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config DEBUG_KERNEL
bool "Kernel debugging"
depends on (ALPHA || ARM || CRIS || H8300 || X86 || IA64 || M32R || M68K || M68KNOMMU || MIPS || PARISC || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || SUPERH || SUPERH64 || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || USERMODE || V850 || X86_64)
help
Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
identify kernel problems.
config MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (ALPHA || ARM || X86 || IA64 || M32R || M68K || MIPS || PARISC || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || SUPERH || SUPERH64 || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || USERMODE)
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 MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (H8300 || M68KNOMMU || V850)
help
Enables console device to interpret special characters as
commands to dump state information.
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 DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (ALPHA || ARM || X86 || IA64 || M32R || M68K || MIPS || PARISC || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || USERMODE || X86_64)
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_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on PREEMPT && (X86 || PPC64)
default y
help
If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
will detect preemption count underflows.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (ALPHA || ARM || X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS || PARISC || PPC32 || (SUPERH && !SUPERH64) || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || USERMODE || X86_64)
help
Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
deadlocks are also debuggable.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || IA64 || M32R || MIPS || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || USERMODE)
help
If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
config DEBUG_KOBJECT
bool "kobject debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
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 && (X86 || PPC32 || MIPS || SPARC32)
help
This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems.
Disable for production systems.
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
depends on ARM || ARM26 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || (X86 && !X86_64)
default !EMBEDDED
help
Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
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 && (ALPHA || CRIS || X86 || IA64 || M32R || M68K || MIPS || PARISC || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARCH_S390 || (SUPERH && !SUPERH64) || SPARC64 || V850 || X86_64)
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
Say Y here only if you plan to use gdb to debug the kernel.
If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
config DEBUG_INFO
bool "Enable kernel debugging symbols"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && USERMODE
help
When this is enabled, the User-Mode Linux binary will include
debugging symbols. This enlarges the binary by a few megabytes,
but aids in tracking down kernel problems in UML. It is required
if you intend to do any kernel development.
If you're truly short on disk space or don't expect to report any
bugs back to the UML developers, say N, otherwise say Y.
config DEBUG_FS
bool "Debug Filesystem"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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.
If unsure, say N.
if !X86_64
config FRAME_POINTER
bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
depends on X86 || CRIS || M68KNOMMU
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
and slower, but it will give very useful debugging information.
If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
to solve problems without frame pointers.
endif
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