config PRINTK_TIME bool "Show timing information on printks" depends on PRINTK help Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system call and at the console. The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL int "Default message log level (1-7)" range 1 7 default "4" help Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y help Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK bool "Enable __must_check logic" default y help Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with attribute warn_unused_result" messages. config FRAME_WARN int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" range 0 8192 default 1024 if !64BIT default 2048 if 64BIT help Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 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 help Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of get_wchan() and suchlike. config READABLE_ASM bool "Generate readable assembler code" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings sane. config UNUSED_SYMBOLS bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" default y if X86 help Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for your module is. config DEBUG_FS bool "Debug Filesystem" help debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 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 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" depends on !UML help This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which were not exported, etc. If you're making modifications to header files which are relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" help The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal references from one section to another section. During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; any use of code/data previously in these sections would most likely result in an oops. In the code, functions and variables are annotated with __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following additional steps to occur: - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init function, we would lose the section information and thus the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in a larger kernel). - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file. When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we lose valueble information about where the mismatch was introduced. Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is reported at least twice. - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve the section mismatches that are reported. config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS help Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those points; some don't and need to be caught. config LOCKUP_DETECTOR bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 help Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect hard and soft lockups. Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds. An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh. config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR def_bool y depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE int depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 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 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh sysctl), 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 LOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC config PANIC_ON_OOPS bool "Panic on Oops" if EXPERT default n 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 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley. When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the current stack trace (which you should report), but the task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This feature has negligible overhead. config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK default 120 help This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should be considered hung. It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl or by writing a value to /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck in uninterruptible "D" state. The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, to cause the system to reboot automatically after a hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE int depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS default y help If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this option is minimal. config SCHEDSTATS bool "Collect scheduler statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated (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 && EXPERIMENTAL && 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"Lines 1–500 of 1463. Load more
config PRINTK_TIME bool "Show timing information on printks" depends on PRINTK help Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system call and at the console. The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL int "Default message log level (1-7)" range 1 7 default "4" help Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y help Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK bool "Enable __must_check logic" default y help Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with attribute warn_unused_result" messages. config FRAME_WARN int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" range 0 8192 default 1024 if !64BIT default 2048 if 64BIT help Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 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 help Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of get_wchan() and suchlike. config READABLE_ASM bool "Generate readable assembler code" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL help Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings sane. config UNUSED_SYMBOLS bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" default y if X86 help Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for your module is. config DEBUG_FS bool "Debug Filesystem" help debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 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 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" depends on !UML help This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which were not exported, etc. If you're making modifications to header files which are relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" help The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal references from one section to another section. During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; any use of code/data previously in these sections would most likely result in an oops. In the code, functions and variables are annotated with __init, __devinit, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following additional steps to occur: - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init function, we would lose the section information and thus the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in a larger kernel). - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file. When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we lose valueble information about where the mismatch was introduced. Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is reported at least twice. - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve the section mismatches that are reported. config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS help Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those points; some don't and need to be caught. config LOCKUP_DETECTOR bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 help Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect hard and soft lockups. Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds. An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh. config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR def_bool y depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE int depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 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 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh sysctl), 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 LOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC config PANIC_ON_OOPS bool "Panic on Oops" if EXPERT default n 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 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley. When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the current stack trace (which you should report), but the task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This feature has negligible overhead. config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK default 120 help This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should be considered hung. It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl or by writing a value to /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck in uninterruptible "D" state. The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, to cause the system to reboot automatically after a hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. Say N if unsure. config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE int depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS default y help If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this option is minimal. config SCHEDSTATS bool "Collect scheduler statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS help If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats. The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats, writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated (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 && EXPERIMENTAL && 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"