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 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
84 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
85 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
86 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
87 points; some don't and need to be caught.
89 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
90 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
91 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
94 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
95 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
96 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
99 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
100 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
101 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
104 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
105 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
109 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
113 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
114 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
118 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
121 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
122 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
123 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
124 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
125 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
126 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
130 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
133 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
134 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
135 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
136 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
137 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
138 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
139 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
140 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
141 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
144 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
147 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
148 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
149 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
151 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
152 bool "Memory leak debugging"
153 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
156 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
160 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
161 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
162 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
163 will detect preemption count underflows.
165 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
166 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
169 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
170 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
175 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
177 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
178 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
181 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
183 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
184 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
187 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
188 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
189 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
190 deadlocks are also debuggable.
193 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
194 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
196 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
199 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
200 bool "Semaphore debugging"
201 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
202 depends on ALPHA || FRV
205 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
206 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
207 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
209 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
210 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
211 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
212 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
216 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
217 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
218 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
219 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
220 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
221 held during task exit.
224 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
225 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
227 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
229 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
232 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
233 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
234 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
235 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
236 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
237 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
240 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
241 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
243 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
244 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
245 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
246 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
247 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
248 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
249 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
250 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
251 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
253 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
254 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
255 kernel reports nothing.
257 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
258 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
259 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
260 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
261 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
263 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
267 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
269 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
274 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
275 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
277 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
278 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
279 of more runtime overhead.
281 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
285 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
286 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
288 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
289 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
292 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
293 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
295 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
296 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
299 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
300 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
301 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
302 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
303 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
309 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
312 bool "kobject debugging"
313 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
315 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
319 bool "Highmem debugging"
320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
322 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
323 Disable for production systems.
325 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
326 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
328 depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
331 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
332 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
333 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
336 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
337 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
339 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
340 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
341 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
342 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
343 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
344 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
352 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
353 that may impact performance.
358 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
361 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
367 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
369 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
371 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
372 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
373 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
374 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
376 config FORCED_INLINING
377 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
381 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
382 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
383 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
384 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
385 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
386 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
387 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
390 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
391 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
392 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
396 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
397 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
398 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
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
422 Provide fault-injection framework.
423 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
426 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
427 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
429 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
431 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
432 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
433 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
435 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
437 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
438 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
439 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
441 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
443 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
444 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
445 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
447 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
449 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
450 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
451 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
456 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities