X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FKconfig.debug;h=e1d4764435ed842ea1875c7739bfd668f6453fae;hb=4a25e41831ee851c1365d8b41decc22493b18e6d;hp=c35a86a516a022d553cbc502940e1dd77d5b5e8c;hpb=31a72bce0bd6f3e0114009288bccbc96376eeeca;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index c35a86a516..e1d4764435 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 @@ -419,7 +446,6 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS config STACKTRACE bool - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT config DEBUG_KOBJECT @@ -479,6 +505,18 @@ 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 @@ -581,6 +619,9 @@ config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel developers working on architecture code. + Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will + have to enable STACKTRACE as well. + Say N if you are unsure. config LKDTM @@ -652,6 +693,8 @@ config LATENCYTOP Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. +source kernel/trace/Kconfig + config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" depends on PCI && X86