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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 3ac43f34437..4e35a5d767e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. +config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK + bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + default n + help + This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). + If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as + the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. + This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in + data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region + is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. + config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS @@ -952,7 +964,7 @@ 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/lockdep-design.txt. + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. config LOCKDEP bool @@ -973,7 +985,7 @@ config LOCK_STAT help This feature enables tracking lock contention points - For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", subcommand of perf. @@ -1636,7 +1648,7 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG If unsure, say N. -config TEST_MODULE +config TEST_LKM tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" default n depends on m |