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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08004 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup.
11
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040012config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
14 default y
15 help
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
19
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070020config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
22 default y
23 help
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010028config FRAME_WARN
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
30 range 0 8192
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
32 default 2048 if 64BIT
33 help
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
37 Requires gcc 4.4
38
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080041 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042 help
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
52
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070053config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
54 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
55 default n
56 help
57 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
58 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
59 get_wchan() and suchlike.
60
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070061config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
62 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
63 default y if X86
64 help
65 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
66 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
67 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
68 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
69 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
70 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
71 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
72 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
73 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
74 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
75 your module is.
76
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080077config DEBUG_FS
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080079 help
80 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
81 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
82 write to these files.
83
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020084 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
85 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
86
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080087 If unsure, say N.
88
89config HEADERS_CHECK
90 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
91 depends on !UML
92 help
93 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
94 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
95 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
96 were not exported, etc.
97
98 If you're making modifications to header files which are
99 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
100 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
101 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
102
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100103config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
104 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Mike Frysinger1d536612010-03-23 13:35:17 -0700105 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
106 default y
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100107 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
André Goddard Rosaaf901ca2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200108 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100109 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100110 help
111 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
112 references from one section to another section.
113 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
114 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
115 most likely result in an oops.
116 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
117 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100118 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
119 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
120 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100121 do the following:
122 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
123 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100124 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100125 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100126 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100127 result in a larger kernel.
128 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
129 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100130 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100131 introduced.
132 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
133 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
134 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
135 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100136 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
137 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100138
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800139config DEBUG_KERNEL
140 bool "Kernel debugging"
141 help
142 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
143 identify kernel problems.
144
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800145config DEBUG_SHIRQ
146 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
148 help
149 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
150 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
151 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
152 points; some don't and need to be caught.
153
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400154config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
155 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700157 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400158 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
159 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500160
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400161 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200162 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400163 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
164 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700165
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400166 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
167 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
168 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
169 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700170
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400171 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
172 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
173 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500174
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200175config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
176 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700177
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200178config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
179 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200180 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200181 help
182 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
183 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
184 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
185 chance to run.
186
187 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
188 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
189 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
190 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
191 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
192
193 Say N if unsure.
194
195config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
196 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200197 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200198 range 0 1
199 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
200 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
201
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800202config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
203 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar77d05632009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200205 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800206 help
207 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
208 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
209 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
210
211 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
212 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
213 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
214 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
215 feature has negligible overhead.
216
217config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
218 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
219 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
220 help
221 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
222 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
223 in uninterruptible "D" state.
224
225 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
226 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
227 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
228 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
229 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
230
231 Say N if unsure.
232
233config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
234 int
235 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
236 range 0 1
237 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
238 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
239
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200240config SCHED_DEBUG
241 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
243 default y
244 help
245 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
246 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
247 option is minimal.
248
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700249config SCHEDSTATS
250 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
252 help
253 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
254 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
255 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
256 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
257 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
258 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
259 this adds.
260
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800261config TIMER_STATS
262 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
264 help
265 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
266 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
267 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
268 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
269 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700270 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
271 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
272 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
273 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800274
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700275config DEBUG_OBJECTS
276 bool "Debug object operations"
277 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
278 help
279 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
280 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
281 the operations on those objects.
282
283config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
284 bool "Debug objects selftest"
285 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
286 help
287 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
288
289config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
290 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
291 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
292 help
293 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
294 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
295 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
296 much slower.
297
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700298config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
299 bool "Debug timer objects"
300 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
301 help
302 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
303 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
304 validate the timer operations.
305
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900306config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
307 bool "Debug work objects"
308 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
309 help
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
312 validate the work operations.
313
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400314config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
315 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
316 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
317 help
318 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
319
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700320config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
321 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
322 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
323 help
324 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
325 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
326 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
327
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100328config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
329 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
330 range 0 1
331 default "1"
332 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
333 help
334 Debug objects boot parameter default value
335
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700336config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800337 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200338 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700339 help
340 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
341 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
342 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
343
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800344config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
345 bool "Memory leak debugging"
346 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
347
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700348config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
349 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200350 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700351 default n
352 help
353 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
354 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
355 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
356 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
357 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
358 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
359 "slub_debug=-".
360
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800361config SLUB_STATS
362 default n
363 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500364 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800365 help
366 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
367 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
368 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
369 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
370 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
371 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
372 Try running: slabinfo -DA
373
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100374config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
375 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
David S. Miller9343af02010-04-13 00:28:45 -0700377 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200378
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100379 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
380 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
381 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800382 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100383 help
384 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
385 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
386 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
387 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
388 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
389 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
390 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
391 details.
392
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100393 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
394 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
395
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100396 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
397 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
398
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100399config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
400 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
401 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200402 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100403 default 400
404 help
405 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
406 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
407 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
408 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
409 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
410
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100411config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
412 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
413 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
414 help
415 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
416 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
417 memory.
418
419 If unsure, say N.
420
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100421config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
422 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
423 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
424 help
425 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
426 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
427
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700428config DEBUG_PREEMPT
429 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700431 default y
432 help
433 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
434 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
435 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
436 will detect preemption count underflows.
437
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700438config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
439 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700440 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
441 help
442 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
443 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
444
445config DEBUG_PI_LIST
446 bool
447 default y
448 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
449
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700450config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
451 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700452 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700453 help
454 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
455
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700456config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700457 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
459 help
460 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
461 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
462 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
463 deadlocks are also debuggable.
464
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700465config DEBUG_MUTEXES
466 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
468 help
469 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
470 reported.
471
Arnd Bergmann6de5bd12010-09-11 18:00:57 +0200472config BKL
473 bool "Big Kernel Lock" if (SMP || PREEMPT)
474 default y
475 help
476 This is the traditional lock that is used in old code instead
477 of proper locking. All drivers that use the BKL should depend
478 on this symbol.
479 Say Y here unless you are working on removing the BKL.
480
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700481config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
482 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700484 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
485 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700486 select LOCKDEP
487 help
488 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
489 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
490 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
491 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
492 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
493 held during task exit.
494
495config PROVE_LOCKING
496 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700497 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700498 select LOCKDEP
499 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
500 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700501 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400502 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700503 default n
504 help
505 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
506 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
507 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
508 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
509 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
510 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
511 deadlock.
512
513 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
514 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
515
516 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
517 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
518 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
519 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
520 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
521 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
522 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
523 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
524 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
525
526 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
527 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
528 kernel reports nothing.
529
530 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
531 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
532 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
533 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
534 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
535
536 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
537
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800538config PROVE_RCU
539 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
540 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
541 default n
542 help
543 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
544 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
545 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
546 feature.
547
548 Say N if you are unsure.
549
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800550config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
551 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
552 depends on PROVE_RCU
553 default n
554 help
555 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
556 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
557 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
558 on a single reboot.
559
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700560 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
561
562 Say N if you are unsure.
563
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700564config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
565 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
566 default n
567 help
568 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
569 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
570 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
571 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
572 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
573 a debugging aid.
574
575 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
576
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800577 Say N if you are unsure.
578
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700579config LOCKDEP
580 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700581 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700582 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200583 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700584 select KALLSYMS
585 select KALLSYMS_ALL
586
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700587config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700588 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700589 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
590 select LOCKDEP
591 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
592 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
593 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
594 default n
595 help
596 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
597
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700598 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
599
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100600 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
601 subcommand of perf.
602 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
603 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900604
605 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100606 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900607
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700608config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
609 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700610 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700611 help
612 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
613 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
614 of more runtime overhead.
615
616config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
617 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400618 help
619 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
620 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700621
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700622config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700623 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700624 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
625 help
626 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
627 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
628
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700629config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
630 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
632 help
633 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
634 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
635 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
636 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
637 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
638 mutexes and rwsems.
639
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700640config STACKTRACE
641 bool
642 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
643
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700644config DEBUG_KOBJECT
645 bool "kobject debugging"
646 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
647 help
648 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
649 to the syslog.
650
651config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
652 bool "Highmem debugging"
653 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
654 help
655 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
656 Disable for production systems.
657
658config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
659 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700660 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800661 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
662 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800663 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664 help
665 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
666 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
667 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
668
669config DEBUG_INFO
670 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
671 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
672 help
673 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
674 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600675 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
676 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
677 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700678 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
679
680 If unsure, say N.
681
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200682config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
683 bool "Reduce debugging information"
684 depends on DEBUG_INFO
685 help
686 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
687 information for structure types. This means that tools that
688 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
689 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
690 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
691 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
692 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
693 Only works with newer gcc versions.
694
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800695config DEBUG_VM
696 bool "Debug VM"
697 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
698 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800699 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
700 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800701
702 If unsure, say N.
703
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200704config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
705 bool "Debug VM translations"
706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
707 help
708 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
709 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
710
711 If unsure, say N.
712
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000713config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
714 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
715 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
716 help
717 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
718 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
719
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800720config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
721 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
723 help
724 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
725 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
726 32 bits.
727
728 If unsure, say N.
729
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700730config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
731 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
732 default !EMBEDDED
733 help
734 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
735 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
736 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
737 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
738 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
739
740 If unsure, say Y
741
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700742config DEBUG_LIST
743 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
744 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
745 help
746 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
747 walking routines.
748
749 If unsure, say N.
750
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200751config DEBUG_SG
752 bool "Debug SG table operations"
753 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
754 help
755 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
756 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
757 their sg tables.
758
759 If unsure, say N.
760
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700761config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
762 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
763 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
764 help
765 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
766 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
767 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
768 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
769 performance, say N.
770
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100771config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
772 bool "Debug credential management"
773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
774 help
775 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
776 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
777 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
778 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
779 struct.
780
781 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
782 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
783
784 If unsure, say N.
785
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500786#
787# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
788# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
789# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
790#
791config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
792 bool
793 help
794
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700795config FRAME_POINTER
796 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800797 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Heiko Carstens75ee0342009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200798 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100799 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
800 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
801 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100803 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
804 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
805 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700806
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700807config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
808 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
809 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
810 help
811 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
812 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
813 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
814 using "boot_delay=N".
815
816 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
817 the "loops per jiffie" value.
818 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
819 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
820 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
821 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
822 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
823 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
824
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800825config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
826 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
827 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
828 default n
829 help
830 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
831 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
832 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
833
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700834 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
835 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800836 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
837 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700838
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700839config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
840 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
841 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
842 default n
843 help
844 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
845 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
846 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
847 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
848 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
849 into the kernel.
850
851 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
852 boot (you probably don't).
853 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
854 after being manually enabled via /proc.
855
Paul E. McKenney2133b5d2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700856config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Paul E. McKenney67182ae2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700857 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700858 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney8bfb2f82009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800859 default y
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100860 help
861 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
862 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
863 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
864
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800865 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100866
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800867 Say Y if you are unsure.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100868
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700869config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
870 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
871 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
872 range 3 300
873 default 60
874 help
875 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
876 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
877 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
878 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
879
Paul E. McKenney910b1b72010-07-21 08:05:56 -0700880config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
881 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
882 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
883 default y
884 help
885 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
886 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
887 enabled.
888
889 Say Y if you are unsure.
890
891 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
892
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800893config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
894 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
895 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700896 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800897 help
898 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
899 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100900
901 Say N if you are unsure.
902
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800903 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
904
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100905config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
906 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
907 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
908 depends on KPROBES
909 default n
910 help
911 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
912 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
913 verified for functionality.
914
915 Say N if you are unsure.
916
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100917config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
918 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
919 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
920 default n
921 help
922 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
923 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
924 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
925 developers working on architecture code.
926
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200927 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
928 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
929
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100930 Say N if you are unsure.
931
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900932config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
933 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
935 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200936 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900937 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200938 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
939 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
940 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
941 is broken.
942
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900943 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
944 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
945 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
946 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
947 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
948 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
949 device number allocation.
950
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200951 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
952 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
953 ones, so root partition specified using device number
954 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
955 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
956
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900957 Say N if you are unsure.
958
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900959config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
960 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
961 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
962 help
963 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
964 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
965 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
966 definitions.
967
968 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
969 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
970
971 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
972 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
973
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700974config LKDTM
975 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800976 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800977 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700978 default n
979 help
980 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
981 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
982 If you don't need it: say N
983 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
984 called lkdtm.
985
986 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800987 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800988
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -0700989config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
990 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
991 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
992 help
993 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
994 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
995
996 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
997 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
998
999 If unsure, say N.
1000
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001001config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001002 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1003 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001004 help
1005 Provide fault-injection framework.
1006 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001007
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001008config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001009 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1010 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001011 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001012 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001013 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001014
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001015config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1016 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001017 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001018 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001019 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001020
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001021config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001022 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001023 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001024 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001025 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001026
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001027config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001028 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001029 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1030 help
1031 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1032 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1033 thus exercising the error handling.
1034
1035 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1036 for others it wont do anything.
1037
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001038config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1039 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001040 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001041 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001042 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001043
1044config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1045 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1046 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001047 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001048 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001049 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001050 help
1051 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001052
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001053config LATENCYTOP
1054 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001055 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1056 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1057 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1058 depends on PROC_FS
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001059 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001060 select KALLSYMS
1061 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1062 select STACKTRACE
1063 select SCHEDSTATS
1064 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001065 help
1066 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1067 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1068
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001069config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1070 bool "Sysctl checks"
Eric W. Biederman83ac2012009-04-03 02:22:26 -07001071 depends on SYSCTL
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001072 ---help---
1073 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1074 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1075 you to keep things correct.
1076
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001077source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001078source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1079
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001080config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001081 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001082 depends on PCI && X86
1083 help
1084 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1085 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1086 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1087 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1088 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1089
1090 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1091 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1092 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1093
1094 Usage:
1095
1096 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1097 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1098
1099 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1100 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1101 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1102 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1103
1104 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1105 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1106
1107 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001108
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001109config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1110 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1111 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1112 help
1113 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1114 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1115 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1116 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1117
1118 If unsure, say N.
1119
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001120config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001121 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1122 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1123 help
1124 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1125 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1126
1127 Say N if you are unsure.
1128
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001129config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001130 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001131 default n
1132 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001133 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001134 help
1135
1136 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1137 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001138 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1139 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1140 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1141 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001142
1143 Usage:
1144
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001145 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001146 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1147 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001148 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001149 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1150 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001151
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001152 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001153
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001154 filename : source file of the debug statement
1155 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1156 module : module that contains the debug statement
1157 function : function that contains the debug statement
1158 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1159 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001160
1161 From a live system:
1162
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001163 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001164 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1165 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1166 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1167 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001168
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001169 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001170
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001171 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1172 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001173 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001174
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001175 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1176 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001177 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001178
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001179 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1180 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001181 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001182
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001183 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1184 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001185 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001186
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001187 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1188 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001189 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001190
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001191 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001192
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001193config DMA_API_DEBUG
1194 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1195 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1196 help
1197 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1198 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1199 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1200 were never allocated.
1201 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1202 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001203
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001204config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1205 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1206 help
1207 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1208
1209 If unsure, say N.
1210
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001211source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001212
1213source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001214
1215source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"