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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-24 13:00:21 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-24 13:00:21 -0400
commitd06efebf0c37d438fcf07057be00dd40fcfce08d (patch)
tree31a0786d132aadf4cbb9725f3f444ef6e1052128 /lib/Kconfig.debug
parentbb2e226b3bef596dd56be97df655d857b4603923 (diff)
parent0a30288da1aec914e158c2d7a3482a85f632750f (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block into for-3.18
This is to receive 0a30288da1ae ("blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe") which implements __percpu_ref_kill_expedited() to work around SCSI blk-mq stall. The commit reverted and patches to implement proper fix will be added. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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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"