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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 29 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1501aa553221..06344d986eb9 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ endmenu # "Memory Debugging" config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ config LOCKDEP bool depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL @@ -981,6 +981,25 @@ config DEBUG_KOBJECT If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent to the syslog. +config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE + bool "kobject release debugging" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their + last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can + live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's + initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An + example of this would be a struct device which has just been + unregistered. + + However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, + the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This + goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. + + If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects + on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this + kind of kobject release bug. + config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE bool @@ -1347,7 +1366,7 @@ config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on !X86_64 select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC help Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities @@ -1357,7 +1376,7 @@ config LATENCYTOP depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on PROC_FS - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL select STACKTRACE @@ -1442,7 +1461,7 @@ config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST config RBTREE_TEST tristate "Red-Black tree test" - depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. Also includes rbtree invariant checks. |