consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging options

Original posting:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184202.F54094D9@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com

Several architectures have similar stack debugging config options.
They all pretty much do the same thing, some with slightly
differing help text.

This patch changes the architectures to instead enable a Kconfig
boolean, and then use that boolean in the generic Kconfig.debug
to present the actual menu option.  This removes a bunch of
duplication and adds consistency across arches.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [for tile]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Dave Hansen
2013-07-01 13:04:42 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8bb495e3f0
commit d1a1dc0be8
24 changed files with 33 additions and 90 deletions
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@@ -1475,6 +1475,27 @@ config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
If unsure, say N.
config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
bool
config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
bool "Check for stack overflows"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
---help---
Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
and exception stacks (if your archicture uses them). This
option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
below a certain limit.
These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
involved.
Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
If in doubt, say "N".
source "samples/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"