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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 UNUSED_SYMBOLS
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
55 default y if X86
56 help
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
67 your module is.
68
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69config DEBUG_FS
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
71 depends on SYSFS
72 help
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
75 write to these files.
76
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77 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
78 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
79
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80 If unsure, say N.
81
82config HEADERS_CHECK
83 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
84 depends on !UML
85 help
86 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
87 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
88 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
89 were not exported, etc.
90
91 If you're making modifications to header files which are
92 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
93 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
94 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
95
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96config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
97 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
e5f95c8b 98 depends on UNDEFINED
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99 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
100 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
101 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
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102 help
103 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
104 references from one section to another section.
105 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
106 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
107 most likely result in an oops.
108 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
109 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
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110 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
111 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
112 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
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113 do the following:
114 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
115 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
d6fbfa4f 116 function we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 117 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
d6fbfa4f 118 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
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119 result in a larger kernel.
120 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
121 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
d6fbfa4f 122 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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123 introduced.
124 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
125 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
126 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
127 mismatch at least twice.
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128 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
129 the section mismatches reported.
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131config DEBUG_KERNEL
132 bool "Kernel debugging"
133 help
134 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
135 identify kernel problems.
136
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137config DEBUG_SHIRQ
138 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
140 help
141 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
142 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
143 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
144 points; some don't and need to be caught.
145
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146config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
147 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
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149 default y
150 help
151 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
152 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
9c44bc03 153 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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154 chance to run.
155
156 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
157 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
158 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
159 overhead.
160
161 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
162 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
163 support it.)
164
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165config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
166 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
167 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
168 help
169 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
170 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
171 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
172 chance to run.
173
174 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
175 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
176 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
177 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
178 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
179
180 Say N if unsure.
181
182config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
183 int
184 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
185 range 0 1
186 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
188
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189config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
190 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
192 default y
193 help
194 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
195 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
196 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
197
198 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
199 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
200 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
201 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
202 feature has negligible overhead.
203
204config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
205 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
206 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
207 help
208 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
209 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
210 in uninterruptible "D" state.
211
212 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
213 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
214 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
215 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
216 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
217
218 Say N if unsure.
219
220config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
221 int
222 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
223 range 0 1
224 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
225 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
226
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227config SCHED_DEBUG
228 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
230 default y
231 help
232 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
233 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
234 option is minimal.
235
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236config SCHEDSTATS
237 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
239 help
240 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
241 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
242 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
243 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
244 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
245 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
246 this adds.
247
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248config TIMER_STATS
249 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
251 help
252 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
253 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
254 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
255 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
256 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
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257 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
258 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
259 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
260 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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262config DEBUG_OBJECTS
263 bool "Debug object operations"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
265 help
266 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
267 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
268 the operations on those objects.
269
270config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
271 bool "Debug objects selftest"
272 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
273 help
274 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
275
276config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
277 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
278 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
279 help
280 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
281 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
282 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
283 much slower.
284
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285config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
286 bool "Debug timer objects"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
288 help
289 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
290 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
291 validate the timer operations.
292
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293config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
294 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
295 range 0 1
296 default "1"
297 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
298 help
299 Debug objects boot parameter default value
300
1da177e4 301config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 302 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
50dd26ba 303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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304 help
305 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
306 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
307 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
308
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309config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
310 bool "Memory leak debugging"
311 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
312
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313config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
314 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
315 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
316 default n
317 help
318 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
319 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
320 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
321 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
322 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
323 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
324 "slub_debug=-".
325
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326config SLUB_STATS
327 default n
328 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
5b06c853 329 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
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330 help
331 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
332 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
333 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
334 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
335 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
336 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
337 Try running: slabinfo -DA
338
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339config DEBUG_PREEMPT
340 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
048c8bc9 341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
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342 default y
343 help
344 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
345 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
346 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
347 will detect preemption count underflows.
348
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349config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
350 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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351 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
352 help
353 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
354 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
355
356config DEBUG_PI_LIST
357 bool
358 default y
359 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
360
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361config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
362 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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364 help
365 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
366
1da177e4 367config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 368 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
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369 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
370 help
371 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
372 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
373 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
374 deadlocks are also debuggable.
375
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376config DEBUG_MUTEXES
377 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
379 help
380 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
381 reported.
382
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383config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
384 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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386 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
387 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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388 select LOCKDEP
389 help
390 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
391 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
392 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
393 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
394 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
395 held during task exit.
396
397config PROVE_LOCKING
398 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 399 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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400 select LOCKDEP
401 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
402 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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403 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
404 default n
405 help
406 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
407 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
408 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
409 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
410 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
411 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
412 deadlock.
413
414 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
415 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
416
417 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
418 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
419 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
420 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
421 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
422 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
423 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
424 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
425 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
426
427 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
428 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
429 kernel reports nothing.
430
431 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
432 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
433 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
434 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
435 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
436
437 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
438
439config LOCKDEP
440 bool
517e7aa5 441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 442 select STACKTRACE
7563dc64 443 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
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444 select KALLSYMS
445 select KALLSYMS_ALL
446
f20786ff 447config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 448 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
450 select LOCKDEP
451 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
452 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
453 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
454 default n
455 help
456 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
457
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458 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
459
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460config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
461 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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463 help
464 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
465 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
466 of more runtime overhead.
467
468config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
517e7aa5 469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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470 bool
471 default y
472 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
473 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
474
1da177e4 475config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
4d9f34ad 476 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
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477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
478 help
479 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
480 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
481
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482config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
483 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
485 help
486 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
487 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
488 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
489 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
490 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
491 mutexes and rwsems.
492
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493config STACKTRACE
494 bool
495 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
496
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497config DEBUG_KOBJECT
498 bool "kobject debugging"
499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
500 help
501 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
502 to the syslog.
503
504config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
505 bool "Highmem debugging"
506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
507 help
508 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
509 Disable for production systems.
510
511config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
512 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
c8538a7a 513 depends on BUG
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514 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
515 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
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516 default !EMBEDDED
517 help
518 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
519 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
520 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
521
522config DEBUG_INFO
523 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
525 help
526 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
527 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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528 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
529 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
530 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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531 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
532
533 If unsure, say N.
534
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535config DEBUG_VM
536 bool "Debug VM"
537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
538 help
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539 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
540 that may impact performance.
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542 If unsure, say N.
543
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544config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
545 bool "Debug VM translations"
546 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
547 help
548 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
549 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
550
551 If unsure, say N.
552
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553config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
554 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
556 help
557 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
558 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
559
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560config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
561 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
563 help
564 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
565 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
566 32 bits.
567
568 If unsure, say N.
569
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570config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
571 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
572 default !EMBEDDED
573 help
574 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
575 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
576 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
577 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
578 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
579
580 If unsure, say Y
581
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582config DEBUG_LIST
583 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
584 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
585 help
586 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
587 walking routines.
588
589 If unsure, say N.
590
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591config DEBUG_SG
592 bool "Debug SG table operations"
593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
594 help
595 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
596 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
597 their sg tables.
598
599 If unsure, say N.
600
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601config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
602 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
604 help
605 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
606 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
607 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
608 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
609 performance, say N.
610
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611#
612# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
613# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
614# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
615#
616config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
617 bool
618 help
619
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620config FRAME_POINTER
621 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
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623 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
624 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
625 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
626 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
627 help
628 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
629 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
630 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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632config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
633 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
634 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
635 help
636 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
637 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
638 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
639 using "boot_delay=N".
640
641 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
642 the "loops per jiffie" value.
643 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
644 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
645 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
646 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
647 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
648 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
649
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650config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
651 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
653 default n
654 help
655 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
656 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
657 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
658
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659 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
660 the kernel.
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661 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
662 Say N if you are unsure.
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664config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
665 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
666 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
667 default n
668 help
669 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
670 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
671 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
672 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
673 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
674 into the kernel.
675
676 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
677 boot (you probably don't).
678 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
679 after being manually enabled via /proc.
680
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681config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
682 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
683 depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
684 default n
685 help
686 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
687 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
688 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
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690 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
691
692 Say N if you are unsure.
693
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694config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
695 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
697 depends on KPROBES
698 default n
699 help
700 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
701 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
702 verified for functionality.
703
704 Say N if you are unsure.
705
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707 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
708 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
709 default n
710 help
711 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
712 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
713 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
714 developers working on architecture code.
715
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716 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
717 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
718
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720
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722 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
724 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 725 default n
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727 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
728 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
729 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
730 is broken.
731
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732 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
733 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
734 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
735 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
736 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
737 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
738 device number allocation.
739
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740 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
741 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
742 ones, so root partition specified using device number
743 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
744 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
745
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747
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748config LKDTM
749 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
bf4735a4 750 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8bb31b9d 751 depends on KPROBES
fddd9cf8 752 depends on BLOCK
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753 default n
754 help
755 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
756 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
757 If you don't need it: say N
758 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
759 called lkdtm.
760
761 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
762 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
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764config FAULT_INJECTION
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765 bool "Fault-injection framework"
766 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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768 Provide fault-injection framework.
769 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 771config FAILSLAB
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772 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
773 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 774 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 775 help
1ab8509a 776 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 777
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779 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 780 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 781 help
1ab8509a 782 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 783
c17bb495 784config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 785 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 786 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 787 help
1ab8509a 788 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
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790config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
791 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
792 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
793 help
794 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
795 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
796 thus exercising the error handling.
797
798 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
799 for others it wont do anything.
800
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802 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 803 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 804 help
1ab8509a 805 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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807config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
808 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
809 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 810 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 811 select STACKTRACE
7563dc64 812 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC
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814 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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817 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
7563dc64 818 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC
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820 select KALLSYMS_ALL
821 select STACKTRACE
822 select SCHEDSTATS
823 select SCHED_DEBUG
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826 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
827 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
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830 bool "Sysctl checks"
831 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
832 ---help---
833 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
834 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
835 you to keep things correct.
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838
f212ec4b 839config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 840 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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841 depends on PCI && X86
842 help
843 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
844 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
845 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
846 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
847 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
848
849 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
850 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
851 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
852
853 Usage:
854
855 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
856 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
857
858 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
859 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
860 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
861 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
862
863 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
864 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
865
866 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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869 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
870 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
871 help
872 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
873 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
874 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
875 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
876
877 If unsure, say N.
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880 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
881 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
882 help
883 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
884 kernel Documentation/ tree.
885
886 Say N if you are unsure.
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889 bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support"
890 default n
891 depends on PRINTK
892 select PRINTK_DEBUG
893 help
894
895 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
896 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
897 enabled/disabled on a per module basis. This mechanism implicitly
898 enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this
899 compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
900
901 Usage:
902
903 Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file,
904 dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
905 can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed
906 by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the
907 'enabled' flag. For example:
908
909 <module_name> <enabled=0/1>
910 .
911 .
912 .
913
914 <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
915 <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not
916
917 From a live system:
918
919 snd_hda_intel enabled=0
920 fixup enabled=0
921 driver enabled=0
922
923 Enable a module:
924
925 $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
926
927 Disable a module:
928
929 $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
930
931 Enable all modules:
932
933 $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
934
935 Disable all modules:
936
937 $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
938
939 Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
940 debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
941 disable command.
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945source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"