3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
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
12 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
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.
20 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
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.
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
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.
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
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.
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
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
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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
77 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
78 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
83 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
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.
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.
96 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
97 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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)
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)
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
114 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
115 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
116 function we would lose the section information and thus
117 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
118 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
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
122 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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.
128 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
129 the section mismatches reported.
132 bool "Kernel debugging"
134 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
135 identify kernel problems.
138 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
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.
146 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
147 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
151 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
152 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
153 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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
161 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
162 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
165 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
166 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
167 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
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
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.
182 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
184 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
186 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
189 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
190 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
192 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
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.
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.
204 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
205 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
206 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
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.
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.
220 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
222 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
224 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
225 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
228 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
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
237 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
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
249 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
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
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).
263 bool "Debug object operations"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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.
270 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
271 bool "Debug objects selftest"
272 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
274 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
276 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
277 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
278 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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
285 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
286 bool "Debug timer objects"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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.
293 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
294 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
297 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
299 Debug objects boot parameter default value
302 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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.
309 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
310 bool "Memory leak debugging"
311 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
314 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
315 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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
328 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
329 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
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
339 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
340 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM || PPC) && \
343 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
344 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
347 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
348 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
349 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
350 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
351 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
352 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
353 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
356 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
357 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
359 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
360 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
362 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
363 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
364 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
368 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
369 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
370 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
371 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
372 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
374 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
375 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
376 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
378 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
379 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
385 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
389 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
390 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
391 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
392 will detect preemption count underflows.
394 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
395 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
398 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
399 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
404 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
406 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
407 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
408 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
410 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
412 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
413 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
416 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
417 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
418 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
419 deadlocks are also debuggable.
422 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
423 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
425 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
428 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
429 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
431 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
435 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
436 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
437 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
438 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
439 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
440 held during task exit.
443 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
446 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
448 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
451 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
452 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
453 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
454 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
455 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
456 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
459 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
460 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
462 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
463 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
464 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
465 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
466 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
467 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
468 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
469 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
470 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
472 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
473 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
474 kernel reports nothing.
476 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
477 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
478 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
479 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
480 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
482 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
488 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
493 bool "Lock usage statistics"
494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
496 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
498 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
501 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
503 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
506 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
509 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
510 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
511 of more runtime overhead.
513 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
514 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
517 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
518 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
520 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
521 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
522 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
524 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
525 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
527 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
528 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
531 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
532 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
533 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
534 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
535 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
540 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
543 bool "kobject debugging"
544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
546 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
550 bool "Highmem debugging"
551 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
553 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
554 Disable for production systems.
556 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
557 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
559 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
560 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
563 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
564 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
565 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
568 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
569 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
571 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
572 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
573 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
574 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
575 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
576 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
582 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
584 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
585 that may impact performance.
590 bool "Debug VM translations"
591 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
593 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
594 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
598 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
599 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
602 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
603 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
605 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
606 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
609 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
610 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
615 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
616 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
619 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
620 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
621 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
622 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
623 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
628 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
629 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
631 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
637 bool "Debug SG table operations"
638 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
640 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
641 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
646 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
647 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
648 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
650 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
651 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
652 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
653 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
656 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
657 bool "Debug credential management"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
661 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
662 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
663 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
666 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
667 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
672 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
673 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
674 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
676 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
681 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
682 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
683 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
684 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
685 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
686 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
688 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
689 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
690 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
692 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
693 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
696 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
697 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
698 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
699 using "boot_delay=N".
701 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
702 the "loops per jiffie" value.
703 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
704 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
705 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
706 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
707 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
708 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
710 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
711 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
715 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
716 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
717 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
719 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
721 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
722 Say N if you are unsure.
724 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
725 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
726 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
729 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
730 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
731 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
732 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
733 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
736 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
737 boot (you probably don't).
738 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
739 after being manually enabled via /proc.
741 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
742 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
743 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
746 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
747 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
748 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
750 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
752 Say N if you are unsure.
754 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
755 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
756 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
760 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
761 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
762 verified for functionality.
764 Say N if you are unsure.
766 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
767 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
768 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
771 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
772 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
773 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
774 developers working on architecture code.
776 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
777 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
779 Say N if you are unsure.
781 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
782 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
783 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
787 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
788 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
789 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
792 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
793 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
794 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
795 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
796 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
797 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
798 device number allocation.
800 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
801 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
802 ones, so root partition specified using device number
803 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
804 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
806 Say N if you are unsure.
808 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
809 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
812 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
813 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
814 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
817 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
818 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
820 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
821 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
824 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
825 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
830 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
831 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
832 If you don't need it: say N
833 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
836 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
839 config FAULT_INJECTION
840 bool "Fault-injection framework"
841 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
843 Provide fault-injection framework.
844 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
847 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
848 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
849 depends on SLAB || SLUB
851 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
853 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
854 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
855 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
857 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
859 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
860 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
861 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
863 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
865 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
866 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
867 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
869 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
870 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
871 thus exercising the error handling.
873 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
874 for others it wont do anything.
876 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
877 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
878 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
880 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
882 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
883 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
884 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
887 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
889 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
892 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
893 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
899 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
901 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
902 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
904 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
906 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
908 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
909 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
910 you to keep things correct.
912 source mm/Kconfig.debug
913 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
915 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
916 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
917 depends on PCI && X86
919 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
920 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
921 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
922 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
923 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
925 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
926 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
927 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
931 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
932 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
934 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
935 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
936 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
937 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
939 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
940 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
942 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
944 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
945 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
946 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
948 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
949 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
950 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
951 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
956 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
957 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
959 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
960 kernel Documentation/ tree.
962 Say N if you are unsure.
965 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
971 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
972 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
973 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
974 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
975 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
976 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
980 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
981 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
982 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
983 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
984 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
985 format for each line of the file is:
987 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
989 filename : source file of the debug statement
990 lineno : line number of the debug statement
991 module : module that contains the debug statement
992 function : function that contains the debug statement
993 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
994 format : the format used for the debug statement
998 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
999 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1000 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1001 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1002 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
1006 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1007 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1008 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1010 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1011 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1012 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1014 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1015 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1016 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1018 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1019 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1020 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1022 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1023 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1024 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1026 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1028 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1029 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1030 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1032 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1033 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1034 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1035 were never allocated.
1036 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1037 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1039 source "samples/Kconfig"
1041 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1043 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"