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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08004 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
Jim Cromie99172a22011-03-18 11:33:08 -060010 in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time.
11 See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070013config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
14 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
15 range 1 7
16 default "4"
17 help
18 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
19
20 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
21 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
22 priority.
23
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040024config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
25 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
26 default y
27 help
28 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
29 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
30 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
31
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070032config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
33 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
34 default y
35 help
36 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
37 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
38 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010040config FRAME_WARN
41 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
42 range 0 8192
43 default 1024 if !64BIT
44 default 2048 if 64BIT
45 help
46 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
47 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
48 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
49 Requires gcc 4.4
50
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070051config MAGIC_SYSRQ
52 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080053 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070054 help
55 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
56 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
57 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
58 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
59 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
60 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
61 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
62 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
63 unless you really know what this hack does.
64
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070065config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
66 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
67 default n
68 help
69 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
70 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
71 get_wchan() and suchlike.
72
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070073config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
74 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
75 default y if X86
76 help
77 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
78 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
79 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
80 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
81 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
82 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
83 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
84 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
85 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
86 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
87 your module is.
88
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080089config DEBUG_FS
90 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080091 help
92 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
93 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
94 write to these files.
95
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020096 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
97 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
98
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080099 If unsure, say N.
100
101config HEADERS_CHECK
102 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
103 depends on !UML
104 help
105 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
106 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
107 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
108 were not exported, etc.
109
110 If you're making modifications to header files which are
111 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
112 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
113 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
114
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100115config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
116 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100117 help
118 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
119 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000120 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
121 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100122 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000123 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
124 __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100125 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000126 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
127 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
128 additional steps to occur:
129 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
130 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
131 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100132 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000133 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
134 a larger kernel).
135 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
136 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100137 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100138 introduced.
139 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000140 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
141 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
142 reported at least twice.
143 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
144 the section mismatches that are reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100145
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800146config DEBUG_KERNEL
147 bool "Kernel debugging"
148 help
149 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
150 identify kernel problems.
151
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800152config DEBUG_SHIRQ
153 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
155 help
156 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
157 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
158 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
159 points; some don't and need to be caught.
160
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400161config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
162 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700164 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400165 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
166 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500167
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400168 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500169 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400170 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
171 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700172
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400173 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500174 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400175 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
176 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700177
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400178 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500179 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
180 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
181
182 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
183 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500184
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200185config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500186 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
Cong Wangd314d742012-03-23 15:01:51 -0700187 !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700188
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700189config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
190 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
191 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
192 help
193 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
194 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500195 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
196 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
200config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
201 int
202 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
203 range 0 1
204 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
205 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
206
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200207config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
208 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200209 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200210 help
211 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
212 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao5f329082012-02-09 17:42:21 -0500213 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
214 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200215
216 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
217 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
218 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
219 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
220 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
221
222 Say N if unsure.
223
224config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
225 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200226 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200227 range 0 1
228 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
229 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
230
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800231config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
232 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
233 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000234 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800235 help
236 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
237 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
238 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
239
240 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
241 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
242 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
243 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
244 feature has negligible overhead.
245
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400246config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
247 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
248 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
249 default 120
250 help
251 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
252 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
253 be considered hung.
254
Jiaju Zhangc51eaac2011-10-31 17:10:07 -0700255 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
256 sysctl or by writing a value to
257 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
Jeff Mahoneye11feaa2011-04-27 14:27:24 -0400258
259 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
260 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
261
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800262config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
263 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
264 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
265 help
266 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
267 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
268 in uninterruptible "D" state.
269
270 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
271 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
272 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
273 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
274 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
275
276 Say N if unsure.
277
278config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
279 int
280 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
281 range 0 1
282 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
283 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
284
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200285config SCHED_DEBUG
286 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
287 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
288 default y
289 help
290 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
291 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
292 option is minimal.
293
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700294config SCHEDSTATS
295 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
297 help
298 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
299 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
300 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
301 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
302 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
303 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
304 this adds.
305
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800306config TIMER_STATS
307 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
309 help
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
312 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
313 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
314 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700315 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
316 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
317 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
318 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800319
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700320config DEBUG_OBJECTS
321 bool "Debug object operations"
322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
323 help
324 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
325 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
326 the operations on those objects.
327
328config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
329 bool "Debug objects selftest"
330 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
331 help
332 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
333
334config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
335 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
336 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
337 help
338 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
339 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
340 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
341 much slower.
342
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700343config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
344 bool "Debug timer objects"
345 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
346 help
347 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
348 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
349 validate the timer operations.
350
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900351config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
352 bool "Debug work objects"
353 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
354 help
355 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
356 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
357 validate the work operations.
358
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400359config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
360 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800361 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400362 help
363 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
364
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700365config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
366 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
367 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
368 help
369 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
370 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
371 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
372
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100373config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
374 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
375 range 0 1
376 default "1"
377 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
378 help
379 Debug objects boot parameter default value
380
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700381config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800382 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384 help
385 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
386 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
387 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
388
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800389config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
390 bool "Memory leak debugging"
391 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
392
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700393config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
394 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200395 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700396 default n
397 help
398 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
399 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
400 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
401 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
402 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
403 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
404 "slub_debug=-".
405
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800406config SLUB_STATS
407 default n
408 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500409 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800410 help
411 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
412 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
413 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
414 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
415 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
416 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
417 Try running: slabinfo -DA
418
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100419config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
420 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Laura Abbott029aeff2011-11-15 23:49:09 +0000421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
Maxin Johnc0a5afb2011-03-29 00:15:55 +0300422 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200423
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100424 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100425 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
426 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800427 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100428 help
429 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
430 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
431 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
432 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
433 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
434 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
435 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
436 details.
437
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100438 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
439 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
440
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100441 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
442 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
443
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100444config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
445 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
446 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200447 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100448 default 400
449 help
450 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
451 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
452 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
453 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
454 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
455
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100456config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
457 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700458 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100459 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700460 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100461
462 If unsure, say N.
463
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100464config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
465 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
466 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
467 help
468 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
469 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
470
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471config DEBUG_PREEMPT
472 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700474 default y
475 help
476 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
477 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
478 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
479 will detect preemption count underflows.
480
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700481config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
482 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
484 help
485 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
486 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
487
488config DEBUG_PI_LIST
489 bool
490 default y
491 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
492
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700493config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
494 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700495 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700496 help
497 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700500 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700501 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +0530502 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700503 help
504 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
505 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
506 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
507 deadlocks are also debuggable.
508
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700509config DEBUG_MUTEXES
510 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
511 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
512 help
513 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
514 reported.
515
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700516config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
517 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700518 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700519 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
520 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700521 select LOCKDEP
522 help
523 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
524 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
525 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
526 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
527 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
528 held during task exit.
529
530config PROVE_LOCKING
531 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700532 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700533 select LOCKDEP
534 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
535 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700536 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400537 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700538 default n
539 help
540 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
541 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
542 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
543 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
544 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
545 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
546 deadlock.
547
548 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
549 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
550
551 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
552 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
553 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
554 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
555 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
556 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
557 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
558 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
559 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
560
561 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
562 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
563 kernel reports nothing.
564
565 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
566 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
567 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
568 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
569 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
570
571 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
572
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800573config PROVE_RCU
574 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
575 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
576 default n
577 help
578 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
579 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
580 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
581 feature.
582
583 Say N if you are unsure.
584
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800585config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
586 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
587 depends on PROVE_RCU
588 default n
589 help
590 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
591 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
592 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
593 on a single reboot.
594
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700595 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
596
597 Say N if you are unsure.
598
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700599config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
600 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
601 default n
602 help
603 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
604 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
605 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
606 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
607 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
608 a debugging aid.
609
610 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
611
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800612 Say N if you are unsure.
613
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700614config LOCKDEP
615 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700616 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700617 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200618 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700619 select KALLSYMS
620 select KALLSYMS_ALL
621
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700622config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700623 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700624 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
625 select LOCKDEP
626 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
627 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
628 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
629 default n
630 help
631 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
632
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700633 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
634
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100635 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
636 subcommand of perf.
637 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
638 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900639
640 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100641 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900642
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700643config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
644 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700646 help
647 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
648 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
649 of more runtime overhead.
650
651config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
652 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400653 help
654 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
655 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700656
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200657config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
658 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +0200659 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700660 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
661 help
662 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200663 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
664 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
665 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700666
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700667config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
668 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
670 help
671 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
672 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
673 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
674 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
675 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
676 mutexes and rwsems.
677
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700678config STACKTRACE
Arve Hjønnevåg0f01bb12010-06-03 16:33:07 -0700679 bool "Stacktrace"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700680 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Arve Hjønnevåg0f01bb12010-06-03 16:33:07 -0700681 default y
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700682
Stephen Boyd5ca43f62011-05-24 17:13:36 -0700683config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
684 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
686 help
687 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
688 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
689
690 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
691
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700692config DEBUG_KOBJECT
693 bool "kobject debugging"
694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
695 help
696 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
697 to the syslog.
698
699config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
700 bool "Highmem debugging"
701 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
702 help
703 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
704 Disable for production systems.
705
706config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800707 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700708 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800709 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
Chris Metcalf3cc39b32011-06-01 16:06:04 -0400710 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800711 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700712 help
713 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
714 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
715 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
716
717config DEBUG_INFO
718 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
719 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
720 help
721 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
722 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600723 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
724 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
725 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700726 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
727
728 If unsure, say N.
729
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200730config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
731 bool "Reduce debugging information"
732 depends on DEBUG_INFO
733 help
734 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
735 information for structure types. This means that tools that
736 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
737 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
738 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
739 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
740 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
741 Only works with newer gcc versions.
742
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800743config DEBUG_VM
744 bool "Debug VM"
745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
746 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800747 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
748 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800749
750 If unsure, say N.
751
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200752config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
753 bool "Debug VM translations"
754 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
755 help
756 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
757 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
758
759 If unsure, say N.
760
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000761config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
762 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
763 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
764 help
765 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
766 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
767
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800768config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
769 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
771 help
772 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
773 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
774 32 bits.
775
776 If unsure, say N.
777
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700778config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800779 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
780 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700781 help
782 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
783 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
784 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
785 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
786 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
787
788 If unsure, say Y
789
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700790config DEBUG_LIST
791 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
793 help
794 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
795 walking routines.
796
797 If unsure, say N.
798
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700799config TEST_LIST_SORT
800 bool "Linked list sorting test"
801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
802 help
803 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
804 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
805
806 If unsure, say N.
807
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200808config DEBUG_SG
809 bool "Debug SG table operations"
810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
811 help
812 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
813 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
814 their sg tables.
815
816 If unsure, say N.
817
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700818config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
819 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
820 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
821 help
822 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
823 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
824 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
825 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
826 performance, say N.
827
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100828config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
829 bool "Debug credential management"
830 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
831 help
832 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
833 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
834 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
835 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
836 struct.
837
838 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
839 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
840
841 If unsure, say N.
842
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500843#
844# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
Justin P. Mattock52288b62011-08-21 20:02:13 -0700845# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500846# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
847#
848config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
849 bool
850 help
851
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700852config FRAME_POINTER
853 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800854 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100855 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100856 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
857 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
858 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700859 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100860 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
861 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
862 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700863
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700864config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
865 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
866 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
867 help
868 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
869 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
870 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
871 using "boot_delay=N".
872
873 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
874 the "loops per jiffie" value.
875 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
876 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
877 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
878 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000879 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700880 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
881
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800882config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
883 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
884 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
885 default n
886 help
887 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
888 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
889 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
890
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700891 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
892 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800893 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
894 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700895
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700896config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
897 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
898 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
899 default n
900 help
901 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
902 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
903 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
904 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
905 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
906 into the kernel.
907
908 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
909 boot (you probably don't).
910 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
911 after being manually enabled via /proc.
912
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700913config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
914 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800915 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700916 range 3 300
917 default 60
918 help
919 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
920 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
921 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
922 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
923
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800924config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
925 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800926 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700927 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800928 help
929 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
930 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100931
932 Say N if you are unsure.
933
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800934 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
935
Paul E. McKenneya858af22012-01-16 13:29:10 -0800936config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
937 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
938 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
939 default n
940 help
941 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
942 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
943 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
944 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
945
946 Say N if you are unsure.
947
948 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
949
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -0800950config RCU_TRACE
951 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
952 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
953 help
954 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
955 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
956
957 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
958 Say N if you are unsure.
959
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100960config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
961 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
962 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
963 depends on KPROBES
964 default n
965 help
966 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
967 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
968 verified for functionality.
969
970 Say N if you are unsure.
971
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100972config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
973 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
974 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
975 default n
976 help
977 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
978 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
979 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
980 developers working on architecture code.
981
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200982 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
983 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
984
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100985 Say N if you are unsure.
986
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900987config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
988 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
989 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
990 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200991 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900992 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200993 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
994 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
995 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
996 is broken.
997
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900998 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
999 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1000 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1001 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1002 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1003 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1004 device number allocation.
1005
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001006 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1007 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1008 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1009 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1010 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1011
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001012 Say N if you are unsure.
1013
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +09001014config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1015 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1016 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1017 help
1018 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1019 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1020 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1021 definitions.
1022
1023 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1024 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1025
1026 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1027 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1028
Stephen Boyd44ec7ab2011-05-24 17:13:32 -07001029config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1030 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1031 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1032 depends on SMP
1033 help
1034 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1035 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1036 and decreases performance.
1037
1038 Say N if unsure.
1039
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001040config LKDTM
1041 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001042 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -08001043 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001044 default n
1045 help
1046 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1047 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1048 If you don't need it: say N
1049 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1050 called lkdtm.
1051
1052 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001053 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001054
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001055config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1056 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1057 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1058 help
1059 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1060 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1061
1062 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1063 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1064
1065 If unsure, say N.
1066
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001067config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001068 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1069 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001070 help
1071 Provide fault-injection framework.
1072 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001073
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001074config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001075 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1076 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001077 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001078 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001079 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001080
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001081config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1082 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001083 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001084 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001085 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001086
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001087config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001088 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001089 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001090 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001091 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001092
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001093config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001094 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001095 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1096 help
1097 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1098 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1099 thus exercising the error handling.
1100
1101 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1102 for others it wont do anything.
1103
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001104config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1105 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1106 select DEBUG_FS
1107 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1108 help
1109 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1110 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1111 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1112 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1113 the block device.
1114
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001115config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1116 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001117 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001118 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001119 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001120
1121config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1122 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1123 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001124 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001125 select STACKTRACE
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001126 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001127 help
1128 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001129
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001130config LATENCYTOP
1131 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001132 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1134 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1135 depends on PROC_FS
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001136 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001137 select KALLSYMS
1138 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1139 select STACKTRACE
1140 select SCHEDSTATS
1141 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001142 help
1143 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1144 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1145
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001146source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001147source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1148
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001149config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001150 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001151 depends on PCI && X86
1152 help
1153 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1154 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1155 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1156 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1157 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1158
1159 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1160 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1161 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1162
1163 Usage:
1164
1165 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1166 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1167
1168 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1169 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1170 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1171 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1172
1173 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1174 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1175
1176 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001177
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001178config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1179 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1180 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1181 help
1182 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1183 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1184 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1185 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1186
1187 If unsure, say N.
1188
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001189config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001190 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1191 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1192 help
1193 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1194 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1195
1196 Say N if you are unsure.
1197
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001198config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001199 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001200 default n
1201 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001202 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001203 help
1204
1205 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1206 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001207 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1208 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1209 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1210 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001211
1212 Usage:
1213
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001214 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001215 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1216 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001217 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001218 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1219 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001220
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001221 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001222
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001223 filename : source file of the debug statement
1224 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1225 module : module that contains the debug statement
1226 function : function that contains the debug statement
1227 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1228 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001229
1230 From a live system:
1231
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001232 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001233 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1234 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1235 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1236 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001237
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001238 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001239
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001240 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1241 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001242 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001243
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001244 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1245 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001246 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001247
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001248 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1249 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001250 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001251
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001252 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1253 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001254 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001255
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001256 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1257 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001258 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001259
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001260 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001261
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001262config DMA_API_DEBUG
1263 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1264 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1265 help
1266 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1267 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1268 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1269 were never allocated.
1270 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1271 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001272
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001273config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1274 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1275 help
1276 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1277
1278 If unsure, say N.
1279
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001280config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1281 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1282 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1283 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1284 ---help---
1285 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1286 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1287 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1288 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1289 engine if one is available.
1290
1291 If unsure, say N.
1292
Syed Rameez Mustafa1c014f32013-07-15 11:52:09 -07001293config PANIC_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1294 bool "Cause a Kernel Panic When Data Corruption is detected"
1295 help
1296 Select this option to upgrade warnings for potentially
1297 recoverable data corruption scenarios to system-halting panics,
1298 for easier detection and debug.
1299
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001300source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001301
1302source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001303
1304source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
Alexey Dobriyan33ee3b22011-03-22 16:34:40 -07001305
1306config TEST_KSTRTOX
1307 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"