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  1. config PRINTK_TIME
  2. bool "Show timing information on printks"
  3. depends on PRINTK
  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. config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
  11. bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
  12. default y
  13. help
  14. Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
  15. Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
  16. (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
  17. config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
  18. bool "Enable __must_check logic"
  19. default y
  20. help
  21. Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
  22. suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
  23. attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
  24. config MAGIC_SYSRQ
  25. bool "Magic SysRq key"
  26. depends on !UML
  27. help
  28. If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
  29. if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
  30. will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
  31. immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
  32. by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
  33. also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
  34. send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
  35. keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
  36. unless you really know what this hack does.
  37. config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
  38. bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
  39. default y if X86
  40. help
  41. Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
  42. that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
  43. option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
  44. some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
  45. encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
  46. using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
  47. this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
  48. wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
  49. mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
  50. you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
  51. your module is.
  52. config DEBUG_FS
  53. bool "Debug Filesystem"
  54. depends on SYSFS
  55. help
  56. debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
  57. debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
  58. write to these files.
  59. If unsure, say N.
  60. config HEADERS_CHECK
  61. bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
  62. depends on !UML
  63. help
  64. This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
  65. building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
  66. ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
  67. were not exported, etc.
  68. If you're making modifications to header files which are
  69. relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
  70. exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
  71. your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
  72. config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
  73. bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
  74. depends on UNDEFINED
  75. help
  76. The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
  77. references from one section to another section.
  78. Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
  79. and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
  80. most likely result in an oops.
  81. In the code functions and variables are annotated with
  82. __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
  83. which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
  84. The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
  85. kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
  86. do the following:
  87. - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
  88. When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
  89. function we would lose the section information and thus
  90. the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
  91. This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
  92. result in a larger kernel.
  93. - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
  94. When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
  95. lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
  96. introduced.
  97. Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
  98. will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
  99. source. The drawback is that we will report the same
  100. mismatch at least twice.
  101. - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
  102. the section mismatches reported.
  103. config DEBUG_KERNEL
  104. bool "Kernel debugging"
  105. help
  106. Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
  107. identify kernel problems.
  108. config DEBUG_SHIRQ
  109. bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
  110. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
  111. help
  112. Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
  113. interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
  114. Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
  115. points; some don't and need to be caught.
  116. config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
  117. bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
  118. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
  119. default y
  120. help
  121. Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
  122. which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
  123. mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
  124. chance to run.
  125. When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
  126. current stack trace (which you should report), but the
  127. system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
  128. overhead.
  129. (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
  130. can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
  131. support it.)
  132. config SCHED_DEBUG
  133. bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
  134. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  135. default y
  136. help
  137. If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
  138. that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
  139. option is minimal.
  140. config SCHEDSTATS
  141. bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
  142. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  143. help
  144. If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
  145. scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
  146. scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
  147. stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
  148. If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
  149. application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
  150. this adds.
  151. config TIMER_STATS
  152. bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
  153. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  154. help
  155. If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
  156. timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
  157. reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
  158. The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
  159. writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
  160. about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
  161. is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
  162. (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
  163. if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
  164. config DEBUG_SLAB
  165. bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
  166. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
  167. help
  168. Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
  169. allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
  170. memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
  171. config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
  172. bool "Memory leak debugging"
  173. depends on DEBUG_SLAB
  174. config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
  175. bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
  176. depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
  177. default n
  178. help
  179. Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
  180. the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
  181. equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
  182. There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
  183. possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
  184. off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
  185. "slub_debug=-".
  186. config DEBUG_PREEMPT
  187. bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
  188. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
  189. default y
  190. help
  191. If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
  192. commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
  193. if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
  194. will detect preemption count underflows.
  195. config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  196. bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
  197. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  198. help
  199. This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
  200. deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
  201. config DEBUG_PI_LIST
  202. bool
  203. default y
  204. depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  205. config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
  206. bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
  207. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  208. help
  209. This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
  210. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  211. bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
  212. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  213. help
  214. Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
  215. and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
  216. best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
  217. deadlocks are also debuggable.
  218. config DEBUG_MUTEXES
  219. bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
  220. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  221. help
  222. This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
  223. reported.
  224. config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
  225. bool "Semaphore debugging"
  226. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  227. depends on ALPHA || FRV
  228. default n
  229. help
  230. If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
  231. verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
  232. kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
  233. config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  234. bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
  235. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  236. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  237. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  238. select LOCKDEP
  239. help
  240. This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
  241. mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
  242. memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
  243. vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
  244. spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
  245. held during task exit.
  246. config PROVE_LOCKING
  247. bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
  248. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  249. select LOCKDEP
  250. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  251. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  252. select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  253. default n
  254. help
  255. This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
  256. that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
  257. correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
  258. not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
  259. sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
  260. arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
  261. deadlock.
  262. In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
  263. related deadlocks before they actually occur.
  264. The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
  265. deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
  266. participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
  267. for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
  268. timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
  269. theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
  270. is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
  271. reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
  272. makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
  273. If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
  274. observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
  275. kernel reports nothing.
  276. NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
  277. and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
  278. different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
  279. the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
  280. arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
  281. For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
  282. config LOCKDEP
  283. bool
  284. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  285. select STACKTRACE
  286. select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
  287. select KALLSYMS
  288. select KALLSYMS_ALL
  289. config LOCK_STAT
  290. bool "Lock usage statistics"
  291. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  292. select LOCKDEP
  293. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  294. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  295. select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  296. default n
  297. help
  298. This feature enables tracking lock contention points
  299. For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
  300. config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
  301. bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
  302. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
  303. help
  304. If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
  305. additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
  306. of more runtime overhead.
  307. config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
  308. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  309. bool
  310. default y
  311. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  312. depends on PROVE_LOCKING
  313. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
  314. bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
  315. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  316. help
  317. If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
  318. noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
  319. config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
  320. bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
  321. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  322. help
  323. Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
  324. bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
  325. are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
  326. lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
  327. The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
  328. mutexes and rwsems.
  329. config STACKTRACE
  330. bool
  331. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  332. depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  333. config DEBUG_KOBJECT
  334. bool "kobject debugging"
  335. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  336. help
  337. If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
  338. to the syslog.
  339. config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
  340. bool "Highmem debugging"
  341. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
  342. help
  343. This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
  344. Disable for production systems.
  345. config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
  346. bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
  347. depends on BUG
  348. depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN
  349. default !EMBEDDED
  350. help
  351. Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
  352. of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
  353. debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
  354. config DEBUG_INFO
  355. bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
  356. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  357. help
  358. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
  359. debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
  360. This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
  361. is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
  362. tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
  363. Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
  364. If unsure, say N.
  365. config DEBUG_VM
  366. bool "Debug VM"
  367. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  368. help
  369. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
  370. that may impact performance.
  371. If unsure, say N.
  372. config DEBUG_LIST
  373. bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
  374. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  375. help
  376. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
  377. walking routines.
  378. If unsure, say N.
  379. config DEBUG_SG
  380. bool "Debug SG table operations"
  381. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  382. help
  383. Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
  384. help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
  385. their sg tables.
  386. If unsure, say N.
  387. config FRAME_POINTER
  388. bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
  389. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN)
  390. default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
  391. help
  392. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
  393. and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
  394. some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
  395. If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
  396. config FORCED_INLINING
  397. bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
  398. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  399. default y
  400. help
  401. This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
  402. developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
  403. do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
  404. compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
  405. disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
  406. this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
  407. become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
  408. test gcc for this.
  409. config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
  410. bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
  411. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
  412. help
  413. This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
  414. by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
  415. specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
  416. using "boot_delay=N".
  417. It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
  418. the "loops per jiffie" value.
  419. See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
  420. system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
  421. NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
  422. I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
  423. BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
  424. what it believes to be lockup conditions.
  425. config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
  426. tristate "torture tests for RCU"
  427. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  428. depends on m
  429. default n
  430. help
  431. This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
  432. on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
  433. after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
  434. Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
  435. Say N if you are unsure.
  436. config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
  437. bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
  438. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  439. depends on KPROBES
  440. default n
  441. help
  442. This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
  443. boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
  444. verified for functionality.
  445. Say N if you are unsure.
  446. config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
  447. tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
  448. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  449. default n
  450. help
  451. This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
  452. the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
  453. for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
  454. developers working on architecture code.
  455. Say N if you are unsure.
  456. config LKDTM
  457. tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
  458. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  459. depends on KPROBES
  460. default n
  461. help
  462. This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
  463. inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
  464. If you don't need it: say N
  465. Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
  466. called lkdtm.
  467. Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
  468. drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
  469. config FAULT_INJECTION
  470. bool "Fault-injection framework"
  471. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  472. help
  473. Provide fault-injection framework.
  474. For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
  475. config FAILSLAB
  476. bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
  477. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  478. help
  479. Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
  480. config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
  481. bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
  482. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  483. help
  484. Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
  485. config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
  486. bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
  487. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  488. help
  489. Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
  490. config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
  491. bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
  492. depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
  493. help
  494. Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
  495. config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
  496. bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
  497. depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  498. depends on !X86_64
  499. select STACKTRACE
  500. select FRAME_POINTER
  501. help
  502. Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
  503. config LATENCYTOP
  504. bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
  505. select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
  506. select KALLSYMS
  507. select KALLSYMS_ALL
  508. select STACKTRACE
  509. select SCHEDSTATS
  510. select SCHED_DEBUG
  511. depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
  512. help
  513. Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
  514. to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
  515. config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
  516. bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot"
  517. depends on PCI && X86
  518. help
  519. If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
  520. on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
  521. this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
  522. over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
  523. specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
  524. With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
  525. firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
  526. Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
  527. Usage:
  528. If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
  529. all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
  530. As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
  531. devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
  532. devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
  533. the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
  534. This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
  535. in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
  536. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
  537. source "samples/Kconfig"