keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
unless you really know what this hack does.
+config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
+ bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
+ default n
+ help
+ Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
+ that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
+ get_wchan() and suchlike.
+
config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
default y if X86
bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
depends on UNDEFINED
# This option is on purpose disabled for now.
- # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number
+ # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
# of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
help
The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
- !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
+ (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390)
+
select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select KALLSYMS
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- range 200 2000
+ range 200 40000
default 400
help
Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
default y
help
If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
performance, say N.
+config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
+ bool "Debug credential management"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
+ management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
+ pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
+ see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
+ struct.
+
+ Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
+ security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
#
# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
# it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
- depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU
+ depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
default n
help
This option causes RCU to printk information on which
Say N if you are unsure.
+config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
+ bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
+ defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
+ puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
+ definitions.
+
+ 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
+ 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
+
+ To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
+ option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
+
config LKDTM
tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL