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author | Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> | 2014-11-25 19:28:39 -0500 |
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committer | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2014-11-26 12:19:18 -0500 |
commit | c9465b4ec37a68425c5a574b56280dc1a7e34070 (patch) | |
tree | 9931393ec1143911c02dc21faf0c62fcc26f4331 /arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | |
parent | dab78b6dcb2bfc90038f35ada826844273dde4d6 (diff) |
arm64: add support to dump the kernel page tables
In a similar manner to arm, it's useful to be able to dump the page
tables to verify permissions and memory types. Add a debugfs file
to check the page tables.
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
[will: s/BUFFERABLE/NORMAL-NC/]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug index 0a12933e50ed..5fdd6dce8061 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | |||
@@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ config FRAME_POINTER | |||
6 | bool | 6 | bool |
7 | default y | 7 | default y |
8 | 8 | ||
9 | config ARM64_PTDUMP | ||
10 | bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" | ||
11 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
12 | select DEBUG_FS | ||
13 | help | ||
14 | Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a | ||
15 | debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers | ||
16 | who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel. | ||
17 | It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production | ||
18 | kernel. | ||
19 | If in doubt, say "N" | ||
20 | |||
9 | config STRICT_DEVMEM | 21 | config STRICT_DEVMEM |
10 | bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" | 22 | bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" |
11 | depends on MMU | 23 | depends on MMU |