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2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 4 depends on PRINTK
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5 help
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup.
11
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12config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
14 default y
15 help
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
19
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20config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
22 default y
23 help
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
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28config FRAME_WARN
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
30 range 0 8192
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
32 default 2048 if 64BIT
33 help
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
37 Requires gcc 4.4
38
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39config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
f346f4b3 41 depends on !UML
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42 help
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
52
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53config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
55 default y if X86
56 help
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
67 your module is.
68
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69config DEBUG_FS
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
71 depends on SYSFS
72 help
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
75 write to these files.
76
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77 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
78 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
79
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80 If unsure, say N.
81
82config HEADERS_CHECK
83 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
84 depends on !UML
85 help
86 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
87 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
88 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
89 were not exported, etc.
90
91 If you're making modifications to header files which are
92 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
93 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
94 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
95
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96config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
97 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
e5f95c8b 98 depends on UNDEFINED
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99 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
100 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
101 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
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102 help
103 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
104 references from one section to another section.
105 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
106 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
107 most likely result in an oops.
108 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
109 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
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110 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
111 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
112 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
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113 do the following:
114 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
115 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
d6fbfa4f 116 function we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 117 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
d6fbfa4f 118 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
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119 result in a larger kernel.
120 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
121 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
d6fbfa4f 122 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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123 introduced.
124 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
125 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
126 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
127 mismatch at least twice.
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128 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
129 the section mismatches reported.
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131config DEBUG_KERNEL
132 bool "Kernel debugging"
133 help
134 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
135 identify kernel problems.
136
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137config DEBUG_SHIRQ
138 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
140 help
141 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
142 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
143 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
144 points; some don't and need to be caught.
145
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146config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
147 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
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149 default y
150 help
151 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
152 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
9c44bc03 153 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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154 chance to run.
155
156 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
157 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
158 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
159 overhead.
160
161 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
162 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
163 support it.)
164
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165config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
166 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
167 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
168 help
169 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
170 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
171 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
172 chance to run.
173
174 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
175 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
176 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
177 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
178 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
179
180 Say N if unsure.
181
182config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
183 int
184 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
185 range 0 1
186 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
188
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189config SCHED_DEBUG
190 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
192 default y
193 help
194 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
195 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
196 option is minimal.
197
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198config SCHEDSTATS
199 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
201 help
202 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
203 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
204 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
205 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
206 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
207 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
208 this adds.
209
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210config TIMER_STATS
211 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
213 help
214 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
215 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
216 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
217 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
218 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
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219 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
220 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
221 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
222 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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224config DEBUG_OBJECTS
225 bool "Debug object operations"
226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
227 help
228 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
229 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
230 the operations on those objects.
231
232config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
233 bool "Debug objects selftest"
234 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
235 help
236 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
237
238config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
239 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
240 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
241 help
242 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
243 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
244 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
245 much slower.
246
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247config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
248 bool "Debug timer objects"
249 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
250 help
251 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
252 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
253 validate the timer operations.
254
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255config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
256 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
257 range 0 1
258 default "1"
259 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
260 help
261 Debug objects boot parameter default value
262
1da177e4 263config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 264 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
50dd26ba 265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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266 help
267 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
268 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
269 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
270
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271config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
272 bool "Memory leak debugging"
273 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
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275config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
276 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
277 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
278 default n
279 help
280 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
281 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
282 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
283 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
284 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
285 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
286 "slub_debug=-".
287
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288config SLUB_STATS
289 default n
290 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
5b06c853 291 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
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292 help
293 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
294 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
295 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
296 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
297 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
298 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
299 Try running: slabinfo -DA
300
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301config DEBUG_PREEMPT
302 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
048c8bc9 303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
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304 default y
305 help
306 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
307 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
308 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
309 will detect preemption count underflows.
310
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311config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
312 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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313 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
314 help
315 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
316 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
317
318config DEBUG_PI_LIST
319 bool
320 default y
321 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
322
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323config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
324 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 325 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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326 help
327 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
328
1da177e4 329config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 330 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
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331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
332 help
333 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
334 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
335 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
336 deadlocks are also debuggable.
337
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338config DEBUG_MUTEXES
339 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
341 help
342 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
343 reported.
344
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345config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
346 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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348 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
349 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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350 select LOCKDEP
351 help
352 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
353 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
354 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
355 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
356 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
357 held during task exit.
358
359config PROVE_LOCKING
360 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 361 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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362 select LOCKDEP
363 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
364 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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365 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
366 default n
367 help
368 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
369 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
370 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
371 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
372 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
373 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
374 deadlock.
375
376 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
377 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
378
379 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
380 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
381 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
382 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
383 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
384 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
385 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
386 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
387 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
388
389 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
390 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
391 kernel reports nothing.
392
393 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
394 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
395 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
396 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
397 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
398
399 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
400
401config LOCKDEP
402 bool
517e7aa5 403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 404 select STACKTRACE
7563dc64 405 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
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406 select KALLSYMS
407 select KALLSYMS_ALL
408
f20786ff 409config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 410 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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411 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
412 select LOCKDEP
413 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
414 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
415 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
416 default n
417 help
418 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
419
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420 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
421
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422config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
423 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 424 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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426 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
427 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
428 of more runtime overhead.
429
430config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
517e7aa5 431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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432 bool
433 default y
434 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
435 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
436
1da177e4 437config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
4d9f34ad 438 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
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439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
440 help
441 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
442 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
443
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444config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
445 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
447 help
448 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
449 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
450 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
451 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
452 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
453 mutexes and rwsems.
454
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455config STACKTRACE
456 bool
457 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
458
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459config DEBUG_KOBJECT
460 bool "kobject debugging"
461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
462 help
463 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
464 to the syslog.
465
466config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
467 bool "Highmem debugging"
468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
469 help
470 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
471 Disable for production systems.
472
473config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
474 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
c8538a7a 475 depends on BUG
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476 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
477 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
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478 default !EMBEDDED
479 help
480 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
481 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
482 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
483
484config DEBUG_INFO
485 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
487 help
488 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
489 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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490 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
491 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
492 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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493 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
494
495 If unsure, say N.
496
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497config DEBUG_VM
498 bool "Debug VM"
499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
500 help
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501 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
502 that may impact performance.
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504 If unsure, say N.
505
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506config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
507 bool "Debug VM translations"
508 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
509 help
510 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
511 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
512
513 If unsure, say N.
514
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515config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
516 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
518 help
519 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
520 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
521
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522config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
523 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
525 help
526 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
527 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
528 32 bits.
529
530 If unsure, say N.
531
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532config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
533 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
534 default !EMBEDDED
535 help
536 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
537 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
538 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
539 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
540 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
541
542 If unsure, say Y
543
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544config DEBUG_LIST
545 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
546 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
547 help
548 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
549 walking routines.
550
551 If unsure, say N.
552
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553config DEBUG_SG
554 bool "Debug SG table operations"
555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
556 help
557 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
558 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
559 their sg tables.
560
561 If unsure, say N.
562
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563config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
564 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
566 help
567 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
568 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
569 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
570 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
571 performance, say N.
572
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574# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
575# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
576# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
577#
578config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
579 bool
580 help
581
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582config FRAME_POINTER
583 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
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585 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
586 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
587 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
588 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
589 help
590 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
591 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
592 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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594config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
595 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
597 help
598 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
599 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
600 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
601 using "boot_delay=N".
602
603 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
604 the "loops per jiffie" value.
605 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
606 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
607 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
608 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
609 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
610 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
611
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612config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
613 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
614 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
615 default n
616 help
617 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
618 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
619 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
620
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621 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
622 the kernel.
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623 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
624 Say N if you are unsure.
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626config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
627 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
628 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
629 default n
630 help
631 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
632 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
633 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
634 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
635 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
636 into the kernel.
637
638 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
639 boot (you probably don't).
640 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
641 after being manually enabled via /proc.
642
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643config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
644 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
645 depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
646 default n
647 help
648 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
649 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
650 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
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652 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
653
654 Say N if you are unsure.
655
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657 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
659 depends on KPROBES
660 default n
661 help
662 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
663 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
664 verified for functionality.
665
666 Say N if you are unsure.
667
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669 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
670 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
671 default n
672 help
673 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
674 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
675 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
676 developers working on architecture code.
677
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679 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
680
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682
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683config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
684 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
686 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 687 default n
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689 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
690 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
691 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
692 is broken.
693
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694 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
695 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
696 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
697 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
698 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
699 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
700 device number allocation.
701
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702 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
703 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
704 ones, so root partition specified using device number
705 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
706 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
707
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709
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710config LKDTM
711 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
bf4735a4 712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8bb31b9d 713 depends on KPROBES
fddd9cf8 714 depends on BLOCK
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715 default n
716 help
717 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
718 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
719 If you don't need it: say N
720 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
721 called lkdtm.
722
723 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
724 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
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726config FAULT_INJECTION
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727 bool "Fault-injection framework"
728 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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730 Provide fault-injection framework.
731 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 733config FAILSLAB
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734 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
735 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 736 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 737 help
1ab8509a 738 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 739
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741 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 742 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 743 help
1ab8509a 744 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 745
c17bb495 746config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 747 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 748 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 749 help
1ab8509a 750 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 751
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752config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
753 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
754 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
755 help
756 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
757 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
758 thus exercising the error handling.
759
760 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
761 for others it wont do anything.
762
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764 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 765 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 766 help
1ab8509a 767 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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769config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
770 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
771 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 772 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 773 select STACKTRACE
7563dc64 774 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC
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776 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 777
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779 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
7563dc64 780 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC
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782 select KALLSYMS_ALL
783 select STACKTRACE
784 select SCHEDSTATS
785 select SCHED_DEBUG
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788 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
789 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
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792 bool "Sysctl checks"
793 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
794 ---help---
795 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
796 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
797 you to keep things correct.
798
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800
f212ec4b 801config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 802 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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803 depends on PCI && X86
804 help
805 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
806 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
807 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
808 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
809 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
810
811 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
812 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
813 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
814
815 Usage:
816
817 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
818 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
819
820 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
821 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
822 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
823 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
824
825 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
826 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
827
828 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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831 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
832 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
833 help
834 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
835 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
836 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
837 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
838
839 If unsure, say N.
840
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843 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
844 help
845 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
846 kernel Documentation/ tree.
847
848 Say N if you are unsure.
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851 bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support"
852 default n
853 depends on PRINTK
854 select PRINTK_DEBUG
855 help
856
857 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
858 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
859 enabled/disabled on a per module basis. This mechanism implicitly
860 enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this
861 compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
862
863 Usage:
864
865 Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file,
866 dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
867 can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed
868 by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the
869 'enabled' flag. For example:
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871 <module_name> <enabled=0/1>
872 .
873 .
874 .
875
876 <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
877 <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not
878
879 From a live system:
880
881 snd_hda_intel enabled=0
882 fixup enabled=0
883 driver enabled=0
884
885 Enable a module:
886
887 $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
888
889 Disable a module:
890
891 $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
892
893 Enable all modules:
894
895 $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
896
897 Disable all modules:
898
899 $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
900
901 Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
902 debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
903 disable command.
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907source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"