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604ff0dc 1menu "printk and dmesg options"
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3config PRINTK_TIME
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
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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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18config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
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"
122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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 ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
147 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
148 default y
149 help
150 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
151 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
152 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
153
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154config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
155 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
156 default y
157 help
158 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
159 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
160 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
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162config FRAME_WARN
163 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
164 range 0 8192
165 default 1024 if !64BIT
166 default 2048 if 64BIT
167 help
168 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
169 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
170 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
171 Requires gcc 4.4
172
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173config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
174 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
175 default n
176 help
177 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
178 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
179 get_wchan() and suchlike.
180
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181config READABLE_ASM
182 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
183 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
184 help
185 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
186 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
187 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
188 sane.
189
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190config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
191 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
192 default y if X86
193 help
194 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
195 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
196 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
197 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
198 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
199 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
200 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
201 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
202 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
203 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
204 your module is.
205
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206config DEBUG_FS
207 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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208 help
209 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
210 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
211 write to these files.
212
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213 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
214 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
215
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216 If unsure, say N.
217
218config HEADERS_CHECK
219 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
220 depends on !UML
221 help
222 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
223 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
224 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
225 were not exported, etc.
226
227 If you're making modifications to header files which are
228 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
229 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
230 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
231
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232config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
233 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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234 help
235 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
236 references from one section to another section.
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237 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
238 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 239 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 240 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 241 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 242 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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243 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
244 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
245 additional steps to occur:
246 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
247 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
248 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 249 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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250 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
251 a larger kernel).
252 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
253 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
d6fbfa4f 254 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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255 introduced.
256 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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257 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
258 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
259 reported at least twice.
260 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
261 the section mismatches that are reported.
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263#
264# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
265# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
266# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
267#
268config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
269 bool
f346f4b3 270 help
f346f4b3 271
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272config FRAME_POINTER
273 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
275 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
276 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
277 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
278 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 279 help
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280 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
281 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
282 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 283
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284config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
285 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
286 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 287 help
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288 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
289 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
290 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
291 definitions.
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293 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
294 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 295
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296 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
297 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 299endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 300
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301config MAGIC_SYSRQ
302 bool "Magic SysRq key"
303 depends on !UML
304 help
305 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
306 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
307 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
308 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
309 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
310 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
311 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
312 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
313 unless you really know what this hack does.
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315config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
316 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
317 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
318 default 0x1
319 help
320 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
321 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
322 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
323
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324config DEBUG_KERNEL
325 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 326 help
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327 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
328 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 329
0610c8a8 330menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 332source mm/Kconfig.debug
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334config DEBUG_OBJECTS
335 bool "Debug object operations"
336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 337 help
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338 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
339 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
340 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 341
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342config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
343 bool "Debug objects selftest"
344 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
345 help
346 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 347
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348config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
349 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
350 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
351 help
352 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
353 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
354 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
355 much slower.
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357config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
358 bool "Debug timer objects"
359 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
360 help
361 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
362 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
363 validate the timer operations.
364
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365config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
366 bool "Debug work objects"
367 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
368 help
369 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
370 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
371 validate the work operations.
372
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373config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
374 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 375 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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376 help
377 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
378
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379config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
380 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
381 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
382 help
383 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
384 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
385 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
386
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387config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
388 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
389 range 0 1
390 default "1"
391 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
392 help
393 Debug objects boot parameter default value
394
1da177e4 395config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 396 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 397 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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398 help
399 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
400 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
401 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
402
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403config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
404 bool "Memory leak debugging"
405 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
406
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407config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
408 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 409 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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410 default n
411 help
412 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
413 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
414 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
415 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
416 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
417 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
418 "slub_debug=-".
419
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420config SLUB_STATS
421 default n
422 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 423 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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424 help
425 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
426 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
427 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
428 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
429 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
430 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
431 Try running: slabinfo -DA
432
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433config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
434 bool
435
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436config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
437 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 438 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 439 select DEBUG_FS
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440 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
441 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 442 select CRC32
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443 help
444 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
445 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
446 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
447 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
448 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
449 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
450 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
451 details.
452
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453 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
454 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
455
456 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
457 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
458
459config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
460 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
461 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
462 range 200 40000
463 default 400
464 help
465 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
466 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
467 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
468 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
469 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
470
471config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
472 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
473 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
474 help
475 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
476
477 If unsure, say N.
478
479config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
480 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
481 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
482 help
483 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
484 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
485
486config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
487 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
488 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG
489 help
490 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
491 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
492
493 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
494
495config DEBUG_VM
496 bool "Debug VM"
497 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
498 help
499 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
500 that may impact performance.
501
502 If unsure, say N.
503
504config DEBUG_VM_RB
505 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
506 depends on DEBUG_VM
507 help
508 Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory
509 system that may impact performance.
510
511 If unsure, say N.
512
513config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
514 bool "Debug VM translations"
515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
516 help
517 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
518 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
519
520 If unsure, say N.
521
522config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
523 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
525 help
526 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
527 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
528
529config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
530 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
531 default !EXPERT
532 help
533 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
534 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
535 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
536 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
537 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
538
539 If unsure, say Y
540
541config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
542 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
543 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
544 help
545 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
546 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
547 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
548
549 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
550 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
551
552 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
553
554 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
555 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
556 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
557 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
558
559 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
560 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
561
562 If unsure, say N.
563
564config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
565 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
567 depends on SMP
568 help
569 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
570 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
571 and decreases performance.
572
573 Say N if unsure.
574
575config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
576 bool "Highmem debugging"
577 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
578 help
579 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
580 Disable for production systems.
581
582config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
583 bool
584
585config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
586 bool "Check for stack overflows"
587 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
588 ---help---
589 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
590 and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This
591 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
592 below a certain limit.
593
594 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
595 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
596 involved.
597
598 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
599 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
600
601 If in doubt, say "N".
602
603source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
604
605endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
606
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607config DEBUG_SHIRQ
608 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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610 help
611 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
612 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
613 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
614 points; some don't and need to be caught.
615
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616menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
617
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618config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
619 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 620 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 621 help
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622 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
623 hard and soft lockups.
624
625 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 626 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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627 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
628 detection and the system will stay locked up.
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58687acb 630 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 631 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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632 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
633 and the system will stay locked up.
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58687acb 635 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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636 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
637 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
638
639 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
640 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
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23637d47 642config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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643 def_bool y
644 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
645 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
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647config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
648 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 649 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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650 help
651 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
652 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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653 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
654 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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656 Say N if unsure.
657
658config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
659 int
8f1f66ed 660 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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661 range 0 1
662 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
663 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
664
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665config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
666 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 667 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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668 help
669 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
670 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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671 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
672 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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674 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
675 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
676 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
677 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
678 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
679
680 Say N if unsure.
681
682config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
683 int
e16bb1d7 684 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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685 range 0 1
686 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
687 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
688
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689config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
690 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 692 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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694 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
695 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
696 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
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698 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
699 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
700 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
701 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
702 feature has negligible overhead.
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704config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
705 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
706 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
707 default 120
f0630fff 708 help
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709 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
710 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
711 be considered hung.
f0630fff 712
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713 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
714 sysctl or by writing a value to
715 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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717 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
718 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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720config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
721 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
722 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 723 help
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724 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
725 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
726 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 727
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728 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
729 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
730 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
731 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
732 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 734 Say N if unsure.
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736config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
737 int
738 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
739 range 0 1
740 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
741 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
3bba00d7 742
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744
745config PANIC_ON_OOPS
746 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 747 help
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748 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
749 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
750 line.
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752 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
753 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
754 corruption or other issues.
755
756 Say N if unsure.
757
758config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
759 int
760 range 0 1
761 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
762 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
763
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764config PANIC_TIMEOUT
765 int "panic timeout"
766 default 0
767 help
768 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
769 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
770 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
771 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
772
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773config SCHED_DEBUG
774 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
775 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
776 default y
0822ee4a 777 help
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778 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
779 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
780 option is minimal.
0822ee4a 781
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782config SCHEDSTATS
783 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
785 help
786 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
787 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
788 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
789 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
790 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
791 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
792 this adds.
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794config TIMER_STATS
795 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
ab0155a2 797 help
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798 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
799 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
800 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
801 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
802 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
803 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
804 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
805 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
806 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
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808config DEBUG_PREEMPT
809 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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811 default y
812 help
813 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
814 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
815 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
816 will detect preemption count underflows.
817
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818menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
819
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820config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
821 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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822 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
823 help
824 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
825 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
826
827config DEBUG_PI_LIST
828 bool
829 default y
830 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
831
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832config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
833 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 834 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
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835 help
836 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
837
1da177e4 838config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 839 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 840 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 841 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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842 help
843 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
844 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
845 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
846 deadlocks are also debuggable.
847
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848config DEBUG_MUTEXES
849 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
850 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
851 help
852 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
853 reported.
854
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855config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
856 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
857 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
858 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
859 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
860 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
861 help
862 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
863 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
864 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
865 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
866 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
867
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868config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
869 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 870 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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871 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
872 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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873 select LOCKDEP
874 help
875 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
876 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
877 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
878 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
879 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
880 held during task exit.
881
882config PROVE_LOCKING
883 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 884 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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885 select LOCKDEP
886 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
887 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 888 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
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890 default n
891 help
892 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
893 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
894 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
895 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
896 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
897 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
898 deadlock.
899
900 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
901 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
902
903 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
904 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
905 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
906 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
907 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
908 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
909 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
910 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
911 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
912
913 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
914 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
915 kernel reports nothing.
916
917 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
918 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
919 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
920 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
921 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
922
923 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
924
925config LOCKDEP
926 bool
517e7aa5 927 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 928 select STACKTRACE
cc80ae38 929 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC
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931 select KALLSYMS_ALL
932
f20786ff 933config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 934 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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935 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
936 select LOCKDEP
937 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
938 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
939 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
940 default n
941 help
942 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
943
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944 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
945
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946 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
947 subcommand of perf.
948 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
949 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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951 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 952 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 953
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954config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
955 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 956 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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957 help
958 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
959 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
960 of more runtime overhead.
961
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962config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
963 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 964 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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965 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
966 help
967 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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968 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
969 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
970 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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972config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
973 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
974 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
975 help
976 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
977 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
978 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
979 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
980 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
981 mutexes and rwsems.
982
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985config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
986 bool
5ca43f6c 987 help
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988 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
989 either tracing or lock debugging.
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991config STACKTRACE
992 bool
993 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
5ca43f6c 994
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995config DEBUG_KOBJECT
996 bool "kobject debugging"
997 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
998 help
999 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1000 to the syslog.
1001
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1002config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1003 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1004 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1005 help
1006 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1007 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1008 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1009 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1010 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1011 unregistered.
1012
1013 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1014 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1015 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1016
1017 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1018 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1019 kind of kobject release bug.
1020
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1021config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1022 bool
1023
1da177e4 1024config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1025 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1026 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1027 default y
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1028 help
1029 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1030 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1031 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1032
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1033config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
1034 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
1035 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1036 help
1037 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
1038 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
1039 32 bits.
1040
1041 If unsure, say N.
1042
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1043config DEBUG_LIST
1044 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1045 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1046 help
1047 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1048 walking routines.
1049
1050 If unsure, say N.
1051
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1052config DEBUG_SG
1053 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1054 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1055 help
1056 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1057 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1058 their sg tables.
1059
1060 If unsure, say N.
1061
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1062config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1063 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1064 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1065 help
1066 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1067 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1068 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1069 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1070 performance, say N.
1071
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1072config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1073 bool "Debug credential management"
1074 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1075 help
1076 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1077 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1078 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1079 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1080 struct.
1081
1082 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1083 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1084
1085 If unsure, say N.
1086
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1087menu "RCU Debugging"
1088
1089config PROVE_RCU
1090 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
1091 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1092 default n
1093 help
1094 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
1095 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
1096 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
1097 feature.
1098
1099 Say N if you are unsure.
1100
1101config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1102 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1103 depends on PROVE_RCU
1104 default n
1105 help
1106 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1107 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1108 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1109 on a single reboot.
1110
1111 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1112
1113 Say N if you are unsure.
1114
1115config PROVE_RCU_DELAY
1116 bool "RCU debugging: preemptible RCU race provocation"
1117 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT_RCU
1118 default n
1119 help
1120 There is a class of races that involve an unlikely preemption
1121 of __rcu_read_unlock() just after ->rcu_read_lock_nesting has
1122 been set to INT_MIN. This feature inserts a delay at that
1123 point to increase the probability of these races.
1124
1125 Say Y to increase probability of preemption of __rcu_read_unlock().
1126
1127 Say N if you are unsure.
1128
1129config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1130 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1131 default n
1132 help
1133 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1134 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1135 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1136 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1137 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1138 a debugging aid.
1139
1140 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1141
1142 Say N if you are unsure.
1143
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1144config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1145 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1147 default n
1148 help
1149 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1150 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1151 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1152
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1153 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1154 the kernel.
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1155 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1156 Say N if you are unsure.
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1158config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
1159 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
1160 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
1161 default n
1162 help
1163 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
1164 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
1165 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
1166 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
1167 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
1168 into the kernel.
1169
1170 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
1171 boot (you probably don't).
1172 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
1173 after being manually enabled via /proc.
1174
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1175config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1176 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
6bfc09e2 1177 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
b163760e 1178 range 3 300
c896054f 1179 default 21
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1180 help
1181 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1182 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1183 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1184 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1185
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1186config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
1187 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
a00e0d71 1188 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
55ec936f 1189 default y
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1191 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
1192 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
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1194 Say N if you are unsure.
1195
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1196 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
1197
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1198config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
1199 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
1200 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
1201 default n
1202 help
1203 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
1204 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
1205 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
1206 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
1207
1208 Say N if you are unsure.
1209
1210 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
1211
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1212config RCU_TRACE
1213 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6dab2778 1214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52494535 1215 select TRACE_CLOCK
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1217 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1218 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
ad118c54 1219
5c8806a0 1220 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
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1221 Say N if you are unsure.
1222
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1223endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1224
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1225config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1226 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1227 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1228 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1229 default n
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1231 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1232 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1233 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1234 is broken.
1235
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1236 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1237 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1238 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1239 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1240 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1241 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1242 device number allocation.
1243
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1244 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1245 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1246 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1247 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1248 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1249
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1250 Say N if you are unsure.
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1252config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1253 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1254 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1255 select DEBUG_FS
1256 help
e41e85cc 1257 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1258 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1259 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1260
1261 Say N if unsure.
1262
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1263config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1264 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
f5a9f52e 1265 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
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1266 help
1267 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
e41e85cc 1268 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
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1269 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1270 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1271
1272 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1273 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1274
1275 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1276
1277 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1278 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1279 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1280 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
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1282 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1283 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1284
1285 If unsure, say N.
1286
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1287config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1288 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1289 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1290 default m if PM_DEBUG
1291 help
e41e85cc 1292 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1293 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1294 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1295
1296 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1297 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1298
1299 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1300
1301 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1302 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1303 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1304 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1305
1306 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1307 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1308
1309 If unsure, say N.
1310
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1311config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1312 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1313 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1314 help
e41e85cc 1315 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1316 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1317 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1318 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1320 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1321 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1322
1323 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1324 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1326 If unsure, say N.
1327
6ff1cb35 1328config FAULT_INJECTION
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1329 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1332 Provide fault-injection framework.
1333 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1334
8a8b6502 1335config FAILSLAB
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1336 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1337 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1338 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1339 help
1ab8509a 1340 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1341
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1343 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1344 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1345 help
1ab8509a 1346 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1347
c17bb495 1348config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1349 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1350 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1351 help
1ab8509a 1352 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1353
581d4e28 1354config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1355 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1356 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1357 help
1358 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1359 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1360 thus exercising the error handling.
1361
1362 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1363 for others it wont do anything.
1364
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1365config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1366 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1367 select DEBUG_FS
1368 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1369 help
1370 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1371 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1372 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1373 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1374 the block device.
1375
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1376config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1377 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1378 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1379 help
1ab8509a 1380 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1382config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1383 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1384 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1385 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1386 select STACKTRACE
cc80ae38 1387 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1389 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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1391config LATENCYTOP
1392 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1394 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1395 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1396 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1397 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1399 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1400 select STACKTRACE
1401 select SCHEDSTATS
1402 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1404 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1405 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1406
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1407config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1408 bool
1409
1410config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1411 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1412 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1413 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1414 help
1415 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1416 copy operations into compile time failures.
1417
1418 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1419 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1420 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1421 within bounds.
1422
1423 If unsure, say N.
1424
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1426
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1428
1429config LKDTM
1430 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1431 depends on DEBUG_FS
1432 depends on BLOCK
1433 default n
1434 help
1435 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1436 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1437 If you don't need it: say N
1438 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1439 called lkdtm.
1440
1441 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1442 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1443
1444config TEST_LIST_SORT
1445 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1447 help
1448 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1449 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1450
1451 If unsure, say N.
1452
1453config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1454 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1455 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1456 depends on KPROBES
1457 default n
1458 help
1459 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1460 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1461 verified for functionality.
1462
1463 Say N if you are unsure.
1464
1465config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1466 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1468 default n
1469 help
1470 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1471 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1472 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1473 developers working on architecture code.
1474
1475 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1476 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1477
1478 Say N if you are unsure.
1479
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1480config RBTREE_TEST
1481 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1483 help
1484 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1485 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1486
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1488 tristate "Interval tree test"
1489 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1490 help
1491 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1492
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1494 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1495 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1496 help
1497 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1498 operations.
1499
1500 If unsure, say N.
1501
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1503 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1504 help
1505 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1506
1507 If unsure, say N.
1508
1509config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1510 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1511 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1512 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1513 ---help---
1514 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1515 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1516 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1517 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1518 engine if one is available.
1519
1520 If unsure, say N.
1521
1522config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1523 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1524
1525config TEST_KSTRTOX
1526 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1527
1528endmenu # runtime tests
1529
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080de8c2 1531 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1532 depends on PCI && X86
1533 help
1534 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1535 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1536 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1537 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1538 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1539
1540 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1541 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1542 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1543
1544 Usage:
1545
1546 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1547 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1548
1549 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1550 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1551 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1552 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1553
1554 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1555 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1556
1557 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1560 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1561 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1562 help
1563 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1564 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1565
1566 Say N if you are unsure.
1567
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1569 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1570 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1571 help
1572 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1573 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1574 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1575 were never allocated.
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1577 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1578 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1579 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1580 not undergoing DMA.
1581
1582 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1583 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1584
1585 If unsure, say N.
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1588 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1589 default n
1590 depends on m
1591 help
1592 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1593 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1594 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1595 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1596 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1597 requested by name.
1598
1599 If unsure, say N.
1600
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1601config TEST_USER_COPY
1602 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1603 default n
1604 depends on m
1605 help
1606 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1607 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1608 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1609 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1610 protections.
1611
1612 If unsure, say N.
1613
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1616source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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