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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index aa56e631580..89f4035b526 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -586,5 +586,33 @@ config LATENCYTOP Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. +config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT + bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot" + depends on PCI && X86 + help + If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early + on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use + this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine + over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 + specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. + + With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using + firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. + Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. + + Usage: + + If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize + all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. + + As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling + devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all + devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on + the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. + + This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack + in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. + + See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. source "samples/Kconfig" |