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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index d4c8c9323aa4..5960e2980a8a 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -305,19 +305,26 @@ config DEBUG_FS If unsure, say N. -config HEADERS_CHECK - bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" +config HEADERS_INSTALL + bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 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. + This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) + into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. + This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some + user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such + as uapi header sanity checks. + +config HEADERS_CHECK + bool "Run sanity checks on uapi headers when building 'all'" + depends on HEADERS_INSTALL + help + This option will run basic sanity checks on uapi headers when + building the 'all' target, for example, ensure that they 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. + relevant for userspace, say 'Y'. config OPTIMIZE_INLINING bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'" @@ -346,23 +353,13 @@ config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following - additional steps to occur: + additional step to occur: - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. When inlining a function annotated with __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 it does result in a larger kernel). - - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file. - When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we - lose valuable information about where the mismatch was - introduced. - Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file - tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the - source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is - reported at least twice. - - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve - the section mismatches that are reported. config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" @@ -1132,7 +1129,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. - For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. config LOCK_STAT bool "Lock usage statistics" @@ -1146,7 +1143,7 @@ config LOCK_STAT help This feature enables tracking lock contention points - For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", subcommand of perf. @@ -2069,6 +2066,14 @@ config TEST_STACKINIT If unsure, say N. +config TEST_MEMINIT + tristate "Test heap/page initialization" + help + Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. + This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. + + If unsure, say N. + endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU config MEMTEST |