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_MUST_CHECK
13 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
16 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
17 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
18 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
21 bool "Magic SysRq key"
24 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
25 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
26 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
27 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
28 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
29 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
30 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
31 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
32 unless you really know what this hack does.
35 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
38 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
39 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
40 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
41 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
42 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
43 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
44 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
45 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
46 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
47 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
51 bool "Debug Filesystem"
54 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
55 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
61 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
64 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
65 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
66 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
67 were not exported, etc.
69 If you're making modifications to header files which are
70 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
71 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
72 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
75 bool "Kernel debugging"
77 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
78 identify kernel problems.
81 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
84 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
85 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
86 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
87 points; some don't and need to be caught.
89 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
90 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
91 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
94 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
95 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
96 mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
99 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
100 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
101 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
104 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
105 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
109 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
113 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
114 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
118 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
121 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
122 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
123 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
124 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
125 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
126 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
130 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
133 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
134 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
135 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
136 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
137 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
138 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
139 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
140 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
141 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
144 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
147 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
148 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
149 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
151 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
152 bool "Memory leak debugging"
153 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
156 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
157 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
160 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
161 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
162 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
163 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
164 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
165 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
169 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
173 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
174 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
175 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
176 will detect preemption count underflows.
178 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
179 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
182 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
183 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
188 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
190 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
191 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
194 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
196 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
197 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
198 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
200 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
201 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
202 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
203 deadlocks are also debuggable.
206 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
207 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
209 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
212 config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
213 bool "Semaphore debugging"
214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
215 depends on ALPHA || FRV
218 If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
219 verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
220 kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N.
222 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
223 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
225 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
229 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
230 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
231 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
232 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
233 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
234 held during task exit.
237 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
240 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
242 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
245 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
246 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
247 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
248 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
249 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
250 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
253 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
254 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
256 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
257 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
258 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
259 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
260 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
261 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
262 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
263 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
264 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
266 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
267 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
268 kernel reports nothing.
270 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
271 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
272 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
273 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
274 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
276 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
282 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
287 bool "Lock usage statistics"
288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
290 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
292 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
295 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
297 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
300 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
303 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
304 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
305 of more runtime overhead.
307 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
311 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
312 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
314 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
315 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
318 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
319 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
321 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
322 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
325 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
326 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
327 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
328 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
329 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
335 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
338 bool "kobject debugging"
339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
341 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
345 bool "Highmem debugging"
346 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
348 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
349 Disable for production systems.
351 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
352 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
354 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BFIN
357 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
358 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
359 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
362 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
365 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
366 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
367 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
368 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
369 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
370 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
378 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
379 that may impact performance.
384 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
387 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
393 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
394 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BFIN)
395 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
397 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
398 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
399 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
400 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
402 config FORCED_INLINING
403 bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
407 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
408 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
409 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
410 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
411 disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
412 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
413 become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
416 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
417 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
418 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
420 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
421 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
422 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
423 using "boot_delay=N".
425 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
426 the "loops per jiffie" value.
427 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
428 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
429 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
430 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
431 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
432 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
434 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
435 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
440 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
441 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
442 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
444 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
445 Say N if you are unsure.
448 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
453 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
454 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
455 If you don't need it: say N
456 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
459 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
462 config FAULT_INJECTION
463 bool "Fault-injection framework"
464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
466 Provide fault-injection framework.
467 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
470 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
471 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
473 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
475 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
476 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
477 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
479 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
481 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
482 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
483 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
485 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
487 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
488 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
489 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
491 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
493 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
494 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
495 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
500 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities