config PRINTK_TIME
bool "Show timing information on printks"
+ depends on PRINTK
help
Selecting this option causes timing information to be
included in printk output. This allows you to measure
you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
your module is.
+config DEBUG_FS
+ bool "Debug Filesystem"
+ depends on SYSFS
+ help
+ debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
+ debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
+ write to these files.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config HEADERS_CHECK
+ bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
+ depends on !UML
+ help
+ This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
+ building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
+ ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
+ were not exported, etc.
+
+ If you're making modifications to header files which are
+ relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
+ exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
+ your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
+
config DEBUG_KERNEL
bool "Kernel debugging"
help
Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
identify kernel problems.
-config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
- int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL
- range 12 21
- default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
- default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
- default 15 if SMP
- default 14
- help
- Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
- Defaults and Examples:
- 17 => 128 KB for S/390
- 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
- 15 => 32 KB for SMP
- 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
- 13 => 8 KB
- 12 => 4 KB
+config DEBUG_SHIRQ
+ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
+ help
+ Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
+ interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
+ Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
+ points; some don't and need to be caught.
config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
default y
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
support it.)
+config SCHED_DEBUG
+ bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
+ default y
+ help
+ If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
+ that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
+ option is minimal.
+
config SCHEDSTATS
bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
this adds.
+config TIMER_STATS
+ bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
+ help
+ If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
+ timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
+ reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
+ The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
+ writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
+ about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
+ is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
+ (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
+ if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
+
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
bool "Memory leak debugging"
depends on DEBUG_SLAB
+config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
+ bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
+ depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
+ default n
+ help
+ Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
+ the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
+ equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
+ There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
+ possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
+ off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
+ "slub_debug=-".
+
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
default y
help
If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
reported.
-config DEBUG_RWSEMS
- bool "RW-sem debugging: basic checks"
+config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
+ bool "Semaphore debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ depends on ALPHA || FRV
+ default n
help
- This feature allows read-write semaphore semantics violations to
- be detected and reported.
+ 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
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
- select DEBUG_RWSEMS
select LOCKDEP
help
This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
select LOCKDEP
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
- select DEBUG_RWSEMS
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
default n
help
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
+config LOCK_STAT
+ bool "Lock usage statisitics"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
+ select LOCKDEP
+ select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
+ select DEBUG_MUTEXES
+ select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+ default n
+ help
+ This feature enables tracking lock contention points
+
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
depends on BUG
- depends on ARM || ARM26 || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_32 || FRV
+ depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
default !EMBEDDED
help
Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
+ This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
+ is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
+ tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
If unsure, say N.
-config DEBUG_FS
- bool "Debug Filesystem"
- depends on SYSFS
- help
- debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
- debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
- write to these files.
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
config DEBUG_VM
bool "Debug VM"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_LIST
+ bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
+ walking routines.
+
+ 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)
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
-config UNWIND_INFO
- bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
- depends on !IA64 && !PARISC
- depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
- help
- If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
- but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
- If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
- to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
-
-config STACK_UNWIND
- bool "Stack unwind support"
- depends on UNWIND_INFO
- depends on X86
- help
- This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
- occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
-
config FORCED_INLINING
bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
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 start automatically
- at boot time (you probably don't).
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config LKDTM
+ tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ depends on KPROBES
+ default n
+ help
+ This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
+ inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
+ If you don't need it: say N
+ Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
+ called lkdtm.
+
+ Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
+ drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+
+config FAULT_INJECTION
+ bool "Fault-injection framework"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection framework.
+ For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
+
+config FAILSLAB
+ bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
+
+config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
+ bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
+
+config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
+ bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
+
+config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
+ bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
+
+config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
+ bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ depends on !X86_64
+ select STACKTRACE
+ select FRAME_POINTER
+ help
+ Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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