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.
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 > │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ v3: o change subject prefix. 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): hacking: Group sysrq/kgdb/ubsan into 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments' hacking: Create submenu for arch special debugging options hacking: Group kernel data structures debugging together hacking: Move kernel testing and coverage options to same submenu hacking: Move Oops into 'Lockups and Hangs' hacking: Move SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK after DEBUG_STACK_USAGE hacking: Create a submenu for scheduler debugging options hacking: Move DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE to 'printk and dmesg options' hacking: Move DEBUG_FS to 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments' lib/Kconfig.debug | 663 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 342 insertions(+), 321 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1
