. config XMEM_POOL_POISON bool "Poison free xenpool blocks" default DEBUG ---help--- Poison free blocks with 0xAA bytes and verify them when a block is allocated in order to spot use-after-free issues. source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" endif # DEBUG || EXPERT config DEBUG_INFO bool "Compile Xen with debug info" default DEBUG help Say Y here if you want to build Xen with debug information. This information is needed e.g. for doing crash dump analysis of the hypervisor via the "crash" tool. Saying Y will increase the size of the xen-syms and xen.efi binaries. In case the space on the EFI boot partition is rather limited, you may want to install a stripped variant of xen.efi in the EFI boot partition (look for "INSTALL_EFI_STRIP" in docs/misc/efi.pandoc for more information - when not using "make install-xen" for installing xen.efi, stripping needs to be done outside the Xen build environment). endmenu