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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. This feature
  115. is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
  116. (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
  117. if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
  118. config DEBUG_SLAB
  119. bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
  120. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
  121. help
  122. Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
  123. allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
  124. memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
  125. config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
  126. bool "Memory leak debugging"
  127. depends on DEBUG_SLAB
  128. config DEBUG_PREEMPT
  129. bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
  130. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  131. default y
  132. help
  133. If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
  134. commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
  135. if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
  136. will detect preemption count underflows.
  137. config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  138. bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
  139. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  140. help
  141. This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
  142. deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
  143. config DEBUG_PI_LIST
  144. bool
  145. default y
  146. depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
  147. config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
  148. bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
  149. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
  150. help
  151. This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
  152. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  153. bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
  154. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  155. help
  156. Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
  157. and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
  158. best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
  159. deadlocks are also debuggable.
  160. config DEBUG_MUTEXES
  161. bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
  162. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  163. help
  164. This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
  165. reported.
  166. config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
  167. bool "Semaphore debugging"
  168. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  169. depends on ALPHA || FRV
  170. default n
  171. help
  172. If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
  173. verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
  174. kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
  175. config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  176. bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
  177. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  178. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  179. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  180. select LOCKDEP
  181. help
  182. This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
  183. mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
  184. memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
  185. vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
  186. spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
  187. held during task exit.
  188. config PROVE_LOCKING
  189. bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
  190. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  191. select LOCKDEP
  192. select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
  193. select DEBUG_MUTEXES
  194. select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  195. default n
  196. help
  197. This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
  198. that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
  199. correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
  200. not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
  201. sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
  202. arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
  203. deadlock.
  204. In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
  205. related deadlocks before they actually occur.
  206. The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
  207. deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
  208. participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
  209. for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
  210. timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
  211. theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
  212. is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
  213. reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
  214. makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
  215. If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
  216. observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
  217. kernel reports nothing.
  218. NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
  219. and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
  220. different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
  221. the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
  222. arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
  223. For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
  224. config LOCKDEP
  225. bool
  226. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  227. select STACKTRACE
  228. select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
  229. select KALLSYMS
  230. select KALLSYMS_ALL
  231. config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
  232. bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
  233. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
  234. help
  235. If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
  236. additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
  237. of more runtime overhead.
  238. config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
  239. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  240. bool
  241. default y
  242. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  243. depends on PROVE_LOCKING
  244. config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
  245. bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
  246. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  247. help
  248. If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
  249. noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
  250. config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
  251. bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
  252. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  253. help
  254. Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
  255. bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
  256. are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
  257. lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
  258. The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
  259. mutexes and rwsems.
  260. config STACKTRACE
  261. bool
  262. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  263. depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  264. config DEBUG_KOBJECT
  265. bool "kobject debugging"
  266. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  267. help
  268. If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
  269. to the syslog.
  270. config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
  271. bool "Highmem debugging"
  272. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
  273. help
  274. This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
  275. Disable for production systems.
  276. config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
  277. bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
  278. depends on BUG
  279. depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
  280. default !EMBEDDED
  281. help
  282. Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
  283. of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
  284. debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
  285. config DEBUG_INFO
  286. bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
  287. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  288. help
  289. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
  290. debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
  291. This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
  292. is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
  293. tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
  294. Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
  295. If unsure, say N.
  296. config DEBUG_VM
  297. bool "Debug VM"
  298. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  299. help
  300. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
  301. that may impact performance.
  302. If unsure, say N.
  303. config DEBUG_LIST
  304. bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
  305. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  306. help
  307. Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
  308. walking routines.
  309. If unsure, say N.
  310. config FRAME_POINTER
  311. bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
  312. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
  313. default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
  314. help
  315. If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
  316. and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
  317. some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
  318. If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
  319. config FORCED_INLINING
  320. bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
  321. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  322. default y
  323. help
  324. This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
  325. developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
  326. do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
  327. compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
  328. disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
  329. this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
  330. become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
  331. test gcc for this.
  332. config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
  333. tristate "torture tests for RCU"
  334. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  335. depends on m
  336. default n
  337. help
  338. This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
  339. on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
  340. after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
  341. Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
  342. Say N if you are unsure.
  343. config LKDTM
  344. tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
  345. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  346. depends on KPROBES
  347. default n
  348. help
  349. This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
  350. inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
  351. If you don't need it: say N
  352. Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
  353. called lkdtm.
  354. Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
  355. drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
  356. config FAULT_INJECTION
  357. bool "Fault-injection framework"
  358. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
  359. help
  360. Provide fault-injection framework.
  361. For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
  362. config FAILSLAB
  363. bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
  364. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  365. help
  366. Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
  367. config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
  368. bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
  369. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  370. help
  371. Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
  372. config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
  373. bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
  374. depends on FAULT_INJECTION
  375. help
  376. Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
  377. config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
  378. bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
  379. depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
  380. help
  381. Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
  382. config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
  383. bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
  384. depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  385. depends on !X86_64
  386. select STACKTRACE
  387. select FRAME_POINTER
  388. help
  389. Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities