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2 | config PRINTK_TIME | ||
3 | bool "Show timing information on printks" | ||
4 | help | ||
5 | Selecting this option causes timing information to be | ||
6 | included in printk output. This allows you to measure | ||
7 | the interval between kernel operations, including bootup | ||
8 | operations. This is useful for identifying long delays | ||
9 | in kernel startup. | ||
10 | |||
11 | |||
12 | config DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
13 | bool "Kernel debugging" | ||
14 | help | ||
15 | Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and | ||
16 | identify kernel problems. | ||
17 | |||
18 | config MAGIC_SYSRQ | ||
19 | bool "Magic SysRq key" | ||
20 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !UML | ||
21 | help | ||
22 | If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even | ||
23 | if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you | ||
24 | will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system | ||
25 | immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished | ||
26 | by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It | ||
27 | also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you | ||
28 | send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The | ||
29 | keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y | ||
30 | unless you really know what this hack does. | ||
31 | |||
32 | config LOG_BUF_SHIFT | ||
33 | int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
34 | range 12 21 | ||
35 | default 17 if ARCH_S390 | ||
36 | default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 | ||
37 | default 15 if SMP | ||
38 | default 14 | ||
39 | help | ||
40 | Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. | ||
41 | Defaults and Examples: | ||
42 | 17 => 128 KB for S/390 | ||
43 | 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 | ||
44 | 15 => 32 KB for SMP | ||
45 | 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor | ||
46 | 13 => 8 KB | ||
47 | 12 => 4 KB | ||
48 | |||
49 | config SCHEDSTATS | ||
50 | bool "Collect scheduler statistics" | ||
51 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS | ||
52 | help | ||
53 | If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the | ||
54 | scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about | ||
55 | scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These | ||
56 | stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler | ||
57 | If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific | ||
58 | application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead | ||
59 | this adds. | ||
60 | |||
61 | config DEBUG_SLAB | ||
62 | bool "Debug memory allocations" | ||
63 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
64 | help | ||
65 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory | ||
66 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed | ||
67 | memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. | ||
68 | |||
69 | config DEBUG_PREEMPT | ||
70 | bool "Debug preemptible kernel" | ||
71 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT | ||
72 | default y | ||
73 | help | ||
74 | If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the | ||
75 | commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings | ||
76 | if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel | ||
77 | will detect preemption count underflows. | ||
78 | |||
79 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK | ||
80 | bool "Spinlock debugging" | ||
81 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
82 | help | ||
83 | Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization | ||
84 | and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is | ||
85 | best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock | ||
86 | deadlocks are also debuggable. | ||
87 | |||
88 | config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP | ||
89 | bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking" | ||
90 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
91 | help | ||
92 | If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very | ||
93 | noisy if they are called with a spinlock held. | ||
94 | |||
95 | config DEBUG_KOBJECT | ||
96 | bool "kobject debugging" | ||
97 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
98 | help | ||
99 | If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent | ||
100 | to the syslog. | ||
101 | |||
102 | config DEBUG_HIGHMEM | ||
103 | bool "Highmem debugging" | ||
104 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM | ||
105 | help | ||
106 | This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. | ||
107 | Disable for production systems. | ||
108 | |||
109 | config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE | ||
110 | bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED | ||
111 | depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || (X86 && !X86_64) || FRV | ||
112 | default !EMBEDDED | ||
113 | help | ||
114 | Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number | ||
115 | of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids | ||
116 | debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. | ||
117 | |||
118 | config DEBUG_INFO | ||
119 | bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" | ||
120 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
121 | help | ||
122 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include | ||
123 | debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. | ||
124 | Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. | ||
125 | |||
126 | If unsure, say N. | ||
127 | |||
128 | config DEBUG_IOREMAP | ||
129 | bool "Enable ioremap() debugging" | ||
130 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PARISC | ||
131 | help | ||
132 | Enabling this option will cause the kernel to distinguish between | ||
133 | ioremapped and physical addresses. It will print a backtrace (at | ||
134 | most one every 10 seconds), hopefully allowing you to see which | ||
135 | drivers need work. Fixing all these problems is a prerequisite | ||
136 | for turning on USE_HPPA_IOREMAP. The warnings are harmless; | ||
137 | the kernel has enough information to fix the broken drivers | ||
138 | automatically, but we'd like to make it more efficient by not | ||
139 | having to do that. | ||
140 | |||
141 | config DEBUG_FS | ||
142 | bool "Debug Filesystem" | ||
143 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
144 | help | ||
145 | debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put | ||
146 | debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and | ||
147 | write to these files. | ||
148 | |||
149 | If unsure, say N. | ||
150 | |||
151 | config FRAME_POINTER | ||
152 | bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" | ||
153 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ((X86 && !X86_64) || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV) | ||
154 | help | ||
155 | If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger | ||
156 | and slower, but it will give very useful debugging information. | ||
157 | If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able | ||
158 | to solve problems without frame pointers. | ||
159 | |||