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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
Jim Cromie99172a22011-03-18 11:33:08 -060010 in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time.
11 See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070013config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
14 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
15 range 1 7
16 default "4"
17 help
18 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
19
20 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
21 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
22 priority.
23
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040024config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
25 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
26 default y
27 help
28 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
29 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
30 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
31
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070032config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
33 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
34 default y
35 help
36 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
37 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
38 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010040config FRAME_WARN
41 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
42 range 0 8192
43 default 1024 if !64BIT
44 default 2048 if 64BIT
45 help
46 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
47 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
48 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
49 Requires gcc 4.4
50
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070051config MAGIC_SYSRQ
52 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080053 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070054 help
55 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
56 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
57 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
58 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
59 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
60 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
61 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
62 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
63 unless you really know what this hack does.
64
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070065config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
66 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
67 default n
68 help
69 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
70 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
71 get_wchan() and suchlike.
72
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -070073config READABLE_ASM
74 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
75 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
76 help
77 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
78 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
79 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
80 sane.
81
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070082config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
83 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
84 default y if X86
85 help
86 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
87 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
88 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
89 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
90 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
91 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
92 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
93 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
94 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
95 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
96 your module is.
97
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080098config DEBUG_FS
99 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800100 help
101 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
102 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
103 write to these files.
104
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200105 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
106 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
107
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800108 If unsure, say N.
109
110config HEADERS_CHECK
111 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
112 depends on !UML
113 help
114 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
115 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
116 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
117 were not exported, etc.
118
119 If you're making modifications to header files which are
120 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
121 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
122 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
123
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100124config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
125 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100126 help
127 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
128 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000129 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
130 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100131 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000132 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
133 __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100134 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000135 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
136 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
137 additional steps to occur:
138 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
139 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
140 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100141 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000142 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
143 a larger kernel).
144 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
145 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100146 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100147 introduced.
148 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000149 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
150 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
151 reported at least twice.
152 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
153 the section mismatches that are reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100154
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800155config DEBUG_KERNEL
156 bool "Kernel debugging"
157 help
158 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
159 identify kernel problems.
160
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800161config DEBUG_SHIRQ
162 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
164 help
165 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
166 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
167 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
168 points; some don't and need to be caught.
169
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400170config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
171 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700173 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400174 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
175 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500176
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400177 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500178 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400179 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
180 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700181
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400182 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500183 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400184 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
185 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700186
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400187 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500188 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
189 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
190
191 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
192 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500193
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200194config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500195 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700196 !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700197
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700198config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
199 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
200 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
201 help
202 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
203 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500204 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
205 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700206
207 Say N if unsure.
208
209config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
210 int
211 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
212 range 0 1
213 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
214 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
215
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200216config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
217 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200218 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200219 help
220 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
221 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500222 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
223 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200224
225 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
226 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
227 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
228 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
229 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
230
231 Say N if unsure.
232
233config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
234 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200235 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200236 range 0 1
237 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
238 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
239
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800240config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
241 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000243 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800244 help
245 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
246 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
247 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
248
249 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
250 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
251 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
252 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
253 feature has negligible overhead.
254
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400255config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
256 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
257 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
258 default 120
259 help
260 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
261 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
262 be considered hung.
263
Jiaju Zhangc51eaac2011-10-31 17:10:07 -0700264 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
265 sysctl or by writing a value to
266 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400267
268 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
269 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
270
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800271config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
272 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
273 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
274 help
275 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
276 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
277 in uninterruptible "D" state.
278
279 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
280 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
281 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
282 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
283 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
284
285 Say N if unsure.
286
287config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
288 int
289 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
290 range 0 1
291 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
292 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
293
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200294config SCHED_DEBUG
295 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
297 default y
298 help
299 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
300 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
301 option is minimal.
302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700303config SCHEDSTATS
304 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
305 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
306 help
307 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
308 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
309 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
310 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
311 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
312 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
313 this adds.
314
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800315config TIMER_STATS
316 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
317 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
318 help
319 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
320 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
321 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
322 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
323 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700324 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
325 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
326 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
327 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800328
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700329config DEBUG_OBJECTS
330 bool "Debug object operations"
331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
332 help
333 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
334 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
335 the operations on those objects.
336
337config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
338 bool "Debug objects selftest"
339 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
340 help
341 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
342
343config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
344 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
345 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
346 help
347 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
348 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
349 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
350 much slower.
351
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700352config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
353 bool "Debug timer objects"
354 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
355 help
356 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
357 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
358 validate the timer operations.
359
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900360config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
361 bool "Debug work objects"
362 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
363 help
364 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
365 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
366 validate the work operations.
367
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400368config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
369 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800370 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400371 help
372 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
373
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700374config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
375 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
376 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
377 help
378 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
379 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
380 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
381
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100382config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
383 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
384 range 0 1
385 default "1"
386 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
387 help
388 Debug objects boot parameter default value
389
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800391 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200392 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700393 help
394 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
395 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
396 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
397
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800398config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
399 bool "Memory leak debugging"
400 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
401
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700402config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
403 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200404 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700405 default n
406 help
407 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
408 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
409 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
410 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
411 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
412 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
413 "slub_debug=-".
414
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800415config SLUB_STATS
416 default n
417 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500418 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800419 help
420 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
421 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
422 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
423 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
424 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
425 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
426 Try running: slabinfo -DA
427
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100428config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
429 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Laura Abbott029aeff2011-11-15 23:49:09 +0000430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
Maxin Johnc0a5afb2011-03-29 00:15:55 +0300431 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200432
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100433 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100434 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
435 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800436 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100437 help
438 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
439 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
440 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
441 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
442 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
443 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
444 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
445 details.
446
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100447 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
448 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
449
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100450 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
451 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
452
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100453config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
454 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
455 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200456 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100457 default 400
458 help
459 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
460 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
461 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
462 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
463 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
464
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100465config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
466 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700467 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100468 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700469 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100470
471 If unsure, say N.
472
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100473config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
474 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
475 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
476 help
477 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
478 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
479
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700480config DEBUG_PREEMPT
481 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700483 default y
484 help
485 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
486 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
487 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
488 will detect preemption count underflows.
489
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700490config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
491 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
493 help
494 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
495 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
496
497config DEBUG_PI_LIST
498 bool
499 default y
500 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
501
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700502config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
503 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700505 help
506 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
507
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700508config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700509 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700510 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +0530511 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700512 help
513 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
514 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
515 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
516 deadlocks are also debuggable.
517
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700518config DEBUG_MUTEXES
519 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
520 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
521 help
522 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
523 reported.
524
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700525config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
526 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700527 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700528 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
529 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700530 select LOCKDEP
531 help
532 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
533 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
534 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
535 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
536 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
537 held during task exit.
538
539config PROVE_LOCKING
540 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700541 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700542 select LOCKDEP
543 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
544 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700545 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400546 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700547 default n
548 help
549 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
550 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
551 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
552 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
553 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
554 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
555 deadlock.
556
557 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
558 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
559
560 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
561 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
562 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
563 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
564 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
565 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
566 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
567 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
568 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
569
570 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
571 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
572 kernel reports nothing.
573
574 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
575 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
576 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
577 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
578 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
579
580 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
581
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800582config PROVE_RCU
583 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
584 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
585 default n
586 help
587 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
588 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
589 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
590 feature.
591
592 Say N if you are unsure.
593
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800594config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
595 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
596 depends on PROVE_RCU
597 default n
598 help
599 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
600 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
601 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
602 on a single reboot.
603
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700604 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
605
606 Say N if you are unsure.
607
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700608config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
609 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
610 default n
611 help
612 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
613 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
614 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
615 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
616 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
617 a debugging aid.
618
619 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
620
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800621 Say N if you are unsure.
622
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700623config LOCKDEP
624 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700626 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200627 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700628 select KALLSYMS
629 select KALLSYMS_ALL
630
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700631config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700632 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
634 select LOCKDEP
635 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
636 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
637 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
638 default n
639 help
640 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
641
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700642 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
643
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100644 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
645 subcommand of perf.
646 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
647 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900648
649 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100650 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900651
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700652config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
653 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700655 help
656 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
657 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
658 of more runtime overhead.
659
660config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
661 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400662 help
663 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
664 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700665
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200666config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
667 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +0200668 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
670 help
671 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200672 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
673 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
674 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700675
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700676config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
677 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
679 help
680 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
681 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
682 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
683 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
684 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
685 mutexes and rwsems.
686
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700687config STACKTRACE
688 bool
689 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
690
Stephen Boyd5ca43f62011-05-24 17:13:36 -0700691config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
692 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
694 help
695 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
696 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
697
698 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700700config DEBUG_KOBJECT
701 bool "kobject debugging"
702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
703 help
704 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
705 to the syslog.
706
707config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
708 bool "Highmem debugging"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
710 help
711 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
712 Disable for production systems.
713
714config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800715 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700716 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800717 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
Chris Metcalf3cc39b32011-06-01 16:06:04 -0400718 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800719 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700720 help
721 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
722 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
723 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
724
725config DEBUG_INFO
726 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
727 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
728 help
729 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
730 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600731 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
732 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
733 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700734 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
735
736 If unsure, say N.
737
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200738config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
739 bool "Reduce debugging information"
740 depends on DEBUG_INFO
741 help
742 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
743 information for structure types. This means that tools that
744 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
745 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
746 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
747 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
748 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
749 Only works with newer gcc versions.
750
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800751config DEBUG_VM
752 bool "Debug VM"
753 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
754 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800755 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
756 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800757
758 If unsure, say N.
759
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200760config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
761 bool "Debug VM translations"
762 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
763 help
764 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
765 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
766
767 If unsure, say N.
768
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000769config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
770 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
771 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
772 help
773 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
774 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
775
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800776config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
777 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
778 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
779 help
780 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
781 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
782 32 bits.
783
784 If unsure, say N.
785
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700786config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800787 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
788 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700789 help
790 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
791 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
792 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
793 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
794 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
795
796 If unsure, say Y
797
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700798config DEBUG_LIST
799 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
800 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
801 help
802 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
803 walking routines.
804
805 If unsure, say N.
806
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700807config TEST_LIST_SORT
808 bool "Linked list sorting test"
809 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
810 help
811 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
812 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
813
814 If unsure, say N.
815
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200816config DEBUG_SG
817 bool "Debug SG table operations"
818 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
819 help
820 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
821 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
822 their sg tables.
823
824 If unsure, say N.
825
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700826config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
827 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
828 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
829 help
830 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
831 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
832 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
833 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
834 performance, say N.
835
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100836config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
837 bool "Debug credential management"
838 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
839 help
840 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
841 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
842 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
843 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
844 struct.
845
846 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
847 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
848
849 If unsure, say N.
850
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500851#
852# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
Justin P. Mattock52288b62011-08-21 20:02:13 -0700853# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500854# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
855#
856config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
857 bool
858 help
859
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700860config FRAME_POINTER
861 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800862 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100863 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100864 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
865 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
866 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700867 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100868 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
869 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
870 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700871
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700872config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
873 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
874 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
875 help
876 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
877 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
878 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
879 using "boot_delay=N".
880
881 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
882 the "loops per jiffie" value.
883 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
884 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
885 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
886 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000887 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700888 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
889
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800890config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
891 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
892 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
893 default n
894 help
895 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
896 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
897 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
898
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700899 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
900 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800901 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
902 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700903
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700904config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
905 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
906 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
907 default n
908 help
909 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
910 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
911 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
912 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
913 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
914 into the kernel.
915
916 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
917 boot (you probably don't).
918 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
919 after being manually enabled via /proc.
920
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700921config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
922 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800923 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700924 range 3 300
925 default 60
926 help
927 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
928 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
929 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
930 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
931
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800932config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
933 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800934 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700935 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800936 help
937 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
938 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100939
940 Say N if you are unsure.
941
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800942 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
943
Paul E. McKenneya858af22012-01-16 13:29:10 -0800944config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
945 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
946 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
947 default n
948 help
949 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
950 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
951 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
952 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
953
954 Say N if you are unsure.
955
956 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
957
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -0800958config RCU_TRACE
959 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
961 help
962 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
963 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
964
965 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
966 Say N if you are unsure.
967
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100968config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
969 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
970 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
971 depends on KPROBES
972 default n
973 help
974 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
975 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
976 verified for functionality.
977
978 Say N if you are unsure.
979
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100980config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
981 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
982 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
983 default n
984 help
985 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
986 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
987 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
988 developers working on architecture code.
989
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200990 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
991 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
992
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100993 Say N if you are unsure.
994
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900995config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
996 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
997 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
998 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200999 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001000 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001001 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1002 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1003 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1004 is broken.
1005
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001006 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1007 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1008 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1009 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1010 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1011 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1012 device number allocation.
1013
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001014 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1015 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1016 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1017 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1018 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1019
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001020 Say N if you are unsure.
1021
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +09001022config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1023 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1024 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1025 help
1026 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1027 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1028 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1029 definitions.
1030
1031 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1032 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1033
1034 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1035 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1036
Stephen Boyd44ec7ab2011-05-24 17:13:32 -07001037config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1038 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1040 depends on SMP
1041 help
1042 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1043 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1044 and decreases performance.
1045
1046 Say N if unsure.
1047
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001048config LKDTM
1049 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001050 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -08001051 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001052 default n
1053 help
1054 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1055 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1056 If you don't need it: say N
1057 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1058 called lkdtm.
1059
1060 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001061 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001062
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001063config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1064 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1065 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1066 help
1067 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1068 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1069
1070 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1071 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1072
1073 If unsure, say N.
1074
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001075config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001076 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1077 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001078 help
1079 Provide fault-injection framework.
1080 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001081
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001082config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001083 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1084 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001085 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001086 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001087 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001088
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001089config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1090 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001091 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001092 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001093 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001094
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001095config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001096 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001097 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001098 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001099 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001100
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001101config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001102 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001103 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1104 help
1105 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1106 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1107 thus exercising the error handling.
1108
1109 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1110 for others it wont do anything.
1111
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001112config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1113 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1114 select DEBUG_FS
1115 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1116 help
1117 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1118 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1119 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1120 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1121 the block device.
1122
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001123config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1124 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001125 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001126 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001127 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001128
1129config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1130 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1131 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001132 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001133 select STACKTRACE
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001134 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001135 help
1136 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001137
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001138config LATENCYTOP
1139 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001140 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1142 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1143 depends on PROC_FS
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001144 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001145 select KALLSYMS
1146 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1147 select STACKTRACE
1148 select SCHEDSTATS
1149 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001150 help
1151 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1152 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1153
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001154source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001155source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1156
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001157config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001158 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001159 depends on PCI && X86
1160 help
1161 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1162 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1163 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1164 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1165 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1166
1167 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1168 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1169 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1170
1171 Usage:
1172
1173 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1174 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1175
1176 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1177 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1178 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1179 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1180
1181 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1182 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1183
1184 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001185
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001186config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1187 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1188 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1189 help
1190 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1191 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1192 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1193 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1194
1195 If unsure, say N.
1196
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001197config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001198 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1199 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1200 help
1201 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1202 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1203
1204 Say N if you are unsure.
1205
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001206config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001207 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001208 default n
1209 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001210 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001211 help
1212
1213 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1214 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001215 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1216 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1217 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1218 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001219
1220 Usage:
1221
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001222 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001223 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1224 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001225 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001226 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1227 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001228
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001229 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001230
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001231 filename : source file of the debug statement
1232 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1233 module : module that contains the debug statement
1234 function : function that contains the debug statement
1235 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1236 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001237
1238 From a live system:
1239
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001240 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001241 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1242 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1243 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1244 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001245
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001246 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001247
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001248 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1249 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001250 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001251
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001252 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1253 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001254 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001255
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001256 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1257 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001258 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001259
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001260 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1261 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001262 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001263
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001264 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1265 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001266 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001267
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001268 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001269
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001270config DMA_API_DEBUG
1271 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1272 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1273 help
1274 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1275 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1276 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1277 were never allocated.
1278 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1279 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001280
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001281config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1282 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1283 help
1284 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1285
1286 If unsure, say N.
1287
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001288config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1289 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1290 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1291 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1292 ---help---
1293 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1294 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1295 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1296 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1297 engine if one is available.
1298
1299 If unsure, say N.
1300
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001301source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001302
1303source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001304
1305source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
Alexey Dobriyan33ee3b22011-03-22 16:34:40 -07001306
1307config TEST_KSTRTOX
1308 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"