debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
write to these files.
+ For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
+ Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
+
If unsure, say N.
config HEADERS_CHECK
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
+ mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
chance to run.
When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
support it.)
+config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
+ bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
+ depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
+ which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
+ mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
+ chance to run.
+
+ The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
+ to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
+ lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
+ high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
+ where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
+ int
+ depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+ range 0 1
+ default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
+ default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
+
config SCHED_DEBUG
bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
config STACKTRACE
bool
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
config DEBUG_KOBJECT
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
+ bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
+ default !EMBEDDED
+ help
+ Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
+ The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
+ and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
+ information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
+ on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
+
+ If unsure, say Y
+
config DEBUG_LIST
bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on m
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
+ Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
+ the kernel.
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
+ bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
+ depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
+ default n
+ help
+ This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
+ directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
+ time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
+ to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
+ available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
+ into the kernel.
+
+ Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
+ boot (you probably don't).
+ Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
+ after being manually enabled via /proc.
+
+config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
+ bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
+ depends on CLASSIC_RCU
+ default n
+ help
+ This option causes RCU to printk information on which
+ CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
+ the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
+
+ Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
developers working on architecture code.
+ Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
+ have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
+ bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ depends on BLOCK
+ default n
+ help
+ Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
+ predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
+ may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
+ option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
+ the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
+ userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
+ device number allocation.
+
+ Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
+ device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
+ ones, so root partition specified using device number
+ directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
+ Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
+
Say N if you are unsure.
config LKDTM
config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
- depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
help
Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
+config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
+ bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
+ will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
+ thus exercising the error handling.
+
+ Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
+ for others it wont do anything.
+
config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
depends on !X86_64
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC
help
Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
config LATENCYTOP
bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
- select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
select STACKTRACE
Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
+config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
+ bool "Sysctl checks"
+ depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
+ ---help---
+ sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
+ to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
+ you to keep things correct.
+
+source kernel/trace/Kconfig
+
config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
depends on PCI && X86
If unsure, say N.
+menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC
+ bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
+ depends on HEADERS_CHECK
+ help
+ This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
+ kernel Documentation/ tree.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
source "samples/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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