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 | |
| 49 | config SCHEDSTATS |
| 50 | bool "Collect scheduler statistics" |
| 51 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |
| 52 | help |
| 53 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the |
| 54 | scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about |
| 55 | scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These |
| 56 | stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler |
| 57 | If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific |
| 58 | application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead |
| 59 | this adds. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | config DEBUG_SLAB |
| 62 | bool "Debug memory allocations" |
| 63 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 64 | help |
| 65 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory |
| 66 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed |
| 67 | memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT |
| 70 | bool "Debug preemptible kernel" |
| 71 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT |
| 72 | default y |
| 73 | help |
| 74 | If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the |
| 75 | commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings |
| 76 | if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel |
| 77 | will detect preemption count underflows. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK |
| 80 | bool "Spinlock debugging" |
| 81 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 82 | help |
| 83 | Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization |
| 84 | and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is |
| 85 | best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock |
| 86 | deadlocks are also debuggable. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP |
| 89 | bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking" |
| 90 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 91 | help |
| 92 | If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very |
| 93 | noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT |
| 96 | bool "kobject debugging" |
| 97 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 98 | help |
| 99 | If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent |
| 100 | to the syslog. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM |
| 103 | bool "Highmem debugging" |
| 104 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM |
| 105 | help |
| 106 | This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. |
| 107 | Disable for production systems. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE |
| 110 | bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED |
Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | depends on BUG |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || (X86 && !X86_64) || FRV |
| 113 | default !EMBEDDED |
| 114 | help |
| 115 | Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number |
| 116 | of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids |
| 117 | debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | config DEBUG_INFO |
| 120 | bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" |
| 121 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 122 | help |
| 123 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include |
| 124 | debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. |
| 125 | Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | If unsure, say N. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | config DEBUG_IOREMAP |
| 130 | bool "Enable ioremap() debugging" |
| 131 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PARISC |
| 132 | help |
| 133 | Enabling this option will cause the kernel to distinguish between |
| 134 | ioremapped and physical addresses. It will print a backtrace (at |
| 135 | most one every 10 seconds), hopefully allowing you to see which |
| 136 | drivers need work. Fixing all these problems is a prerequisite |
| 137 | for turning on USE_HPPA_IOREMAP. The warnings are harmless; |
| 138 | the kernel has enough information to fix the broken drivers |
| 139 | automatically, but we'd like to make it more efficient by not |
| 140 | having to do that. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | config DEBUG_FS |
| 143 | bool "Debug Filesystem" |
| 144 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
| 145 | help |
| 146 | debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put |
| 147 | debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and |
| 148 | write to these files. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | If unsure, say N. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | config FRAME_POINTER |
| 153 | bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" |
| 154 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ((X86 && !X86_64) || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV) |
| 155 | help |
| 156 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger |
| 157 | and slower, but it will give very useful debugging information. |
| 158 | If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able |
| 159 | to solve problems without frame pointers. |
| 160 | |