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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index df27132a56f..b0f239e443b 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ config DEBUG_FS debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and write to these files. + For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see + Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. + If unsure, say N. config HEADERS_CHECK @@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP help Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel - mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a + mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the @@ -159,6 +162,30 @@ config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that support it.) +config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" + depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP + 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 + depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP + range 0 1 + default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS @@ -367,7 +394,7 @@ config LOCKDEP bool depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS + select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL @@ -468,6 +495,15 @@ config DEBUG_VM 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_WRITECOUNT bool "Debug filesystem writers count" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -478,6 +514,18 @@ config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT If unsure, say N. +config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT + bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED + default !EMBEDDED + 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 @@ -558,6 +606,19 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only after being manually enabled via /proc. +config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR + bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods" + depends on CLASSIC_RCU + default n + help + This option causes RCU to printk information on which + CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when + the grace period extends for excessive time periods. + + Say Y if you want RCU to perform such checks. + + Say N if you are unsure. + config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST bool "Kprobes sanity tests" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -585,6 +646,33 @@ config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST Say N if you are unsure. +config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT + bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on BLOCK + default n + help + 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. + + 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. + + 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. + + Say N if you are unsure. + config LKDTM tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -622,10 +710,21 @@ config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" - depends on FAULT_INJECTION + depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK help Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. +config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT + bool "Faul-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" + 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. + config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS @@ -637,13 +736,13 @@ config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on !X86_64 select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER + select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC help Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities config LATENCYTOP bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL select STACKTRACE @@ -654,6 +753,14 @@ config LATENCYTOP Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. +config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK + bool "Sysctl checks" + depends on SYSCTL_SYSCALL + ---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. + source kernel/trace/Kconfig config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT @@ -696,6 +803,70 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA If unsure, say N. +menuconfig BUILD_DOCSRC + 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. + +config DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG + bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support" + default n + depends on PRINTK + select PRINTK_DEBUG + help + + Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not + otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be + enabled/disabled on a per module basis. 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%. + + Usage: + + Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, + dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that + can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed + by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the + 'enabled' flag. For example: + + <module_name> <enabled=0/1> + . + . + . + + <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides + <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not + + From a live system: + + snd_hda_intel enabled=0 + fixup enabled=0 + driver enabled=0 + + Enable a module: + + $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules + + Disable a module: + + $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules + + Enable all modules: + + $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules + + Disable all modules: + + $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules + + Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables + debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above + disable command. + source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" |