3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
12 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
20 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
80 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
83 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
84 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
85 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
86 were not exported, etc.
88 If you're making modifications to header files which are
89 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
90 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
91 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
93 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
94 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
96 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
97 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
98 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
100 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
101 references from one section to another section.
102 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
103 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
104 most likely result in an oops.
105 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
106 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
107 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
108 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
109 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
111 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
112 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
113 function we would lose the section information and thus
114 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
115 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
116 result in a larger kernel.
117 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
118 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
119 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
121 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
122 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
123 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
124 mismatch at least twice.
125 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
126 the section mismatches reported.
129 bool "Kernel debugging"
131 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
132 identify kernel problems.
135 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
138 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
139 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
140 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
141 points; some don't and need to be caught.
143 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
144 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
148 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
149 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
150 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
153 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
154 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
155 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
158 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
159 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
163 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
167 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
168 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
172 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
175 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
176 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
177 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
178 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
179 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
180 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
184 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
187 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
188 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
189 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
190 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
191 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
192 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
193 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
194 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
195 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
198 bool "Debug object operations"
199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
201 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
202 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
203 the operations on those objects.
205 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
206 bool "Debug objects selftest"
207 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
209 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
211 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
212 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
213 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
215 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
216 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
217 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
220 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
221 bool "Debug timer objects"
222 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
224 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
225 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
226 validate the timer operations.
229 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
230 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
232 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
233 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
234 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
236 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
237 bool "Memory leak debugging"
238 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
241 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
242 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
245 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
246 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
247 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
248 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
249 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
250 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
255 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
256 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
258 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
259 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
260 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
261 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
262 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
263 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
264 Try running: slabinfo -DA
267 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
271 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
272 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
273 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
274 will detect preemption count underflows.
276 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
277 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
278 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
280 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
281 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
286 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
288 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
289 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
292 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
294 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
295 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
298 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
299 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
300 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
301 deadlocks are also debuggable.
304 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
305 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
307 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
310 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
311 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
313 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
317 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
318 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
319 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
320 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
321 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
322 held during task exit.
325 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
326 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
328 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
330 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
333 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
334 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
335 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
336 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
337 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
338 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
341 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
342 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
344 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
345 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
346 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
347 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
348 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
349 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
350 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
351 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
352 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
354 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
355 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
356 kernel reports nothing.
358 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
359 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
360 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
361 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
362 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
364 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
370 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
375 bool "Lock usage statistics"
376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
378 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
380 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
383 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
385 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
388 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
389 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
391 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
392 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
393 of more runtime overhead.
395 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
399 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
400 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
402 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
403 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
406 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
407 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
409 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
410 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
411 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
413 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
414 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
415 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
416 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
417 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
422 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
425 bool "kobject debugging"
426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
428 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
432 bool "Highmem debugging"
433 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
435 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
436 Disable for production systems.
438 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
439 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
441 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
442 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
445 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
446 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
447 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
450 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
451 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
453 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
454 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
455 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
456 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
457 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
458 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
466 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
467 that may impact performance.
471 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
472 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
475 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
476 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
482 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
485 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
491 bool "Debug SG table operations"
492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
494 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
495 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
501 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
503 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
504 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
505 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
507 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
508 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
509 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
510 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
512 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
513 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
514 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
516 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
517 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
518 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
519 using "boot_delay=N".
521 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
522 the "loops per jiffie" value.
523 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
524 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
525 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
526 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
527 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
528 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
530 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
531 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
532 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
535 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
536 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
537 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
539 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
541 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
542 Say N if you are unsure.
544 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
545 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
546 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
549 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
550 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
551 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
552 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
553 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
556 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
557 boot (you probably don't).
558 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
559 after being manually enabled via /proc.
561 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
562 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
563 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
567 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
568 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
569 verified for functionality.
571 Say N if you are unsure.
573 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
574 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
575 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
578 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
579 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
580 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
581 developers working on architecture code.
583 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
584 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
586 Say N if you are unsure.
589 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
590 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
595 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
596 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
597 If you don't need it: say N
598 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
601 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
604 config FAULT_INJECTION
605 bool "Fault-injection framework"
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
608 Provide fault-injection framework.
609 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
612 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
613 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
615 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
617 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
618 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
619 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
621 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
623 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
624 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
625 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
627 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
629 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
630 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
631 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
633 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
635 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
636 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
637 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
642 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
645 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
646 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
652 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
654 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
655 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
657 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
659 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
660 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
661 depends on PCI && X86
663 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
664 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
665 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
666 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
667 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
669 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
670 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
671 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
675 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
676 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
678 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
679 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
680 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
681 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
683 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
684 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
686 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
688 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
689 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
690 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
692 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
693 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
694 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
695 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
699 source "samples/Kconfig"
701 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"