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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
4 help
5 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
6 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
7 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
8 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
9 in kernel startup.
10
11
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012config MAGIC_SYSRQ
13 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080014 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015 help
16 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
17 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
18 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
19 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
20 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
21 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
22 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
23 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
24 unless you really know what this hack does.
25
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080026config DEBUG_KERNEL
27 bool "Kernel debugging"
28 help
29 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
30 identify kernel problems.
31
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070032config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
33 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
34 range 12 21
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -080035 default 17 if S390
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070036 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
37 default 15 if SMP
38 default 14
39 help
40 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
41 Defaults and Examples:
42 17 => 128 KB for S/390
43 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
44 15 => 32 KB for SMP
45 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
46 13 => 8 KB
47 12 => 4 KB
48
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -070049config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
50 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
51 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52 default y
53 help
54 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
55 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
56 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
57 chance to run.
58
59 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
60 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
61 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
62 overhead.
63
64 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
65 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
66 support it.)
67
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068config SCHEDSTATS
69 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
70 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
71 help
72 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
73 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
74 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
75 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
76 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
77 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
78 this adds.
79
80config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080081 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26ba2006-01-08 01:01:42 -080082 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070083 help
84 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
85 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
86 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
87
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -080088config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
89 bool "Memory leak debugging"
90 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
91
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070092config DEBUG_PREEMPT
93 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
94 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT
95 default y
96 help
97 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
98 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
99 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
100 will detect preemption count underflows.
101
Ingo Molnar408894e2006-01-09 15:59:20 -0800102config DEBUG_MUTEXES
103 bool "Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Tim Chencca57c52006-04-18 22:21:47 -0700104 default n
Ingo Molnar408894e2006-01-09 15:59:20 -0800105 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
106 help
107 This allows mutex semantics violations and mutex related deadlocks
108 (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
109
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700110config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
111 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
113 help
114 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
115 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
116
117config DEBUG_PI_LIST
118 bool
119 default y
120 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
121
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700122config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
123 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700125 help
126 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
127
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700128config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
129 bool "Spinlock debugging"
130 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
131 help
132 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
133 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
134 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
135 deadlocks are also debuggable.
136
137config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
138 bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
140 help
141 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
142 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
143
144config DEBUG_KOBJECT
145 bool "kobject debugging"
146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
147 help
148 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
149 to the syslog.
150
151config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
152 bool "Highmem debugging"
153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
154 help
155 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
156 Disable for production systems.
157
158config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
159 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700160 depends on BUG
Brian Gerst0d078f62005-10-30 14:59:20 -0800161 depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700162 default !EMBEDDED
163 help
164 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
165 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
166 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
167
168config DEBUG_INFO
169 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
171 help
172 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
173 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
174 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
175
176 If unsure, say N.
177
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700178config DEBUG_FS
179 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Jens Axboeae36b882006-03-26 14:38:54 +0200180 depends on SYSFS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700181 help
182 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
183 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
184 write to these files.
185
186 If unsure, say N.
187
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800188config DEBUG_VM
189 bool "Debug VM"
190 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
191 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800192 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
193 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800194
195 If unsure, say N.
196
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197config FRAME_POINTER
198 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700200 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700201 help
202 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800203 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
204 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200205 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800207config UNWIND_INFO
208 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200209 depends on !IA64 && !PARISC
210 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800211 help
212 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
213 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
214 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
215 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
216
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200217config STACK_UNWIND
218 bool "Stack unwind support"
219 depends on UNWIND_INFO
Jan Beulich176a2712006-06-26 13:57:41 +0200220 depends on X86
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200221 help
222 This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
223 occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
224
Ingo Molnara9df3d02006-01-14 13:21:33 -0800225config FORCED_INLINING
226 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
227 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
228 default y
229 help
230 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
231 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
232 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
233 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
234 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
235 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
236 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
237 test gcc for this.
238
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800239config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
240 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
242 default n
243 help
244 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
245 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
246 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
247
248 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
249 at boot time (you probably don't).
250 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
251 Say N if you are unsure.