suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
+config FRAME_WARN
+ int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
+ range 0 8192
+ default 1024 if !64BIT
+ default 2048 if 64BIT
+ help
+ Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
+ Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
+ Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
+ Requires gcc 4.4
+
config MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
depends on !UML
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
config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
- default n
+ depends on UNDEFINED
+ # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
+ # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
+ # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
help
The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
references from one section to another section.
most likely result in an oops.
In the code functions and variables are annotated with
__init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
- which result in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
- The section mismatch anaylsis are always done after a full
- kernel build but enabling this options will in addition
+ which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
+ The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
+ kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
do the following:
- Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
- function we would loose the section information and thus
+ function we would lose the section information and thus
the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
- This options tell gcc to inline less but will also
+ This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
result in a larger kernel.
- Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
- looses valueable information about where the mismatch was
+ lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
introduced.
Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
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 DETECT_HUNG_TASK
+ bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
+ which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
+ uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
+
+ When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
+ current stack trace (which you should report), but the
+ task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
+ enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
+ feature has negligible overhead.
+
+config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
+ bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
+ depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
+ which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
+ in uninterruptible "D" state.
+
+ The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
+ to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
+ hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
+ high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
+ where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
+ int
+ depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
+ range 0 1
+ default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
+ default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
+
config SCHED_DEBUG
bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
(it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
+config DEBUG_OBJECTS
+ bool "Debug object operations"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
+ kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
+ the operations on those objects.
+
+config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
+ bool "Debug objects selftest"
+ depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
+ help
+ This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
+
+config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
+ bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
+ depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
+ help
+ This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
+ which contains an object which has not been deactivated
+ properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
+ much slower.
+
+config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
+ bool "Debug timer objects"
+ depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
+ help
+ If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
+ timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
+ validate the timer operations.
+
+config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
+ int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
+ range 0 1
+ default "1"
+ depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
+ help
+ Debug objects boot parameter default value
+
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
"slub_debug=-".
+config SLUB_STATS
+ default n
+ bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
+ depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
+ help
+ SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
+ order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
+ enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
+ the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
+ supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
+ out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
+ Try running: slabinfo -DA
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
+ !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+ select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+ select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
+ select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ select KALLSYMS
+ help
+ Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
+ detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
+ similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
+ difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
+ only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
+ feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+ allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+ details.
+
+ In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+ mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
+ tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
+ detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
+ memory.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
reported.
-config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
- bool "Semaphore debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- depends on ALPHA || FRV
- default n
- help
- If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
- verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
- kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
-
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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 && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
config STACKTRACE
bool
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
config DEBUG_KOBJECT
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
depends on BUG
- depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN
+ depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
+ FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
default !EMBEDDED
help
Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
+ bool "Debug VM translations"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
+ help
+ Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
+ catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
+ bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
+ help
+ This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
+ regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
+
+config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
+ bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
+ vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
+ 32 bits.
+
+ 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
If unsure, say N.
-config FRAME_POINTER
- bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN)
- default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
+config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
+ bool "Debug notifier call chains"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
+ This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
+ modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
+ This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
+ performance, say N.
+
+#
+# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
+# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
+# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
+#
+config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
+ bool
help
- If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
- and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
- some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
- If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
-config FORCED_INLINING
- bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default y
+config FRAME_POINTER
+ bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
+ (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
+ AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
+ ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
+ default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
help
- This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
- developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
- do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
- compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
- disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
- this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
- become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
- test gcc for this.
+ If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
+ larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
+ in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
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 || TREE_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
+ BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
+ SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
+ YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
+ is broken.
+
+ 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
tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on KPROBES
+ depends on BLOCK
default n
help
This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
config FAILSLAB
bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ depends on SLAB || SLUB
help
Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
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 && !S390
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 && !S390
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 mm/Kconfig.debug
+source kernel/trace/Kconfig
+
config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
- bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot"
+ bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
depends on PCI && X86
help
If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
+config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
+ bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
+ depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
+ help
+ This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
+ with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
+ remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
+ See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config 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.
+
+config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
+ bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
+ default n
+ depends on PRINTK
+ depends on DEBUG_FS
+ help
+
+ Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
+ otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
+ enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
+ function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
+ implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
+ this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
+
+ Usage:
+
+ Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
+ which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
+ filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
+ We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
+ file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
+ format for each line of the file is:
+
+ filename:lineno [module]function flags format
+
+ filename : source file of the debug statement
+ lineno : line number of the debug statement
+ module : module that contains the debug statement
+ function : function that contains the debug statement
+ flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
+ format : the format used for the debug statement
+
+ From a live system:
+
+ nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+ # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
+ fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
+ fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
+ fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
+
+ Example usage:
+
+ // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
+ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
+ <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+
+ // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
+ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
+ <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+
+ // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
+ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
+ <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+
+ // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
+ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
+ <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+
+ // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
+ nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
+ <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+
+ See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
+
+config DMA_API_DEBUG
+ bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
+ depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
+ help
+ Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
+ With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
+ drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
+ were never allocated.
+ This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
+ to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
+
source "samples/Kconfig"
+
+source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"