Again, trying to come up with some common themes of the stuff in the kernel hacking menu... There are quite a few options to tweak compilation in some way, or perform extra compile-time checks. Give them their own menu. The diff here looks a bit funny... makes it look like I'm moving debugfs even though I'm actually moving the options on either side of it. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug | 156 +++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/Kconfig.debug~consolidate-compilation-configs lib/Kconfig.debug --- linux-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug~consolidate-compilation-configs 2012-12-17 12:17:38.603555173 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug 2012-12-17 12:19:02.100263746 -0500 @@ -25,6 +25,34 @@ config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. +menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" + +config DEBUG_INFO + bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include + debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. + This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and + is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object + tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. + Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED + bool "Reduce debugging information" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + help + If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging + information for structure types. This means that tools that + need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't + be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to + resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that + build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full + DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. + Only works with newer gcc versions. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y @@ -52,20 +80,6 @@ config FRAME_WARN Setting it to 0 disables the warning. Requires gcc 4.4 -config MAGIC_SYSRQ - bool "Magic SysRq key" - depends on !UML - help - If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even - if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you - will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system - immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished - by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It - also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you - send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The - keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y - unless you really know what this hack does. - config STRIP_ASM_SYMS bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" default n @@ -144,6 +158,58 @@ config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve the section mismatches that are reported. +# +# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it +# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config +# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): +# +config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + bool + help + +config FRAME_POINTER + bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ + (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ + AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ + ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + help + If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly + larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information + in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) + + config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU + bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be + defined weak to work around addressing range issue which + puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable + definitions. + + 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not + 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function + + To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this + option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. + +endmenu # "Compiler options" + +config MAGIC_SYSRQ + bool "Magic SysRq key" + depends on !UML + help + If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even + if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you + will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system + immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished + by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It + also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you + send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The + keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y + unless you really know what this hack does. + config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help @@ -944,32 +1010,6 @@ config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. -config DEBUG_INFO - bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include - debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. - This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and - is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object - tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. - Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. - - If unsure, say N. - -config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED - bool "Reduce debugging information" - depends on DEBUG_INFO - help - If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging - information for structure types. This means that tools that - need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't - be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to - resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that - build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full - DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. - Only works with newer gcc versions. - config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT bool "Debug filesystem writers count" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -1024,27 +1064,6 @@ config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS If unsure, say N. -# -# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it -# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config -# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): -# -config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS - bool - help - -config FRAME_POINTER - bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ - (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ - AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ - ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS - default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS - help - If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly - larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information - in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) - config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY @@ -1090,21 +1109,6 @@ config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT Say N if you are unsure. -config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU - bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be - defined weak to work around addressing range issue which - puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable - definitions. - - 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not - 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function - - To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this - option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. - config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION tristate "Notifier error injection" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
