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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_MUST_CHECK
  11. bool "Enable __must_check logic"
  12. default y
  13. help
  14. Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
  15. suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
  16. attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
  17. config MAGIC_SYSRQ
  18. bool "Magic SysRq key"
  19. depends on !UML
  20. help
  21. If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
  22. if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
  23. will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
  24. immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
  25. by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
  26. also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
  27. send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
  28. keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
  29. unless you really know what this hack does.
  30. config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
  31. bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
  32. default y if X86
  33. help
  34. Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
  35. that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
  36. option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
  37. some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
  38. encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
  39. using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
  40. this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
  41. wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
  42. mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
  43. you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
  44. your module is.
  45. config DEBUG_FS
  46. bool "Debug Filesystem"
  47. depends on SYSFS
  48. help
  49. debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
  50. debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
  51. write to these files.
  52. If unsure, say N.
  53. config HEADERS_CHECK
  54. bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
  55. depends on !UML
  56. help
  57. This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
  58. building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
  59. ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
  60. were not exported, etc.
  61. If you're making modifications to header files which are
  62. relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
  63. exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
  64. your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
  65. config DEBUG_KERNEL
  66. bool "Kernel debugging"
  67. help
  68. Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
  69. identify kernel problems.
  70. config DEBUG_SHIRQ
  71. bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
  72. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
  73. help
  74. Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
  75. interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
  76. Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
  77. points; some don't and need to be caught.
  78. config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
  79. bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
  80. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
  81. default y
  82. help
  83. Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
  84. which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
  85. mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
  86. chance to run.
  87. When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
  88. current stack trace (which you should report), but the
  89. system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
  90. overhead.
  91. (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
  92. can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
  93. support it.)
  94. config SCHEDSTATS
  95. bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
  96. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  97. help
  98. If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
  99. scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
  100. scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
  101. stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
  102. If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
  103. application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
  104. this adds.
  105. config TIMER_STATS
  106. bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
  107. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
  108. help
  109. If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
  110. timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
  111. reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
  112. The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
  113. writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
  114. about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace.
  115. config DEBUG_SLAB
  116. bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
  117. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
  118. help
  119. Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
  120. allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
  121. memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
  122. config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
  123. bool "Memory leak debugging"
  124. depends on DEBUG_SLAB
  125. config DEBUG_PREEMPT
  126. bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
  127. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  128. default y
  129. help
  130. If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
  131. commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
  132. if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
  133. will detect preemption count underflows.
  134. config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  135. bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
  136. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  137. help
  138. This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
  139. deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
  140. config DEBUG_PI_LIST
  141. bool
  142. default y
  143. depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  144. config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
  145. bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
  146. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  147. help
  148. This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
  149. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  150. bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
  151. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  152. help
  153. Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
  154. and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
  155. best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
  156. deadlocks are also debuggable.
  157. config DEBUG_MUTEXES
  158. bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
  159. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  160. help
  161. This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
  162. reported.
  163. config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
  164. bool "Semaphore debugging"
  165. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  166. depends on ALPHA || FRV
  167. default n
  168. help
  169. If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
  170. verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
  171. kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
  172. config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  173. bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
  174. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  175. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  176. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  177. select LOCKDEP
  178. help
  179. This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
  180. mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
  181. memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
  182. vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
  183. spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
  184. held during task exit.
  185. config PROVE_LOCKING
  186. bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
  187. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  188. select LOCKDEP
  189. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  190. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  191. select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  192. default n
  193. help
  194. This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
  195. that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
  196. correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
  197. not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
  198. sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
  199. arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
  200. deadlock.
  201. In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
  202. related deadlocks before they actually occur.
  203. The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
  204. deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
  205. participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
  206. for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
  207. timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
  208. theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
  209. is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
  210. reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
  211. makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
  212. If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
  213. observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
  214. kernel reports nothing.
  215. NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
  216. and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
  217. different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
  218. the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
  219. arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
  220. For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
  221. config LOCKDEP
  222. bool
  223. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  224. select STACKTRACE
  225. select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
  226. select KALLSYMS
  227. select KALLSYMS_ALL
  228. config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
  229. bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
  230. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
  231. help
  232. If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
  233. additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
  234. of more runtime overhead.
  235. config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
  236. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  237. bool
  238. default y
  239. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  240. depends on PROVE_LOCKING
  241. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
  242. bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
  243. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  244. help
  245. If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
  246. noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
  247. config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
  248. bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
  249. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  250. help
  251. Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
  252. bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
  253. are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
  254. lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
  255. The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
  256. mutexes and rwsems.
  257. config STACKTRACE
  258. bool
  259. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  260. depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  261. config DEBUG_KOBJECT
  262. bool "kobject debugging"
  263. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  264. help
  265. If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
  266. to the syslog.
  267. config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
  268. bool "Highmem debugging"
  269. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
  270. help
  271. This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
  272. Disable for production systems.
  273. config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
  274. bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
  275. depends on BUG
  276. depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
  277. default !EMBEDDED
  278. help
  279. Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
  280. of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
  281. debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
  282. config DEBUG_INFO
  283. bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
  284. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  285. help
  286. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
  287. debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
  288. This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
  289. is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
  290. tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
  291. Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
  292. If unsure, say N.
  293. config DEBUG_VM
  294. bool "Debug VM"
  295. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  296. help
  297. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
  298. that may impact performance.
  299. If unsure, say N.
  300. config DEBUG_LIST
  301. bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
  302. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  303. help
  304. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
  305. walking routines.
  306. If unsure, say N.
  307. config FRAME_POINTER
  308. bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
  309. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
  310. default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
  311. help
  312. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
  313. and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
  314. some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
  315. If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
  316. config FORCED_INLINING
  317. bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
  318. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  319. default y
  320. help
  321. This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
  322. developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
  323. do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
  324. compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
  325. disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
  326. this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
  327. become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
  328. test gcc for this.
  329. config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
  330. tristate "torture tests for RCU"
  331. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  332. default n
  333. help
  334. This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
  335. on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
  336. after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
  337. Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
  338. at boot time (you probably don't).
  339. Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
  340. Say N if you are unsure.
  341. config LKDTM
  342. tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
  343. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  344. depends on KPROBES
  345. default n
  346. help
  347. This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
  348. inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
  349. If you don't need it: say N
  350. Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
  351. called lkdtm.
  352. Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
  353. drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
  354. config FAULT_INJECTION
  355. bool "Fault-injection framework"
  356. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  357. help
  358. Provide fault-injection framework.
  359. For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
  360. config FAILSLAB
  361. bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
  362. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  363. help
  364. Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
  365. config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
  366. bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
  367. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  368. help
  369. Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
  370. config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
  371. bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
  372. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  373. help
  374. Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
  375. config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
  376. bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
  377. depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
  378. help
  379. Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
  380. config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
  381. bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
  382. depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  383. depends on !X86_64
  384. select STACKTRACE
  385. select FRAME_POINTER
  386. help
  387. Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities