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* [PATCH v2 0/9] kconfig/hacking: make 'kernel hacking' menu better structurized
@ 2019-09-09 14:18 Changbin Du
  2019-09-09 14:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] kconfig/hacking: Group sysrq/kgdb/ubsan into 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments' Changbin Du
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  0 siblings, 10 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Changbin Du @ 2019-09-09 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Randy Dunlap; +Cc: Thomas Gleixner, linux-kernel, Changbin Du

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 >           │  
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 

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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2019-09-09 14:18 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] kconfig/hacking: Move DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE to 'printk and dmesg options' Changbin Du
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