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"
106 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
107 references from one section to another section.
108 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
109 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
110 most likely result in an oops.
111 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
112 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
113 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
114 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
115 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
117 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
118 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
119 function we would lose the section information and thus
120 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
121 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
122 result in a larger kernel.
123 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
124 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
125 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
127 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
128 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
129 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
130 mismatch at least twice.
131 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
132 the section mismatches reported.
135 bool "Kernel debugging"
137 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
138 identify kernel problems.
141 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
144 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
145 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
146 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
147 points; some don't and need to be caught.
149 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
150 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
153 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
154 hard and soft lockups.
156 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
157 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
158 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
159 detection and the system will stay locked up.
161 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
162 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
163 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
164 and the system will stay locked up.
166 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
167 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
168 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
170 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
171 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
172 !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
174 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
175 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
176 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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 LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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_RCU_HEAD
311 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
312 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
314 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
316 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
317 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
318 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
320 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
321 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
322 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
324 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
325 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
328 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
330 Debug objects boot parameter default value
333 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
336 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
337 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
338 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
340 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
341 bool "Memory leak debugging"
342 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
345 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
346 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
349 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
350 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
351 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
352 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
353 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
354 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
359 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
360 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
362 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
363 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
364 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
365 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
366 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
367 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
368 Try running: slabinfo -DA
370 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
371 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
373 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
375 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
376 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
380 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
381 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
382 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
383 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
384 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
385 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
386 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
389 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
390 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
392 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
393 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
395 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
396 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
397 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
401 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
402 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
403 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
404 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
405 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
407 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
408 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
409 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
411 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
412 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
417 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
418 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
419 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
421 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
422 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
425 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
429 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
430 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
431 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
432 will detect preemption count underflows.
434 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
435 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
438 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
439 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
444 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
446 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
447 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
448 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
450 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
452 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
453 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
456 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
457 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
458 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
459 deadlocks are also debuggable.
462 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
463 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
465 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
468 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
469 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
470 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
471 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
475 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
476 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
477 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
478 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
479 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
480 held during task exit.
483 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
486 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
488 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
489 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
492 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
493 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
494 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
495 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
496 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
497 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
500 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
501 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
503 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
504 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
505 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
506 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
507 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
508 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
509 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
510 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
511 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
513 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
514 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
515 kernel reports nothing.
517 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
518 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
519 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
520 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
521 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
523 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
526 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
527 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
530 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
531 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
532 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
535 Say N if you are unsure.
537 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
538 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
542 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
543 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
544 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
547 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
549 Say N if you are unsure.
551 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
552 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
555 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
556 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
557 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
558 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
559 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
562 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
564 Say N if you are unsure.
568 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
570 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
575 bool "Lock usage statistics"
576 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
578 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
580 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
583 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
585 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
587 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
589 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
590 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
592 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
593 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
596 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
599 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
600 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
601 of more runtime overhead.
603 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
606 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
607 either tracing or lock debugging.
609 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
610 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
613 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
614 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
616 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
617 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
618 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
620 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
621 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
622 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
623 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
624 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
629 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
632 bool "kobject debugging"
633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
635 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
639 bool "Highmem debugging"
640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
642 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
643 Disable for production systems.
645 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
646 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
648 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
649 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
652 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
653 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
654 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
657 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
661 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
662 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
663 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
664 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
665 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
669 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
670 bool "Reduce debugging information"
671 depends on DEBUG_INFO
673 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
674 information for structure types. This means that tools that
675 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
676 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
677 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
678 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
679 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
680 Only works with newer gcc versions.
684 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
686 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
687 that may impact performance.
692 bool "Debug VM translations"
693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
695 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
696 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
700 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
701 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
704 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
705 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
707 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
708 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
711 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
712 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
717 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
718 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
721 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
722 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
723 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
724 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
725 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
730 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
731 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
733 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
738 config TEST_LIST_SORT
739 bool "Linked list sorting test"
740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
742 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
743 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
748 bool "Debug SG table operations"
749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
751 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
752 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
757 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
758 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
759 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
761 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
762 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
763 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
764 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
767 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
768 bool "Debug credential management"
769 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
771 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
772 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
773 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
774 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
777 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
778 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
783 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
784 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
785 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
787 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
792 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
793 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
794 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
795 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
796 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
797 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
799 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
800 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
801 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
803 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
804 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
805 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
807 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
808 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
809 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
810 using "boot_delay=N".
812 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
813 the "loops per jiffie" value.
814 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
815 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
816 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
817 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
818 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
819 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
821 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
822 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
826 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
827 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
828 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
830 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
832 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
833 Say N if you are unsure.
835 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
836 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
837 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
840 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
841 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
842 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
843 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
844 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
847 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
848 boot (you probably don't).
849 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
850 after being manually enabled via /proc.
852 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
853 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
854 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
857 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
858 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
859 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
861 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
863 Say Y if you are unsure.
865 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
866 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
867 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
871 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
872 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
873 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
874 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
876 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
877 bool "RCU CPU stall checking starts automatically at boot"
878 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
881 If set, start checking for RCU CPU stalls immediately on
882 boot. Otherwise, RCU CPU stall checking must be manually
885 Say Y if you are unsure.
887 Say N if you wish to suppress RCU CPU stall checking during boot.
889 config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
890 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
891 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
894 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
895 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
897 Say N if you are unsure.
899 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
901 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
902 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
903 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
907 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
908 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
909 verified for functionality.
911 Say N if you are unsure.
913 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
914 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
915 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
918 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
919 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
920 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
921 developers working on architecture code.
923 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
924 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
926 Say N if you are unsure.
928 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
929 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
934 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
935 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
936 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
939 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
940 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
941 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
942 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
943 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
944 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
945 device number allocation.
947 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
948 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
949 ones, so root partition specified using device number
950 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
951 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
953 Say N if you are unsure.
955 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
956 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
959 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
960 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
961 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
964 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
965 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
967 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
968 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
971 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
976 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
977 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
978 If you don't need it: say N
979 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
982 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
983 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
985 config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
986 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
987 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
989 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
990 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
992 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
993 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
997 config FAULT_INJECTION
998 bool "Fault-injection framework"
999 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1001 Provide fault-injection framework.
1002 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1005 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1006 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1007 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1009 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1011 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1012 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1013 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1015 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1017 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1018 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1019 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1021 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1023 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1024 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1025 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1027 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1028 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1029 thus exercising the error handling.
1031 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1032 for others it wont do anything.
1034 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1035 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1036 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1038 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1040 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1041 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1042 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1045 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
1047 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1050 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1051 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1052 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1053 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1055 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
1062 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1063 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1065 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
1066 bool "Sysctl checks"
1069 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1070 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1071 you to keep things correct.
1073 source mm/Kconfig.debug
1074 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1076 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1077 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1078 depends on PCI && X86
1080 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1081 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1082 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1083 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1084 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1086 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1087 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1088 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1092 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1093 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1095 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1096 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1097 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1098 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1100 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1101 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1103 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1105 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1106 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1107 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1109 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1110 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1111 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1112 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1117 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1118 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1120 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1121 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1123 Say N if you are unsure.
1125 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
1126 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
1132 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1133 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
1134 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1135 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1136 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1137 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
1141 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
1142 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1143 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1144 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
1145 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1146 format for each line of the file is:
1148 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1150 filename : source file of the debug statement
1151 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1152 module : module that contains the debug statement
1153 function : function that contains the debug statement
1154 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1155 format : the format used for the debug statement
1159 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1160 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1161 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1162 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1163 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
1167 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1168 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1169 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1171 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1172 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1173 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1175 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1176 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1177 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1179 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1180 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1181 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1183 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1184 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1185 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1187 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1189 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1190 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1191 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1193 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1194 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1195 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1196 were never allocated.
1197 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1198 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1200 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1201 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1203 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1207 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1208 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1209 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1212 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1213 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1214 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1215 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1216 engine if one is available.
1220 source "samples/Kconfig"
1222 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1224 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"