| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 |  | 
|  | 2 | config PRINTK_TIME | 
|  | 3 | bool "Show timing information on printks" | 
| Randy Dunlap | d3b8b6e | 2006-12-06 20:36:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | depends on PRINTK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | help | 
|  | 6 | Selecting this option causes timing information to be | 
|  | 7 | included in printk output.  This allows you to measure | 
|  | 8 | the interval between kernel operations, including bootup | 
|  | 9 | operations.  This is useful for identifying long delays | 
|  | 10 | in kernel startup. | 
|  | 11 |  | 
| Jeff Garzik | de48844 | 2007-10-25 04:06:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED | 
|  | 13 | bool "Enable __deprecated logic" | 
|  | 14 | default y | 
|  | 15 | help | 
|  | 16 | Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. | 
|  | 17 | Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated | 
|  | 18 | (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. | 
|  | 19 |  | 
| Andrew Morton | cebc04b | 2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK | 
|  | 21 | bool "Enable __must_check logic" | 
|  | 22 | default y | 
|  | 23 | help | 
|  | 24 | Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build.  Disable this to | 
|  | 25 | suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with | 
|  | 26 | attribute warn_unused_result" messages. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 35bb5b1 | 2008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | config FRAME_WARN | 
|  | 29 | int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" | 
|  | 30 | range 0 8192 | 
|  | 31 | default 1024 if !64BIT | 
|  | 32 | default 2048 if 64BIT | 
|  | 33 | help | 
|  | 34 | Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. | 
|  | 35 | Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. | 
|  | 36 | Setting it to 0 disables the warning. | 
|  | 37 | Requires gcc 4.4 | 
|  | 38 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ | 
|  | 40 | bool "Magic SysRq key" | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | depends on !UML | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | help | 
|  | 43 | If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even | 
|  | 44 | if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you | 
|  | 45 | will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system | 
|  | 46 | immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished | 
|  | 47 | by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It | 
|  | 48 | also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you | 
|  | 49 | send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The | 
|  | 50 | keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y | 
|  | 51 | unless you really know what this hack does. | 
|  | 52 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 99657c7 | 2009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | config STRIP_ASM_SYMS | 
|  | 54 | bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" | 
|  | 55 | default n | 
|  | 56 | help | 
|  | 57 | Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols | 
|  | 58 | that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of | 
|  | 59 | get_wchan() and suchlike. | 
|  | 60 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | f71d20e | 2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | config UNUSED_SYMBOLS | 
|  | 62 | bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" | 
|  | 63 | default y if X86 | 
|  | 64 | help | 
|  | 65 | Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For | 
|  | 66 | that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This | 
|  | 67 | option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case | 
|  | 68 | some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you | 
|  | 69 | encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually | 
|  | 70 | using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using | 
|  | 71 | this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the | 
|  | 72 | wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a | 
|  | 73 | mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why | 
|  | 74 | you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for | 
|  | 75 | your module is. | 
|  | 76 |  | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | config DEBUG_FS | 
|  | 78 | bool "Debug Filesystem" | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | help | 
|  | 80 | debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put | 
|  | 81 | debugging files into.  Enable this option to be able to read and | 
|  | 82 | write to these files. | 
|  | 83 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | ff54333 | 2008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see | 
|  | 85 | Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. | 
|  | 86 |  | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 88 |  | 
|  | 89 | config HEADERS_CHECK | 
|  | 90 | bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" | 
|  | 91 | depends on !UML | 
|  | 92 | help | 
|  | 93 | This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever | 
|  | 94 | building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to | 
|  | 95 | ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which | 
|  | 96 | were not exported, etc. | 
|  | 97 |  | 
|  | 98 | If you're making modifications to header files which are | 
|  | 99 | relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers | 
|  | 100 | exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in | 
|  | 101 | your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. | 
|  | 102 |  | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH | 
|  | 104 | bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" | 
| Mike Frysinger | 1d53661 | 2010-03-23 13:35:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN) | 
|  | 106 | default y | 
| Sam Ravnborg | fa2144b | 2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | # This option is on purpose disabled for now. | 
| André Goddard Rosa | af901ca | 2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number | 
| Sam Ravnborg | fa2144b | 2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build) | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | help | 
|  | 111 | The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal | 
|  | 112 | references from one section to another section. | 
|  | 113 | Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections | 
|  | 114 | and any use of code/data previously in these sections will | 
|  | 115 | most likely result in an oops. | 
|  | 116 | In the code functions and variables are annotated with | 
|  | 117 | __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h) | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. | 
|  | 119 | The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full | 
|  | 120 | kernel build but enabling this option will in addition | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | do the following: | 
|  | 122 | - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc | 
|  | 123 | When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | function we would lose the section information and thus | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | This option tells gcc to inline less but will also | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | result in a larger kernel. | 
|  | 128 | - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o | 
|  | 129 | When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | lose valueble information about where the mismatch was | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | introduced. | 
|  | 132 | Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file | 
|  | 133 | will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the | 
|  | 134 | source. The drawback is that we will report the same | 
|  | 135 | mismatch at least twice. | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 588ccd7 | 2008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving | 
|  | 137 | the section mismatches reported. | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 138 |  | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | config DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 140 | bool "Kernel debugging" | 
|  | 141 | help | 
|  | 142 | Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and | 
|  | 143 | identify kernel problems. | 
|  | 144 |  | 
| David Woodhouse | a304e1b | 2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | config DEBUG_SHIRQ | 
|  | 146 | bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" | 
|  | 147 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS | 
|  | 148 | help | 
|  | 149 | Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared | 
|  | 150 | interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. | 
|  | 151 | Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those | 
|  | 152 | points; some don't and need to be caught. | 
|  | 153 |  | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | config LOCKUP_DETECTOR | 
|  | 155 | bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" | 
| Heiko Carstens | dea20a3 | 2006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | help | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect | 
|  | 159 | hard and soft lockups. | 
| Don Zickus | 84e478c | 2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 160 |  | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon | 
|  | 164 | detection and the system will stay locked up. | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 165 |  | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode | 
|  | 167 | for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a | 
|  | 168 | chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon detection | 
|  | 169 | and the system will stay locked up. | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 170 |  | 
| Don Zickus | 58687ac | 2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | The overhead should be minimal.  A periodic hrtimer runs to | 
|  | 172 | generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds. | 
|  | 173 | An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. | 
| Don Zickus | 84e478c | 2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 174 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 23637d4 | 2010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR | 
|  | 176 | def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 177 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
|  | 179 | bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | 89d7ce2 | 2010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | help | 
|  | 182 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", | 
|  | 183 | which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel | 
|  | 184 | mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a | 
|  | 185 | chance to run. | 
|  | 186 |  | 
|  | 187 | The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, | 
|  | 188 | to cause the system to reboot automatically after a | 
|  | 189 | lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for | 
|  | 190 | high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and | 
|  | 191 | where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. | 
|  | 192 |  | 
|  | 193 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 194 |  | 
|  | 195 | config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE | 
|  | 196 | int | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | e16bb1d | 2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | range 0 1 | 
|  | 199 | default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
|  | 200 | default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
|  | 201 |  | 
| Mandeep Singh Baines | e162b39 | 2009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | config DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
|  | 203 | bool "Detect Hung Tasks" | 
|  | 204 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | 77d0563 | 2009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
| Mandeep Singh Baines | e162b39 | 2009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | help | 
|  | 207 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", | 
|  | 208 | which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in | 
|  | 209 | uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley. | 
|  | 210 |  | 
|  | 211 | When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the | 
|  | 212 | current stack trace (which you should report), but the | 
|  | 213 | task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is | 
|  | 214 | enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This | 
|  | 215 | feature has negligible overhead. | 
|  | 216 |  | 
|  | 217 | config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
|  | 218 | bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" | 
|  | 219 | depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
|  | 220 | help | 
|  | 221 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", | 
|  | 222 | which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck | 
|  | 223 | in uninterruptible "D" state. | 
|  | 224 |  | 
|  | 225 | The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, | 
|  | 226 | to cause the system to reboot automatically after a | 
|  | 227 | hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for | 
|  | 228 | high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and | 
|  | 229 | where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. | 
|  | 230 |  | 
|  | 231 | Say N if unsure. | 
|  | 232 |  | 
|  | 233 | config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE | 
|  | 234 | int | 
|  | 235 | depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
|  | 236 | range 0 1 | 
|  | 237 | default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
|  | 238 | default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
|  | 239 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | b642b6d | 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | config SCHED_DEBUG | 
|  | 241 | bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" | 
|  | 242 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
|  | 243 | default y | 
|  | 244 | help | 
|  | 245 | If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided | 
|  | 246 | that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this | 
|  | 247 | option is minimal. | 
|  | 248 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | config SCHEDSTATS | 
|  | 250 | bool "Collect scheduler statistics" | 
|  | 251 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
|  | 252 | help | 
|  | 253 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 254 | scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about | 
|  | 255 | scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat.  These | 
|  | 256 | stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler | 
|  | 257 | If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific | 
|  | 258 | application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead | 
|  | 259 | this adds. | 
|  | 260 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | config TIMER_STATS | 
|  | 262 | bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" | 
|  | 263 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
|  | 264 | help | 
|  | 265 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 266 | timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being | 
|  | 267 | reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. | 
|  | 268 | The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, | 
|  | 269 | writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information | 
| Ingo Molnar | c1a834d | 2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature | 
|  | 271 | is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated | 
|  | 272 | (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated | 
|  | 273 | if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 274 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 3ac7fe5 | 2008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 275 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 276 | bool "Debug object operations" | 
|  | 277 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 278 | help | 
|  | 279 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 280 | kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate | 
|  | 281 | the operations on those objects. | 
|  | 282 |  | 
|  | 283 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST | 
|  | 284 | bool "Debug objects selftest" | 
|  | 285 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 286 | help | 
|  | 287 | This enables the selftest of the object debug code. | 
|  | 288 |  | 
|  | 289 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE | 
|  | 290 | bool "Debug objects in freed memory" | 
|  | 291 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 292 | help | 
|  | 293 | This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area | 
|  | 294 | which contains an object which has not been deactivated | 
|  | 295 | properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads | 
|  | 296 | much slower. | 
|  | 297 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | c6f3a97 | 2008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS | 
|  | 299 | bool "Debug timer objects" | 
|  | 300 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 301 | help | 
|  | 302 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 303 | timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and | 
|  | 304 | validate the timer operations. | 
|  | 305 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | dc186ad | 2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK | 
|  | 307 | bool "Debug work objects" | 
|  | 308 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 309 | help | 
|  | 310 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 311 | work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and | 
|  | 312 | validate the work operations. | 
|  | 313 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 551d55a | 2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD | 
|  | 315 | bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" | 
|  | 316 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT | 
|  | 317 | help | 
|  | 318 | Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). | 
|  | 319 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | e2852ae | 2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 320 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER | 
|  | 321 | bool "Debug percpu counter objects" | 
|  | 322 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 323 | help | 
|  | 324 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
|  | 325 | percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter | 
|  | 326 | objects and validate the percpu counter operations. | 
|  | 327 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 3ae7020 | 2008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT | 
|  | 329 | int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" | 
|  | 330 | range 0 1 | 
|  | 331 | default "1" | 
|  | 332 | depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
|  | 333 | help | 
|  | 334 | Debug objects boot parameter default value | 
|  | 335 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | config DEBUG_SLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 4a2f0ac | 2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | bool "Debug slab memory allocations" | 
| Vegard Nossum | 7d46d9e | 2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | help | 
|  | 340 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory | 
|  | 341 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed | 
|  | 342 | memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. | 
|  | 343 |  | 
| Al Viro | 871751e | 2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 344 | config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK | 
|  | 345 | bool "Memory leak debugging" | 
|  | 346 | depends on DEBUG_SLAB | 
|  | 347 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | f0630ff | 2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON | 
|  | 349 | bool "SLUB debugging on by default" | 
| Vegard Nossum | 7d46d9e | 2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 350 | depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK | 
| Christoph Lameter | f0630ff | 2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | default n | 
|  | 352 | help | 
|  | 353 | Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with | 
|  | 354 | the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is | 
|  | 355 | equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. | 
|  | 356 | There is no support for more fine grained debug control like | 
|  | 357 | possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched | 
|  | 358 | off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying | 
|  | 359 | "slub_debug=-". | 
|  | 360 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 8ff12cf | 2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | config SLUB_STATS | 
|  | 362 | default n | 
|  | 363 | bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" | 
| Christoph Lameter | ab4d5ed | 2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | depends on SLUB && SYSFS | 
| Christoph Lameter | 8ff12cf | 2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | help | 
|  | 366 | SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in | 
|  | 367 | order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be | 
|  | 368 | enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down | 
|  | 369 | the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command | 
|  | 370 | supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure | 
|  | 371 | out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. | 
|  | 372 | Try running: slabinfo -DA | 
|  | 373 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
|  | 375 | bool "Kernel memory leak detector" | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \ | 
| David S. Miller | 9343af0 | 2010-04-13 00:28:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE) | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 378 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS | 
|  | 380 | select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
|  | 381 | select KALLSYMS | 
| Randy Dunlap | b60e26a | 2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | select CRC32 | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | help | 
|  | 384 | Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak | 
|  | 385 | detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way | 
|  | 386 | similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the | 
|  | 387 | difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but | 
|  | 388 | only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this | 
|  | 389 | feature will introduce an overhead to memory | 
|  | 390 | allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more | 
|  | 391 | details. | 
|  | 392 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | bf96d1e | 2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances | 
|  | 394 | of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. | 
|  | 395 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be | 
|  | 397 | mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). | 
|  | 398 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | a9d9058 | 2009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE | 
|  | 400 | int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" | 
|  | 401 | depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | range 200 40000 | 
| Catalin Marinas | a9d9058 | 2009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | default 400 | 
|  | 404 | help | 
|  | 405 | Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid | 
|  | 406 | reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or | 
|  | 407 | freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is | 
|  | 408 | used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log | 
|  | 409 | buffer exceeded", please increase this value. | 
|  | 410 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 0822ee4 | 2009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST | 
|  | 412 | tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" | 
|  | 413 | depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
|  | 414 | help | 
|  | 415 | Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak | 
|  | 416 | detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks | 
|  | 417 | memory. | 
|  | 418 |  | 
|  | 419 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 420 |  | 
| Jason Baron | ab0155a | 2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF | 
|  | 422 | bool "Default kmemleak to off" | 
|  | 423 | depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
|  | 424 | help | 
|  | 425 | Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled | 
|  | 426 | on the command line via kmemleak=on. | 
|  | 427 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT | 
|  | 429 | bool "Debug preemptible kernel" | 
| Kumar Gala | 01deab9 | 2009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 430 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | default y | 
|  | 432 | help | 
|  | 433 | If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the | 
|  | 434 | commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings | 
|  | 435 | if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel | 
|  | 436 | will detect preemption count underflows. | 
|  | 437 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
|  | 439 | bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
|  | 441 | help | 
|  | 442 | This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related | 
|  | 443 | deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. | 
|  | 444 |  | 
|  | 445 | config DEBUG_PI_LIST | 
|  | 446 | bool | 
|  | 447 | default y | 
|  | 448 | depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
|  | 449 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | config RT_MUTEX_TESTER | 
|  | 451 | bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes" | 
| Roman Zippel | a1583d3 | 2006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | help | 
|  | 454 | This option enables a rt-mutex tester. | 
|  | 455 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 457 | bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 459 | help | 
|  | 460 | Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization | 
|  | 461 | and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made.  This is | 
|  | 462 | best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock | 
|  | 463 | deadlocks are also debuggable. | 
|  | 464 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | config DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
|  | 466 | bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" | 
|  | 467 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 468 | help | 
|  | 469 | This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and | 
|  | 470 | reported. | 
|  | 471 |  | 
| Arnd Bergmann | 6de5bd1 | 2010-09-11 18:00:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | config BKL | 
|  | 473 | bool "Big Kernel Lock" if (SMP || PREEMPT) | 
|  | 474 | default y | 
|  | 475 | help | 
|  | 476 | This is the traditional lock that is used in old code instead | 
|  | 477 | of proper locking. All drivers that use the BKL should depend | 
|  | 478 | on this symbol. | 
|  | 479 | Say Y here unless you are working on removing the BKL. | 
|  | 480 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
|  | 482 | bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
|  | 485 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | select LOCKDEP | 
|  | 487 | help | 
|  | 488 | This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, | 
|  | 489 | mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the | 
|  | 490 | memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), | 
|  | 491 | vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via | 
|  | 492 | spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock | 
|  | 493 | held during task exit. | 
|  | 494 |  | 
|  | 495 | config PROVE_LOCKING | 
|  | 496 | bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | select LOCKDEP | 
|  | 499 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
|  | 500 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
| Steven Rostedt | 46b93b7 | 2010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | select TRACE_IRQFLAGS | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 503 | default n | 
|  | 504 | help | 
|  | 505 | This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking | 
|  | 506 | that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically | 
|  | 507 | correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and | 
|  | 508 | not yet triggered) combination of observed locking | 
|  | 509 | sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an | 
|  | 510 | arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a | 
|  | 511 | deadlock. | 
|  | 512 |  | 
|  | 513 | In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking | 
|  | 514 | related deadlocks before they actually occur. | 
|  | 515 |  | 
|  | 516 | The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a | 
|  | 517 | deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many | 
|  | 518 | participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed | 
|  | 519 | for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on | 
|  | 520 | timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible | 
|  | 521 | theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario | 
|  | 522 | is), it will be proven so and will immediately be | 
|  | 523 | reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that | 
|  | 524 | makes the deadlock theoretically possible). | 
|  | 525 |  | 
|  | 526 | If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as | 
|  | 527 | observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the | 
|  | 528 | kernel reports nothing. | 
|  | 529 |  | 
|  | 530 | NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes | 
|  | 531 | and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these | 
|  | 532 | different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and | 
|  | 533 | the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an | 
|  | 534 | arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. | 
|  | 535 |  | 
|  | 536 | For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. | 
|  | 537 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 632ee20 | 2010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 538 | config PROVE_RCU | 
|  | 539 | bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness" | 
|  | 540 | depends on PROVE_LOCKING | 
|  | 541 | default n | 
|  | 542 | help | 
|  | 543 | This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct | 
|  | 544 | use of RCU APIs.  This is currently under development.  Say Y | 
|  | 545 | if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU | 
|  | 546 | feature. | 
|  | 547 |  | 
|  | 548 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 549 |  | 
| Lai Jiangshan | 2b3fc35 | 2010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY | 
|  | 551 | bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat" | 
|  | 552 | depends on PROVE_RCU | 
|  | 553 | default n | 
|  | 554 | help | 
|  | 555 | By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the | 
|  | 556 | first warning (or "splat").  This feature prevents such | 
|  | 557 | disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed | 
|  | 558 | on a single reboot. | 
|  | 559 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 2dfbf4d | 2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 560 | Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot. | 
|  | 561 |  | 
|  | 562 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 563 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | ca5ecdd | 2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER | 
|  | 565 | bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage" | 
|  | 566 | default n | 
|  | 567 | help | 
|  | 568 | This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for | 
|  | 569 | RCU-protected pointers.  This annotation will cause sparse | 
|  | 570 | to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers.  This can be | 
|  | 571 | helpful when debugging RCU usage.  Please note that this feature | 
|  | 572 | is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely | 
|  | 573 | a debugging aid. | 
|  | 574 |  | 
|  | 575 | Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers | 
|  | 576 |  | 
| Lai Jiangshan | 2b3fc35 | 2010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 578 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | config LOCKDEP | 
|  | 580 | bool | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | select STACKTRACE | 
| Michal Simek | 79aac88 | 2010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 583 | select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 584 | select KALLSYMS | 
|  | 585 | select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
|  | 586 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | config LOCK_STAT | 
| Danny ter Haar | fdfb870 | 2007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | bool "Lock usage statistics" | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
|  | 590 | select LOCKDEP | 
|  | 591 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
|  | 592 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
|  | 593 | select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
|  | 594 | default n | 
|  | 595 | help | 
|  | 596 | This feature enables tracking lock contention points | 
|  | 597 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | a560aa4 | 2007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt | 
|  | 599 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | dd8b1cf | 2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 600 | This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", | 
|  | 601 | subcommand of perf. | 
|  | 602 | If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on | 
|  | 603 | CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 84c6f88 | 2010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 604 |  | 
|  | 605 | CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | dd8b1cf | 2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 84c6f88 | 2010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 607 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | config DEBUG_LOCKDEP | 
|  | 609 | bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | help | 
|  | 612 | If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do | 
|  | 613 | additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price | 
|  | 614 | of more runtime overhead. | 
|  | 615 |  | 
|  | 616 | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS | 
|  | 617 | bool | 
| Steven Rostedt | 46b93b7 | 2010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | help | 
|  | 619 | Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for | 
|  | 620 | either tracing or lock debugging. | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 621 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 623 | bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 625 | help | 
|  | 626 | If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very | 
|  | 627 | noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. | 
|  | 628 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | cae2ed9 | 2006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS | 
|  | 630 | bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" | 
|  | 631 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 632 | help | 
|  | 633 | Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during | 
|  | 634 | bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs | 
|  | 635 | are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable | 
|  | 636 | lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) | 
|  | 637 | The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, | 
|  | 638 | mutexes and rwsems. | 
|  | 639 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8637c09 | 2006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 640 | config STACKTRACE | 
|  | 641 | bool | 
|  | 642 | depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
|  | 643 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 644 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT | 
|  | 645 | bool "kobject debugging" | 
|  | 646 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 647 | help | 
|  | 648 | If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent | 
|  | 649 | to the syslog. | 
|  | 650 |  | 
|  | 651 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM | 
|  | 652 | bool "Highmem debugging" | 
|  | 653 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM | 
|  | 654 | help | 
|  | 655 | This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. | 
|  | 656 | Disable for production systems. | 
|  | 657 |  | 
|  | 658 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE | 
|  | 659 | bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED | 
| Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 660 | depends on BUG | 
| David Howells | b920de1 | 2008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 661 | depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \ | 
|  | 662 | FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 | 
| Alexey Dobriyan | 8420e7e | 2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | default y | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 664 | help | 
|  | 665 | Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number | 
|  | 666 | of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids | 
|  | 667 | debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. | 
|  | 668 |  | 
|  | 669 | config DEBUG_INFO | 
|  | 670 | bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" | 
|  | 671 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 672 | help | 
|  | 673 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include | 
|  | 674 | debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. | 
| Andreas Dilger | b72e53f | 2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and | 
|  | 676 | is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object | 
|  | 677 | tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 678 | Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. | 
|  | 679 |  | 
|  | 680 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 681 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | d6f4ceb | 2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 682 | config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED | 
|  | 683 | bool "Reduce debugging information" | 
|  | 684 | depends on DEBUG_INFO | 
|  | 685 | help | 
|  | 686 | If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging | 
|  | 687 | information for structure types. This means that tools that | 
|  | 688 | need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't | 
|  | 689 | be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to | 
|  | 690 | resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that | 
|  | 691 | build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full | 
|  | 692 | DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. | 
|  | 693 | Only works with newer gcc versions. | 
|  | 694 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | config DEBUG_VM | 
|  | 696 | bool "Debug VM" | 
|  | 697 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 698 | help | 
| Nick Piggin | 13e7444 | 2006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 699 | Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system | 
|  | 700 | that may impact performance. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 701 |  | 
|  | 702 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 703 |  | 
| Jiri Slaby | 59ea746 | 2008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 704 | config DEBUG_VIRTUAL | 
|  | 705 | bool "Debug VM translations" | 
|  | 706 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86 | 
|  | 707 | help | 
|  | 708 | Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can | 
|  | 709 | catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. | 
|  | 710 |  | 
|  | 711 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 712 |  | 
| David Howells | 8feae13 | 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 713 | config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS | 
|  | 714 | bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" | 
|  | 715 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU | 
|  | 716 | help | 
|  | 717 | This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping | 
|  | 718 | regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. | 
|  | 719 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | ad775f5 | 2008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 720 | config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT | 
|  | 721 | bool "Debug filesystem writers count" | 
|  | 722 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 723 | help | 
|  | 724 | Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct | 
|  | 725 | vfsmount.  This will increase the size of each file struct by | 
|  | 726 | 32 bits. | 
|  | 727 |  | 
|  | 728 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 729 |  | 
| Mel Gorman | 6b74ab9 | 2008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 730 | config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT | 
|  | 731 | bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED | 
|  | 732 | default !EMBEDDED | 
|  | 733 | help | 
|  | 734 | Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. | 
|  | 735 | The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model | 
|  | 736 | and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose | 
|  | 737 | information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending | 
|  | 738 | on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. | 
|  | 739 |  | 
|  | 740 | If unsure, say Y | 
|  | 741 |  | 
| Dave Jones | 199a9af | 2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 742 | config DEBUG_LIST | 
|  | 743 | bool "Debug linked list manipulation" | 
|  | 744 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 745 | help | 
|  | 746 | Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list | 
|  | 747 | walking routines. | 
|  | 748 |  | 
|  | 749 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 750 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | d6ec084 | 2007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 751 | config DEBUG_SG | 
|  | 752 | bool "Debug SG table operations" | 
|  | 753 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 754 | help | 
|  | 755 | Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can | 
|  | 756 | help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize | 
|  | 757 | their sg tables. | 
|  | 758 |  | 
|  | 759 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 760 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 1b2439d | 2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 761 | config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS | 
|  | 762 | bool "Debug notifier call chains" | 
|  | 763 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 764 | help | 
|  | 765 | Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. | 
|  | 766 | This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that | 
|  | 767 | modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. | 
|  | 768 | This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum | 
|  | 769 | performance, say N. | 
|  | 770 |  | 
| David Howells | e0e8173 | 2009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS | 
|  | 772 | bool "Debug credential management" | 
|  | 773 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 774 | help | 
|  | 775 | Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential | 
|  | 776 | management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of | 
|  | 777 | pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to | 
|  | 778 | see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred | 
|  | 779 | struct. | 
|  | 780 |  | 
|  | 781 | Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the | 
|  | 782 | security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. | 
|  | 783 |  | 
|  | 784 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 785 |  | 
| Jeff Mahoney | 64dec40 | 2009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 786 | # | 
|  | 787 | # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it | 
|  | 788 | # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config | 
|  | 789 | # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): | 
|  | 790 | # | 
|  | 791 | config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
|  | 792 | bool | 
|  | 793 | help | 
|  | 794 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 795 | config FRAME_POINTER | 
|  | 796 | bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" | 
| David Howells | b920de1 | 2008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 797 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ | 
| Heiko Carstens | 75ee034 | 2009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 798 | (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \ | 
| Ingo Molnar | da4276b | 2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 799 | AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ | 
|  | 800 | ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
|  | 801 | default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | help | 
| Ingo Molnar | da4276b | 2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly | 
|  | 804 | larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information | 
|  | 805 | in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 806 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | bfe8df3 | 2007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 807 | config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY | 
|  | 808 | bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" | 
|  | 809 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY | 
|  | 810 | help | 
|  | 811 | This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages | 
|  | 812 | by inserting a short delay after each one.  The delay is | 
|  | 813 | specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, | 
|  | 814 | using "boot_delay=N". | 
|  | 815 |  | 
|  | 816 | It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset | 
|  | 817 | the "loops per jiffie" value. | 
|  | 818 | See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your | 
|  | 819 | system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". | 
|  | 820 | NOTE:  Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. | 
|  | 821 | I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. | 
|  | 822 | BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect | 
|  | 823 | what it believes to be lockup conditions. | 
|  | 824 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 825 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST | 
|  | 826 | tristate "torture tests for RCU" | 
|  | 827 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 828 | default n | 
|  | 829 | help | 
|  | 830 | This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests | 
|  | 831 | on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built | 
|  | 832 | after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. | 
|  | 833 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 31a72bc | 2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 834 | Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into | 
|  | 835 | the kernel. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 836 | Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. | 
|  | 837 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 838 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 31a72bc | 2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE | 
|  | 840 | bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default" | 
|  | 841 | depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y | 
|  | 842 | default n | 
|  | 843 | help | 
|  | 844 | This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests | 
|  | 845 | directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot | 
|  | 846 | time.  You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable | 
|  | 847 | to manually override this setting.  This /proc file is | 
|  | 848 | available only when the RCU torture tests have been built | 
|  | 849 | into the kernel. | 
|  | 850 |  | 
|  | 851 | Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during | 
|  | 852 | boot (you probably don't). | 
|  | 853 | Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only | 
|  | 854 | after being manually enabled via /proc. | 
|  | 855 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 2133b5d | 2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 856 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 67182ae | 2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 857 | bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods" | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 6b3ef48 | 2009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 8bfb2f8 | 2009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 859 | default y | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 860 | help | 
|  | 861 | This option causes RCU to printk information on which | 
|  | 862 | CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when | 
|  | 863 | the grace period extends for excessive time periods. | 
|  | 864 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 4c54005 | 2010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 865 | Say N if you want to disable such checks. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 866 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 4c54005 | 2010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 867 | Say Y if you are unsure. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 868 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | b163760 | 2010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 869 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT | 
|  | 870 | int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds" | 
|  | 871 | depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR | 
|  | 872 | range 3 300 | 
|  | 873 | default 60 | 
|  | 874 | help | 
|  | 875 | If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified | 
|  | 876 | number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed.  If the | 
|  | 877 | RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are | 
|  | 878 | printed at more widely spaced intervals. | 
|  | 879 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 910b1b7 | 2010-07-21 08:05:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 880 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE | 
|  | 881 | bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot" | 
|  | 882 | depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR | 
|  | 883 | default y | 
|  | 884 | help | 
|  | 885 | If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on | 
|  | 886 | boot.  Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually | 
|  | 887 | enabled. | 
|  | 888 |  | 
|  | 889 | Say Y if you are unsure. | 
|  | 890 |  | 
|  | 891 | Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot. | 
|  | 892 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 893 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE | 
|  | 894 | bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR" | 
|  | 895 | depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 55ec936 | 2010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 896 | default y | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 897 | help | 
|  | 898 | This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information | 
|  | 899 | for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period. | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 900 |  | 
|  | 901 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 902 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 903 | Say Y if you want to enable such checks. | 
|  | 904 |  | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 8c1c935 | 2008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST | 
|  | 906 | bool "Kprobes sanity tests" | 
|  | 907 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 908 | depends on KPROBES | 
|  | 909 | default n | 
|  | 910 | help | 
|  | 911 | This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on | 
|  | 912 | boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and | 
|  | 913 | verified for functionality. | 
|  | 914 |  | 
|  | 915 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 916 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 917 | config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST | 
|  | 918 | tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" | 
|  | 919 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 920 | default n | 
|  | 921 | help | 
|  | 922 | This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test | 
|  | 923 | the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful | 
|  | 924 | for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel | 
|  | 925 | developers working on architecture code. | 
|  | 926 |  | 
| Vegard Nossum | ad118c5 | 2008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will | 
|  | 928 | have to enable STACKTRACE as well. | 
|  | 929 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 930 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 931 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 932 | config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT | 
|  | 933 | bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" | 
|  | 934 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 935 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Jens Axboe | 759f8ca | 2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | default n | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | help | 
| Tejun Heo | 0e11e34 | 2008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 938 | BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON | 
|  | 939 | SOME DISTRIBUTIONS.  DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT | 
|  | 940 | YOU ARE DOING.  Distros, please enable this and fix whatever | 
|  | 941 | is broken. | 
|  | 942 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 943 | Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from | 
|  | 944 | predetermined contiguous area.  However, extended block area | 
|  | 945 | may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers.  This | 
|  | 946 | option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from | 
|  | 947 | the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or | 
|  | 948 | userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous | 
|  | 949 | device number allocation. | 
|  | 950 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 55dc7db | 2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 951 | Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the | 
|  | 952 | device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata | 
|  | 953 | ones, so root partition specified using device number | 
|  | 954 | directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. | 
|  | 955 | Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. | 
|  | 956 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 957 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 958 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 7c756e6 | 2009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 959 | config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU | 
|  | 960 | bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" | 
|  | 961 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 962 | help | 
|  | 963 | s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be | 
|  | 964 | defined weak to work around addressing range issue which | 
|  | 965 | puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable | 
|  | 966 | definitions. | 
|  | 967 |  | 
|  | 968 | 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not | 
|  | 969 | 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function | 
|  | 970 |  | 
|  | 971 | To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this | 
|  | 972 | option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. | 
|  | 973 |  | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 974 | config LKDTM | 
|  | 975 | tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" | 
| Simon Kagstrom | 0347af4 | 2010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 976 | depends on DEBUG_FS | 
| Chris Snook | fddd9cf | 2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 977 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 978 | default n | 
|  | 979 | help | 
|  | 980 | This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by | 
|  | 981 | inducing system failures at predefined crash points. | 
|  | 982 | If you don't need it: say N | 
|  | 983 | Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be | 
|  | 984 | called lkdtm. | 
|  | 985 |  | 
|  | 986 | Documentation on how to use the module can be found in | 
| Simon Kagstrom | 0347af4 | 2010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 987 | Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 988 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | c9d221f | 2010-05-26 14:43:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 989 | config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT | 
|  | 990 | tristate "CPU notifier error injection module" | 
|  | 991 | depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 992 | help | 
|  | 993 | This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test | 
|  | 994 | the error handling of the cpu notifiers | 
|  | 995 |  | 
|  | 996 | To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will | 
|  | 997 | be called cpu-notifier-error-inject. | 
|  | 998 |  | 
|  | 999 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1000 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1001 | config FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1002 | bool "Fault-injection framework" | 
|  | 1003 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Akinobu Mita | 329409a | 2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1004 | help | 
|  | 1005 | Provide fault-injection framework. | 
|  | 1006 | For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1007 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1008 | config FAILSLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1009 | bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" | 
|  | 1010 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 773ff60 | 2008-12-23 19:37:01 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 1011 | depends on SLAB || SLUB | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1012 | help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1013 | Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1014 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1015 | config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC | 
|  | 1016 | bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1018 | help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1019 | Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1021 | config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST | 
| Dave Jones | 86327d1 | 2006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1022 | bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" | 
| Jens Axboe | 581d4e2 | 2008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1023 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1024 | help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1025 | Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1026 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | 581d4e2 | 2008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1027 | config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT | 
| Takuya Yoshikawa | f4d0143 | 2010-07-21 16:05:53 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 1028 | bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" | 
| Jens Axboe | 581d4e2 | 2008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1029 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK | 
|  | 1030 | help | 
|  | 1031 | Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This | 
|  | 1032 | will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, | 
|  | 1033 | thus exercising the error handling. | 
|  | 1034 |  | 
|  | 1035 | Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, | 
|  | 1036 | for others it wont do anything. | 
|  | 1037 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1038 | config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS | 
|  | 1039 | bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1040 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1041 | help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1043 |  | 
|  | 1044 | config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER | 
|  | 1045 | bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" | 
|  | 1046 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6d690dc | 2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1047 | depends on !X86_64 | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1048 | select STACKTRACE | 
| Michal Simek | 79aac88 | 2010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1049 | select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1050 | help | 
|  | 1051 | Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 267c402 | 2007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1052 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | config LATENCYTOP | 
|  | 1054 | bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" | 
| Randy Dunlap | 625fdca | 2010-08-12 12:31:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT | 
|  | 1056 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
|  | 1057 | depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
|  | 1058 | depends on PROC_FS | 
| Michal Simek | 79aac88 | 2010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1059 | select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1060 | select KALLSYMS | 
|  | 1061 | select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
|  | 1062 | select STACKTRACE | 
|  | 1063 | select SCHEDSTATS | 
|  | 1064 | select SCHED_DEBUG | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1065 | help | 
|  | 1066 | Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool | 
|  | 1067 | to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. | 
|  | 1068 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 9e94cd3 | 2008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1069 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK | 
|  | 1070 | bool "Sysctl checks" | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 83ac201 | 2009-04-03 02:22:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1071 | depends on SYSCTL | 
| Andi Kleen | 9e94cd3 | 2008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1072 | ---help--- | 
|  | 1073 | sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging | 
|  | 1074 | to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help | 
|  | 1075 | you to keep things correct. | 
|  | 1076 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6a11f75 | 2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1077 | source mm/Kconfig.debug | 
| Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 16444a8 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1078 | source kernel/trace/Kconfig | 
|  | 1079 |  | 
| Bernhard Kaindl | f212ec4 | 2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1080 | config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT | 
| Stefan Richter | 080de8c | 2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1081 | bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" | 
| Bernhard Kaindl | f212ec4 | 2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | depends on PCI && X86 | 
|  | 1083 | help | 
|  | 1084 | If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early | 
|  | 1085 | on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use | 
|  | 1086 | this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine | 
|  | 1087 | over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 | 
|  | 1088 | specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. | 
|  | 1089 |  | 
|  | 1090 | With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using | 
|  | 1091 | firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. | 
|  | 1092 | Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. | 
|  | 1093 |  | 
|  | 1094 | Usage: | 
|  | 1095 |  | 
|  | 1096 | If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize | 
|  | 1097 | all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. | 
|  | 1098 |  | 
|  | 1099 | As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling | 
|  | 1100 | devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all | 
|  | 1101 | devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on | 
|  | 1102 | the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. | 
|  | 1103 |  | 
|  | 1104 | This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack | 
|  | 1105 | in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. | 
|  | 1106 |  | 
|  | 1107 | See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1108 |  | 
| Stefan Richter | 080de8c | 2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1109 | config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA | 
|  | 1110 | bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci" | 
|  | 1111 | depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI | 
|  | 1112 | help | 
|  | 1113 | This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging | 
|  | 1114 | with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered | 
|  | 1115 | remote DMA in firewire-ohci. | 
|  | 1116 | See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. | 
|  | 1117 |  | 
|  | 1118 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1119 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 152de30 | 2009-02-20 15:38:47 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | config BUILD_DOCSRC | 
| Randy Dunlap | 3794f3e | 2008-08-12 15:09:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 | bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree" | 
|  | 1122 | depends on HEADERS_CHECK | 
|  | 1123 | help | 
|  | 1124 | This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the | 
|  | 1125 | kernel Documentation/ tree. | 
|  | 1126 |  | 
|  | 1127 | Say N if you are unsure. | 
|  | 1128 |  | 
| Jason Baron | e9d376f | 2009-02-05 11:51:38 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1129 | config DYNAMIC_DEBUG | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1130 | bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1131 | default n | 
|  | 1132 | depends on PRINTK | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1133 | depends on DEBUG_FS | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1134 | help | 
|  | 1135 |  | 
|  | 1136 | Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not | 
|  | 1137 | otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1138 | enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, | 
|  | 1139 | function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism | 
|  | 1140 | implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of | 
|  | 1141 | this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1142 |  | 
|  | 1143 | Usage: | 
|  | 1144 |  | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1145 | Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1146 | which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs | 
|  | 1147 | filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1148 | We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1149 | file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The | 
|  | 1150 | format for each line of the file is: | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1151 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1152 | filename:lineno [module]function flags format | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1153 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1154 | filename : source file of the debug statement | 
|  | 1155 | lineno : line number of the debug statement | 
|  | 1156 | module : module that contains the debug statement | 
|  | 1157 | function : function that contains the debug statement | 
|  | 1158 | flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing | 
|  | 1159 | format : the format used for the debug statement | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1160 |  | 
|  | 1161 | From a live system: | 
|  | 1162 |  | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1163 | nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1164 | # filename:lineno [module]function flags format | 
|  | 1165 | fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" | 
|  | 1166 | fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" | 
|  | 1167 | fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012" | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1168 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1169 | Example usage: | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1170 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1171 | // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c | 
|  | 1172 | nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1173 | <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1174 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1175 | // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c | 
|  | 1176 | nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1177 | <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1178 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1179 | // enable all the messages in the NFS server module | 
|  | 1180 | nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1181 | <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1182 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1183 | // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() | 
|  | 1184 | nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1185 | <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1186 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1187 | // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() | 
|  | 1188 | nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1189 | <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1190 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1191 | See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1192 |  | 
| Joerg Roedel | 5ee00bd | 2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1193 | config DMA_API_DEBUG | 
|  | 1194 | bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" | 
|  | 1195 | depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
|  | 1196 | help | 
|  | 1197 | Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. | 
|  | 1198 | With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device | 
|  | 1199 | drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that | 
|  | 1200 | were never allocated. | 
|  | 1201 | This option causes a performance degredation.  Use only if you want | 
|  | 1202 | to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1203 |  | 
| Luca Barbieri | 86a8938 | 2010-02-24 10:54:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1204 | config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST | 
|  | 1205 | bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot" | 
|  | 1206 | help | 
|  | 1207 | Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot. | 
|  | 1208 |  | 
|  | 1209 | If unsure, say N. | 
|  | 1210 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 267c402 | 2007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 | source "samples/Kconfig" | 
| Jason Wessel | dc7d552 | 2008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1212 |  | 
|  | 1213 | source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" | 
| Pekka Enberg | 0a4af3b | 2009-02-26 21:38:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1214 |  | 
|  | 1215 | source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" |