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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08004 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup.
11
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040012config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
14 default y
15 help
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
19
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070020config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
22 default y
23 help
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010028config FRAME_WARN
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
30 range 0 8192
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
32 default 2048 if 64BIT
33 help
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
37 Requires gcc 4.4
38
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080041 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042 help
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
52
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070053config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
54 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
55 default n
56 help
57 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
58 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
59 get_wchan() and suchlike.
60
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070061config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
62 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
63 default y if X86
64 help
65 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
66 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
67 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
68 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
69 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
70 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
71 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
72 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
73 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
74 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
75 your module is.
76
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080077config DEBUG_FS
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
79 depends on SYSFS
80 help
81 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
82 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
83 write to these files.
84
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020085 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
87
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080088 If unsure, say N.
89
90config HEADERS_CHECK
91 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
92 depends on !UML
93 help
94 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
95 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
96 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
97 were not exported, etc.
98
99 If you're making modifications to header files which are
100 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
101 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
102 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
103
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100104config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborge5f95c82008-02-02 18:57:18 +0100106 depends on UNDEFINED
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100107 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
André Goddard Rosaaf901ca2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200108 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
Sam Ravnborgfa2144b2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100109 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100110 help
111 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
112 references from one section to another section.
113 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
114 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
115 most likely result in an oops.
116 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
117 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100118 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
119 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
120 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100121 do the following:
122 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
123 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100124 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100125 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100126 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100127 result in a larger kernel.
128 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
129 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100130 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100131 introduced.
132 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
133 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
134 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
135 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100136 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
137 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100138
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800139config DEBUG_KERNEL
140 bool "Kernel debugging"
141 help
142 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
143 identify kernel problems.
144
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800145config DEBUG_SHIRQ
146 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
148 help
149 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
150 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
151 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
152 points; some don't and need to be caught.
153
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700154config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
155 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700157 default y
158 help
159 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
160 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200161 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700162 chance to run.
163
164 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
165 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
166 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
167 overhead.
168
169 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
170 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
171 support it.)
172
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200173config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
174 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
175 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
176 help
177 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
178 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
179 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
180 chance to run.
181
182 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
183 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
184 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
185 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
186 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
187
188 Say N if unsure.
189
190config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
191 int
192 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
193 range 0 1
194 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
195 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
196
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800197config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
198 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar77d05632009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200200 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800201 help
202 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
203 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
204 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
205
206 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
207 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
208 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
209 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
210 feature has negligible overhead.
211
212config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
213 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
214 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
215 help
216 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
217 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
218 in uninterruptible "D" state.
219
220 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
221 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
222 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
223 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
224 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
225
226 Say N if unsure.
227
228config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
229 int
230 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
231 range 0 1
232 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
233 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
234
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200235config SCHED_DEBUG
236 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
238 default y
239 help
240 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
241 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
242 option is minimal.
243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700244config SCHEDSTATS
245 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
247 help
248 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
249 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
250 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
251 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
252 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
253 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
254 this adds.
255
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800256config TIMER_STATS
257 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
259 help
260 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
261 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
262 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
263 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
264 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700265 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
266 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
267 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
268 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800269
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700270config DEBUG_OBJECTS
271 bool "Debug object operations"
272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
273 help
274 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
275 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
276 the operations on those objects.
277
278config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
279 bool "Debug objects selftest"
280 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
281 help
282 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
283
284config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
285 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
286 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
287 help
288 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
289 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
290 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
291 much slower.
292
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700293config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
294 bool "Debug timer objects"
295 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
298 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
299 validate the timer operations.
300
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900301config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
302 bool "Debug work objects"
303 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
304 help
305 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
306 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
307 validate the work operations.
308
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100309config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
310 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
311 range 0 1
312 default "1"
313 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
314 help
315 Debug objects boot parameter default value
316
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700317config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800318 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200319 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700320 help
321 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
322 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
323 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
324
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800325config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
326 bool "Memory leak debugging"
327 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
328
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700329config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
330 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200331 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700332 default n
333 help
334 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
335 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
336 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
337 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
338 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
339 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
340 "slub_debug=-".
341
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800342config SLUB_STATS
343 default n
344 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameter5b06c8532008-04-14 18:51:34 +0300345 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800346 help
347 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
348 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
349 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
350 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
351 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
352 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
353 Try running: slabinfo -DA
354
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100355config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
356 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
358 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390)
359
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100360 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
361 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
362 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800363 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100364 help
365 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
366 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
367 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
368 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
369 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
370 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
371 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
372 details.
373
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100374 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
375 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
376
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100377 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
378 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
379
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100380config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
381 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
382 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200383 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100384 default 400
385 help
386 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
387 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
388 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
389 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
390 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
391
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100392config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
393 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
394 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
395 help
396 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
397 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
398 memory.
399
400 If unsure, say N.
401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700402config DEBUG_PREEMPT
403 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700405 default y
406 help
407 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
408 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
409 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
410 will detect preemption count underflows.
411
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700412config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
413 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
415 help
416 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
417 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
418
419config DEBUG_PI_LIST
420 bool
421 default y
422 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
423
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700424config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
425 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700427 help
428 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
429
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700430config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700431 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
433 help
434 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
435 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
436 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
437 deadlocks are also debuggable.
438
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700439config DEBUG_MUTEXES
440 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
442 help
443 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
444 reported.
445
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700446config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
447 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700448 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700449 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
450 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700451 select LOCKDEP
452 help
453 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
454 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
455 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
456 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
457 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
458 held during task exit.
459
460config PROVE_LOCKING
461 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700463 select LOCKDEP
464 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
465 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700466 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
467 default n
468 help
469 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
470 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
471 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
472 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
473 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
474 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
475 deadlock.
476
477 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
478 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
479
480 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
481 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
482 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
483 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
484 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
485 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
486 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
487 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
488 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
489
490 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
491 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
492 kernel reports nothing.
493
494 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
495 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
496 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
497 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
498 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
499
500 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
501
502config LOCKDEP
503 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700505 select STACKTRACE
Peter Zijlstra00540e52009-06-12 10:04:01 +0200506 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700507 select KALLSYMS
508 select KALLSYMS_ALL
509
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700510config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700511 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700512 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
513 select LOCKDEP
514 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
515 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
516 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
517 default n
518 help
519 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
520
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700521 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
522
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700523config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
524 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700525 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700526 help
527 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
528 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
529 of more runtime overhead.
530
531config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700532 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700533 bool
534 default y
535 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
536 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
537
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700538config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700539 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700540 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
541 help
542 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
543 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
544
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700545config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
546 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
548 help
549 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
550 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
551 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
552 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
553 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
554 mutexes and rwsems.
555
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700556config STACKTRACE
557 bool
558 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
559
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700560config DEBUG_KOBJECT
561 bool "kobject debugging"
562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
563 help
564 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
565 to the syslog.
566
567config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
568 bool "Highmem debugging"
569 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
570 help
571 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
572 Disable for production systems.
573
574config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
575 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700576 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800577 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
578 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800579 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700580 help
581 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
582 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
583 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
584
585config DEBUG_INFO
586 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
587 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
588 help
589 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
590 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600591 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
592 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
593 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700594 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
595
596 If unsure, say N.
597
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800598config DEBUG_VM
599 bool "Debug VM"
600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
601 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800602 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
603 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800604
605 If unsure, say N.
606
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200607config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
608 bool "Debug VM translations"
609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
610 help
611 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
612 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
613
614 If unsure, say N.
615
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000616config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
617 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
618 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
619 help
620 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
621 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
622
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800623config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
624 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
626 help
627 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
628 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
629 32 bits.
630
631 If unsure, say N.
632
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700633config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
634 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
635 default !EMBEDDED
636 help
637 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
638 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
639 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
640 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
641 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
642
643 If unsure, say Y
644
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700645config DEBUG_LIST
646 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
647 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
648 help
649 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
650 walking routines.
651
652 If unsure, say N.
653
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200654config DEBUG_SG
655 bool "Debug SG table operations"
656 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
657 help
658 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
659 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
660 their sg tables.
661
662 If unsure, say N.
663
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700664config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
665 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
666 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
667 help
668 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
669 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
670 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
671 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
672 performance, say N.
673
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100674config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
675 bool "Debug credential management"
676 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
677 help
678 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
679 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
680 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
681 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
682 struct.
683
684 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
685 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
686
687 If unsure, say N.
688
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500689#
690# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
691# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
692# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
693#
694config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
695 bool
696 help
697
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700698config FRAME_POINTER
699 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800700 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Heiko Carstens75ee0342009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200701 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100702 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
703 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
704 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700705 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100706 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
707 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
708 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700709
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700710config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
711 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
713 help
714 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
715 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
716 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
717 using "boot_delay=N".
718
719 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
720 the "loops per jiffie" value.
721 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
722 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
723 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
724 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
725 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
726 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
727
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800728config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
729 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
730 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
731 default n
732 help
733 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
734 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
735 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
736
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700737 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
738 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800739 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
740 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700741
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700742config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
743 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
744 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
745 default n
746 help
747 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
748 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
749 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
750 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
751 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
752 into the kernel.
753
754 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
755 boot (you probably don't).
756 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
757 after being manually enabled via /proc.
758
Paul E. McKenney2133b5d2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700759config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Paul E. McKenney67182ae2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700760 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700761 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney8bfb2f82009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800762 default y
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100763 help
764 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
765 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
766 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
767
768 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
769
770 Say N if you are unsure.
771
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100772config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
773 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
774 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
775 depends on KPROBES
776 default n
777 help
778 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
779 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
780 verified for functionality.
781
782 Say N if you are unsure.
783
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100784config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
785 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
786 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
787 default n
788 help
789 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
790 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
791 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
792 developers working on architecture code.
793
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200794 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
795 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
796
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100797 Say N if you are unsure.
798
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900799config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
800 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
802 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200803 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900804 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200805 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
806 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
807 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
808 is broken.
809
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900810 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
811 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
812 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
813 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
814 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
815 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
816 device number allocation.
817
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200818 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
819 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
820 ones, so root partition specified using device number
821 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
822 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
823
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900824 Say N if you are unsure.
825
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900826config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
827 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
828 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
829 help
830 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
831 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
832 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
833 definitions.
834
835 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
836 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
837
838 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
839 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
840
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700841config LKDTM
842 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800843 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700844 depends on KPROBES
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800845 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700846 default n
847 help
848 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
849 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
850 If you don't need it: say N
851 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
852 called lkdtm.
853
854 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
855 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800856
857config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800858 bool "Fault-injection framework"
859 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800860 help
861 Provide fault-injection framework.
862 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800863
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800864config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800865 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
866 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +0900867 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800868 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800869 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800870
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800871config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
872 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800873 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800874 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800875 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800876
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800877config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100878 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700879 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800880 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800881 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800882
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700883config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
884 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
885 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
886 help
887 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
888 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
889 thus exercising the error handling.
890
891 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
892 for others it wont do anything.
893
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800894config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
895 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800896 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800897 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800898 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800899
900config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
901 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
902 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700903 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800904 select STACKTRACE
Heiko Carstens75ee0342009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200905 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800906 help
907 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700908
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100909config LATENCYTOP
910 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Heiko Carstens75ee0342009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200911 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100912 select KALLSYMS
913 select KALLSYMS_ALL
914 select STACKTRACE
915 select SCHEDSTATS
916 select SCHED_DEBUG
Heiko Carstensaa7d9352008-02-01 17:45:14 +0100917 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100918 help
919 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
920 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
921
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200922config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
923 bool "Sysctl checks"
Eric W. Biederman83ac2012009-04-03 02:22:26 -0700924 depends on SYSCTL
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200925 ---help---
926 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
927 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
928 you to keep things correct.
929
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700930source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200931source kernel/trace/Kconfig
932
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100933config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100934 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100935 depends on PCI && X86
936 help
937 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
938 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
939 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
940 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
941 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
942
943 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
944 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
945 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
946
947 Usage:
948
949 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
950 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
951
952 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
953 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
954 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
955 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
956
957 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
958 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
959
960 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100961
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100962config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
963 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
964 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
965 help
966 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
967 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
968 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
969 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
970
971 If unsure, say N.
972
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -0800973config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -0700974 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
975 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
976 help
977 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
978 kernel Documentation/ tree.
979
980 Say N if you are unsure.
981
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -0500982config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500983 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400984 default n
985 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500986 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400987 help
988
989 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
990 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500991 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
992 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
993 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
994 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400995
996 Usage:
997
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500998 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
999 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1000 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1001 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
1002 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1003 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001004
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001005 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001006
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001007 filename : source file of the debug statement
1008 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1009 module : module that contains the debug statement
1010 function : function that contains the debug statement
1011 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1012 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001013
1014 From a live system:
1015
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001016 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1017 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1018 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1019 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1020 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001021
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001022 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001023
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001024 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1025 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1026 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001027
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001028 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1029 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1030 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001031
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001032 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1033 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1034 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001035
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001036 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1037 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1038 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001039
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001040 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1041 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1042 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001043
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001044 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001045
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001046config DMA_API_DEBUG
1047 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1048 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1049 help
1050 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1051 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1052 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1053 were never allocated.
1054 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1055 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001056
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001057source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001058
1059source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001060
1061source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"