3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
6 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
7 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
8 call and at the console.
10 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
11 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
12 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
14 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
15 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
17 config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
18 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
22 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
24 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
25 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
28 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
29 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
32 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
33 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
34 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
36 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
37 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
40 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
41 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
42 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
45 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
47 default 1024 if !64BIT
50 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
51 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
52 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
56 bool "Magic SysRq key"
59 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
60 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
61 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
62 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
63 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
64 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
65 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
66 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
67 unless you really know what this hack does.
70 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
73 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
74 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
75 get_wchan() and suchlike.
78 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
79 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
81 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
82 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
83 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
87 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
90 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
91 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
92 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
93 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
94 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
95 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
96 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
97 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
98 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
99 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
103 bool "Debug Filesystem"
105 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
106 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
107 write to these files.
109 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
110 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
115 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
118 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
119 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
120 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
121 were not exported, etc.
123 If you're making modifications to header files which are
124 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
125 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
126 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
128 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
129 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
131 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
132 references from one section to another section.
133 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
134 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
135 most likely result in an oops.
136 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
137 __init, __cpuinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
138 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
139 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
140 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
141 additional steps to occur:
142 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
143 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
144 function, we would lose the section information and thus
145 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
146 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
148 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
149 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
150 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
152 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
153 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
154 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
155 reported at least twice.
156 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
157 the section mismatches that are reported.
160 bool "Kernel debugging"
162 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
163 identify kernel problems.
166 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
169 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
170 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
171 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
172 points; some don't and need to be caught.
174 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
175 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
178 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
179 hard and soft lockups.
181 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
182 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
183 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
184 detection and the system will stay locked up.
186 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
187 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
188 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
189 and the system will stay locked up.
191 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
192 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
193 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
195 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
196 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
198 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
200 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
201 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
203 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
204 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
205 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
207 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
208 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
209 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
210 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
214 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
216 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
218 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
219 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
221 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
222 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
223 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
225 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
226 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
227 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
228 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
230 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
231 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
232 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
233 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
234 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
238 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
240 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
242 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
243 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
248 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
249 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
252 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
253 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
254 corruption or other issues.
258 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
261 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
262 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
264 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
265 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
267 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
269 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
270 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
271 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
273 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
274 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
275 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
276 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
277 feature has negligible overhead.
279 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
280 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
281 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
284 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
285 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
288 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
289 sysctl or by writing a value to
290 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
292 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
293 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
295 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
296 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
297 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
299 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
300 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
301 in uninterruptible "D" state.
303 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
304 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
305 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
306 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
307 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
311 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
313 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
315 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
316 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
319 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
323 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
324 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
328 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
329 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
331 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
332 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
333 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
334 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
335 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
336 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
340 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
343 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
344 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
345 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
346 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
347 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
348 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
349 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
350 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
351 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
354 bool "Debug object operations"
355 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
357 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
358 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
359 the operations on those objects.
361 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
362 bool "Debug objects selftest"
363 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
365 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
367 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
368 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
369 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
371 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
372 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
373 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
376 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
377 bool "Debug timer objects"
378 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
380 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
381 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
382 validate the timer operations.
384 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
385 bool "Debug work objects"
386 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
388 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
389 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
390 validate the work operations.
392 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
393 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
394 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
396 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
398 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
399 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
400 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
402 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
403 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
404 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
406 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
407 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
410 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
412 Debug objects boot parameter default value
415 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
418 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
419 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
420 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
422 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
423 bool "Memory leak debugging"
424 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
427 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
428 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
431 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
432 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
433 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
434 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
435 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
436 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
441 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
442 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
444 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
445 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
446 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
447 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
448 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
449 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
450 Try running: slabinfo -DA
452 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
455 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
456 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
457 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
459 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
463 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
464 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
465 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
466 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
467 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
468 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
469 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
472 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
473 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
475 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
476 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
478 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
479 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
480 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
484 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
485 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
486 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
487 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
488 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
490 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
491 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
492 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
494 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
498 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
499 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
500 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
502 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
503 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
506 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
510 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
511 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
512 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
513 will detect preemption count underflows.
515 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
516 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
519 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
520 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
525 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
527 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
528 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
531 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
533 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
534 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
535 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
536 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
538 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
539 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
540 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
541 deadlocks are also debuggable.
544 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
545 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
547 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
550 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
551 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
552 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
553 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
557 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
558 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
559 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
560 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
561 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
562 held during task exit.
565 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
568 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
570 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
571 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
574 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
575 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
576 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
577 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
578 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
579 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
582 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
583 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
585 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
586 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
587 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
588 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
589 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
590 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
591 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
592 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
593 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
595 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
596 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
597 kernel reports nothing.
599 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
600 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
601 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
602 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
603 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
605 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
611 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
616 bool "Lock usage statistics"
617 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
619 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
621 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
624 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
626 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
628 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
630 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
631 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
633 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
634 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
637 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
638 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
640 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
641 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
642 of more runtime overhead.
644 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
647 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
648 either tracing or lock debugging.
650 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
651 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
653 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
655 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
656 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
657 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
658 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
660 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
661 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
662 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
664 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
665 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
666 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
667 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
668 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
673 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
675 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
676 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
677 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG
679 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
680 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
682 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
685 bool "kobject debugging"
686 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
688 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
692 bool "Highmem debugging"
693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
695 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
696 Disable for production systems.
698 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
701 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
702 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
703 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
706 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
707 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
708 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
711 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
714 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
715 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
716 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
717 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
718 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
719 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
723 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
724 bool "Reduce debugging information"
725 depends on DEBUG_INFO
727 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
728 information for structure types. This means that tools that
729 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
730 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
731 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
732 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
733 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
734 Only works with newer gcc versions.
738 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
740 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
741 that may impact performance.
746 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
749 Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory
750 system that may impact performance.
755 bool "Debug VM translations"
756 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
758 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
759 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
763 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
764 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
765 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
767 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
768 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
770 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
771 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
772 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
774 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
775 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
780 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
781 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
784 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
785 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
786 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
787 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
788 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
793 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
794 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
796 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
801 config TEST_LIST_SORT
802 bool "Linked list sorting test"
803 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
805 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
806 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
811 bool "Debug SG table operations"
812 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
814 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
815 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
820 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
821 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
822 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
824 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
825 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
826 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
827 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
830 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
831 bool "Debug credential management"
832 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
834 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
835 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
836 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
837 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
840 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
841 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
846 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
847 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
848 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
850 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
855 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
856 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
857 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
858 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
859 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
860 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
862 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
863 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
864 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
866 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
867 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
868 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
870 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
871 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
872 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
873 using "boot_delay=N".
875 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
876 the "loops per jiffie" value.
877 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
878 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
879 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
880 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
881 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
882 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
887 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
888 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
891 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
892 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
893 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
896 Say N if you are unsure.
898 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
899 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
903 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
904 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
905 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
908 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
910 Say N if you are unsure.
912 config PROVE_RCU_DELAY
913 bool "RCU debugging: preemptible RCU race provocation"
914 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT_RCU
917 There is a class of races that involve an unlikely preemption
918 of __rcu_read_unlock() just after ->rcu_read_lock_nesting has
919 been set to INT_MIN. This feature inserts a delay at that
920 point to increase the probability of these races.
922 Say Y to increase probability of preemption of __rcu_read_unlock().
924 Say N if you are unsure.
926 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
927 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
930 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
931 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
932 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
933 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
934 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
937 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
939 Say N if you are unsure.
941 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
942 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
943 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
946 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
947 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
948 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
950 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
952 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
953 Say N if you are unsure.
955 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
956 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
957 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
960 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
961 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
962 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
963 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
964 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
967 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
968 boot (you probably don't).
969 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
970 after being manually enabled via /proc.
972 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
973 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
974 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
978 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
979 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
980 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
981 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
983 config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
984 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
985 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
988 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
989 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
991 Say N if you are unsure.
993 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
995 config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
996 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
997 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
1000 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
1001 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
1002 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
1003 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
1005 Say N if you are unsure.
1007 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
1010 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1014 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1015 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
1017 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1018 Say N if you are unsure.
1020 endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1022 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1023 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1024 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1028 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1029 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1030 verified for functionality.
1032 Say N if you are unsure.
1034 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1035 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1036 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1039 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1040 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1041 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1042 developers working on architecture code.
1044 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1045 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1047 Say N if you are unsure.
1049 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1050 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1051 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1055 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1056 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1057 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1060 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1061 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1062 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1063 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1064 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1065 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1066 device number allocation.
1068 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1069 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1070 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1071 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1072 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1074 Say N if you are unsure.
1076 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1077 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1078 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1080 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1081 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1082 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1085 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1086 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1088 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1089 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1091 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1092 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1096 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1097 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1098 and decreases performance.
1103 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1108 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1109 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1110 If you don't need it: say N
1111 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1114 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1115 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1117 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1118 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1122 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1123 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1124 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1128 config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1129 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1130 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1132 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1133 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
1134 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1135 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1137 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1138 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1140 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1142 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1143 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1144 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1145 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
1147 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1148 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1152 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1153 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1154 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1155 default m if PM_DEBUG
1157 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1158 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1159 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1161 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1162 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1164 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1166 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1167 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1168 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1169 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1171 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1172 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1176 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1177 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
1178 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1180 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1181 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1182 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
1184 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1185 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1187 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
1189 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
1190 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
1191 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
1192 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1194 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1195 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
1199 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1200 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1201 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1203 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1204 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1205 through debugfs interface under
1206 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1208 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1209 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1211 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1212 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1216 config FAULT_INJECTION
1217 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1218 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1220 Provide fault-injection framework.
1221 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1224 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1225 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1226 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1228 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1230 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1231 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1232 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1234 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1236 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1237 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1238 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1240 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1242 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1243 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1244 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1246 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1247 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1248 thus exercising the error handling.
1250 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1251 for others it wont do anything.
1253 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1254 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1256 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1258 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1259 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1260 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1261 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1264 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1265 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1266 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1268 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1270 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1271 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1272 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1275 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
1277 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1280 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1281 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1283 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1285 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
1292 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1293 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1295 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1298 config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1299 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1300 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1303 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1304 copy operations into compile time failures.
1306 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1307 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1308 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1313 source mm/Kconfig.debug
1314 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1317 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1318 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1320 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1321 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1323 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1324 tristate "Interval tree test"
1325 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1327 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1329 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1330 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1331 depends on PCI && X86
1333 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1334 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1335 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1336 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1337 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1339 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1340 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1341 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1345 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1346 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1348 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1349 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1350 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1351 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1353 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1354 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1356 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1358 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1359 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1360 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1362 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1363 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1364 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1365 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1370 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1371 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1373 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1374 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1376 Say N if you are unsure.
1378 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
1379 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
1385 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1386 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
1387 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1388 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1389 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
1390 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
1392 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
1393 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
1394 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
1395 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
1399 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
1400 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1401 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1402 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
1403 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1404 format for each line of the file is:
1406 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1408 filename : source file of the debug statement
1409 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1410 module : module that contains the debug statement
1411 function : function that contains the debug statement
1412 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1413 format : the format used for the debug statement
1417 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1418 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1419 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1420 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1421 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
1425 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1426 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1427 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1429 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1430 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1431 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1433 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1434 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1435 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1437 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1438 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1439 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1441 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1442 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1443 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1445 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1447 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1448 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1449 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1451 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1452 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1453 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1454 were never allocated.
1455 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1456 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1458 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1459 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1461 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1465 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1466 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1467 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1470 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1471 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1472 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1473 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1474 engine if one is available.
1478 source "samples/Kconfig"
1480 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1482 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
1484 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1485 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1488 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"