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- config PRINTK_TIME
- bool "Show timing information on printks"
- depends on PRINTK
- help
- Selecting this option causes timing information to be
- included in printk output. This allows you to measure
- the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
- operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
- in kernel startup.
- config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
- bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
- default y
- help
- Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
- Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
- (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
- config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
- bool "Enable __must_check logic"
- default y
- help
- Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
- suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
- attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
- config FRAME_WARN
- int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
- range 0 8192
- default 1024 if !64BIT
- default 2048 if 64BIT
- help
- Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
- Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
- Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
- Requires gcc 4.4
- config MAGIC_SYSRQ
- bool "Magic SysRq key"
- depends on !UML
- help
- If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
- if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
- will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
- immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
- by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
- also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
- send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
- keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
- unless you really know what this hack does.
- config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
- bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
- default y if X86
- help
- Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
- that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
- option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
- some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
- encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
- using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
- this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
- wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
- mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
- you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
- your module is.
- config DEBUG_FS
- bool "Debug Filesystem"
- depends on SYSFS
- help
- debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
- debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
- write to these files.
- For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
- Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
- If unsure, say N.
- config HEADERS_CHECK
- bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
- depends on !UML
- help
- This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
- building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
- ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
- were not exported, etc.
- If you're making modifications to header files which are
- relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
- exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
- your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
- config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
- bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
- depends on UNDEFINED
- # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
- # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
- # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
- help
- The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
- references from one section to another section.
- Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
- and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
- most likely result in an oops.
- In the code functions and variables are annotated with
- __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
- which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
- The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
- kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
- do the following:
- - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
- When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
- function we would lose the section information and thus
- the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
- This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
- result in a larger kernel.
- - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
- When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
- lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
- introduced.
- Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
- will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
- source. The drawback is that we will report the same
- mismatch at least twice.
- - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
- the section mismatches reported.
- config DEBUG_KERNEL
- bool "Kernel debugging"
- help
- Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
- identify kernel problems.
- config DEBUG_SHIRQ
- bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
- help
- Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
- interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
- Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
- points; some don't and need to be caught.
- config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
- bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
- default y
- help
- Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
- which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
- chance to run.
- When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
- current stack trace (which you should report), but the
- system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
- overhead.
- (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
- can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
- support it.)
- config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
- bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
- depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
- help
- Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
- which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
- chance to run.
- The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
- to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
- lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
- high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
- where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
- Say N if unsure.
- config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
- int
- depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
- range 0 1
- default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
- default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
- config SCHED_DEBUG
- bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
- default y
- help
- If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
- that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
- option is minimal.
- config SCHEDSTATS
- bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
- help
- If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
- scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
- scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
- stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
- If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
- application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
- this adds.
- config TIMER_STATS
- bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
- help
- If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
- timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
- reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
- The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
- writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
- about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
- is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
- (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
- if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
- config DEBUG_OBJECTS
- bool "Debug object operations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
- kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
- the operations on those objects.
- config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
- bool "Debug objects selftest"
- depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
- help
- This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
- config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
- bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
- depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
- help
- This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
- which contains an object which has not been deactivated
- properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
- much slower.
- config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
- bool "Debug timer objects"
- depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
- help
- If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
- timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
- validate the timer operations.
- config DEBUG_SLAB
- bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
- help
- Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
- allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
- memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
- config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
- bool "Memory leak debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_SLAB
- config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
- bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
- depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
- default n
- help
- Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
- the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
- equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
- There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
- possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
- off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
- "slub_debug=-".
- config SLUB_STATS
- default n
- bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
- depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
- help
- SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
- order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
- enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
- the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
- supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
- out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
- Try running: slabinfo -DA
- config DEBUG_PREEMPT
- bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
- default y
- help
- If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
- commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
- if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
- will detect preemption count underflows.
- config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
- bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
- help
- This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
- deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
- config DEBUG_PI_LIST
- bool
- default y
- depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
- config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
- bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
- help
- This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
- config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
- bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
- and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
- best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
- deadlocks are also debuggable.
- config DEBUG_MUTEXES
- bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
- reported.
- config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
- bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
- select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
- select DEBUG_MUTEXES
- select LOCKDEP
- help
- This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
- mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
- memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
- vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
- spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
- held during task exit.
- config PROVE_LOCKING
- bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
- select LOCKDEP
- select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
- select DEBUG_MUTEXES
- select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
- default n
- help
- This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
- that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
- correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
- not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
- sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
- arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
- deadlock.
- In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
- related deadlocks before they actually occur.
- The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
- deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
- participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
- for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
- timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
- theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
- is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
- reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
- makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
- If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
- observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
- kernel reports nothing.
- NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
- and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
- different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
- the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
- arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
- For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
- config LOCKDEP
- bool
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
- select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
- select KALLSYMS
- select KALLSYMS_ALL
- config LOCK_STAT
- bool "Lock usage statistics"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
- select LOCKDEP
- select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
- select DEBUG_MUTEXES
- select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
- default n
- help
- This feature enables tracking lock contention points
- For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
- config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
- bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
- help
- If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
- additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
- of more runtime overhead.
- config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- bool
- default y
- depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
- depends on PROVE_LOCKING
- config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
- bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
- noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
- config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
- bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
- bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
- are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
- lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
- The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
- mutexes and rwsems.
- config STACKTRACE
- bool
- depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- config DEBUG_KOBJECT
- bool "kobject debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
- to the syslog.
- config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
- bool "Highmem debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
- help
- This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
- Disable for production systems.
- config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
- bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
- depends on BUG
- depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
- FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
- default !EMBEDDED
- help
- Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
- of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
- debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
- config DEBUG_INFO
- bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
- debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
- This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
- is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
- tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
- Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
- If unsure, say N.
- config DEBUG_VM
- bool "Debug VM"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
- that may impact performance.
- If unsure, say N.
- config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
- bool "Debug VM translations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
- help
- Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
- catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
- If unsure, say N.
- config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
- bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
- vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
- 32 bits.
- If unsure, say N.
- config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
- bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
- default !EMBEDDED
- help
- Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
- The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
- and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
- information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
- on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
- If unsure, say Y
- config DEBUG_LIST
- bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
- walking routines.
- If unsure, say N.
- config DEBUG_SG
- bool "Debug SG table operations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
- help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
- their sg tables.
- If unsure, say N.
- config FRAME_POINTER
- bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
- (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
- AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
- default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
- help
- If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
- and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
- some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
- If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
- config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
- bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
- help
- This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
- by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
- specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
- using "boot_delay=N".
- It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
- the "loops per jiffie" value.
- See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
- system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
- NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
- I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
- BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
- what it believes to be lockup conditions.
- config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
- tristate "torture tests for RCU"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default n
- help
- This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
- on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
- after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
- Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
- the kernel.
- Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
- bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
- depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
- default n
- help
- This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
- directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
- time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
- to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
- available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
- into the kernel.
- Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
- boot (you probably don't).
- Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
- after being manually enabled via /proc.
- config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
- bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
- depends on CLASSIC_RCU
- default n
- help
- This option causes RCU to printk information on which
- CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
- the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
- Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
- bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
- depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
- default n
- help
- This option causes RCU to printk information on which
- CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
- the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
- Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
- bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on KPROBES
- default n
- help
- This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
- boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
- verified for functionality.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
- tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default n
- help
- This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
- the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
- for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
- developers working on architecture code.
- Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
- have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
- bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on BLOCK
- default n
- help
- BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
- SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
- YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
- is broken.
- Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
- predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
- may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
- option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
- the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
- userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
- device number allocation.
- Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
- device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
- ones, so root partition specified using device number
- directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
- Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config LKDTM
- tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on KPROBES
- depends on BLOCK
- default n
- help
- This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
- inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
- If you don't need it: say N
- Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
- called lkdtm.
- Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
- drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
- config FAULT_INJECTION
- bool "Fault-injection framework"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Provide fault-injection framework.
- For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
- config FAILSLAB
- bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION
- help
- Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
- config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
- bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION
- help
- Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
- config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
- bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
- help
- Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
- config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
- bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
- help
- Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
- will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
- thus exercising the error handling.
- Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
- for others it wont do anything.
- config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
- bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
- help
- Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
- config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
- bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- depends on !X86_64
- select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC
- help
- Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
- config LATENCYTOP
- bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
- select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC
- select KALLSYMS
- select KALLSYMS_ALL
- select STACKTRACE
- select SCHEDSTATS
- select SCHED_DEBUG
- depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
- help
- Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
- to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
- config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
- bool "Sysctl checks"
- depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
- ---help---
- sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
- to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
- you to keep things correct.
- source kernel/trace/Kconfig
- config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
- bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
- depends on PCI && X86
- help
- If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
- on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
- this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
- over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
- specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
- With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
- firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
- Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
- Usage:
- If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
- all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
- As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
- devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
- devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
- the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
- This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
- in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
- See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
- config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
- bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
- depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
- help
- This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
- with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
- remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
- See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
- If unsure, say N.
- menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC
- bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
- depends on HEADERS_CHECK
- help
- This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
- kernel Documentation/ tree.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG
- bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support"
- default n
- depends on PRINTK
- select PRINTK_DEBUG
- help
- Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
- otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
- enabled/disabled on a per module basis. This mechanism implicitly
- enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this
- compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
- Usage:
- Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file,
- dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
- can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed
- by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the
- 'enabled' flag. For example:
- <module_name> <enabled=0/1>
- .
- .
- .
- <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
- <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not
- From a live system:
- snd_hda_intel enabled=0
- fixup enabled=0
- driver enabled=0
- Enable a module:
- $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
- Disable a module:
- $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
- Enable all modules:
- $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
- Disable all modules:
- $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
- Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
- debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
- disable command.
- source "samples/Kconfig"
- source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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