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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
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10 in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time.
11 See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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13config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
14 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
15 range 1 7
16 default "4"
17 help
18 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
19
20 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
21 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
22 priority.
23
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24config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
25 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
26 default y
27 help
28 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
29 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
30 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
31
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32config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
33 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
34 default y
35 help
36 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
37 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
38 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
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40config FRAME_WARN
41 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
42 range 0 8192
43 default 1024 if !64BIT
44 default 2048 if 64BIT
45 help
46 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
47 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
48 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
49 Requires gcc 4.4
50
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51config MAGIC_SYSRQ
52 bool "Magic SysRq key"
f346f4b3 53 depends on !UML
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54 help
55 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
56 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
57 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
58 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
59 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
60 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
61 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
62 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
63 unless you really know what this hack does.
64
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65config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
66 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
67 default n
68 help
69 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
70 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
71 get_wchan() and suchlike.
72
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73config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
74 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
75 default y if X86
76 help
77 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
78 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
79 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
80 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
81 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
82 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
83 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
84 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
85 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
86 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
87 your module is.
88
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89config DEBUG_FS
90 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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91 help
92 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
93 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
94 write to these files.
95
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96 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
97 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
98
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99 If unsure, say N.
100
101config HEADERS_CHECK
102 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
103 depends on !UML
104 help
105 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
106 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
107 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
108 were not exported, etc.
109
110 If you're making modifications to header files which are
111 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
112 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
113 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
114
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115config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
116 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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117 help
118 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
119 references from one section to another section.
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120 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
121 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 122 most likely result in an oops.
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123 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
124 __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 125 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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126 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
127 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
128 additional steps to occur:
129 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
130 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
131 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 132 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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133 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
134 a larger kernel).
135 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
136 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
d6fbfa4f 137 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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138 introduced.
139 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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140 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
141 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
142 reported at least twice.
143 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
144 the section mismatches that are reported.
91341d4b 145
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146config DEBUG_KERNEL
147 bool "Kernel debugging"
148 help
149 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
150 identify kernel problems.
151
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152config DEBUG_SHIRQ
153 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
155 help
156 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
157 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
158 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
159 points; some don't and need to be caught.
160
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161config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
162 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 164 help
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165 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
166 hard and soft lockups.
167
168 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 169 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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170 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
171 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 172
58687acb 173 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 174 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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175 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
176 and the system will stay locked up.
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58687acb 178 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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179 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
180 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
181
182 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
183 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
8446f1d3 184
23637d47 185config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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186 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
187 !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
8446f1d3 188
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189config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
190 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
191 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
192 help
193 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
194 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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195 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
196 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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197
198 Say N if unsure.
199
200config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
201 int
202 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
203 range 0 1
204 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
205 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
206
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207config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
208 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 209 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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210 help
211 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
212 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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213 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
214 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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215
216 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
217 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
218 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
219 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
220 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
221
222 Say N if unsure.
223
224config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
225 int
e16bb1d7 226 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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227 range 0 1
228 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
229 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
230
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231config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
232 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
233 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 234 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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235 help
236 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
237 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
238 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
239
240 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
241 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
242 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
243 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
244 feature has negligible overhead.
245
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246config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
247 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
248 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
249 default 120
250 help
251 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
252 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
253 be considered hung.
254
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255 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
256 sysctl or by writing a value to
257 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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258
259 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
260 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
261
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262config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
263 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
264 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
265 help
266 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
267 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
268 in uninterruptible "D" state.
269
270 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
271 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
272 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
273 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
274 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
275
276 Say N if unsure.
277
278config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
279 int
280 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
281 range 0 1
282 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
283 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
284
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285config SCHED_DEBUG
286 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
287 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
288 default y
289 help
290 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
291 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
292 option is minimal.
293
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294config SCHEDSTATS
295 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
297 help
298 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
299 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
300 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
301 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
302 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
303 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
304 this adds.
305
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306config TIMER_STATS
307 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
309 help
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
312 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
313 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
314 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
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315 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
316 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
317 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
318 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
82f67cd9 319
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320config DEBUG_OBJECTS
321 bool "Debug object operations"
322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
323 help
324 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
325 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
326 the operations on those objects.
327
328config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
329 bool "Debug objects selftest"
330 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
331 help
332 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
333
334config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
335 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
336 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
337 help
338 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
339 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
340 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
341 much slower.
342
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343config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
344 bool "Debug timer objects"
345 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
346 help
347 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
348 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
349 validate the timer operations.
350
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351config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
352 bool "Debug work objects"
353 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
354 help
355 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
356 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
357 validate the work operations.
358
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359config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
360 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 361 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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362 help
363 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
364
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365config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
366 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
367 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
368 help
369 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
370 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
371 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
372
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373config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
374 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
375 range 0 1
376 default "1"
377 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
378 help
379 Debug objects boot parameter default value
380
1da177e4 381config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 382 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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384 help
385 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
386 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
387 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
388
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389config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
390 bool "Memory leak debugging"
391 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
392
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393config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
394 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 395 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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396 default n
397 help
398 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
399 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
400 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
401 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
402 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
403 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
404 "slub_debug=-".
405
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406config SLUB_STATS
407 default n
408 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 409 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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410 help
411 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
412 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
413 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
414 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
415 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
416 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
417 Try running: slabinfo -DA
418
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419config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
420 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
029aeff5 421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
c0a5afb9 422 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
dfcc3e6a 423
79e0d9bd 424 select DEBUG_FS
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425 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
426 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 427 select CRC32
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428 help
429 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
430 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
431 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
432 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
433 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
434 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
435 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
436 details.
437
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438 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
439 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
440
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441 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
442 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
443
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444config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
445 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
446 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
dfcc3e6a 447 range 200 40000
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448 default 400
449 help
450 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
451 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
452 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
453 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
454 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
455
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456config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
457 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
9718269a 458 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
0822ee4a 459 help
9718269a 460 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
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461
462 If unsure, say N.
463
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464config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
465 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
466 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
467 help
468 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
469 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
470
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471config DEBUG_PREEMPT
472 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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474 default y
475 help
476 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
477 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
478 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
479 will detect preemption count underflows.
480
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481config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
482 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
484 help
485 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
486 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
487
488config DEBUG_PI_LIST
489 bool
490 default y
491 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
492
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493config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
494 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 495 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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496 help
497 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
498
1da177e4 499config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 500 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
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501 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
502 help
503 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
504 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
505 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
506 deadlocks are also debuggable.
507
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508config DEBUG_MUTEXES
509 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
510 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
511 help
512 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
513 reported.
514
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515config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
516 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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518 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
519 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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520 select LOCKDEP
521 help
522 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
523 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
524 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
525 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
526 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
527 held during task exit.
528
529config PROVE_LOCKING
530 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 531 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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532 select LOCKDEP
533 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
534 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 535 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 536 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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537 default n
538 help
539 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
540 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
541 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
542 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
543 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
544 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
545 deadlock.
546
547 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
548 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
549
550 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
551 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
552 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
553 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
554 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
555 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
556 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
557 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
558 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
559
560 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
561 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
562 kernel reports nothing.
563
564 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
565 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
566 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
567 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
568 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
569
570 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
571
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572config PROVE_RCU
573 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
574 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
575 default n
576 help
577 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
578 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
579 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
580 feature.
581
582 Say N if you are unsure.
583
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584config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
585 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
586 depends on PROVE_RCU
587 default n
588 help
589 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
590 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
591 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
592 on a single reboot.
593
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594 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
595
596 Say N if you are unsure.
597
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598config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
599 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
600 default n
601 help
602 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
603 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
604 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
605 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
606 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
607 a debugging aid.
608
609 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
610
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611 Say N if you are unsure.
612
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613config LOCKDEP
614 bool
517e7aa5 615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 616 select STACKTRACE
79aac889 617 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
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619 select KALLSYMS_ALL
620
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fdfb870f 622 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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624 select LOCKDEP
625 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
626 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
627 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
628 default n
629 help
630 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
631
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632 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
633
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634 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
635 subcommand of perf.
636 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
637 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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639 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 640 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
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642config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
643 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 644 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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646 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
647 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
648 of more runtime overhead.
649
650config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
651 bool
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653 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
654 either tracing or lock debugging.
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656config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
657 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 658 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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659 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
660 help
661 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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662 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
663 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
664 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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667 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
669 help
670 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
671 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
672 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
673 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
674 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
675 mutexes and rwsems.
676
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677config STACKTRACE
678 bool
679 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
680
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681config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
682 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
683 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
684 help
685 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
686 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
687
688 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
689
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690config DEBUG_KOBJECT
691 bool "kobject debugging"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
693 help
694 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
695 to the syslog.
696
697config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
698 bool "Highmem debugging"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
700 help
701 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
702 Disable for production systems.
703
704config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 705 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
c8538a7a 706 depends on BUG
b920de1b 707 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
3cc39b3f 708 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
8420e7ef 709 default y
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710 help
711 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
712 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
713 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
714
715config DEBUG_INFO
716 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
718 help
719 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
720 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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722 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
723 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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724 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
725
726 If unsure, say N.
727
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729 bool "Reduce debugging information"
730 depends on DEBUG_INFO
731 help
732 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
733 information for structure types. This means that tools that
734 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
735 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
736 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
737 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
738 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
739 Only works with newer gcc versions.
740
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741config DEBUG_VM
742 bool "Debug VM"
743 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
744 help
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745 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
746 that may impact performance.
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748 If unsure, say N.
749
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750config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
751 bool "Debug VM translations"
752 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
753 help
754 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
755 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
756
757 If unsure, say N.
758
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759config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
760 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
761 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
762 help
763 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
764 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
765
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766config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
767 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
768 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
769 help
770 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
771 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
772 32 bits.
773
774 If unsure, say N.
775
6b74ab97 776config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
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777 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
778 default !EXPERT
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779 help
780 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
781 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
782 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
783 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
784 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
785
786 If unsure, say Y
787
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788config DEBUG_LIST
789 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
790 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
791 help
792 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
793 walking routines.
794
795 If unsure, say N.
796
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797config TEST_LIST_SORT
798 bool "Linked list sorting test"
799 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
800 help
801 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
802 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
803
804 If unsure, say N.
805
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806config DEBUG_SG
807 bool "Debug SG table operations"
808 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
809 help
810 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
811 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
812 their sg tables.
813
814 If unsure, say N.
815
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817 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
818 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
819 help
820 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
821 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
822 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
823 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
824 performance, say N.
825
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826config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
827 bool "Debug credential management"
828 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
829 help
830 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
831 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
832 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
833 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
834 struct.
835
836 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
837 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
838
839 If unsure, say N.
840
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842# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
52288b66 843# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
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845#
846config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
847 bool
848 help
849
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850config FRAME_POINTER
851 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 852 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
73020415 853 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
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855 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
856 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
857 help
858 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
859 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
860 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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863 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
865 help
866 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
867 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
868 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
869 using "boot_delay=N".
870
871 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
872 the "loops per jiffie" value.
873 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
874 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
875 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
876 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
8edbb83e 877 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
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879
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880config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
881 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
882 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
883 default n
884 help
885 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
886 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
887 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
888
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889 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
890 the kernel.
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891 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
892 Say N if you are unsure.
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894config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
895 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
896 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
897 default n
898 help
899 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
900 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
901 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
902 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
903 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
904 into the kernel.
905
906 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
907 boot (you probably don't).
908 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
909 after being manually enabled via /proc.
910
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911config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
912 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
a00e0d71 913 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
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914 range 3 300
915 default 60
916 help
917 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
918 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
919 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
920 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
921
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922config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
923 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
a00e0d71 924 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
55ec936f 925 default y
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927 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
928 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
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930 Say N if you are unsure.
931
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932 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
933
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934config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
935 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
936 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
937 default n
938 help
939 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
940 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
941 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
942 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
943
944 Say N if you are unsure.
945
946 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
947
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948config RCU_TRACE
949 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
950 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
951 help
952 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
953 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
954
955 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
956 Say N if you are unsure.
957
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958config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
959 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
961 depends on KPROBES
962 default n
963 help
964 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
965 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
966 verified for functionality.
967
968 Say N if you are unsure.
969
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970config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
971 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
972 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
973 default n
974 help
975 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
976 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
977 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
978 developers working on architecture code.
979
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980 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
981 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
982
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984
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985config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
986 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
987 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
988 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 989 default n
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991 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
992 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
993 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
994 is broken.
995
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996 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
997 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
998 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
999 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1000 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1001 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1002 device number allocation.
1003
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1004 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1005 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1006 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1007 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1008 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1009
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1011
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1012config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1013 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1014 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1015 help
1016 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1017 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1018 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1019 definitions.
1020
1021 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1022 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1023
1024 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1025 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1026
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1027config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1028 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1030 depends on SMP
1031 help
1032 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1033 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1034 and decreases performance.
1035
1036 Say N if unsure.
1037
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1039 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
0347af4e 1040 depends on DEBUG_FS
fddd9cf8 1041 depends on BLOCK
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1042 default n
1043 help
1044 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1045 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1046 If you don't need it: say N
1047 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1048 called lkdtm.
1049
1050 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
0347af4e 1051 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
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1053config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1054 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1055 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1056 help
1057 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1058 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1059
1060 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1061 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1062
1063 If unsure, say N.
1064
6ff1cb35 1065config FAULT_INJECTION
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1066 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1069 Provide fault-injection framework.
1070 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1071
8a8b6502 1072config FAILSLAB
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1073 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1074 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1075 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1076 help
1ab8509a 1077 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1078
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1080 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1081 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1082 help
1ab8509a 1083 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 1085config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1086 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1087 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1088 help
1ab8509a 1089 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1090
581d4e28 1091config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1092 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1093 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1094 help
1095 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1096 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1097 thus exercising the error handling.
1098
1099 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1100 for others it wont do anything.
1101
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1103 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1104 select DEBUG_FS
1105 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1106 help
1107 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1108 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1109 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1110 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1111 the block device.
1112
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1114 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1115 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1116 help
1ab8509a 1117 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1119config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1120 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1121 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1122 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1123 select STACKTRACE
89bace65 1124 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
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1126 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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1129 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1132 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1133 depends on PROC_FS
89bace65 1134 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
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1136 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1137 select STACKTRACE
1138 select SCHEDSTATS
1139 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1141 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1142 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1143
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1145 bool "Sysctl checks"
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1148 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
1149 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
1150 you to keep things correct.
1151
6a11f75b 1152source mm/Kconfig.debug
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1154
f212ec4b 1155config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 1156 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1158 help
1159 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1160 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1161 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1162 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1163 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1164
1165 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1166 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1167 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1168
1169 Usage:
1170
1171 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1172 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1173
1174 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1175 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1176 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1177 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1178
1179 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1180 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1181
1182 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1185 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1186 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1187 help
1188 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1189 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1190 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1191 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1192
1193 If unsure, say N.
1194
152de30b 1195config BUILD_DOCSRC
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1197 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1198 help
1199 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1200 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1201
1202 Say N if you are unsure.
1203
e9d376f0 1204config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
86151fdf 1205 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
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1207 depends on PRINTK
86151fdf 1208 depends on DEBUG_FS
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1210
1211 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1212 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
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1213 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1214 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1215 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1216 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
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1218 Usage:
1219
2b2f68b5 1220 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
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1221 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1222 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
2b2f68b5 1223 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
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1225 format for each line of the file is:
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86151fdf 1227 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
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1229 filename : source file of the debug statement
1230 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1231 module : module that contains the debug statement
1232 function : function that contains the debug statement
1233 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1234 format : the format used for the debug statement
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1236 From a live system:
1237
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1239 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1240 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1241 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1242 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
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86151fdf 1244 Example usage:
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1246 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1247 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
2b2f68b5 1248 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1250 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1251 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
2b2f68b5 1252 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
346e15be 1253
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1254 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1255 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
2b2f68b5 1256 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1258 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1259 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
2b2f68b5 1260 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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1262 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1263 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
2b2f68b5 1264 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
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86151fdf 1266 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
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1268config DMA_API_DEBUG
1269 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1270 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1271 help
1272 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1273 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1274 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1275 were never allocated.
1276 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1277 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
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1279config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1280 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1281 help
1282 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1283
1284 If unsure, say N.
1285
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1286config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1287 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1288 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1289 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1290 ---help---
1291 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1292 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1293 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1294 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1295 engine if one is available.
1296
1297 If unsure, say N.
1298
267c4025 1299source "samples/Kconfig"
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1301source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1302
1303source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
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1305config TEST_KSTRTOX
1306 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"