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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] x86: add Kconfig entry for DMA-API debugging
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:26:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227284770-19215-2-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227284770-19215-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Impact: adds a new Kconfig option

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
---
 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 2a3dfbd..d4fafd5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -162,6 +162,18 @@ config DOUBLEFAULT
 	  option saves about 4k and might cause you much additional grey
 	  hair.
 
+config DMA_API_DEBUG
+	default n
+	bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
+	depends on X86
+	help
+	  Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
+	  With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
+	  drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
+	  were never allocated.
+	  This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want to
+	  debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
+
 config IOMMU_DEBUG
 	bool "Enable IOMMU debugging"
 	depends on GART_IOMMU && DEBUG_KERNEL
-- 
1.5.6.4



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-21 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 16:26 [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2008-11-21 16:40   ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: add Kconfig entry for DMA-API debugging Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:48     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 23:18   ` David Miller
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86: add data structures " Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:42   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:49     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86: add initialization code " Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:10     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 17:19       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:27         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-22  9:48     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-23 11:28       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-23 11:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-23 13:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-22  3:27   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22  9:40     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-22 10:16       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22 12:28         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-23 19:36   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86: add helper functions for consistency checks Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 17:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86: add check code for map/unmap_single code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-22  3:27   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22  9:39     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86: add check code for map/unmap_sg code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86: add checks for alloc/free_coherent code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-22  3:27   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22  9:38     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86: add checks for sync_single* code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86: add checks for sync_single_range* code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:26 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86: add checks for sync_sg* code Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 16:40   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:52 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 16:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-11-21 16:57   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 17:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:06     ` David Woodhouse
2008-11-21 17:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-21 17:20         ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 17:24           ` David Woodhouse
2008-11-21 17:27             ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-21 17:45               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-22  3:27                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22  9:33                   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-11-22 10:16                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-02-05 22:44               ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-25  8:11                 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-01 13:19                 ` [PATCH] Support DMA-API debugging facility on PowerPC David Woodhouse
2009-07-01 14:00                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-01 18:34                   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-02 14:09                   ` Kumar Gala
2008-11-21 17:22         ` [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility David Woodhouse
2008-11-22  3:27 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-22  9:29   ` Joerg Roedel

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