Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | config PRINTK_TIME |
| 3 | bool "Show timing information on printks" |
| 4 | help |
| 5 | Selecting this option causes timing information to be |
| 6 | included in printk output. This allows you to measure |
| 7 | the interval between kernel operations, including bootup |
| 8 | operations. This is useful for identifying long delays |
| 9 | in kernel startup. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | config DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 13 | bool "Kernel debugging" |
| 14 | help |
| 15 | Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and |
| 16 | identify kernel problems. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ |
| 19 | bool "Magic SysRq key" |
| 20 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !UML |
| 21 | help |
| 22 | If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even |
| 23 | if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you |
| 24 | will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system |
| 25 | immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished |
| 26 | by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It |
| 27 | also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you |
| 28 | send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The |
| 29 | keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y |
| 30 | unless you really know what this hack does. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT |
| 33 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 34 | range 12 21 |
| 35 | default 17 if ARCH_S390 |
| 36 | default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 |
| 37 | default 15 if SMP |
| 38 | default 14 |
| 39 | help |
| 40 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. |
| 41 | Defaults and Examples: |
| 42 | 17 => 128 KB for S/390 |
| 43 | 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 |
| 44 | 15 => 32 KB for SMP |
| 45 | 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor |
| 46 | 13 => 8 KB |
| 47 | 12 => 4 KB |
| 48 | |
Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP |
| 50 | bool "Detect Soft Lockups" |
| 51 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 52 | default y |
| 53 | help |
| 54 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups", |
| 55 | which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel |
| 56 | mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a |
| 57 | chance to run. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the |
| 60 | current stack trace (which you should report), but the |
| 61 | system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible |
| 62 | overhead. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that |
| 65 | can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that |
| 66 | support it.) |
| 67 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | config SCHEDSTATS |
| 69 | bool "Collect scheduler statistics" |
| 70 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |
| 71 | help |
| 72 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the |
| 73 | scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about |
| 74 | scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These |
| 75 | stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler |
| 76 | If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific |
| 77 | application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead |
| 78 | this adds. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | config DEBUG_SLAB |
| 81 | bool "Debug memory allocations" |
| 82 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 83 | help |
| 84 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory |
| 85 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed |
| 86 | memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT |
| 89 | bool "Debug preemptible kernel" |
| 90 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT |
| 91 | default y |
| 92 | help |
| 93 | If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the |
| 94 | commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings |
| 95 | if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel |
| 96 | will detect preemption count underflows. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK |
| 99 | bool "Spinlock debugging" |
| 100 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 101 | help |
| 102 | Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization |
| 103 | and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is |
| 104 | best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock |
| 105 | deadlocks are also debuggable. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP |
| 108 | bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking" |
| 109 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 110 | help |
| 111 | If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very |
| 112 | noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. |
| 113 | |
| 114 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT |
| 115 | bool "kobject debugging" |
| 116 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 117 | help |
| 118 | If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent |
| 119 | to the syslog. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM |
| 122 | bool "Highmem debugging" |
| 123 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM |
| 124 | help |
| 125 | This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. |
| 126 | Disable for production systems. |
| 127 | |
| 128 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE |
| 129 | bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | depends on BUG |
Brian Gerst | 0d078f6 | 2005-10-30 14:59:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | default !EMBEDDED |
| 133 | help |
| 134 | Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number |
| 135 | of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids |
| 136 | debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | config DEBUG_INFO |
| 139 | bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" |
| 140 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 141 | help |
| 142 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include |
| 143 | debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. |
| 144 | Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. |
| 145 | |
| 146 | If unsure, say N. |
| 147 | |
| 148 | config DEBUG_IOREMAP |
| 149 | bool "Enable ioremap() debugging" |
| 150 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PARISC |
| 151 | help |
| 152 | Enabling this option will cause the kernel to distinguish between |
| 153 | ioremapped and physical addresses. It will print a backtrace (at |
| 154 | most one every 10 seconds), hopefully allowing you to see which |
| 155 | drivers need work. Fixing all these problems is a prerequisite |
| 156 | for turning on USE_HPPA_IOREMAP. The warnings are harmless; |
| 157 | the kernel has enough information to fix the broken drivers |
| 158 | automatically, but we'd like to make it more efficient by not |
| 159 | having to do that. |
| 160 | |
| 161 | config DEBUG_FS |
| 162 | bool "Debug Filesystem" |
Adrian Bunk | 3348e05 | 2005-07-29 12:14:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SYSFS |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | help |
| 165 | debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put |
| 166 | debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and |
| 167 | write to these files. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | If unsure, say N. |
| 170 | |
Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | config DEBUG_VM |
| 172 | bool "Debug VM" |
| 173 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 174 | help |
Nick Piggin | 13e7444 | 2006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame^] | 175 | Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system |
| 176 | that may impact performance. |
Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | |
| 178 | If unsure, say N. |
| 179 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | config FRAME_POINTER |
| 181 | bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" |
Andi Kleen | aeb3998 | 2005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML) |
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | 37fce85 | 2005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | help |
| 185 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger |
Jesper Juhl | 2a38bcc | 2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on |
| 187 | some architectures or if you use external debuggers. |
Andi Kleen | aeb3998 | 2005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | |
Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST |
| 191 | tristate "torture tests for RCU" |
| 192 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 193 | default n |
| 194 | help |
| 195 | This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests |
| 196 | on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built |
| 197 | after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically |
| 200 | at boot time (you probably don't). |
| 201 | Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. |
| 202 | Say N if you are unsure. |