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│ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ printk and dmesg options ---> │ │
│ │ Compile-time checks and compiler options ---> │ │
│ │ Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments ---> │ │
│ │ -*- Kernel debugging │ │
│ │ [*] Miscellaneous debug code │ │
│ │ Memory Debugging ---> │ │
│ │ IRQ Debugging ---> │ │
│ │ Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs ---> │ │
│ │ Scheduler Debugging ---> │ │
│ │ [*] Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking │ │
│ │ Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...) ---> │ │
│ │ -*- Stack backtrace support │ │
│ │ [ ] Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness │ │
│ │ [ ] kobject debugging │ │
│ │ Debug kernel data structures ---> │ │
│ │ [ ] Debug notifier call chains │ │
│ │ [ ] Debug credential management │ │
│ │ RCU Debugging ---> │ │
│ │ [ ] Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items │ │
│ │ [ ] Force extended block device numbers and spread them │ │
│ │ [ ] Enable CPU hotplug state control │ │
│ │ [*] Latency measuring infrastructure │ │
│ │ [*] Tracers ---> │ │
│ │ [ ] Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot │ │
│ │ [*] Sample kernel code ---> │ │
│ │ [*] Filter access to /dev/mem │ │
│ │ [ ] Filter I/O access to /dev/mem │ │
│ │ x86 Debugging ---> │ │
│ │ Kernel Testing and Coverage ---> │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 09:27:52AM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> This series is a trivial improvment for the layout of 'kernel hacking'
> configuration menu. Now we have many items in it which makes takes
> a little time to look up them since they are not well structured yet.
>
> Early discussion is here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/1/39
>
> Changbin Du (8):
> kconfig/hacking: Group sysrq/kgdb/ubsan into 'Generic Kernel Debugging
> Instruments'
> kconfig/hacking: Create submenu for arch special debugging options
> kconfig/hacking: Group kernel data structures debugging together
> kconfig/hacking: Move kernel testing and coverage options to same
> submenu
> kconfig/hacking: Move Oops into 'Lockups and Hangs'
> kconfig/hacking: Move SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK after DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
> kconfig/hacking: Create a submenu for scheduler debugging options
> kconfig/hacking: Move DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE to 'printk and dmesg options'
>
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 627 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 324 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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Cheers,
Changbin Du