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.
83 bool "Kernel debugging"
85 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
86 identify kernel problems.
89 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
90 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
92 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
93 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
94 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
95 points; some don't and need to be caught.
97 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
98 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
99 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
102 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
103 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
104 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
107 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
108 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
109 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
112 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
113 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
117 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
121 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
122 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
126 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
127 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
129 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
130 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
131 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
132 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
133 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
134 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
138 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
141 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
142 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
143 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
144 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
145 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
146 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
147 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
148 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
149 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
152 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
155 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
156 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
157 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
159 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
160 bool "Memory leak debugging"
161 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
164 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
165 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
168 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
169 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
170 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
171 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
172 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
173 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
177 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
181 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
182 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
183 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
184 will detect preemption count underflows.
186 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
187 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
188 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
190 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
191 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
196 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
198 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
199 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
202 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
204 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
205 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
206 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
208 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
209 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
210 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
211 deadlocks are also debuggable.
214 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
217 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
220 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
221 bool "Semaphore debugging"
222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
223 depends on ALPHA || FRV
226 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
227 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
228 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
230 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
231 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
233 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
237 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
238 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
239 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
240 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
241 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
242 held during task exit.
245 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
248 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
250 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
253 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
254 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
255 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
256 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
257 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
258 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
261 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
262 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
264 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
265 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
266 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
267 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
268 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
269 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
270 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
271 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
272 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
274 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
275 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
276 kernel reports nothing.
278 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
279 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
280 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
281 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
282 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
284 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
290 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
295 bool "Lock usage statistics"
296 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
298 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
300 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
303 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
305 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
308 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
309 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
311 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
312 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
313 of more runtime overhead.
315 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
319 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
320 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
322 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
323 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
324 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
326 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
327 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
329 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
330 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
333 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
334 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
335 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
336 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
337 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
342 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
343 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
346 bool "kobject debugging"
347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
349 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
353 bool "Highmem debugging"
354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
356 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
357 Disable for production systems.
359 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
360 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
362 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
365 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
366 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
367 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
370 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
373 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
374 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
375 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
376 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
377 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
378 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
384 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
386 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
387 that may impact performance.
392 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
395 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
401 bool "Debug SG table operations"
402 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
404 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
405 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
411 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
413 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
415 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
416 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
417 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
418 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
420 config FORCED_INLINING
421 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
425 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
426 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
427 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
428 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
429 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
430 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
431 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
434 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
435 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
438 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
439 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
440 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
441 using "boot_delay=N".
443 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
444 the "loops per jiffie" value.
445 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
446 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
447 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
448 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
449 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
450 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
452 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
453 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
458 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
459 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
460 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
462 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
463 Say N if you are unsure.
466 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
471 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
472 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
473 If you don't need it: say N
474 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
477 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
480 config FAULT_INJECTION
481 bool "Fault-injection framework"
482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
484 Provide fault-injection framework.
485 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
488 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
489 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
491 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
493 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
494 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
495 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
497 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
499 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
500 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
501 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
503 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
505 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
506 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
507 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
509 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
511 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
512 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
513 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
518 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
520 source "samples/Kconfig"