net/Kconfig.debug
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/net/Kconfig.debug
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
net/Kconfig.debug- Extension
.debug- Size
- 1286 bytes
- Lines
- 42
- Domain
- Networking Core
- Bucket
- Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy
- Inferred role
- Networking Core: Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.
- Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER
bool "Enable net device refcount tracking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && NET
select REF_TRACKER
default n
help
Enable debugging feature to track device references.
This adds memory and cpu costs.
config NET_NS_REFCNT_TRACKER
bool "Enable networking namespace refcount tracking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && NET
select REF_TRACKER
default n
help
Enable debugging feature to track netns references.
This adds memory and cpu costs.
config DEBUG_NET
bool "Add generic networking debug"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && NET
help
Enable extra sanity checks in networking.
This is mostly used by fuzzers, but is safe to select.
config DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL
bool "Add extra per-netns mutex inside RTNL"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && NET && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
select PROVE_LOCKING
default n
help
rtnl_lock() is being replaced with rtnl_net_lock() that
acquires the global RTNL and a small per-netns RTNL mutex.
During the conversion, rtnl_net_lock() just adds an extra
mutex in every RTNL scope and slows down the operations.
Once the conversion completes, rtnl_lock() will be removed
and rtnetlink will gain per-netns scalability.
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Networking Core / Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.