| 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 |  | 
| Jeff Garzik | de48844 | 2007-10-25 04:06:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED | 
 | 13 | 	bool "Enable __deprecated logic" | 
 | 14 | 	default y | 
 | 15 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
 | 19 |  | 
| Andrew Morton | cebc04b | 2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK | 
 | 21 | 	bool "Enable __must_check logic" | 
 | 22 | 	default y | 
 | 23 | 	help | 
 | 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. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 35bb5b1 | 2008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | config FRAME_WARN | 
 | 29 | 	int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" | 
 | 30 | 	range 0 8192 | 
 | 31 | 	default 1024 if !64BIT | 
 | 32 | 	default 2048 if 64BIT | 
 | 33 | 	help | 
 | 34 | 	  Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. | 
 | 35 | 	  Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. | 
 | 36 | 	  Setting it to 0 disables the warning. | 
 | 37 | 	  Requires gcc 4.4 | 
 | 38 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ | 
 | 40 | 	bool "Magic SysRq key" | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | 	depends on !UML | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | 	help | 
 | 43 | 	  If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even | 
 | 44 | 	  if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you | 
 | 45 | 	  will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system | 
 | 46 | 	  immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished | 
 | 47 | 	  by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It | 
 | 48 | 	  also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you | 
 | 49 | 	  send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The | 
 | 50 | 	  keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y | 
 | 51 | 	  unless you really know what this hack does. | 
 | 52 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 99657c7 | 2009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | config STRIP_ASM_SYMS | 
 | 54 | 	bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" | 
 | 55 | 	default n | 
 | 56 | 	help | 
 | 57 | 	  Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols | 
 | 58 | 	  that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of | 
 | 59 | 	  get_wchan() and suchlike. | 
 | 60 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | f71d20e | 2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | config UNUSED_SYMBOLS | 
 | 62 | 	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" | 
 | 63 | 	default y if X86 | 
 | 64 | 	help | 
 | 65 | 	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For | 
 | 66 | 	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This | 
 | 67 | 	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case | 
 | 68 | 	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you | 
 | 69 | 	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually | 
 | 70 | 	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using | 
 | 71 | 	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the | 
 | 72 | 	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a | 
 | 73 | 	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why | 
 | 74 | 	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for | 
 | 75 | 	  your module is. | 
 | 76 |  | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | config DEBUG_FS | 
 | 78 | 	bool "Debug Filesystem" | 
 | 79 | 	depends on SYSFS | 
 | 80 | 	help | 
 | 81 | 	  debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put | 
 | 82 | 	  debugging files into.  Enable this option to be able to read and | 
 | 83 | 	  write to these files. | 
 | 84 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | ff54333 | 2008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | 	  For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see | 
 | 86 | 	  Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. | 
 | 87 |  | 
| Don Mullis | bf4735a | 2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 89 |  | 
 | 90 | config HEADERS_CHECK | 
 | 91 | 	bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" | 
 | 92 | 	depends on !UML | 
 | 93 | 	help | 
 | 94 | 	  This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever | 
 | 95 | 	  building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to | 
 | 96 | 	  ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which | 
 | 97 | 	  were not exported, etc. | 
 | 98 |  | 
 | 99 | 	  If you're making modifications to header files which are | 
 | 100 | 	  relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers | 
 | 101 | 	  exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in | 
 | 102 | 	  your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. | 
 | 103 |  | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH | 
 | 105 | 	bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" | 
| Mike Frysinger | 1d53661 | 2010-03-23 13:35:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | 	depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN) | 
 | 107 | 	default y | 
| Sam Ravnborg | fa2144b | 2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | 	# This option is on purpose disabled for now. | 
| André Goddard Rosa | af901ca | 2009-11-14 13:09:05 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | 	# It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number | 
| Sam Ravnborg | fa2144b | 2008-02-15 13:53:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | 	# of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build) | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | 	help | 
 | 112 | 	  The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal | 
 | 113 | 	  references from one section to another section. | 
 | 114 | 	  Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections | 
 | 115 | 	  and any use of code/data previously in these sections will | 
 | 116 | 	  most likely result in an oops. | 
 | 117 | 	  In the code functions and variables are annotated with | 
 | 118 | 	  __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h) | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | 	  which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. | 
 | 120 | 	  The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full | 
 | 121 | 	  kernel build but enabling this option will in addition | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | 	  do the following: | 
 | 123 | 	  - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc | 
 | 124 | 	    When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | 	    function we would lose the section information and thus | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | 	    the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | 	    This option tells gcc to inline less but will also | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | 	    result in a larger kernel. | 
 | 129 | 	  - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o | 
 | 130 | 	    When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we | 
| Geert Uytterhoeven | d6fbfa4 | 2008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | 	    lose valueble information about where the mismatch was | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | 	    introduced. | 
 | 133 | 	    Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file | 
 | 134 | 	    will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the | 
 | 135 | 	    source. The drawback is that we will report the same | 
 | 136 | 	    mismatch at least twice. | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 588ccd7 | 2008-01-24 21:12:37 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | 	  - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving | 
 | 138 | 	    the section mismatches reported. | 
| Sam Ravnborg | 91341d4 | 2008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 139 |  | 
| Adrian Bunk | f346f4b | 2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | config DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 141 | 	bool "Kernel debugging" | 
 | 142 | 	help | 
 | 143 | 	  Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and | 
 | 144 | 	  identify kernel problems. | 
 | 145 |  | 
| David Woodhouse | a304e1b | 2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | config DEBUG_SHIRQ | 
 | 147 | 	bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" | 
 | 148 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS | 
 | 149 | 	help | 
 | 150 | 	  Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared | 
 | 151 | 	  interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. | 
 | 152 | 	  Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those | 
 | 153 | 	  points; some don't and need to be caught. | 
 | 154 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
 | 156 | 	bool "Detect Soft Lockups" | 
| Heiko Carstens | dea20a3 | 2006-10-11 01:20:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | 	default y | 
 | 159 | 	help | 
 | 160 | 	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups", | 
 | 161 | 	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | 	  mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8446f1d | 2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | 	  chance to run. | 
 | 164 |  | 
 | 165 | 	  When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the | 
 | 166 | 	  current stack trace (which you should report), but the | 
 | 167 | 	  system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible | 
 | 168 | 	  overhead. | 
 | 169 |  | 
 | 170 | 	  (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that | 
 | 171 | 	   can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that | 
 | 172 | 	   support it.) | 
 | 173 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 9c44bc0 | 2008-05-12 21:21:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
 | 175 | 	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" | 
 | 176 | 	depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
 | 177 | 	help | 
 | 178 | 	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", | 
 | 179 | 	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel | 
 | 180 | 	  mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a | 
 | 181 | 	  chance to run. | 
 | 182 |  | 
 | 183 | 	  The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, | 
 | 184 | 	  to cause the system to reboot automatically after a | 
 | 185 | 	  lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for | 
 | 186 | 	  high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and | 
 | 187 | 	  where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. | 
 | 188 |  | 
 | 189 | 	  Say N if unsure. | 
 | 190 |  | 
 | 191 | config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE | 
 | 192 | 	int | 
 | 193 | 	depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
 | 194 | 	range 0 1 | 
 | 195 | 	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
 | 196 | 	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC | 
 | 197 |  | 
| Mandeep Singh Baines | e162b39 | 2009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | config DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
 | 199 | 	bool "Detect Hung Tasks" | 
 | 200 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | 77d0563 | 2009-04-07 08:55:36 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | 	default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP | 
| Mandeep Singh Baines | e162b39 | 2009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | 	help | 
 | 203 | 	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", | 
 | 204 | 	  which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in | 
 | 205 | 	  uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley. | 
 | 206 |  | 
 | 207 | 	  When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the | 
 | 208 | 	  current stack trace (which you should report), but the | 
 | 209 | 	  task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is | 
 | 210 | 	  enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This | 
 | 211 | 	  feature has negligible overhead. | 
 | 212 |  | 
 | 213 | config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
 | 214 | 	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" | 
 | 215 | 	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
 | 216 | 	help | 
 | 217 | 	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", | 
 | 218 | 	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck | 
 | 219 | 	  in uninterruptible "D" state. | 
 | 220 |  | 
 | 221 | 	  The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, | 
 | 222 | 	  to cause the system to reboot automatically after a | 
 | 223 | 	  hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for | 
 | 224 | 	  high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and | 
 | 225 | 	  where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. | 
 | 226 |  | 
 | 227 | 	  Say N if unsure. | 
 | 228 |  | 
 | 229 | config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE | 
 | 230 | 	int | 
 | 231 | 	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK | 
 | 232 | 	range 0 1 | 
 | 233 | 	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
 | 234 | 	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC | 
 | 235 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | b642b6d | 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | config SCHED_DEBUG | 
 | 237 | 	bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" | 
 | 238 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 239 | 	default y | 
 | 240 | 	help | 
 | 241 | 	  If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided | 
 | 242 | 	  that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this | 
 | 243 | 	  option is minimal. | 
 | 244 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | config SCHEDSTATS | 
 | 246 | 	bool "Collect scheduler statistics" | 
 | 247 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 248 | 	help | 
 | 249 | 	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
 | 250 | 	  scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about | 
 | 251 | 	  scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat.  These | 
 | 252 | 	  stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler | 
 | 253 | 	  If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific | 
 | 254 | 	  application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead | 
 | 255 | 	  this adds. | 
 | 256 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | config TIMER_STATS | 
 | 258 | 	bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" | 
 | 259 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | 
 | 260 | 	help | 
 | 261 | 	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
 | 262 | 	  timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being | 
 | 263 | 	  reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. | 
 | 264 | 	  The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, | 
 | 265 | 	  writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information | 
| Ingo Molnar | c1a834d | 2007-06-01 00:47:16 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | 	  about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature | 
 | 267 | 	  is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated | 
 | 268 | 	  (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated | 
 | 269 | 	  if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). | 
| Ingo Molnar | 82f67cd | 2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 270 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 3ac7fe5 | 2008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 272 | 	bool "Debug object operations" | 
 | 273 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 274 | 	help | 
 | 275 | 	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
 | 276 | 	  kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate | 
 | 277 | 	  the operations on those objects. | 
 | 278 |  | 
 | 279 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST | 
 | 280 | 	bool "Debug objects selftest" | 
 | 281 | 	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 282 | 	help | 
 | 283 | 	  This enables the selftest of the object debug code. | 
 | 284 |  | 
 | 285 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE | 
 | 286 | 	bool "Debug objects in freed memory" | 
 | 287 | 	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 288 | 	help | 
 | 289 | 	  This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area | 
 | 290 | 	  which contains an object which has not been deactivated | 
 | 291 | 	  properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads | 
 | 292 | 	  much slower. | 
 | 293 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | c6f3a97 | 2008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS | 
 | 295 | 	bool "Debug timer objects" | 
 | 296 | 	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 297 | 	help | 
 | 298 | 	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
 | 299 | 	  timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and | 
 | 300 | 	  validate the timer operations. | 
 | 301 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | dc186ad | 2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK | 
 | 303 | 	bool "Debug work objects" | 
 | 304 | 	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 305 | 	help | 
 | 306 | 	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | 
 | 307 | 	  work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and | 
 | 308 | 	  validate the work operations. | 
 | 309 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 3ae7020 | 2008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT | 
 | 311 | 	int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" | 
 | 312 |         range 0 1 | 
 | 313 |         default "1" | 
 | 314 |         depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS | 
 | 315 |         help | 
 | 316 |           Debug objects boot parameter default value | 
 | 317 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | config DEBUG_SLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 4a2f0ac | 2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | 	bool "Debug slab memory allocations" | 
| Vegard Nossum | 7d46d9e | 2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | 	help | 
 | 322 | 	  Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory | 
 | 323 | 	  allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed | 
 | 324 | 	  memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. | 
 | 325 |  | 
| Al Viro | 871751e | 2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK | 
 | 327 | 	bool "Memory leak debugging" | 
 | 328 | 	depends on DEBUG_SLAB | 
 | 329 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | f0630ff | 2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON | 
 | 331 | 	bool "SLUB debugging on by default" | 
| Vegard Nossum | 7d46d9e | 2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | 	depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK | 
| Christoph Lameter | f0630ff | 2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | 	default n | 
 | 334 | 	help | 
 | 335 | 	  Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with | 
 | 336 | 	  the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is | 
 | 337 | 	  equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. | 
 | 338 | 	  There is no support for more fine grained debug control like | 
 | 339 | 	  possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched | 
 | 340 | 	  off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying | 
 | 341 | 	  "slub_debug=-". | 
 | 342 |  | 
| Christoph Lameter | 8ff12cf | 2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | config SLUB_STATS | 
 | 344 | 	default n | 
 | 345 | 	bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" | 
| Christoph Lameter | 5b06c853 | 2008-04-14 18:51:34 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | 	depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS | 
| Christoph Lameter | 8ff12cf | 2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | 	help | 
 | 348 | 	  SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in | 
 | 349 | 	  order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be | 
 | 350 | 	  enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down | 
 | 351 | 	  the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command | 
 | 352 | 	  supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure | 
 | 353 | 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. | 
 | 354 | 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA | 
 | 355 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
 | 357 | 	bool "Kernel memory leak detector" | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 358 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \ | 
| David S. Miller | 9343af0 | 2010-04-13 00:28:45 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | 		(X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE) | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 360 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | 	select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS | 
 | 362 | 	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
 | 363 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
| Randy Dunlap | b60e26a | 2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | 	select CRC32 | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | 	help | 
 | 366 | 	  Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak | 
 | 367 | 	  detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way | 
 | 368 | 	  similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the | 
 | 369 | 	  difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but | 
 | 370 | 	  only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this | 
 | 371 | 	  feature will introduce an overhead to memory | 
 | 372 | 	  allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more | 
 | 373 | 	  details. | 
 | 374 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | bf96d1e | 2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | 	  Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances | 
 | 376 | 	  of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. | 
 | 377 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 3bba00d | 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | 	  In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be | 
 | 379 | 	  mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). | 
 | 380 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | a9d9058 | 2009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE | 
 | 382 | 	int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" | 
 | 383 | 	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
| Heiko Carstens | dfcc3e6 | 2009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | 	range 200 40000 | 
| Catalin Marinas | a9d9058 | 2009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | 	default 400 | 
 | 386 | 	help | 
 | 387 | 	  Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid | 
 | 388 | 	  reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or | 
 | 389 | 	  freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is | 
 | 390 | 	  used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log | 
 | 391 | 	  buffer exceeded", please increase this value. | 
 | 392 |  | 
| Catalin Marinas | 0822ee4 | 2009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST | 
 | 394 | 	tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" | 
 | 395 | 	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK | 
 | 396 | 	help | 
 | 397 | 	  Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak | 
 | 398 | 	  detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks | 
 | 399 | 	  memory. | 
 | 400 |  | 
 | 401 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 402 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT | 
 | 404 | 	bool "Debug preemptible kernel" | 
| Kumar Gala | 01deab9 | 2009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | 	default y | 
 | 407 | 	help | 
 | 408 | 	  If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the | 
 | 409 | 	  commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings | 
 | 410 | 	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel | 
 | 411 | 	  will detect preemption count underflows. | 
 | 412 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 414 | 	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" | 
| Ingo Molnar | e7eebaf | 2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 416 | 	help | 
 | 417 | 	 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related | 
 | 418 | 	 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. | 
 | 419 |  | 
 | 420 | config DEBUG_PI_LIST | 
 | 421 | 	bool | 
 | 422 | 	default y | 
 | 423 | 	depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES | 
 | 424 |  | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | config RT_MUTEX_TESTER | 
 | 426 | 	bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes" | 
| Roman Zippel | a1583d3 | 2006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES | 
| Thomas Gleixner | 61a8712 | 2006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | 	help | 
 | 429 | 	  This option enables a rt-mutex tester. | 
 | 430 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | 	bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 434 | 	help | 
 | 435 | 	  Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization | 
 | 436 | 	  and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made.  This is | 
 | 437 | 	  best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock | 
 | 438 | 	  deadlocks are also debuggable. | 
 | 439 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | config DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
 | 441 | 	bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" | 
 | 442 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 443 | 	help | 
 | 444 | 	 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and | 
 | 445 | 	 reported. | 
 | 446 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 448 | 	bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 451 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 453 | 	help | 
 | 454 | 	 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, | 
 | 455 | 	 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the | 
 | 456 | 	 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), | 
 | 457 | 	 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via | 
 | 458 | 	 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock | 
 | 459 | 	 held during task exit. | 
 | 460 |  | 
 | 461 | config PROVE_LOCKING | 
 | 462 | 	bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 464 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 465 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 466 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 467 | 	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 468 | 	default n | 
 | 469 | 	help | 
 | 470 | 	 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking | 
 | 471 | 	 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically | 
 | 472 | 	 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and | 
 | 473 | 	 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking | 
 | 474 | 	 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an | 
 | 475 | 	 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a | 
 | 476 | 	 deadlock. | 
 | 477 |  | 
 | 478 | 	 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking | 
 | 479 | 	 related deadlocks before they actually occur. | 
 | 480 |  | 
 | 481 | 	 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a | 
 | 482 | 	 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many | 
 | 483 | 	 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed | 
 | 484 | 	 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on | 
 | 485 | 	 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible | 
 | 486 | 	 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario | 
 | 487 | 	 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be | 
 | 488 | 	 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that | 
 | 489 | 	 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). | 
 | 490 |  | 
 | 491 | 	 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as | 
 | 492 | 	 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the | 
 | 493 | 	 kernel reports nothing. | 
 | 494 |  | 
 | 495 | 	 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes | 
 | 496 | 	 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these | 
 | 497 | 	 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and | 
 | 498 | 	 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an | 
 | 499 | 	 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. | 
 | 500 |  | 
 | 501 | 	 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. | 
 | 502 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 632ee20 | 2010-02-22 17:04:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 503 | config PROVE_RCU | 
 | 504 | 	bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness" | 
 | 505 | 	depends on PROVE_LOCKING | 
 | 506 | 	default n | 
 | 507 | 	help | 
 | 508 | 	 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct | 
 | 509 | 	 use of RCU APIs.  This is currently under development.  Say Y | 
 | 510 | 	 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU | 
 | 511 | 	 feature. | 
 | 512 |  | 
 | 513 | 	 Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 514 |  | 
| Lai Jiangshan | 2b3fc35 | 2010-04-20 16:23:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY | 
 | 516 | 	bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat" | 
 | 517 | 	depends on PROVE_RCU | 
 | 518 | 	default n | 
 | 519 | 	help | 
 | 520 | 	 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the | 
 | 521 | 	 first warning (or "splat").  This feature prevents such | 
 | 522 | 	 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed | 
 | 523 | 	 on a single reboot. | 
 | 524 |  | 
 | 525 | 	 Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 526 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | config LOCKDEP | 
 | 528 | 	bool | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | 	select STACKTRACE | 
| Peter Zijlstra | 00540e5 | 2009-06-12 10:04:01 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | 	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
 | 533 | 	select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
 | 534 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 535 | config LOCK_STAT | 
| Danny ter Haar | fdfb870 | 2007-09-24 21:24:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | 	bool "Lock usage statistics" | 
| Peter Zijlstra | f20786f | 2007-07-19 01:48:56 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 537 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT | 
 | 538 | 	select LOCKDEP | 
 | 539 | 	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK | 
 | 540 | 	select DEBUG_MUTEXES | 
 | 541 | 	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC | 
 | 542 | 	default n | 
 | 543 | 	help | 
 | 544 | 	 This feature enables tracking lock contention points | 
 | 545 |  | 
| Peter Zijlstra | a560aa4 | 2007-10-07 00:24:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | 	 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt | 
 | 547 |  | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | dd8b1cf | 2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | 	 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", | 
 | 549 | 	 subcommand of perf. | 
 | 550 | 	 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on | 
 | 551 | 	 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 84c6f88 | 2010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 552 |  | 
 | 553 | 	 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. | 
| Frederic Weisbecker | dd8b1cf | 2010-02-27 17:10:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | 	 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) | 
| Hitoshi Mitake | 84c6f88 | 2010-02-04 16:08:15 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 555 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | config DEBUG_LOCKDEP | 
 | 557 | 	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | 	help | 
 | 560 | 	  If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do | 
 | 561 | 	  additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price | 
 | 562 | 	  of more runtime overhead. | 
 | 563 |  | 
 | 564 | config TRACE_IRQFLAGS | 
| Adrian Bunk | 517e7aa | 2006-07-14 00:24:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | 	bool | 
 | 567 | 	default y | 
 | 568 | 	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT | 
 | 569 | 	depends on PROVE_LOCKING | 
 | 570 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP | 
| Ingo Molnar | 4d9f34a | 2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | 	bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking" | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 574 | 	help | 
 | 575 | 	  If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very | 
 | 576 | 	  noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. | 
 | 577 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | cae2ed9 | 2006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 578 | config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS | 
 | 579 | 	bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" | 
 | 580 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 581 | 	help | 
 | 582 | 	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during | 
 | 583 | 	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs | 
 | 584 | 	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable | 
 | 585 | 	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) | 
 | 586 | 	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, | 
 | 587 | 	  mutexes and rwsems. | 
 | 588 |  | 
| Ingo Molnar | 8637c09 | 2006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | config STACKTRACE | 
 | 590 | 	bool | 
 | 591 | 	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
 | 592 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT | 
 | 594 | 	bool "kobject debugging" | 
 | 595 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 596 | 	help | 
 | 597 | 	  If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent | 
 | 598 | 	  to the syslog.  | 
 | 599 |  | 
 | 600 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM | 
 | 601 | 	bool "Highmem debugging" | 
 | 602 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM | 
 | 603 | 	help | 
 | 604 | 	  This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. | 
 | 605 | 	  Disable for production systems. | 
 | 606 |  | 
 | 607 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE | 
 | 608 | 	bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED | 
| Matt Mackall | c8538a7 | 2005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | 	depends on BUG | 
| David Howells | b920de1 | 2008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | 	depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \ | 
 | 611 | 		   FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 | 
| Alexey Dobriyan | 8420e7e | 2009-12-14 18:00:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | 	default y | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 613 | 	help | 
 | 614 | 	  Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number | 
 | 615 | 	  of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids | 
 | 616 | 	  debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. | 
 | 617 |  | 
 | 618 | config DEBUG_INFO | 
 | 619 | 	bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" | 
 | 620 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 621 | 	help | 
 | 622 |           If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include | 
 | 623 | 	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. | 
| Andreas Dilger | b72e53f | 2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | 	  This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and | 
 | 625 | 	  is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object | 
 | 626 | 	  tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | 	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. | 
 | 628 |  | 
 | 629 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 630 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 631 | config DEBUG_VM | 
 | 632 | 	bool "Debug VM" | 
 | 633 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 634 | 	help | 
| Nick Piggin | 13e7444 | 2006-01-06 00:10:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 635 | 	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system | 
 | 636 |           that may impact performance. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 637 |  | 
 | 638 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 639 |  | 
| Jiri Slaby | 59ea746 | 2008-06-12 13:56:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 640 | config DEBUG_VIRTUAL | 
 | 641 | 	bool "Debug VM translations" | 
 | 642 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86 | 
 | 643 | 	help | 
 | 644 | 	  Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can | 
 | 645 | 	  catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. | 
 | 646 |  | 
 | 647 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 648 |  | 
| David Howells | 8feae13 | 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 649 | config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS | 
 | 650 | 	bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" | 
 | 651 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU | 
 | 652 | 	help | 
 | 653 | 	  This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping | 
 | 654 | 	  regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. | 
 | 655 |  | 
| Dave Hansen | ad775f5 | 2008-02-15 14:38:01 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 656 | config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT | 
 | 657 | 	bool "Debug filesystem writers count" | 
 | 658 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 659 | 	help | 
 | 660 | 	  Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct | 
 | 661 | 	  vfsmount.  This will increase the size of each file struct by | 
 | 662 | 	  32 bits. | 
 | 663 |  | 
 | 664 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 665 |  | 
| Mel Gorman | 6b74ab9 | 2008-07-23 21:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT | 
 | 667 | 	bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED | 
 | 668 | 	default !EMBEDDED | 
 | 669 | 	help | 
 | 670 | 	  Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. | 
 | 671 | 	  The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model | 
 | 672 | 	  and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose | 
 | 673 | 	  information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending | 
 | 674 | 	  on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. | 
 | 675 |  | 
 | 676 | 	  If unsure, say Y | 
 | 677 |  | 
| Dave Jones | 199a9af | 2006-09-29 01:59:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 678 | config DEBUG_LIST | 
 | 679 | 	bool "Debug linked list manipulation" | 
 | 680 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 681 | 	help | 
 | 682 | 	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list | 
 | 683 | 	  walking routines. | 
 | 684 |  | 
 | 685 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 686 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | d6ec084 | 2007-10-22 20:01:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 687 | config DEBUG_SG | 
 | 688 | 	bool "Debug SG table operations" | 
 | 689 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 690 | 	help | 
 | 691 | 	  Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can | 
 | 692 | 	  help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize | 
 | 693 | 	  their sg tables. | 
 | 694 |  | 
 | 695 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 696 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 1b2439d | 2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 697 | config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS | 
 | 698 | 	bool "Debug notifier call chains" | 
 | 699 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 700 | 	help | 
 | 701 | 	  Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. | 
 | 702 | 	  This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that | 
 | 703 | 	  modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. | 
 | 704 | 	  This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum | 
 | 705 | 	  performance, say N. | 
 | 706 |  | 
| David Howells | e0e8173 | 2009-09-02 09:13:40 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 707 | config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS | 
 | 708 | 	bool "Debug credential management" | 
 | 709 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 710 | 	help | 
 | 711 | 	  Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential | 
 | 712 | 	  management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of | 
 | 713 | 	  pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to | 
 | 714 | 	  see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred | 
 | 715 | 	  struct. | 
 | 716 |  | 
 | 717 | 	  Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the | 
 | 718 | 	  security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. | 
 | 719 |  | 
 | 720 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 721 |  | 
| Jeff Mahoney | 64dec40 | 2009-01-16 13:23:35 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 722 | # | 
 | 723 | # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it | 
 | 724 | # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config | 
 | 725 | # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): | 
 | 726 | # | 
 | 727 | config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
 | 728 | 	bool | 
 | 729 | 	help | 
 | 730 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 731 | config FRAME_POINTER | 
 | 732 | 	bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" | 
| David Howells | b920de1 | 2008-02-08 04:19:31 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 733 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ | 
| Heiko Carstens | 75ee034 | 2009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | 		(CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \ | 
| Ingo Molnar | da4276b | 2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | 		 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ | 
 | 736 | 		ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
 | 737 | 	default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 738 | 	help | 
| Ingo Molnar | da4276b | 2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 739 | 	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly | 
 | 740 | 	  larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information | 
 | 741 | 	  in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 742 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | bfe8df3 | 2007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 743 | config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY | 
 | 744 | 	bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" | 
 | 745 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY | 
 | 746 | 	help | 
 | 747 | 	  This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages | 
 | 748 | 	  by inserting a short delay after each one.  The delay is | 
 | 749 | 	  specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, | 
 | 750 | 	  using "boot_delay=N". | 
 | 751 |  | 
 | 752 | 	  It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset | 
 | 753 | 	  the "loops per jiffie" value. | 
 | 754 | 	  See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your | 
 | 755 | 	  system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". | 
 | 756 | 	  NOTE:  Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. | 
 | 757 | 	  I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. | 
 | 758 | 	  BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect | 
 | 759 | 	  what it believes to be lockup conditions. | 
 | 760 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 761 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST | 
 | 762 | 	tristate "torture tests for RCU" | 
 | 763 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 764 | 	default n | 
 | 765 | 	help | 
 | 766 | 	  This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests | 
 | 767 | 	  on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built | 
 | 768 | 	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. | 
 | 769 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 31a72bc | 2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 770 | 	  Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into | 
 | 771 | 	  the kernel. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | a241ec6 | 2005-10-30 15:03:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | 	  Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. | 
 | 773 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 774 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 31a72bc | 2008-06-18 09:26:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 775 | config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE | 
 | 776 | 	bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default" | 
 | 777 | 	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y | 
 | 778 | 	default n | 
 | 779 | 	help | 
 | 780 | 	  This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests | 
 | 781 | 	  directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot | 
 | 782 | 	  time.  You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable | 
 | 783 | 	  to manually override this setting.  This /proc file is | 
 | 784 | 	  available only when the RCU torture tests have been built | 
 | 785 | 	  into the kernel. | 
 | 786 |  | 
 | 787 | 	  Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during | 
 | 788 | 	  boot (you probably don't). | 
 | 789 | 	  Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only | 
 | 790 | 	  after being manually enabled via /proc. | 
 | 791 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 2133b5d | 2008-10-02 16:06:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 792 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 67182ae | 2008-08-10 18:35:38 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 793 | 	bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods" | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 6b3ef48 | 2009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 794 | 	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 8bfb2f8 | 2009-12-02 12:10:16 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 795 | 	default y | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 796 | 	help | 
 | 797 | 	  This option causes RCU to printk information on which | 
 | 798 | 	  CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when | 
 | 799 | 	  the grace period extends for excessive time periods. | 
 | 800 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 4c54005 | 2010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 801 | 	  Say N if you want to disable such checks. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 802 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 4c54005 | 2010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | 	  Say Y if you are unsure. | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 64db4cf | 2008-12-18 21:55:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 804 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE | 
 | 806 | 	bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR" | 
 | 807 | 	depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 55ec936 | 2010-04-13 12:22:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 808 | 	default y | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 809 | 	help | 
 | 810 | 	  This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information | 
 | 811 | 	  for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period. | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 812 |  | 
 | 813 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 814 |  | 
| Paul E. McKenney | 1ed509a | 2010-02-22 17:05:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 815 | 	  Say Y if you want to enable such checks. | 
 | 816 |  | 
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli | 8c1c935 | 2008-01-30 13:32:53 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST | 
 | 818 | 	bool "Kprobes sanity tests" | 
 | 819 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 820 | 	depends on KPROBES | 
 | 821 | 	default n | 
 | 822 | 	help | 
 | 823 | 	  This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on | 
 | 824 | 	  boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and | 
 | 825 | 	  verified for functionality. | 
 | 826 |  | 
 | 827 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 828 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 829 | config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST | 
 | 830 | 	tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" | 
 | 831 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 832 | 	default n | 
 | 833 | 	help | 
 | 834 | 	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test | 
 | 835 | 	  the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful | 
 | 836 | 	  for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel | 
 | 837 | 	  developers working on architecture code. | 
 | 838 |  | 
| Vegard Nossum | ad118c5 | 2008-06-27 18:04:48 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | 	  Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will | 
 | 840 | 	  have to enable STACKTRACE as well. | 
 | 841 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 6dab277 | 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 842 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 843 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 844 | config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT | 
 | 845 |         bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" | 
 | 846 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 847 | 	depends on BLOCK | 
| Jens Axboe | 759f8ca | 2008-08-29 09:06:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | 	default n | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 849 | 	help | 
| Tejun Heo | 0e11e34 | 2008-10-13 10:46:01 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 850 | 	  BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON | 
 | 851 | 	  SOME DISTRIBUTIONS.  DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT | 
 | 852 | 	  YOU ARE DOING.  Distros, please enable this and fix whatever | 
 | 853 | 	  is broken. | 
 | 854 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 855 | 	  Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from | 
 | 856 | 	  predetermined contiguous area.  However, extended block area | 
 | 857 | 	  may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers.  This | 
 | 858 | 	  option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from | 
 | 859 | 	  the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or | 
 | 860 | 	  userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous | 
 | 861 | 	  device number allocation. | 
 | 862 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 55dc7db | 2008-09-01 13:44:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 863 | 	  Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the | 
 | 864 | 	  device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata | 
 | 865 | 	  ones, so root partition specified using device number | 
 | 866 | 	  directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. | 
 | 867 | 	  Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. | 
 | 868 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 870d665 | 2008-08-25 19:47:25 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 869 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 870 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | 7c756e6 | 2009-06-24 15:13:50 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 871 | config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU | 
 | 872 | 	bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" | 
 | 873 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 874 | 	help | 
 | 875 | 	  s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be | 
 | 876 | 	  defined weak to work around addressing range issue which | 
 | 877 | 	  puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable | 
 | 878 | 	  definitions. | 
 | 879 |  | 
 | 880 | 	  1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not | 
 | 881 | 	  2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function | 
 | 882 |  | 
 | 883 | 	  To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this | 
 | 884 | 	  option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. | 
 | 885 |  | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 886 | config LKDTM | 
 | 887 | 	tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" | 
| Simon Kagstrom | 0347af4 | 2010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 888 | 	depends on DEBUG_FS | 
| Chris Snook | fddd9cf | 2008-02-23 15:23:26 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | 	depends on BLOCK | 
| Ankita Garg | 8bb31b9 | 2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 890 | 	default n | 
 | 891 | 	help | 
 | 892 | 	This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by | 
 | 893 | 	inducing system failures at predefined crash points. | 
 | 894 | 	If you don't need it: say N | 
 | 895 | 	Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be | 
 | 896 | 	called lkdtm. | 
 | 897 |  | 
 | 898 | 	Documentation on how to use the module can be found in | 
| Simon Kagstrom | 0347af4 | 2010-03-05 13:42:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 899 | 	Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 900 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | c9d221f | 2010-05-26 14:43:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 901 | config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT | 
 | 902 | 	tristate "CPU notifier error injection module" | 
 | 903 | 	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL | 
 | 904 | 	help | 
 | 905 | 	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test | 
 | 906 | 	  the error handling of the cpu notifiers | 
 | 907 |  | 
 | 908 | 	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will | 
 | 909 | 	  be called cpu-notifier-error-inject. | 
 | 910 |  | 
 | 911 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 912 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 913 | config FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 914 | 	bool "Fault-injection framework" | 
 | 915 | 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | 
| Akinobu Mita | 329409a | 2006-12-08 02:39:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 916 | 	help | 
 | 917 | 	  Provide fault-injection framework. | 
 | 918 | 	  For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 919 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 920 | config FAILSLAB | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 921 | 	bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" | 
 | 922 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 773ff60 | 2008-12-23 19:37:01 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 923 | 	depends on SLAB || SLUB | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 924 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 925 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 8a8b650 | 2006-12-08 02:39:44 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 926 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC | 
 | 928 | 	bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 929 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 930 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). | 
| Akinobu Mita | 933e312 | 2006-12-08 02:39:45 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 932 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 933 | config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST | 
| Dave Jones | 86327d1 | 2006-12-12 20:16:36 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 934 | 	bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" | 
| Jens Axboe | 581d4e2 | 2008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 935 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. | 
| Akinobu Mita | c17bb49 | 2006-12-08 02:39:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 938 |  | 
| Jens Axboe | 581d4e2 | 2008-09-14 05:56:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 939 | config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT | 
 | 940 | 	bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" | 
 | 941 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK | 
 | 942 | 	help | 
 | 943 | 	  Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This | 
 | 944 | 	  will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, | 
 | 945 | 	  thus exercising the error handling. | 
 | 946 |  | 
 | 947 | 	  Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, | 
 | 948 | 	  for others it wont do anything. | 
 | 949 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 950 | config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS | 
 | 951 | 	bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 952 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6ff1cb3 | 2006-12-08 02:39:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | 	help | 
| Andrew Morton | 1ab8509a | 2006-12-08 02:39:49 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 954 | 	  Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 955 |  | 
 | 956 | config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER | 
 | 957 | 	bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" | 
 | 958 | 	depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6d690dc | 2007-05-12 10:36:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 959 | 	depends on !X86_64 | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 960 | 	select STACKTRACE | 
| Heiko Carstens | 75ee034 | 2009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 961 | 	select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 | 
| Akinobu Mita | 1df4900 | 2007-02-20 13:57:56 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 962 | 	help | 
 | 963 | 	  Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 267c402 | 2007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 964 |  | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 965 | config LATENCYTOP | 
 | 966 | 	bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" | 
| Heiko Carstens | 75ee034 | 2009-04-23 13:58:10 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 967 | 	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 968 | 	select KALLSYMS | 
 | 969 | 	select KALLSYMS_ALL | 
 | 970 | 	select STACKTRACE | 
 | 971 | 	select SCHEDSTATS | 
 | 972 | 	select SCHED_DEBUG | 
| Heiko Carstens | aa7d935 | 2008-02-01 17:45:14 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 973 | 	depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 974 | 	help | 
 | 975 | 	  Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool | 
 | 976 | 	  to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. | 
 | 977 |  | 
| Andi Kleen | 9e94cd3 | 2008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 978 | config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK | 
 | 979 | 	bool "Sysctl checks" | 
| Eric W. Biederman | 83ac201 | 2009-04-03 02:22:26 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 980 | 	depends on SYSCTL | 
| Andi Kleen | 9e94cd3 | 2008-08-16 07:53:05 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 981 | 	---help--- | 
 | 982 | 	  sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging | 
 | 983 | 	  to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help | 
 | 984 | 	  you to keep things correct. | 
 | 985 |  | 
| Akinobu Mita | 6a11f75 | 2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 986 | source mm/Kconfig.debug | 
| Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 16444a8 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 987 | source kernel/trace/Kconfig | 
 | 988 |  | 
| Bernhard Kaindl | f212ec4 | 2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 989 | config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT | 
| Stefan Richter | 080de8c | 2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 990 | 	bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" | 
| Bernhard Kaindl | f212ec4 | 2008-01-30 13:34:11 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 991 | 	depends on PCI && X86 | 
 | 992 | 	help | 
 | 993 | 	  If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early | 
 | 994 | 	  on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use | 
 | 995 | 	  this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine | 
 | 996 | 	  over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 | 
 | 997 | 	  specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. | 
 | 998 |  | 
 | 999 | 	  With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using | 
 | 1000 | 	  firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. | 
 | 1001 | 	  Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. | 
 | 1002 |  | 
 | 1003 | 	  Usage: | 
 | 1004 |  | 
 | 1005 | 	  If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize | 
 | 1006 | 	  all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. | 
 | 1007 |  | 
 | 1008 | 	  As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling | 
 | 1009 | 	  devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all | 
 | 1010 | 	  devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on | 
 | 1011 | 	  the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. | 
 | 1012 |  | 
 | 1013 | 	  This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack | 
 | 1014 | 	  in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. | 
 | 1015 |  | 
 | 1016 | 	  See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. | 
| Arjan van de Ven | 9745512 | 2008-01-25 21:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 |  | 
| Stefan Richter | 080de8c | 2008-02-28 20:54:43 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1018 | config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA | 
 | 1019 | 	bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci" | 
 | 1020 | 	depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI | 
 | 1021 | 	help | 
 | 1022 | 	  This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging | 
 | 1023 | 	  with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered | 
 | 1024 | 	  remote DMA in firewire-ohci. | 
 | 1025 | 	  See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. | 
 | 1026 |  | 
 | 1027 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 1028 |  | 
| Randy Dunlap | 152de30 | 2009-02-20 15:38:47 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1029 | config BUILD_DOCSRC | 
| Randy Dunlap | 3794f3e | 2008-08-12 15:09:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1030 | 	bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree" | 
 | 1031 | 	depends on HEADERS_CHECK | 
 | 1032 | 	help | 
 | 1033 | 	  This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the | 
 | 1034 | 	  kernel Documentation/ tree. | 
 | 1035 |  | 
 | 1036 | 	  Say N if you are unsure. | 
 | 1037 |  | 
| Jason Baron | e9d376f | 2009-02-05 11:51:38 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1038 | config DYNAMIC_DEBUG | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 | 	bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1040 | 	default n | 
 | 1041 | 	depends on PRINTK | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | 	depends on DEBUG_FS | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1043 | 	help | 
 | 1044 |  | 
 | 1045 | 	  Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not | 
 | 1046 | 	  otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1047 | 	  enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, | 
 | 1048 | 	  function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism | 
 | 1049 | 	  implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of | 
 | 1050 | 	  this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1051 |  | 
 | 1052 | 	  Usage: | 
 | 1053 |  | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1054 | 	  Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | 	  which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs | 
 | 1056 | 	  filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1057 | 	  We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1058 | 	  file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The | 
 | 1059 | 	  format for each line of the file is: | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1060 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1061 | 		filename:lineno [module]function flags format | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1062 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1063 | 	  filename : source file of the debug statement | 
 | 1064 | 	  lineno : line number of the debug statement | 
 | 1065 | 	  module : module that contains the debug statement | 
 | 1066 | 	  function : function that contains the debug statement | 
 | 1067 |           flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing | 
 | 1068 |           format : the format used for the debug statement | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1069 |  | 
 | 1070 | 	  From a live system: | 
 | 1071 |  | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1072 | 		nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1073 | 		# filename:lineno [module]function flags format | 
 | 1074 | 		fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" | 
 | 1075 | 		fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" | 
 | 1076 | 		fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012" | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1077 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1078 | 	  Example usage: | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1079 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1080 | 		// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c | 
 | 1081 | 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | 						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1083 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1084 | 		// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c | 
 | 1085 | 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1086 | 						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1087 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1088 | 		// enable all the messages in the NFS server module | 
 | 1089 | 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1090 | 						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1091 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1092 | 		// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() | 
 | 1093 | 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1094 | 						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1095 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1096 | 		// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() | 
 | 1097 | 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > | 
| Florian Ragwitz | 2b2f68b | 2010-05-24 14:33:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1098 | 						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1099 |  | 
| Jason Baron | 86151fd | 2009-02-05 11:53:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1100 | 	  See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1101 |  | 
| Joerg Roedel | 5ee00bd | 2009-01-09 12:14:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1102 | config DMA_API_DEBUG | 
 | 1103 | 	bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" | 
 | 1104 | 	depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG | 
 | 1105 | 	help | 
 | 1106 | 	  Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. | 
 | 1107 | 	  With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device | 
 | 1108 | 	  drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that | 
 | 1109 | 	  were never allocated. | 
 | 1110 | 	  This option causes a performance degredation.  Use only if you want | 
 | 1111 | 	  to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N. | 
| Jason Baron | 346e15b | 2008-08-12 16:46:19 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1112 |  | 
| Luca Barbieri | 86a8938 | 2010-02-24 10:54:24 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1113 | config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST | 
 | 1114 | 	bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot" | 
 | 1115 | 	help | 
 | 1116 | 	  Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot. | 
 | 1117 |  | 
 | 1118 | 	  If unsure, say N. | 
 | 1119 |  | 
| Mathieu Desnoyers | 267c402 | 2007-10-18 23:41:07 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | source "samples/Kconfig" | 
| Jason Wessel | dc7d552 | 2008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 |  | 
 | 1122 | source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" | 
| Pekka Enberg | 0a4af3b | 2009-02-26 21:38:56 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1123 |  | 
 | 1124 | source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" |