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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 STRIP_ASM_SYMS
54 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
55 default n
56 help
57 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
58 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
59 get_wchan() and suchlike.
60
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61config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
62 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
63 default y if X86
64 help
65 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
66 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
67 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
68 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
69 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
70 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
71 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
72 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
73 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
74 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
75 your module is.
76
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77config DEBUG_FS
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
79 depends on SYSFS
80 help
81 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
82 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
83 write to these files.
84
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85 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
87
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88 If unsure, say N.
89
90config HEADERS_CHECK
91 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
92 depends on !UML
93 help
94 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
95 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
96 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
97 were not exported, etc.
98
99 If you're making modifications to header files which are
100 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
101 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
102 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
103
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104config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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106 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
107 default y
fa2144ba 108 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
af901ca1 109 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
fa2144ba 110 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
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111 help
112 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
113 references from one section to another section.
114 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
115 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
116 most likely result in an oops.
117 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
118 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
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119 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
120 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
121 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
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122 do the following:
123 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
124 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
d6fbfa4f 125 function we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 126 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
d6fbfa4f 127 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
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128 result in a larger kernel.
129 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
130 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
d6fbfa4f 131 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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132 introduced.
133 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
134 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
135 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
136 mismatch at least twice.
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137 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
138 the section mismatches reported.
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140config DEBUG_KERNEL
141 bool "Kernel debugging"
142 help
143 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
144 identify kernel problems.
145
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146config DEBUG_SHIRQ
147 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
149 help
150 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
151 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
152 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
153 points; some don't and need to be caught.
154
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155config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
156 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
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158 default y
159 help
160 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
161 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
9c44bc03 162 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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163 chance to run.
164
165 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
166 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
167 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
168 overhead.
169
170 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
171 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
172 support it.)
173
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174config NMI_WATCHDOG
175 bool "Detect Hard Lockups with an NMI Watchdog"
c3128fb6 176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PERF_EVENTS && PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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177 help
178 Say Y here to enable the kernel to use the NMI as a watchdog
179 to detect hard lockups. This is useful when a cpu hangs for no
180 reason but can still respond to NMIs. A backtrace is displayed
181 for reviewing and reporting.
182
183 The overhead should be minimal, just an extra NMI every few
184 seconds.
185
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186config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
188 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
189 help
190 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
191 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
192 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
193 chance to run.
194
195 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
196 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
197 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
198 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
199 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
200
201 Say N if unsure.
202
203config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
204 int
205 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
206 range 0 1
207 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
208 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
209
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210config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
211 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
77d05632 213 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
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214 help
215 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
216 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
217 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
218
219 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
220 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
221 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
222 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
223 feature has negligible overhead.
224
225config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
226 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
227 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
228 help
229 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
230 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
231 in uninterruptible "D" state.
232
233 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
234 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
235 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
236 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
237 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
238
239 Say N if unsure.
240
241config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
242 int
243 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
244 range 0 1
245 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
246 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
247
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248config SCHED_DEBUG
249 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
251 default y
252 help
253 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
254 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
255 option is minimal.
256
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257config SCHEDSTATS
258 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
260 help
261 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
262 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
263 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
264 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
265 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
266 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
267 this adds.
268
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269config TIMER_STATS
270 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
272 help
273 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
274 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
275 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
276 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
277 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
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278 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
279 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
280 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
281 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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283config DEBUG_OBJECTS
284 bool "Debug object operations"
285 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
286 help
287 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
288 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
289 the operations on those objects.
290
291config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
292 bool "Debug objects selftest"
293 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
294 help
295 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
296
297config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
298 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
299 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
300 help
301 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
302 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
303 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
304 much slower.
305
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306config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
307 bool "Debug timer objects"
308 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
309 help
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
312 validate the timer operations.
313
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314config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
315 bool "Debug work objects"
316 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
317 help
318 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
319 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
320 validate the work operations.
321
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322config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
323 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
324 range 0 1
325 default "1"
326 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
327 help
328 Debug objects boot parameter default value
329
1da177e4 330config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 331 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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333 help
334 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
335 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
336 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
337
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338config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
339 bool "Memory leak debugging"
340 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
341
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342config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
343 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 344 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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345 default n
346 help
347 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
348 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
349 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
350 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
351 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
352 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
353 "slub_debug=-".
354
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355config SLUB_STATS
356 default n
357 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
5b06c853 358 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
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359 help
360 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
361 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
362 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
363 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
364 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
365 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
366 Try running: slabinfo -DA
367
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368config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
369 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
dfcc3e6a 370 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
9343af08 371 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
dfcc3e6a 372
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373 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
374 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
375 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 376 select CRC32
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377 help
378 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
379 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
380 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
381 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
382 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
383 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
384 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
385 details.
386
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387 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
388 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
389
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390 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
391 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
392
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393config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
394 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
395 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
dfcc3e6a 396 range 200 40000
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397 default 400
398 help
399 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
400 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
401 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
402 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
403 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
404
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405config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
406 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
407 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
408 help
409 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
410 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
411 memory.
412
413 If unsure, say N.
414
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415config DEBUG_PREEMPT
416 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 417 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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418 default y
419 help
420 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
421 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
422 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
423 will detect preemption count underflows.
424
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425config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
426 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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427 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
428 help
429 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
430 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
431
432config DEBUG_PI_LIST
433 bool
434 default y
435 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
436
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437config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
438 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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440 help
441 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
442
1da177e4 443config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 444 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
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445 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
446 help
447 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
448 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
449 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
450 deadlocks are also debuggable.
451
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452config DEBUG_MUTEXES
453 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
455 help
456 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
457 reported.
458
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459config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
460 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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462 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
463 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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464 select LOCKDEP
465 help
466 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
467 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
468 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
469 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
470 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
471 held during task exit.
472
473config PROVE_LOCKING
474 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 475 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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477 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
478 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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479 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
480 default n
481 help
482 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
483 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
484 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
485 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
486 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
487 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
488 deadlock.
489
490 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
491 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
492
493 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
494 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
495 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
496 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
497 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
498 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
499 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
500 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
501 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
502
503 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
504 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
505 kernel reports nothing.
506
507 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
508 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
509 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
510 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
511 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
512
513 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
514
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515config PROVE_RCU
516 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
517 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
518 default n
519 help
520 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
521 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
522 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
523 feature.
524
525 Say N if you are unsure.
526
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527config LOCKDEP
528 bool
517e7aa5 529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 530 select STACKTRACE
00540e5d 531 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
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533 select KALLSYMS_ALL
534
f20786ff 535config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 536 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
538 select LOCKDEP
539 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
540 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
541 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
542 default n
543 help
544 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
545
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546 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
547
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548 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
549 subcommand of perf.
550 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
551 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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553 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 554 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 555
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556config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
557 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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559 help
560 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
561 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
562 of more runtime overhead.
563
564config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
517e7aa5 565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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566 bool
567 default y
568 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
569 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
570
1da177e4 571config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
4d9f34ad 572 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
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573 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
574 help
575 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
576 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
577
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578config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
579 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
580 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
581 help
582 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
583 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
584 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
585 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
586 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
587 mutexes and rwsems.
588
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589config STACKTRACE
590 bool
591 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
592
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593config DEBUG_KOBJECT
594 bool "kobject debugging"
595 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
596 help
597 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
598 to the syslog.
599
600config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
601 bool "Highmem debugging"
602 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
603 help
604 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
605 Disable for production systems.
606
607config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
608 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
c8538a7a 609 depends on BUG
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610 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
611 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
8420e7ef 612 default y
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614 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
615 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
616 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
617
618config DEBUG_INFO
619 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
620 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
621 help
622 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
623 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
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624 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
625 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
626 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
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627 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
628
629 If unsure, say N.
630
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631config DEBUG_VM
632 bool "Debug VM"
633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
634 help
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635 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
636 that may impact performance.
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638 If unsure, say N.
639
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640config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
641 bool "Debug VM translations"
642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
643 help
644 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
645 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
646
647 If unsure, say N.
648
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649config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
650 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
652 help
653 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
654 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
655
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656config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
657 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
659 help
660 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
661 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
662 32 bits.
663
664 If unsure, say N.
665
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666config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
667 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
668 default !EMBEDDED
669 help
670 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
671 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
672 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
673 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
674 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
675
676 If unsure, say Y
677
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678config DEBUG_LIST
679 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
681 help
682 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
683 walking routines.
684
685 If unsure, say N.
686
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687config DEBUG_SG
688 bool "Debug SG table operations"
689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
690 help
691 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
692 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
693 their sg tables.
694
695 If unsure, say N.
696
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697config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
698 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
700 help
701 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
702 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
703 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
704 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
705 performance, say N.
706
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707config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
708 bool "Debug credential management"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
710 help
711 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
712 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
713 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
714 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
715 struct.
716
717 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
718 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
719
720 If unsure, say N.
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723# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
724# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
725# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
726#
727config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
728 bool
729 help
730
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732 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 733 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
75ee034a 734 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
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735 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
736 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
737 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
738 help
739 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
740 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
741 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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744 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
746 help
747 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
748 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
749 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
750 using "boot_delay=N".
751
752 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
753 the "loops per jiffie" value.
754 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
755 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
756 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
757 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
758 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
759 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
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761config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
762 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
763 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
764 default n
765 help
766 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
767 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
768 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
769
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771 the kernel.
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773 Say N if you are unsure.
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775config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
776 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
777 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
778 default n
779 help
780 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
781 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
782 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
783 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
784 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
785 into the kernel.
786
787 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
788 boot (you probably don't).
789 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
790 after being manually enabled via /proc.
791
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792config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
793 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
6b3ef48a 794 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
8bfb2f8e 795 default y
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797 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
798 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
799 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
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4c54005c 801 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
67182ae1 802
4c54005c 803 Say Y if you are unsure.
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805config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
806 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
807 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
808 default n
809 help
810 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
811 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
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813 Say N if you are unsure.
814
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818 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
819 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
820 depends on KPROBES
821 default n
822 help
823 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
824 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
825 verified for functionality.
826
827 Say N if you are unsure.
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830 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
831 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
832 default n
833 help
834 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
835 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
836 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
837 developers working on architecture code.
838
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840 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
841
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843
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845 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
846 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
847 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 848 default n
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850 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
851 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
852 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
853 is broken.
854
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855 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
856 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
857 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
858 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
859 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
860 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
861 device number allocation.
862
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864 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
865 ones, so root partition specified using device number
866 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
867 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
868
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870
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871config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
872 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
873 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
874 help
875 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
876 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
877 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
878 definitions.
879
880 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
881 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
882
883 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
884 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
885
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887 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
0347af4e 888 depends on DEBUG_FS
fddd9cf8 889 depends on BLOCK
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891 help
892 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
893 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
894 If you don't need it: say N
895 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
896 called lkdtm.
897
898 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
0347af4e 899 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
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901config FAULT_INJECTION
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902 bool "Fault-injection framework"
903 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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905 Provide fault-injection framework.
906 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 908config FAILSLAB
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909 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
910 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 911 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 912 help
1ab8509a 913 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 914
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916 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 917 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 918 help
1ab8509a 919 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 920
c17bb495 921config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 922 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 923 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 924 help
1ab8509a 925 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
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928 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
929 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
930 help
931 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
932 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
933 thus exercising the error handling.
934
935 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
936 for others it wont do anything.
937
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938config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
939 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 940 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 941 help
1ab8509a 942 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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944config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
945 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
946 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 947 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 948 select STACKTRACE
75ee034a 949 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
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951 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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954 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
75ee034a 955 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
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957 select KALLSYMS_ALL
958 select STACKTRACE
959 select SCHEDSTATS
960 select SCHED_DEBUG
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963 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
964 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
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967 bool "Sysctl checks"
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970 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
971 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
972 you to keep things correct.
973
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f212ec4b 977config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 978 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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980 help
981 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
982 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
983 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
984 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
985 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
986
987 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
988 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
989 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
990
991 Usage:
992
993 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
994 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
995
996 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
997 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
998 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
999 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1000
1001 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1002 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1003
1004 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1007 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1008 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1009 help
1010 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1011 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1012 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1013 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1014
1015 If unsure, say N.
1016
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1019 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1020 help
1021 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1022 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1023
1024 Say N if you are unsure.
1025
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86151fdf 1027 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
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1029 depends on PRINTK
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1032
1033 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1034 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
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1035 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1036 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1037 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1038 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
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1040 Usage:
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1042 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
1043 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1044 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1045 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
1046 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1047 format for each line of the file is:
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86151fdf 1049 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
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1052 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1053 module : module that contains the debug statement
1054 function : function that contains the debug statement
1055 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1056 format : the format used for the debug statement
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1058 From a live system:
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1061 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1062 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1063 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1064 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
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86151fdf 1066 Example usage:
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1069 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1070 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1073 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1074 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1077 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1078 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1081 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1082 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1085 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1086 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
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1091 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1092 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1093 help
1094 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1095 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1096 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1097 were never allocated.
1098 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1099 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
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1103source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1105source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"