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 bool "Magic SysRq key"
32 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
33 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
34 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
35 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
36 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
37 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
38 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
39 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
40 unless you really know what this hack does.
43 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
46 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
47 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
48 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
49 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
50 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
51 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
52 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
53 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
54 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
55 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
59 bool "Debug Filesystem"
62 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
63 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
69 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
72 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
73 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
74 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
75 were not exported, etc.
77 If you're making modifications to header files which are
78 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
79 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
80 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
82 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
83 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
86 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
87 references from one section to another section.
88 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
89 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
90 most likely result in an oops.
91 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
92 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
93 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
94 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
95 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
97 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
98 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
99 function we would lose the section information and thus
100 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
101 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
102 result in a larger kernel.
103 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
104 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
105 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
107 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
108 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
109 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
110 mismatch at least twice.
111 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
112 the section mismatches reported.
115 bool "Kernel debugging"
117 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
118 identify kernel problems.
121 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
124 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
125 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
126 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
127 points; some don't and need to be caught.
129 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
130 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
134 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
135 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
136 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
139 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
140 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
141 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
144 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
145 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
149 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
153 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
154 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
158 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
159 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
161 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
162 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
163 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
164 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
165 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
166 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
170 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
173 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
174 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
175 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
176 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
177 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
178 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
179 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
180 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
181 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
184 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
187 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
188 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
189 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
191 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
192 bool "Memory leak debugging"
193 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
196 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
197 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
200 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
201 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
202 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
203 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
204 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
205 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
209 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
210 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
213 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
214 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
215 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
216 will detect preemption count underflows.
218 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
219 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
222 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
223 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
228 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
230 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
231 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
234 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
236 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
237 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
240 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
241 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
242 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
243 deadlocks are also debuggable.
246 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
249 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
252 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
253 bool "Semaphore debugging"
254 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
255 depends on ALPHA || FRV
258 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
259 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
260 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
262 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
263 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
265 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
269 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
270 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
271 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
272 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
273 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
274 held during task exit.
277 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
278 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
280 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
282 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
285 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
286 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
287 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
288 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
289 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
290 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
293 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
294 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
296 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
297 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
298 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
299 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
300 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
301 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
302 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
303 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
304 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
306 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
307 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
308 kernel reports nothing.
310 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
311 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
312 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
313 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
314 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
316 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
322 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
327 bool "Lock usage statistics"
328 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
330 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
332 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
335 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
337 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
340 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
343 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
344 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
345 of more runtime overhead.
347 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
348 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
351 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
352 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
354 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
355 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
356 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
358 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
359 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
361 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
362 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
365 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
366 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
367 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
368 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
369 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
375 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
378 bool "kobject debugging"
379 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
381 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
385 bool "Highmem debugging"
386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
388 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
389 Disable for production systems.
391 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
392 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
394 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN
397 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
398 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
399 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
402 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
405 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
406 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
407 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
408 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
409 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
410 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
418 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
419 that may impact performance.
424 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
427 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
433 bool "Debug SG table operations"
434 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
436 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
437 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
443 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN)
445 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
447 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
448 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
449 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
450 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
452 config FORCED_INLINING
453 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
457 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
458 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
459 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
460 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
461 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
462 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
463 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
466 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
467 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
470 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
471 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
472 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
473 using "boot_delay=N".
475 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
476 the "loops per jiffie" value.
477 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
478 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
479 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
480 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
481 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
482 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
484 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
485 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
490 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
491 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
492 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
494 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
495 Say N if you are unsure.
497 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
498 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
503 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
504 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
505 verified for functionality.
507 Say N if you are unsure.
509 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
510 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
511 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
514 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
515 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
516 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
517 developers working on architecture code.
519 Say N if you are unsure.
522 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
523 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
527 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
528 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
529 If you don't need it: say N
530 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
533 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
536 config FAULT_INJECTION
537 bool "Fault-injection framework"
538 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
540 Provide fault-injection framework.
541 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
544 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
545 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
547 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
549 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
550 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
551 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
553 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
555 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
556 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
557 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
559 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
561 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
562 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
563 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
565 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
567 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
568 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
569 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
574 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
577 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
578 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
584 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
586 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
587 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
589 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
590 bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot"
591 depends on PCI && X86
593 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
594 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
595 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
596 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
597 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
599 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
600 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
601 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
605 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
606 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
608 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
609 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
610 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
611 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
613 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
614 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
616 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
618 source "samples/Kconfig"