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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2019-12-06 17:03:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-12-07 11:00:19 -0800
commitdc9b96387ec9b6d770dec6fcb3017afebc9e49d6 (patch)
tree1734a15185c74d37800bc2cbd66d04d775a09063 /lib
parentf43a289df67153a169776f8ea0445bc3a57e7a83 (diff)
downloadlinux-dc9b96387ec9b6d770dec6fcb3017afebc9e49d6.tar.bz2
kernel-hacking: move SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK after DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
They are both memory debug options to debug kernel stack issues. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190909144453.3520-7-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug24
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 4c8487844727..a02afa6436b1 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -632,6 +632,18 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
+config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
+ bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default n
+ help
+ This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
+ If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
+ the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
+ This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
+ data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
+ is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
+
config DEBUG_VM
bool "Debug VM"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
@@ -985,18 +997,6 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
this adds.
-config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
- bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
- default n
- help
- This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
- If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
- the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
- This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
- data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
- is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
-
config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
help