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 int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
83 default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
84 default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
88 Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
89 Defaults and Examples:
90 17 => 128 KB for S/390
91 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
93 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
97 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
98 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
99 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
102 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
103 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
104 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
107 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
108 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
109 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
112 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
113 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
117 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
120 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
121 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
122 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
123 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
124 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
125 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
129 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
130 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
132 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
133 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
134 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
136 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
137 bool "Memory leak debugging"
138 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
141 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
145 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
146 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
147 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
148 will detect preemption count underflows.
150 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
151 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
152 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
154 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
155 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
160 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
162 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
163 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
166 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
168 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
169 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
172 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
173 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
174 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
175 deadlocks are also debuggable.
178 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
181 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
185 bool "RW-sem debugging: basic checks"
186 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
188 This feature allows read-write semaphore semantics violations to
189 be detected and reported.
191 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
192 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
193 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
194 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
199 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
200 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
201 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
202 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
203 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
204 held during task exit.
207 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
208 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
210 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
213 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
216 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
217 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
218 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
219 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
220 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
221 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
224 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
225 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
227 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
228 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
229 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
230 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
231 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
232 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
233 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
234 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
235 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
237 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
238 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
239 kernel reports nothing.
241 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
242 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
243 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
244 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
245 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
247 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
253 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86
258 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
261 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
262 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
263 of more runtime overhead.
265 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
269 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
270 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
272 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
273 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
276 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
277 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
279 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
280 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
283 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
284 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
285 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
286 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
287 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
292 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
293 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
296 bool "kobject debugging"
297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
299 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
303 bool "Highmem debugging"
304 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
306 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
307 Disable for production systems.
309 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
310 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
312 depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG
315 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
316 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
317 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
320 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
323 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
324 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
325 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
333 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
334 that may impact performance.
339 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
342 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
348 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH)
350 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
352 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
353 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
354 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
355 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
359 depends on !IA64 && !PARISC && !ARM
360 depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
362 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
363 but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
364 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
365 to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
368 bool "Stack unwind support"
369 depends on UNWIND_INFO
372 This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
373 occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
375 config FORCED_INLINING
376 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
380 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
381 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
382 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
383 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
384 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
385 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
386 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
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"
405 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
409 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
410 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
411 If you don't need it: say N
412 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
415 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
418 config FAULT_INJECTION
419 bool "Fault-injection framework"
420 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
421 depends on STACKTRACE
424 Provide fault-injection framework.
425 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
428 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
429 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
431 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
433 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
434 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
435 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
437 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
439 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
440 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for disk IO"
441 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
443 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
445 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
446 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
447 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
449 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.