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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08004 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup.
11
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070012config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
13 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
14 range 1 7
15 default "4"
16 help
17 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
18
19 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
20 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
21 priority.
22
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040023config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
24 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
25 default y
26 help
27 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
28 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
29 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
30
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070031config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
32 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
33 default y
34 help
35 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
36 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
37 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010039config FRAME_WARN
40 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
41 range 0 8192
42 default 1024 if !64BIT
43 default 2048 if 64BIT
44 help
45 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
46 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
47 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
48 Requires gcc 4.4
49
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050config MAGIC_SYSRQ
51 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080052 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070053 help
54 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
55 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
56 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
57 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
58 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
59 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
60 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
61 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
62 unless you really know what this hack does.
63
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070064config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
65 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
66 default n
67 help
68 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
69 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
70 get_wchan() and suchlike.
71
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070072config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
73 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
74 default y if X86
75 help
76 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
77 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
78 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
79 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
80 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
81 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
82 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
83 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
84 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
85 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
86 your module is.
87
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080088config DEBUG_FS
89 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080090 help
91 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
92 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
93 write to these files.
94
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020095 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
96 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
97
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080098 If unsure, say N.
99
100config HEADERS_CHECK
101 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
102 depends on !UML
103 help
104 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
105 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
106 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
107 were not exported, etc.
108
109 If you're making modifications to header files which are
110 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
111 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
112 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
113
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100114config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
115 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100116 help
117 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
118 references from one section to another section.
119 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
120 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
121 most likely result in an oops.
122 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
123 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100124 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
125 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
126 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100127 do the following:
128 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
129 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100130 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100131 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100132 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100133 result in a larger kernel.
134 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
135 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100136 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100137 introduced.
138 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
139 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
140 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
141 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100142 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
143 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100144
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800145config DEBUG_KERNEL
146 bool "Kernel debugging"
147 help
148 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
149 identify kernel problems.
150
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800151config DEBUG_SHIRQ
152 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
154 help
155 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
156 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
157 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
158 points; some don't and need to be caught.
159
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400160config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
161 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700163 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400164 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
165 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500166
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400167 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200168 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400169 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
170 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700171
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400172 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
173 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
174 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
175 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700176
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400177 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
178 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
179 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500180
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200181config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500182 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
183 !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700184
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700185config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
186 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
187 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
188 help
189 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
190 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
191 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 60 seconds.
192
193 Say N if unsure.
194
195config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
196 int
197 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
198 range 0 1
199 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
200 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
201
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200202config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
203 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200204 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200205 help
206 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
207 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
208 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
209 chance to run.
210
211 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
212 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
213 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
214 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
215 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
216
217 Say N if unsure.
218
219config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
220 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200221 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200222 range 0 1
223 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
224 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
225
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800226config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
227 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
228 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar77d05632009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200229 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800230 help
231 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
232 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
233 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
234
235 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
236 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
237 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
238 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
239 feature has negligible overhead.
240
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400241config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
242 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
243 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
244 default 120
245 help
246 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
247 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
248 be considered hung.
249
250 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout
251 sysctl or by writing a value to /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout.
252
253 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
254 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
255
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800256config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
257 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
258 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
259 help
260 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
261 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
262 in uninterruptible "D" state.
263
264 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
265 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
266 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
267 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
268 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
269
270 Say N if unsure.
271
272config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
273 int
274 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
275 range 0 1
276 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
277 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
278
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200279config SCHED_DEBUG
280 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
282 default y
283 help
284 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
285 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
286 option is minimal.
287
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700288config SCHEDSTATS
289 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
291 help
292 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
293 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
294 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
295 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
296 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
297 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
298 this adds.
299
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800300config TIMER_STATS
301 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
302 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
303 help
304 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
305 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
306 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
307 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
308 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700309 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
310 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
311 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
312 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800313
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700314config DEBUG_OBJECTS
315 bool "Debug object operations"
316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
317 help
318 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
319 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
320 the operations on those objects.
321
322config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
323 bool "Debug objects selftest"
324 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
325 help
326 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
327
328config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
329 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
330 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
331 help
332 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
333 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
334 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
335 much slower.
336
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700337config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
338 bool "Debug timer objects"
339 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
340 help
341 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
342 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
343 validate the timer operations.
344
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900345config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
346 bool "Debug work objects"
347 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
348 help
349 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
350 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
351 validate the work operations.
352
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400353config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
354 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
355 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
356 help
357 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
358
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700359config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
360 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
361 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
362 help
363 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
364 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
365 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
366
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100367config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
368 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
369 range 0 1
370 default "1"
371 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
372 help
373 Debug objects boot parameter default value
374
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800376 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700378 help
379 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
380 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
381 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
382
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800383config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
384 bool "Memory leak debugging"
385 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
386
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700387config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
388 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200389 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700390 default n
391 help
392 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
393 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
394 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
395 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
396 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
397 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
398 "slub_debug=-".
399
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800400config SLUB_STATS
401 default n
402 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500403 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800404 help
405 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
406 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
407 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
408 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
409 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
410 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
411 Try running: slabinfo -DA
412
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100413config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
414 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
Chris Metcalf6b945df2010-10-14 14:54:47 -0400416 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200417
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100418 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
419 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
420 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800421 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100422 help
423 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
424 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
425 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
426 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
427 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
428 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
429 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
430 details.
431
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100432 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
433 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
434
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100435 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
436 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
437
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100438config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
439 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
440 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200441 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100442 default 400
443 help
444 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
445 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
446 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
447 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
448 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
449
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100450config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
451 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700452 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100453 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700454 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100455
456 If unsure, say N.
457
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100458config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
459 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
460 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
461 help
462 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
463 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
464
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700465config DEBUG_PREEMPT
466 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700468 default y
469 help
470 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
471 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
472 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
473 will detect preemption count underflows.
474
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700475config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
476 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
478 help
479 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
480 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
481
482config DEBUG_PI_LIST
483 bool
484 default y
485 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
486
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700487config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
488 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700489 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700490 help
491 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700494 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700495 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
496 help
497 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
498 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
499 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
500 deadlocks are also debuggable.
501
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700502config DEBUG_MUTEXES
503 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
505 help
506 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
507 reported.
508
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700509config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
510 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700511 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700512 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
513 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700514 select LOCKDEP
515 help
516 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
517 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
518 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
519 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
520 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
521 held during task exit.
522
523config PROVE_LOCKING
524 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700525 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700526 select LOCKDEP
527 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
528 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700529 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400530 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700531 default n
532 help
533 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
534 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
535 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
536 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
537 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
538 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
539 deadlock.
540
541 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
542 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
543
544 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
545 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
546 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
547 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
548 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
549 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
550 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
551 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
552 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
553
554 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
555 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
556 kernel reports nothing.
557
558 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
559 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
560 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
561 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
562 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
563
564 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
565
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800566config PROVE_RCU
567 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
568 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
569 default n
570 help
571 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
572 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
573 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
574 feature.
575
576 Say N if you are unsure.
577
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800578config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
579 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
580 depends on PROVE_RCU
581 default n
582 help
583 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
584 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
585 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
586 on a single reboot.
587
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700588 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
589
590 Say N if you are unsure.
591
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700592config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
593 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
594 default n
595 help
596 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
597 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
598 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
599 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
600 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
601 a debugging aid.
602
603 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
604
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800605 Say N if you are unsure.
606
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700607config LOCKDEP
608 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700610 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200611 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700612 select KALLSYMS
613 select KALLSYMS_ALL
614
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700615config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700616 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700617 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
618 select LOCKDEP
619 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
620 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
621 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
622 default n
623 help
624 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
625
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700626 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
627
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100628 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
629 subcommand of perf.
630 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
631 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900632
633 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100634 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900635
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700636config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
637 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700638 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700639 help
640 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
641 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
642 of more runtime overhead.
643
644config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
645 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400646 help
647 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
648 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700649
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700650config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700651 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
653 help
654 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
655 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
656
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700657config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
658 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
659 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 help
661 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
662 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
663 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
664 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
665 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
666 mutexes and rwsems.
667
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700668config STACKTRACE
669 bool
670 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
671
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700672config DEBUG_KOBJECT
673 bool "kobject debugging"
674 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
675 help
676 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
677 to the syslog.
678
679config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
680 bool "Highmem debugging"
681 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
682 help
683 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
684 Disable for production systems.
685
686config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800687 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700688 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800689 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
690 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800691 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700692 help
693 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
694 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
695 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
696
697config DEBUG_INFO
698 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
700 help
701 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
702 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600703 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
704 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
705 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700706 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
707
708 If unsure, say N.
709
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200710config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
711 bool "Reduce debugging information"
712 depends on DEBUG_INFO
713 help
714 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
715 information for structure types. This means that tools that
716 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
717 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
718 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
719 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
720 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
721 Only works with newer gcc versions.
722
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800723config DEBUG_VM
724 bool "Debug VM"
725 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
726 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800727 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
728 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800729
730 If unsure, say N.
731
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200732config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
733 bool "Debug VM translations"
734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
735 help
736 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
737 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
738
739 If unsure, say N.
740
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000741config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
742 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
743 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
744 help
745 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
746 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
747
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800748config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
749 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
750 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
751 help
752 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
753 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
754 32 bits.
755
756 If unsure, say N.
757
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700758config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800759 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
760 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700761 help
762 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
763 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
764 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
765 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
766 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
767
768 If unsure, say Y
769
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700770config DEBUG_LIST
771 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
772 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
773 help
774 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
775 walking routines.
776
777 If unsure, say N.
778
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700779config TEST_LIST_SORT
780 bool "Linked list sorting test"
781 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
782 help
783 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
784 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
785
786 If unsure, say N.
787
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200788config DEBUG_SG
789 bool "Debug SG table operations"
790 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
791 help
792 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
793 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
794 their sg tables.
795
796 If unsure, say N.
797
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700798config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
799 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
800 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
801 help
802 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
803 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
804 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
805 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
806 performance, say N.
807
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100808config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
809 bool "Debug credential management"
810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
811 help
812 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
813 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
814 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
815 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
816 struct.
817
818 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
819 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
820
821 If unsure, say N.
822
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500823#
824# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
825# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
826# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
827#
828config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
829 bool
830 help
831
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700832config FRAME_POINTER
833 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800834 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100835 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100836 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
837 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
838 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700839 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100840 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
841 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
842 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700843
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700844config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
845 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
846 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
847 help
848 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
849 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
850 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
851 using "boot_delay=N".
852
853 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
854 the "loops per jiffie" value.
855 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
856 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
857 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
858 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
859 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
860 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
861
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800862config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
863 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
865 default n
866 help
867 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
868 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
869 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
870
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700871 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
872 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800873 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
874 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700875
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700876config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
877 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
878 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
879 default n
880 help
881 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
882 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
883 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
884 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
885 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
886 into the kernel.
887
888 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
889 boot (you probably don't).
890 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
891 after being manually enabled via /proc.
892
Paul E. McKenney2133b5d2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700893config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Paul E. McKenney67182ae2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700894 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700895 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney8bfb2f82009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800896 default y
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100897 help
898 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
899 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
900 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
901
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800902 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100903
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800904 Say Y if you are unsure.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100905
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700906config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
907 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
908 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
909 range 3 300
910 default 60
911 help
912 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
913 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
914 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
915 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
916
Paul E. McKenney910b1b72010-07-21 08:05:56 -0700917config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
918 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
919 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
920 default y
921 help
922 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
923 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
924 enabled.
925
926 Say Y if you are unsure.
927
928 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
929
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800930config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
931 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
932 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700933 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800934 help
935 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
936 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100937
938 Say N if you are unsure.
939
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800940 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
941
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100942config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
943 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
944 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
945 depends on KPROBES
946 default n
947 help
948 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
949 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
950 verified for functionality.
951
952 Say N if you are unsure.
953
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100954config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
955 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
956 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
957 default n
958 help
959 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
960 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
961 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
962 developers working on architecture code.
963
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200964 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
965 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
966
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100967 Say N if you are unsure.
968
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900969config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
970 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
971 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
972 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200973 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900974 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200975 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
976 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
977 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
978 is broken.
979
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900980 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
981 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
982 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
983 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
984 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
985 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
986 device number allocation.
987
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200988 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
989 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
990 ones, so root partition specified using device number
991 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
992 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
993
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900994 Say N if you are unsure.
995
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900996config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
997 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
998 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
999 help
1000 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1001 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1002 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1003 definitions.
1004
1005 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1006 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1007
1008 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1009 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1010
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001011config LKDTM
1012 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001013 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -08001014 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001015 default n
1016 help
1017 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1018 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1019 If you don't need it: say N
1020 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1021 called lkdtm.
1022
1023 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001024 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001025
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001026config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1027 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1028 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1029 help
1030 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1031 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1032
1033 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1034 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1035
1036 If unsure, say N.
1037
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001038config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001039 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1040 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001041 help
1042 Provide fault-injection framework.
1043 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001044
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001045config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001046 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1047 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001048 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001049 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001050 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001051
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001052config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1053 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001054 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001055 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001056 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001057
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001058config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001059 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001060 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001061 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001062 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001063
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001064config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001065 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001066 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1067 help
1068 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1069 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1070 thus exercising the error handling.
1071
1072 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1073 for others it wont do anything.
1074
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001075config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1076 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001077 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001078 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001079 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001080
1081config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1082 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1083 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001084 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001085 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001086 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001087 help
1088 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001089
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001090config LATENCYTOP
1091 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001092 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1094 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1095 depends on PROC_FS
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001096 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001097 select KALLSYMS
1098 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1099 select STACKTRACE
1100 select SCHEDSTATS
1101 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001102 help
1103 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1104 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1105
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001106config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1107 bool "Sysctl checks"
Eric W. Biederman83ac2012009-04-03 02:22:26 -07001108 depends on SYSCTL
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001109 ---help---
1110 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1111 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1112 you to keep things correct.
1113
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001114source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001115source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1116
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001117config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001118 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001119 depends on PCI && X86
1120 help
1121 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1122 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1123 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1124 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1125 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1126
1127 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1128 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1129 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1130
1131 Usage:
1132
1133 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1134 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1135
1136 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1137 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1138 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1139 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1140
1141 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1142 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1143
1144 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001145
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001146config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1147 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1148 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1149 help
1150 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1151 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1152 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1153 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1154
1155 If unsure, say N.
1156
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001157config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001158 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1159 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1160 help
1161 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1162 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1163
1164 Say N if you are unsure.
1165
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001166config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001167 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001168 default n
1169 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001170 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001171 help
1172
1173 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1174 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001175 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1176 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1177 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1178 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001179
1180 Usage:
1181
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001182 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001183 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1184 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001185 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001186 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1187 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001188
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001189 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001190
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001191 filename : source file of the debug statement
1192 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1193 module : module that contains the debug statement
1194 function : function that contains the debug statement
1195 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1196 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001197
1198 From a live system:
1199
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001200 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001201 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1202 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1203 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1204 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001205
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001206 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001207
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001208 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1209 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001210 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001211
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001212 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1213 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001214 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001215
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001216 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1217 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001218 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001219
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001220 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1221 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001222 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001223
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001224 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1225 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001226 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001227
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001228 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001229
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001230config DMA_API_DEBUG
1231 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1232 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1233 help
1234 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1235 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1236 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1237 were never allocated.
1238 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1239 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001240
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001241config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1242 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1243 help
1244 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1245
1246 If unsure, say N.
1247
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001248config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1249 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1250 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1251 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1252 ---help---
1253 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1254 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1255 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1256 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1257 engine if one is available.
1258
1259 If unsure, say N.
1260
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001261source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001262
1263source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001264
1265source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
Alexey Dobriyan33ee3b22011-03-22 16:34:40 -07001266
1267config TEST_KSTRTOX
1268 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"