3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
6 Selecting this option causes timing information to be
7 included in printk output. This allows you to measure
8 the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
9 operations. This is useful for identifying long delays
10 in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time.
11 See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
13 config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
14 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
18 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
20 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
21 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
24 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
25 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
28 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
29 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
30 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
32 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
33 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
36 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
37 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
38 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
41 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
43 default 1024 if !64BIT
46 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
47 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
48 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
52 bool "Magic SysRq key"
55 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
56 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
57 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
58 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
59 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
60 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
61 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
62 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
63 unless you really know what this hack does.
66 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
69 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
70 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
71 get_wchan() and suchlike.
74 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
77 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
78 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
79 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
80 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
81 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
82 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
83 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
84 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
85 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
86 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
90 bool "Debug Filesystem"
92 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
93 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
96 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
97 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
102 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
105 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
106 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
107 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
108 were not exported, etc.
110 If you're making modifications to header files which are
111 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
112 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
113 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
115 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
116 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
118 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
119 references from one section to another section.
120 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
121 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
122 most likely result in an oops.
123 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
124 __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
125 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
126 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
127 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
128 additional steps to occur:
129 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
130 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
131 function, we would lose the section information and thus
132 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
133 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
135 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
136 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
137 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
139 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
140 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
141 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
142 reported at least twice.
143 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
144 the section mismatches that are reported.
147 bool "Kernel debugging"
149 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
150 identify kernel problems.
153 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
156 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
157 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
158 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
159 points; some don't and need to be caught.
161 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
162 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
165 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
166 hard and soft lockups.
168 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
169 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
170 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
171 detection and the system will stay locked up.
173 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
174 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
175 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
176 and the system will stay locked up.
178 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
179 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
180 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
182 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
183 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
185 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
186 def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
189 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
190 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
191 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
193 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
194 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
195 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
196 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
200 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
202 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
204 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
205 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
207 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
208 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
209 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
211 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
212 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
213 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
214 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
216 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
217 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
218 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
219 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
220 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
224 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
226 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
228 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
229 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
231 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
232 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
233 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
234 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
236 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
237 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
238 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
240 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
241 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
242 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
243 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
244 feature has negligible overhead.
246 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
247 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
248 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
251 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
252 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
255 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
256 sysctl or by writing a value to
257 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
259 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
260 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
262 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
263 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
264 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
266 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
267 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
268 in uninterruptible "D" state.
270 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
271 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
272 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
273 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
274 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
278 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
280 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
282 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
283 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
286 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
287 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
290 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
291 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
295 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
298 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
299 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
300 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
301 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
302 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
303 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
307 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
310 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
311 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
312 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
313 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
314 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
315 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
316 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
317 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
318 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
321 bool "Debug object operations"
322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
324 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
325 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
326 the operations on those objects.
328 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
329 bool "Debug objects selftest"
330 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
332 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
334 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
335 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
336 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
338 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
339 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
340 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
343 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
344 bool "Debug timer objects"
345 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
347 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
348 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
349 validate the timer operations.
351 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
352 bool "Debug work objects"
353 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
355 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
356 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
357 validate the work operations.
359 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
360 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
361 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
363 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
365 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
366 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
367 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
369 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
370 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
371 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
373 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
374 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
377 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
379 Debug objects boot parameter default value
382 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
385 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
386 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
387 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
389 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
390 bool "Memory leak debugging"
391 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
394 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
395 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
398 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
399 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
400 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
401 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
402 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
403 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
408 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
409 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
411 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
412 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
413 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
414 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
415 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
416 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
417 Try running: slabinfo -DA
419 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
420 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && \
422 (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)
425 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
429 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
430 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
431 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
432 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
433 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
434 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
435 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
438 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
439 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
441 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
442 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
444 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
445 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
446 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
450 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
451 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
452 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
453 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
454 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
456 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
457 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
458 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
460 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
464 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
465 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
466 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
468 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
469 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
472 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
476 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
477 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
478 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
479 will detect preemption count underflows.
481 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
482 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
485 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
486 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
491 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
493 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
494 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
495 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
497 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
499 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
500 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
501 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
503 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
504 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
505 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
506 deadlocks are also debuggable.
509 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
510 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
512 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
515 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
516 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
518 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
522 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
523 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
524 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
525 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
526 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
527 held during task exit.
530 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
531 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
533 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
535 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
536 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
539 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
540 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
541 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
542 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
543 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
544 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
547 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
548 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
550 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
551 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
552 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
553 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
554 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
555 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
556 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
557 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
558 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
560 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
561 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
562 kernel reports nothing.
564 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
565 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
566 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
567 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
568 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
570 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
573 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
574 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
577 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
578 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
579 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
582 Say N if you are unsure.
584 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
585 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
589 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
590 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
591 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
594 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
596 Say N if you are unsure.
598 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
599 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
602 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
603 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
604 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
605 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
606 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
609 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
611 Say N if you are unsure.
615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
617 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
622 bool "Lock usage statistics"
623 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
625 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
627 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
630 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
632 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
634 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
636 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
637 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
639 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
640 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
643 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
644 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
646 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
647 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
648 of more runtime overhead.
650 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
653 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
654 either tracing or lock debugging.
656 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
657 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
659 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
661 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
662 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
663 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
664 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
666 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
667 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
670 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
671 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
672 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
673 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
674 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
679 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
681 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
682 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
683 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
685 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
686 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
688 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
691 bool "kobject debugging"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
694 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
698 bool "Highmem debugging"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
701 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
702 Disable for production systems.
704 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
705 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
707 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
708 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE
711 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
712 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
713 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
716 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
719 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
720 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
721 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
722 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
723 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
724 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
728 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
729 bool "Reduce debugging information"
730 depends on DEBUG_INFO
732 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
733 information for structure types. This means that tools that
734 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
735 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
736 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
737 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
738 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
739 Only works with newer gcc versions.
743 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
745 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
746 that may impact performance.
751 bool "Debug VM translations"
752 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
754 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
755 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
759 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
760 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
761 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
763 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
764 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
766 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
767 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
768 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
770 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
771 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
776 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
777 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
780 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
781 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
782 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
783 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
784 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
789 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
790 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
792 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
797 config TEST_LIST_SORT
798 bool "Linked list sorting test"
799 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
801 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
802 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
807 bool "Debug SG table operations"
808 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
810 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
811 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
816 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
817 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
818 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
820 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
821 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
822 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
823 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
826 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
827 bool "Debug credential management"
828 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
830 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
831 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
832 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
833 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
836 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
837 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
842 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
843 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
844 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
846 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
851 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
852 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
853 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
854 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
855 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
856 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
858 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
859 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
860 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
862 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
863 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
866 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
867 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
868 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
869 using "boot_delay=N".
871 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
872 the "loops per jiffie" value.
873 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
874 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
875 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
876 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
877 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
878 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
880 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
881 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
882 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
885 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
886 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
887 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
889 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
891 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
892 Say N if you are unsure.
894 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
895 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
896 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
899 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
900 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
901 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
902 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
903 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
906 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
907 boot (you probably don't).
908 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
909 after being manually enabled via /proc.
911 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
912 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
913 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
917 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
918 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
919 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
920 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
922 config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
923 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
924 depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
927 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
928 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
930 Say N if you are unsure.
932 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
934 config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
935 bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
936 depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
939 For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
940 period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
941 regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
942 for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
944 Say N if you are unsure.
946 Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
949 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
950 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
952 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
953 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
955 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
956 Say N if you are unsure.
958 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
959 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
964 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
965 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
966 verified for functionality.
968 Say N if you are unsure.
970 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
971 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
972 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
975 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
976 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
977 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
978 developers working on architecture code.
980 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
981 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
983 Say N if you are unsure.
985 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
986 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
987 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
991 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
992 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
993 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
996 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
997 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
998 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
999 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1000 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1001 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1002 device number allocation.
1004 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1005 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1006 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1007 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1008 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1010 Say N if you are unsure.
1012 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1013 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
1014 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1016 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
1017 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
1018 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
1021 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
1022 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
1024 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
1025 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
1027 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
1028 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1032 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
1033 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
1034 and decreases performance.
1039 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1044 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1045 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1046 If you don't need it: say N
1047 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1050 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1051 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1053 config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1054 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1055 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
1057 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1058 the error handling of the cpu notifiers
1060 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1061 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1065 config FAULT_INJECTION
1066 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1069 Provide fault-injection framework.
1070 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1073 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1074 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1075 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1077 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1079 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1080 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1081 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1083 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1085 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1086 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1087 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1089 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1091 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1092 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1093 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1095 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1096 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1097 thus exercising the error handling.
1099 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1100 for others it wont do anything.
1102 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1103 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1105 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && MMC
1107 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1108 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1109 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1110 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1113 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1114 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1115 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1117 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1119 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1120 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1121 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1124 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
1126 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1129 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1130 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
1131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1132 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1134 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
1141 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1142 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1144 source mm/Kconfig.debug
1145 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1147 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1148 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1149 depends on PCI && X86
1151 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1152 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1153 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1154 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1155 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1157 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1158 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1159 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1163 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1164 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1166 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1167 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1168 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1169 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1171 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1172 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1174 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1176 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1177 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1178 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1180 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1181 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1182 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1183 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1188 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1189 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1191 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1192 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1194 Say N if you are unsure.
1196 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
1197 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
1203 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1204 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
1205 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1206 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1207 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1208 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
1212 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
1213 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1214 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1215 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
1216 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1217 format for each line of the file is:
1219 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1221 filename : source file of the debug statement
1222 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1223 module : module that contains the debug statement
1224 function : function that contains the debug statement
1225 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1226 format : the format used for the debug statement
1230 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1231 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1232 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1233 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1234 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
1238 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1239 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1240 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1242 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1243 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1244 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1246 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1247 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1248 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1250 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1251 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1252 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1254 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1255 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1256 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
1258 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
1260 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1261 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1262 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1264 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1265 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1266 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1267 were never allocated.
1268 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1269 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
1271 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1272 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1274 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1278 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1279 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1280 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1283 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1284 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1285 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1286 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1287 engine if one is available.
1291 source "samples/Kconfig"
1293 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1295 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
1298 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"