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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
Kay Sievers649e6ee2012-05-10 04:30:45 +02006 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
7 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
8 call and at the console.
9
10 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
11 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
12 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
13
14 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
15 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070016
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070017config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
18 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
19 range 1 7
20 default "4"
21 help
22 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
23
24 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
25 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
26 priority.
27
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040028config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
29 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
30 default y
31 help
32 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
33 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
34 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
35
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070036config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
37 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
38 default y
39 help
40 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
41 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
42 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010044config FRAME_WARN
45 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
46 range 0 8192
47 default 1024 if !64BIT
48 default 2048 if 64BIT
49 help
50 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
51 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
52 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
53 Requires gcc 4.4
54
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055config MAGIC_SYSRQ
56 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080057 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058 help
59 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
60 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
61 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
62 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
63 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
64 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
65 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
66 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
67 unless you really know what this hack does.
68
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070069config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
70 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
71 default n
72 help
73 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
74 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
75 get_wchan() and suchlike.
76
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070077config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
78 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
79 default y if X86
80 help
81 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
82 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
83 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
84 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
85 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
86 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
87 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
88 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
89 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
90 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
91 your module is.
92
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080093config DEBUG_FS
94 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080095 help
96 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
97 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
98 write to these files.
99
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200100 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
101 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
102
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800103 If unsure, say N.
104
105config HEADERS_CHECK
106 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
107 depends on !UML
108 help
109 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
110 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
111 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
112 were not exported, etc.
113
114 If you're making modifications to header files which are
115 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
116 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
117 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
118
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100119config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
120 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100121 help
122 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
123 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000124 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
125 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100126 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000127 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
128 __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100129 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000130 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
131 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
132 additional steps to occur:
133 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
134 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
135 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100136 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000137 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
138 a larger kernel).
139 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
140 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100141 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100142 introduced.
143 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000144 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
145 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
146 reported at least twice.
147 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
148 the section mismatches that are reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100149
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800150config DEBUG_KERNEL
151 bool "Kernel debugging"
152 help
153 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
154 identify kernel problems.
155
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800156config DEBUG_SHIRQ
157 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
159 help
160 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
161 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
162 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
163 points; some don't and need to be caught.
164
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400165config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
166 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700168 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400169 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
170 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500171
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400172 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500173 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400174 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
175 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700176
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400177 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500178 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400179 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
180 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700181
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400182 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500183 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
184 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
185
186 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
187 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500188
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200189config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500190 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700191 !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700192
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700193config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
194 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
195 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
196 help
197 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
198 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500199 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
200 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700201
202 Say N if unsure.
203
204config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
205 int
206 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
207 range 0 1
208 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
209 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
210
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200211config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
212 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200213 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200214 help
215 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
216 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500217 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
218 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200219
220 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
221 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
222 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
223 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
224 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
225
226 Say N if unsure.
227
228config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
229 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200230 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200231 range 0 1
232 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
233 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
234
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800235config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
236 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000238 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800239 help
240 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
241 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
242 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
243
244 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
245 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
246 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
247 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
248 feature has negligible overhead.
249
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400250config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
251 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
252 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
253 default 120
254 help
255 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
256 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
257 be considered hung.
258
Jiaju Zhangc51eaac2011-10-31 17:10:07 -0700259 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
260 sysctl or by writing a value to
261 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400262
263 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
264 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
265
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800266config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
267 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
268 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
269 help
270 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
271 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
272 in uninterruptible "D" state.
273
274 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
275 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
276 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
277 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
278 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
279
280 Say N if unsure.
281
282config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
283 int
284 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
285 range 0 1
286 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
287 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
288
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200289config SCHED_DEBUG
290 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
291 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
292 default y
293 help
294 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
295 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
296 option is minimal.
297
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700298config SCHEDSTATS
299 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
300 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
301 help
302 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
303 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
304 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
305 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
306 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
307 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
308 this adds.
309
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800310config TIMER_STATS
311 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
313 help
314 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
315 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
316 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
317 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
318 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700319 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
320 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
321 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
322 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800323
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700324config DEBUG_OBJECTS
325 bool "Debug object operations"
326 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
327 help
328 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
329 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
330 the operations on those objects.
331
332config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
333 bool "Debug objects selftest"
334 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
335 help
336 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
337
338config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
339 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
340 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
341 help
342 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
343 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
344 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
345 much slower.
346
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700347config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
348 bool "Debug timer objects"
349 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
350 help
351 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
352 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
353 validate the timer operations.
354
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900355config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
356 bool "Debug work objects"
357 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
358 help
359 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
360 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
361 validate the work operations.
362
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400363config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
364 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800365 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400366 help
367 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
368
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700369config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
370 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
371 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
372 help
373 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
374 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
375 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
376
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100377config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
378 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
379 range 0 1
380 default "1"
381 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
382 help
383 Debug objects boot parameter default value
384
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700385config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800386 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700388 help
389 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
390 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
391 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
392
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800393config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
394 bool "Memory leak debugging"
395 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
396
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700397config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
398 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200399 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700400 default n
401 help
402 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
403 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
404 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
405 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
406 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
407 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
408 "slub_debug=-".
409
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800410config SLUB_STATS
411 default n
412 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500413 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800414 help
415 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
416 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
417 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
418 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
419 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
420 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
421 Try running: slabinfo -DA
422
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100423config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
424 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Laura Abbott029aeff2011-11-15 23:49:09 +0000425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
Maxin Johnc0a5afb2011-03-29 00:15:55 +0300426 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200427
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100428 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100429 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
430 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800431 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100432 help
433 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
434 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
435 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
436 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
437 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
438 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
439 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
440 details.
441
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100442 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
443 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
444
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100445 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
446 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
447
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100448config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
449 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
450 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200451 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100452 default 400
453 help
454 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
455 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
456 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
457 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
458 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
459
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100460config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
461 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700462 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100463 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700464 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100465
466 If unsure, say N.
467
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100468config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
469 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
470 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
471 help
472 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
473 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
474
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700475config DEBUG_PREEMPT
476 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700478 default y
479 help
480 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
481 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
482 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
483 will detect preemption count underflows.
484
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700485config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
486 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700487 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
488 help
489 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
490 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
491
492config DEBUG_PI_LIST
493 bool
494 default y
495 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
496
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700497config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
498 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700500 help
501 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
502
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700503config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700504 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700505 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +0530506 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700507 help
508 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
509 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
510 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
511 deadlocks are also debuggable.
512
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700513config DEBUG_MUTEXES
514 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
516 help
517 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
518 reported.
519
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700520config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
521 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700522 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700523 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
524 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700525 select LOCKDEP
526 help
527 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
528 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
529 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
530 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
531 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
532 held during task exit.
533
534config PROVE_LOCKING
535 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700536 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700537 select LOCKDEP
538 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
539 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700540 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400541 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700542 default n
543 help
544 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
545 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
546 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
547 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
548 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
549 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
550 deadlock.
551
552 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
553 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
554
555 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
556 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
557 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
558 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
559 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
560 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
561 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
562 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
563 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
564
565 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
566 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
567 kernel reports nothing.
568
569 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
570 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
571 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
572 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
573 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
574
575 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
576
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800577config PROVE_RCU
578 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
579 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
580 default n
581 help
582 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
583 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
584 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
585 feature.
586
587 Say N if you are unsure.
588
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800589config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
590 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
591 depends on PROVE_RCU
592 default n
593 help
594 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
595 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
596 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
597 on a single reboot.
598
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700599 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
600
601 Say N if you are unsure.
602
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700603config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
604 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
605 default n
606 help
607 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
608 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
609 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
610 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
611 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
612 a debugging aid.
613
614 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
615
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800616 Say N if you are unsure.
617
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700618config LOCKDEP
619 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700620 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700621 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200622 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700623 select KALLSYMS
624 select KALLSYMS_ALL
625
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700626config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700627 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700628 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
629 select LOCKDEP
630 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
631 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
632 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
633 default n
634 help
635 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
636
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700637 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
638
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100639 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
640 subcommand of perf.
641 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
642 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900643
644 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100645 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900646
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700647config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
648 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700649 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700650 help
651 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
652 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
653 of more runtime overhead.
654
655config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
656 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400657 help
658 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
659 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700660
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200661config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
662 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +0200663 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
665 help
666 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200667 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
668 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
669 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700670
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700671config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
672 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
673 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
674 help
675 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
676 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
677 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
678 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
679 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
680 mutexes and rwsems.
681
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700682config STACKTRACE
683 bool
684 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
685
Stephen Boyd5ca43f62011-05-24 17:13:36 -0700686config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
687 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
689 help
690 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
691 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
692
693 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
694
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700695config DEBUG_KOBJECT
696 bool "kobject debugging"
697 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
698 help
699 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
700 to the syslog.
701
702config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
703 bool "Highmem debugging"
704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
705 help
706 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
707 Disable for production systems.
708
709config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800710 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700711 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800712 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
Chris Metcalf3cc39b32011-06-01 16:06:04 -0400713 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800714 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715 help
716 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
717 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
718 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
719
720config DEBUG_INFO
721 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
723 help
724 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
725 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600726 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
727 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
728 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700729 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
730
731 If unsure, say N.
732
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200733config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
734 bool "Reduce debugging information"
735 depends on DEBUG_INFO
736 help
737 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
738 information for structure types. This means that tools that
739 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
740 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
741 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
742 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
743 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
744 Only works with newer gcc versions.
745
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800746config DEBUG_VM
747 bool "Debug VM"
748 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
749 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800750 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
751 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800752
753 If unsure, say N.
754
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200755config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
756 bool "Debug VM translations"
757 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
758 help
759 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
760 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
761
762 If unsure, say N.
763
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000764config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
765 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
766 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
767 help
768 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
769 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
770
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800771config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
772 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
774 help
775 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
776 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
777 32 bits.
778
779 If unsure, say N.
780
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700781config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800782 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
783 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700784 help
785 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
786 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
787 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
788 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
789 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
790
791 If unsure, say Y
792
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700793config DEBUG_LIST
794 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
795 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
796 help
797 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
798 walking routines.
799
800 If unsure, say N.
801
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700802config TEST_LIST_SORT
803 bool "Linked list sorting test"
804 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
805 help
806 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
807 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
808
809 If unsure, say N.
810
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200811config DEBUG_SG
812 bool "Debug SG table operations"
813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
814 help
815 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
816 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
817 their sg tables.
818
819 If unsure, say N.
820
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700821config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
822 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
824 help
825 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
826 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
827 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
828 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
829 performance, say N.
830
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100831config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
832 bool "Debug credential management"
833 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
834 help
835 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
836 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
837 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
838 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
839 struct.
840
841 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
842 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
843
844 If unsure, say N.
845
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500846#
847# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
Justin P. Mattock52288b62011-08-21 20:02:13 -0700848# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500849# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
850#
851config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
852 bool
853 help
854
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700855config FRAME_POINTER
856 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800857 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100858 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100859 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
860 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
861 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700862 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100863 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
864 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
865 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700866
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700867config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
868 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
869 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
870 help
871 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
872 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
873 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
874 using "boot_delay=N".
875
876 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
877 the "loops per jiffie" value.
878 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
879 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
880 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
881 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000882 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700883 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
884
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800885config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
886 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
887 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
888 default n
889 help
890 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
891 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
892 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
893
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700894 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
895 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800896 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
897 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700898
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700899config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
900 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
901 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
902 default n
903 help
904 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
905 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
906 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
907 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
908 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
909 into the kernel.
910
911 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
912 boot (you probably don't).
913 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
914 after being manually enabled via /proc.
915
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700916config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
917 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800918 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700919 range 3 300
920 default 60
921 help
922 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
923 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
924 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
925 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
926
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800927config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
928 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800929 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700930 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800931 help
932 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
933 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100934
935 Say N if you are unsure.
936
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800937 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
938
Paul E. McKenneya858af22012-01-16 13:29:10 -0800939config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
940 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
941 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
942 default n
943 help
944 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
945 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
946 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
947 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
948
949 Say N if you are unsure.
950
951 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
952
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -0800953config RCU_TRACE
954 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
955 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
956 help
957 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
958 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
959
960 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
961 Say N if you are unsure.
962
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100963config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
964 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
965 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
966 depends on KPROBES
967 default n
968 help
969 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
970 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
971 verified for functionality.
972
973 Say N if you are unsure.
974
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100975config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
976 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
977 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
978 default n
979 help
980 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
981 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
982 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
983 developers working on architecture code.
984
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200985 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
986 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
987
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100988 Say N if you are unsure.
989
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900990config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
991 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
992 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
993 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200994 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900995 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200996 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
997 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
998 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
999 is broken.
1000
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001001 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1002 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1003 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1004 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1005 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1006 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1007 device number allocation.
1008
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001009 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1010 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1011 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1012 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1013 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1014
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001015 Say N if you are unsure.
1016
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +09001017config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1018 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1019 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1020 help
1021 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1022 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1023 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1024 definitions.
1025
1026 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1027 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1028
1029 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1030 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1031
Stephen Boyd44ec7ab2011-05-24 17:13:32 -07001032config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1033 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1034 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1035 depends on SMP
1036 help
1037 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1038 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1039 and decreases performance.
1040
1041 Say N if unsure.
1042
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001043config LKDTM
1044 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001045 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -08001046 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001047 default n
1048 help
1049 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1050 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1051 If you don't need it: say N
1052 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1053 called lkdtm.
1054
1055 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001056 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001057
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001058config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1059 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1060 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1061 help
1062 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1063 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1064
1065 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1066 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1067
1068 If unsure, say N.
1069
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001070config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001071 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001073 help
1074 Provide fault-injection framework.
1075 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001076
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001077config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001078 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1079 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001080 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001081 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001082 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001083
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001084config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1085 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001086 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001087 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001088 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001089
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001090config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001091 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001092 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001093 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001094 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001095
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001096config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001097 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001098 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1099 help
1100 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1101 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1102 thus exercising the error handling.
1103
1104 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1105 for others it wont do anything.
1106
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001107config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1108 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1109 select DEBUG_FS
1110 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1111 help
1112 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1113 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1114 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1115 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1116 the block device.
1117
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001118config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1119 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001120 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001121 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001122 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001123
1124config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1125 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1126 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001127 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001128 select STACKTRACE
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001129 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001130 help
1131 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001132
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001133config LATENCYTOP
1134 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001135 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1137 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1138 depends on PROC_FS
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001139 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001140 select KALLSYMS
1141 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1142 select STACKTRACE
1143 select SCHEDSTATS
1144 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001145 help
1146 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1147 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1148
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001149source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001150source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1151
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001152config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001153 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001154 depends on PCI && X86
1155 help
1156 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1157 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1158 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1159 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1160 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1161
1162 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1163 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1164 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1165
1166 Usage:
1167
1168 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1169 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1170
1171 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1172 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1173 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1174 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1175
1176 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1177 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1178
1179 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001180
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001181config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1182 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1183 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1184 help
1185 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1186 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1187 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1188 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1189
1190 If unsure, say N.
1191
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001192config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001193 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1194 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1195 help
1196 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1197 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1198
1199 Say N if you are unsure.
1200
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001201config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001202 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001203 default n
1204 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001205 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001206 help
1207
1208 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1209 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001210 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1211 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001212 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
1213 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
1214
1215 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
1216 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
1217 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
1218 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001219
1220 Usage:
1221
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001222 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001223 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1224 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001225 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001226 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1227 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001228
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001229 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001230
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001231 filename : source file of the debug statement
1232 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1233 module : module that contains the debug statement
1234 function : function that contains the debug statement
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001235 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001236 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001237
1238 From a live system:
1239
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001240 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001241 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001242 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1243 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1244 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001245
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001246 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001247
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001248 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1249 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001250 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001251
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001252 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1253 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001254 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001255
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001256 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1257 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001258 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001259
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001260 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1261 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001262 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001263
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001264 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1265 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001266 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001267
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001268 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001269
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001270config DMA_API_DEBUG
1271 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1272 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1273 help
1274 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1275 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1276 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1277 were never allocated.
1278 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1279 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001280
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001281config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1282 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1283 help
1284 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1285
1286 If unsure, say N.
1287
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001288config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1289 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1290 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1291 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1292 ---help---
1293 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1294 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1295 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1296 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1297 engine if one is available.
1298
1299 If unsure, say N.
1300
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001301source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001302
1303source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001304
1305source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
Alexey Dobriyan33ee3b22011-03-22 16:34:40 -07001306
1307config TEST_KSTRTOX
1308 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"