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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 49d5fb754e88..e7ad58c5fbeb 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. +config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK + bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + default n + help + This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). + If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as + the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. + This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in + data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region + is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. + config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |