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
config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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
(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_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_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
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_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_LIST
bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
config FRAME_POINTER
bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN)
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
+ (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
+ AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
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 FORCED_INLINING
- bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default y
- 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.
-
config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
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
to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
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.
+
source "samples/Kconfig"
+
+source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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