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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
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070053config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
55 default y if X86
56 help
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
67 your module is.
68
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080069config DEBUG_FS
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
71 depends on SYSFS
72 help
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
75 write to these files.
76
77 If unsure, say N.
78
79config HEADERS_CHECK
80 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
81 depends on !UML
82 help
83 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
84 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
85 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
86 were not exported, etc.
87
88 If you're making modifications to header files which are
89 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
90 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
91 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
92
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +010093config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
94 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborge5f95c82008-02-02 18:57:18 +010095 depends on UNDEFINED
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +010096 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
97 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
98 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +010099 help
100 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
101 references from one section to another section.
102 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
103 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
104 most likely result in an oops.
105 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
106 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100107 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
108 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
109 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100110 do the following:
111 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
112 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100113 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100114 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100115 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100116 result in a larger kernel.
117 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
118 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100119 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100120 introduced.
121 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
122 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
123 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
124 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100125 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
126 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100127
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800128config DEBUG_KERNEL
129 bool "Kernel debugging"
130 help
131 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
132 identify kernel problems.
133
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800134config DEBUG_SHIRQ
135 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
137 help
138 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
139 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
140 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
141 points; some don't and need to be caught.
142
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700143config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
144 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700146 default y
147 help
148 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
149 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
150 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
151 chance to run.
152
153 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
154 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
155 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
156 overhead.
157
158 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
159 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
160 support it.)
161
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200162config SCHED_DEBUG
163 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
165 default y
166 help
167 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
168 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
169 option is minimal.
170
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700171config SCHEDSTATS
172 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
174 help
175 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
176 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
177 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
178 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
179 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
180 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
181 this adds.
182
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800183config TIMER_STATS
184 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
186 help
187 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
188 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
189 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
190 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
191 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700192 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
193 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
194 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
195 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800196
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700197config DEBUG_OBJECTS
198 bool "Debug object operations"
199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
200 help
201 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
202 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
203 the operations on those objects.
204
205config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
206 bool "Debug objects selftest"
207 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
208 help
209 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
210
211config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
212 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
213 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
214 help
215 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
216 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
217 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
218 much slower.
219
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700220config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800221 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26b2006-01-08 01:01:42 -0800222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700223 help
224 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
225 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
226 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
227
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800228config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
229 bool "Memory leak debugging"
230 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
231
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700232config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
233 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
234 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
235 default n
236 help
237 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
238 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
239 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
240 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
241 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
242 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
243 "slub_debug=-".
244
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800245config SLUB_STATS
246 default n
247 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameter5b06c8532008-04-14 18:51:34 +0300248 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800249 help
250 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
251 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
252 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
253 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
254 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
255 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
256 Try running: slabinfo -DA
257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700258config DEBUG_PREEMPT
259 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100260 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700261 default y
262 help
263 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
264 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
265 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
266 will detect preemption count underflows.
267
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700268config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
269 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700270 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
271 help
272 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
273 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
274
275config DEBUG_PI_LIST
276 bool
277 default y
278 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
279
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700280config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
281 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700283 help
284 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
285
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700286config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700287 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
289 help
290 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
291 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
292 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
293 deadlocks are also debuggable.
294
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700295config DEBUG_MUTEXES
296 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
298 help
299 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
300 reported.
301
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700302config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
303 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700304 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700305 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
306 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700307 select LOCKDEP
308 help
309 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
310 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
311 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
312 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
313 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
314 held during task exit.
315
316config PROVE_LOCKING
317 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700318 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700319 select LOCKDEP
320 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
321 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700322 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
323 default n
324 help
325 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
326 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
327 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
328 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
329 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
330 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
331 deadlock.
332
333 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
334 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
335
336 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
337 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
338 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
339 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
340 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
341 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
342 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
343 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
344 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
345
346 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
347 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
348 kernel reports nothing.
349
350 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
351 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
352 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
353 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
354 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
355
356 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
357
358config LOCKDEP
359 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700361 select STACKTRACE
Franck Bui-Huu14cf2322007-04-26 00:20:15 -0700362 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700363 select KALLSYMS
364 select KALLSYMS_ALL
365
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700366config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700367 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
369 select LOCKDEP
370 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
371 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
372 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
373 default n
374 help
375 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
376
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700377 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
378
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700379config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
380 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700382 help
383 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
384 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
385 of more runtime overhead.
386
387config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700388 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700389 bool
390 default y
391 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
392 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
393
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700395 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
397 help
398 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
399 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
400
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700401config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
402 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
404 help
405 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
406 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
407 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
408 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
409 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
410 mutexes and rwsems.
411
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700412config STACKTRACE
413 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700415 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417config DEBUG_KOBJECT
418 bool "kobject debugging"
419 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
420 help
421 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
422 to the syslog.
423
424config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
425 bool "Highmem debugging"
426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
427 help
428 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
429 Disable for production systems.
430
431config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
432 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700433 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800434 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
435 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700436 default !EMBEDDED
437 help
438 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
439 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
440 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
441
442config DEBUG_INFO
443 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
445 help
446 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
447 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600448 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
449 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
450 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700451 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
452
453 If unsure, say N.
454
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800455config DEBUG_VM
456 bool "Debug VM"
457 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
458 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800459 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
460 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800461
462 If unsure, say N.
463
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800464config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
465 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
467 help
468 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
469 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
470 32 bits.
471
472 If unsure, say N.
473
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700474config DEBUG_LIST
475 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
477 help
478 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
479 walking routines.
480
481 If unsure, say N.
482
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200483config DEBUG_SG
484 bool "Debug SG table operations"
485 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
486 help
487 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
488 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
489 their sg tables.
490
491 If unsure, say N.
492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493config FRAME_POINTER
494 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800495 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
496 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
497 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700498 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 help
500 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800501 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
502 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200503 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700505config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
506 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
508 help
509 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
510 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
511 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
512 using "boot_delay=N".
513
514 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
515 the "loops per jiffie" value.
516 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
517 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
518 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
519 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
520 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
521 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
522
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800523config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
524 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
525 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Paul E. McKenney9aaffc82007-05-23 13:57:41 -0700526 depends on m
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800527 default n
528 help
529 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
530 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
531 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
532
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800533 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
534 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700535
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100536config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
537 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
538 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
539 depends on KPROBES
540 default n
541 help
542 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
543 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
544 verified for functionality.
545
546 Say N if you are unsure.
547
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100548config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
549 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
550 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
551 default n
552 help
553 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
554 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
555 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
556 developers working on architecture code.
557
558 Say N if you are unsure.
559
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700560config LKDTM
561 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700563 depends on KPROBES
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800564 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700565 default n
566 help
567 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
568 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
569 If you don't need it: say N
570 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
571 called lkdtm.
572
573 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
574 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800575
576config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800577 bool "Fault-injection framework"
578 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800579 help
580 Provide fault-injection framework.
581 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800582
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800583config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800584 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
585 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800586 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800587 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800588
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800589config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
590 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800591 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800592 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800593 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800594
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800595config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100596 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800597 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800598 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800599 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800600
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800601config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
602 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800603 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800604 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800605 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800606
607config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
608 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
609 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700610 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800611 select STACKTRACE
612 select FRAME_POINTER
613 help
614 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700615
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100616config LATENCYTOP
617 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
618 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
619 select KALLSYMS
620 select KALLSYMS_ALL
621 select STACKTRACE
622 select SCHEDSTATS
623 select SCHED_DEBUG
Heiko Carstensaa7d9352008-02-01 17:45:14 +0100624 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100625 help
626 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
627 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
628
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100629config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100630 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100631 depends on PCI && X86
632 help
633 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
634 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
635 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
636 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
637 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
638
639 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
640 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
641 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
642
643 Usage:
644
645 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
646 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
647
648 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
649 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
650 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
651 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
652
653 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
654 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
655
656 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100657
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100658config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
659 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
660 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
661 help
662 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
663 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
664 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
665 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
666
667 If unsure, say N.
668
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700669source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200670
671source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"