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2 | config PRINTK_TIME | |
3 | bool "Show timing information on printks" | |
d3b8b6e5 | 4 | depends on PRINTK |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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. | |
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28 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ |
29 | bool "Magic SysRq key" | |
f346f4b3 | 30 | depends on !UML |
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31 | help |
32 | If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even | |
33 | if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you | |
34 | will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system | |
35 | immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished | |
36 | by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It | |
37 | also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you | |
38 | send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The | |
39 | keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y | |
40 | unless you really know what this hack does. | |
41 | ||
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42 | config UNUSED_SYMBOLS |
43 | bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" | |
44 | default y if X86 | |
45 | help | |
46 | Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For | |
47 | that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This | |
48 | option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case | |
49 | some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you | |
50 | encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually | |
51 | using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using | |
52 | this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the | |
53 | wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a | |
54 | mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why | |
55 | you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for | |
56 | your module is. | |
57 | ||
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58 | config DEBUG_FS |
59 | bool "Debug Filesystem" | |
60 | depends on SYSFS | |
61 | help | |
62 | debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put | |
63 | debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and | |
64 | write to these files. | |
65 | ||
66 | If unsure, say N. | |
67 | ||
68 | config HEADERS_CHECK | |
69 | bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" | |
70 | depends on !UML | |
71 | help | |
72 | This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever | |
73 | building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to | |
74 | ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which | |
75 | were not exported, etc. | |
76 | ||
77 | If you're making modifications to header files which are | |
78 | relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers | |
79 | exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in | |
80 | your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. | |
81 | ||
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82 | config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH |
83 | bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" | |
84 | default n | |
85 | help | |
86 | The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal | |
87 | references from one section to another section. | |
88 | Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections | |
89 | and any use of code/data previously in these sections will | |
90 | most likely result in an oops. | |
91 | In the code functions and variables are annotated with | |
92 | __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h) | |
93 | which result in the code/data being placed in specific sections. | |
94 | The section mismatch anaylsis are always done after a full | |
95 | kernel build but enabling this options will in addition | |
96 | do the following: | |
97 | - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc | |
98 | When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init | |
99 | function we would loose the section information and thus | |
100 | the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. | |
101 | This options tell gcc to inline less but will also | |
102 | result in a larger kernel. | |
103 | - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o | |
104 | When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we | |
105 | looses valueable information about where the mismatch was | |
106 | introduced. | |
107 | Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file | |
108 | will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the | |
109 | source. The drawback is that we will report the same | |
110 | mismatch at least twice. | |
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111 | - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving |
112 | the section mismatches reported. | |
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114 | config DEBUG_KERNEL |
115 | bool "Kernel debugging" | |
116 | help | |
117 | Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and | |
118 | identify kernel problems. | |
119 | ||
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120 | config DEBUG_SHIRQ |
121 | bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" | |
122 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS | |
123 | help | |
124 | Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared | |
125 | interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. | |
126 | Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those | |
127 | points; some don't and need to be caught. | |
128 | ||
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129 | config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP |
130 | bool "Detect Soft Lockups" | |
dea20a3f | 131 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 |
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132 | default y |
133 | help | |
134 | Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups", | |
135 | which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel | |
136 | mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a | |
137 | chance to run. | |
138 | ||
139 | When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the | |
140 | current stack trace (which you should report), but the | |
141 | system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible | |
142 | overhead. | |
143 | ||
144 | (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that | |
145 | can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that | |
146 | support it.) | |
147 | ||
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148 | config SCHED_DEBUG |
149 | bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" | |
150 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | |
151 | default y | |
152 | help | |
153 | If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided | |
154 | that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this | |
155 | option is minimal. | |
156 | ||
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157 | config SCHEDSTATS |
158 | bool "Collect scheduler statistics" | |
159 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | |
160 | help | |
161 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | |
162 | scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about | |
163 | scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These | |
164 | stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler | |
165 | If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific | |
166 | application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead | |
167 | this adds. | |
168 | ||
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169 | config TIMER_STATS |
170 | bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" | |
171 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | |
172 | help | |
173 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | |
174 | timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being | |
175 | reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. | |
176 | The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, | |
177 | writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information | |
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178 | about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature |
179 | is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated | |
180 | (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated | |
181 | if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). | |
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1da177e4 | 183 | config DEBUG_SLAB |
4a2f0acf | 184 | bool "Debug slab memory allocations" |
50dd26ba | 185 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB |
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186 | help |
187 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory | |
188 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed | |
189 | memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. | |
190 | ||
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191 | config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK |
192 | bool "Memory leak debugging" | |
193 | depends on DEBUG_SLAB | |
194 | ||
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195 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON |
196 | bool "SLUB debugging on by default" | |
197 | depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG | |
198 | default n | |
199 | help | |
200 | Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with | |
201 | the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is | |
202 | equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. | |
203 | There is no support for more fine grained debug control like | |
204 | possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched | |
205 | off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying | |
206 | "slub_debug=-". | |
207 | ||
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208 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT |
209 | bool "Debug preemptible kernel" | |
048c8bc9 | 210 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64) |
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211 | default y |
212 | help | |
213 | If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the | |
214 | commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings | |
215 | if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel | |
216 | will detect preemption count underflows. | |
217 | ||
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218 | config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES |
219 | bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" | |
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220 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES |
221 | help | |
222 | This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related | |
223 | deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. | |
224 | ||
225 | config DEBUG_PI_LIST | |
226 | bool | |
227 | default y | |
228 | depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | |
229 | ||
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230 | config RT_MUTEX_TESTER |
231 | bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes" | |
a1583d3e | 232 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES |
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233 | help |
234 | This option enables a rt-mutex tester. | |
235 | ||
1da177e4 | 236 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK |
4d9f34ad | 237 | bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" |
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238 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
239 | help | |
240 | Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization | |
241 | and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is | |
242 | best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock | |
243 | deadlocks are also debuggable. | |
244 | ||
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245 | config DEBUG_MUTEXES |
246 | bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" | |
247 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
248 | help | |
249 | This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and | |
250 | reported. | |
251 | ||
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252 | config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE |
253 | bool "Semaphore debugging" | |
254 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
255 | depends on ALPHA || FRV | |
256 | default n | |
257 | help | |
258 | If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of | |
259 | verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a | |
260 | kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N. | |
261 | ||
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262 | config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC |
263 | bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" | |
517e7aa5 | 264 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT |
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265 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK |
266 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | |
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267 | select LOCKDEP |
268 | help | |
269 | This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, | |
270 | mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the | |
271 | memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), | |
272 | vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via | |
273 | spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock | |
274 | held during task exit. | |
275 | ||
276 | config PROVE_LOCKING | |
277 | bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" | |
517e7aa5 | 278 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT |
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279 | select LOCKDEP |
280 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | |
281 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | |
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282 | select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC |
283 | default n | |
284 | help | |
285 | This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking | |
286 | that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically | |
287 | correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and | |
288 | not yet triggered) combination of observed locking | |
289 | sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an | |
290 | arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a | |
291 | deadlock. | |
292 | ||
293 | In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking | |
294 | related deadlocks before they actually occur. | |
295 | ||
296 | The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a | |
297 | deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many | |
298 | participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed | |
299 | for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on | |
300 | timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible | |
301 | theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario | |
302 | is), it will be proven so and will immediately be | |
303 | reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that | |
304 | makes the deadlock theoretically possible). | |
305 | ||
306 | If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as | |
307 | observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the | |
308 | kernel reports nothing. | |
309 | ||
310 | NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes | |
311 | and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these | |
312 | different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and | |
313 | the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an | |
314 | arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. | |
315 | ||
316 | For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. | |
317 | ||
318 | config LOCKDEP | |
319 | bool | |
517e7aa5 | 320 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT |
4d9f34ad | 321 | select STACKTRACE |
14cf232a | 322 | select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS |
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323 | select KALLSYMS |
324 | select KALLSYMS_ALL | |
325 | ||
f20786ff | 326 | config LOCK_STAT |
fdfb870f | 327 | bool "Lock usage statistics" |
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328 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT |
329 | select LOCKDEP | |
330 | select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | |
331 | select DEBUG_MUTEXES | |
332 | select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | |
333 | default n | |
334 | help | |
335 | This feature enables tracking lock contention points | |
336 | ||
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337 | For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt |
338 | ||
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339 | config DEBUG_LOCKDEP |
340 | bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" | |
517e7aa5 | 341 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP |
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342 | help |
343 | If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do | |
344 | additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price | |
345 | of more runtime overhead. | |
346 | ||
347 | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS | |
517e7aa5 | 348 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
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349 | bool |
350 | default y | |
351 | depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | |
352 | depends on PROVE_LOCKING | |
353 | ||
1da177e4 | 354 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP |
4d9f34ad | 355 | bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking" |
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356 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
357 | help | |
358 | If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very | |
359 | noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. | |
360 | ||
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361 | config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS |
362 | bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" | |
363 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
364 | help | |
365 | Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during | |
366 | bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs | |
367 | are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable | |
368 | lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) | |
369 | The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, | |
370 | mutexes and rwsems. | |
371 | ||
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372 | config STACKTRACE |
373 | bool | |
517e7aa5 | 374 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
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375 | depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
376 | ||
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377 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT |
378 | bool "kobject debugging" | |
379 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
380 | help | |
381 | If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent | |
382 | to the syslog. | |
383 | ||
384 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM | |
385 | bool "Highmem debugging" | |
386 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM | |
387 | help | |
388 | This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. | |
389 | Disable for production systems. | |
390 | ||
391 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE | |
392 | bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED | |
c8538a7a | 393 | depends on BUG |
529a73fb | 394 | depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN |
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395 | default !EMBEDDED |
396 | help | |
397 | Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number | |
398 | of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids | |
399 | debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. | |
400 | ||
401 | config DEBUG_INFO | |
402 | bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" | |
403 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
404 | help | |
405 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include | |
406 | debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. | |
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407 | This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and |
408 | is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object | |
409 | tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. | |
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410 | Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. |
411 | ||
412 | If unsure, say N. | |
413 | ||
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414 | config DEBUG_VM |
415 | bool "Debug VM" | |
416 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
417 | help | |
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418 | Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system |
419 | that may impact performance. | |
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420 | |
421 | If unsure, say N. | |
422 | ||
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423 | config DEBUG_LIST |
424 | bool "Debug linked list manipulation" | |
425 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
426 | help | |
427 | Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list | |
428 | walking routines. | |
429 | ||
430 | If unsure, say N. | |
431 | ||
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432 | config DEBUG_SG |
433 | bool "Debug SG table operations" | |
434 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
435 | help | |
436 | Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can | |
437 | help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize | |
438 | their sg tables. | |
439 | ||
440 | If unsure, say N. | |
441 | ||
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442 | config FRAME_POINTER |
443 | bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" | |
529a73fb | 444 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN) |
37fce857 | 445 | default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML |
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446 | help |
447 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger | |
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448 | and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on |
449 | some architectures or if you use external debuggers. | |
aeb39986 | 450 | If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. |
1da177e4 | 451 | |
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452 | config FORCED_INLINING |
453 | bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'" | |
454 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
455 | default y | |
456 | help | |
457 | This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions | |
458 | developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to | |
459 | do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of | |
460 | compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and | |
461 | disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully | |
462 | this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can | |
463 | become the default in the future, until then this option is there to | |
464 | test gcc for this. | |
465 | ||
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466 | config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY |
467 | bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" | |
468 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY | |
469 | help | |
470 | This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages | |
471 | by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is | |
472 | specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, | |
473 | using "boot_delay=N". | |
474 | ||
475 | It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset | |
476 | the "loops per jiffie" value. | |
477 | See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your | |
478 | system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". | |
479 | NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. | |
480 | I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. | |
481 | BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect | |
482 | what it believes to be lockup conditions. | |
483 | ||
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484 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST |
485 | tristate "torture tests for RCU" | |
486 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
9aaffc89 | 487 | depends on m |
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488 | default n |
489 | help | |
490 | This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests | |
491 | on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built | |
492 | after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. | |
493 | ||
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494 | Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. |
495 | Say N if you are unsure. | |
8bb31b9d | 496 | |
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497 | config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST |
498 | bool "Kprobes sanity tests" | |
499 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
500 | depends on KPROBES | |
501 | default n | |
502 | help | |
503 | This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on | |
504 | boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and | |
505 | verified for functionality. | |
506 | ||
507 | Say N if you are unsure. | |
508 | ||
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509 | config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST |
510 | tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" | |
511 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
512 | default n | |
513 | help | |
514 | This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test | |
515 | the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful | |
516 | for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel | |
517 | developers working on architecture code. | |
518 | ||
519 | Say N if you are unsure. | |
520 | ||
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521 | config LKDTM |
522 | tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" | |
bf4735a4 | 523 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
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524 | depends on KPROBES |
525 | default n | |
526 | help | |
527 | This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by | |
528 | inducing system failures at predefined crash points. | |
529 | If you don't need it: say N | |
530 | Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be | |
531 | called lkdtm. | |
532 | ||
533 | Documentation on how to use the module can be found in | |
534 | drivers/misc/lkdtm.c | |
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535 | |
536 | config FAULT_INJECTION | |
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537 | bool "Fault-injection framework" |
538 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | |
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539 | help |
540 | Provide fault-injection framework. | |
541 | For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. | |
6ff1cb35 | 542 | |
8a8b6502 | 543 | config FAILSLAB |
1ab8509a AM |
544 | bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" |
545 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION | |
8a8b6502 | 546 | help |
1ab8509a | 547 | Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. |
8a8b6502 | 548 | |
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549 | config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC |
550 | bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" | |
1ab8509a | 551 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION |
933e312e | 552 | help |
1ab8509a | 553 | Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). |
933e312e | 554 | |
c17bb495 | 555 | config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST |
86327d19 | 556 | bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" |
1ab8509a | 557 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION |
c17bb495 | 558 | help |
1ab8509a | 559 | Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. |
c17bb495 | 560 | |
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561 | config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS |
562 | bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" | |
1ab8509a | 563 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS |
6ff1cb35 | 564 | help |
1ab8509a | 565 | Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. |
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566 | |
567 | config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER | |
568 | bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" | |
569 | depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | |
6d690dca | 570 | depends on !X86_64 |
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571 | select STACKTRACE |
572 | select FRAME_POINTER | |
573 | help | |
574 | Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities | |
267c4025 | 575 | |
9745512c AV |
576 | config LATENCYTOP |
577 | bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" | |
578 | select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS | |
579 | select KALLSYMS | |
580 | select KALLSYMS_ALL | |
581 | select STACKTRACE | |
582 | select SCHEDSTATS | |
583 | select SCHED_DEBUG | |
584 | depends on X86 || X86_64 | |
585 | help | |
586 | Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool | |
587 | to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. | |
588 | ||
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589 | config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT |
590 | bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot" | |
591 | depends on PCI && X86 | |
592 | help | |
593 | If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early | |
594 | on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use | |
595 | this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine | |
596 | over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 | |
597 | specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. | |
598 | ||
599 | With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using | |
600 | firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. | |
601 | Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. | |
602 | ||
603 | Usage: | |
604 | ||
605 | If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize | |
606 | all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. | |
607 | ||
608 | As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling | |
609 | devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all | |
610 | devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on | |
611 | the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. | |
612 | ||
613 | This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack | |
614 | in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. | |
615 | ||
616 | See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. | |
9745512c | 617 | |
267c4025 | 618 | source "samples/Kconfig" |