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    config PRINTK_TIME
    	bool "Show timing information on printks"
    
    	depends on PRINTK
    
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    	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.
    
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    config FRAME_WARN
    	int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
    	range 0 8192
    	default 1024 if !64BIT
    	default 2048 if 64BIT
    	help
    	  Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
    	  Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
    	  Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
    	  Requires gcc 4.4
    
    
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    config MAGIC_SYSRQ
    	bool "Magic SysRq key"
    
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    	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 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
    	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"
    	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.
    
    
    	  For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
    	  Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
    
    
    	  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 || (BLACKFIN)
    	default y
    
    	# This option is on purpose disabled for now.
    
    	# 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
    	  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 LOCKUP_DETECTOR
    	bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
    
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    	help
    
    	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
    	  hard and soft lockups.
    
    	  Softlockups 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 current stack trace is displayed upon
    	  detection and the system will stay locked up.
    
    	  Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
    	  for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
    	  chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
    	  and the system will stay locked up.
    
    	  The overhead should be minimal.  A periodic hrtimer runs to
    	  generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
    	  An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
    
    config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
    	def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
    
    config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
    	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
    
    	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 LOCKUP_DETECTOR
    
    	range 0 1
    	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
    	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
    
    
    config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
    	bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    
    	help
    	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
    	  which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
    	  uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
    
    	  When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
    	  current stack trace (which you should report), but the
    	  task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
    	  enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
    	  feature has negligible overhead.
    
    config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
    	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
    	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
    	help
    	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
    	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
    	  in uninterruptible "D" state.
    
    	  The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
    	  to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
    	  hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
    	  high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
    	  where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
    
    	  Say N if unsure.
    
    config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
    	int
    	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
    	range 0 1
    	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
    	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
    
    
    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.
    
    
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    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
    
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    	  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_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 && PREEMPT
    	help
    	  Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
    
    
    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
    
    
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    config DEBUG_SLAB
    
    	bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
    
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    	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 && SLUB_DEBUG && 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 DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
    	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
    
    		(X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE)
    
    	select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
    	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
    	select KALLSYMS
    
    	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
    	help
    	  Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
    	  detector. 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.
    
    
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    config DEBUG_PREEMPT
    	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
    
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    	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.
    
    
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    config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    
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    	bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
    
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    	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.
    
    
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    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_LOCK_ALLOC
    	bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    
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    	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
    
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    	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 PROVE_RCU
    	bool "RCU debugging: prove RCU correctness"
    	depends on PROVE_LOCKING
    	default n
    	help
    	 This feature enables lockdep extensions that check for correct
    	 use of RCU APIs.  This is currently under development.  Say Y
    	 if you want to debug RCU usage or help work on the PROVE_RCU
    	 feature.
    
    	 Say N if you are unsure.
    
    
    config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
    	bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
    	depends on PROVE_RCU
    	default n
    	help
    	 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
    	 first warning (or "splat").  This feature prevents such
    	 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
    	 on a single reboot.
    
    
    config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
    	bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
    	default n
    	help
    	 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
    	 RCU-protected pointers.  This annotation will cause sparse
    	 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers.  This can be
    	 helpful when debugging RCU usage.  Please note that this feature
    	 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
    	 a debugging aid.
    
    	 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
    
    
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    config LOCKDEP
    	bool
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
    
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    	select STACKTRACE
    
    	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
    
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    	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
    
    
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    	 For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt
    
    
    	 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
    	 subcommand of perf.
    	 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
    	 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
    
    
    	 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
    
    	 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
    
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    config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
    	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
    
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    	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
    
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    	bool
    	default y
    	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
    	depends on PROVE_LOCKING
    
    
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    config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
    
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    	bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
    
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    	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 STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
    
    
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    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 || MN10300
    
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    	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.
    
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    	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    
    config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
    	bool "Reduce debugging information"
    	depends on DEBUG_INFO
    	help
    	  If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
    	  information for structure types. This means that tools that
    	  need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
    	  be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
    	  resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
    	  build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
    	  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.
    
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    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
    	help
    	  Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
    	  vfsmount.  This will increase the size of each file struct by
    	  32 bits.
    
    	  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
    	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 DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
    	bool "Debug notifier call chains"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
    	  This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
    	  modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
    	  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
    # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
    #
    config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
    	bool
    	help
    
    
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    config FRAME_POINTER
    	bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
    
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
    
    		(CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || \
    
    		 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \
    		ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
    	default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
    	help
    	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
    	  larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
    	  in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
    
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    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
    	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 Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
    	  the kernel.
    
    	  Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
    	  Say N if you are unsure.
    
    config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
    	bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
    	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
    	default n
    	help
    	  This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
    	  directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
    	  time.  You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
    	  to manually override this setting.  This /proc file is
    	  available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
    	  into the kernel.
    
    	  Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
    	  boot (you probably don't).
    	  Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
    	  after being manually enabled via /proc.
    
    
    config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
    	bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
    
    	depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
    
    	help
    	  This option causes RCU to printk information on which
    	  CPUs are delaying the current grace period, but only when
    	  the grace period extends for excessive time periods.
    
    	  Say N if you want to disable such checks.
    
    	  Say Y if you are unsure.
    
    config RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
    	bool "Print additional per-task information for RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR"
    	depends on RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR && TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
    
    	help
    	  This option causes RCU to printk detailed per-task information
    	  for any tasks that are stalling the current RCU grace period.
    
    
    	  Say N if you are unsure.
    
    
    	  Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
    
    
    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.
    
    
    	  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 DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
            bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    	depends on BLOCK
    
    	  BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
    	  SOME DISTRIBUTIONS.  DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
    	  YOU ARE DOING.  Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
    	  is broken.
    
    
    	  Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
    	  predetermined contiguous area.  However, extended block area
    	  may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers.  This
    	  option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
    	  the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
    	  userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
    	  device number allocation.
    
    
    	  Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
    	  device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
    	  ones, so root partition specified using device number
    	  directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
    	  Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
    
    
    	  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_FS
    
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    	depends on BLOCK
    
    	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
    
    	Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
    
    config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
    	tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
    	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
    	help
    	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
    	  the error handling of the cpu notifiers
    
    	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
    	  be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
    
    	  If unsure, say N.
    
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION
    
    	bool "Fault-injection framework"
    	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
    
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection framework.
    	  For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
    
    	bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
    
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    	depends on SLAB || SLUB
    
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
    
    config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
    	bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
    
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
    
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
    
    config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
    
    	bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
    
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
    
    	  Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
    
    	bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
    
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
    	help
    	  Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
    	  will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
    	  thus exercising the error handling.
    
    	  Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
    	  for others it wont do anything.
    
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
    	bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
    
    	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
    
    	  Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
    
    
    config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
    	bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"