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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-11 13:27:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-11 13:27:47 +0200 |
| commit | c4c0c56a7a85ed5725786219e4fbca7e840b1531 (patch) | |
| tree | c9d6b35a571fd5e80ddf5bf4a60142480eaa18d8 /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2) (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/c... (diff) | |
| download | linux-c4c0c56a7a85ed5725786219e4fbca7e840b1531.tar.xz linux-c4c0c56a7a85ed5725786219e4fbca7e840b1531.zip | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 41 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index df27132a56f4..e1d4764435ed 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ config DEBUG_FS 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 @@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP 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 + mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the @@ -159,6 +162,30 @@ config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that support it.) +config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" + depends on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP + 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 DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP + range 0 1 + default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + config SCHED_DEBUG bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS @@ -478,6 +505,18 @@ config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT 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 |