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
12 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
13 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
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.
20 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
21 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
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.
29 bool "Magic SysRq key"
32 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
33 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
34 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
35 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
36 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
37 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
38 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
39 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
40 unless you really know what this hack does.
43 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
46 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
47 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
48 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
49 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
50 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
51 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
52 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
53 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
54 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
55 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
59 bool "Track page owner"
60 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
62 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
63 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Eats a fair amount of memory.
64 See Documentation/page_owner.c for user-space helper.
69 bool "Debug Filesystem"
72 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
73 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
79 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
82 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
83 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
84 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
85 were not exported, etc.
87 If you're making modifications to header files which are
88 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
89 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
90 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
93 bool "Kernel debugging"
95 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
96 identify kernel problems.
99 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
100 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
102 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
103 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
104 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
105 points; some don't and need to be caught.
107 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
108 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
112 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
113 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
114 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
117 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
118 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
119 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
122 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
123 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
127 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
131 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
132 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
136 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
137 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
139 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
140 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
141 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
142 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
143 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
144 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
148 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
149 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
151 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
152 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
153 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
154 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
155 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
156 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
157 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
158 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
159 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
162 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
165 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
166 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
167 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
170 bool "Debug GPIO calls"
171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GPIO_LIB
173 Say Y here to add some extra checks to GPIO calls, ensuring that
174 GPIOs have been properly initialized before they are used and
175 that sleeping calls aren't made from nonsleeping contexts. This
176 can make bitbanged serial protocols slower.
178 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
179 bool "Slab memory leak debugging"
180 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
183 Enable /proc/slab_allocators - provides detailed information about
184 which parts of the kernel are using slab objects. May be used for
185 tracking memory leaks and for instrumenting memory usage.
188 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
189 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
192 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
193 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
194 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
195 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
196 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
197 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
201 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
205 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
206 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
207 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
208 will detect preemption count underflows.
210 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
211 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
214 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
215 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
220 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
222 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
223 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
226 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
228 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
229 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
230 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
232 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
233 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
234 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
235 deadlocks are also debuggable.
238 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
241 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
244 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
245 bool "Semaphore debugging"
246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
247 depends on ALPHA || FRV
250 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
251 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
252 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
254 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
255 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
256 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
257 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
261 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
262 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
263 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
264 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
265 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
266 held during task exit.
269 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
270 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
272 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
274 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
277 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
278 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
279 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
280 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
281 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
282 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
285 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
286 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
288 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
289 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
290 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
291 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
292 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
293 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
294 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
295 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
296 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
298 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
299 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
300 kernel reports nothing.
302 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
303 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
304 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
305 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
306 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
308 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
314 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
319 bool "Lock usage statistics"
320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
322 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
324 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
327 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
329 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
332 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
335 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
336 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
337 of more runtime overhead.
339 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
343 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
344 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
346 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
347 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
348 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
350 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
351 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
353 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
354 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
355 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
357 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
358 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
359 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
360 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
361 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
366 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
367 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
370 bool "kobject debugging"
371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
373 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
377 bool "Highmem debugging"
378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
380 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
381 Disable for production systems.
383 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
384 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
386 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN || MN10300
389 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
390 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
391 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
394 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
395 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
397 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
398 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
399 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
400 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
401 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
402 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
408 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
410 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
411 that may impact performance.
416 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
417 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
419 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
425 bool "Debug SG table operations"
426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
428 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
429 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
435 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN || MN10300)
439 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
440 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
441 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
442 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
444 config PROFILE_LIKELY
445 bool "Record return values from likely/unlikely macros"
448 Adds profiling on likely/unlikly macros . To see the
449 results of the profiling you can view the following,
452 config FORCED_INLINING
453 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
457 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
458 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
459 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
460 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
461 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
462 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
463 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
466 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
467 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
470 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
471 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
472 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
473 using "boot_delay=N".
475 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
476 the "loops per jiffie" value.
477 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
478 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
479 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
480 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
481 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
482 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
484 config DEBUG_SYNCHRO_TEST
485 tristate "Synchronisation primitive testing module"
486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
489 This option provides a kernel module that can thrash the sleepable
490 synchronisation primitives (mutexes and semaphores).
492 You should say N or M here. Whilst the module can be built in, it's
493 not recommended as it requires module parameters supplying to get it
496 See Documentation/synchro-test.txt.
498 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
499 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
500 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
504 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
505 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
506 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
508 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
509 Say N if you are unsure.
512 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
513 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
517 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
518 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
519 If you don't need it: say N
520 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
523 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
526 config FAULT_INJECTION
527 bool "Fault-injection framework"
528 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
530 Provide fault-injection framework.
531 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
534 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
535 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
537 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
539 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
540 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
541 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
543 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
545 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
546 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
547 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
549 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
551 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
552 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
553 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
555 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
557 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
558 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
559 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
564 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
566 source "samples/Kconfig"