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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 35 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index cb45f59685e6..a28590083622 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. +config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT + bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + help + Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly + reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, + because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo + files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. + In addition the debug information is also compressed. + + Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. + Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need + to know about the .dwo files and include them. + Incompatible with older versions of ccache. + +config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 + bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + help + Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions + of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. + But it significantly improves the success of resolving + variables in gdb on optimized code. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y @@ -868,6 +892,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. + Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so + it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, + even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If + you are a distro, do not. config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" @@ -1008,8 +1036,13 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS either tracing or lock debugging. config STACKTRACE - bool + bool "Stack backtrace support" depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + help + This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for + every process, showing its current stack trace. + It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require + stack trace generation. config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" |