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      8ff12cfc
      SLUB: Support for performance statistics · 8ff12cfc
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
      at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
      SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
      statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
      footprint of SLUB.
      
      There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
      statistics and its off by default.
      
      The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:
      
      -D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
      	mode to activity mode.
      
      -A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
      	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.
      
      -r	Report option will report detailed statistics on
      
      Example (tbench load):
      
      slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs
      
      Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
      skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
      :0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
      :0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
      vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
      :0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
      :0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
      dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
      :0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
      :0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
      :0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
      :0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
      :0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
      anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
      kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
      :0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15
      
      So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
      Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases
      
      slabinfo -a | grep 000192
      :0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
      	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili
      
      Likely skbuff_head_cache.
      
      
      Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through
      
      slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned
      
      
      .... Usual output ...
      
      Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
      --------------------------------------------------
      Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
      Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
      Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
      Add partial                25      325   0   0
      Remove partial             86      264   0   0
      RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
      Total                111954404 111954404
      
      Flushes       49 Refill        0
      Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)
      
      Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.
      
      
      skbuff_head_cache:
      
      Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
      --------------------------------------------------
      Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
      Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
      Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
      Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
      Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
      RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
      Total                 5301739  5299468
      
      Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)
      
      
      Descriptions of the output:
      
      Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
      		slab
      
      Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.
      
      Slowpath:	Other allocations
      
      Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
      		processing
      
      Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
      		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)
      
      Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
      		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
      		the last object of a slab.
      
      RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
      		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
      		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
      		as the cpuslab of another processor.
      
      Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
      		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)
      
      Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
      		remotely freed objects for the same slab.
      
      Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
      		put onto the partial list.
      
      In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
      also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
      may potentially cause list lock contention.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      8ff12cfc
      History
      SLUB: Support for performance statistics
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
      at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
      SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
      statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
      footprint of SLUB.
      
      There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
      statistics and its off by default.
      
      The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:
      
      -D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
      	mode to activity mode.
      
      -A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
      	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.
      
      -r	Report option will report detailed statistics on
      
      Example (tbench load):
      
      slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs
      
      Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
      skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
      :0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
      :0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
      vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
      :0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
      :0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
      dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
      :0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
      :0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
      :0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
      :0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
      :0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
      anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
      kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
      :0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15
      
      So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
      Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases
      
      slabinfo -a | grep 000192
      :0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
      	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili
      
      Likely skbuff_head_cache.
      
      
      Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through
      
      slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned
      
      
      .... Usual output ...
      
      Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
      --------------------------------------------------
      Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
      Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
      Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
      Add partial                25      325   0   0
      Remove partial             86      264   0   0
      RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
      Total                111954404 111954404
      
      Flushes       49 Refill        0
      Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)
      
      Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.
      
      
      skbuff_head_cache:
      
      Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
      --------------------------------------------------
      Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
      Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
      Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
      Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
      Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
      RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
      Total                 5301739  5299468
      
      Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)
      
      
      Descriptions of the output:
      
      Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
      		slab
      
      Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.
      
      Slowpath:	Other allocations
      
      Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
      		processing
      
      Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
      		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)
      
      Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
      		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
      		the last object of a slab.
      
      RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
      		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
      		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
      		as the cpuslab of another processor.
      
      Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
      		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)
      
      Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
      		remotely freed objects for the same slab.
      
      Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
      		put onto the partial list.
      
      In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
      also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
      may potentially cause list lock contention.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Kconfig.debug 22.27 KiB
    
    config PRINTK_TIME
    	bool "Show timing information on printks"
    	depends on PRINTK
    	help
    	  Selecting this option causes timing information to be
    	  included in printk output.  This allows you to measure
    	  the interval between kernel operations, including bootup
    	  operations.  This is useful for identifying long delays
    	  in kernel startup.
    
    config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
    	bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
    	default y
    	help
    	  Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
    	  Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
    	  (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
    
    config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
    	bool "Enable __must_check logic"
    	default y
    	help
    	  Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build.  Disable this to
    	  suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
    	  attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
    
    config MAGIC_SYSRQ
    	bool "Magic SysRq key"
    	depends on !UML
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
    	  if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
    	  will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
    	  immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
    	  by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
    	  also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
    	  send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
    	  keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
    	  unless you really know what this hack does.
    
    config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
    	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
    	default y if X86
    	help
    	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
    	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
    	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
    	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
    	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
    	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
    	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
    	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
    	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
    	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
    	  your module is.
    
    config DEBUG_FS
    	bool "Debug Filesystem"
    	depends on 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
    	  write to these files.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    config HEADERS_CHECK
    	bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
    	depends on !UML
    	help
    	  This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
    	  building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
    	  ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
    	  were not exported, etc.
    
    	  If you're making modifications to header files which are
    	  relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
    	  exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
    	  your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
    
    config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
    	bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
    	depends on UNDEFINED
    	help
    	  The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
    	  references from one section to another section.
    	  Linux will during link or during runtime drop some sections
    	  and any use of code/data previously in these sections will
    	  most likely result in an oops.
    	  In the code functions and variables are annotated with
    	  __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h)
    	  which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
    	  The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full
    	  kernel build but enabling this option will in addition
    	  do the following:
    	  - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc
    	    When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init
    	    function we would lose the section information and thus
    	    the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
    	    This option tells gcc to inline less but will also
    	    result in a larger kernel.
    	  - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o
    	    When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we
    	    lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
    	    introduced.
    	    Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
    	    will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the
    	    source. The drawback is that we will report the same
    	    mismatch at least twice.
    	  - Enable verbose reporting from modpost to help solving
    	    the section mismatches reported.
    
    config DEBUG_KERNEL
    	bool "Kernel debugging"
    	help
    	  Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
    	  identify kernel problems.
    
    config DEBUG_SHIRQ
    	bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
    	help
    	  Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
    	  interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
    	  Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
    	  points; some don't and need to be caught.
    
    config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
    	bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
    	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 SCHED_DEBUG
    	bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
    	default y
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
    	  that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
    	  option is minimal.
    
    config SCHEDSTATS
    	bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
    	  scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
    	  scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat.  These
    	  stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
    	  If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
    	  application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
    	  this adds.
    
    config TIMER_STATS
    	bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
    	  timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
    	  reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
    	  The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
    	  writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
    	  about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
    	  is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
    	  (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
    	  if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
    
    config DEBUG_SLAB
    	bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
    	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
    	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
    	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 DEBUG_PREEMPT
    	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
    	default y
    	help
    	  If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
    	  commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
    	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
    	  will detect preemption count underflows.
    
    config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
    	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
    	help
    	 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
    	 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
    
    config DEBUG_PI_LIST
    	bool
    	default y
    	depends on DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
    
    config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
    	bool "Built-in scriptable tester for rt-mutexes"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
    	help
    	  This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
    
    config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    	bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
    	  and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made.  This is
    	  best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
    	  deadlocks are also debuggable.
    
    config DEBUG_MUTEXES
    	bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
    	 reported.
    
    config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE
    	bool "Semaphore debugging"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on ALPHA || FRV
    	default n
    	help
    	  If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of
    	  verbose debugging messages.  If you suspect a semaphore problem or a
    	  kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y.  Otherwise say N.
    
    config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    	bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
    	select LOCKDEP
    	help
    	 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
    	 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
    	 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
    	 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
    	 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
    	 held during task exit.
    
    config PROVE_LOCKING
    	bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    	select LOCKDEP
    	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
    	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    	default n
    	help
    	 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
    	 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
    	 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
    	 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
    	 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
    	 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
    	 deadlock.
    
    	 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
    	 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
    
    	 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
    	 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
    	 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
    	 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
    	 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
    	 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
    	 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
    	 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
    	 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
    
    	 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
    	 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
    	 kernel reports nothing.
    
    	 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
    	 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
    	 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
    	 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
    	 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
    
    	 For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
    
    config LOCKDEP
    	bool
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    	select STACKTRACE
    	select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
    	select KALLSYMS
    	select KALLSYMS_ALL
    
    config LOCK_STAT
    	bool "Lock usage statistics"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    	select LOCKDEP
    	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
    	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    	default n
    	help
    	 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
    
    	 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
    
    config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
    	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
    	  additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
    	  of more runtime overhead.
    
    config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	bool
    	default y
    	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
    	depends on PROVE_LOCKING
    
    config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
    	bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
    	  noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
    
    config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
    	bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
    	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
    	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
    	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
    	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
    	  mutexes and rwsems.
    
    config STACKTRACE
    	bool
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
    
    config DEBUG_KOBJECT
    	bool "kobject debugging"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  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 DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
    	bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
    	depends on BUG
    	depends on ARM || AVR32 || M32R || M68K || SPARC32 || SPARC64 || FRV || SUPERH || GENERIC_BUG || BLACKFIN
    	default !EMBEDDED
    	help
    	  Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
    	  of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids
    	  debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
    
    config DEBUG_INFO
    	bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
              If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
    	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
    	  This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
    	  is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
    	  tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
    	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    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_LIST
    	bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
    	  walking routines.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    config DEBUG_SG
    	bool "Debug SG table operations"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
    	  help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
    	  their sg tables.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    config FRAME_POINTER
    	bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN)
    	default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML
    	help
    	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
    	  and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
    	  some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
    	  If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.
    
    config FORCED_INLINING
    	bool "Force gcc to inline functions marked 'inline'"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	default y
    	help
    	  This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
    	  developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
    	  do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
    	  compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
    	  disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
    	  this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can
    	  become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
    	  test gcc for this.
    
    config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
    	bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
    	help
    	  This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
    	  by inserting a short delay after each one.  The delay is
    	  specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
    	  using "boot_delay=N".
    
    	  It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
    	  the "loops per jiffie" value.
    	  See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
    	  system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
    	  NOTE:  Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
    	  I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
    	  BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to detect
    	  what it believes to be lockup conditions.
    
    config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
    	tristate "torture tests for RCU"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on m
    	default n
    	help
    	  This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
    	  on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built
    	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
    
    	  Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
    	  Say N if you are unsure.
    
    config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
    	bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on KPROBES
    	default n
    	help
    	  This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
    	  boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
    	  verified for functionality.
    
    	  Say N if you are unsure.
    
    config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
    	tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	default n
    	help
    	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
    	  the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
    	  for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
    	  developers working on architecture code.
    
    	  Say N if you are unsure.
    
    config LKDTM
    	tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on KPROBES
    	default n
    	help
    	This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
    	inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
    	If you don't need it: say N
    	Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
    	called lkdtm.
    
    	Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
    	drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION
    	bool "Fault-injection framework"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection framework.
    	  For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
    
    config FAILSLAB
    	bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
    
    config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
    	bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
    
    config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
    	bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
    	bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
    	help
    	  Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
    	bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
    	depends on !X86_64
    	select STACKTRACE
    	select FRAME_POINTER
    	help
    	  Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
    
    config LATENCYTOP
    	bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
    	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS
    	select KALLSYMS
    	select KALLSYMS_ALL
    	select STACKTRACE
    	select SCHEDSTATS
    	select SCHED_DEBUG
    	depends on HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
    	help
    	  Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
    	  to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
    
    config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
    	bool "Provide code for enabling DMA over FireWire early on boot"
    	depends on PCI && X86
    	help
    	  If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
    	  on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
    	  this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
    	  over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
    	  specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
    
    	  With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
    	  firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
    	  Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
    
    	  Usage:
    
    	  If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
    	  all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
    
    	  As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
    	  devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
    	  devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
    	  the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
    
    	  This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
    	  in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
    
    	  See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
    
    source "samples/Kconfig"