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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"