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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2005-11-05 17:25:54 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-14 19:55:17 -0800
commit9e43e1b7c7c9872da032442d8e4bb112a02d16f4 (patch)
tree04399c723a8fbd3f859a462add5db34c389ebf45 /Documentation/x86_64
parentffd10a2b77bca50dd05ba26acd5a6e68bcc8f61f (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_CHECKING and add command line option for pagefault tracing
CONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times of the port. But it wasn't even SMP safe for quite some time and the bugs it checked for seem to be gone. This patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There haven't been any new bugs in this area for a long time. Previously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing. That didn't make much sense because that code was unconditionally compiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically only useful at boot. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index aaabb5883ab8..e566affeed7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ Debugging
kstack=N Print that many words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
+ pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
+ and will create a lot of output.
+
Misc
noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropiate ones