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"
81 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
82 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
85 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
91 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
94 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
95 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
96 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
97 were not exported, etc.
99 If you're making modifications to header files which are
100 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
101 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
102 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
104 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
106 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
108 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
109 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
110 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
112 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
113 references from one section to another section.
114 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
115 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
116 most likely result in an oops.
117 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
118 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
119 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
120 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
121 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
123 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
124 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
125 function we would lose the section information and thus
126 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
127 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
128 result in a larger kernel.
129 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
130 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
131 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
133 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
134 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
135 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
136 mismatch at least twice.
137 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
138 the section mismatches reported.
141 bool "Kernel debugging"
143 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
144 identify kernel problems.
147 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
150 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
151 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
152 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
153 points; some don't and need to be caught.
155 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
156 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
160 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
161 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
162 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
165 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
166 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
167 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
170 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
171 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
174 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
175 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
176 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
178 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
179 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
180 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
183 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
184 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
185 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
186 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
187 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
191 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
193 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
195 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
196 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
198 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
199 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
201 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
203 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
204 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
205 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
207 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
208 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
209 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
210 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
211 feature has negligible overhead.
213 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
214 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
215 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
217 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
218 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
219 in uninterruptible "D" state.
221 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
222 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
223 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
224 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
225 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
229 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
231 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
233 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
234 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
237 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
241 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
242 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
246 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
249 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
250 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
251 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
252 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
253 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
254 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
258 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
261 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
262 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
263 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
264 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
265 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
266 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
267 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
268 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
269 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
272 bool "Debug object operations"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
275 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
276 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
277 the operations on those objects.
279 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
280 bool "Debug objects selftest"
281 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
283 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
285 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
286 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
289 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
290 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
291 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
294 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
295 bool "Debug timer objects"
296 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
298 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
299 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
300 validate the timer operations.
302 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
303 bool "Debug work objects"
304 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
306 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
307 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
308 validate the work operations.
310 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
311 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
314 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
316 Debug objects boot parameter default value
319 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
322 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
323 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
324 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
326 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
327 bool "Memory leak debugging"
328 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
331 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
332 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
335 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
336 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
337 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
338 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
339 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
340 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
345 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
346 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
348 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
349 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
350 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
351 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
352 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
353 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
354 Try running: slabinfo -DA
356 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
357 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
359 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
361 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
362 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
366 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
367 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
368 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
369 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
370 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
371 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
372 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
375 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
376 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
378 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
379 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
381 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
382 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
383 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
387 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
388 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
389 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
390 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
391 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
393 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
394 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
395 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
397 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
398 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
404 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
405 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
408 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
409 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
410 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
411 will detect preemption count underflows.
413 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
414 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
417 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
418 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
423 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
425 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
426 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
427 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
429 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
431 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
432 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
433 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
435 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
436 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
437 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
438 deadlocks are also debuggable.
441 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
444 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
447 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
448 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
450 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
454 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
455 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
456 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
457 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
458 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
459 held during task exit.
462 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
463 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
465 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
467 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
470 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
471 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
472 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
473 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
474 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
475 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
478 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
479 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
481 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
482 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
483 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
484 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
485 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
486 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
487 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
488 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
489 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
491 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
492 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
493 kernel reports nothing.
495 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
496 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
497 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
498 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
499 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
501 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
504 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
505 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
508 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
509 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
510 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
513 Say N if you are unsure.
515 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
516 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
520 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
521 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
522 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
525 Say N if you are unsure.
529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
531 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
536 bool "Lock usage statistics"
537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
539 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
541 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
544 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
546 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
548 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
550 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
551 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
553 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
554 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
557 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
560 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
561 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
562 of more runtime overhead.
564 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
568 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
569 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
571 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
572 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
573 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
575 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
576 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
578 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
579 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
580 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
582 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
583 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
584 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
585 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
586 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
591 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
594 bool "kobject debugging"
595 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
597 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
601 bool "Highmem debugging"
602 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
604 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
605 Disable for production systems.
607 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
608 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
610 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
611 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
614 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
615 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
616 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
619 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
620 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
622 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
623 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
624 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
625 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
626 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
627 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
635 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
636 that may impact performance.
641 bool "Debug VM translations"
642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
644 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
645 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
649 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
650 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
653 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
654 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
656 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
657 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
661 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
666 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
667 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
670 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
671 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
672 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
673 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
674 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
679 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
682 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
688 bool "Debug SG table operations"
689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
691 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
692 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
697 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
698 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
701 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
702 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
703 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
704 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
707 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
708 bool "Debug credential management"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
711 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
712 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
713 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
714 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
717 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
718 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
723 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
724 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
725 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
727 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
732 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
733 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
734 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
735 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
736 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
737 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
739 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
740 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
741 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
743 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
744 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
747 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
748 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
749 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
750 using "boot_delay=N".
752 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
753 the "loops per jiffie" value.
754 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
755 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
756 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
757 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
758 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
759 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
761 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
762 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
763 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
766 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
767 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
768 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
770 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
772 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
773 Say N if you are unsure.
775 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
776 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
777 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
780 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
781 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
782 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
783 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
784 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
787 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
788 boot (you probably don't).
789 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
790 after being manually enabled via /proc.
792 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
793 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
794 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
797 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
798 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
799 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
801 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
803 Say Y if you are unsure.
805 config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
806 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
807 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
810 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
811 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
813 Say N if you are unsure.
815 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
817 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
818 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
819 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
823 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
824 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
825 verified for functionality.
827 Say N if you are unsure.
829 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
830 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
831 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
834 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
835 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
836 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
837 developers working on architecture code.
839 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
840 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
842 Say N if you are unsure.
844 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
845 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
846 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
850 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
851 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
852 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
855 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
856 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
857 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
858 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
859 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
860 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
861 device number allocation.
863 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
864 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
865 ones, so root partition specified using device number
866 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
867 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
869 Say N if you are unsure.
871 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
872 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
873 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
875 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
876 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
877 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
880 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
881 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
883 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
884 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
887 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
892 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
893 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
894 If you don't need it: say N
895 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
898 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
899 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
901 config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
902 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
903 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
905 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
906 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
908 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
909 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
913 config FAULT_INJECTION
914 bool "Fault-injection framework"
915 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
917 Provide fault-injection framework.
918 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
921 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
922 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
923 depends on SLAB || SLUB
925 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
927 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
928 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
929 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
931 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
934 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
935 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
937 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
939 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
940 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
941 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
943 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
944 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
945 thus exercising the error handling.
947 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
948 for others it wont do anything.
950 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
951 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
954 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
956 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
957 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
958 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
961 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
963 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
966 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
967 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
973 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
975 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
976 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
978 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
982 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
983 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
984 you to keep things correct.
986 source mm/Kconfig.debug
987 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
989 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
990 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
991 depends on PCI && X86
993 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
994 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
995 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
996 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
997 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
999 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1000 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1001 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1005 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1006 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1008 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1009 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1010 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1011 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1013 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1014 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1016 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1018 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1019 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1020 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1022 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1023 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1024 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1025 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1030 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1031 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1033 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1034 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1036 Say N if you are unsure.
1038 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
1039 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
1045 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1046 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
1047 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1048 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1049 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1050 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
1054 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
1055 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1056 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1057 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
1058 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1059 format for each line of the file is:
1061 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1063 filename : source file of the debug statement
1064 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1065 module : module that contains the debug statement
1066 function : function that contains the debug statement
1067 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1068 format : the format used for the debug statement
1072 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1073 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1074 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1075 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1076 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
1080 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1081 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1082 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1084 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1085 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1086 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1088 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1089 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1090 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1092 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1093 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1094 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1096 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1097 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1098 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1100 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1102 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1103 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1104 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1106 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1107 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1108 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1109 were never allocated.
1110 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1111 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1113 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1114 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1116 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1120 source "samples/Kconfig"
1122 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1124 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"