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
77 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
78 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
83 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
86 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
87 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
88 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
89 were not exported, etc.
91 If you're making modifications to header files which are
92 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
93 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
94 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
96 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
97 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
99 # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
100 # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
101 # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
103 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
104 references from one section to another section.
105 Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
106 and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
107 most likely result in an oops.
108 In the code functions and variables are annotated with
109 __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
110 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
111 The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
112 kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
114 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
115 When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
116 function we would lose the section information and thus
117 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
118 This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
119 result in a larger kernel.
120 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
121 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
122 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
124 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
125 will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
126 source. The drawback is that we will report the same
127 mismatch at least twice.
128 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
129 the section mismatches reported.
132 bool "Kernel debugging"
134 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
135 identify kernel problems.
138 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
141 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
142 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
143 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
144 points; some don't and need to be caught.
146 config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
147 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
151 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
152 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
153 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
156 When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
157 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
158 system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
161 (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
162 can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
165 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
166 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
167 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
169 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
170 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
171 mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
174 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
175 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
176 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
177 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
178 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
182 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
184 depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
186 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
187 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
190 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
194 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
195 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
199 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
202 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
203 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
204 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
205 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
206 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
207 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
211 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
214 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
215 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
216 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
217 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
218 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
219 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
220 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
221 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
222 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
225 bool "Debug object operations"
226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
228 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
229 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
230 the operations on those objects.
232 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
233 bool "Debug objects selftest"
234 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
236 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
238 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
239 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
240 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
242 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
243 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
244 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
247 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
248 bool "Debug timer objects"
249 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
251 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
252 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
253 validate the timer operations.
255 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
256 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
259 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
261 Debug objects boot parameter default value
264 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
267 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
268 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
269 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
271 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
272 bool "Memory leak debugging"
273 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
276 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
277 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
280 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
281 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
282 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
283 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
284 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
285 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
290 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
291 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && SYSFS
293 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
294 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
295 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
296 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
297 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
298 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
299 Try running: slabinfo -DA
302 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
306 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
307 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
308 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
309 will detect preemption count underflows.
311 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
312 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
313 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
315 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
316 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
321 depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
323 config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
324 bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
325 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
327 This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
329 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
330 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
333 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
334 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
335 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
336 deadlocks are also debuggable.
339 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
342 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
345 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
346 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
348 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
352 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
353 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
354 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
355 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
356 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
357 held during task exit.
360 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
361 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
363 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
365 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
368 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
369 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
370 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
371 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
372 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
373 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
376 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
377 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
379 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
380 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
381 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
382 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
383 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
384 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
385 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
386 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
387 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
389 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
390 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
391 kernel reports nothing.
393 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
394 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
395 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
396 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
397 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
399 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
405 select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
410 bool "Lock usage statistics"
411 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
413 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
415 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
418 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
420 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
423 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
424 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
426 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
427 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
428 of more runtime overhead.
430 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
434 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
435 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
437 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
438 bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
441 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
442 noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
444 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
445 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
448 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
449 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
450 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
451 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
452 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
457 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
460 bool "kobject debugging"
461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
463 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
467 bool "Highmem debugging"
468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
470 This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
471 Disable for production systems.
473 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
474 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
476 depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \
477 FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300
480 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
481 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
482 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
485 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
488 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
489 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
490 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
491 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
492 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
493 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
499 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
501 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
502 that may impact performance.
507 bool "Debug VM translations"
508 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
510 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
511 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
515 config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
516 bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
519 Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
520 vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by
525 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
526 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED
529 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
530 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
531 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
532 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
533 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
538 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
541 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
547 bool "Debug SG table operations"
548 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
550 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
551 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
556 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
557 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
560 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
561 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
562 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
563 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
567 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
568 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
569 (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \
570 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300)
571 default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
573 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
574 and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
575 some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
576 If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
578 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
579 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
580 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
582 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
583 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
584 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
585 using "boot_delay=N".
587 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
588 the "loops per jiffie" value.
589 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
590 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
591 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
592 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
593 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
594 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
596 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
597 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
601 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
602 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
603 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
605 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
607 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
608 Say N if you are unsure.
610 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
611 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
612 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
615 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
616 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
617 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
618 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
619 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
622 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
623 boot (you probably don't).
624 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
625 after being manually enabled via /proc.
627 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
628 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
629 depends on CLASSIC_RCU
632 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
633 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
634 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
636 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
638 Say N if you are unsure.
640 config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
641 bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
642 depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
645 This option causes RCU to printk information on which
646 CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
647 the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
649 Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks.
651 Say N if you are unsure.
653 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
654 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
655 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
659 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
660 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
661 verified for functionality.
663 Say N if you are unsure.
665 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
666 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
667 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
670 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
671 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
672 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
673 developers working on architecture code.
675 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
676 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
678 Say N if you are unsure.
680 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
681 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
682 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
686 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
687 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
688 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
691 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
692 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
693 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
694 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
695 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
696 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
697 device number allocation.
699 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
700 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
701 ones, so root partition specified using device number
702 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
703 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
705 Say N if you are unsure.
708 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
714 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
715 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
716 If you don't need it: say N
717 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
720 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
723 config FAULT_INJECTION
724 bool "Fault-injection framework"
725 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
727 Provide fault-injection framework.
728 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
731 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
732 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
733 depends on SLAB || SLUB
735 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
737 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
738 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
739 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
741 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
743 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
744 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
745 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
747 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
749 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
750 bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
751 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
753 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
754 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
755 thus exercising the error handling.
757 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
758 for others it wont do anything.
760 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
761 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
762 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
764 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
766 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
767 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
768 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
771 select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC
773 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
776 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
777 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC
783 depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
785 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
786 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
788 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
790 depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL
792 sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
793 to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
794 you to keep things correct.
796 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
798 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
799 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
800 depends on PCI && X86
802 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
803 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
804 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
805 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
806 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
808 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
809 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
810 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
814 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
815 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
817 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
818 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
819 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
820 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
822 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
823 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
825 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
827 config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA
828 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci"
829 depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI
831 This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging
832 with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered
833 remote DMA in firewire-ohci.
834 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
838 menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC
839 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
840 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
842 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
843 kernel Documentation/ tree.
845 Say N if you are unsure.
847 config DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG
848 bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support"
854 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
855 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
856 enabled/disabled on a per module basis. This mechanism implicitly
857 enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this
858 compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%.
862 Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file,
863 dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
864 can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed
865 by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the
866 'enabled' flag. For example:
868 <module_name> <enabled=0/1>
873 <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
874 <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not
878 snd_hda_intel enabled=0
884 $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
888 $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules
892 $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
896 $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
898 Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
899 debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
902 source "samples/Kconfig"
904 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"