X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FKconfig.debug;h=234ceb10861f304ba858ec9a0baa9f6b297a43a6;hb=c91d3376e5f4277173a22f0ef9989125c318bacb;hp=aa81d2848448db8f007194cc086804dcffe2623e;hpb=8daf14cf56816303d64d1a705fcbc389211ba36e;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index aa81d28..234ceb1 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ config MAGIC_SYSRQ keys are documented in . Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. +config STRIP_ASM_SYMS + bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" + default n + help + Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols + that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of + get_wchan() and suchlike. + config UNUSED_SYMBOLS bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" default y if X86 @@ -186,6 +194,44 @@ config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 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 @@ -252,9 +298,17 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 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 + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK help Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed @@ -266,7 +320,7 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK config SLUB_DEBUG_ON bool "SLUB debugging on by default" - depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG + depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK default n help Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with @@ -290,9 +344,55 @@ config SLUB_STATS 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 && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \ + (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390) + + 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. + + Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances + of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE + int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 40000 + default 400 + help + Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid + reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or + freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is + used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log + buffer exceeded", please increase this value. + +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) + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT default y help If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the @@ -394,7 +494,7 @@ config LOCKDEP bool depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL @@ -504,6 +604,13 @@ config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 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 @@ -545,17 +652,51 @@ config DEBUG_SG If unsure, say N. +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. + +config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS + bool "Debug credential management" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential + management. The additional code keeps track of the number of + pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to + see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred + struct. + + Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the + security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. + + If unsure, 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 + config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ - (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \ - AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) - default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML + (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \ + AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ + ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 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. + 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" @@ -608,7 +749,7 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods" - depends on CLASSIC_RCU + depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU default n help This option causes RCU to printk information on which @@ -652,6 +793,11 @@ config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 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 @@ -668,6 +814,21 @@ config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT Say N if you are unsure. +config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU + bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be + defined weak to work around addressing range issue which + puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable + definitions. + + 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not + 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function + + To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this + option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. + config LKDTM tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -694,6 +855,7 @@ config FAULT_INJECTION config FAILSLAB bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" depends on FAULT_INJECTION + depends on SLAB || SLUB help Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. @@ -731,13 +893,13 @@ config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on !X86_64 select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC + 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 && !PPC + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL select STACKTRACE @@ -756,6 +918,7 @@ config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK 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 @@ -798,7 +961,7 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA If unsure, say N. -menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC +config BUILD_DOCSRC bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree" depends on HEADERS_CHECK help @@ -807,6 +970,83 @@ menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC 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: /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 /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' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug + + // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug + + // enable all the messages in the NFS server module + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug + + // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug + + // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > + /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" + +source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"