Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:37:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:37:35 -0400 Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov ([128.165.4.101]:42935 "EHLO mailrelay1.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:37:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 2.5.31 add three help texts to arch/alpha/Config.help From: Steven Cole To: Richard Henderson Cc: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2-5mdk Date: 12 Aug 2002 10:38:21 -0600 Message-Id: <1029170301.2045.23.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1736 Lines: 46 This adds help texts to arch/alpha/Config.help for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV67, CONFIG_DEBUG_RWLOCK and CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMAPHORE. This has been in the -dj tree since about 2.5.7. The texts were obtained from ESR's v2.97 Configure.help. Steven --- linux-2.5.31/arch/alpha/Config.help.orig Sat Aug 10 19:41:20 2002 +++ linux-2.5.31/arch/alpha/Config.help Mon Aug 12 09:52:42 2002 @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA Say Y if you have an AS 2000 5/xxx or an AS 2100 5/xxx. +CONFIG_ALPHA_EV67 + Is this a machine based on the EV67 core? If in doubt, select N here + and the machine will be treated as an EV6. + CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM There are two different types of booting firmware on Alphas: SRM, which is command line driven, and ARC, which uses menus and arrow @@ -598,4 +602,15 @@ and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock deadlocks are also debuggable. + +CONFIG_DEBUG_RWLOCK + If you say Y here then read-write lock processing will count how many + times it has tried to get the lock and issue an error message after + too many attempts. If you suspect a rwlock problem or a kernel + hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N. + +CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMAPHORE + If you say Y here then semaphore processing will issue lots of + verbose debugging messages. If you suspect a semaphore problem or a + kernel hacker asks for this option then say Y. Otherwise say N. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/