1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 40 range 1 15 41 default "7" 42 help 43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 44 45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 47 value is specified here as well. 48 49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 51 option. 52 53config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 55 range 1 15 56 default "4" 57 help 58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 59 60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 63 64config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 65 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 66 range 1 7 67 default "4" 68 help 69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 70 71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 73 priority. 74 75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 78 79config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 82 help 83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 86 using "boot_delay=N". 87 88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 89 the "loops per jiffie" value. 90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 95 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 96 97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 99 default n 100 depends on PRINTK 101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 102 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 103 help 104 105 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 106 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 107 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 108 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 109 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 110 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 111 112 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 113 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 114 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 115 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 116 117 Usage: 118 119 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 120 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 121 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 122 making use of this feature. 123 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 124 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 125 format for each line of the file is: 126 127 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 128 129 filename : source file of the debug statement 130 lineno : line number of the debug statement 131 module : module that contains the debug statement 132 function : function that contains the debug statement 133 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 134 format : the format used for the debug statement 135 136 From a live system: 137 138 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 139 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 140 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 141 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 142 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 143 144 Example usage: 145 146 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 147 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 148 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 149 150 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 151 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 152 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 153 154 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 157 158 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 161 162 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 165 166 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 167 information. 168 169config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 170 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 171 depends on PRINTK 172 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 173 help 174 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 175 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 176 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 177 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 178 sensitive for people. 179 180config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 181 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 182 default y if PRINTK 183 help 184 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 185 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 186 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 187 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 188 189config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 190 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 191 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 192 default y 193 help 194 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 195 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 196 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 197 198endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 199 200menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 201 202config DEBUG_INFO 203 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 205 help 206 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 207 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 208 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 209 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 210 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 211 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 212 213 If unsure, say N. 214 215if DEBUG_INFO 216 217config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 218 bool "Reduce debugging information" 219 help 220 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 221 information for structure types. This means that tools that 222 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 223 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 224 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 225 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 226 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 227 Only works with newer gcc versions. 228 229config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 230 bool "Compressed debugging information" 231 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 232 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 233 help 234 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 235 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 236 237 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 238 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 239 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 240 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 241 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 242 larger. 243 244config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 245 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 246 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 247 help 248 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 249 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 250 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 251 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 252 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 253 254 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 255 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 256 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 257 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 258 259choice 260 prompt "DWARF version" 261 help 262 Which version of DWARF debug info to emit. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 265 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 266 help 267 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 268 toolchain changes over time. 269 270 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 271 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 272 those should be less common scenarios. 273 274 If unsure, say Y. 275 276config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 277 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 278 help 279 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 280 281 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 282 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 283 config select this. 284 285config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 286 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 287 depends on GCC_VERSION >= 50000 || CC_IS_CLANG 288 depends on CC_IS_GCC || $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS)) 289 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF 290 help 291 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 292 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 293 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 294 295 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 296 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 297 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 298 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 299 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 300 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 301 support DWARF Version 5. 302 303endchoice # "DWARF version" 304 305config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 306 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 307 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 308 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 309 help 310 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 311 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 312 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 313 314config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 315 def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119") 316 317config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 318 def_bool y 319 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 320 help 321 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 322 323config GDB_SCRIPTS 324 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 325 help 326 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 327 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 328 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 329 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 330 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 331 for further details. 332 333endif # DEBUG_INFO 334 335config FRAME_WARN 336 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 337 range 0 8192 338 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 339 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 340 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 341 default 2048 if 64BIT 342 help 343 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 344 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 345 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 346 347config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 348 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 349 default n 350 help 351 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 352 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 353 get_wchan() and suchlike. 354 355config READABLE_ASM 356 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 358 help 359 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 360 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 361 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 362 sane. 363 364config HEADERS_INSTALL 365 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 366 depends on !UML 367 help 368 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 369 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 370 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 371 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 372 as uapi header sanity checks. 373 374config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 375 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 376 help 377 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 378 references from one section to another section. 379 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 380 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 381 most likely result in an oops. 382 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 383 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 384 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 385 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 386 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 387 additional step to occur: 388 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 389 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 390 function, we would lose the section information and thus 391 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 392 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 393 a larger kernel). 394 395config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 396 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 397 default y 398 help 399 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 400 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 401 402 If unsure, say Y. 403 404config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B 405 bool "Force all function address 32B aligned" if EXPERT 406 help 407 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 408 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 409 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 410 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 411 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 412 413 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 414 415# 416# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 417# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 418# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 419# 420config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 421 bool 422 423config FRAME_POINTER 424 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 426 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 427 help 428 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 429 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 430 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 431 432config STACK_VALIDATION 433 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 434 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 435 default n 436 help 437 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 438 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 439 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 440 441 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 442 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 443 444 For more information, see 445 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 446 447config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 448 bool 449 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT 450 default y 451 452config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 453 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 455 help 456 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 457 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 458 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 459 definitions. 460 461 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 462 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 463 464 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 465 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 466 467endmenu # "Compiler options" 468 469menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 470 471config MAGIC_SYSRQ 472 bool "Magic SysRq key" 473 depends on !UML 474 help 475 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 476 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 477 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 478 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 479 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 480 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 481 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 482 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 483 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 484 485config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 486 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 487 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 488 default 0x1 489 help 490 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 491 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 492 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 493 494config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 495 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 496 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 497 default y 498 help 499 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 500 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 501 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 502 magic SysRq key. 503 504config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 505 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 506 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 507 default "" 508 help 509 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 510 SysRq on a serial console. 511 512 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 513 514config DEBUG_FS 515 bool "Debug Filesystem" 516 help 517 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 518 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 519 write to these files. 520 521 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 522 Documentation/filesystems/. 523 524 If unsure, say N. 525 526choice 527 prompt "Debugfs default access" 528 depends on DEBUG_FS 529 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 530 help 531 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 532 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 533 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 534 and filesystem registration. 535 536config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 537 bool "Access normal" 538 help 539 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 540 is on. This is the normal default operation. 541 542config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 543 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 544 help 545 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 546 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 547 debugfs filesystem. 548 549config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 550 bool "No access" 551 help 552 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 553 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 554 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 555 556endchoice 557 558source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 559source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 560source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 561 562endmenu 563 564config DEBUG_KERNEL 565 bool "Kernel debugging" 566 help 567 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 568 identify kernel problems. 569 570config DEBUG_MISC 571 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 572 default DEBUG_KERNEL 573 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 574 help 575 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 576 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 577 578 579menu "Memory Debugging" 580 581source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 582 583config DEBUG_OBJECTS 584 bool "Debug object operations" 585 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 586 help 587 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 588 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 589 the operations on those objects. 590 591config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 592 bool "Debug objects selftest" 593 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 594 help 595 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 596 597config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 598 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 599 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 600 help 601 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 602 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 603 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 604 much slower. 605 606config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 607 bool "Debug timer objects" 608 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 609 help 610 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 611 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 612 validate the timer operations. 613 614config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 615 bool "Debug work objects" 616 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 617 help 618 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 619 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 620 validate the work operations. 621 622config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 623 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 624 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 625 help 626 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 627 628config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 629 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 630 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 631 help 632 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 633 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 634 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 635 636config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 637 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 638 range 0 1 639 default "1" 640 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 641 help 642 Debug objects boot parameter default value 643 644config DEBUG_SLAB 645 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 646 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 647 help 648 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 649 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 650 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 651 652config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 653 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 654 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 655 default n 656 help 657 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 658 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 659 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 660 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 661 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 662 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 663 "slub_debug=-". 664 665config SLUB_STATS 666 default n 667 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 668 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 669 help 670 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 671 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 672 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 673 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 674 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 675 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 676 Try running: slabinfo -DA 677 678config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 679 bool 680 681config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 682 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 683 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 684 select DEBUG_FS 685 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 686 select KALLSYMS 687 select CRC32 688 help 689 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 690 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 691 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 692 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 693 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 694 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 695 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 696 details. 697 698 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 699 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 700 701 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 702 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 703 704config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 705 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 706 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 707 range 200 1000000 708 default 16000 709 help 710 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 711 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 712 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 713 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 714 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 715 if slab allocations fail. 716 717config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 718 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 719 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 720 help 721 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 722 723 If unsure, say N. 724 725config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 726 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 727 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 728 help 729 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 730 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 731 732config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 733 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 734 default y 735 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 736 help 737 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 738 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 739 kmemleak scan at boot up. 740 741 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 742 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 743 memory leaks. 744 745 If unsure, say Y. 746 747config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 748 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 750 help 751 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 752 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 753 754 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 755 756config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 757 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 759 default n 760 help 761 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 762 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 763 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 764 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 765 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 766 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 767 768config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 769 bool 770 help 771 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 772 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 773 774config DEBUG_VM 775 bool "Debug VM" 776 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 777 help 778 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 779 that may impact performance. 780 781 If unsure, say N. 782 783config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 784 bool "Debug VMA caching" 785 depends on DEBUG_VM 786 help 787 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 788 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 789 environments. 790 791 If unsure, say N. 792 793config DEBUG_VM_RB 794 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 795 depends on DEBUG_VM 796 help 797 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 798 799 If unsure, say N. 800 801config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 802 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 803 depends on DEBUG_VM 804 help 805 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 806 807 If unsure, say N. 808 809config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 810 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 811 depends on MMU 812 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 813 default y if DEBUG_VM 814 help 815 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 816 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 817 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 818 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 819 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 820 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 821 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 822 823 If unsure, say N. 824 825config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 826 bool 827 828config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 829 bool "Debug VM translations" 830 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 831 help 832 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 833 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 834 835 If unsure, say N. 836 837config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 838 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 839 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 840 help 841 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 842 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 843 844config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 845 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 846 default !EXPERT 847 help 848 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 849 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 850 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 851 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 852 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 853 854 If unsure, say Y 855 856config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 857 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 858 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 859 help 860 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 861 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 862 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 863 864 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 865 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 866 867 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 868 869 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 870 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 871 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 872 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 873 874 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 875 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 876 877 If unsure, say N. 878 879config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 880 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 882 depends on SMP 883 help 884 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 885 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 886 and decreases performance. 887 888 Say N if unsure. 889 890config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 891 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 892 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 893 help 894 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 895 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 896 897config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 898 bool 899 900config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 901 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 902 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 903 select KMAP_LOCAL 904 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 905 help 906 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 907 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 908 Disable this for production systems! 909 910config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 911 bool "Highmem debugging" 912 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 913 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 914 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 915 help 916 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 917 systems. Disable for production systems. 918 919config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 920 bool 921 922config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 923 bool "Check for stack overflows" 924 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 925 help 926 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 927 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 928 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 929 below a certain limit. 930 931 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 932 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 933 involved. 934 935 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 936 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 937 938 If in doubt, say "N". 939 940source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 941source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 942 943endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 944 945config DEBUG_SHIRQ 946 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 948 help 949 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 950 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 951 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 952 don't and need to be caught. 953 954menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 955 956config PANIC_ON_OOPS 957 bool "Panic on Oops" 958 help 959 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 960 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 961 line. 962 963 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 964 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 965 corruption or other issues. 966 967 Say N if unsure. 968 969config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 970 int 971 range 0 1 972 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 973 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 974 975config PANIC_TIMEOUT 976 int "panic timeout" 977 default 0 978 help 979 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 980 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 981 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 982 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 983 984config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 985 bool 986 987config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 988 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 989 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 990 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 991 help 992 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 993 soft lockups. 994 995 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 996 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 997 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 998 detection and the system will stay locked up. 999 1000config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1001 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1002 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1003 help 1004 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1005 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1006 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1007 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1008 1009 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1010 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1011 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1012 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1013 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1014 1015 Say N if unsure. 1016 1017config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1018 int 1019 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1020 range 0 1 1021 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1022 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1023 1024config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1025 bool 1026 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1027 1028# 1029# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1030# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1031# 1032config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1033 bool 1034 1035# 1036# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1037# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1038# 1039config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1040 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1041 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1042 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1043 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1044 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1045 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1046 help 1047 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1048 hard lockups. 1049 1050 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1051 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1052 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1053 and the system will stay locked up. 1054 1055config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1056 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1057 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1058 help 1059 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1060 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1061 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1062 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1063 1064 Say N if unsure. 1065 1066config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1067 int 1068 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1069 range 0 1 1070 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1071 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1072 1073config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1074 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1075 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1076 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1077 help 1078 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1079 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1080 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1081 1082 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1083 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1084 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1085 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1086 feature has negligible overhead. 1087 1088config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1089 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1090 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1091 default 120 1092 help 1093 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1094 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1095 be considered hung. 1096 1097 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1098 sysctl or by writing a value to 1099 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1100 1101 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1102 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1103 1104config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1105 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1106 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1107 help 1108 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1109 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1110 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1111 1112 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1113 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1114 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1115 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1116 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1117 1118 Say N if unsure. 1119 1120config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1121 int 1122 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1123 range 0 1 1124 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1125 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1126 1127config WQ_WATCHDOG 1128 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1129 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1130 help 1131 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1132 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1133 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1134 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1135 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1136 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1137 1138config TEST_LOCKUP 1139 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1140 depends on m 1141 help 1142 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1143 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1144 1145 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1146 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1147 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1148 1149 If unsure, say N. 1150 1151endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1152 1153menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1154 1155config SCHED_DEBUG 1156 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1158 default y 1159 help 1160 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1161 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1162 option is minimal. 1163 1164config SCHED_INFO 1165 bool 1166 default n 1167 1168config SCHEDSTATS 1169 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1171 select SCHED_INFO 1172 help 1173 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1174 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1175 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1176 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1177 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1178 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1179 this adds. 1180 1181endmenu 1182 1183config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1184 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1185 help 1186 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1187 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1188 problems are suspected. 1189 1190 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1191 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1192 workloads. 1193 1194 If unsure, say N. 1195 1196config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1197 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1198 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1199 default y 1200 help 1201 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1202 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1203 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1204 will detect preemption count underflows. 1205 1206menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1207 1208config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1209 bool 1210 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1211 default y 1212 1213config PROVE_LOCKING 1214 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1216 select LOCKDEP 1217 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1218 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1219 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1220 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1221 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1222 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1223 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1224 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1225 default n 1226 help 1227 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1228 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1229 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1230 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1231 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1232 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1233 deadlock. 1234 1235 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1236 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1237 1238 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1239 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1240 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1241 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1242 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1243 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1244 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1245 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1246 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1247 1248 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1249 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1250 kernel reports nothing. 1251 1252 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1253 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1254 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1255 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1256 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1257 1258 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1259 1260config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1261 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1262 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1263 default n 1264 help 1265 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1266 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1267 not violated. 1268 1269 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1270 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1271 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1272 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1273 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1274 1275 If unsure, select N. 1276 1277config LOCK_STAT 1278 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1280 select LOCKDEP 1281 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1282 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1283 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1284 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1285 default n 1286 help 1287 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1288 1289 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1290 1291 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1292 subcommand of perf. 1293 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1294 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1295 1296 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1297 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1298 1299config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1300 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1302 help 1303 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1304 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1305 1306config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1307 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1308 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1309 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1310 help 1311 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1312 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1313 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1314 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1315 1316config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1317 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1318 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1319 help 1320 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1321 reported. 1322 1323config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1324 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1325 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1326 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1327 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1328 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1329 help 1330 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1331 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1332 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1333 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1334 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1335 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1336 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1337 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1338 you are a distro, do not. 1339 1340config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1341 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1342 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1343 help 1344 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1345 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1346 1347config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1348 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1350 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1351 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1352 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1353 select LOCKDEP 1354 help 1355 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1356 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1357 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1358 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1359 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1360 held during task exit. 1361 1362config LOCKDEP 1363 bool 1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1365 select STACKTRACE 1366 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1367 select KALLSYMS 1368 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1369 1370config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1371 bool 1372 1373config LOCKDEP_BITS 1374 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1375 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1376 range 10 30 1377 default 15 1378 help 1379 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1380 1381config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1382 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1383 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1384 range 10 30 1385 default 16 1386 help 1387 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1388 1389config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1390 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1391 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1392 range 10 30 1393 default 19 1394 help 1395 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1396 1397config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1398 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1399 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1400 range 10 30 1401 default 14 1402 help 1403 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1404 1405config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1406 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1407 depends on LOCKDEP 1408 range 10 30 1409 default 12 1410 help 1411 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1412 1413config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1414 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1416 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1417 help 1418 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1419 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1420 of more runtime overhead. 1421 1422config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1423 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1424 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1426 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1427 help 1428 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1429 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1430 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1431 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1432 1433config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1434 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1435 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1436 help 1437 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1438 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1439 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1440 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1441 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1442 mutexes and rwsems. 1443 1444config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1445 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1447 select TORTURE_TEST 1448 help 1449 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1450 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1451 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1452 1453 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1454 to be built into the kernel. 1455 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1456 Say N if you are unsure. 1457 1458config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1459 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1460 help 1461 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1462 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1463 1464 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1465 with this test harness. 1466 1467 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1468 Say N if you are unsure. 1469 1470config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1471 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1473 select TORTURE_TEST 1474 help 1475 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1476 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1477 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1478 be tested, if desired. 1479 1480config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1481 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1483 depends on 64BIT 1484 default n 1485 help 1486 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1487 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1488 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1489 and relevant stack traces. 1490 1491endmenu # lock debugging 1492 1493config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1494 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1495 bool 1496 help 1497 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1498 either tracing or lock debugging. 1499 1500config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1501 def_bool y 1502 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1503 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1504 1505config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1506 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1507 help 1508 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1509 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1510 are enabled. 1511 1512config STACKTRACE 1513 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1514 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1515 help 1516 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1517 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1518 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1519 stack trace generation. 1520 1521config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1522 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1523 default n 1524 help 1525 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1526 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1527 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1528 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1529 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1530 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1531 it. 1532 1533 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1534 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1535 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1536 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1537 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1538 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1539 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1540 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1541 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1542 1543 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1544 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1545 those developers interested in improving the security of 1546 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1547 subarchitecture). 1548 1549config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1550 bool "kobject debugging" 1551 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1552 help 1553 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1554 to the syslog. 1555 1556config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1557 bool "kobject release debugging" 1558 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1559 help 1560 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1561 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1562 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1563 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1564 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1565 unregistered. 1566 1567 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1568 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1569 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1570 1571 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1572 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1573 kind of kobject release bug. 1574 1575config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1576 bool 1577 1578menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1579 1580config DEBUG_LIST 1581 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1582 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1583 help 1584 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1585 walking routines. 1586 1587 If unsure, say N. 1588 1589config DEBUG_PLIST 1590 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1591 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1592 help 1593 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1594 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1595 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1596 1597 If unsure, say N. 1598 1599config DEBUG_SG 1600 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1601 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1602 help 1603 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1604 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1605 their sg tables. 1606 1607 If unsure, say N. 1608 1609config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1610 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1612 help 1613 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1614 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1615 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1616 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1617 performance, say N. 1618 1619config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1620 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1621 select DEBUG_LIST 1622 help 1623 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1624 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1625 for validity. 1626 1627 If unsure, say N. 1628 1629endmenu 1630 1631config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1632 bool "Debug credential management" 1633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1634 help 1635 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1636 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1637 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1638 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1639 struct. 1640 1641 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1642 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1643 1644 If unsure, say N. 1645 1646source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1647 1648config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1649 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1650 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1651 default n 1652 help 1653 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1654 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1655 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1656 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1657 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1658 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1659 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1660 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1661 be impacted. 1662 1663config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1664 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1665 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1666 depends on BLOCK 1667 default n 1668 help 1669 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1670 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1671 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1672 is broken. 1673 1674 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1675 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1676 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1677 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1678 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1679 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1680 device number allocation. 1681 1682 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1683 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1684 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1685 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1686 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1687 1688 Say N if you are unsure. 1689 1690config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1691 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1693 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1694 default n 1695 help 1696 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1697 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1698 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1699 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1700 1701 Say N if your are unsure. 1702 1703config LATENCYTOP 1704 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1705 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1706 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1707 depends on PROC_FS 1708 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1709 select KALLSYMS 1710 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1711 select STACKTRACE 1712 select SCHEDSTATS 1713 select SCHED_DEBUG 1714 help 1715 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1716 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1717 1718source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1719 1720config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1721 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1722 depends on PCI && X86 1723 help 1724 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1725 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1726 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1727 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1728 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1729 1730 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1731 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1732 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1733 1734 Usage: 1735 1736 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1737 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1738 1739 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1740 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1741 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1742 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1743 1744 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1745 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1746 1747 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1748 1749source "samples/Kconfig" 1750 1751config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1752 bool 1753 1754config STRICT_DEVMEM 1755 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1756 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1757 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1758 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1759 help 1760 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1761 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1762 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1763 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1764 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1765 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1766 1767 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1768 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1769 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1770 users of /dev/mem. 1771 1772 If in doubt, say Y. 1773 1774config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1775 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1776 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1777 help 1778 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1779 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1780 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1781 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1782 1783 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1784 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1785 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1786 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1787 1788 If in doubt, say Y. 1789 1790menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1791 1792source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1793 1794endmenu 1795 1796menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1797 1798source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1799 1800config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1801 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1802 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1803 select DEBUG_FS 1804 help 1805 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1806 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1807 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1808 1809 Say N if unsure. 1810 1811config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1812 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1813 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1814 default m if PM_DEBUG 1815 help 1816 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1817 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1818 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1819 1820 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1821 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1822 1823 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1824 1825 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1826 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1827 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1828 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1829 1830 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1831 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1832 1833 If unsure, say N. 1834 1835config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1836 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1837 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1838 help 1839 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1840 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1841 through debugfs interface under 1842 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1843 1844 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1845 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1846 1847 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1848 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1853 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1854 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1855 help 1856 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1857 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1858 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1859 1860 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1861 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1862 1863 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1864 1865 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1866 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1867 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1868 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1869 1870 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1871 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1872 1873 If unsure, say N. 1874 1875config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1876 def_bool y 1877 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1878 1879config FAULT_INJECTION 1880 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1882 help 1883 Provide fault-injection framework. 1884 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1885 1886config FAILSLAB 1887 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1888 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1889 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1890 help 1891 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1892 1893config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1894 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1896 help 1897 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1898 1899config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1900 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1901 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1902 help 1903 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1904 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1905 1906config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1911 1912config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1913 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1915 help 1916 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1917 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1918 thus exercising the error handling. 1919 1920 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1921 for others it wont do anything. 1922 1923config FAIL_FUTEX 1924 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1925 select DEBUG_FS 1926 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1927 help 1928 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1929 1930config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1931 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1932 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1933 help 1934 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1935 1936config FAIL_FUNCTION 1937 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1938 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1939 help 1940 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1941 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1942 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1943 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1944 error handling in various subsystems. 1945 1946config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1947 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1948 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1949 help 1950 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1951 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1952 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1953 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1954 the block device. 1955 1956config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1957 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1958 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1959 depends on !X86_64 1960 select STACKTRACE 1961 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1962 help 1963 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1964 1965config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1966 bool 1967 help 1968 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1969 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1970 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1971 1972config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1973 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1974 1975 1976config KCOV 1977 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1978 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1979 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1980 select DEBUG_FS 1981 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1982 help 1983 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1984 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1985 1986 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1987 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1988 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1989 1990 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1991 1992config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1993 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1994 depends on KCOV 1995 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1996 help 1997 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1998 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1999 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2000 of fuzzing coverage. 2001 2002config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2003 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2004 depends on KCOV 2005 default y 2006 help 2007 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2008 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2009 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2010 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2011 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2012 2013config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2014 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2015 depends on KCOV 2016 default 0x40000 2017 help 2018 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2019 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2020 number of unsigned long words. 2021 2022menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2023 bool "Runtime Testing" 2024 def_bool y 2025 2026if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2027 2028config LKDTM 2029 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2030 depends on DEBUG_FS 2031 help 2032 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2033 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2034 If you don't need it: say N 2035 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2036 called lkdtm. 2037 2038 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2039 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2040 2041config TEST_LIST_SORT 2042 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 2043 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2044 help 2045 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2046 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2047 or at module load time. 2048 2049 If unsure, say N. 2050 2051config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2052 tristate "Min heap test" 2053 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2054 help 2055 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2056 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2057 or at module load time. 2058 2059 If unsure, say N. 2060 2061config TEST_SORT 2062 tristate "Array-based sort test" 2063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2064 help 2065 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2066 or at module load time. 2067 2068 If unsure, say N. 2069 2070config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2071 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 2072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2073 depends on KPROBES 2074 help 2075 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2076 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2077 verified for functionality. 2078 2079 Say N if you are unsure. 2080 2081config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2082 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2084 help 2085 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2086 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2087 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2088 developers working on architecture code. 2089 2090 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2091 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2092 2093 Say N if you are unsure. 2094 2095config RBTREE_TEST 2096 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2098 help 2099 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2100 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2101 2102config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2103 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2104 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2105 select REED_SOLOMON 2106 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2107 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2108 help 2109 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2110 or at module load time. 2111 2112 If unsure, say N. 2113 2114config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2115 tristate "Interval tree test" 2116 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2117 select INTERVAL_TREE 2118 help 2119 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2120 2121config PERCPU_TEST 2122 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2123 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2124 help 2125 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2126 operations. 2127 2128 If unsure, say N. 2129 2130config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2131 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2132 help 2133 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2134 at module load time. 2135 2136 If unsure, say N. 2137 2138config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2139 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2140 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2141 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2142 help 2143 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2144 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2145 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2146 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2147 engine if one is available. 2148 2149 If unsure, say N. 2150 2151config TEST_HEXDUMP 2152 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2153 2154config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2155 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2156 2157config TEST_STRSCPY 2158 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2159 2160config TEST_KSTRTOX 2161 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2162 2163config TEST_PRINTF 2164 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2165 2166config TEST_BITMAP 2167 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2168 help 2169 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2170 2171 If unsure, say N. 2172 2173config TEST_UUID 2174 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2175 2176config TEST_XARRAY 2177 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2178 2179config TEST_OVERFLOW 2180 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2181 2182config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2183 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2184 help 2185 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2186 2187 If unsure, say N. 2188 2189config TEST_HASH 2190 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2191 help 2192 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2193 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2194 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2195 2196 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2197 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2198 2199config TEST_IDA 2200 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2201 2202config TEST_PARMAN 2203 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2204 depends on PARMAN 2205 help 2206 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2207 (or module load). 2208 2209 If unsure, say N. 2210 2211config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2212 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2213 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2214 help 2215 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2216 2217 If unsure, say N. 2218 2219config TEST_LKM 2220 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2221 depends on m 2222 help 2223 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2224 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2225 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2226 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2227 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2228 requested by name. 2229 2230 If unsure, say N. 2231 2232config TEST_BITOPS 2233 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2234 depends on m 2235 help 2236 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2237 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2238 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2239 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2240 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2241 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2242 2243 If unsure, say N. 2244 2245config TEST_VMALLOC 2246 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2247 default n 2248 depends on MMU 2249 depends on m 2250 help 2251 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2252 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2253 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2254 of view. 2255 2256 If unsure, say N. 2257 2258config TEST_USER_COPY 2259 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2260 depends on m 2261 help 2262 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2263 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2264 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2265 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2266 protections. 2267 2268 If unsure, say N. 2269 2270config TEST_BPF 2271 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2272 depends on m && NET 2273 help 2274 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2275 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2276 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2277 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2278 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2279 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2280 2281 If unsure, say N. 2282 2283config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2284 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2285 depends on m && NET 2286 help 2287 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2288 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2289 2290 If unsure, say N. 2291 2292config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2293 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2294 help 2295 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2296 functions performance. 2297 2298 If unsure, say N. 2299 2300config TEST_FIRMWARE 2301 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2302 depends on FW_LOADER 2303 help 2304 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2305 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2306 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2307 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2308 userspace. 2309 2310 If unsure, say N. 2311 2312config TEST_SYSCTL 2313 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2314 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2315 help 2316 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2317 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2318 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2319 2320 If unsure, say N. 2321 2322config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2323 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2324 depends on KUNIT 2325 help 2326 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2327 2328 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2329 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2330 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2331 production build. 2332 2333 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2334 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2335 2336 If unsure, say N. 2337 2338config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2339 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2340 depends on KUNIT 2341 help 2342 This builds the resource API unit test. 2343 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2344 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2345 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2346 2347 If unsure, say N. 2348 2349config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2350 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2351 depends on KUNIT 2352 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2353 help 2354 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2355 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2356 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2357 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2358 2359 If unsure, say N. 2360 2361config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2362 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2363 depends on KUNIT 2364 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2365 help 2366 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2367 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2368 and associated macros. 2369 2370 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2371 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2372 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2373 production build. 2374 2375 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2376 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2377 2378 If unsure, say N. 2379 2380config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2381 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2382 depends on KUNIT 2383 select LINEAR_RANGES 2384 help 2385 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2386 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2387 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2388 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2389 2390 If unsure, say N. 2391 2392config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2393 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2394 depends on KUNIT 2395 help 2396 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2397 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2398 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2399 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2400 2401 If unsure, say N. 2402 2403config BITS_TEST 2404 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2405 depends on KUNIT 2406 help 2407 This builds the bits unit test. 2408 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2409 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2410 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2411 2412 If unsure, say N. 2413 2414config TEST_UDELAY 2415 tristate "udelay test driver" 2416 help 2417 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2418 that udelay() is working properly. 2419 2420 If unsure, say N. 2421 2422config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2423 tristate "Test static keys" 2424 depends on m 2425 help 2426 Test the static key interfaces. 2427 2428 If unsure, say N. 2429 2430config TEST_KMOD 2431 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2432 depends on m 2433 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2434 depends on BLOCK 2435 select TEST_LKM 2436 select XFS_FS 2437 select TUN 2438 select BTRFS_FS 2439 help 2440 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2441 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2442 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2443 2444 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2445 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2446 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2447 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2448 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2449 2450 To run tests run: 2451 2452 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2453 2454 If unsure, say N. 2455 2456config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2457 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2458 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2459 help 2460 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2461 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2462 kernel's virtual address map. 2463 2464 If unsure, say N. 2465 2466config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2467 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2468 help 2469 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2470 pointer arrays together. 2471 2472 If unsure, say N. 2473 2474config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2475 tristate "Test livepatching" 2476 default n 2477 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2478 depends on LIVEPATCH 2479 depends on m 2480 help 2481 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2482 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2483 2484 To run all the livepatching tests: 2485 2486 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2487 2488 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2489 2490 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2491 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2492 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2493 2494 If unsure, say N. 2495 2496config TEST_OBJAGG 2497 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2498 default n 2499 depends on OBJAGG 2500 help 2501 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2502 (or module load). 2503 2504 2505config TEST_STACKINIT 2506 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2507 help 2508 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2509 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2510 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2511 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2512 2513 If unsure, say N. 2514 2515config TEST_MEMINIT 2516 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2517 help 2518 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2519 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2520 2521 If unsure, say N. 2522 2523config TEST_HMM 2524 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2525 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2526 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2527 select HMM_MIRROR 2528 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2529 help 2530 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2531 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2532 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2533 2534 If unsure, say N. 2535 2536config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2537 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2538 help 2539 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2540 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2541 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2542 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2543 probably OOM your system. 2544 2545config TEST_FPU 2546 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2547 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2548 help 2549 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2550 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2551 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2552 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2553 2554 If unsure, say N. 2555 2556endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2557 2558config MEMTEST 2559 bool "Memtest" 2560 help 2561 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2562 to be set. 2563 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2564 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2565 ... 2566 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2567 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2568 2569 2570 2571config HYPERV_TESTING 2572 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2573 default n 2574 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2575 help 2576 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2577 2578endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2579 2580source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2581 2582endmenu # Kernel hacking 2583