From 4fb8e68bc40d7f6f898477c5570b317f50b7b069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 23:25:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kernel: provide better control & help for SLUB configuration MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Allow selecting KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG and KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG_ON manually and provide detailed help for both. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki --- config/Config-kernel.in | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in index a1209d82f3..4c43190e40 100644 --- a/config/Config-kernel.in +++ b/config/Config-kernel.in @@ -682,10 +682,23 @@ config KERNEL_PRINTK_TIME default y config KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG - bool + bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" + help + This enables various debugging features: + - Accepts "slub_debug" kernel parameter + - Provides caches debugging options (e.g. tracing, validating) + - Adds /sys/kernel/slab/ attrs for reading amounts of *objects* + - Enables /proc/slabinfo support + - Prints info when running out of memory + + Enabling this can result in a significant increase of code size. config KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG_ON - bool + depends on KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG + bool "Boot kernel with basic caches debugging enabled" + help + This enables by default sanity_checks, red_zone, poison and store_user + debugging options for all caches. config KERNEL_SLABINFO select KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG -- 2.30.2