X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FKconfig.debug;h=3754c9a8f5c8e1e3fccebf2d0f282fd5eda6bcb4;hb=f8eeaaf4180334a8e5c3582fe62a5f8176a8c124;hp=ac23847ce0e3cbcb3f006805dbd6d65a3966d399;hpb=325a479c4c110db278ef3361460a48c4093252cc;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index ac23847ce0..3754c9a8f5 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ config LOG_BUF_SHIFT 13 => 8 KB 12 => 4 KB +config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP + bool "Detect Soft Lockups" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + default y + 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 + chance to run. + + When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the + current stack trace (which you should report), but the + system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible + overhead. + + (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that + can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that + support it.) + config SCHEDSTATS bool "Collect scheduler statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS @@ -141,7 +160,7 @@ config DEBUG_IOREMAP config DEBUG_FS bool "Debug Filesystem" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SYSFS 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 @@ -151,7 +170,8 @@ config DEBUG_FS config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ((X86 && !X86_64) || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV) + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ((X86 && !X86_64) || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML) + default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML help If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it will give very useful debugging information.