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 "Kernel debugging"
53 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
54 identify kernel problems.
57 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
59 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
60 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
64 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
65 Defaults and Examples:
66 17 => 128 KB for S/390
67 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
69 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
73 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
74 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
75 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
78 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
79 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
80 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
83 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
84 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
85 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
88 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
89 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
93 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
94 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
96 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
97 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
98 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
99 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
100 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
101 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
105 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
108 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
109 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
110 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
112 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
113 bool "Memory leak debugging"
114 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
117 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
121 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
122 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
123 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
124 will detect preemption count underflows.
126 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
127 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
130 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
131 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
136 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
138 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
139 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
142 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
144 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
145 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
148 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
149 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
150 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
151 deadlocks are also debuggable.
154 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
157 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
161 bool "RW-sem debugging: basic checks"
162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
164 This feature allows read-write semaphore semantics violations to
165 be detected and reported.
167 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
168 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
170 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
175 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
176 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
177 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
178 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
179 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
180 held during task exit.
183 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
184 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
186 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
189 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
192 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
193 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
194 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
195 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
196 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
197 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
200 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
201 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
203 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
204 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
205 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
206 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
207 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
208 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
209 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
210 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
211 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
213 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
214 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
215 kernel reports nothing.
217 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
218 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
219 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
220 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
221 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
223 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
227 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
229 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86
234 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
235 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
237 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
238 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
239 of more runtime overhead.
241 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
245 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
246 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
248 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
249 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
252 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
253 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
255 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
256 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
257 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
259 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
260 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
261 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
262 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
263 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
269 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
272 bool "kobject debugging"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
275 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
279 bool "Highmem debugging"
280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
282 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
283 Disable for production systems.
285 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
286 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
288 depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV || SUPERH
291 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
292 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
293 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
296 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
299 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
300 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
301 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
306 bool "Debug Filesystem"
309 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
310 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
311 write to these files.
317 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
319 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
320 that may impact performance.
325 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
326 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
328 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
334 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
335 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH)
336 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
338 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
339 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
340 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
341 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
344 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
345 depends on !IA64 && !PARISC && !ARM
346 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
348 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
349 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
350 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
351 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
354 bool "Stack unwind support"
355 depends on UNWIND_INFO
358 This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
359 occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
361 config FORCED_INLINING
362 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
366 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
367 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
368 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
369 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
370 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
371 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
372 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
376 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
379 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
380 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
381 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
382 were not exported, etc.
384 If you're making modifications to header files which are
385 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
386 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
387 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
389 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
390 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
391 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
394 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
395 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
396 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
398 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
399 at boot time (you probably don't).
400 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
401 Say N if you are unsure.
404 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
408 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
409 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
410 If you don't need it: say N
411 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
414 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in