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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 7154f799541a..88c8d9876702 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +menu "printk and dmesg options" config PRINTK_TIME bool "Show timing information on printks" @@ -25,6 +26,123 @@ config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. +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. + BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect + what it believes to be lockup conditions. + +config DYNAMIC_DEBUG + bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" + default n + depends on PRINTK + depends on DEBUG_FS + help + + Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not + otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be + enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, + function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism + implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which + enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. + + If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any + pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be + disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is + turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. + + Usage: + + Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, + which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs + filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. + We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This + file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The + format for each line of the file is: + + filename:lineno [module]function flags format + + 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 + + From a live system: + + nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + # 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" + + Example usage: + + // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + + // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + + // enable all the messages in the NFS server module + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + + // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + + // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > + <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control + + See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. + +endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" + +menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" + +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. + 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. + Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. + + If unsure, say N. + +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. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y @@ -52,20 +170,6 @@ config FRAME_WARN Setting it to 0 disables the warning. Requires gcc 4.4 -config MAGIC_SYSRQ - bool "Magic SysRq key" - depends on !UML - 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. - config STRIP_ASM_SYMS bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" default n @@ -156,12 +260,341 @@ config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve the section mismatches that are reported. +# +# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if 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 + +config FRAME_POINTER + bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ + (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ + AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \ + 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) + +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. + +endmenu # "Compiler options" + +config MAGIC_SYSRQ + bool "Magic SysRq key" + depends on !UML + 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. + config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. +menu "Memory Debugging" + +source mm/Kconfig.debug + +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. + +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. + +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. + +config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD + bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" + depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS + help + Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). + +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. + +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 + +config DEBUG_SLAB + bool "Debug slab memory allocations" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK + 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. + +config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK + bool "Memory leak debugging" + depends on DEBUG_SLAB + +config SLUB_DEBUG_ON + bool "SLUB debugging on by default" + depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK + 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=-". + +config SLUB_STATS + default n + bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" + depends on SLUB && SYSFS + 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 + +config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + select DEBUG_FS + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select KALLSYMS + select CRC32 + 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. + + Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances + of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE + int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 40000 + 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. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST + tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m + help + This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. + + If unsure, say N. + +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. + +config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE + bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG + 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. + +config DEBUG_VM + bool "Debug VM" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system + that may impact performance. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_VM_RB + bool "Debug VM red-black trees" + depends on DEBUG_VM + help + Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory + system that may impact performance. + + If unsure, say N. + +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. + +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. + +config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT + bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT + default !EXPERT + 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 + +config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT + tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" + depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION + help + This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to + memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through + debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory + + If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events + notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". + + Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) + + # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory + # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error + # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state + bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory + + To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will + be called memory-notifier-error-inject. + + If unsure, say N. + +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. + +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 HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + bool + +config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + bool "Check for stack overflows" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + ---help--- + Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ + and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This + option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops + below a certain limit. + + These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the + kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are + involved. + + Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory + corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' + + If in doubt, say "N". + +source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" + +endmenu # "Memory Debugging" + config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS @@ -171,6 +604,8 @@ config DEBUG_SHIRQ Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those points; some don't and need to be caught. +menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" + config LOCKUP_DETECTOR bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 @@ -242,25 +677,6 @@ config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC -config PANIC_ON_OOPS - bool "Panic on Oops" - help - Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This - has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command - line. - - This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do - anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data - corruption or other issues. - - Say N if unsure. - -config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE - int - range 0 1 - default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS - default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS - config DETECT_HUNG_TASK bool "Detect Hung Tasks" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -315,6 +731,27 @@ config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC +endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" + +config PANIC_ON_OOPS + bool "Panic on Oops" + help + Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This + has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command + line. + + This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do + anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data + corruption or other issues. + + Say N if unsure. + +config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE + int + range 0 1 + default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS + default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS + config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS @@ -350,158 +787,6 @@ config TIMER_STATS (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated if some application like powertop activates it explicitly). -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. - -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. - -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. - -config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD - bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" - depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS - help - Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). - -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. - -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 - -config DEBUG_SLAB - bool "Debug slab memory allocations" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK - 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. - -config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK - bool "Memory leak debugging" - depends on DEBUG_SLAB - -config SLUB_DEBUG_ON - bool "SLUB debugging on by default" - depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK - 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=-". - -config SLUB_STATS - default n - bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" - depends on SLUB && SYSFS - 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 - -config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK - bool - -config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK - bool "Kernel memory leak detector" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK - select DEBUG_FS - select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT - select KALLSYMS - select CRC32 - 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. - - Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances - of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. - - In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be - mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). - -config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE - int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" - depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK - range 200 40000 - 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. - -config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST - tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" - depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m - help - This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. - - If unsure, say N. - -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. - config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT @@ -512,6 +797,8 @@ config DEBUG_PREEMPT if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel will detect preemption count underflows. +menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" + config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES @@ -654,12 +941,6 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKDEP additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price of more runtime overhead. -config TRACE_IRQFLAGS - bool - help - Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for - either tracing or lock debugging. - config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" select PREEMPT_COUNT @@ -681,18 +962,17 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems. -config STACKTRACE - bool - depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT +endmenu # lock debugging -config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE - bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG +config TRACE_IRQFLAGS + bool 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. + Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for + either tracing or lock debugging. - This option will slow down process creation somewhat. +config STACKTRACE + bool + depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" @@ -701,13 +981,6 @@ config DEBUG_KOBJECT 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 HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE bool @@ -720,66 +993,6 @@ config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 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. - 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. - Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. - - If unsure, say N. - -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. - -config DEBUG_VM - bool "Debug VM" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system - that may impact performance. - - If unsure, say N. - -config DEBUG_VM_RB - bool "Debug VM red-black trees" - depends on DEBUG_VM - help - Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory - system that may impact performance. - - If unsure, say N. - -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. - -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. - config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT bool "Debug filesystem writers count" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -790,18 +1003,6 @@ config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT If unsure, say N. -config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT - bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT - default !EXPERT - 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 - config DEBUG_LIST bool "Debug linked list manipulation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -811,15 +1012,6 @@ config DEBUG_LIST If unsure, say N. -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. - config DEBUG_SG bool "Debug SG table operations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -855,45 +1047,6 @@ config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS If unsure, say N. -# -# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if 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 - -config FRAME_POINTER - bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ - (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ - AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \ - 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) - -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. - BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect - what it believes to be lockup conditions. - menu "RCU Debugging" config PROVE_RCU @@ -1032,33 +1185,6 @@ config RCU_TRACE endmenu # "RCU Debugging" -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. - -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. - - Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will - have to enable STACKTRACE as well. - - Say N if you are unsure. - config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -1086,47 +1212,6 @@ config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT Say N if you are unsure. -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. - -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. - -config LKDTM - tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" - depends on DEBUG_FS - depends on BLOCK - 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 - Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt - config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION tristate "Notifier error injection" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -1186,29 +1271,6 @@ config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT If unsure, say N. -config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT - tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" - depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION - help - This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to - memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through - debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory - - If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events - notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". - - Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) - - # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory - # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error - # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state - bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory - - To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will - be called memory-notifier-error-inject. - - If unsure, say N. - config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION @@ -1323,9 +1385,61 @@ config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS If unsure, say N. -source mm/Kconfig.debug source kernel/trace/Kconfig +menu "Runtime Testing" + +config LKDTM + tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" + depends on DEBUG_FS + depends on BLOCK + 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 + Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt + +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. + +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. + +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. + + Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will + have to enable STACKTRACE as well. + + Say N if you are unsure. + config RBTREE_TEST tristate "Red-Black tree test" depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -1339,6 +1453,34 @@ config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST help A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library +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. + +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. + +config TEST_STRING_HELPERS + tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" + +config TEST_KSTRTOX + tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" + +endmenu # runtime tests + config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" depends on PCI && X86 @@ -1388,75 +1530,6 @@ config BUILD_DOCSRC Say N if you are unsure. -config DYNAMIC_DEBUG - bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" - default n - depends on PRINTK - depends on DEBUG_FS - help - - Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not - otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be - enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, - function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism - implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which - enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. - - If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any - pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be - disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is - turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. - - Usage: - - Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, - which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs - filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. - We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This - file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The - format for each line of the file is: - - filename:lineno [module]function flags format - - 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 - - From a live system: - - nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - # 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" - - Example usage: - - // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c - nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - - // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c - nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - - // enable all the messages in the NFS server module - nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - - // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() - nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - - // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() - nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - - See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. - config DMA_API_DEBUG bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG @@ -1468,34 +1541,7 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N. -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. - -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. - source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" -source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" - -config TEST_STRING_HELPERS - tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" - -config TEST_KSTRTOX - tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" |