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604ff0dc 1menu "printk and dmesg options"
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3config PRINTK_TIME
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 5 depends on PRINTK
1da177e4 6 help
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7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
10
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
14
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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42a9dc0b 18config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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19 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
20 range 1 7
21 default "4"
22 help
23 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
24
25 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
26 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
27 priority.
28
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29config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
30 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
31 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
32 help
33 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
34 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
35 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
36 using "boot_delay=N".
37
38 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
39 the "loops per jiffie" value.
40 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
41 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
42 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
43 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
44 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
45 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
46
47config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
48 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
49 default n
50 depends on PRINTK
51 depends on DEBUG_FS
52 help
53
54 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
55 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
56 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
57 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
58 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
59 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
60
61 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
62 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
63 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
64 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
65
66 Usage:
67
68 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
69 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
70 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
71 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
72 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
73 format for each line of the file is:
74
75 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
76
77 filename : source file of the debug statement
78 lineno : line number of the debug statement
79 module : module that contains the debug statement
80 function : function that contains the debug statement
81 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
82 format : the format used for the debug statement
83
84 From a live system:
85
86 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
87 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
88 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
89 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
90 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
91
92 Example usage:
93
94 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
95 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
96 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
97
98 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
99 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
100 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
101
102 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
103 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
104 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
105
106 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
107 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
108 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
109
110 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
111 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
112 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
113
114 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
115
116endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
117
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118menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
119
120config DEBUG_INFO
121 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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123 help
124 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
125 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
126 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
127 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
128 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
129 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
130
131 If unsure, say N.
132
133config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
134 bool "Reduce debugging information"
135 depends on DEBUG_INFO
136 help
137 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
138 information for structure types. This means that tools that
139 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
140 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
141 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
142 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
143 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
144 Only works with newer gcc versions.
145
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146config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
147 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
148 depends on DEBUG_INFO
149 help
150 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
151 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
152 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
153 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
154 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
155
156 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
157 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
158 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
159 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
160
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161config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
162 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
163 depends on DEBUG_INFO
164 help
165 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
166 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
167 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
168 variables in gdb on optimized code.
169
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170config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
171 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
172 default y
173 help
174 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
175 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
176 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
177
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178config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
179 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
180 default y
181 help
182 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
183 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
184 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 185
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186config FRAME_WARN
187 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
188 range 0 8192
189 default 1024 if !64BIT
190 default 2048 if 64BIT
191 help
192 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
193 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
194 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
195 Requires gcc 4.4
196
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197config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
198 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
199 default n
200 help
201 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
202 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
203 get_wchan() and suchlike.
204
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205config READABLE_ASM
206 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
207 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
208 help
209 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
210 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
211 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
212 sane.
213
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214config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
215 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
216 default y if X86
217 help
218 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
219 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
220 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
221 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
222 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
223 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
224 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
225 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
226 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
227 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
228 your module is.
229
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230config PAGE_OWNER
231 bool "Track page owner"
232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
233 select DEBUG_FS
234 select STACKTRACE
235 select PAGE_EXTENSION
236 help
237 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
238 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
239 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
240 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
241 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
242 for user-space helper.
243
244 If unsure, say N.
245
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246config DEBUG_FS
247 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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248 help
249 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
250 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
251 write to these files.
252
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253 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
254 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
255
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256 If unsure, say N.
257
258config HEADERS_CHECK
259 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
260 depends on !UML
261 help
262 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
263 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
264 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
265 were not exported, etc.
266
267 If you're making modifications to header files which are
268 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
269 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
270 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
271
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272config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
273 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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274 help
275 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
276 references from one section to another section.
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277 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
278 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 279 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 280 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 281 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 282 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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283 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
284 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
285 additional steps to occur:
286 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
287 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
288 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 289 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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290 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
291 a larger kernel).
292 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
293 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
d6fbfa4f 294 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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295 introduced.
296 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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297 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
298 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
299 reported at least twice.
300 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
301 the section mismatches that are reported.
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303#
304# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
305# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
306# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
307#
308config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
309 bool
f346f4b3 310 help
f346f4b3 311
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312config FRAME_POINTER
313 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
315 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
316 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
317 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
318 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 319 help
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320 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
321 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
322 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 323
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324config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
325 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
326 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 327 help
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328 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
329 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
330 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
331 definitions.
8446f1d3 332
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333 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
334 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 335
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336 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
337 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
5f329089 338
6dfc0665 339endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 340
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341config MAGIC_SYSRQ
342 bool "Magic SysRq key"
343 depends on !UML
344 help
345 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
346 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
347 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
348 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
349 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
350 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
351 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
352 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
353 unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 354
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355config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
356 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
357 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
358 default 0x1
359 help
360 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
361 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
362 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
363
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364config DEBUG_KERNEL
365 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 366 help
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367 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
368 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 369
0610c8a8 370menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 372source mm/Kconfig.debug
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374config DEBUG_OBJECTS
375 bool "Debug object operations"
376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 377 help
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378 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
379 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
380 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 381
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382config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
383 bool "Debug objects selftest"
384 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
385 help
386 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 387
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388config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
389 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
390 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
391 help
392 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
393 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
394 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
395 much slower.
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397config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
398 bool "Debug timer objects"
399 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
400 help
401 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
402 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
403 validate the timer operations.
404
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405config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
406 bool "Debug work objects"
407 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
408 help
409 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
410 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
411 validate the work operations.
412
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413config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
414 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 415 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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416 help
417 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
418
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419config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
420 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
421 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
422 help
423 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
424 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
425 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
426
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427config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
428 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
429 range 0 1
430 default "1"
431 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
432 help
433 Debug objects boot parameter default value
434
1da177e4 435config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 436 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 437 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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438 help
439 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
440 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
441 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
442
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443config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
444 bool "Memory leak debugging"
445 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
446
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447config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
448 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 449 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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450 default n
451 help
452 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
453 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
454 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
455 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
456 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
457 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
458 "slub_debug=-".
459
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460config SLUB_STATS
461 default n
462 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 463 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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464 help
465 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
466 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
467 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
468 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
469 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
470 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
471 Try running: slabinfo -DA
472
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473config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
474 bool
475
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476config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
477 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 478 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 479 select DEBUG_FS
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480 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
481 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 482 select CRC32
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483 help
484 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
485 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
486 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
487 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
488 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
489 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
490 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
491 details.
492
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493 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
494 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
495
496 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
497 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
498
499config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
500 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
501 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
502 range 200 40000
503 default 400
504 help
505 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
506 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
507 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
508 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
509 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
510
511config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
512 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
513 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
514 help
515 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
516
517 If unsure, say N.
518
519config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
520 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
521 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
522 help
523 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
524 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
525
526config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
527 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
528 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG
529 help
530 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
531 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
532
533 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
534
535config DEBUG_VM
536 bool "Debug VM"
537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
538 help
539 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
540 that may impact performance.
541
542 If unsure, say N.
543
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544config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
545 bool "Debug VMA caching"
546 depends on DEBUG_VM
547 help
548 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
549 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
550 environments.
551
552 If unsure, say N.
553
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554config DEBUG_VM_RB
555 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
556 depends on DEBUG_VM
557 help
a663dad6 558 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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560 If unsure, say N.
561
562config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
563 bool "Debug VM translations"
564 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
565 help
566 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
567 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
568
569 If unsure, say N.
570
571config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
572 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
573 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
574 help
575 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
576 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
577
578config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
579 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
580 default !EXPERT
581 help
582 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
583 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
584 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
585 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
586 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
587
588 If unsure, say Y
589
590config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
591 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
592 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
593 help
594 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
595 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
596 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
597
598 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
599 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
600
601 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
602
603 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
604 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
605 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
606 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
607
608 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
609 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
610
611 If unsure, say N.
612
613config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
614 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
616 depends on SMP
617 help
618 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
619 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
620 and decreases performance.
621
622 Say N if unsure.
623
624config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
625 bool "Highmem debugging"
626 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
627 help
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628 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
629 systems. Disable for production systems.
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631config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
632 bool
633
634config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
635 bool "Check for stack overflows"
636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
637 ---help---
638 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 639 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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640 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
641 below a certain limit.
642
643 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
644 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
645 involved.
646
647 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
648 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
649
650 If in doubt, say "N".
651
652source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
653
654endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
655
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656config DEBUG_SHIRQ
657 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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659 help
660 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
661 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
662 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
663 points; some don't and need to be caught.
664
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665menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
666
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667config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
668 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 670 help
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671 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
672 hard and soft lockups.
673
674 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 675 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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676 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
677 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 678
58687acb 679 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 680 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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681 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
682 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 683
58687acb 684 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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685 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
686 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
687
688 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
689 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
8446f1d3 690
23637d47 691config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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692 def_bool y
693 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
694 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
8446f1d3 695
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696config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
697 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 698 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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699 help
700 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
701 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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702 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
703 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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705 Say N if unsure.
706
707config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
708 int
8f1f66ed 709 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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710 range 0 1
711 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
712 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
713
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714config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
715 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 716 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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717 help
718 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
719 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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720 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
721 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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723 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
724 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
725 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
726 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
727 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
728
729 Say N if unsure.
730
731config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
732 int
e16bb1d7 733 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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734 range 0 1
735 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
736 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
737
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738config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
739 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 741 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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743 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
744 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
745 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
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747 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
748 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
749 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
750 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
751 feature has negligible overhead.
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753config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
754 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
755 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
756 default 120
f0630fff 757 help
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758 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
759 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
760 be considered hung.
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762 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
763 sysctl or by writing a value to
764 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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766 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
767 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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769config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
770 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
771 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 772 help
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773 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
774 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
775 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 776
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777 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
778 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
779 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
780 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
781 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
bf96d1e3 782
0610c8a8 783 Say N if unsure.
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785config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
786 int
787 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
788 range 0 1
789 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
790 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
3bba00d7 791
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792endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
793
794config PANIC_ON_OOPS
795 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 796 help
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797 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
798 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
799 line.
a9d9058a 800
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801 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
802 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
803 corruption or other issues.
804
805 Say N if unsure.
806
807config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
808 int
809 range 0 1
810 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
811 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
812
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814 int "panic timeout"
815 default 0
816 help
817 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
818 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
819 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
820 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
821
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822config SCHED_DEBUG
823 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
825 default y
0822ee4a 826 help
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827 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
828 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
829 option is minimal.
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831config SCHEDSTATS
832 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
833 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
834 help
835 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
836 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
837 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
838 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
839 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
840 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
841 this adds.
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843config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
844 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
845 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
846 default n
847 help
848 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
849 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
850 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
851 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
852 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
853 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
854
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855config TIMER_STATS
856 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
857 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
ab0155a2 858 help
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859 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
860 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
861 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
862 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
863 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
864 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
865 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
866 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
867 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
ab0155a2 868
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869config DEBUG_PREEMPT
870 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 871 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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872 default y
873 help
874 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
875 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
876 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
877 will detect preemption count underflows.
878
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879menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
880
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881config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
882 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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883 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
884 help
885 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
886 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
887
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888config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
889 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
6cc620bc 890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES && BROKEN
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891 help
892 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
893
1da177e4 894config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 895 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 896 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 897 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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898 help
899 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
900 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
901 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
902 deadlocks are also debuggable.
903
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904config DEBUG_MUTEXES
905 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
906 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
907 help
908 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
909 reported.
910
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911config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
912 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
913 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
914 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
915 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
916 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
917 help
918 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
919 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
920 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
921 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
922 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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923 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
924 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
925 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
926 you are a distro, do not.
23010027 927
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928config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
929 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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931 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
932 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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933 select LOCKDEP
934 help
935 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
936 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
937 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
938 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
939 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
940 held during task exit.
941
942config PROVE_LOCKING
943 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 944 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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946 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
947 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 948 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 949 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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950 default n
951 help
952 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
953 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
954 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
955 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
956 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
957 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
958 deadlock.
959
960 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
961 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
962
963 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
964 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
965 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
966 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
967 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
968 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
969 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
970 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
971 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
972
973 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
974 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
975 kernel reports nothing.
976
977 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
978 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
979 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
980 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
981 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
982
214e0aed 983 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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985config LOCKDEP
986 bool
517e7aa5 987 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 988 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 989 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
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991 select KALLSYMS_ALL
992
f20786ff 993config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 994 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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995 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
996 select LOCKDEP
997 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
998 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
999 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1000 default n
1001 help
1002 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1003
214e0aed 1004 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
a560aa48 1005
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1006 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1007 subcommand of perf.
1008 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1009 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1011 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1012 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1013
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1014config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1015 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1016 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1017 help
1018 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1019 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1020 of more runtime overhead.
1021
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1022config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1023 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
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1025 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1026 help
1027 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1028 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1029 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1030 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1032config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1033 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1034 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1035 help
1036 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1037 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1038 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1039 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1040 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1041 mutexes and rwsems.
1042
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1044 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1045 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1046 select TORTURE_TEST
1047 default n
1048 help
1049 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1050 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1051 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1052
1053 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1054 to be built into the kernel.
1055 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1056 Say N if you are unsure.
1057
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8637c099 1059
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1060config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1061 bool
5ca43f6c 1062 help
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1063 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1064 either tracing or lock debugging.
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8637c099 1066config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1067 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1068 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1069 help
1070 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1071 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1072 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1073 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1074
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1075config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1076 bool "kobject debugging"
1077 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1078 help
1079 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1080 to the syslog.
1081
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1082config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1083 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1084 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1085 help
1086 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1087 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1088 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1089 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1090 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1091 unregistered.
1092
1093 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1094 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1095 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1096
1097 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1098 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1099 kind of kobject release bug.
1100
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1101config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1102 bool
1103
1da177e4 1104config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1105 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1106 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1107 default y
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1108 help
1109 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1110 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1111 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1112
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1113config DEBUG_LIST
1114 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1115 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1116 help
1117 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1118 walking routines.
1119
1120 If unsure, say N.
1121
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1122config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1123 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1125 help
1126 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1127 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1128 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1129
1130 If unsure, say N.
1131
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1132config DEBUG_SG
1133 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1134 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1135 help
1136 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1137 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1138 their sg tables.
1139
1140 If unsure, say N.
1141
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1142config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1143 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1145 help
1146 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1147 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1148 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1149 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1150 performance, say N.
1151
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1152config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1153 bool "Debug credential management"
1154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1155 help
1156 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1157 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1158 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1159 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1160 struct.
1161
1162 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1163 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1164
1165 If unsure, say N.
1166
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1167menu "RCU Debugging"
1168
1169config PROVE_RCU
1170 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
1171 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1172 default n
1173 help
1174 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
1175 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
1176 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
1177 feature.
1178
1179 Say N if you are unsure.
1180
1181config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1182 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1183 depends on PROVE_RCU
1184 default n
1185 help
1186 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1187 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1188 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1189 on a single reboot.
1190
1191 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1192
1193 Say N if you are unsure.
1194
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1195config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1196 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1197 default n
1198 help
1199 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1200 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1201 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1202 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1203 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1204 a debugging aid.
1205
1206 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1207
1208 Say N if you are unsure.
1209
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1210config TORTURE_TEST
1211 tristate
1212 default n
1213
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1214config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1215 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1216 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
51b1130e 1217 select TORTURE_TEST
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1219 default n
1220 help
1221 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1222 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1223 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1224
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1225 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1226 the kernel.
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1227 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1228 Say N if you are unsure.
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1230config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
1231 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
1232 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
1233 default n
1234 help
1235 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
1236 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
1237 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
1238 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
1239 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
1240 into the kernel.
1241
1242 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
1243 boot (you probably don't).
1244 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
1245 after being manually enabled via /proc.
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1247config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1248 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
6bfc09e2 1249 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
b163760e 1250 range 3 300
c896054f 1251 default 21
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1253 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1254 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1255 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1256 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1257
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1258config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
1259 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
28f6569a 1260 depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
68158fe2 1261 default y
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1263 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
1264 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
1265 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
1266 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
1267
1268 Say N if you are unsure.
1269
1270 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
1271
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1272config RCU_TRACE
1273 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6dab2778 1274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52494535 1275 select TRACE_CLOCK
6dab2778 1276 help
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1277 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1278 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
ad118c54 1279
5c8806a0 1280 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
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1281 Say N if you are unsure.
1282
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1283endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1284
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1285config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1286 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1287 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1288 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1289 default n
870d6656 1290 help
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1291 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1292 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1293 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1294 is broken.
1295
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1296 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1297 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1298 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1299 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1300 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1301 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1302 device number allocation.
1303
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1304 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1305 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1306 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1307 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1308 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1309
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1310 Say N if you are unsure.
1311
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1312config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1313 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1315 select DEBUG_FS
1316 help
e41e85cc 1317 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1318 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1319 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1320
1321 Say N if unsure.
1322
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1323config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1324 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
f5a9f52e 1325 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
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1326 help
1327 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
e41e85cc 1328 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
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1329 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1330 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1331
1332 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1333 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1334
1335 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1336
1337 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1338 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1339 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1340 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
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1342 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1343 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1344
1345 If unsure, say N.
1346
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1347config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1348 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1349 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1350 default m if PM_DEBUG
1351 help
e41e85cc 1352 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1353 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1354 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1355
1356 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1357 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1358
1359 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1360
1361 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1362 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1363 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1364 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1365
1366 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1367 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1368
1369 If unsure, say N.
1370
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1371config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1372 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1373 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1374 help
e41e85cc 1375 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1376 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1377 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1378 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1380 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1381 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1382
1383 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1384 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1386 If unsure, say N.
1387
6ff1cb35 1388config FAULT_INJECTION
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1389 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1390 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1392 Provide fault-injection framework.
1393 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1394
8a8b6502 1395config FAILSLAB
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1396 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1397 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1398 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1399 help
1ab8509a 1400 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1401
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1402config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1403 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1404 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1405 help
1ab8509a 1406 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1407
c17bb495 1408config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1409 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1410 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1411 help
1ab8509a 1412 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1413
581d4e28 1414config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1415 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1416 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1417 help
1418 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1419 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1420 thus exercising the error handling.
1421
1422 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1423 for others it wont do anything.
1424
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1426 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1427 select DEBUG_FS
1428 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1429 help
1430 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1431 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1432 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1433 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1434 the block device.
1435
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1437 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1438 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1439 help
1ab8509a 1440 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1442config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1443 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1444 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1445 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1446 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1447 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
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1449 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1450
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1451config LATENCYTOP
1452 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1455 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1456 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1457 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1459 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1460 select STACKTRACE
1461 select SCHEDSTATS
1462 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1464 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1465 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1466
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1467config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1468 bool
1469
1470config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1471 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1472 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1474 help
1475 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1476 copy operations into compile time failures.
1477
1478 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1479 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1480 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1481 within bounds.
1482
1483 If unsure, say N.
1484
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1486
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1487menu "Runtime Testing"
1488
1489config LKDTM
1490 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1491 depends on DEBUG_FS
1492 depends on BLOCK
1493 default n
1494 help
1495 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1496 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1497 If you don't need it: say N
1498 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1499 called lkdtm.
1500
1501 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1502 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1503
1504config TEST_LIST_SORT
1505 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1507 help
1508 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1509 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1510
1511 If unsure, say N.
1512
1513config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1514 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1516 depends on KPROBES
1517 default n
1518 help
1519 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1520 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1521 verified for functionality.
1522
1523 Say N if you are unsure.
1524
1525config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1526 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1527 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1528 default n
1529 help
1530 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1531 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1532 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1533 developers working on architecture code.
1534
1535 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1536 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1537
1538 Say N if you are unsure.
1539
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1540config RBTREE_TEST
1541 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1542 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1544 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1545 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1546
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1548 tristate "Interval tree test"
1549 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1550 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1552 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1553
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1555 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1556 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1557 help
1558 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1559 operations.
1560
1561 If unsure, say N.
1562
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1563config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1564 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1565 help
1566 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1567
1568 If unsure, say N.
1569
1570config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1571 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1572 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1573 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1574 ---help---
1575 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1576 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1577 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1578 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1579 engine if one is available.
1580
1581 If unsure, say N.
1582
1583config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1584 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1585
1586config TEST_KSTRTOX
1587 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1588
7e1e7763 1589config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1590 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1592 help
1593 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1594
1595 If unsure, say N.
1596
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1598
f212ec4b 1599config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 1600 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1601 depends on PCI && X86
1602 help
1603 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1604 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1605 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1606 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1607 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1608
1609 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1610 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1611 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1612
1613 Usage:
1614
1615 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1616 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1617
1618 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1619 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1620 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1621 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1622
1623 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1624 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1625
1626 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1629 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1630 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1631 help
1632 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1633 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1634
1635 Say N if you are unsure.
1636
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1638 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1639 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1640 help
1641 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1642 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1643 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1644 were never allocated.
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1646 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1647 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1648 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1649 not undergoing DMA.
1650
1651 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1652 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1653
1654 If unsure, say N.
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8a6f0b47 1656config TEST_LKM
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1657 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1658 default n
1659 depends on m
1660 help
1661 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1662 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1663 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1664 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1665 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1666 requested by name.
1667
1668 If unsure, say N.
1669
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1670config TEST_USER_COPY
1671 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1672 default n
1673 depends on m
1674 help
1675 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1676 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1677 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1678 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1679 protections.
1680
1681 If unsure, say N.
1682
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1684 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1685 default n
98920ba6 1686 depends on m && NET
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1688 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1689 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1690 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1691 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1693 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1695 If unsure, say N.
1696
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1697config TEST_FIRMWARE
1698 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1699 default n
1700 depends on FW_LOADER
1701 help
1702 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1703 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1704 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1705 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1706 userspace.
1707
1708 If unsure, say N.
1709
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1711 tristate "udelay test driver"
1712 default n
1713 help
1714 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1715 that udelay() is working properly.
1716
1717 If unsure, say N.
1718
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1721source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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