3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
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
13 bool "Magic SysRq key"
16 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
17 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
18 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
19 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
20 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
21 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
22 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
23 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
24 unless you really know what this hack does.
27 bool "Kernel debugging"
29 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
30 identify kernel problems.
33 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
36 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
40 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
41 Defaults and Examples:
42 17 => 128 KB for S/390
43 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
45 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
49 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
50 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
51 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
54 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
55 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
56 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
59 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
60 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
61 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
64 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
65 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
69 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
70 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
72 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
73 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
74 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
75 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
76 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
77 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
81 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
84 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
85 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
86 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
88 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
89 bool "Memory leak debugging"
93 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
94 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT
97 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
98 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
99 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
100 will detect preemption count underflows.
103 bool "Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
105 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
107 This allows mutex semantics violations and mutex related deadlocks
108 (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
110 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
111 bool "Spinlock debugging"
112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
114 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
115 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
116 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
117 deadlocks are also debuggable.
119 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
120 bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
121 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
123 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
124 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
127 bool "kobject debugging"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
130 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
134 bool "Highmem debugging"
135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
137 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
138 Disable for production systems.
140 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
141 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
143 depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV
146 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
147 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
148 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
151 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
152 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
154 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
155 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
156 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
161 bool "Enable ioremap() debugging"
162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PARISC
164 Enabling this option will cause the kernel to distinguish between
165 ioremapped and physical addresses. It will print a backtrace (at
166 most one every 10 seconds), hopefully allowing you to see which
167 drivers need work. Fixing all these problems is a prerequisite
168 for turning on USE_HPPA_IOREMAP. The warnings are harmless;
169 the kernel has enough information to fix the broken drivers
170 automatically, but we'd like to make it more efficient by not
174 bool "Debug Filesystem"
175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SYSFS
177 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
178 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
179 write to these files.
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
187 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
188 that may impact performance.
193 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
194 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML)
195 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
197 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
198 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
199 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
200 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
203 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
205 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PARISC || PPC || SUPERH || SPARC64 || V850)
207 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
208 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
209 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
210 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
212 config FORCED_INLINING
213 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
217 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
218 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
219 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
220 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
221 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
222 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
223 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
226 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
227 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
228 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
231 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
232 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
233 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
235 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
236 at boot time (you probably don't).
237 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
238 Say N if you are unsure.