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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
4 help
5 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
6 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
7 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
8 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
9 in kernel startup.
10
11
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012config MAGIC_SYSRQ
13 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080014 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015 help
16 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
17 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
18 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
19 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
20 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
21 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
22 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
23 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
24 unless you really know what this hack does.
25
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070026config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
27 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
28 default y if X86
29 help
30 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
31 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
32 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
33 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
34 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
35 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
36 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
37 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
38 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
39 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
40 your module is.
41
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080042config DEBUG_KERNEL
43 bool "Kernel debugging"
44 help
45 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
46 identify kernel problems.
47
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070048config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
49 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
50 range 12 21
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -080051 default 17 if S390
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
53 default 15 if SMP
54 default 14
55 help
56 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
57 Defaults and Examples:
58 17 => 128 KB for S/390
59 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
60 15 => 32 KB for SMP
61 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
62 13 => 8 KB
63 12 => 4 KB
64
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -070065config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
66 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
67 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
68 default y
69 help
70 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
71 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
72 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
73 chance to run.
74
75 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
76 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
77 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
78 overhead.
79
80 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
81 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
82 support it.)
83
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084config SCHEDSTATS
85 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
86 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
87 help
88 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
89 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
90 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
91 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
92 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
93 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
94 this adds.
95
96config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -080097 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Ingo Molnar50dd26b2006-01-08 01:01:42 -080098 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 help
100 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
101 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
102 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
103
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800104config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
105 bool "Memory leak debugging"
106 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
107
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700108config DEBUG_PREEMPT
109 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT
111 default y
112 help
113 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
114 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
115 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
116 will detect preemption count underflows.
117
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700118config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
119 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
121 help
122 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
123 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
124
125config DEBUG_PI_LIST
126 bool
127 default y
128 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
129
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700130config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
131 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700133 help
134 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
135
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
137 bool "Spinlock debugging"
138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
139 help
140 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
141 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
142 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
143 deadlocks are also debuggable.
144
145config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
146 bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
148 help
149 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
150 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
151
152config DEBUG_KOBJECT
153 bool "kobject debugging"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
155 help
156 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
157 to the syslog.
158
159config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
160 bool "Highmem debugging"
161 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
162 help
163 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
164 Disable for production systems.
165
166config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
167 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700168 depends on BUG
Brian Gerst0d078f62005-10-30 14:59:20 -0800169 depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700170 default !EMBEDDED
171 help
172 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
173 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
174 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
175
176config DEBUG_INFO
177 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
179 help
180 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
181 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
182 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
183
184 If unsure, say N.
185
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700186config DEBUG_FS
187 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Jens Axboeae36b882006-03-26 14:38:54 +0200188 depends on SYSFS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700189 help
190 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
191 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
192 write to these files.
193
194 If unsure, say N.
195
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800196config DEBUG_VM
197 bool "Debug VM"
198 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
199 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800200 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
201 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800202
203 If unsure, say N.
204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700205config FRAME_POINTER
206 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200207 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML)
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso37fce852005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700208 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700209 help
210 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
Jesper Juhl2a38bcc2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800211 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
212 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
Andi Kleenaeb39982005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200213 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700214
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800215config UNWIND_INFO
216 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200217 depends on !IA64 && !PARISC
218 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
Jan Beulich604bf5a2006-03-24 03:16:19 -0800219 help
220 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
221 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
222 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
223 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
224
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200225config STACK_UNWIND
226 bool "Stack unwind support"
227 depends on UNWIND_INFO
Jan Beulich176a2712006-06-26 13:57:41 +0200228 depends on X86
Jan Beulich4552d5d2006-06-26 13:57:28 +0200229 help
230 This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
231 occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
232
Ingo Molnara9df3d02006-01-14 13:21:33 -0800233config FORCED_INLINING
234 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
235 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
236 default y
237 help
238 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
239 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
240 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
241 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
242 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
243 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
244 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
245 test gcc for this.
246
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800247config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
248 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
249 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
250 default n
251 help
252 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
253 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
254 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
255
256 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
257 at boot time (you probably don't).
258 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
259 Say N if you are unsure.