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2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 4 depends on PRINTK
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6 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
7 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
8 call and at the console.
9
10 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
11 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
12 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
13
14 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
15 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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17config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
18 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
19 range 1 7
20 default "4"
21 help
22 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
23
24 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
25 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
26 priority.
27
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28config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
29 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
30 default y
31 help
32 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
33 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
34 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
35
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36config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
37 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
38 default y
39 help
40 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
41 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
42 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
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44config FRAME_WARN
45 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
46 range 0 8192
47 default 1024 if !64BIT
48 default 2048 if 64BIT
49 help
50 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
51 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
52 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
53 Requires gcc 4.4
54
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55config MAGIC_SYSRQ
56 bool "Magic SysRq key"
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58 help
59 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
60 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
61 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
62 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
63 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
64 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
65 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
66 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
67 unless you really know what this hack does.
68
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69config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
70 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
71 default n
72 help
73 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
74 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
75 get_wchan() and suchlike.
76
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77config READABLE_ASM
78 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
79 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
80 help
81 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
82 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
83 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
84 sane.
85
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86config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
87 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
88 default y if X86
89 help
90 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
91 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
92 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
93 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
94 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
95 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
96 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
97 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
98 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
99 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
100 your module is.
101
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102config DEBUG_FS
103 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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104 help
105 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
106 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
107 write to these files.
108
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109 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
110 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
111
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112 If unsure, say N.
113
114config HEADERS_CHECK
115 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
116 depends on !UML
117 help
118 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
119 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
120 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
121 were not exported, etc.
122
123 If you're making modifications to header files which are
124 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
125 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
126 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
127
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128config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
129 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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130 help
131 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
132 references from one section to another section.
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133 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
134 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 135 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 136 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
6ae14171 137 __init, __cpuinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 138 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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139 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
140 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
141 additional steps to occur:
142 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
143 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
144 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 145 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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146 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
147 a larger kernel).
148 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
149 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
d6fbfa4f 150 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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151 introduced.
152 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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153 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
154 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
155 reported at least twice.
156 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
157 the section mismatches that are reported.
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159config DEBUG_KERNEL
160 bool "Kernel debugging"
161 help
162 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
163 identify kernel problems.
164
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165menu "Memory Debugging"
166
167source mm/Kconfig.debug
168
169config DEBUG_OBJECTS
170 bool "Debug object operations"
171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
172 help
173 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
174 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
175 the operations on those objects.
176
177config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
178 bool "Debug objects selftest"
179 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
180 help
181 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
182
183config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
184 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
185 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
186 help
187 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
188 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
189 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
190 much slower.
191
192config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
193 bool "Debug timer objects"
194 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
195 help
196 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
197 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
198 validate the timer operations.
199
200config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
201 bool "Debug work objects"
202 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
203 help
204 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
205 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
206 validate the work operations.
207
208config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
209 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
210 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
211 help
212 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
213
214config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
215 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
216 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
217 help
218 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
219 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
220 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
221
222config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
223 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
224 range 0 1
225 default "1"
226 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
227 help
228 Debug objects boot parameter default value
229
230config DEBUG_SLAB
231 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
233 help
234 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
235 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
236 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
237
238config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
239 bool "Memory leak debugging"
240 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
241
242config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
243 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
244 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
245 default n
246 help
247 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
248 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
249 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
250 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
251 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
252 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
253 "slub_debug=-".
254
255config SLUB_STATS
256 default n
257 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
258 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
259 help
260 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
261 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
262 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
263 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
264 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
265 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
266 Try running: slabinfo -DA
267
268config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
269 bool
270
271config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
272 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
274 select DEBUG_FS
275 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
276 select KALLSYMS
277 select CRC32
278 help
279 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
280 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
281 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
282 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
283 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
284 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
285 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
286 details.
287
288 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
289 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
290
291 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
292 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
293
294config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
295 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
296 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
297 range 200 40000
298 default 400
299 help
300 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
301 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
302 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
303 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
304 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
305
306config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
307 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
308 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
309 help
310 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
311
312 If unsure, say N.
313
314config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
315 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
316 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
317 help
318 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
319 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
320
321config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
322 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG
324 help
325 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
326 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
327
328 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
329
330config DEBUG_VM
331 bool "Debug VM"
332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
333 help
334 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
335 that may impact performance.
336
337 If unsure, say N.
338
339config DEBUG_VM_RB
340 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
341 depends on DEBUG_VM
342 help
343 Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory
344 system that may impact performance.
345
346 If unsure, say N.
347
348config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
349 bool "Debug VM translations"
350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
351 help
352 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
353 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
354
355 If unsure, say N.
356
357config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
358 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
360 help
361 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
362 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
363
364config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
365 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
366 default !EXPERT
367 help
368 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
369 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
370 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
371 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
372 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
373
374 If unsure, say Y
375
376config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
377 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
378 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
379 help
380 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
381 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
382 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
383
384 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
385 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
386
387 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
388
389 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
390 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
391 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
392 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
393
394 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
395 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
396
397 If unsure, say N.
398
399config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
400 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
401 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
402 depends on SMP
403 help
404 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
405 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
406 and decreases performance.
407
408 Say N if unsure.
409
410config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
411 bool "Highmem debugging"
412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
413 help
414 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
415 Disable for production systems.
416
417config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
418 bool
419
420config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
421 bool "Check for stack overflows"
422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
423 ---help---
424 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
425 and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This
426 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
427 below a certain limit.
428
429 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
430 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
431 involved.
432
433 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
434 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
435
436 If in doubt, say "N".
437
438source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
439
440endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
441
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442config DEBUG_SHIRQ
443 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
445 help
446 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
447 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
448 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
449 points; some don't and need to be caught.
450
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451config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
452 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 453 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 454 help
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455 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
456 hard and soft lockups.
457
458 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 459 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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460 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
461 detection and the system will stay locked up.
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58687acb 463 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 464 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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465 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
466 and the system will stay locked up.
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58687acb 468 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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469 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
470 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
471
472 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
473 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
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23637d47 475config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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476 def_bool y
477 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
478 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
8446f1d3 479
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480config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
481 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 482 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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483 help
484 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
485 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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486 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
487 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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489 Say N if unsure.
490
491config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
492 int
8f1f66ed 493 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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494 range 0 1
495 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
496 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
497
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498config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
499 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 500 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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501 help
502 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
503 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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504 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
505 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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507 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
508 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
509 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
510 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
511 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
512
513 Say N if unsure.
514
515config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
516 int
e16bb1d7 517 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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518 range 0 1
519 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
520 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
521
2a01bb38 522config PANIC_ON_OOPS
76e84026 523 bool "Panic on Oops"
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524 help
525 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
526 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
527 line.
528
529 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
530 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
531 corruption or other issues.
532
533 Say N if unsure.
534
535config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
536 int
537 range 0 1
538 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
539 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
540
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541config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
542 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
543 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 544 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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546 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
547 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
548 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
1da177e4 549
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550 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
551 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
552 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
553 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
554 feature has negligible overhead.
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556config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
557 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
558 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
559 default 120
f0630fff 560 help
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561 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
562 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
563 be considered hung.
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565 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
566 sysctl or by writing a value to
567 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
8ff12cfc 568
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569 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
570 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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572config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
573 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
574 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 575 help
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576 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
577 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
578 in uninterruptible "D" state.
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580 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
581 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
582 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
583 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
584 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
bf96d1e3 585
0610c8a8 586 Say N if unsure.
3bba00d7 587
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588config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
589 int
590 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
591 range 0 1
592 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
593 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
a9d9058a 594
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595config SCHED_DEBUG
596 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
598 default y
0822ee4a 599 help
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600 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
601 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
602 option is minimal.
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604config SCHEDSTATS
605 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
607 help
608 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
609 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
610 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
611 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
612 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
613 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
614 this adds.
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616config TIMER_STATS
617 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
618 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
ab0155a2 619 help
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620 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
621 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
622 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
623 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
624 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
625 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
626 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
627 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
628 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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630config DEBUG_PREEMPT
631 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 632 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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633 default y
634 help
635 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
636 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
637 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
638 will detect preemption count underflows.
639
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640config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
641 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
643 help
644 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
645 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
646
647config DEBUG_PI_LIST
648 bool
649 default y
650 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
651
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652config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
653 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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655 help
656 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
657
1da177e4 658config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 659 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 660 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 661 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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662 help
663 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
664 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
665 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
666 deadlocks are also debuggable.
667
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669 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
670 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
671 help
672 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
673 reported.
674
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675config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
676 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 677 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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679 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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681 help
682 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
683 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
684 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
685 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
686 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
687 held during task exit.
688
689config PROVE_LOCKING
690 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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693 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
694 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 695 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 696 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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698 help
699 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
700 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
701 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
702 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
703 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
704 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
705 deadlock.
706
707 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
708 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
709
710 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
711 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
712 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
713 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
714 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
715 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
716 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
717 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
718 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
719
720 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
721 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
722 kernel reports nothing.
723
724 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
725 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
726 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
727 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
728 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
729
730 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
731
732config LOCKDEP
733 bool
517e7aa5 734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 735 select STACKTRACE
79aac889 736 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
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738 select KALLSYMS_ALL
739
f20786ff 740config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 741 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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743 select LOCKDEP
744 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
745 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
746 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
747 default n
748 help
749 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
750
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751 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
752
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754 subcommand of perf.
755 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
756 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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758 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 759 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 760
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762 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 763 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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765 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
766 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
767 of more runtime overhead.
768
769config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
770 bool
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772 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
773 either tracing or lock debugging.
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776 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 777 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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779 help
780 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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781 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
782 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
783 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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786 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
788 help
789 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
790 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
791 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
792 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
793 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
794 mutexes and rwsems.
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797 bool
798 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
799
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801 bool "kobject debugging"
802 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
803 help
804 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
805 to the syslog.
806
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807config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
808 bool
809
1da177e4 810config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 811 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 812 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 813 default y
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815 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
816 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
817 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
818
819config DEBUG_INFO
820 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
821 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
822 help
823 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
824 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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826 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
827 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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828 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
829
830 If unsure, say N.
831
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832config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
833 bool "Reduce debugging information"
834 depends on DEBUG_INFO
835 help
836 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
837 information for structure types. This means that tools that
838 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
839 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
840 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
841 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
842 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
843 Only works with newer gcc versions.
844
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845config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
846 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
847 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
848 help
849 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
850 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
851 32 bits.
852
853 If unsure, say N.
854
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855config DEBUG_LIST
856 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
857 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
858 help
859 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
860 walking routines.
861
862 If unsure, say N.
863
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865 bool "Linked list sorting test"
866 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
867 help
868 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
869 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
870
871 If unsure, say N.
872
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873config DEBUG_SG
874 bool "Debug SG table operations"
875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
876 help
877 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
878 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
879 their sg tables.
880
881 If unsure, say N.
882
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884 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
885 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
886 help
887 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
888 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
889 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
890 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
891 performance, say N.
892
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893config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
894 bool "Debug credential management"
895 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
896 help
897 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
898 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
899 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
900 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
901 struct.
902
903 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
904 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
905
906 If unsure, say N.
907
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909# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
52288b66 910# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
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911# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
912#
913config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
914 bool
915 help
916
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918 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 919 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
73020415 920 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
79f83c02 921 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
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923 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
924 help
925 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
926 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
927 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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930 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
931 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
932 help
933 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
934 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
935 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
936 using "boot_delay=N".
937
938 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
939 the "loops per jiffie" value.
940 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
941 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
942 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
943 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
8edbb83e 944 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
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946
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947menu "RCU Debugging"
948
949config PROVE_RCU
950 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
951 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
952 default n
953 help
954 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
955 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
956 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
957 feature.
958
959 Say N if you are unsure.
960
961config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
962 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
963 depends on PROVE_RCU
964 default n
965 help
966 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
967 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
968 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
969 on a single reboot.
970
971 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
972
973 Say N if you are unsure.
974
975config PROVE_RCU_DELAY
976 bool "RCU debugging: preemptible RCU race provocation"
977 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT_RCU
978 default n
979 help
980 There is a class of races that involve an unlikely preemption
981 of __rcu_read_unlock() just after ->rcu_read_lock_nesting has
982 been set to INT_MIN. This feature inserts a delay at that
983 point to increase the probability of these races.
984
985 Say Y to increase probability of preemption of __rcu_read_unlock().
986
987 Say N if you are unsure.
988
989config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
990 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
991 default n
992 help
993 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
994 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
995 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
996 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
997 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
998 a debugging aid.
999
1000 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1001
1002 Say N if you are unsure.
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1005 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1006 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1007 default n
1008 help
1009 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1010 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1011 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1012
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1014 the kernel.
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1016 Say N if you are unsure.
8bb31b9d 1017
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1018config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
1019 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
1020 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
1021 default n
1022 help
1023 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
1024 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
1025 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
1026 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
1027 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
1028 into the kernel.
1029
1030 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
1031 boot (you probably don't).
1032 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
1033 after being manually enabled via /proc.
1034
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1035config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1036 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
6bfc09e2 1037 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
b163760e 1038 range 3 300
c896054f 1039 default 21
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1041 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1042 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1043 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1044 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1045
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1046config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
1047 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
a00e0d71 1048 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
55ec936f 1049 default y
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1051 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
1052 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
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1054 Say N if you are unsure.
1055
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1056 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
1057
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1058config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
1059 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
1060 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
1061 default n
1062 help
1063 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
1064 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
1065 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
1066 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
1067
1068 Say N if you are unsure.
1069
1070 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
1071
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1072config RCU_TRACE
1073 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1074 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52494535 1075 select TRACE_CLOCK
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1077 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1078 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
1079
1080 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1081 Say N if you are unsure.
1082
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1085config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1086 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1087 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1088 depends on KPROBES
1089 default n
1090 help
1091 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1092 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1093 verified for functionality.
1094
1095 Say N if you are unsure.
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1098 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1099 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1100 default n
1101 help
1102 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1103 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1104 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1105 developers working on architecture code.
1106
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1107 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1108 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1109
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1111
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1113 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1115 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1116 default n
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1118 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1119 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1120 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1121 is broken.
1122
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1123 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1124 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1125 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1126 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1127 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1128 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1129 device number allocation.
1130
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1132 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1133 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1134 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1135 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1136
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1138
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1139config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1140 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1142 help
1143 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1144 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1145 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1146 definitions.
1147
1148 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1149 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1150
1151 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1152 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1153
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1155 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
0347af4e 1156 depends on DEBUG_FS
fddd9cf8 1157 depends on BLOCK
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1158 default n
1159 help
1160 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1161 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1162 If you don't need it: say N
1163 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1164 called lkdtm.
1165
1166 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
0347af4e 1167 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
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1170 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1172 select DEBUG_FS
1173 help
e41e85cc 1174 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1176 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1177
1178 Say N if unsure.
1179
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1180config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1181 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
f5a9f52e 1182 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
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1184 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
e41e85cc 1185 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
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1186 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1187 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1188
1189 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1190 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1191
1192 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1193
1194 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1195 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1196 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1197 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
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1199 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1200 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1201
1202 If unsure, say N.
1203
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1204config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1205 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1206 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1207 default m if PM_DEBUG
1208 help
e41e85cc 1209 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1211 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1212
1213 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1214 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1215
1216 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1217
1218 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1219 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1220 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1221 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1222
1223 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1224 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1225
1226 If unsure, say N.
1227
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1228config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1229 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1230 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1231 help
e41e85cc 1232 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1233 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1234 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1235 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1237 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1238 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1239
1240 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1241 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1243 If unsure, say N.
1244
6ff1cb35 1245config FAULT_INJECTION
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1247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1249 Provide fault-injection framework.
1250 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 1252config FAILSLAB
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1253 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1254 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1255 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1256 help
1ab8509a 1257 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1258
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1260 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1261 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1262 help
1ab8509a 1263 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1264
c17bb495 1265config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1266 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1267 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1268 help
1ab8509a 1269 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1270
581d4e28 1271config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1272 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1273 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1274 help
1275 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1276 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1277 thus exercising the error handling.
1278
1279 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1280 for others it wont do anything.
1281
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1282config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1283 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1284 select DEBUG_FS
1285 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1286 help
1287 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1288 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1289 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1290 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1291 the block device.
1292
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1293config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1294 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1295 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1296 help
1ab8509a 1297 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1299config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1300 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1301 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1302 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1303 select STACKTRACE
89bace65 1304 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
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1305 help
1306 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1307
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1308config LATENCYTOP
1309 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1310 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1311 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1312 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1313 depends on PROC_FS
89bace65 1314 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
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1315 select KALLSYMS
1316 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1317 select STACKTRACE
1318 select SCHEDSTATS
1319 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1320 help
1321 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1322 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1323
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1324config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1325 bool
1326
1327config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1328 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1329 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1331 help
1332 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1333 copy operations into compile time failures.
1334
1335 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1336 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1337 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1338 within bounds.
1339
1340 If unsure, say N.
1341
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1342source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1343
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1344config RBTREE_TEST
1345 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1346 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1347 help
1348 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1349 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1350
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1351config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1352 tristate "Interval tree test"
1353 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1354 help
1355 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1356
f212ec4b 1357config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 1358 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1359 depends on PCI && X86
1360 help
1361 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1362 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1363 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1364 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1365 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1366
1367 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1368 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1369 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1370
1371 Usage:
1372
1373 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1374 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1375
1376 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1377 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1378 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1379 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1380
1381 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1382 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1383
1384 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1386config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1387 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1388 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1389 help
1390 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1391 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1392 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1393 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1394
1395 If unsure, say N.
1396
152de30b 1397config BUILD_DOCSRC
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1398 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1399 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1400 help
1401 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1402 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1403
1404 Say N if you are unsure.
1405
e9d376f0 1406config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
86151fdf 1407 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
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1408 default n
1409 depends on PRINTK
86151fdf 1410 depends on DEBUG_FS
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1411 help
1412
1413 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1414 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
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1415 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1416 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
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1417 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
1418 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
1419
1420 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
1421 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
1422 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
1423 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
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1425 Usage:
1426
2b2f68b5 1427 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
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1428 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1429 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
2b2f68b5 1430 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
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1431 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1432 format for each line of the file is:
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86151fdf 1434 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
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1436 filename : source file of the debug statement
1437 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1438 module : module that contains the debug statement
1439 function : function that contains the debug statement
29e36c9f 1440 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
86151fdf 1441 format : the format used for the debug statement
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1443 From a live system:
1444
2b2f68b5 1445 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
86151fdf 1446 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
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1447 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1448 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1449 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
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86151fdf 1451 Example usage:
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1453 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1454 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
2b2f68b5 1455 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1457 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1458 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
2b2f68b5 1459 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1461 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1462 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
2b2f68b5 1463 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1465 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1466 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
2b2f68b5 1467 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1469 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1470 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
2b2f68b5 1471 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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86151fdf 1473 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
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1475config DMA_API_DEBUG
1476 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1477 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1478 help
1479 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1480 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1481 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1482 were never allocated.
1483 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1484 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
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1486config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1487 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1488 help
1489 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1490
1491 If unsure, say N.
1492
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1493config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1494 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1495 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1496 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1497 ---help---
1498 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1499 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1500 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1501 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1502 engine if one is available.
1503
1504 If unsure, say N.
1505
267c4025 1506source "samples/Kconfig"
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1508source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1510config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1511 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1512
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1513config TEST_KSTRTOX
1514 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"