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 "Debug Filesystem"
62 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
63 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
69 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
72 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
73 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
74 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
75 were not exported, etc.
77 If you're making modifications to header files which are
78 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
79 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
80 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
82 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
83 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
85 <<<<<<< HEAD:lib/Kconfig.debug
87 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
88 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
89 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
90 >>>>>>> 264e3e889d86e552b4191d69bb60f4f3b383135a:lib/Kconfig.debug
92 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
93 references from one section to another section.
94 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
95 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
96 most likely result in an oops.
97 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
98 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
99 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
100 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
101 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
103 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
104 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
105 function we would lose the section information and thus
106 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
107 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
108 result in a larger kernel.
109 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
110 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
111 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
113 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
114 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
115 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
116 mismatch at least twice.
117 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
118 the section mismatches reported.
121 bool "Kernel debugging"
123 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
124 identify kernel problems.
127 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
130 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
131 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
132 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
133 points; some don't and need to be caught.
135 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
136 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
137 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
140 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
141 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
142 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
145 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
146 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
147 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
150 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
151 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
155 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
159 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
160 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
164 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
167 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
168 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
169 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
170 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
171 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
172 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
176 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
177 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
179 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
180 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
181 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
182 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
183 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
184 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
185 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
186 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
187 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
190 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
193 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
194 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
195 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
197 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
198 bool "Memory leak debugging"
199 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
202 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
203 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
206 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
207 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
208 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
209 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
210 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
211 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
216 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
219 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
220 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
221 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
222 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
223 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
224 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
225 Try running: slabinfo -DA
228 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
232 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
233 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
234 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
235 will detect preemption count underflows.
237 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
238 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
241 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
242 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
247 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
249 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
250 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
253 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
255 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
256 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
257 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
259 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
260 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
261 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
262 deadlocks are also debuggable.
265 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
268 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
271 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
272 bool "Semaphore debugging"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
274 depends on ALPHA || FRV
277 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
278 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
279 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
281 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
282 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
284 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
288 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
289 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
290 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
291 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
292 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
293 held during task exit.
296 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
299 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
301 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
304 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
305 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
306 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
307 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
308 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
309 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
312 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
313 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
315 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
316 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
317 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
318 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
319 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
320 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
321 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
322 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
323 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
325 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
326 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
327 kernel reports nothing.
329 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
330 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
331 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
332 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
333 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
335 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
341 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
346 bool "Lock usage statistics"
347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
349 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
351 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
354 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
356 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
359 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
362 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
363 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
364 of more runtime overhead.
366 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
367 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
370 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
371 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
373 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
374 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
375 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
377 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
378 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
380 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
381 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
384 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
385 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
386 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
387 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
388 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
394 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
397 bool "kobject debugging"
398 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
400 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
404 bool "Highmem debugging"
405 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
407 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
408 Disable for production systems.
410 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
411 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
413 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
414 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
417 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
418 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
419 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
422 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
423 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
425 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
426 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
427 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
428 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
429 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
430 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
438 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
439 that may impact performance.
444 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
445 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
447 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
453 bool "Debug SG table operations"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
456 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
457 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
463 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
465 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
466 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
467 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
469 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
470 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
471 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
472 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
474 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
475 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
478 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
479 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
480 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
481 using "boot_delay=N".
483 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
484 the "loops per jiffie" value.
485 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
486 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
487 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
488 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
489 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
490 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
492 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
493 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
498 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
499 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
500 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
502 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
503 Say N if you are unsure.
505 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
506 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
511 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
512 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
513 verified for functionality.
515 Say N if you are unsure.
517 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
518 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
519 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
522 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
523 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
524 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
525 developers working on architecture code.
527 Say N if you are unsure.
530 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
531 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
533 <<<<<<< HEAD:lib/Kconfig.debug
536 >>>>>>> 264e3e889d86e552b4191d69bb60f4f3b383135a:lib/Kconfig.debug
539 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
540 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
541 If you don't need it: say N
542 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
545 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
548 config FAULT_INJECTION
549 bool "Fault-injection framework"
550 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
552 Provide fault-injection framework.
553 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
556 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
557 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
559 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
561 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
562 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
563 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
565 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
567 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
568 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
569 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
571 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
573 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
574 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
575 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
577 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
579 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
580 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
581 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
586 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
589 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
590 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
596 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
598 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
599 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
601 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
602 bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot"
603 depends on PCI && X86
605 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
606 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
607 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
608 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
609 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
611 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
612 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
613 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
617 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
618 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
620 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
621 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
622 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
623 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
625 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
626 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
628 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
630 source "samples/Kconfig"