linux/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v2.6.39

kemleak-test: build as module only

2011-04-05T00:51:47Z

mm/kmemleak-test.c is used to provide an example of how kmemleak tool works. Memory is leaked at module unload-time, so building the test in kernel (Y) makes the leaks impossible and the test useless. Qualify DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST config symbol with "depends on m", to restrict module-only building. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kstrto*: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right

2011-03-23T00:44:14Z

1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty, libc way to indicate failure. 2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and comments pretend they do. 3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants, but users want strtou8() 4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong: Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist because conversion should be strict by default. The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types. Enter kstrtoull() kstrtoll() kstrtoul() kstrtol() kstrtouint() kstrtoint() kstrtou64() kstrtos64() kstrtou32() kstrtos32() kstrtou16() kstrtos16() kstrtou8() kstrtos8() Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well. strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and eventually will be removed altogether. Use kstrto*() in code today! Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution, because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and __alignof__ at least always works. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via Kconfig

2011-03-23T00:44:13Z

We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could have been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to dmesg. To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by default

2011-03-23T00:44:12Z

When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6

2011-03-21T22:55:26Z

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: kbuild: Make DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH selectable, but not on by default genksyms: Regenerate lexer and parser genksyms: Track changes to enum constants genksyms: simplify usage of find_symbol() genksyms: Add helpers for building string lists genksyms: Simplify printing of symbol types genksyms: Simplify lexer genksyms: Do not paste the bison header file to lex.c modpost: fix trailing comma KBuild: silence "'scripts/unifdef' is up to date." kbuild: Add extra gcc checks kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis unifdef: update to upstream version 2.5

kbuild: Make DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH selectable, but not on by default

2011-03-21T09:47:58Z

CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH has also runtime effects due to the -fno-inline-functions-called-once compiler flag, so forcing it on everyone is not a good idea. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

BKL: That's all, folks

2011-03-05T09:56:00Z

This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock, at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the past, I so the credit for this patch should be with everyone who participated in the hunt. The names on the Cc list are the people that were the most active in this, according to the recorded git history, in alphabetical order. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Hendry Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Hans Verkuil Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Blunck Cc: John Kacur Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Paul Menage Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Trond Myklebust

kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis

2011-02-24T14:26:43Z

This was disabled in commit e5f95c8 (kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found) because there were too many warnings. Now we're down to a reasonable number again, so we start scaring people with the details. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

m68knommu: Remove dependencies on nonexistent M68KNOMMU

2011-02-08T05:07:44Z

M68KNOMMU is set nowhere. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer

kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

2011-01-21T01:02:05Z

The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Greg KH Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds