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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index cc443bc6edfc..57e18ac6ca3c 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -162,6 +162,283 @@ config DEBUG_KERNEL Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and identify kernel problems. +menu "Memory Debugging" + +source mm/Kconfig.debug + +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 && 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" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled + on the command line via kmemleak=on. + +config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE + bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG + help + Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each + task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. + + This option will slow down process creation somewhat. + +config DEBUG_VM + bool "Debug VM" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system + that may impact performance. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_VM_RB + bool "Debug VM red-black trees" + depends on DEBUG_VM + help + Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory + system that may impact performance. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_VIRTUAL + bool "Debug VM translations" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86 + help + Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can + catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS + bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU + help + This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping + regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. + +config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT + bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT + default !EXPERT + 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 MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT + tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" + depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION + help + This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to + memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through + debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory + + If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events + notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". + + Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) + + # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory + # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error + # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state + bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory + + To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will + be called memory-notifier-error-inject. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS + bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on SMP + help + Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has + been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory + and decreases performance. + + Say N if unsure. + +config DEBUG_HIGHMEM + bool "Highmem debugging" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM + help + This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. + Disable for production systems. + +config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + bool + +config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + bool "Check for stack overflows" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + ---help--- + Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ + and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This + option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops + below a certain limit. + + These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the + kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are + involved. + + Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory + corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' + + If in doubt, say "N". + +source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" + +endmenu # "Memory Debugging" + config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS @@ -350,158 +627,6 @@ config TIMER_STATS (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 && 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" - depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK - help - Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled - on the command line via kmemleak=on. - config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT @@ -672,15 +797,6 @@ config STACKTRACE bool depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT -config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE - bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG - help - Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each - task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. - - This option will slow down process creation somewhat. - config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -688,13 +804,6 @@ config DEBUG_KOBJECT 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 - help - This options enables addition error checking for high memory systems. - Disable for production systems. - config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE bool @@ -733,40 +842,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. -config DEBUG_VM - bool "Debug VM" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system - that may impact performance. - - If unsure, say N. - -config DEBUG_VM_RB - bool "Debug VM red-black trees" - depends on DEBUG_VM - help - Enable this to turn on more extended checks in the virtual-memory - system that may impact performance. - - If unsure, say N. - -config DEBUG_VIRTUAL - bool "Debug VM translations" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86 - help - Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can - catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. - - If unsure, say N. - -config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS - bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU - help - This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping - regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. - config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT bool "Debug filesystem writers count" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -777,18 +852,6 @@ config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT If unsure, say N. -config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT - bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT - default !EXPERT - 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 @@ -1088,17 +1151,6 @@ config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. -config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS - bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on SMP - help - Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has - been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory - and decreases performance. - - Say N if unsure. - config LKDTM tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" depends on DEBUG_FS @@ -1173,29 +1225,6 @@ config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT If unsure, say N. -config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT - tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" - depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION - help - This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to - memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through - debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory - - If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events - notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". - - Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) - - # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory - # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error - # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state - bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory - - To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will - be called memory-notifier-error-inject. - - If unsure, say N. - config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION @@ -1310,7 +1339,6 @@ config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS If unsure, say N. -source mm/Kconfig.debug source kernel/trace/Kconfig config RBTREE_TEST @@ -1475,33 +1503,10 @@ config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST If unsure, say N. -config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - bool - -config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - bool "Check for stack overflows" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - ---help--- - Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ - and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This - option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops - below a certain limit. - - These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the - kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are - involved. - - Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory - corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' - - If in doubt, say "N". - source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" -source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" - config TEST_STRING_HELPERS tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" |