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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 116a35051be..d57b12f59c8 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
+ 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
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
- depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
+ depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
default n
help
Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
@@ -338,10 +338,8 @@ config SLUB_STATS
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM || PPC) && \
!MEMORY_HOTPLUG
- select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
- select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select KALLSYMS
@@ -355,9 +353,24 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
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 2000
+ 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
@@ -472,7 +485,7 @@ config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
@@ -640,6 +653,21 @@ config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
performance, say N.
+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.
+
#
# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
@@ -712,7 +740,7 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
- depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
+ depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
default n
help
This option causes RCU to printk information on which
@@ -777,6 +805,21 @@ 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 LKDTM
tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
@@ -996,3 +1039,5 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG
source "samples/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
+
+source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"