Hi.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:18 PM Changbin Du <[email protected]> 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 structurized yet.
Could you please change the subject prefix "kconfig/hacking:" ?
("hacking:" , "debug:" or whatever, but no "kconfig")
I just opened this thread just in case it might be related to kconfig,
but it was not.
Thanks.
> Early discussion is here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/1/39
>
> This is a preview:
>
> │
> ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
> │ │ printk and dmesg options --->
> │ │
> │ │ Compile-time checks and compiler options --->
> │ │
> │ │ Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments --->
> │ │
> │ │ -*- Kernel debugging
> │ │
> │ │ [*] Miscellaneous debug code
> │ │
> │ │ Memory Debugging --->
> │ │
> │ │ [ ] Debug shared IRQ handlers
> │ │
> │ │ 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 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
> │ │
> │ │ [ ] Additional debug code for syzbot
> │ │
> │ │ x86 Debugging --->
> │ │
> │ │ Kernel Testing and Coverage --->
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
>
> ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ <Select> < Exit > < Help > < Save > < Load >
> │
>
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
> v2:
> o rebase to linux-next.
> o move DEBUG_FS to 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments'
> o move DEBUG_NOTIFIERS to 'Debug kernel data structures'
>
> Changbin Du (9):
> 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'
> kconfig/hacking: Move DEBUG_FS to 'Generic Kernel Debugging
> Instruments'
>
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 659 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 340 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
