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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
Jim Cromie99172a22011-03-18 11:33:08 -060010 in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time.
11 See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040013config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
14 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
15 default y
16 help
17 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
18 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
19 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
20
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070021config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
22 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
23 default y
24 help
25 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
26 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
27 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070028
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010029config FRAME_WARN
30 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
31 range 0 8192
32 default 1024 if !64BIT
33 default 2048 if 64BIT
34 help
35 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
36 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
37 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
38 Requires gcc 4.4
39
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070040config MAGIC_SYSRQ
41 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080042 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043 help
44 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
45 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
46 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
47 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
48 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
49 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
50 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
51 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
52 unless you really know what this hack does.
53
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070054config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
55 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
56 default n
57 help
58 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
59 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
60 get_wchan() and suchlike.
61
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070062config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
63 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
64 default y if X86
65 help
66 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
67 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
68 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
69 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
70 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
71 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
72 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
73 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
74 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
75 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
76 your module is.
77
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080078config DEBUG_FS
79 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080080 help
81 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
82 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
83 write to these files.
84
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020085 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
87
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080088 If unsure, say N.
89
90config HEADERS_CHECK
91 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
92 depends on !UML
93 help
94 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
95 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
96 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
97 were not exported, etc.
98
99 If you're making modifications to header files which are
100 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
101 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
102 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
103
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100104config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Mike Frysinger1d536612010-03-23 13:35:17 -0700106 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
107 default y
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100108 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
André Goddard Rosaaf901ca2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200109 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100110 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100111 help
112 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
113 references from one section to another section.
114 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
115 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
116 most likely result in an oops.
117 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
118 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100119 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
120 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
121 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100122 do the following:
123 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
124 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100125 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100126 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100127 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100128 result in a larger kernel.
129 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
130 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100131 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100132 introduced.
133 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
134 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
135 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
136 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100137 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
138 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100139
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800140config DEBUG_KERNEL
141 bool "Kernel debugging"
142 help
143 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
144 identify kernel problems.
145
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800146config DEBUG_SHIRQ
147 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
149 help
150 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
151 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
152 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
153 points; some don't and need to be caught.
154
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400155config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
156 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700158 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400159 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
160 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500161
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400162 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200163 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400164 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
165 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700166
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400167 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
168 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
169 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
170 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700171
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400172 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
173 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
174 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500175
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200176config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500177 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
178 !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700179
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200180config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
181 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200182 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200183 help
184 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
185 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
186 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
187 chance to run.
188
189 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
190 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
191 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
192 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
193 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
194
195 Say N if unsure.
196
197config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
198 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200199 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200200 range 0 1
201 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
202 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
203
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800204config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
205 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
206 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar77d05632009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200207 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800208 help
209 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
210 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
211 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
212
213 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
214 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
215 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
216 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
217 feature has negligible overhead.
218
219config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
220 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
221 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
222 help
223 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
224 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
225 in uninterruptible "D" state.
226
227 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
228 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
229 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
230 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
231 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
232
233 Say N if unsure.
234
235config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
236 int
237 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
238 range 0 1
239 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
240 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
241
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200242config SCHED_DEBUG
243 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
245 default y
246 help
247 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
248 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
249 option is minimal.
250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700251config SCHEDSTATS
252 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
253 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
254 help
255 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
256 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
257 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
258 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
259 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
260 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
261 this adds.
262
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800263config TIMER_STATS
264 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
266 help
267 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
268 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
269 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
270 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
271 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700272 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
273 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
274 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
275 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800276
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700277config DEBUG_OBJECTS
278 bool "Debug object operations"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
280 help
281 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
282 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
283 the operations on those objects.
284
285config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
286 bool "Debug objects selftest"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
288 help
289 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
290
291config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
292 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
293 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
294 help
295 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
296 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
297 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
298 much slower.
299
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700300config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
301 bool "Debug timer objects"
302 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
303 help
304 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
305 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
306 validate the timer operations.
307
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900308config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
309 bool "Debug work objects"
310 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
311 help
312 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
313 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
314 validate the work operations.
315
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400316config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
317 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
318 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
319 help
320 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
321
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700322config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
323 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
324 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
325 help
326 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
327 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
328 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
329
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100330config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
331 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
332 range 0 1
333 default "1"
334 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
335 help
336 Debug objects boot parameter default value
337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700338config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800339 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700341 help
342 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
343 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
344 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
345
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800346config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
347 bool "Memory leak debugging"
348 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
349
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700350config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
351 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200352 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700353 default n
354 help
355 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
356 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
357 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
358 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
359 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
360 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
361 "slub_debug=-".
362
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800363config SLUB_STATS
364 default n
365 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500366 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800367 help
368 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
369 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
370 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
371 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
372 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
373 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
374 Try running: slabinfo -DA
375
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100376config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
377 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
Chris Metcalf6b945df2010-10-14 14:54:47 -0400379 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200380
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100381 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
382 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
383 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800384 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100385 help
386 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
387 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
388 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
389 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
390 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
391 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
392 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
393 details.
394
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100395 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
396 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
397
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100398 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
399 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
400
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100401config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
402 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
403 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200404 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100405 default 400
406 help
407 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
408 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
409 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
410 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
411 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
412
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100413config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
414 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
415 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
416 help
417 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
418 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
419 memory.
420
421 If unsure, say N.
422
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100423config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
424 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
425 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
426 help
427 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
428 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
429
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700430config DEBUG_PREEMPT
431 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700433 default y
434 help
435 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
436 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
437 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
438 will detect preemption count underflows.
439
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700440config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
441 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
443 help
444 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
445 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
446
447config DEBUG_PI_LIST
448 bool
449 default y
450 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
451
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700452config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
453 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700455 help
456 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
457
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700459 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700460 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
461 help
462 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
463 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
464 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
465 deadlocks are also debuggable.
466
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700467config DEBUG_MUTEXES
468 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
470 help
471 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
472 reported.
473
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700474config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
475 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700477 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
478 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700479 select LOCKDEP
480 help
481 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
482 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
483 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
484 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
485 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
486 held during task exit.
487
488config PROVE_LOCKING
489 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700490 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700491 select LOCKDEP
492 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
493 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700494 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400495 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700496 default n
497 help
498 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
499 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
500 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
501 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
502 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
503 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
504 deadlock.
505
506 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
507 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
508
509 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
510 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
511 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
512 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
513 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
514 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
515 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
516 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
517 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
518
519 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
520 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
521 kernel reports nothing.
522
523 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
524 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
525 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
526 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
527 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
528
529 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
530
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800531config PROVE_RCU
532 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
533 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
534 default n
535 help
536 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
537 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
538 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
539 feature.
540
541 Say N if you are unsure.
542
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800543config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
544 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
545 depends on PROVE_RCU
546 default n
547 help
548 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
549 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
550 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
551 on a single reboot.
552
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700553 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
554
555 Say N if you are unsure.
556
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700557config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
558 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
559 default n
560 help
561 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
562 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
563 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
564 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
565 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
566 a debugging aid.
567
568 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
569
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800570 Say N if you are unsure.
571
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700572config LOCKDEP
573 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700574 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700575 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200576 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700577 select KALLSYMS
578 select KALLSYMS_ALL
579
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700580config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700581 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700582 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
583 select LOCKDEP
584 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
585 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
586 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
587 default n
588 help
589 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
590
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700591 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
592
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100593 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
594 subcommand of perf.
595 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
596 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900597
598 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100599 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900600
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700601config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
602 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700604 help
605 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
606 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
607 of more runtime overhead.
608
609config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
610 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400611 help
612 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
613 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700614
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700615config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700616 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700617 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
618 help
619 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
620 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
621
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700622config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
623 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
624 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
625 help
626 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
627 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
628 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
629 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
630 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
631 mutexes and rwsems.
632
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700633config STACKTRACE
634 bool
635 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
636
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637config DEBUG_KOBJECT
638 bool "kobject debugging"
639 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
640 help
641 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
642 to the syslog.
643
644config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
645 bool "Highmem debugging"
646 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
647 help
648 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
649 Disable for production systems.
650
651config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800652 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700653 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800654 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
655 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800656 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700657 help
658 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
659 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
660 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
661
662config DEBUG_INFO
663 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
664 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
665 help
666 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
667 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600668 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
669 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
670 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700671 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
672
673 If unsure, say N.
674
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200675config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
676 bool "Reduce debugging information"
677 depends on DEBUG_INFO
678 help
679 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
680 information for structure types. This means that tools that
681 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
682 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
683 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
684 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
685 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
686 Only works with newer gcc versions.
687
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800688config DEBUG_VM
689 bool "Debug VM"
690 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
691 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800692 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
693 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800694
695 If unsure, say N.
696
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200697config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
698 bool "Debug VM translations"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
700 help
701 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
702 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
703
704 If unsure, say N.
705
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000706config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
707 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
708 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
709 help
710 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
711 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
712
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800713config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
714 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
715 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
716 help
717 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
718 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
719 32 bits.
720
721 If unsure, say N.
722
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700723config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800724 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
725 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700726 help
727 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
728 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
729 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
730 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
731 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
732
733 If unsure, say Y
734
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700735config DEBUG_LIST
736 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
737 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
738 help
739 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
740 walking routines.
741
742 If unsure, say N.
743
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700744config TEST_LIST_SORT
745 bool "Linked list sorting test"
746 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
747 help
748 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
749 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
750
751 If unsure, say N.
752
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200753config DEBUG_SG
754 bool "Debug SG table operations"
755 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
756 help
757 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
758 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
759 their sg tables.
760
761 If unsure, say N.
762
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700763config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
764 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
765 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
766 help
767 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
768 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
769 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
770 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
771 performance, say N.
772
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100773config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
774 bool "Debug credential management"
775 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
776 help
777 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
778 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
779 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
780 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
781 struct.
782
783 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
784 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
785
786 If unsure, say N.
787
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500788#
789# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
790# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
791# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
792#
793config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
794 bool
795 help
796
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700797config FRAME_POINTER
798 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800799 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100800 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100801 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
802 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
803 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700804 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100805 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
806 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
807 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700808
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700809config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
810 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
811 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
812 help
813 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
814 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
815 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
816 using "boot_delay=N".
817
818 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
819 the "loops per jiffie" value.
820 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
821 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
822 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
823 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
824 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
825 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
826
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800827config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
828 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
829 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
830 default n
831 help
832 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
833 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
834 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
835
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700836 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
837 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800838 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
839 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700840
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700841config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
842 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
843 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
844 default n
845 help
846 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
847 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
848 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
849 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
850 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
851 into the kernel.
852
853 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
854 boot (you probably don't).
855 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
856 after being manually enabled via /proc.
857
Paul E. McKenney2133b5d2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700858config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Paul E. McKenney67182ae2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700859 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700860 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney8bfb2f82009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800861 default y
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100862 help
863 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
864 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
865 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
866
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800867 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100868
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800869 Say Y if you are unsure.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100870
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700871config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
872 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
873 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
874 range 3 300
875 default 60
876 help
877 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
878 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
879 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
880 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
881
Paul E. McKenney910b1b72010-07-21 08:05:56 -0700882config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
883 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
884 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
885 default y
886 help
887 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
888 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
889 enabled.
890
891 Say Y if you are unsure.
892
893 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
894
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800895config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
896 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
897 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700898 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800899 help
900 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
901 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100902
903 Say N if you are unsure.
904
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800905 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
906
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100907config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
908 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
909 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
910 depends on KPROBES
911 default n
912 help
913 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
914 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
915 verified for functionality.
916
917 Say N if you are unsure.
918
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100919config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
920 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
921 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
922 default n
923 help
924 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
925 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
926 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
927 developers working on architecture code.
928
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200929 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
930 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
931
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100932 Say N if you are unsure.
933
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900934config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
935 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
936 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
937 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200938 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900939 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200940 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
941 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
942 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
943 is broken.
944
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900945 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
946 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
947 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
948 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
949 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
950 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
951 device number allocation.
952
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200953 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
954 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
955 ones, so root partition specified using device number
956 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
957 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
958
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900959 Say N if you are unsure.
960
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900961config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
962 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
963 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
964 help
965 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
966 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
967 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
968 definitions.
969
970 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
971 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
972
973 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
974 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
975
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700976config LKDTM
977 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800978 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800979 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700980 default n
981 help
982 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
983 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
984 If you don't need it: say N
985 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
986 called lkdtm.
987
988 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800989 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800990
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -0700991config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
992 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
993 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
994 help
995 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
996 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
997
998 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
999 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1000
1001 If unsure, say N.
1002
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001003config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001004 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1005 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001006 help
1007 Provide fault-injection framework.
1008 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001009
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001010config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001011 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1012 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001013 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001014 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001015 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001016
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001017config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1018 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001019 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001020 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001021 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001022
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001023config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001024 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001025 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001026 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001027 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001028
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001029config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d014392010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001030 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001031 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1032 help
1033 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1034 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1035 thus exercising the error handling.
1036
1037 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1038 for others it wont do anything.
1039
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001040config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1041 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001042 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001043 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001044 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001045
1046config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1047 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1048 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001049 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001050 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001051 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001052 help
1053 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001054
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001055config LATENCYTOP
1056 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001057 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1058 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1059 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1060 depends on PROC_FS
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001061 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001062 select KALLSYMS
1063 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1064 select STACKTRACE
1065 select SCHEDSTATS
1066 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001067 help
1068 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1069 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1070
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001071config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1072 bool "Sysctl checks"
Eric W. Biederman83ac2012009-04-03 02:22:26 -07001073 depends on SYSCTL
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001074 ---help---
1075 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1076 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1077 you to keep things correct.
1078
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001079source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001080source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1081
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001082config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001083 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001084 depends on PCI && X86
1085 help
1086 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1087 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1088 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1089 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1090 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1091
1092 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1093 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1094 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1095
1096 Usage:
1097
1098 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1099 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1100
1101 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1102 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1103 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1104 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1105
1106 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1107 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1108
1109 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001110
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001111config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1112 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1113 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1114 help
1115 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1116 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1117 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1118 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1119
1120 If unsure, say N.
1121
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001122config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001123 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1124 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1125 help
1126 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1127 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1128
1129 Say N if you are unsure.
1130
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001131config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001132 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001133 default n
1134 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001135 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001136 help
1137
1138 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1139 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001140 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1141 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1142 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1143 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001144
1145 Usage:
1146
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001147 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001148 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1149 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001150 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001151 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1152 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001153
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001154 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001155
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001156 filename : source file of the debug statement
1157 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1158 module : module that contains the debug statement
1159 function : function that contains the debug statement
1160 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1161 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001162
1163 From a live system:
1164
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001165 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001166 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1167 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1168 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1169 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001170
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001171 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001172
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001173 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001176
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001177 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1178 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001179 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001180
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001181 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1182 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001183 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001184
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001185 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1186 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001187 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001188
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001189 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1190 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001191 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001192
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001193 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001194
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001195config DMA_API_DEBUG
1196 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1197 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1198 help
1199 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1200 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1201 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1202 were never allocated.
1203 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1204 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001205
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001206config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1207 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1208 help
1209 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1210
1211 If unsure, say N.
1212
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001213config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1214 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1215 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1216 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1217 ---help---
1218 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1219 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1220 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1221 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1222 engine if one is available.
1223
1224 If unsure, say N.
1225
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001226source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001227
1228source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001229
1230source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"