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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/configs/x86_debug.config | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst index c74f4a81588b..572a3289c9cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst @@ -437,6 +437,20 @@ in a private repository which allows interested people to easily pull the series for testing. The usual way to offer this is a git URL in the cover letter of the patch series. +Testing +^^^^^^^ + +Code should be tested before submitting to the tip maintainers. Anything +other than minor changes should be built, booted and tested with +comprehensive (and heavyweight) kernel debugging options enabled. + +These debugging options can be found in kernel/configs/x86_debug.config +and can be added to an existing kernel config by running: + + make x86_debug.config + +Some of these options are x86-specific and can be left out when testing +on other architectures. Coding style notes ------------------ diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 63d50f65b828..1abd7cc9d6cd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -313,5 +313,6 @@ define archhelp echo '' echo ' kvm_guest.config - Enable Kconfig items for running this kernel as a KVM guest' echo ' xen.config - Enable Kconfig items for running this kernel as a Xen guest' + echo ' x86_debug.config - Enable tip tree debugging options for testing' endef diff --git a/kernel/configs/x86_debug.config b/kernel/configs/x86_debug.config new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..dcd86f32f4ed --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/configs/x86_debug.config @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU=y +CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y +CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y +CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1 +CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y +CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y +CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y +CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y +CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION=y +CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y |