| 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 | 50dd26ba | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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 | 1ab8509a | 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" |