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2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 4 depends on PRINTK
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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
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12config 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
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20config 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.
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28config 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
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39config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
f346f4b3 41 depends on !UML
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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
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53config 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
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61config 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
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77config 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
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85 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
87
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88 If unsure, say N.
89
90config 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
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104config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
e5f95c8b 106 depends on UNDEFINED
fa2144ba 107 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
af901ca1 108 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
fa2144ba 109 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
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110 help
111 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
112 references from one section to another section.
113 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
114 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
115 most likely result in an oops.
116 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
117 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
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118 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
119 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
120 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
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121 do the following:
122 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
123 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
d6fbfa4f 124 function we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 125 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
d6fbfa4f 126 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
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127 result in a larger kernel.
128 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
129 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
d6fbfa4f 130 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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131 introduced.
132 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
133 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
134 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
135 mismatch at least twice.
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136 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
137 the section mismatches reported.
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139config DEBUG_KERNEL
140 bool "Kernel debugging"
141 help
142 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
143 identify kernel problems.
144
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145config DEBUG_SHIRQ
146 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
148 help
149 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
150 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
151 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
152 points; some don't and need to be caught.
153
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154config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
155 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
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157 default y
158 help
159 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
160 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
9c44bc03 161 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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162 chance to run.
163
164 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
165 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
166 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
167 overhead.
168
169 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
170 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
171 support it.)
172
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173config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
174 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
175 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
176 help
177 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
178 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
179 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
180 chance to run.
181
182 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
183 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
184 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
185 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
186 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
187
188 Say N if unsure.
189
190config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
191 int
192 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
193 range 0 1
194 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
195 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
196
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197config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
198 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
77d05632 200 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
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201 help
202 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
203 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
204 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
205
206 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
207 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
208 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
209 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
210 feature has negligible overhead.
211
212config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
213 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
214 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
215 help
216 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
217 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
218 in uninterruptible "D" state.
219
220 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
221 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
222 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
223 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
224 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
225
226 Say N if unsure.
227
228config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
229 int
230 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
231 range 0 1
232 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
233 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
234
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235config SCHED_DEBUG
236 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
238 default y
239 help
240 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
241 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
242 option is minimal.
243
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244config SCHEDSTATS
245 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
247 help
248 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
249 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
250 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
251 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
252 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
253 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
254 this adds.
255
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256config TIMER_STATS
257 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
259 help
260 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
261 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
262 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
263 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
264 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
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265 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
266 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
267 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
268 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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270config DEBUG_OBJECTS
271 bool "Debug object operations"
272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
273 help
274 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
275 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
276 the operations on those objects.
277
278config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
279 bool "Debug objects selftest"
280 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
281 help
282 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
283
284config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
285 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
286 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
287 help
288 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
289 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
290 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
291 much slower.
292
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293config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
294 bool "Debug timer objects"
295 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
296 help
297 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
298 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
299 validate the timer operations.
300
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301config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
302 bool "Debug work objects"
303 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
304 help
305 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
306 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
307 validate the work operations.
308
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309config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
310 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
311 range 0 1
312 default "1"
313 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
314 help
315 Debug objects boot parameter default value
316
1da177e4 317config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 318 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 319 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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320 help
321 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
322 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
323 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
324
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325config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
326 bool "Memory leak debugging"
327 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
328
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329config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
330 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 331 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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332 default n
333 help
334 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
335 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
336 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
337 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
338 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
339 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
340 "slub_debug=-".
341
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342config SLUB_STATS
343 default n
344 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
5b06c853 345 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
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346 help
347 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
348 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
349 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
350 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
351 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
352 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
353 Try running: slabinfo -DA
354
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355config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
356 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
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357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
358 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390)
359
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360 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
361 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
362 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 363 select CRC32
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364 help
365 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
366 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
367 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
368 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
369 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
370 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
371 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
372 details.
373
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374 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
375 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
376
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377 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
378 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
379
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380config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
381 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
382 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
dfcc3e6a 383 range 200 40000
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384 default 400
385 help
386 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
387 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
388 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
389 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
390 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
391
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392config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
393 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
394 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
395 help
396 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
397 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
398 memory.
399
400 If unsure, say N.
401
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402config DEBUG_PREEMPT
403 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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405 default y
406 help
407 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
408 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
409 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
410 will detect preemption count underflows.
411
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412config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
413 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
415 help
416 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
417 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
418
419config DEBUG_PI_LIST
420 bool
421 default y
422 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
423
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424config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
425 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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427 help
428 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
429
1da177e4 430config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 431 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
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432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
433 help
434 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
435 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
436 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
437 deadlocks are also debuggable.
438
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439config DEBUG_MUTEXES
440 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
442 help
443 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
444 reported.
445
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446config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
447 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 448 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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449 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
450 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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451 select LOCKDEP
452 help
453 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
454 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
455 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
456 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
457 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
458 held during task exit.
459
460config PROVE_LOCKING
461 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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463 select LOCKDEP
464 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
465 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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466 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
467 default n
468 help
469 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
470 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
471 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
472 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
473 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
474 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
475 deadlock.
476
477 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
478 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
479
480 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
481 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
482 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
483 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
484 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
485 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
486 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
487 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
488 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
489
490 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
491 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
492 kernel reports nothing.
493
494 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
495 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
496 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
497 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
498 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
499
500 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
501
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502config PROVE_RCU
503 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
504 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
505 default n
506 help
507 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
508 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
509 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
510 feature.
511
512 Say N if you are unsure.
513
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514config LOCKDEP
515 bool
517e7aa5 516 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 517 select STACKTRACE
00540e5d 518 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
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519 select KALLSYMS
520 select KALLSYMS_ALL
521
f20786ff 522config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 523 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
525 select LOCKDEP
526 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
527 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
528 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
529 default n
530 help
531 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
532
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533 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
534
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535config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
536 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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539 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
540 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
541 of more runtime overhead.
542
543config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
517e7aa5 544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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545 bool
546 default y
547 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
548 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
549
1da177e4 550config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
4d9f34ad 551 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
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552 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
553 help
554 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
555 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
556
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557config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
558 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
559 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
560 help
561 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
562 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
563 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
564 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
565 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
566 mutexes and rwsems.
567
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568config STACKTRACE
569 bool
570 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
571
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572config DEBUG_KOBJECT
573 bool "kobject debugging"
574 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
575 help
576 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
577 to the syslog.
578
579config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
580 bool "Highmem debugging"
581 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
582 help
583 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
584 Disable for production systems.
585
586config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
587 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
c8538a7a 588 depends on BUG
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589 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
590 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
8420e7ef 591 default y
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592 help
593 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
594 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
595 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
596
597config DEBUG_INFO
598 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
599 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
600 help
601 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
602 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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603 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
604 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
605 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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606 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
607
608 If unsure, say N.
609
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610config DEBUG_VM
611 bool "Debug VM"
612 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
613 help
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614 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
615 that may impact performance.
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617 If unsure, say N.
618
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619config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
620 bool "Debug VM translations"
621 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
622 help
623 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
624 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
625
626 If unsure, say N.
627
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628config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
629 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
630 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
631 help
632 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
633 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
634
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635config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
636 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
637 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
638 help
639 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
640 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
641 32 bits.
642
643 If unsure, say N.
644
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645config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
646 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
647 default !EMBEDDED
648 help
649 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
650 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
651 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
652 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
653 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
654
655 If unsure, say Y
656
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657config DEBUG_LIST
658 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
659 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 help
661 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
662 walking routines.
663
664 If unsure, say N.
665
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666config DEBUG_SG
667 bool "Debug SG table operations"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
669 help
670 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
671 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
672 their sg tables.
673
674 If unsure, say N.
675
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677 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
679 help
680 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
681 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
682 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
683 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
684 performance, say N.
685
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686config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
687 bool "Debug credential management"
688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
689 help
690 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
691 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
692 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
693 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
694 struct.
695
696 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
697 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
698
699 If unsure, say N.
700
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702# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
703# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
704# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
705#
706config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
707 bool
708 help
709
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710config FRAME_POINTER
711 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
75ee034a 713 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
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714 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
715 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
716 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
717 help
718 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
719 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
720 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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723 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
724 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
725 help
726 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
727 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
728 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
729 using "boot_delay=N".
730
731 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
732 the "loops per jiffie" value.
733 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
734 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
735 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
736 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
737 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
738 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
739
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740config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
741 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
742 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
743 default n
744 help
745 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
746 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
747 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
748
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749 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
750 the kernel.
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752 Say N if you are unsure.
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754config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
755 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
756 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
757 default n
758 help
759 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
760 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
761 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
762 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
763 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
764 into the kernel.
765
766 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
767 boot (you probably don't).
768 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
769 after being manually enabled via /proc.
770
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771config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
772 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
6b3ef48a 773 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
8bfb2f8e 774 default y
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776 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
777 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
778 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
67182ae1 779
4c54005c 780 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
67182ae1 781
4c54005c 782 Say Y if you are unsure.
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784config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
785 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
786 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
787 depends on KPROBES
788 default n
789 help
790 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
791 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
792 verified for functionality.
793
794 Say N if you are unsure.
795
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796config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
797 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
798 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
799 default n
800 help
801 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
802 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
803 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
804 developers working on architecture code.
805
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807 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
808
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810
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812 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
814 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 815 default n
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817 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
818 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
819 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
820 is broken.
821
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822 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
823 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
824 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
825 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
826 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
827 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
828 device number allocation.
829
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830 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
831 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
832 ones, so root partition specified using device number
833 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
834 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
835
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837
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838config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
839 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
840 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
841 help
842 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
843 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
844 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
845 definitions.
846
847 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
848 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
849
850 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
851 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
852
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854 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
bf4735a4 855 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8bb31b9d 856 depends on KPROBES
fddd9cf8 857 depends on BLOCK
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858 default n
859 help
860 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
861 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
862 If you don't need it: say N
863 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
864 called lkdtm.
865
866 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
867 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
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869config FAULT_INJECTION
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870 bool "Fault-injection framework"
871 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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872 help
873 Provide fault-injection framework.
874 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 876config FAILSLAB
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877 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
878 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 879 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 880 help
1ab8509a 881 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 882
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884 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 885 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 886 help
1ab8509a 887 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 889config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 890 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 891 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 892 help
1ab8509a 893 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 894
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896 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
897 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
898 help
899 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
900 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
901 thus exercising the error handling.
902
903 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
904 for others it wont do anything.
905
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906config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
907 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 909 help
1ab8509a 910 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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912config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
913 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 915 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 916 select STACKTRACE
75ee034a 917 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
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919 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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922 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
75ee034a 923 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
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925 select KALLSYMS_ALL
926 select STACKTRACE
927 select SCHEDSTATS
928 select SCHED_DEBUG
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931 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
932 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
933
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935 bool "Sysctl checks"
83ac201b 936 depends on SYSCTL
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938 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
939 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
940 you to keep things correct.
941
6a11f75b 942source mm/Kconfig.debug
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f212ec4b 945config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 946 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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948 help
949 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
950 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
951 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
952 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
953 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
954
955 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
956 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
957 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
958
959 Usage:
960
961 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
962 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
963
964 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
965 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
966 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
967 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
968
969 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
970 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
971
972 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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975 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
976 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
977 help
978 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
979 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
980 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
981 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
982
983 If unsure, say N.
984
152de30b 985config BUILD_DOCSRC
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987 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
988 help
989 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
990 kernel Documentation/ tree.
991
992 Say N if you are unsure.
993
e9d376f0 994config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
86151fdf 995 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
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997 depends on PRINTK
86151fdf 998 depends on DEBUG_FS
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1000
1001 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1002 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
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1003 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1004 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1005 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1006 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
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1008 Usage:
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1010 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
1011 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1012 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1013 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
1014 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1015 format for each line of the file is:
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86151fdf 1017 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
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1020 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1021 module : module that contains the debug statement
1022 function : function that contains the debug statement
1023 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1024 format : the format used for the debug statement
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1026 From a live system:
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1029 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1030 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1031 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1032 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
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86151fdf 1034 Example usage:
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1036 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1037 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1038 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1041 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1042 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1045 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1046 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1049 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1050 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1053 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1054 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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86151fdf 1056 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
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1059 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1060 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1061 help
1062 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1063 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1064 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1065 were never allocated.
1066 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1067 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
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1071source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1073source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"