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 "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
57 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
58 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
59 get_wchan() and suchlike.
62 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
65 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
66 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
67 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
68 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
69 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
70 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
71 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
72 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
73 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
74 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
80 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
81 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
84 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
85 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
90 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
93 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
94 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
95 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
96 were not exported, etc.
98 If you're making modifications to header files which are
99 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
100 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
101 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
103 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
104 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
105 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
107 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
108 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
109 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
111 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
112 references from one section to another section.
113 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
114 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
115 most likely result in an oops.
116 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
117 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
118 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
119 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
120 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
122 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
123 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
124 function we would lose the section information and thus
125 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
126 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
127 result in a larger kernel.
128 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
129 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
130 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
132 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
133 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
134 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
135 mismatch at least twice.
136 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
137 the section mismatches reported.
140 bool "Kernel debugging"
142 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
143 identify kernel problems.
146 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
149 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
150 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
151 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
152 points; some don't and need to be caught.
154 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
155 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
158 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
159 hard and soft lockups.
161 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
162 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
163 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
164 detection and the system will stay locked up.
166 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
167 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
168 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
169 and the system will stay locked up.
171 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
172 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
173 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
175 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
176 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
178 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
179 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
180 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
182 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
183 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
184 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
187 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
188 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
189 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
190 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
191 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
195 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
197 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
199 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
200 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
202 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
203 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
205 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
207 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
208 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
209 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
211 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
212 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
213 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
214 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
215 feature has negligible overhead.
217 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
218 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
219 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
221 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
222 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
223 in uninterruptible "D" state.
225 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
226 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
227 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
228 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
229 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
233 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
235 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
237 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
238 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
241 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
245 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
246 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
250 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
253 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
254 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
255 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
256 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
257 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
258 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
262 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
265 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
266 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
267 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
268 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
269 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
270 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
271 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
272 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
273 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
276 bool "Debug object operations"
277 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
279 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
280 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
281 the operations on those objects.
283 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
284 bool "Debug objects selftest"
285 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
287 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
289 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
290 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
291 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
293 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
294 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
295 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
298 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
299 bool "Debug timer objects"
300 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
302 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
303 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
304 validate the timer operations.
306 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
307 bool "Debug work objects"
308 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
312 validate the work operations.
314 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
315 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
316 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
318 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
320 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
321 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
324 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
326 Debug objects boot parameter default value
329 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
332 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
333 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
334 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
336 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
337 bool "Memory leak debugging"
338 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
341 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
342 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
345 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
346 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
347 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
348 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
349 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
350 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
355 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
356 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
358 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
359 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
360 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
361 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
362 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
363 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
364 Try running: slabinfo -DA
366 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
367 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
369 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
371 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
372 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
376 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
377 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
378 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
379 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
380 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
381 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
382 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
385 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
386 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
388 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
389 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
391 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
392 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
393 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
397 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
398 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
399 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
400 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
401 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
403 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
404 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
405 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
407 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
408 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
413 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
414 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
415 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
417 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
418 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
421 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
425 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
426 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
427 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
428 will detect preemption count underflows.
430 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
431 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
434 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
435 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
440 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
442 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
443 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
446 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
448 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
449 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
450 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
452 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
453 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
454 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
455 deadlocks are also debuggable.
458 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
459 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
461 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
464 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
465 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
467 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
471 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
472 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
473 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
474 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
475 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
476 held during task exit.
479 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
480 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
482 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
484 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
485 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
488 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
489 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
490 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
491 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
492 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
493 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
496 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
497 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
499 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
500 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
501 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
502 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
503 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
504 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
505 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
506 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
507 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
509 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
510 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
511 kernel reports nothing.
513 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
514 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
515 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
516 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
517 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
519 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
522 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
523 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
526 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
527 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
528 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
531 Say N if you are unsure.
533 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
534 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
538 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
539 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
540 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
543 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
545 Say N if you are unsure.
547 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
548 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
551 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
552 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
553 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
554 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
555 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
558 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
560 Say N if you are unsure.
564 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
566 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
571 bool "Lock usage statistics"
572 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
574 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
576 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
579 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
581 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
583 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
585 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
586 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
588 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
589 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
592 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
595 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
596 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
597 of more runtime overhead.
599 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
602 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
603 either tracing or lock debugging.
605 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
606 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
609 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
610 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
612 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
613 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
614 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
616 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
617 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
618 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
619 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
620 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
625 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
628 bool "kobject debugging"
629 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
631 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
635 bool "Highmem debugging"
636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
638 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
639 Disable for production systems.
641 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
642 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
644 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
645 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
648 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
649 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
650 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
653 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
656 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
657 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
658 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
659 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
660 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
661 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
665 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
666 bool "Reduce debugging information"
667 depends on DEBUG_INFO
669 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
670 information for structure types. This means that tools that
671 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
672 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
673 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
674 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
675 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
676 Only works with newer gcc versions.
680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
682 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
683 that may impact performance.
688 bool "Debug VM translations"
689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
691 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
692 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
696 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
697 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
698 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
700 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
701 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
703 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
704 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
705 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
707 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
708 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
713 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
714 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
717 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
718 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
719 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
720 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
721 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
726 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
727 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
729 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
735 bool "Debug SG table operations"
736 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
738 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
739 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
744 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
745 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
746 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
748 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
749 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
750 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
751 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
754 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
755 bool "Debug credential management"
756 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
758 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
759 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
760 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
761 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
764 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
765 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
770 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
771 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
772 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
774 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
779 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
780 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
781 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
782 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
783 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
784 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
786 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
787 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
788 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
790 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
791 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
794 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
795 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
796 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
797 using "boot_delay=N".
799 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
800 the "loops per jiffie" value.
801 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
802 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
803 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
804 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
805 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
806 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
808 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
809 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
813 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
814 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
815 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
817 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
819 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
820 Say N if you are unsure.
822 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
823 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
824 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
827 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
828 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
829 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
830 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
831 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
834 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
835 boot (you probably don't).
836 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
837 after being manually enabled via /proc.
839 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
840 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
841 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
844 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
845 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
846 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
848 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
850 Say Y if you are unsure.
852 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
853 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
854 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
858 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
859 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
860 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
861 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
863 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
864 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
865 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
868 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
869 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
872 Say Y if you are unsure.
874 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
876 config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
877 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
878 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
881 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
882 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
884 Say N if you are unsure.
886 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
888 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
889 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
894 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
895 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
896 verified for functionality.
898 Say N if you are unsure.
900 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
901 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
902 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
905 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
906 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
907 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
908 developers working on architecture code.
910 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
911 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
913 Say N if you are unsure.
915 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
916 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
917 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
921 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
922 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
923 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
926 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
927 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
928 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
929 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
930 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
931 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
932 device number allocation.
934 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
935 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
936 ones, so root partition specified using device number
937 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
938 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
940 Say N if you are unsure.
942 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
943 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
944 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
946 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
947 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
948 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
951 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
952 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
954 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
955 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
958 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
963 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
964 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
965 If you don't need it: say N
966 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
969 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
970 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
972 config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
973 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
974 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
976 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
977 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
979 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
980 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
984 config FAULT_INJECTION
985 bool "Fault-injection framework"
986 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
988 Provide fault-injection framework.
989 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
992 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
993 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
994 depends on SLAB || SLUB
996 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
998 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
999 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1000 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1002 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1004 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1005 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1006 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1008 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1010 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1011 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1012 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1014 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1015 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1016 thus exercising the error handling.
1018 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1019 for others it wont do anything.
1021 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1022 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1023 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1025 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1027 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1028 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1029 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1032 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
1034 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1037 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1038 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1040 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1042 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
1049 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1050 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1052 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1053 bool "Sysctl checks"
1056 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1057 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1058 you to keep things correct.
1060 source mm/Kconfig.debug
1061 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1063 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1064 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1065 depends on PCI && X86
1067 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1068 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1069 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1070 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1071 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1073 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1074 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1075 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1079 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1080 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1082 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1083 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1084 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1085 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1087 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1088 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1090 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1092 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1093 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1094 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1096 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1097 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1098 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1099 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1104 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1105 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1107 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1108 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1110 Say N if you are unsure.
1112 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
1113 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
1119 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1120 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
1121 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1122 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1123 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1124 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
1128 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
1129 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1130 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1131 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
1132 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1133 format for each line of the file is:
1135 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1137 filename : source file of the debug statement
1138 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1139 module : module that contains the debug statement
1140 function : function that contains the debug statement
1141 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1142 format : the format used for the debug statement
1146 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1147 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1148 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1149 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1150 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
1154 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1158 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1162 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1166 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1167 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1168 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1170 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1171 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1172 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1174 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1176 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1177 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1178 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1180 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1181 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1182 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1183 were never allocated.
1184 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1185 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1187 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1188 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1190 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1194 source "samples/Kconfig"
1196 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1198 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"