| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 |  | 
 | 2 | config PRINTK_TIME | 
 | 3 | 	bool "Show timing information on printks" | 
| Randy Dunlap | d3b8b6e | 2006-12-06 20:36:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | 	depends on PRINTK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 10 | 	  in kernel startup. | 
 | 11 |  | 
| Andrew Morton | cebc04b | 2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK | 
 | 13 | 	bool "Enable __must_check logic" | 
 | 14 | 	default y | 
 | 15 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ | 
 | 21 | 	bool "Magic SysRq key" | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | 	depends on !UML | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
 | 33 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | f71d20e | 2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | config UNUSED_SYMBOLS | 
 | 35 | 	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" | 
 | 36 | 	default y if X86 | 
 | 37 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 48 | 	  your module is. | 
 | 49 |  | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | config DEBUG_FS | 
 | 51 | 	bool "Debug Filesystem" | 
 | 52 | 	depends on SYSFS | 
 | 53 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 56 | 	  write to these files. | 
 | 57 |  | 
 | 58 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 59 |  | 
 | 60 | config HEADERS_CHECK | 
 | 61 | 	bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" | 
 | 62 | 	depends on !UML | 
 | 63 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
 | 68 |  | 
 | 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. | 
 | 73 |  | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | config DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 75 | 	bool "Kernel debugging" | 
 | 76 | 	help | 
 | 77 | 	  Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and | 
 | 78 | 	  identify kernel problems. | 
 | 79 |  | 
| David Woodhouse | a304e1b | 2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | config DEBUG_SHIRQ | 
 | 81 | 	bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" | 
 | 82 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS | 
 | 83 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
 | 88 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
 | 90 | 	bool "Detect Soft Lockups" | 
| Heiko Carstens | dea20a3 | 2006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | 	default y | 
 | 93 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 97 | 	  chance to run. | 
 | 98 |  | 
 | 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 | 
 | 102 | 	  overhead. | 
 | 103 |  | 
 | 104 | 	  (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that | 
 | 105 | 	   can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that | 
 | 106 | 	   support it.) | 
 | 107 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | b642b6d | 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | config SCHED_DEBUG | 
 | 109 | 	bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" | 
 | 110 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 111 | 	default y | 
 | 112 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 115 | 	  option is minimal. | 
 | 116 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | config SCHEDSTATS | 
 | 118 | 	bool "Collect scheduler statistics" | 
 | 119 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 120 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
 | 127 | 	  this adds. | 
 | 128 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | config TIMER_STATS | 
 | 130 | 	bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" | 
 | 131 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 132 | 	help | 
 | 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 | 
| Ingo Molnar | c1a834d | 2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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). | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 142 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | config DEBUG_SLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 4a2f0ac | 2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | 	bool "Debug slab memory allocations" | 
| Ingo Molnar | 50dd26b | 2006-01-08 01:01:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
 | 150 |  | 
| Al Viro | 871751e | 2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK | 
 | 152 | 	bool "Memory leak debugging" | 
 | 153 | 	depends on DEBUG_SLAB | 
 | 154 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | f0630ff | 2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON | 
 | 156 | 	bool "SLUB debugging on by default" | 
 | 157 | 	depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG | 
 | 158 | 	default n | 
 | 159 | 	help | 
 | 160 | 	  Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with | 
 | 161 | 	  the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is | 
 | 162 | 	  equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. | 
 | 163 | 	  There is no support for more fine grained debug control like | 
 | 164 | 	  possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched | 
 | 165 | 	  off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying | 
 | 166 | 	  "slub_debug=-". | 
 | 167 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT | 
 | 169 | 	bool "Debug preemptible kernel" | 
| Hugh Dickins | 048c8bc | 2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | 	default y | 
 | 172 | 	help | 
 | 173 | 	  If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the | 
 | 174 | 	  commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings | 
 | 175 | 	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel | 
 | 176 | 	  will detect preemption count underflows. | 
 | 177 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 179 | 	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 181 | 	help | 
 | 182 | 	 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related | 
 | 183 | 	 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. | 
 | 184 |  | 
 | 185 | config DEBUG_PI_LIST | 
 | 186 | 	bool | 
 | 187 | 	default y | 
 | 188 | 	depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 189 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | config RT_MUTEX_TESTER | 
 | 191 | 	bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes" | 
| Roman Zippel | a1583d3 | 2006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | 	help | 
 | 194 | 	  This option enables a rt-mutex tester. | 
 | 195 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | 	bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 199 | 	help | 
 | 200 | 	  Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization | 
 | 201 | 	  and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made.  This is | 
 | 202 | 	  best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock | 
 | 203 | 	  deadlocks are also debuggable. | 
 | 204 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | config DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
 | 206 | 	bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" | 
 | 207 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 208 | 	help | 
 | 209 | 	 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and | 
 | 210 | 	 reported. | 
 | 211 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | c761c84 | 2007-05-08 00:25:02 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE | 
 | 213 | 	bool "Semaphore debugging" | 
 | 214 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 215 | 	depends on ALPHA || FRV | 
 | 216 | 	default n | 
 | 217 | 	help | 
 | 218 | 	  If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of | 
 | 219 | 	  verbose debugging messages.  If you suspect a semaphore problem or a | 
 | 220 | 	  kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y.  Otherwise say N. | 
 | 221 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 223 | 	bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 226 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 228 | 	help | 
 | 229 | 	 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, | 
 | 230 | 	 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the | 
 | 231 | 	 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), | 
 | 232 | 	 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via | 
 | 233 | 	 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock | 
 | 234 | 	 held during task exit. | 
 | 235 |  | 
 | 236 | config PROVE_LOCKING | 
 | 237 | 	bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 240 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 241 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | 	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 243 | 	default n | 
 | 244 | 	help | 
 | 245 | 	 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking | 
 | 246 | 	 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically | 
 | 247 | 	 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and | 
 | 248 | 	 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking | 
 | 249 | 	 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an | 
 | 250 | 	 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a | 
 | 251 | 	 deadlock. | 
 | 252 |  | 
 | 253 | 	 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking | 
 | 254 | 	 related deadlocks before they actually occur. | 
 | 255 |  | 
 | 256 | 	 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a | 
 | 257 | 	 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many | 
 | 258 | 	 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed | 
 | 259 | 	 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on | 
 | 260 | 	 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible | 
 | 261 | 	 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario | 
 | 262 | 	 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be | 
 | 263 | 	 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that | 
 | 264 | 	 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). | 
 | 265 |  | 
 | 266 | 	 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as | 
 | 267 | 	 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the | 
 | 268 | 	 kernel reports nothing. | 
 | 269 |  | 
 | 270 | 	 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes | 
 | 271 | 	 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these | 
 | 272 | 	 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and | 
 | 273 | 	 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an | 
 | 274 | 	 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. | 
 | 275 |  | 
 | 276 | 	 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. | 
 | 277 |  | 
 | 278 | config LOCKDEP | 
 | 279 | 	bool | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | 	select STACKTRACE | 
| Franck Bui-Huu | 14cf232 | 2007-04-26 00:20:15 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | 	select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
 | 284 | 	select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
 | 285 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | config LOCK_STAT | 
| Danny ter Haar | fdfb870 | 2007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | 	bool "Lock usage statistics" | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 288 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
 | 289 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 290 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 291 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
 | 292 | 	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 293 | 	default n | 
 | 294 | 	help | 
 | 295 | 	 This feature enables tracking lock contention points | 
 | 296 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | a560aa4 | 2007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | 	 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt | 
 | 298 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | config DEBUG_LOCKDEP | 
 | 300 | 	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | 	help | 
 | 303 | 	  If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do | 
 | 304 | 	  additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price | 
 | 305 | 	  of more runtime overhead. | 
 | 306 |  | 
 | 307 | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | 	bool | 
 | 310 | 	default y | 
 | 311 | 	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | 
 | 312 | 	depends on PROVE_LOCKING | 
 | 313 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | 	bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 317 | 	help | 
 | 318 | 	  If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very | 
 | 319 | 	  noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. | 
 | 320 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | cae2ed9 | 2006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS | 
 | 322 | 	bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" | 
 | 323 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 324 | 	help | 
 | 325 | 	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during | 
 | 326 | 	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs | 
 | 327 | 	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable | 
 | 328 | 	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) | 
 | 329 | 	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, | 
 | 330 | 	  mutexes and rwsems. | 
 | 331 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8637c09 | 2006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | config STACKTRACE | 
 | 333 | 	bool | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8637c09 | 2006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | 	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
 | 336 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT | 
 | 338 | 	bool "kobject debugging" | 
 | 339 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 340 | 	help | 
 | 341 | 	  If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent | 
 | 342 | 	  to the syslog.  | 
 | 343 |  | 
 | 344 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM | 
 | 345 | 	bool "Highmem debugging" | 
 | 346 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM | 
 | 347 | 	help | 
 | 348 | 	  This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. | 
 | 349 | 	  Disable for production systems. | 
 | 350 |  | 
 | 351 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE | 
 | 352 | 	bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED | 
| Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | 	depends on BUG | 
| Adrian Bunk | 99eb8a5 | 2007-07-31 00:38:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | 	depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | 	default !EMBEDDED | 
 | 356 | 	help | 
 | 357 | 	  Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number | 
 | 358 | 	  of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids | 
 | 359 | 	  debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. | 
 | 360 |  | 
 | 361 | config DEBUG_INFO | 
 | 362 | 	bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" | 
 | 363 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 364 | 	help | 
 | 365 |           If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include | 
 | 366 | 	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. | 
| Andreas Dilger | b72e53f | 2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | 	  This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and | 
 | 368 | 	  is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object | 
 | 369 | 	  tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | 	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. | 
 | 371 |  | 
 | 372 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 373 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | config DEBUG_VM | 
 | 375 | 	bool "Debug VM" | 
 | 376 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 377 | 	help | 
| Nick Piggin | 13e7444 | 2006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | 	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system | 
 | 379 |           that may impact performance. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 380 |  | 
 | 381 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 382 |  | 
| Dave Jones | 199a9af | 2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | config DEBUG_LIST | 
 | 384 | 	bool "Debug linked list manipulation" | 
 | 385 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 386 | 	help | 
 | 387 | 	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list | 
 | 388 | 	  walking routines. | 
 | 389 |  | 
 | 390 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 391 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | config FRAME_POINTER | 
 | 393 | 	bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" | 
| Bryan Wu | 1394f03 | 2007-05-06 14:50:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN) | 
| Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | 37fce85 | 2005-05-28 15:51:59 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | 	default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | 	help | 
 | 397 | 	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger | 
| Jesper Juhl | 2a38bcc | 2005-10-30 15:02:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | 	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on | 
 | 399 | 	  some architectures or if you use external debuggers. | 
| Andi Kleen | aeb3998 | 2005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | 	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 401 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | a9df3d0 | 2006-01-14 13:21:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | config FORCED_INLINING | 
 | 403 | 	bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'" | 
 | 404 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 405 | 	default y | 
 | 406 | 	help | 
 | 407 | 	  This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions | 
 | 408 | 	  developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to | 
 | 409 | 	  do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of | 
 | 410 | 	  compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and | 
 | 411 | 	  disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully | 
 | 412 | 	  this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can | 
 | 413 | 	  become the default in the future, until then this option is there to | 
 | 414 | 	  test gcc for this. | 
 | 415 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | bfe8df3 | 2007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 416 | config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY | 
 | 417 | 	bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" | 
 | 418 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY | 
 | 419 | 	help | 
 | 420 | 	  This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages | 
 | 421 | 	  by inserting a short delay after each one.  The delay is | 
 | 422 | 	  specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, | 
 | 423 | 	  using "boot_delay=N". | 
 | 424 |  | 
 | 425 | 	  It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset | 
 | 426 | 	  the "loops per jiffie" value. | 
 | 427 | 	  See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your | 
 | 428 | 	  system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". | 
 | 429 | 	  NOTE:  Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. | 
 | 430 | 	  I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. | 
 | 431 | 	  BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect | 
 | 432 | 	  what it believes to be lockup conditions. | 
 | 433 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST | 
 | 435 | 	tristate "torture tests for RCU" | 
 | 436 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 9aaffc8 | 2007-05-23 13:57:41 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | 	depends on m | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | 	default n | 
 | 439 | 	help | 
 | 440 | 	  This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests | 
 | 441 | 	  on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built | 
 | 442 | 	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. | 
 | 443 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | 	  Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. | 
 | 445 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 446 |  | 
 | 447 | config LKDTM | 
 | 448 | 	tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | 	depends on KPROBES | 
 | 451 | 	default n | 
 | 452 | 	help | 
 | 453 | 	This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by | 
 | 454 | 	inducing system failures at predefined crash points. | 
 | 455 | 	If you don't need it: say N | 
 | 456 | 	Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be | 
 | 457 | 	called lkdtm. | 
 | 458 |  | 
 | 459 | 	Documentation on how to use the module can be found in | 
 | 460 | 	drivers/misc/lkdtm.c | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 461 |  | 
 | 462 | config FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | 	bool "Fault-injection framework" | 
 | 464 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Akinobu Mita | 329409a | 2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | 	help | 
 | 466 | 	  Provide fault-injection framework. | 
 | 467 | 	  For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 468 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | config FAILSLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 470 | 	bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" | 
 | 471 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 474 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 475 | config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC | 
 | 476 | 	bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 477 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 480 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST | 
| Dave Jones | 86327d1 | 2006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | 	bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 486 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS | 
 | 488 | 	bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 489 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509 | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | 	  Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 492 |  | 
 | 493 | config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER | 
 | 494 | 	bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" | 
 | 495 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6d690dc | 2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | 	depends on !X86_64 | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | 	select STACKTRACE | 
 | 498 | 	select FRAME_POINTER | 
 | 499 | 	help | 
 | 500 | 	  Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 267c402 | 2007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 501 |  | 
 | 502 | source "samples/Kconfig" |