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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800198 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26ba2006-01-08 01:01:42 -0800199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700200 help
201 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
202 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
203 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
204
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800205config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
206 bool "Memory leak debugging"
207 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
208
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700209config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
210 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
211 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
212 default n
213 help
214 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
215 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
216 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
217 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
218 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
219 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
220 "slub_debug=-".
221
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800222config SLUB_STATS
223 default n
224 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameter5b06c8532008-04-14 18:51:34 +0300225 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800226 help
227 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
228 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
229 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
230 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
231 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
232 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
233 Try running: slabinfo -DA
234
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700235config DEBUG_PREEMPT
236 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700238 default y
239 help
240 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
241 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
242 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
243 will detect preemption count underflows.
244
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700245config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
246 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
248 help
249 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
250 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
251
252config DEBUG_PI_LIST
253 bool
254 default y
255 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
256
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700257config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
258 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700260 help
261 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
262
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700263config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700264 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
266 help
267 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
268 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
269 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
270 deadlocks are also debuggable.
271
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700272config DEBUG_MUTEXES
273 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
275 help
276 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
277 reported.
278
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700279config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
280 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700282 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
283 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700284 select LOCKDEP
285 help
286 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
287 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
288 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
289 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
290 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
291 held during task exit.
292
293config PROVE_LOCKING
294 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700296 select LOCKDEP
297 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
298 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700299 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
300 default n
301 help
302 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
303 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
304 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
305 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
306 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
307 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
308 deadlock.
309
310 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
311 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
312
313 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
314 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
315 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
316 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
317 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
318 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
319 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
320 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
321 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
322
323 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
324 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
325 kernel reports nothing.
326
327 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
328 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
329 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
330 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
331 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
332
333 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
334
335config LOCKDEP
336 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700337 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700338 select STACKTRACE
Franck Bui-Huu14cf2322007-04-26 00:20:15 -0700339 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700340 select KALLSYMS
341 select KALLSYMS_ALL
342
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700343config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700344 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700345 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
346 select LOCKDEP
347 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
348 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
349 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
350 default n
351 help
352 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
353
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700354 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
355
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700356config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
357 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700359 help
360 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
361 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
362 of more runtime overhead.
363
364config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700366 bool
367 default y
368 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
369 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
370
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700371config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700372 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
374 help
375 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
376 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
377
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700378config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
379 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
381 help
382 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
383 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
384 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
385 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
386 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
387 mutexes and rwsems.
388
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700389config STACKTRACE
390 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700391 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700392 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
393
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394config DEBUG_KOBJECT
395 bool "kobject debugging"
396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
397 help
398 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
399 to the syslog.
400
401config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
402 bool "Highmem debugging"
403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
404 help
405 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
406 Disable for production systems.
407
408config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
409 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700410 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800411 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
412 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700413 default !EMBEDDED
414 help
415 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
416 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
417 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
418
419config DEBUG_INFO
420 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
422 help
423 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
424 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600425 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
426 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
427 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700428 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
429
430 If unsure, say N.
431
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800432config DEBUG_VM
433 bool "Debug VM"
434 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
435 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800436 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
437 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800438
439 If unsure, say N.
440
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800441config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
442 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
444 help
445 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
446 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
447 32 bits.
448
449 If unsure, say N.
450
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700451config DEBUG_LIST
452 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
453 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
454 help
455 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
456 walking routines.
457
458 If unsure, say N.
459
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200460config DEBUG_SG
461 bool "Debug SG table operations"
462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
463 help
464 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
465 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
466 their sg tables.
467
468 If unsure, say N.
469
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700470config FRAME_POINTER
471 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
473 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
474 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700475 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700476 help
477 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800478 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
479 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200480 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700481
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700482config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
483 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
485 help
486 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
487 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
488 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
489 using "boot_delay=N".
490
491 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
492 the "loops per jiffie" value.
493 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
494 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
495 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
496 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
497 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
498 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
499
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800500config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
501 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Paul E. McKenney9aaffc82007-05-23 13:57:41 -0700503 depends on m
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800504 default n
505 help
506 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
507 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
508 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
509
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800510 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
511 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700512
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100513config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
514 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
516 depends on KPROBES
517 default n
518 help
519 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
520 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
521 verified for functionality.
522
523 Say N if you are unsure.
524
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100525config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
526 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
527 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
528 default n
529 help
530 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
531 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
532 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
533 developers working on architecture code.
534
535 Say N if you are unsure.
536
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700537config LKDTM
538 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700540 depends on KPROBES
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800541 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700542 default n
543 help
544 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
545 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
546 If you don't need it: say N
547 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
548 called lkdtm.
549
550 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
551 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800552
553config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800554 bool "Fault-injection framework"
555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800556 help
557 Provide fault-injection framework.
558 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800559
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800560config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800561 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
562 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800563 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800564 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800565
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800566config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
567 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800568 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800569 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800570 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800571
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800572config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100573 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800574 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800575 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800576 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800577
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800578config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
579 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800580 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800581 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800582 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800583
584config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
585 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
586 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700587 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800588 select STACKTRACE
589 select FRAME_POINTER
590 help
591 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700592
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100593config LATENCYTOP
594 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
595 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
596 select KALLSYMS
597 select KALLSYMS_ALL
598 select STACKTRACE
599 select SCHEDSTATS
600 select SCHED_DEBUG
Heiko Carstensaa7d9352008-02-01 17:45:14 +0100601 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100602 help
603 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
604 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
605
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100606config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100607 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100608 depends on PCI && X86
609 help
610 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
611 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
612 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
613 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
614 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
615
616 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
617 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
618 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
619
620 Usage:
621
622 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
623 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
624
625 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
626 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
627 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
628 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
629
630 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
631 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
632
633 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100634
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100635config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
636 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
637 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
638 help
639 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
640 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
641 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
642 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
643
644 If unsure, say N.
645
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700646source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200647
648source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"