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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_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 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.
- 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_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 10 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 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_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 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_SEMAPHORE
- bool "Semaphore debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on ALPHA || FRV
- default n
- help
- If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
- verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
- kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
- 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
- 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 DEBUG_KERNEL
- 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 || BFIN
- 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_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 FRAME_POINTER
- bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
- 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 FORCED_INLINING
- bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default y
- help
- This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
- developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
- do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
- compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
- disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
- this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
- become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
- test gcc for this.
- config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
- tristate "torture tests for RCU"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on m
- 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 M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
- Say N if you are unsure.
- config LKDTM
- tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on KPROBES
- 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
- help
- Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
- 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
- help
- Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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