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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config 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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012config MAGIC_SYSRQ
13 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080014 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015 help
16 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
17 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
18 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
19 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
20 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
21 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
22 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
23 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
24 unless you really know what this hack does.
25
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070026config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
27 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
28 default y if X86
29 help
30 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
31 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
32 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
33 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
34 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
35 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
36 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
37 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
38 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
39 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
40 your module is.
41
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080042config DEBUG_KERNEL
43 bool "Kernel debugging"
44 help
45 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
46 identify kernel problems.
47
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070048config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
49 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
50 range 12 21
Ingo Molnarfbb9ce952006-07-03 00:24:50 -070051 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
53 default 15 if SMP
54 default 14
55 help
56 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
57 Defaults and Examples:
58 17 => 128 KB for S/390
59 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
60 15 => 32 KB for SMP
61 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
62 13 => 8 KB
63 12 => 4 KB
64
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -070065config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
66 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
67 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
68 default y
69 help
70 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
71 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
72 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
73 chance to run.
74
75 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
76 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
77 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
78 overhead.
79
80 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
81 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
82 support it.)
83
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084config SCHEDSTATS
85 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
86 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
87 help
88 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
89 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
90 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
91 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
92 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
93 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
94 this adds.
95
96config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080097 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26ba2006-01-08 01:01:42 -080098 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 help
100 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
101 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
102 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
103
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800104config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
105 bool "Memory leak debugging"
106 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
107
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700108config DEBUG_PREEMPT
109 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700111 default y
112 help
113 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
114 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
115 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
116 will detect preemption count underflows.
117
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700118config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
119 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
121 help
122 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
123 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
124
125config DEBUG_PI_LIST
126 bool
127 default y
128 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
129
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700130config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
131 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700133 help
134 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
135
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
137 bool "Spinlock debugging"
138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
139 help
140 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
141 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
142 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
143 deadlocks are also debuggable.
144
145config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
146 bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
148 help
149 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
150 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
151
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700152config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
153 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
155 help
156 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
157 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
158 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
159 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
160 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
161 mutexes and rwsems.
162
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700163config STACKTRACE
164 bool
165 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
166
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700167config DEBUG_KOBJECT
168 bool "kobject debugging"
169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
170 help
171 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
172 to the syslog.
173
174config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
175 bool "Highmem debugging"
176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
177 help
178 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
179 Disable for production systems.
180
181config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
182 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700183 depends on BUG
Brian Gerst0d078f62005-10-30 14:59:20 -0800184 depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700185 default !EMBEDDED
186 help
187 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
188 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
189 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
190
191config DEBUG_INFO
192 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
193 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
194 help
195 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
196 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
197 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
198
199 If unsure, say N.
200
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700201config DEBUG_FS
202 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Jens Axboeae36b882006-03-26 14:38:54 +0200203 depends on SYSFS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700204 help
205 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
206 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
207 write to these files.
208
209 If unsure, say N.
210
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800211config DEBUG_VM
212 bool "Debug VM"
213 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
214 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800215 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
216 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800217
218 If unsure, say N.
219
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700220config FRAME_POINTER
221 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Heiko Carstenscbbd1fa2006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700223 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700224 help
225 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800226 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
227 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200228 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700229
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800230config UNWIND_INFO
231 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200232 depends on !IA64 && !PARISC
233 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800234 help
235 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
236 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
237 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
238 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
239
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200240config STACK_UNWIND
241 bool "Stack unwind support"
242 depends on UNWIND_INFO
Jan Beulich176a2712006-06-26 13:57:41 +0200243 depends on X86
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200244 help
245 This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
246 occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
247
Ingo Molnara9df3d02006-01-14 13:21:33 -0800248config FORCED_INLINING
249 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
251 default y
252 help
253 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
254 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
255 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
256 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
257 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
258 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
259 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
260 test gcc for this.
261
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800262config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
263 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
265 default n
266 help
267 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
268 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
269 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
270
271 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
272 at boot time (you probably don't).
273 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
274 Say N if you are unsure.