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_MUST_CHECK
13 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
16 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
17 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
18 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
21 bool "Magic SysRq key"
24 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
25 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
26 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
27 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
28 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
29 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
30 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
31 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
32 unless you really know what this hack does.
35 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
38 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
39 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
40 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
41 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
42 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
43 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
44 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
45 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
46 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
47 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
51 bool "Debug Filesystem"
54 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
55 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
61 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
64 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
65 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
66 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
67 were not exported, etc.
69 If you're making modifications to header files which are
70 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
71 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
72 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
75 bool "Kernel debugging"
77 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
78 identify kernel problems.
81 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
84 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
85 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
86 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
87 points; some don't and need to be caught.
89 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
90 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
91 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
94 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
95 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
96 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
99 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
100 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
101 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
104 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
105 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
109 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
112 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
113 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
114 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
115 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
116 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
117 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
121 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
124 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
125 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
126 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
127 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
128 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
129 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
130 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
131 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
132 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
135 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
138 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
139 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
140 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
142 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
143 bool "Memory leak debugging"
144 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
147 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
151 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
152 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
153 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
154 will detect preemption count underflows.
156 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
157 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
160 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
161 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
166 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
168 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
169 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
172 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
174 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
175 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
178 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
179 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
180 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
181 deadlocks are also debuggable.
184 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
187 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
190 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
191 bool "Semaphore debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
193 depends on ALPHA || FRV
196 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
197 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
198 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
200 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
201 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
203 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
207 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
208 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
209 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
210 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
211 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
212 held during task exit.
215 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
216 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
218 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
220 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
223 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
224 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
225 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
226 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
227 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
228 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
231 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
232 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
234 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
235 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
236 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
237 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
238 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
239 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
240 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
241 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
242 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
244 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
245 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
246 kernel reports nothing.
248 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
249 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
250 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
251 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
252 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
254 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
260 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
265 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
268 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
269 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
270 of more runtime overhead.
272 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
276 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
277 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
279 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
280 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
283 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
284 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
286 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
287 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
290 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
291 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
292 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
293 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
294 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
299 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
300 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
303 bool "kobject debugging"
304 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
306 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
310 bool "Highmem debugging"
311 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
313 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
314 Disable for production systems.
316 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
317 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
319 depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
322 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
323 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
324 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
327 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
328 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
330 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
331 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
332 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
333 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
334 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
335 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
343 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
344 that may impact performance.
349 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
352 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
360 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
362 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
363 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
364 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
365 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
367 config FORCED_INLINING
368 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
369 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
372 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
373 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
374 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
375 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
376 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
377 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
378 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
381 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
382 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
387 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
388 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
389 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
391 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
392 Say N if you are unsure.
395 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
400 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
401 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
402 If you don't need it: say N
403 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
406 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
409 config FAULT_INJECTION
410 bool "Fault-injection framework"
411 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
413 Provide fault-injection framework.
414 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
417 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
418 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
420 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
422 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
423 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
424 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
426 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
428 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
429 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
430 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
432 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
434 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
435 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
436 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
438 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
440 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
441 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
442 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
447 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities