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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
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070012config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
13 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
14 default y
15 help
16 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
17 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
18 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070019
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020config MAGIC_SYSRQ
21 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080022 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070023 help
24 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
25 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
26 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
27 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
28 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
29 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
30 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
31 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
32 unless you really know what this hack does.
33
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070034config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
35 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
36 default y if X86
37 help
38 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
39 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
40 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
41 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
42 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
43 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
44 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
45 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
46 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
47 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
48 your module is.
49
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080050config DEBUG_FS
51 bool "Debug Filesystem"
52 depends on SYSFS
53 help
54 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
55 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
56 write to these files.
57
58 If unsure, say N.
59
60config HEADERS_CHECK
61 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
62 depends on !UML
63 help
64 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
65 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
66 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
67 were not exported, etc.
68
69 If you're making modifications to header files which are
70 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
71 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
72 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
73
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080074config DEBUG_KERNEL
75 bool "Kernel debugging"
76 help
77 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
78 identify kernel problems.
79
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
81 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
82 range 12 21
Ingo Molnarfbb9ce92006-07-03 00:24:50 -070083 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
85 default 15 if SMP
86 default 14
87 help
88 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
89 Defaults and Examples:
90 17 => 128 KB for S/390
91 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
92 15 => 32 KB for SMP
93 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
94 13 => 8 KB
95 12 => 4 KB
96
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -070097config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
98 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -070099 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700100 default y
101 help
102 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
103 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
104 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
105 chance to run.
106
107 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
108 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
109 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
110 overhead.
111
112 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
113 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
114 support it.)
115
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700116config SCHEDSTATS
117 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
119 help
120 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
121 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
122 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
123 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
124 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
125 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
126 this adds.
127
128config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800129 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26b2006-01-08 01:01:42 -0800130 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700131 help
132 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
133 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
134 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
135
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800136config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
137 bool "Memory leak debugging"
138 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
139
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700140config DEBUG_PREEMPT
141 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700143 default y
144 help
145 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
146 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
147 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
148 will detect preemption count underflows.
149
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700150config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
151 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700152 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
153 help
154 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
155 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
156
157config DEBUG_PI_LIST
158 bool
159 default y
160 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
161
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700162config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
163 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700165 help
166 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
167
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700168config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700169 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
171 help
172 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
173 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
174 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
175 deadlocks are also debuggable.
176
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700177config DEBUG_MUTEXES
178 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
180 help
181 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
182 reported.
183
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700184config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
185 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700186 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700187 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
188 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700189 select LOCKDEP
190 help
191 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
192 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
193 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
194 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
195 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
196 held during task exit.
197
198config PROVE_LOCKING
199 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700201 select LOCKDEP
202 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
203 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700204 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
205 default n
206 help
207 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
208 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
209 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
210 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
211 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
212 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
213 deadlock.
214
215 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
216 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
217
218 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
219 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
220 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
221 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
222 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
223 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
224 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
225 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
226 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
227
228 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
229 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
230 kernel reports nothing.
231
232 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
233 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
234 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
235 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
236 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
237
238 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
239
240config LOCKDEP
241 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700243 select STACKTRACE
Andi Kleen3b8d1fe2006-09-26 10:52:34 +0200244 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700245 select KALLSYMS
246 select KALLSYMS_ALL
247
248config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
249 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700251 help
252 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
253 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
254 of more runtime overhead.
255
256config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700257 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700258 bool
259 default y
260 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
261 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
262
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700263config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700264 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
266 help
267 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
268 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
269
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700270config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
271 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
273 help
274 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
275 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
276 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
277 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
278 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
279 mutexes and rwsems.
280
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700281config STACKTRACE
282 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700284 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
285
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700286config DEBUG_KOBJECT
287 bool "kobject debugging"
288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
289 help
290 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
291 to the syslog.
292
293config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
294 bool "Highmem debugging"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
296 help
297 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
298 Disable for production systems.
299
300config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
301 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700302 depends on BUG
Jeremy Fitzhardinge91768d62006-12-08 02:36:21 -0800303 depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700304 default !EMBEDDED
305 help
306 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
307 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
308 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
309
310config DEBUG_INFO
311 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
313 help
314 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
315 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
316 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
317
318 If unsure, say N.
319
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800320config DEBUG_VM
321 bool "Debug VM"
322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
323 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800324 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
325 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800326
327 If unsure, say N.
328
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700329config DEBUG_LIST
330 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
332 help
333 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
334 walking routines.
335
336 If unsure, say N.
337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700338config FRAME_POINTER
339 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Paul Mundt2549b322006-09-27 16:22:33 +0900340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700341 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700342 help
343 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800344 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
345 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200346 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700347
Ingo Molnara9df3d02006-01-14 13:21:33 -0800348config FORCED_INLINING
349 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
351 default y
352 help
353 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
354 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
355 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
356 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
357 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
358 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
359 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
360 test gcc for this.
361
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800362config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
363 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
365 default n
366 help
367 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
368 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
369 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
370
371 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
372 at boot time (you probably don't).
373 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
374 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700375
376config LKDTM
377 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700379 depends on KPROBES
380 default n
381 help
382 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
383 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
384 If you don't need it: say N
385 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
386 called lkdtm.
387
388 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
389 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800390
391config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800392 bool "Fault-injection framework"
393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Andrew Morton83ba2542006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800394 depends on STACKTRACE
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800395 select FRAME_POINTER
396 help
397 Provide fault-injection framework.
398 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800399
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800400config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800401 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
402 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800403 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800404 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800405
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800406config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
407 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800408 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800409 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800410 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800411
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800412config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100413 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800414 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800415 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800416 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800417
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800418config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
419 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800420 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800421 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800422 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.