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 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
31 default 1024 if !64BIT
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.
40 bool "Magic SysRq key"
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.
54 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
57 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
58 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
59 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
60 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
61 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
62 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
63 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
64 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
65 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
66 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
70 bool "Debug Filesystem"
73 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
74 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
80 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
83 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
84 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
85 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
86 were not exported, etc.
88 If you're making modifications to header files which are
89 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
90 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
91 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
93 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
94 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
96 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
97 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
98 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
100 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
101 references from one section to another section.
102 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
103 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
104 most likely result in an oops.
105 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
106 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
107 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
108 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
109 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
111 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
112 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
113 function we would lose the section information and thus
114 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
115 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
116 result in a larger kernel.
117 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
118 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
119 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
121 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
122 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
123 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
124 mismatch at least twice.
125 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
126 the section mismatches reported.
129 bool "Kernel debugging"
131 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
132 identify kernel problems.
135 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
138 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
139 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
140 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
141 points; some don't and need to be caught.
143 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
144 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
148 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
149 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
150 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
153 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
154 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
155 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
158 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
159 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
163 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
167 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
168 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
172 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
175 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
176 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
177 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
178 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
179 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
180 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
184 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
187 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
188 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
189 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
190 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
191 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
192 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
193 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
194 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
195 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
198 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
201 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
202 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
203 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
205 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
206 bool "Memory leak debugging"
207 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
210 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
211 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
214 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
215 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
216 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
217 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
218 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
219 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
224 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
225 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
227 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
228 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
229 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
230 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
231 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
232 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
233 Try running: slabinfo -DA
236 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
240 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
241 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
242 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
243 will detect preemption count underflows.
245 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
246 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
249 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
250 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
255 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
257 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
258 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
261 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
263 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
264 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
267 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
268 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
269 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
270 deadlocks are also debuggable.
273 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
274 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
276 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
279 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
280 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
282 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
286 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
287 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
288 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
289 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
290 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
291 held during task exit.
294 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
297 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
299 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
302 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
303 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
304 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
305 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
306 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
307 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
310 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
311 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
313 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
314 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
315 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
316 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
317 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
318 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
319 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
320 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
321 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
323 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
324 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
325 kernel reports nothing.
327 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
328 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
329 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
330 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
331 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
333 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
337 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
339 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
344 bool "Lock usage statistics"
345 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
347 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
349 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
352 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
354 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
357 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
360 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
361 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
362 of more runtime overhead.
364 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
368 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
369 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
371 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
372 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
375 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
376 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
378 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
379 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
382 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
383 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
384 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
385 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
386 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
391 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
392 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
395 bool "kobject debugging"
396 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
398 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
402 bool "Highmem debugging"
403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
405 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
406 Disable for production systems.
408 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
409 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
411 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
412 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
415 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
416 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
417 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
420 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
423 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
424 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
425 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
426 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
427 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
428 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
434 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
436 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
437 that may impact performance.
441 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
442 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
445 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
446 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
452 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
453 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
455 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
461 bool "Debug SG table operations"
462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
464 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
465 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
471 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
473 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
474 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
475 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
477 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
478 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
479 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
480 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
482 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
483 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
486 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
487 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
488 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
489 using "boot_delay=N".
491 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
492 the "loops per jiffie" value.
493 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
494 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
495 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
496 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
497 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
498 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
500 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
501 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
506 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
507 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
508 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
510 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
511 Say N if you are unsure.
513 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
514 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
519 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
520 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
521 verified for functionality.
523 Say N if you are unsure.
525 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
526 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
527 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
530 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
531 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
532 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
533 developers working on architecture code.
535 Say N if you are unsure.
538 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
544 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
545 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
546 If you don't need it: say N
547 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
550 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
553 config FAULT_INJECTION
554 bool "Fault-injection framework"
555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
557 Provide fault-injection framework.
558 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
561 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
562 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
564 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
566 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
567 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
568 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
570 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
572 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
573 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
574 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
576 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
578 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
579 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
580 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
582 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
584 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
585 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
586 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
591 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
594 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
595 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
601 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
603 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
604 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
606 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
607 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
608 depends on PCI && X86
610 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
611 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
612 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
613 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
614 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
616 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
617 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
618 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
622 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
623 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
625 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
626 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
627 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
628 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
630 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
631 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
633 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
635 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
636 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
637 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
639 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
640 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
641 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
642 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
646 source "samples/Kconfig"
648 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"