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config PRINTK_TIME bool "Show timing information on printks" |
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help Selecting this option causes timing information to be included in printk output. This allows you to measure the interval between kernel operations, including bootup operations. This is useful for identifying long delays |
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in kernel startup. Or add printk.time=1 at boot-time. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |
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config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL int "Default message log level (1-7)" range 1 7 default "4" help Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. |
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config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y help Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. |
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config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK bool "Enable __must_check logic" default y help Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with attribute warn_unused_result" messages. |
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config FRAME_WARN int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" range 0 8192 default 1024 if !64BIT default 2048 if 64BIT help Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. Setting it to 0 disables the warning. Requires gcc 4.4 |
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config MAGIC_SYSRQ bool "Magic SysRq key" |
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help If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. |
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config STRIP_ASM_SYMS bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" default n help Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of get_wchan() and suchlike. |
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config UNUSED_SYMBOLS bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" default y if X86 help Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for your module is. |
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config DEBUG_FS bool "Debug Filesystem" |
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help debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and write to these files. |
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For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. |
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If unsure, say N. config HEADERS_CHECK bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" depends on !UML help This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which were not exported, etc. If you're making modifications to header files which are relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. |
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config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" |
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help The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal references from one section to another section. Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections and any use of code/data previously in these sections will most likely result in an oops. In the code functions and variables are annotated with __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h) |
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which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full kernel build but enabling this option will in addition |
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do the following: - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init |
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function we would lose the section information and thus |
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the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. |
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This option tells gcc to inline less but will also |
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result in a larger kernel. - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we |
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lose valueble information about where the mismatch was |
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introduced. Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the source. The drawback is that we will report the same mismatch at least twice. |
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- Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving the section mismatches reported. |
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config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. |
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config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS help Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those points; some don't and need to be caught. |
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config LOCKUP_DETECTOR bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" |
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Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect hard and soft lockups. Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel |
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chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. |
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Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. |
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The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds. An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. |
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config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR |
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def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \ !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG |
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config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode with interrupts disabled for more than 60 seconds. Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE int depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC |
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config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" |
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help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, to cause the system to reboot automatically after a lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE int |
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range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC |
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config DETECT_HUNG_TASK bool "Detect Hung Tasks" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
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help Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley. When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the current stack trace (which you should report), but the task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This feature has negligible overhead. |
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config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK default 120 help This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should be considered hung. It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout sysctl or by writing a value to /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout. A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. |
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config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck in uninterruptible "D" state. The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, to cause the system to reboot automatically after a hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE int depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC |
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config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS default y help If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this option is minimal. |
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config SCHEDSTATS bool "Collect scheduler statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. |
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config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information |
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about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS bool "Debug object operations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate the operations on those objects. config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST bool "Debug objects selftest" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help This enables the selftest of the object debug code. config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE bool "Debug objects in freed memory" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area which contains an object which has not been deactivated properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS bool "Debug timer objects" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and validate the timer operations. |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK bool "Debug work objects" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and validate the work operations. |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" |
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depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS |
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help Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER bool "Debug percpu counter objects" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter objects and validate the percpu counter operations. |
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config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" range 0 1 default "1" depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS help Debug objects boot parameter default value |
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config DEBUG_SLAB |
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bool "Debug slab memory allocations" |
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK |
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help Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. |
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config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK bool "Memory leak debugging" depends on DEBUG_SLAB |
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config SLUB_DEBUG_ON bool "SLUB debugging on by default" |
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default n help Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. There is no support for more fine grained debug control like possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying "slub_debug=-". |
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config SLUB_STATS default n bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" |
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help SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. Try running: slabinfo -DA |
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config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK bool "Kernel memory leak detector" |
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(X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE) |
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select DEBUG_FS |
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select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT select KALLSYMS |
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help Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature will introduce an overhead to memory allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more details. |
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Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. |
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In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). |
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config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK |
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default 400 help Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log buffer exceeded", please increase this value. |
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config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" |
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This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. |
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If unsure, say N. |
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config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF bool "Default kmemleak to off" depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK help Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled on the command line via kmemleak=on. |
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config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" |
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default y help If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel will detect preemption count underflows. |
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config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" |
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES help This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. config DEBUG_PI_LIST bool default y depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES |
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config RT_MUTEX_TESTER bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes" |
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help This option enables a rt-mutex tester. |
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config DEBUG_SPINLOCK |
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bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" |
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock deadlocks are also debuggable. |
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config DEBUG_MUTEXES bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and reported. |
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config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" |
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select LOCKDEP help This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock held during task exit. config PROVE_LOCKING bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" |
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select LOCKDEP select DEBUG_SPINLOCK select DEBUG_MUTEXES |
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default n help This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and not yet triggered) combination of observed locking sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a deadlock. In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking related deadlocks before they actually occur. The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario is), it will be proven so and will immediately be reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that makes the deadlock theoretically possible). If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the kernel reports nothing. NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. |
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config PROVE_RCU bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness" depends on PROVE_LOCKING default n help This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct use of RCU APIs. This is currently under development. Say Y if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU feature. Say N if you are unsure. |
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config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat" depends on PROVE_RCU default n help By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed on a single reboot. |
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Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot. Say N if you are unsure. |
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config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage" default n help This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely a debugging aid. Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers |
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config LOCKDEP bool |
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select STACKTRACE |
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select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE |
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config LOCK_STAT |
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT select LOCKDEP select DEBUG_SPINLOCK select DEBUG_MUTEXES select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC default n help This feature enables tracking lock contention points |
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This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", subcommand of perf. If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. |
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CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. |
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config DEBUG_LOCKDEP bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" |
517e7aa5b
|
591 |
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP |
4d9f34ad3
|
592 593 594 595 596 597 598 |
help If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price of more runtime overhead. config TRACE_IRQFLAGS bool |
46b93b74f
|
599 600 601 |
help Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for either tracing or lock debugging. |
4d9f34ad3
|
602 |
|
d902db1eb
|
603 604 |
config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" |
e8f7c70f4
|
605 |
select PREEMPT_COUNT |
1da177e4c
|
606 607 608 |
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very |
d902db1eb
|
609 610 611 |
noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled sections, inside an interrupt, etc... |
1da177e4c
|
612 |
|
cae2ed9aa
|
613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 |
config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems. |
8637c0990
|
623 624 625 |
config STACKTRACE bool depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
5ca43f6c3
|
626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 |
config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. This option will slow down process creation somewhat. |
1da177e4c
|
634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 |
config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent to the syslog. config DEBUG_HIGHMEM bool "Highmem debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM help This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. Disable for production systems. config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE |
6a108a14f
|
649 |
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT |
c8538a7aa
|
650 |
depends on BUG |
b920de1b7
|
651 |
depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || \ |
3cc39b3f0
|
652 |
FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || TILE |
8420e7efa
|
653 |
default y |
1da177e4c
|
654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 |
help Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. config DEBUG_INFO bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. |
b72e53f8b
|
665 666 667 |
This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. |
1da177e4c
|
668 669 670 |
Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. If unsure, say N. |
d6f4ceb79
|
671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 |
config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED bool "Reduce debugging information" depends on DEBUG_INFO help If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging information for structure types. This means that tools that need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. |
a241ec65a
|
683 684 685 686 |
config DEBUG_VM bool "Debug VM" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help |
13e7444b0
|
687 688 |
Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system that may impact performance. |
a241ec65a
|
689 690 |
If unsure, say N. |
59ea74633
|
691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 |
config DEBUG_VIRTUAL bool "Debug VM translations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86 help Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. If unsure, say N. |
8feae1311
|
699 700 701 702 703 704 |
config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU help This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. |
ad775f5a8
|
705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 |
config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT bool "Debug filesystem writers count" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct vfsmount. This will increase the size of each file struct by 32 bits. If unsure, say N. |
6b74ab97b
|
714 |
config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT |
6a108a14f
|
715 716 |
bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT default !EXPERT |
6b74ab97b
|
717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 |
help Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. If unsure, say Y |
199a9afc3
|
725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 |
config DEBUG_LIST bool "Debug linked list manipulation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list walking routines. If unsure, say N. |
6d411e6c0
|
733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 |
config TEST_LIST_SORT bool "Linked list sorting test" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time. If unsure, say N. |
d6ec08420
|
741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 |
config DEBUG_SG bool "Debug SG table operations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize their sg tables. If unsure, say N. |
1b2439dbb
|
750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 |
config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS bool "Debug notifier call chains" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum performance, say N. |
e0e817392
|
759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 |
config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS bool "Debug credential management" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential management. The additional code keeps track of the number of pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct. Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. If unsure, say N. |
64dec40dd
|
773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 |
# # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): # config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS bool help |
1da177e4c
|
781 782 |
config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" |
b920de1b7
|
783 |
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ |
730204155
|
784 |
(CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ |
da4276b82
|
785 786 787 788 789 790 791 |
AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS help If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) |
1da177e4c
|
792 |
|
bfe8df3d3
|
793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 |
config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY help This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, using "boot_delay=N". It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset the "loops per jiffie" value. See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. |
8edbb83e5
|
808 |
BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect |
bfe8df3d3
|
809 |
what it believes to be lockup conditions. |
a241ec65a
|
810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 |
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST tristate "torture tests for RCU" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL default n help This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. |
31a72bce0
|
818 819 |
Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into the kernel. |
a241ec65a
|
820 821 |
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. Say N if you are unsure. |
8bb31b9d5
|
822 |
|
31a72bce0
|
823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 |
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default" depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y default n help This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable to manually override this setting. This /proc file is available only when the RCU torture tests have been built into the kernel. Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during boot (you probably don't). Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only after being manually enabled via /proc. |
b163760e3
|
839 840 |
config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds" |
a00e0d714
|
841 |
depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
b163760e3
|
842 843 844 845 846 847 848 |
range 3 300 default 60 help If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are printed at more widely spaced intervals. |
1ed509a22
|
849 850 |
config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR" |
a00e0d714
|
851 |
depends on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU |
55ec936ff
|
852 |
default y |
1ed509a22
|
853 854 855 |
help This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period. |
67182ae1c
|
856 857 |
Say N if you are unsure. |
1ed509a22
|
858 |
Say Y if you want to enable such checks. |
8c1c93564
|
859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 |
config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST bool "Kprobes sanity tests" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on KPROBES default n help This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and verified for functionality. Say N if you are unsure. |
6dab27784
|
870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 |
config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL default n help This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel developers working on architecture code. |
ad118c54a
|
879 880 |
Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will have to enable STACKTRACE as well. |
6dab27784
|
881 |
Say N if you are unsure. |
870d66561
|
882 883 884 885 |
config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on BLOCK |
759f8ca30
|
886 |
default n |
870d66561
|
887 |
help |
0e11e342b
|
888 889 890 891 |
BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever is broken. |
870d66561
|
892 893 894 895 896 897 898 |
Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous device number allocation. |
55dc7db70
|
899 900 901 902 903 |
Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata ones, so root partition specified using device number directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. |
870d66561
|
904 |
Say N if you are unsure. |
7c756e6e1
|
905 906 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 |
config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be defined weak to work around addressing range issue which puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable definitions. 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. |
44ec7abe3
|
919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 |
config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on SMP help Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory and decreases performance. Say N if unsure. |
8bb31b9d5
|
929 930 |
config LKDTM tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" |
0347af4ee
|
931 |
depends on DEBUG_FS |
fddd9cf82
|
932 |
depends on BLOCK |
8bb31b9d5
|
933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 941 |
default n help This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by inducing system failures at predefined crash points. If you don't need it: say N Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be called lkdtm. Documentation on how to use the module can be found in |
0347af4ee
|
942 |
Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt |
6ff1cb355
|
943 |
|
c9d221f86
|
944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 |
config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT tristate "CPU notifier error injection module" depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL help This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test the error handling of the cpu notifiers To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called cpu-notifier-error-inject. If unsure, say N. |
6ff1cb355
|
955 |
config FAULT_INJECTION |
1ab8509a3
|
956 957 |
bool "Fault-injection framework" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |
329409aed
|
958 959 960 |
help Provide fault-injection framework. For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. |
6ff1cb355
|
961 |
|
8a8b6502f
|
962 |
config FAILSLAB |
1ab8509a3
|
963 964 |
bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" depends on FAULT_INJECTION |
773ff60e8
|
965 |
depends on SLAB || SLUB |
8a8b6502f
|
966 |
help |
1ab8509a3
|
967 |
Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. |
8a8b6502f
|
968 |
|
933e312e7
|
969 970 |
config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" |
1ab8509a3
|
971 |
depends on FAULT_INJECTION |
933e312e7
|
972 |
help |
1ab8509a3
|
973 |
Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). |
933e312e7
|
974 |
|
c17bb4951
|
975 |
config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST |
86327d19f
|
976 |
bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" |
581d4e28d
|
977 |
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK |
c17bb4951
|
978 |
help |
1ab8509a3
|
979 |
Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. |
c17bb4951
|
980 |
|
581d4e28d
|
981 |
config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT |
f4d014395
|
982 |
bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" |
581d4e28d
|
983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 |
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK help Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, thus exercising the error handling. Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, for others it wont do anything. |
6ff1cb355
|
991 992 |
config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" |
1ab8509a3
|
993 |
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS |
6ff1cb355
|
994 |
help |
1ab8509a3
|
995 |
Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. |
1df49008f
|
996 997 998 999 |
config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
6d690dcac
|
1000 |
depends on !X86_64 |
1df49008f
|
1001 |
select STACKTRACE |
79aac8890
|
1002 |
select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE |
1df49008f
|
1003 1004 |
help Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities |
267c4025f
|
1005 |
|
9745512ce
|
1006 1007 |
config LATENCYTOP bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" |
625fdcaa6
|
1008 1009 1010 1011 |
depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on PROC_FS |
79aac8890
|
1012 |
select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE |
9745512ce
|
1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 |
select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL select STACKTRACE select SCHEDSTATS select SCHED_DEBUG |
9745512ce
|
1018 1019 1020 |
help Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. |
9e94cd325
|
1021 1022 |
config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK bool "Sysctl checks" |
83ac201b4
|
1023 |
depends on SYSCTL |
9e94cd325
|
1024 1025 1026 1027 |
---help--- sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help you to keep things correct. |
6a11f75b6
|
1028 |
source mm/Kconfig.debug |
16444a8a4
|
1029 |
source kernel/trace/Kconfig |
f212ec4b7
|
1030 |
config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT |
080de8c2c
|
1031 |
bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" |
f212ec4b7
|
1032 1033 1034 1035 1036 1037 1038 1039 1040 1041 1042 1043 1044 1045 1046 1047 1048 1049 1050 1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 1057 |
depends on PCI && X86 help If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. Usage: If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. |
9745512ce
|
1058 |
|
080de8c2c
|
1059 1060 1061 1062 1063 1064 1065 1066 1067 1068 |
config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA bool "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci" depends on FIREWIRE_OHCI help This option lets you use the FireWire bus for remote debugging with help of the firewire-ohci driver. It enables unfiltered remote DMA in firewire-ohci. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. If unsure, say N. |
152de30bc
|
1069 |
config BUILD_DOCSRC |
3794f3e81
|
1070 1071 1072 1073 1074 1075 1076 |
bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree" depends on HEADERS_CHECK help This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the kernel Documentation/ tree. Say N if you are unsure. |
e9d376f0f
|
1077 |
config DYNAMIC_DEBUG |
86151fdf3
|
1078 |
bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" |
346e15beb
|
1079 1080 |
default n depends on PRINTK |
86151fdf3
|
1081 |
depends on DEBUG_FS |
346e15beb
|
1082 1083 1084 1085 |
help Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be |
86151fdf3
|
1086 1087 1088 1089 |
enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%. |
346e15beb
|
1090 1091 |
Usage: |
2b2f68b53
|
1092 |
Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, |
86151fdf3
|
1093 1094 |
which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. |
2b2f68b53
|
1095 |
We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This |
86151fdf3
|
1096 1097 |
file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The format for each line of the file is: |
346e15beb
|
1098 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1099 |
filename:lineno [module]function flags format |
346e15beb
|
1100 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 |
filename : source file of the debug statement lineno : line number of the debug statement module : module that contains the debug statement function : function that contains the debug statement flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing format : the format used for the debug statement |
346e15beb
|
1107 1108 |
From a live system: |
2b2f68b53
|
1109 |
nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
86151fdf3
|
1110 1111 1112 1113 |
# filename:lineno [module]function flags format fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012" |
346e15beb
|
1114 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1115 |
Example usage: |
346e15beb
|
1116 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1117 1118 |
// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > |
2b2f68b53
|
1119 |
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
346e15beb
|
1120 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1121 1122 |
// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > |
2b2f68b53
|
1123 |
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
346e15beb
|
1124 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1125 1126 |
// enable all the messages in the NFS server module nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > |
2b2f68b53
|
1127 |
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
346e15beb
|
1128 |
|
86151fdf3
|
1129 1130 |
// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > |
2b2f68b53
|
1131 |
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
346e15beb
|
1132 |
|
86151fdf3
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// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > |
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<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control |
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See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. |
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config DMA_API_DEBUG bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG help Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that were never allocated. This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N. |
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config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot" help Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot. If unsure, say N. |
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config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV select ASYNC_MEMCPY ---help--- This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload engine if one is available. If unsure, say N. |
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source "samples/Kconfig" |
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source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" |
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source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" |
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config TEST_KSTRTOX tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" |