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| author | Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> | 2014-09-03 17:58:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> | 2014-09-03 17:58:50 +0200 |
| commit | 61bf5ff07afb28a028ca5b9fb3c7ef29fc47d0d6 (patch) | |
| tree | f3d0d1ddb6320f39910a9b9677dbefe9ed80f5e0 /lib | |
| parent | c0df975f9045d6b2b13d88746e628ac308ff49ea (diff) | |
| parent | 4d09d99d543ec28b2280a1f62382697f47ea6366 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-joerg/arm-smmu/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into iommu/fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 07c28323f88f..a28590083622 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -892,6 +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" @@ -1032,8 +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" |