3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
12 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
20 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
77 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
78 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
83 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
86 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
87 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
88 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
89 were not exported, etc.
91 If you're making modifications to header files which are
92 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
93 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
94 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
96 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
97 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
99 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
100 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
101 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
103 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
104 references from one section to another section.
105 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
106 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
107 most likely result in an oops.
108 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
109 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
110 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
111 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
112 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
114 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
115 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
116 function we would lose the section information and thus
117 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
118 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
119 result in a larger kernel.
120 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
121 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
122 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
124 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
125 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
126 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
127 mismatch at least twice.
128 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
129 the section mismatches reported.
132 bool "Kernel debugging"
134 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
135 identify kernel problems.
138 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
141 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
142 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
143 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
144 points; some don't and need to be caught.
146 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
147 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
151 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
152 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
153 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
156 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
157 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
158 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
161 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
162 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
165 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
166 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
167 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
169 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
170 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
171 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
174 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
175 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
176 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
177 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
178 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
182 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
184 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
186 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
189 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
190 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
192 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
194 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
195 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
196 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
198 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
199 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
200 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
201 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
202 feature has negligible overhead.
204 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
205 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
206 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
208 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
209 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
210 in uninterruptible "D" state.
212 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
213 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
214 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
215 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
216 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
220 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
222 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
224 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
225 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
228 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
232 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
233 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
237 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
240 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
241 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
242 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
243 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
244 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
245 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
249 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
252 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
253 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
254 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
255 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
256 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
257 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
258 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
259 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
260 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
263 bool "Debug object operations"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
266 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
267 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
268 the operations on those objects.
270 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
271 bool "Debug objects selftest"
272 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
274 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
276 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
277 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
278 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
280 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
281 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
282 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
285 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
286 bool "Debug timer objects"
287 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
289 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
290 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
291 validate the timer operations.
293 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
294 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
297 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
299 Debug objects boot parameter default value
302 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
305 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
306 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
307 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
309 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
310 bool "Memory leak debugging"
311 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
314 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
315 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
318 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
319 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
320 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
321 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
322 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
323 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
328 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
329 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
331 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
332 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
333 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
334 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
335 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
336 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
337 Try running: slabinfo -DA
340 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
344 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
345 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
346 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
347 will detect preemption count underflows.
349 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
350 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
351 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
353 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
354 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
359 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
361 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
362 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
365 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
367 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
368 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
369 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
371 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
372 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
373 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
374 deadlocks are also debuggable.
377 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
380 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
383 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
384 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
386 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
390 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
391 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
392 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
393 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
394 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
395 held during task exit.
398 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
399 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
401 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
403 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
406 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
407 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
408 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
409 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
410 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
411 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
414 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
415 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
417 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
418 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
419 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
420 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
421 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
422 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
423 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
424 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
425 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
427 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
428 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
429 kernel reports nothing.
431 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
432 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
433 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
434 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
435 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
437 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
443 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
448 bool "Lock usage statistics"
449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
451 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
453 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
456 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
458 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
461 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
464 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
465 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
466 of more runtime overhead.
468 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
472 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
473 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
475 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
476 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
479 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
480 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
482 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
483 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
486 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
487 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
488 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
489 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
490 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
495 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
498 bool "kobject debugging"
499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
501 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
505 bool "Highmem debugging"
506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
508 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
509 Disable for production systems.
511 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
512 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
514 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
515 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
518 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
519 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
520 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
523 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
526 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
527 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
528 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
529 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
530 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
531 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
539 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
540 that may impact performance.
545 bool "Debug VM translations"
546 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
548 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
549 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
553 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
554 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
557 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
558 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
560 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
561 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
564 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
565 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
570 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
571 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
574 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
575 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
576 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
577 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
578 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
583 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
584 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
586 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
592 bool "Debug SG table operations"
593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
595 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
596 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
601 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
602 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
605 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
606 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
607 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
608 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
612 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
613 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
614 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
616 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
621 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
623 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
624 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
625 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
626 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
628 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
629 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
630 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
632 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
633 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
634 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
636 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
637 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
638 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
639 using "boot_delay=N".
641 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
642 the "loops per jiffie" value.
643 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
644 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
645 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
646 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
647 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
648 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
650 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
651 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
655 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
656 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
657 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
659 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
661 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
662 Say N if you are unsure.
664 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
665 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
666 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
669 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
670 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
671 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
672 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
673 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
676 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
677 boot (you probably don't).
678 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
679 after being manually enabled via /proc.
681 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
682 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
683 depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
686 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
687 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
688 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
690 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
692 Say N if you are unsure.
694 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
695 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
700 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
701 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
702 verified for functionality.
704 Say N if you are unsure.
706 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
707 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
708 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
711 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
712 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
713 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
714 developers working on architecture code.
716 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
717 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
719 Say N if you are unsure.
721 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
722 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
727 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
728 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
729 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
732 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
733 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
734 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
735 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
736 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
737 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
738 device number allocation.
740 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
741 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
742 ones, so root partition specified using device number
743 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
744 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
746 Say N if you are unsure.
749 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
750 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
755 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
756 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
757 If you don't need it: say N
758 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
761 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
764 config FAULT_INJECTION
765 bool "Fault-injection framework"
766 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
768 Provide fault-injection framework.
769 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
772 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
773 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
774 depends on SLAB || SLUB
776 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
778 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
779 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
780 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
782 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
784 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
785 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
786 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
788 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
790 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
791 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
792 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
794 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
795 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
796 thus exercising the error handling.
798 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
799 for others it wont do anything.
801 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
802 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
803 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
805 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
807 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
808 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
809 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
812 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
814 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
817 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
818 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
824 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
826 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
827 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
829 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
831 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
833 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
834 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
835 you to keep things correct.
837 source mm/Kconfig.debug
838 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
840 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
841 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
842 depends on PCI && X86
844 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
845 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
846 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
847 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
848 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
850 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
851 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
852 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
856 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
857 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
859 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
860 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
861 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
862 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
864 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
865 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
867 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
869 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
870 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
871 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
873 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
874 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
875 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
876 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
881 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
882 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
884 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
885 kernel Documentation/ tree.
887 Say N if you are unsure.
890 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
897 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
898 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
899 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
900 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
901 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
902 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
906 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
907 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
908 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
909 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
910 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
911 format for each line of the file is:
913 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
915 filename : source file of the debug statement
916 lineno : line number of the debug statement
917 module : module that contains the debug statement
918 function : function that contains the debug statement
919 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
920 format : the format used for the debug statement
924 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
925 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
926 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
927 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
928 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
932 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
933 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
934 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
936 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
937 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
938 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
940 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
941 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
942 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
944 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
945 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
946 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
948 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
949 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
950 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
952 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
955 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
956 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
958 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
959 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
960 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
961 were never allocated.
962 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
963 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
965 source "samples/Kconfig"
967 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"