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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
Matt Wagantallbfc96232013-12-05 20:01:32 -0800294config SYSRQ_SCHED_DEBUG
295 bool "Print scheduling debugging info from sysrq-trigger"
296 depends on SCHED_DEBUG
297 default y
298 help
299 If you say Y here, the "show-task-states(T)" and
300 "show-blocked-tasks(W)" sysrq-triggers will print additional
301 scheduling statistics.
302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700303config SCHEDSTATS
304 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
305 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
306 help
307 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
308 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
309 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
310 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
311 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
312 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
313 this adds.
314
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700315config DEBUG_OBJECTS
316 bool "Debug object operations"
317 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
318 help
319 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
320 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
321 the operations on those objects.
322
323config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
324 bool "Debug objects selftest"
325 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
326 help
327 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
328
329config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
330 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
331 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
332 help
333 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
334 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
335 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
336 much slower.
337
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700338config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
339 bool "Debug timer objects"
340 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
341 help
342 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
343 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
344 validate the timer operations.
345
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900346config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
347 bool "Debug work objects"
348 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
349 help
350 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
351 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
352 validate the work operations.
353
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400354config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
355 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800356 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400357 help
358 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
359
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700360config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
361 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
362 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
363 help
364 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
365 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
366 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
367
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100368config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
369 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
370 range 0 1
371 default "1"
372 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
373 help
374 Debug objects boot parameter default value
375
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700376config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800377 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700379 help
380 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
381 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
382 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
383
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800384config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
385 bool "Memory leak debugging"
386 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
387
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700388config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
389 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200390 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700391 default n
392 help
393 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
394 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
395 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
396 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
397 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
398 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
399 "slub_debug=-".
400
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800401config SLUB_STATS
402 default n
403 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500404 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800405 help
406 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
407 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
408 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
409 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
410 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
411 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
412 Try running: slabinfo -DA
413
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100414config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
415 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Laura Abbott029aeff2011-11-15 23:49:09 +0000416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
Maxin Johnc0a5afb2011-03-29 00:15:55 +0300417 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200418
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100419 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100420 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
421 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800422 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100423 help
424 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
425 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
426 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
427 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
428 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
429 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
430 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
431 details.
432
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100433 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
434 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
435
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100436 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
437 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
438
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100439config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
440 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
441 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200442 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100443 default 400
444 help
445 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
446 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
447 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
448 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
449 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
450
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100451config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
452 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700453 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100454 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700455 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100456
457 If unsure, say N.
458
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100459config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
460 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
461 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
462 help
463 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
464 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
465
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700466config DEBUG_PREEMPT
467 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700469 default y
470 help
471 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
472 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
473 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
474 will detect preemption count underflows.
475
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700476config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
477 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700478 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
479 help
480 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
481 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
482
483config DEBUG_PI_LIST
484 bool
485 default y
486 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
487
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700488config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
489 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700490 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700491 help
492 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
493
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700494config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700495 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700496 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +0530497 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 help
499 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
500 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
501 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
502 deadlocks are also debuggable.
503
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700504config DEBUG_MUTEXES
505 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
507 help
508 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
509 reported.
510
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700511config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
512 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700513 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700514 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
515 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700516 select LOCKDEP
517 help
518 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
519 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
520 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
521 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
522 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
523 held during task exit.
524
525config PROVE_LOCKING
526 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700527 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700528 select LOCKDEP
529 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
530 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700531 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400532 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700533 default n
534 help
535 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
536 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
537 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
538 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
539 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
540 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
541 deadlock.
542
543 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
544 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
545
546 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
547 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
548 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
549 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
550 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
551 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
552 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
553 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
554 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
555
556 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
557 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
558 kernel reports nothing.
559
560 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
561 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
562 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
563 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
564 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
565
566 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
567
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800568config PROVE_RCU
569 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
570 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
571 default n
572 help
573 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
574 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
575 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
576 feature.
577
578 Say N if you are unsure.
579
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800580config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
581 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
582 depends on PROVE_RCU
583 default n
584 help
585 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
586 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
587 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
588 on a single reboot.
589
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700590 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
591
592 Say N if you are unsure.
593
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700594config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
595 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
596 default n
597 help
598 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
599 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
600 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
601 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
602 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
603 a debugging aid.
604
605 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
606
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800607 Say N if you are unsure.
608
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700609config LOCKDEP
610 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700612 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200613 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700614 select KALLSYMS
615 select KALLSYMS_ALL
616
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700617config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700618 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700619 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
620 select LOCKDEP
621 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
622 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
623 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
624 default n
625 help
626 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
627
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700628 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
629
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100630 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
631 subcommand of perf.
632 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
633 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900634
635 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100636 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900637
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700638config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
639 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700641 help
642 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
643 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
644 of more runtime overhead.
645
646config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
647 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400648 help
649 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
650 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700651
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200652config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
653 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +0200654 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700655 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
656 help
657 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200658 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
659 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
660 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700661
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700662config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
663 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
664 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
665 help
666 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
667 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
668 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
669 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
670 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
671 mutexes and rwsems.
672
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700673config STACKTRACE
Arve Hjønnevåg0f01bb12010-06-03 16:33:07 -0700674 bool "Stacktrace"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700675 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Arve Hjønnevåg0f01bb12010-06-03 16:33:07 -0700676 default y
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700677
Stephen Boyd5ca43f62011-05-24 17:13:36 -0700678config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
679 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
681 help
682 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
683 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
684
685 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700687config DEBUG_KOBJECT
688 bool "kobject debugging"
689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
690 help
691 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
692 to the syslog.
693
694config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
695 bool "Highmem debugging"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
697 help
698 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
699 Disable for production systems.
700
701config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800702 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700703 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800704 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
Chris Metcalf3cc39b32011-06-01 16:06:04 -0400705 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800706 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700707 help
708 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
709 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
710 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
711
712config DEBUG_INFO
713 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
714 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
715 help
716 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
717 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600718 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
719 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
720 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700721 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
722
723 If unsure, say N.
724
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200725config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
726 bool "Reduce debugging information"
727 depends on DEBUG_INFO
728 help
729 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
730 information for structure types. This means that tools that
731 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
732 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
733 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
734 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
735 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
736 Only works with newer gcc versions.
737
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800738config DEBUG_VM
739 bool "Debug VM"
740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
741 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800742 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
743 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800744
745 If unsure, say N.
746
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200747config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
748 bool "Debug VM translations"
749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
750 help
751 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
752 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
753
754 If unsure, say N.
755
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000756config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
757 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
759 help
760 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
761 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
762
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800763config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
764 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
765 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
766 help
767 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
768 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
769 32 bits.
770
771 If unsure, say N.
772
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700773config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800774 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
775 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700776 help
777 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
778 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
779 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
780 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
781 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
782
783 If unsure, say Y
784
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700785config DEBUG_LIST
786 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
788 help
789 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
790 walking routines.
791
792 If unsure, say N.
793
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700794config TEST_LIST_SORT
795 bool "Linked list sorting test"
796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
797 help
798 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
799 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
800
801 If unsure, say N.
802
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200803config DEBUG_SG
804 bool "Debug SG table operations"
805 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
806 help
807 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
808 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
809 their sg tables.
810
811 If unsure, say N.
812
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700813config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
814 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
816 help
817 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
818 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
819 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
820 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
821 performance, say N.
822
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100823config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
824 bool "Debug credential management"
825 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
826 help
827 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
828 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
829 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
830 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
831 struct.
832
833 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
834 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
835
836 If unsure, say N.
837
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500838#
839# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
Justin P. Mattock52288b62011-08-21 20:02:13 -0700840# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500841# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
842#
843config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
844 bool
845 help
846
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700847config FRAME_POINTER
848 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800849 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100850 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100851 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
852 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
853 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700854 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100855 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
856 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
857 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700858
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700859config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
860 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
861 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
862 help
863 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
864 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
865 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
866 using "boot_delay=N".
867
868 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
869 the "loops per jiffie" value.
870 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
871 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
872 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
873 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
Anton Blanchard8edbb832011-07-05 13:32:40 +1000874 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700875 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
876
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800877config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
878 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
879 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
880 default n
881 help
882 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
883 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
884 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
885
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700886 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
887 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800888 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
889 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700890
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700891config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
892 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
893 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
894 default n
895 help
896 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
897 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
898 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
899 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
900 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
901 into the kernel.
902
903 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
904 boot (you probably don't).
905 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
906 after being manually enabled via /proc.
907
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700908config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
909 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800910 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700911 range 3 300
912 default 60
913 help
914 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
915 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
916 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
917 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
918
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800919config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
920 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
Paul E. McKenneya00e0d712011-02-08 17:14:39 -0800921 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700922 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800923 help
924 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
925 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100926
927 Say N if you are unsure.
928
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800929 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
930
Paul E. McKenneya858af22012-01-16 13:29:10 -0800931config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
932 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
933 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
934 default n
935 help
936 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
937 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
938 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
939 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
940
941 Say N if you are unsure.
942
943 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
944
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -0800945config RCU_TRACE
946 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
948 help
949 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
950 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
951
952 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
953 Say N if you are unsure.
954
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100955config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
956 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
958 depends on KPROBES
959 default n
960 help
961 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
962 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
963 verified for functionality.
964
965 Say N if you are unsure.
966
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100967config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
968 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
970 default n
971 help
972 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
973 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
974 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
975 developers working on architecture code.
976
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200977 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
978 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
979
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100980 Say N if you are unsure.
981
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900982config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
983 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
985 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200986 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900987 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200988 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
989 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
990 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
991 is broken.
992
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900993 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
994 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
995 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
996 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
997 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
998 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
999 device number allocation.
1000
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001001 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1002 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1003 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1004 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1005 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1006
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001007 Say N if you are unsure.
1008
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +09001009config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1010 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1012 help
1013 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1014 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1015 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1016 definitions.
1017
1018 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1019 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1020
1021 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1022 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1023
Stephen Boyd44ec7ab2011-05-24 17:13:32 -07001024config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1025 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1026 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1027 depends on SMP
1028 help
1029 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1030 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1031 and decreases performance.
1032
1033 Say N if unsure.
1034
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001035config LKDTM
1036 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001037 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -08001038 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001039 default n
1040 help
1041 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1042 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1043 If you don't need it: say N
1044 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1045 called lkdtm.
1046
1047 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -08001048 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001049
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001050config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1051 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1052 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1053 help
1054 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1055 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1056
1057 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1058 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1059
1060 If unsure, say N.
1061
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001062config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001063 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1064 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001065 help
1066 Provide fault-injection framework.
1067 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001068
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001069config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001070 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1071 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001072 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001073 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001074 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001075
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001076config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1077 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001078 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001079 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001080 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001081
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001082config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001083 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001084 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001085 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001086 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001087
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001088config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001089 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001090 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1091 help
1092 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1093 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1094 thus exercising the error handling.
1095
1096 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1097 for others it wont do anything.
1098
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001099config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1100 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1101 select DEBUG_FS
1102 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1103 help
1104 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1105 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1106 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1107 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1108 the block device.
1109
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001110config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1111 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001112 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001113 help
Andrew Morton1ab85092006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001114 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001115
1116config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1117 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1118 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001119 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001120 select STACKTRACE
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001121 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001122 help
1123 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001124
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001125config LATENCYTOP
1126 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001127 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1129 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1130 depends on PROC_FS
Arnd Bergmann89bace62011-06-10 14:12:21 +00001131 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001132 select KALLSYMS
1133 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1134 select STACKTRACE
1135 select SCHEDSTATS
1136 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001137 help
1138 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1139 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1140
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001141source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001142source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1143
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001144config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001145 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001146 depends on PCI && X86
1147 help
1148 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1149 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1150 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1151 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1152 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1153
1154 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1155 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1156 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1157
1158 Usage:
1159
1160 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1161 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1162
1163 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1164 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1165 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1166 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1167
1168 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1169 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1170
1171 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001172
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001173config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1174 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1175 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1176 help
1177 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1178 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1179 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1180 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1181
1182 If unsure, say N.
1183
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001184config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001185 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1186 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1187 help
1188 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1189 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1190
1191 Say N if you are unsure.
1192
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001193config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001194 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001195 default n
1196 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001197 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001198 help
1199
1200 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1201 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001202 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1203 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1204 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1205 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001206
1207 Usage:
1208
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001209 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001210 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1211 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001212 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001213 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1214 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001215
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001216 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001217
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001218 filename : source file of the debug statement
1219 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1220 module : module that contains the debug statement
1221 function : function that contains the debug statement
1222 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1223 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001224
1225 From a live system:
1226
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001227 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001228 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1229 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1230 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1231 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001232
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001233 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001234
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001235 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1236 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001237 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001238
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001239 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1240 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001241 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001242
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001243 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1244 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001245 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001246
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001247 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1248 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001249 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001250
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001251 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1252 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001253 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001254
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001255 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001256
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001257config DMA_API_DEBUG
1258 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1259 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1260 help
1261 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1262 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1263 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1264 were never allocated.
1265 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1266 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001267
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001268config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1269 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1270 help
1271 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1272
1273 If unsure, say N.
1274
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001275config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1276 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1277 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1278 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1279 ---help---
1280 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1281 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1282 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1283 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1284 engine if one is available.
1285
1286 If unsure, say N.
1287
Syed Rameez Mustafa1c014f32013-07-15 11:52:09 -07001288config PANIC_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1289 bool "Cause a Kernel Panic When Data Corruption is detected"
1290 help
1291 Select this option to upgrade warnings for potentially
1292 recoverable data corruption scenarios to system-halting panics,
1293 for easier detection and debug.
1294
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001295source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001296
1297source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001298
1299source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
Alexey Dobriyan33ee3b22011-03-22 16:34:40 -07001300
1301config TEST_KSTRTOX
1302 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"