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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08004 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup.
11
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -040012config 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 Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -070020config 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 Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +010028config 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 Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -080041 depends on !UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042 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 Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -070053config 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 Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -070061config 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 Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080077config DEBUG_FS
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080079 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. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +020084 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
85 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
86
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -080087 If unsure, say N.
88
89config 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 Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100103config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
104 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100105 help
106 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
107 references from one section to another section.
108 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
109 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
110 most likely result in an oops.
111 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
112 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100113 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
114 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
115 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100116 do the following:
117 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
118 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100119 function we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100120 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100121 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100122 result in a larger kernel.
123 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
124 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100125 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100126 introduced.
127 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
128 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
129 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
130 mismatch at least twice.
Sam Ravnborg588ccd72008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100131 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
132 the section mismatches reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100133
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800134config DEBUG_KERNEL
135 bool "Kernel debugging"
136 help
137 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
138 identify kernel problems.
139
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800140config DEBUG_SHIRQ
141 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
143 help
144 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
145 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
146 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
147 points; some don't and need to be caught.
148
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400149config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
150 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
Heiko Carstensdea20a32006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700152 help
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400153 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
154 hard and soft lockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500155
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400156 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200157 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400158 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
159 detection and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700160
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400161 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
162 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
163 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
164 and the system will stay locked up.
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700165
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -0400166 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
167 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
168 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
Don Zickus84e478c2010-02-05 21:47:05 -0500169
Frederic Weisbecker23637d42010-05-15 23:15:20 +0200170config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Don Zickus4a7863c2010-12-22 14:00:03 -0500171 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
172 !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
Ingo Molnar8446f1d2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700173
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200174config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
175 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Frederic Weisbecker89d7ce22010-05-13 00:27:20 +0200176 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200177 help
178 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
179 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
180 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
181 chance to run.
182
183 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
184 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
185 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
186 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
187 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
188
189 Say N if unsure.
190
191config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
192 int
Frederic Weisbeckere16bb1d2010-05-15 22:30:22 +0200193 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200194 range 0 1
195 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
196 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
197
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800198config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
199 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Ingo Molnar77d05632009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200201 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Mandeep Singh Bainese162b392009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800202 help
203 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
204 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
205 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
206
207 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
208 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
209 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
210 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
211 feature has negligible overhead.
212
213config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
214 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
215 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
216 help
217 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
218 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
219 in uninterruptible "D" state.
220
221 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
222 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
223 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
224 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
225 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
226
227 Say N if unsure.
228
229config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
230 int
231 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
232 range 0 1
233 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
234 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
235
Ingo Molnarb642b6d2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200236config SCHED_DEBUG
237 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
239 default y
240 help
241 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
242 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
243 option is minimal.
244
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700245config SCHEDSTATS
246 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
248 help
249 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
250 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
251 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
252 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
253 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
254 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
255 this adds.
256
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800257config TIMER_STATS
258 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
260 help
261 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
262 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
263 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
264 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
265 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
Ingo Molnarc1a834d2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700266 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
267 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
268 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
269 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800270
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700271config DEBUG_OBJECTS
272 bool "Debug object operations"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
274 help
275 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
276 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
277 the operations on those objects.
278
279config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
280 bool "Debug objects selftest"
281 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
282 help
283 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
284
285config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
286 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
288 help
289 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
290 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
291 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
292 much slower.
293
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700294config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
295 bool "Debug timer objects"
296 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
297 help
298 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
299 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
300 validate the timer operations.
301
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900302config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
303 bool "Debug work objects"
304 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
305 help
306 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
307 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
308 validate the work operations.
309
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400310config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
311 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
312 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
313 help
314 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
315
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700316config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
317 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
318 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
319 help
320 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
321 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
322 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
323
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100324config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
325 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
326 range 0 1
327 default "1"
328 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
329 help
330 Debug objects boot parameter default value
331
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700332config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800333 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335 help
336 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
337 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
338 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
339
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800340config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
341 bool "Memory leak debugging"
342 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
343
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700344config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
345 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200346 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700347 default n
348 help
349 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
350 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
351 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
352 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
353 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
354 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
355 "slub_debug=-".
356
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800357config SLUB_STATS
358 default n
359 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500360 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800361 help
362 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
363 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
364 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
365 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
366 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
367 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
368 Try running: slabinfo -DA
369
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100370config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
371 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
Chris Metcalf6b945df2010-10-14 14:54:47 -0400373 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200374
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100375 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
376 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
377 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800378 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100379 help
380 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
381 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
382 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
383 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
384 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
385 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
386 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
387 details.
388
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100389 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
390 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
391
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100392 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
393 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
394
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100395config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
396 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
397 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200398 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100399 default 400
400 help
401 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
402 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
403 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
404 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
405 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
406
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100407config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
408 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
409 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
410 help
411 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
412 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
413 memory.
414
415 If unsure, say N.
416
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100417config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
418 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
419 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
420 help
421 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
422 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
423
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700424config DEBUG_PREEMPT
425 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700427 default y
428 help
429 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
430 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
431 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
432 will detect preemption count underflows.
433
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700434config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
435 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
437 help
438 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
439 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
440
441config DEBUG_PI_LIST
442 bool
443 default y
444 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
445
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700446config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
447 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700448 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700449 help
450 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
451
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700453 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
455 help
456 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
457 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
458 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
459 deadlocks are also debuggable.
460
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700461config DEBUG_MUTEXES
462 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
463 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
464 help
465 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
466 reported.
467
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700468config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
469 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700470 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700471 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
472 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700473 select LOCKDEP
474 help
475 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
476 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
477 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
478 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
479 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
480 held during task exit.
481
482config PROVE_LOCKING
483 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700485 select LOCKDEP
486 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
487 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700488 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400489 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700490 default n
491 help
492 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
493 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
494 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
495 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
496 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
497 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
498 deadlock.
499
500 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
501 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
502
503 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
504 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
505 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
506 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
507 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
508 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
509 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
510 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
511 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
512
513 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
514 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
515 kernel reports nothing.
516
517 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
518 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
519 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
520 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
521 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
522
523 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
524
Paul E. McKenney632ee202010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800525config PROVE_RCU
526 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
527 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
528 default n
529 help
530 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
531 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
532 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
533 feature.
534
535 Say N if you are unsure.
536
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800537config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
538 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
539 depends on PROVE_RCU
540 default n
541 help
542 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
543 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
544 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
545 on a single reboot.
546
Paul E. McKenney2dfbf4d2010-09-15 23:30:48 -0700547 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
548
549 Say N if you are unsure.
550
Paul E. McKenneyca5ecdd2010-04-28 14:39:09 -0700551config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
552 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
553 default n
554 help
555 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
556 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
557 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
558 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
559 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
560 a debugging aid.
561
562 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
563
Lai Jiangshan2b3fc352010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800564 Say N if you are unsure.
565
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700566config LOCKDEP
567 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700568 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700569 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +0200570 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700571 select KALLSYMS
572 select KALLSYMS_ALL
573
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700574config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700575 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700576 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
577 select LOCKDEP
578 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
579 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
580 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
581 default n
582 help
583 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
584
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700585 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
586
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100587 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
588 subcommand of perf.
589 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
590 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900591
592 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100593 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900594
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700595config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
596 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700598 help
599 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
600 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
601 of more runtime overhead.
602
603config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
604 bool
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -0400605 help
606 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
607 either tracing or lock debugging.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700610 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
612 help
613 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
614 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
615
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700616config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
617 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
618 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
619 help
620 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
621 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
622 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
623 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
624 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
625 mutexes and rwsems.
626
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700627config STACKTRACE
628 bool
629 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
630
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631config DEBUG_KOBJECT
632 bool "kobject debugging"
633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
634 help
635 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
636 to the syslog.
637
638config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
639 bool "Highmem debugging"
640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
641 help
642 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
643 Disable for production systems.
644
645config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800646 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700647 depends on BUG
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800648 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
649 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800650 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700651 help
652 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
653 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
654 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
655
656config DEBUG_INFO
657 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
659 help
660 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
661 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Andreas Dilgerb72e53f2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600662 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
663 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
664 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700665 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
666
667 If unsure, say N.
668
Andi Kleend6f4ceb2010-07-14 15:43:52 +0200669config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
670 bool "Reduce debugging information"
671 depends on DEBUG_INFO
672 help
673 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
674 information for structure types. This means that tools that
675 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
676 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
677 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
678 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
679 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
680 Only works with newer gcc versions.
681
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800682config DEBUG_VM
683 bool "Debug VM"
684 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
685 help
Nick Piggin13e74442006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800686 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
687 that may impact performance.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800688
689 If unsure, say N.
690
Jiri Slaby59ea7462008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200691config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
692 bool "Debug VM translations"
693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
694 help
695 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
696 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
697
698 If unsure, say N.
699
David Howells8feae132009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000700config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
701 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
703 help
704 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
705 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
706
Dave Hansenad775f52008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800707config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
708 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
710 help
711 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
712 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
713 32 bits.
714
715 If unsure, say N.
716
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700717config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -0800718 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
719 default !EXPERT
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700720 help
721 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
722 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
723 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
724 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
725 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
726
727 If unsure, say Y
728
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700729config DEBUG_LIST
730 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
731 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
732 help
733 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
734 walking routines.
735
736 If unsure, say N.
737
Artem Bityutskiy6d411e62010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700738config TEST_LIST_SORT
739 bool "Linked list sorting test"
740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
741 help
742 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
743 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
744
745 If unsure, say N.
746
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200747config DEBUG_SG
748 bool "Debug SG table operations"
749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
750 help
751 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
752 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
753 their sg tables.
754
755 If unsure, say N.
756
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700757config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
758 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
759 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
760 help
761 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
762 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
763 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
764 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
765 performance, say N.
766
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100767config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
768 bool "Debug credential management"
769 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
770 help
771 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
772 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
773 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
774 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
775 struct.
776
777 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
778 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
779
780 If unsure, say N.
781
Jeff Mahoney64dec402009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500782#
783# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
784# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
785# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
786#
787config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
788 bool
789 help
790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700791config FRAME_POINTER
792 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
David Howellsb920de12008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800793 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
Geert Uytterhoeven73020412011-01-22 22:35:38 +0100794 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100795 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
796 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
797 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700798 help
Ingo Molnarda4276b2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100799 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
800 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
801 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700803config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
804 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
805 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
806 help
807 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
808 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
809 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
810 using "boot_delay=N".
811
812 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
813 the "loops per jiffie" value.
814 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
815 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
816 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
817 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
818 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
819 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
820
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800821config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
822 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
824 default n
825 help
826 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
827 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
828 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
829
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700830 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
831 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800832 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
833 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700834
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700835config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
836 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
837 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
838 default n
839 help
840 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
841 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
842 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
843 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
844 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
845 into the kernel.
846
847 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
848 boot (you probably don't).
849 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
850 after being manually enabled via /proc.
851
Paul E. McKenney2133b5d2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700852config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Paul E. McKenney67182ae2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700853 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
Paul E. McKenney6b3ef482009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700854 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney8bfb2f82009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800855 default y
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100856 help
857 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
858 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
859 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
860
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800861 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100862
Paul E. McKenney4c540052010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800863 Say Y if you are unsure.
Paul E. McKenney64db4cf2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100864
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -0700865config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
866 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
867 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
868 range 3 300
869 default 60
870 help
871 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
872 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
873 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
874 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
875
Paul E. McKenney910b1b72010-07-21 08:05:56 -0700876config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
877 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
878 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
879 default y
880 help
881 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
882 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
883 enabled.
884
885 Say Y if you are unsure.
886
887 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
888
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800889config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
890 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
891 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Paul E. McKenney55ec9362010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700892 default y
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800893 help
894 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
895 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100896
897 Say N if you are unsure.
898
Paul E. McKenney1ed509a2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800899 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
900
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli8c1c9352008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100901config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
902 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
903 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
904 depends on KPROBES
905 default n
906 help
907 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
908 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
909 verified for functionality.
910
911 Say N if you are unsure.
912
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100913config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
914 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
915 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
916 default n
917 help
918 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
919 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
920 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
921 developers working on architecture code.
922
Vegard Nossumad118c52008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200923 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
924 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
925
Arjan van de Ven6dab2772008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100926 Say N if you are unsure.
927
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900928config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
929 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
931 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200932 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900933 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200934 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
935 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
936 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
937 is broken.
938
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900939 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
940 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
941 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
942 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
943 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
944 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
945 device number allocation.
946
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200947 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
948 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
949 ones, so root partition specified using device number
950 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
951 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
952
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900953 Say N if you are unsure.
954
Tejun Heo7c756e62009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900955config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
956 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
958 help
959 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
960 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
961 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
962 definitions.
963
964 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
965 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
966
967 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
968 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
969
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700970config LKDTM
971 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800972 depends on DEBUG_FS
Chris Snookfddd9cf2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800973 depends on BLOCK
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700974 default n
975 help
976 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
977 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
978 If you don't need it: say N
979 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
980 called lkdtm.
981
982 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Simon Kagstrom0347af42010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800983 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800984
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -0700985config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
986 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
987 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
988 help
989 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
990 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
991
992 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
993 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
994
995 If unsure, say N.
996
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800997config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800998 bool "Fault-injection framework"
999 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001000 help
1001 Provide fault-injection framework.
1002 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001003
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001004config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001005 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1006 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001007 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001008 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001009 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001010
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001011config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1012 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001013 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001014 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001015 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001016
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001017config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001018 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001019 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001020 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001021 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001022
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001023config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d014392010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001024 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001025 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1026 help
1027 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1028 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1029 thus exercising the error handling.
1030
1031 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1032 for others it wont do anything.
1033
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001034config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1035 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001036 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001037 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001038 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001039
1040config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1041 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1042 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001043 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001044 select STACKTRACE
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001045 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001046 help
1047 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001048
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001049config LATENCYTOP
1050 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001051 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1052 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1053 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1054 depends on PROC_FS
Michal Simek79aac882010-05-25 11:33:26 +02001055 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001056 select KALLSYMS
1057 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1058 select STACKTRACE
1059 select SCHEDSTATS
1060 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001061 help
1062 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1063 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1064
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001065config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1066 bool "Sysctl checks"
Eric W. Biederman83ac2012009-04-03 02:22:26 -07001067 depends on SYSCTL
Andi Kleen9e94cd32008-08-16 07:53:05 +02001068 ---help---
1069 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1070 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1071 you to keep things correct.
1072
Akinobu Mita6a11f752009-03-31 15:23:17 -07001073source mm/Kconfig.debug
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001074source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1075
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001076config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001077 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001078 depends on PCI && X86
1079 help
1080 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1081 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1082 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1083 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1084 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1085
1086 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1087 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1088 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1089
1090 Usage:
1091
1092 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1093 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1094
1095 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1096 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1097 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1098 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1099
1100 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1101 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1102
1103 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001104
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001105config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1106 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1107 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1108 help
1109 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1110 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1111 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1112 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1113
1114 If unsure, say N.
1115
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001116config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001117 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1118 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1119 help
1120 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1121 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1122
1123 Say N if you are unsure.
1124
Jason Barone9d376f2009-02-05 11:51:38 -05001125config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001126 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001127 default n
1128 depends on PRINTK
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001129 depends on DEBUG_FS
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001130 help
1131
1132 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1133 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001134 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1135 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1136 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1137 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001138
1139 Usage:
1140
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001141 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001142 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1143 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001144 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001145 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1146 format for each line of the file is:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001147
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001148 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001149
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001150 filename : source file of the debug statement
1151 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1152 module : module that contains the debug statement
1153 function : function that contains the debug statement
1154 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1155 format : the format used for the debug statement
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001156
1157 From a live system:
1158
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001159 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001160 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1161 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1162 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1163 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001164
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001165 Example usage:
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001166
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001167 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1168 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001169 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001170
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001171 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1172 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001173 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001174
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001175 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1176 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001177 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001178
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001179 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1180 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001181 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001182
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001183 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1184 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
Florian Ragwitz2b2f68b2010-05-24 14:33:21 -07001185 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001186
Jason Baron86151fd2009-02-05 11:53:15 -05001187 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001188
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001189config DMA_API_DEBUG
1190 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1191 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1192 help
1193 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1194 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1195 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1196 were never allocated.
1197 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1198 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001199
Luca Barbieri86a89382010-02-24 10:54:24 +01001200config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1201 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1202 help
1203 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1204
1205 If unsure, say N.
1206
Dan Williams400fb7f2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07001207config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1208 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1209 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1210 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1211 ---help---
1212 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1213 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1214 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1215 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1216 engine if one is available.
1217
1218 If unsure, say N.
1219
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001220source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001221
1222source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001223
1224source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"