lockup_detector: Separate touch_nmi_watchdog code path from touch_watchdog
[deliverable/linux.git] / lib / Kconfig.debug
CommitLineData
1da177e4
LT
1
2config PRINTK_TIME
3 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 4 depends on PRINTK
1da177e4
LT
5 help
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.
11
de488443
JG
12config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
14 default y
15 help
16 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
17 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
18 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
19
cebc04ba
AM
20config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
22 default y
23 help
24 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
25 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
26 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 27
35bb5b1e
AK
28config FRAME_WARN
29 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
30 range 0 8192
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
32 default 2048 if 64BIT
33 help
34 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
35 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
36 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
37 Requires gcc 4.4
38
1da177e4
LT
39config MAGIC_SYSRQ
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
f346f4b3 41 depends on !UML
1da177e4
LT
42 help
43 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
44 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
45 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
46 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
47 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
48 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
49 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
50 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
51 unless you really know what this hack does.
52
99657c78
RD
53config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
54 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
55 default n
56 help
57 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
58 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
59 get_wchan() and suchlike.
60
f71d20e9
AV
61config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
62 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
63 default y if X86
64 help
65 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
66 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
67 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
68 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
69 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
70 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
71 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
72 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
73 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
74 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
75 your module is.
76
bf4735a4
DM
77config DEBUG_FS
78 bool "Debug Filesystem"
79 depends on SYSFS
80 help
81 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
82 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
83 write to these files.
84
ff543332
RD
85 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
86 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
87
bf4735a4
DM
88 If unsure, say N.
89
90config HEADERS_CHECK
91 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
92 depends on !UML
93 help
94 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
95 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
96 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
97 were not exported, etc.
98
99 If you're making modifications to header files which are
100 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
101 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
102 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
103
91341d4b
SR
104config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
105 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
1d53661d
MF
106 depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
107 default y
fa2144ba 108 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
af901ca1 109 # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
fa2144ba 110 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
91341d4b
SR
111 help
112 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
113 references from one section to another section.
114 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
115 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
116 most likely result in an oops.
117 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
118 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
d6fbfa4f
GU
119 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
120 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
121 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
91341d4b
SR
122 do the following:
123 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
124 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
d6fbfa4f 125 function we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 126 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
d6fbfa4f 127 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
91341d4b
SR
128 result in a larger kernel.
129 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
130 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
d6fbfa4f 131 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
91341d4b
SR
132 introduced.
133 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
134 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
135 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
136 mismatch at least twice.
588ccd73
SR
137 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
138 the section mismatches reported.
91341d4b 139
f346f4b3
AB
140config DEBUG_KERNEL
141 bool "Kernel debugging"
142 help
143 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
144 identify kernel problems.
145
a304e1b8
DW
146config DEBUG_SHIRQ
147 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
149 help
150 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
151 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
152 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
153 points; some don't and need to be caught.
154
8446f1d3 155config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
58687acb 156 bool
dea20a3f 157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3
IM
158 default y
159 help
160 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
161 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
9c44bc03 162 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
8446f1d3
IM
163 chance to run.
164
165 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
166 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
167 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
168 overhead.
169
170 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
171 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
172 support it.)
173
58687acb
DZ
174config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
175 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
177 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
84e478c6 178 help
58687acb
DZ
179 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
180 hard and soft lockups.
181
182 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
183 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
184 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
185 detection and the system will stay locked up.
186
187 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
188 for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
189 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
190 and the system will stay locked up.
84e478c6 191
58687acb
DZ
192 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
193 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
194 An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
84e478c6 195
9c44bc03
IM
196config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
197 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
198 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
199 help
200 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
201 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
202 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
203 chance to run.
204
205 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
206 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
207 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
208 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
209 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
210
211 Say N if unsure.
212
213config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
214 int
215 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
216 range 0 1
217 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
218 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
219
e162b39a
MSB
220config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
221 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
77d05632 223 default DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
e162b39a
MSB
224 help
225 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
226 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
227 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
228
229 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
230 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
231 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
232 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
233 feature has negligible overhead.
234
235config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
236 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
237 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
238 help
239 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
240 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
241 in uninterruptible "D" state.
242
243 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
244 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
245 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
246 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
247 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
248
249 Say N if unsure.
250
251config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
252 int
253 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
254 range 0 1
255 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
256 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
257
b642b6d3
IM
258config SCHED_DEBUG
259 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
260 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
261 default y
262 help
263 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
264 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
265 option is minimal.
266
1da177e4
LT
267config SCHEDSTATS
268 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
269 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
270 help
271 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
272 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
273 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
274 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
275 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
276 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
277 this adds.
278
82f67cd9
IM
279config TIMER_STATS
280 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
282 help
283 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
284 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
285 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
286 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
287 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
c1a834dc
IM
288 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
289 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
290 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
291 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
82f67cd9 292
3ac7fe5a
TG
293config DEBUG_OBJECTS
294 bool "Debug object operations"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
296 help
297 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
298 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
299 the operations on those objects.
300
301config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
302 bool "Debug objects selftest"
303 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
304 help
305 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
306
307config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
308 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
309 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
310 help
311 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
312 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
313 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
314 much slower.
315
c6f3a97f
TG
316config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
317 bool "Debug timer objects"
318 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
319 help
320 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
321 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
322 validate the timer operations.
323
dc186ad7
TG
324config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
325 bool "Debug work objects"
326 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
327 help
328 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
329 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
330 validate the work operations.
331
3ae70205
IM
332config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
333 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
334 range 0 1
335 default "1"
336 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
337 help
338 Debug objects boot parameter default value
339
1da177e4 340config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 341 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 342 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
1da177e4
LT
343 help
344 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
345 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
346 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
347
871751e2
AV
348config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
349 bool "Memory leak debugging"
350 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
351
f0630fff
CL
352config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
353 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 354 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
f0630fff
CL
355 default n
356 help
357 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
358 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
359 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
360 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
361 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
362 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
363 "slub_debug=-".
364
8ff12cfc
CL
365config SLUB_STATS
366 default n
367 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
5b06c853 368 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
8ff12cfc
CL
369 help
370 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
371 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
372 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
373 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
374 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
375 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
376 Try running: slabinfo -DA
377
3bba00d7
CM
378config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
379 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
dfcc3e6a 380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
9343af08 381 (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
dfcc3e6a 382
3bba00d7
CM
383 select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
384 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
385 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 386 select CRC32
3bba00d7
CM
387 help
388 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
389 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
390 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
391 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
392 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
393 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
394 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
395 details.
396
bf96d1e3
CM
397 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
398 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
399
3bba00d7
CM
400 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
401 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
402
a9d9058a
CM
403config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
404 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
405 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
dfcc3e6a 406 range 200 40000
a9d9058a
CM
407 default 400
408 help
409 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
410 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
411 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
412 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
413 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
414
0822ee4a
CM
415config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
416 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
417 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
418 help
419 Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
420 detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
421 memory.
422
423 If unsure, say N.
424
1da177e4
LT
425config DEBUG_PREEMPT
426 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 427 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1da177e4
LT
428 default y
429 help
430 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
431 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
432 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
433 will detect preemption count underflows.
434
e7eebaf6
IM
435config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
436 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
e7eebaf6
IM
437 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
438 help
439 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
440 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
441
442config DEBUG_PI_LIST
443 bool
444 default y
445 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
446
61a87122
TG
447config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
448 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
a1583d3e 449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
61a87122
TG
450 help
451 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
452
1da177e4 453config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 454 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4
LT
455 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
456 help
457 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
458 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
459 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
460 deadlocks are also debuggable.
461
4d9f34ad
IM
462config DEBUG_MUTEXES
463 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
465 help
466 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
467 reported.
468
4d9f34ad
IM
469config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
470 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad
IM
472 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
473 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad
IM
474 select LOCKDEP
475 help
476 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
477 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
478 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
479 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
480 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
481 held during task exit.
482
483config PROVE_LOCKING
484 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 485 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad
IM
486 select LOCKDEP
487 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
488 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad
IM
489 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
490 default n
491 help
492 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
493 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
494 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
495 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
496 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
497 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
498 deadlock.
499
500 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
501 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
502
503 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
504 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
505 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
506 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
507 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
508 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
509 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
510 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
511 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
512
513 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
514 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
515 kernel reports nothing.
516
517 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
518 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
519 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
520 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
521 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
522
523 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
524
632ee200
PM
525config PROVE_RCU
526 bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
527 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
528 default n
529 help
530 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
531 use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y
532 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
533 feature.
534
535 Say N if you are unsure.
536
4d9f34ad
IM
537config LOCKDEP
538 bool
517e7aa5 539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 540 select STACKTRACE
00540e5d 541 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
4d9f34ad
IM
542 select KALLSYMS
543 select KALLSYMS_ALL
544
f20786ff 545config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 546 bool "Lock usage statistics"
f20786ff
PZ
547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
548 select LOCKDEP
549 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
550 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
551 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
552 default n
553 help
554 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
555
a560aa48
PZ
556 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
557
dd8b1cf6
FW
558 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
559 subcommand of perf.
560 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
561 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
84c6f88f
HM
562
563 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 564 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 565
4d9f34ad
IM
566config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
567 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 568 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
4d9f34ad
IM
569 help
570 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
571 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
572 of more runtime overhead.
573
574config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
517e7aa5 575 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
4d9f34ad
IM
576 bool
577 default y
578 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
579 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
580
1da177e4 581config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
4d9f34ad 582 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
1da177e4
LT
583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
584 help
585 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
586 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
587
cae2ed9a
IM
588config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
589 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
590 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
591 help
592 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
593 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
594 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
595 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
596 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
597 mutexes and rwsems.
598
8637c099
IM
599config STACKTRACE
600 bool
601 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
602
1da177e4
LT
603config DEBUG_KOBJECT
604 bool "kobject debugging"
605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
606 help
607 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
608 to the syslog.
609
610config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
611 bool "Highmem debugging"
612 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
613 help
614 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
615 Disable for production systems.
616
617config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
618 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
c8538a7a 619 depends on BUG
b920de1b
DH
620 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
621 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
8420e7ef 622 default y
1da177e4
LT
623 help
624 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
625 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
626 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
627
628config DEBUG_INFO
629 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
630 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
631 help
632 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
633 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
b72e53f8
AD
634 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
635 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
636 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
1da177e4
LT
637 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
638
639 If unsure, say N.
640
a241ec65
PM
641config DEBUG_VM
642 bool "Debug VM"
643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
644 help
13e7444b
NP
645 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
646 that may impact performance.
a241ec65
PM
647
648 If unsure, say N.
649
59ea7463
JS
650config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
651 bool "Debug VM translations"
652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
653 help
654 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
655 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
656
657 If unsure, say N.
658
8feae131
DH
659config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
660 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
661 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
662 help
663 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
664 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
665
ad775f5a
DH
666config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
667 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
669 help
670 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
671 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
672 32 bits.
673
674 If unsure, say N.
675
6b74ab97
MG
676config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
677 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
678 default !EMBEDDED
679 help
680 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
681 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
682 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
683 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
684 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
685
686 If unsure, say Y
687
199a9afc
DJ
688config DEBUG_LIST
689 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
690 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
691 help
692 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
693 walking routines.
694
695 If unsure, say N.
696
d6ec0842
JA
697config DEBUG_SG
698 bool "Debug SG table operations"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
700 help
701 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
702 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
703 their sg tables.
704
705 If unsure, say N.
706
1b2439db
AV
707config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
708 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
710 help
711 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
712 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
713 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
714 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
715 performance, say N.
716
e0e81739
DH
717config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
718 bool "Debug credential management"
719 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
720 help
721 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
722 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
723 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
724 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
725 struct.
726
727 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
728 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
729
730 If unsure, say N.
731
64dec40d
JM
732#
733# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
734# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
735# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
736#
737config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
738 bool
739 help
740
1da177e4
LT
741config FRAME_POINTER
742 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
b920de1b 743 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
75ee034a 744 (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
da4276b8
IM
745 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
746 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
747 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
748 help
749 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
750 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
751 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
1da177e4 752
bfe8df3d
RD
753config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
754 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
755 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
756 help
757 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
758 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
759 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
760 using "boot_delay=N".
761
762 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
763 the "loops per jiffie" value.
764 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
765 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
766 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
767 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
768 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
769 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
770
a241ec65
PM
771config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
772 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
774 default n
775 help
776 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
777 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
778 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
779
31a72bce
PM
780 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
781 the kernel.
a241ec65
PM
782 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
783 Say N if you are unsure.
8bb31b9d 784
31a72bce
PM
785config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
786 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
787 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
788 default n
789 help
790 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
791 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
792 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
793 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
794 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
795 into the kernel.
796
797 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
798 boot (you probably don't).
799 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
800 after being manually enabled via /proc.
801
64db4cff
PM
802config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
803 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
6b3ef48a 804 depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
8bfb2f8e 805 default y
64db4cff
PM
806 help
807 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
808 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
809 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
67182ae1 810
4c54005c 811 Say N if you want to disable such checks.
67182ae1 812
4c54005c 813 Say Y if you are unsure.
67182ae1 814
1ed509a2
PM
815config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
816 bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
817 depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
818 default n
819 help
820 This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
821 for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
67182ae1
PM
822
823 Say N if you are unsure.
824
1ed509a2
PM
825 Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
826
8c1c9356
AM
827config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
828 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
829 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
830 depends on KPROBES
831 default n
832 help
833 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
834 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
835 verified for functionality.
836
837 Say N if you are unsure.
838
6dab2778
AV
839config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
840 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
841 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
842 default n
843 help
844 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
845 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
846 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
847 developers working on architecture code.
848
ad118c54
VN
849 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
850 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
851
6dab2778
AV
852 Say N if you are unsure.
853
870d6656
TH
854config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
855 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
856 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
857 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 858 default n
870d6656 859 help
0e11e342
TH
860 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
861 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
862 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
863 is broken.
864
870d6656
TH
865 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
866 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
867 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
868 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
869 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
870 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
871 device number allocation.
872
55dc7db7
TH
873 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
874 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
875 ones, so root partition specified using device number
876 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
877 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
878
870d6656
TH
879 Say N if you are unsure.
880
7c756e6e
TH
881config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
882 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
883 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
884 help
885 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
886 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
887 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
888 definitions.
889
890 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
891 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
892
893 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
894 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
895
8bb31b9d
AG
896config LKDTM
897 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
0347af4e 898 depends on DEBUG_FS
fddd9cf8 899 depends on BLOCK
8bb31b9d
AG
900 default n
901 help
902 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
903 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
904 If you don't need it: say N
905 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
906 called lkdtm.
907
908 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
0347af4e 909 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
6ff1cb35
AM
910
911config FAULT_INJECTION
1ab8509a
AM
912 bool "Fault-injection framework"
913 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
329409ae
AM
914 help
915 Provide fault-injection framework.
916 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 917
8a8b6502 918config FAILSLAB
1ab8509a
AM
919 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
920 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 921 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 922 help
1ab8509a 923 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 924
933e312e
AM
925config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
926 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 927 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 928 help
1ab8509a 929 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 930
c17bb495 931config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 932 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 933 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 934 help
1ab8509a 935 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 936
581d4e28
JA
937config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
938 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
939 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
940 help
941 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
942 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
943 thus exercising the error handling.
944
945 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
946 for others it wont do anything.
947
6ff1cb35
AM
948config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
949 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 950 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 951 help
1ab8509a 952 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1df49008
AM
953
954config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
955 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
956 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 957 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 958 select STACKTRACE
75ee034a 959 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390
1df49008
AM
960 help
961 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 962
9745512c
AV
963config LATENCYTOP
964 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
75ee034a 965 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390
9745512c
AV
966 select KALLSYMS
967 select KALLSYMS_ALL
968 select STACKTRACE
969 select SCHEDSTATS
970 select SCHED_DEBUG
aa7d9350 971 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
9745512c
AV
972 help
973 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
974 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
975
9e94cd32
AK
976config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
977 bool "Sysctl checks"
83ac201b 978 depends on SYSCTL
9e94cd32
AK
979 ---help---
980 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
981 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
982 you to keep things correct.
983
6a11f75b 984source mm/Kconfig.debug
16444a8a
ACM
985source kernel/trace/Kconfig
986
f212ec4b 987config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 988 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
f212ec4b
BK
989 depends on PCI && X86
990 help
991 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
992 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
993 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
994 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
995 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
996
997 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
998 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
999 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1000
1001 Usage:
1002
1003 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1004 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1005
1006 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1007 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1008 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1009 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1010
1011 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1012 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1013
1014 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
9745512c 1015
080de8c2
SR
1016config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
1017 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
1018 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
1019 help
1020 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
1021 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
1022 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
1023 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1024
1025 If unsure, say N.
1026
152de30b 1027config BUILD_DOCSRC
3794f3e8
RD
1028 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1029 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1030 help
1031 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1032 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1033
1034 Say N if you are unsure.
1035
e9d376f0 1036config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
86151fdf 1037 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
346e15be
JB
1038 default n
1039 depends on PRINTK
86151fdf 1040 depends on DEBUG_FS
346e15be
JB
1041 help
1042
1043 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
1044 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
86151fdf
JB
1045 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
1046 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
1047 implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of
1048 this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
346e15be
JB
1049
1050 Usage:
1051
86151fdf
JB
1052 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
1053 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
1054 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
1055 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
1056 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
1057 format for each line of the file is:
346e15be 1058
86151fdf 1059 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
346e15be 1060
86151fdf
JB
1061 filename : source file of the debug statement
1062 lineno : line number of the debug statement
1063 module : module that contains the debug statement
1064 function : function that contains the debug statement
1065 flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
1066 format : the format used for the debug statement
346e15be
JB
1067
1068 From a live system:
1069
86151fdf
JB
1070 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
1071 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
1072 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
1073 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
1074 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012"
346e15be 1075
86151fdf 1076 Example usage:
346e15be 1077
86151fdf
JB
1078 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
1079 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
1080 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
346e15be 1081
86151fdf
JB
1082 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
1083 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
1084 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
346e15be 1085
86151fdf
JB
1086 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
1087 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
1088 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
346e15be 1089
86151fdf
JB
1090 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1091 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
1092 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
346e15be 1093
86151fdf
JB
1094 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
1095 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
1096 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
346e15be 1097
86151fdf 1098 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
346e15be 1099
5ee00bd4
JR
1100config DMA_API_DEBUG
1101 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1102 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1103 help
1104 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1105 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1106 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1107 were never allocated.
1108 This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
1109 to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
346e15be 1110
267c4025 1111source "samples/Kconfig"
dc7d5527
JW
1112
1113source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
0a4af3b0
PE
1114
1115source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
This page took 0.596689 seconds and 5 git commands to generate.