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 STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234# Clang is known to generate .{s,u}leb128 with symbol deltas with DWARF5, which 235# some targets may not support: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215 236config AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128 237 def_bool $(as-instr,.uleb128 .Lexpr_end4 - .Lexpr_start3\n.Lexpr_start3:\n.Lexpr_end4:) 238 239choice 240 prompt "Debug information" 241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 242 help 243 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 244 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 245 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 246 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 247 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 248 249 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 250 select "Toolchain default". 251 252config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 253 bool "Disable debug information" 254 help 255 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 256 result in a faster and smaller build. 257 258config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 259 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 260 select DEBUG_INFO 261 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || CLANG_VERSION < 140000 || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128) 262 help 263 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 264 toolchain changes over time. 265 266 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 267 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 268 those should be less common scenarios. 269 270config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 271 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 272 select DEBUG_INFO 273 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 274 help 275 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 276 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 277 278 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 279 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 280 config select this. 281 282config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 283 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 284 select DEBUG_INFO 285 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128) 286 help 287 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 288 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 289 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 290 291 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 292 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 293 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 294 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 295 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 296 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 297 support DWARF Version 5. 298 299endchoice # "Debug information" 300 301if DEBUG_INFO 302 303config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 304 bool "Reduce debugging information" 305 help 306 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 307 information for structure types. This means that tools that 308 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 309 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 310 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 311 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 312 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 313 Only works with newer gcc versions. 314 315config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 316 bool "Compressed debugging information" 317 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 318 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 319 help 320 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 321 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 322 323 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 324 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 325 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 326 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 327 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 328 larger. 329 330config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 331 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 332 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 333 help 334 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 335 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 336 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 337 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 338 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 339 340 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 341 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 342 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 343 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 344 345config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 346 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 347 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 348 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 349 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 350 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 351 help 352 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 353 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 354 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 355 356config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 357 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 358 359config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 360 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 361 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 362 help 363 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 364 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 365 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 366 367config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 def_bool y 369 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 370 help 371 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 372 373config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 374 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 375 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 376 help 377 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 378 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 379 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 380 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 381 it when a mismatch is found. 382 383config GDB_SCRIPTS 384 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 385 help 386 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 387 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 388 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 389 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 390 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 391 for further details. 392 393endif # DEBUG_INFO 394 395config FRAME_WARN 396 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 397 range 0 8192 398 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 399 default 2048 if PARISC 400 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 401 default 1024 if !64BIT 402 default 2048 if 64BIT 403 default 0 if KMSAN 404 help 405 Tell the compiler to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 406 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 407 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 408 409config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 410 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 411 default n 412 help 413 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 414 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 415 get_wchan() and suchlike. 416 417config READABLE_ASM 418 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 419 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 420 depends on CC_IS_GCC 421 help 422 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 423 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 424 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 425 sane. 426 427config HEADERS_INSTALL 428 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 429 depends on !UML 430 help 431 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 432 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 433 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 434 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 435 as uapi header sanity checks. 436 437config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 438 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 439 depends on CC_IS_GCC 440 help 441 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 442 references from one section to another section. 443 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 444 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 445 most likely result in an oops. 446 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 447 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 448 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 449 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 450 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 451 additional step to occur: 452 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 453 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 454 function, we would lose the section information and thus 455 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 456 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 457 a larger kernel). 458 459config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 460 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 461 default y 462 help 463 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 464 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 465 466 If unsure, say Y. 467 468config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 469 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 470 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 471 help 472 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 473 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 474 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 475 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 476 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 477 478 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 479 480# 481# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 482# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 483# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 484# 485config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 486 bool 487 488config FRAME_POINTER 489 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 490 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 491 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 492 help 493 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 494 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 495 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 496 497config OBJTOOL 498 bool 499 500config STACK_VALIDATION 501 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 502 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 503 select OBJTOOL 504 default n 505 help 506 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 507 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 508 509 For more information, see 510 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 511 512config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 513 bool 514 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 515 select OBJTOOL 516 default y 517 518config VMLINUX_MAP 519 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 520 depends on EXPERT 521 help 522 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 523 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 524 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 525 pieces of code get eliminated with 526 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 527 528config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 529 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 530 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 531 help 532 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 533 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 534 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 535 definitions. 536 537 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 538 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 539 540 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 541 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 542 543endmenu # "Compiler options" 544 545menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 546 547config MAGIC_SYSRQ 548 bool "Magic SysRq key" 549 depends on !UML 550 help 551 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 552 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 553 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 554 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 555 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 556 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 557 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 558 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 559 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 560 561config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 562 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 563 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 564 default 0x1 565 help 566 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 567 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 568 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 569 570config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 571 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 572 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 573 default y 574 help 575 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 576 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 577 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 578 magic SysRq key. 579 580config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 581 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 582 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 583 default "" 584 help 585 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 586 SysRq on a serial console. 587 588 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 589 590config DEBUG_FS 591 bool "Debug Filesystem" 592 help 593 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 594 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 595 write to these files. 596 597 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 598 Documentation/filesystems/. 599 600 If unsure, say N. 601 602choice 603 prompt "Debugfs default access" 604 depends on DEBUG_FS 605 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 606 help 607 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 608 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 609 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 610 and filesystem registration. 611 612config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 613 bool "Access normal" 614 help 615 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 616 is on. This is the normal default operation. 617 618config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 619 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 620 help 621 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 622 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 623 debugfs filesystem. 624 625config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 626 bool "No access" 627 help 628 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 629 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 630 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 631 632endchoice 633 634source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 635source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 636source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 637 638endmenu 639 640menu "Networking Debugging" 641 642source "net/Kconfig.debug" 643 644endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 645 646menu "Memory Debugging" 647 648source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 649 650config DEBUG_OBJECTS 651 bool "Debug object operations" 652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 653 help 654 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 655 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 656 the operations on those objects. 657 658config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 659 bool "Debug objects selftest" 660 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 661 help 662 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 663 664config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 665 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 666 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 667 help 668 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 669 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 670 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 671 much slower. 672 673config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 674 bool "Debug timer objects" 675 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 676 help 677 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 678 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 679 validate the timer operations. 680 681config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 682 bool "Debug work objects" 683 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 684 help 685 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 686 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 687 validate the work operations. 688 689config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 690 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 691 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 692 help 693 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 694 695config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 696 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 697 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 698 help 699 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 700 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 701 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 702 703config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 704 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 705 range 0 1 706 default "1" 707 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 708 help 709 Debug objects boot parameter default value 710 711config SHRINKER_DEBUG 712 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 713 depends on DEBUG_FS 714 help 715 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 716 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 717 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 718 719config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 720 bool 721 722config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 723 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 724 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 725 select DEBUG_FS 726 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 727 select KALLSYMS 728 select CRC32 729 help 730 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 731 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 732 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 733 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 734 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 735 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 736 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 737 details. 738 739 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 740 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 741 742 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 743 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 744 745config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 746 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 747 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 748 range 200 1000000 749 default 16000 750 help 751 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 752 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 753 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 754 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 755 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 756 if slab allocations fail. 757 758config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 759 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 760 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 761 help 762 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 763 764 If unsure, say N. 765 766config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 767 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 768 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 769 help 770 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 771 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 772 773config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 774 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 775 default y 776 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 777 help 778 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 779 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 780 kmemleak scan at boot up. 781 782 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 783 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 784 memory leaks. 785 786 If unsure, say Y. 787 788config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 789 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 790 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 791 help 792 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 793 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 794 795 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 796 797config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 798 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 799 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 800 default n 801 help 802 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 803 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 804 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 805 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 806 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 807 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 808 809config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 810 bool 811 help 812 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 813 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 814 815config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 816 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 817 818config DEBUG_VM 819 bool "Debug VM" 820 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 821 help 822 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 823 that may impact performance. 824 825 If unsure, say N. 826 827config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 828 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 829 depends on DEBUG_VM 830 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 831 help 832 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 833 834 If unsure, say N. 835 836config DEBUG_VM_RB 837 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 838 depends on DEBUG_VM 839 help 840 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 841 842 If unsure, say N. 843 844config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 845 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 846 depends on DEBUG_VM 847 help 848 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 849 850 If unsure, say N. 851 852config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 853 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 854 depends on MMU 855 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 856 default y if DEBUG_VM 857 help 858 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 859 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 860 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 861 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 862 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 863 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 864 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 865 866 If unsure, say N. 867 868config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 869 bool 870 871config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 872 bool "Debug VM translations" 873 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 874 help 875 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 876 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 877 878 If unsure, say N. 879 880config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 881 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 882 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 883 help 884 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 885 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 886 887config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 888 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 889 default !EXPERT 890 help 891 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 892 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 893 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 894 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 895 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 896 897 If unsure, say Y 898 899config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 900 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 901 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 902 help 903 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 904 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 905 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 906 907 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 908 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 909 910 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 911 912 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 913 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 914 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 915 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 916 917 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 918 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 919 920 If unsure, say N. 921 922config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 923 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 924 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 925 depends on SMP 926 help 927 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 928 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 929 and decreases performance. 930 931 Say N if unsure. 932 933config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 934 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 935 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 936 help 937 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 938 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 939 940config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 941 bool 942 943config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 944 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 945 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 946 select KMAP_LOCAL 947 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 948 help 949 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 950 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 951 Disable this for production systems! 952 953config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 954 bool "Highmem debugging" 955 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 956 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 957 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 958 help 959 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 960 systems. Disable for production systems. 961 962config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 963 bool 964 965config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 966 bool "Check for stack overflows" 967 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 968 help 969 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 970 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 971 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 972 below a certain limit. 973 974 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 975 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 976 involved. 977 978 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 979 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 980 981 If in doubt, say "N". 982 983source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 984source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 985source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 986 987endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 988 989config DEBUG_SHIRQ 990 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 991 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 992 help 993 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 994 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 995 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 996 don't and need to be caught. 997 998menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 999 1000config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1001 bool "Panic on Oops" 1002 help 1003 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1004 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1005 line. 1006 1007 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1008 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1009 corruption or other issues. 1010 1011 Say N if unsure. 1012 1013config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1014 int 1015 range 0 1 1016 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1017 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1018 1019config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1020 int "panic timeout" 1021 default 0 1022 help 1023 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1024 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1025 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1026 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1027 1028config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1029 bool 1030 1031config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1032 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1033 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1034 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1035 help 1036 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1037 soft lockups. 1038 1039 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1040 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1041 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1042 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1043 1044config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1045 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1046 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1047 help 1048 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1049 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1050 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1051 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1052 1053 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1054 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1055 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1056 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1057 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1058 1059 Say N if unsure. 1060 1061config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1062 bool 1063 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1064 1065# 1066# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1067# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1068# 1069config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1070 bool 1071 1072# 1073# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1074# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1075# 1076config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1077 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1078 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1079 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1080 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1081 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1082 help 1083 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1084 hard lockups. 1085 1086 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1087 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1088 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1089 and the system will stay locked up. 1090 1091config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1092 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1093 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1094 help 1095 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1096 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1097 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1098 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1099 1100 Say N if unsure. 1101 1102config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1103 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1104 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1105 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1106 help 1107 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1108 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1109 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1110 1111 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1112 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1113 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1114 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1115 feature has negligible overhead. 1116 1117config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1118 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1119 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1120 default 120 1121 help 1122 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1123 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1124 be considered hung. 1125 1126 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1127 sysctl or by writing a value to 1128 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1129 1130 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1131 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1132 1133config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1134 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1135 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1136 help 1137 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1138 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1139 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1140 1141 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1142 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1143 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1144 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1145 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1146 1147 Say N if unsure. 1148 1149config WQ_WATCHDOG 1150 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1152 help 1153 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1154 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1155 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1156 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1157 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1158 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1159 1160config TEST_LOCKUP 1161 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1162 depends on m 1163 help 1164 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1165 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1166 1167 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1168 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1169 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1170 1171 If unsure, say N. 1172 1173endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1174 1175menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1176 1177config SCHED_DEBUG 1178 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1180 default y 1181 help 1182 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1183 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1184 option is minimal. 1185 1186config SCHED_INFO 1187 bool 1188 default n 1189 1190config SCHEDSTATS 1191 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1193 select SCHED_INFO 1194 help 1195 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1196 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1197 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1198 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1199 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1200 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1201 this adds. 1202 1203endmenu 1204 1205config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1206 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1207 help 1208 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1209 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1210 problems are suspected. 1211 1212 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1213 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1214 workloads. 1215 1216 If unsure, say N. 1217 1218config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1219 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1224 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1225 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1226 will detect preemption count underflows. 1227 1228menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1229 1230config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1231 bool 1232 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1233 default y 1234 1235config PROVE_LOCKING 1236 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1238 select LOCKDEP 1239 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1240 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1241 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1242 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1243 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1244 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1245 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1246 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1247 default n 1248 help 1249 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1250 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1251 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1252 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1253 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1254 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1255 deadlock. 1256 1257 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1258 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1259 1260 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1261 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1262 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1263 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1264 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1265 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1266 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1267 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1268 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1269 1270 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1271 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1272 kernel reports nothing. 1273 1274 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1275 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1276 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1277 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1278 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1279 1280 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1281 1282config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1283 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1284 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1285 default n 1286 help 1287 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1288 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1289 not violated. 1290 1291 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1292 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1293 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1294 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1295 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1296 1297 If unsure, select N. 1298 1299config LOCK_STAT 1300 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1302 select LOCKDEP 1303 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1304 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1305 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1306 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1307 default n 1308 help 1309 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1310 1311 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1312 1313 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1314 subcommand of perf. 1315 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1316 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1317 1318 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1319 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1320 1321config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1322 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1324 help 1325 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1326 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1327 1328config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1329 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1332 help 1333 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1334 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1335 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1336 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1337 1338config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1339 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1341 help 1342 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1343 reported. 1344 1345config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1346 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1348 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1349 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1350 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1351 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1352 help 1353 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1354 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1355 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1356 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1357 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1358 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1359 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1360 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1361 you are a distro, do not. 1362 1363config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1364 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1366 help 1367 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1368 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1369 1370config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1371 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1373 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1374 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1375 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1376 select LOCKDEP 1377 help 1378 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1379 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1380 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1381 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1382 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1383 held during task exit. 1384 1385config LOCKDEP 1386 bool 1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1388 select STACKTRACE 1389 select KALLSYMS 1390 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1391 1392config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1393 bool 1394 1395config LOCKDEP_BITS 1396 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1397 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1398 range 10 30 1399 default 15 1400 help 1401 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1402 1403config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1404 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1405 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1406 range 10 30 1407 default 16 1408 help 1409 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1410 1411config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1412 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1413 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1414 range 10 30 1415 default 19 1416 help 1417 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1418 1419config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1420 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1421 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1422 range 10 30 1423 default 14 1424 help 1425 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1426 1427config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1428 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1429 depends on LOCKDEP 1430 range 10 30 1431 default 12 1432 help 1433 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1434 1435config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1436 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1437 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1438 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1439 help 1440 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1441 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1442 of more runtime overhead. 1443 1444config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1445 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1446 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1447 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1448 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1449 help 1450 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1451 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1452 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1453 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1454 1455config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1456 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1457 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1458 help 1459 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1460 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1461 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1462 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1463 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1464 mutexes and rwsems. 1465 1466config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1467 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1469 select TORTURE_TEST 1470 help 1471 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1472 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1473 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1474 1475 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1476 to be built into the kernel. 1477 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1478 Say N if you are unsure. 1479 1480config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1481 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1482 help 1483 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1484 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1485 1486 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1487 with this test harness. 1488 1489 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1490 Say N if you are unsure. 1491 1492config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1493 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1495 select TORTURE_TEST 1496 help 1497 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1498 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1499 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1500 be tested, if desired. 1501 1502config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1503 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1505 depends on 64BIT 1506 default n 1507 help 1508 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1509 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1510 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1511 and relevant stack traces. 1512 1513endmenu # lock debugging 1514 1515config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1516 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1517 bool 1518 help 1519 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1520 either tracing or lock debugging. 1521 1522config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1523 def_bool y 1524 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1525 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1526 1527config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1528 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1529 help 1530 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1531 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1532 are enabled. 1533 1534config STACKTRACE 1535 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1536 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1537 help 1538 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1539 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1540 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1541 stack trace generation. 1542 1543config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1544 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1545 default n 1546 help 1547 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1548 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1549 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1550 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1551 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1552 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1553 it. 1554 1555 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1556 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1557 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1558 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1559 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1560 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1561 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1562 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1563 1564 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1565 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1566 those developers interested in improving the security of 1567 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1568 subarchitecture). 1569 1570config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1571 bool "kobject debugging" 1572 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1573 help 1574 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1575 to the syslog. 1576 1577config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1578 bool "kobject release debugging" 1579 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1580 help 1581 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1582 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1583 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1584 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1585 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1586 unregistered. 1587 1588 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1589 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1590 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1591 1592 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1593 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1594 kind of kobject release bug. 1595 1596config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1597 bool 1598 1599menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1600 1601config DEBUG_LIST 1602 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1604 help 1605 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1606 walking routines. 1607 1608 If unsure, say N. 1609 1610config DEBUG_PLIST 1611 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1612 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1613 help 1614 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1615 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1616 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1617 1618 If unsure, say N. 1619 1620config DEBUG_SG 1621 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1623 help 1624 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1625 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1626 their sg tables. 1627 1628 If unsure, say N. 1629 1630config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1631 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1632 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1633 help 1634 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1635 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1636 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1637 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1638 performance, say N. 1639 1640config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1641 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1642 select DEBUG_LIST 1643 help 1644 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1645 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1646 for validity. 1647 1648 If unsure, say N. 1649 1650config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1651 bool "Debug maple trees" 1652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1653 help 1654 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1655 1656 If unsure, say N. 1657 1658endmenu 1659 1660config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1661 bool "Debug credential management" 1662 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1663 help 1664 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1665 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1666 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1667 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1668 struct. 1669 1670 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1671 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1672 1673 If unsure, say N. 1674 1675source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1676 1677config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1678 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1679 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1680 default n 1681 help 1682 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1683 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1684 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1685 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1686 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1687 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1688 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1689 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1690 be impacted. 1691 1692config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1693 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1695 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1696 default n 1697 help 1698 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1699 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1700 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1701 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1702 1703 Say N if your are unsure. 1704 1705config LATENCYTOP 1706 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1708 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1709 depends on PROC_FS 1710 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1711 select KALLSYMS 1712 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1713 select STACKTRACE 1714 select SCHEDSTATS 1715 help 1716 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1717 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1718 1719source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1720 1721config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1722 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1723 depends on PCI && X86 1724 help 1725 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1726 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1727 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1728 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1729 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1730 1731 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1732 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1733 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1734 1735 Usage: 1736 1737 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1738 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1739 1740 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1741 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1742 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1743 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1744 1745 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1746 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1747 1748 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1749 1750source "samples/Kconfig" 1751 1752config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1753 bool 1754 1755config STRICT_DEVMEM 1756 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1757 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1758 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1759 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1760 help 1761 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1762 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1763 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1764 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1765 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1766 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1767 1768 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1769 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1770 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1771 users of /dev/mem. 1772 1773 If in doubt, say Y. 1774 1775config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1776 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1777 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1778 help 1779 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1780 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1781 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1782 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1783 1784 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1785 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1786 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1787 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1788 1789 If in doubt, say Y. 1790 1791menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1792 1793source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1794 1795endmenu 1796 1797menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1798 1799source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1800 1801config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1802 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1803 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1804 select DEBUG_FS 1805 help 1806 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1807 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1808 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1809 1810 Say N if unsure. 1811 1812config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1813 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1814 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1815 default m if PM_DEBUG 1816 help 1817 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1818 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1819 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1820 1821 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1822 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1823 1824 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1825 1826 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1827 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1828 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1829 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1830 1831 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1832 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1833 1834 If unsure, say N. 1835 1836config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1837 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1838 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1839 help 1840 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1841 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1842 through debugfs interface under 1843 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1844 1845 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1846 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1847 1848 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1849 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1850 1851 If unsure, say N. 1852 1853config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1854 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1855 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1856 help 1857 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1858 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1859 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1860 1861 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1862 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1863 1864 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1865 1866 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1867 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1868 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1869 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1870 1871 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1872 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1873 1874 If unsure, say N. 1875 1876config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1877 def_bool y 1878 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1879 1880config FAULT_INJECTION 1881 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1882 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1883 help 1884 Provide fault-injection framework. 1885 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1886 1887config FAILSLAB 1888 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1889 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1890 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1891 help 1892 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1893 1894config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1895 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1896 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1897 help 1898 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1899 1900config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1901 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1902 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1903 help 1904 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1905 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1906 1907config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1908 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1909 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1910 help 1911 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1912 1913config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1914 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1915 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1916 help 1917 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1918 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1919 thus exercising the error handling. 1920 1921 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1922 for others it won't do anything. 1923 1924config FAIL_FUTEX 1925 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1926 select DEBUG_FS 1927 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1928 help 1929 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1930 1931config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1932 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1933 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1934 help 1935 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1936 1937config FAIL_FUNCTION 1938 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1939 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1940 help 1941 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1942 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1943 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1944 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1945 error handling in various subsystems. 1946 1947config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1948 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1949 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1950 help 1951 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1952 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1953 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1954 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1955 the block device. 1956 1957config FAIL_SUNRPC 1958 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1959 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1960 help 1961 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1962 its consumers. 1963 1964config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1965 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1966 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1967 depends on !X86_64 1968 select STACKTRACE 1969 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1970 help 1971 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1972 1973config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1974 bool 1975 help 1976 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1977 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1978 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1979 1980config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1981 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1982 1983 1984config KCOV 1985 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1986 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1987 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1988 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1989 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1990 select DEBUG_FS 1991 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1992 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1993 help 1994 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1995 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1996 1997 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1998 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1999 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2000 2001 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2002 2003config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2004 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2005 depends on KCOV 2006 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2007 help 2008 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2009 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2010 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2011 of fuzzing coverage. 2012 2013config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2014 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2015 depends on KCOV 2016 default y 2017 help 2018 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2019 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2020 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2021 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2022 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2023 2024config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2025 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2026 depends on KCOV 2027 default 0x40000 2028 help 2029 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2030 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2031 number of unsigned long words. 2032 2033menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2034 bool "Runtime Testing" 2035 def_bool y 2036 2037if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2038 2039config LKDTM 2040 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2041 depends on DEBUG_FS 2042 help 2043 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2044 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2045 If you don't need it: say N 2046 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2047 called lkdtm. 2048 2049 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2050 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2051 2052config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2053 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2054 depends on KUNIT 2055 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2056 help 2057 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2058 2059 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2060 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2061 2062 If unsure, say N. 2063 2064config TEST_LIST_SORT 2065 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2066 depends on KUNIT 2067 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2068 help 2069 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2070 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2071 or at module load time. 2072 2073 If unsure, say N. 2074 2075config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2076 tristate "Min heap test" 2077 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2078 help 2079 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2080 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2081 or at module load time. 2082 2083 If unsure, say N. 2084 2085config TEST_SORT 2086 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2087 depends on KUNIT 2088 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2089 help 2090 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2091 or at module load time. 2092 2093 If unsure, say N. 2094 2095config TEST_DIV64 2096 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2098 help 2099 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2100 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2101 or at module load time. 2102 2103 If unsure, say N. 2104 2105config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2106 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2107 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2108 depends on KPROBES 2109 depends on KUNIT 2110 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2111 help 2112 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2113 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2114 verified for functionality. 2115 2116 Say N if you are unsure. 2117 2118config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2119 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2121 depends on FPROBE 2122 depends on KUNIT=y 2123 help 2124 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2125 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2126 properly. 2127 2128 Say N if you are unsure. 2129 2130config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2131 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2133 help 2134 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2135 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2136 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2137 developers working on architecture code. 2138 2139 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2140 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2141 2142 Say N if you are unsure. 2143 2144config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2145 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2147 select REF_TRACKER 2148 help 2149 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2150 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2151 2152 Say N if you are unsure. 2153 2154config RBTREE_TEST 2155 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2157 help 2158 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2159 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2160 2161config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2162 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2163 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2164 select REED_SOLOMON 2165 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2166 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2167 help 2168 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2169 or at module load time. 2170 2171 If unsure, say N. 2172 2173config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2174 tristate "Interval tree test" 2175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2176 select INTERVAL_TREE 2177 help 2178 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2179 2180config PERCPU_TEST 2181 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2182 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2183 help 2184 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2185 operations. 2186 2187 If unsure, say N. 2188 2189config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2190 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2191 help 2192 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2193 at module load time. 2194 2195 If unsure, say N. 2196 2197config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2198 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2199 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2200 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2201 help 2202 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2203 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2204 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2205 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2206 engine if one is available. 2207 2208 If unsure, say N. 2209 2210config TEST_HEXDUMP 2211 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2212 2213config STRING_SELFTEST 2214 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2215 2216config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2217 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2218 2219config TEST_STRSCPY 2220 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2221 2222config TEST_KSTRTOX 2223 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2224 2225config TEST_PRINTF 2226 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2227 2228config TEST_SCANF 2229 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2230 2231config TEST_BITMAP 2232 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2233 help 2234 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2235 2236 If unsure, say N. 2237 2238config TEST_UUID 2239 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2240 2241config TEST_XARRAY 2242 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2243 2244config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2245 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2246 help 2247 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2248 2249 If unsure, say N. 2250 2251config TEST_SIPHASH 2252 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2253 help 2254 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2255 functions on boot (or module load). 2256 2257 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2258 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2259 2260config TEST_IDA 2261 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2262 2263config TEST_PARMAN 2264 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2265 depends on PARMAN 2266 help 2267 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2268 (or module load). 2269 2270 If unsure, say N. 2271 2272config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2273 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2274 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2275 help 2276 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2277 2278 If unsure, say N. 2279 2280config TEST_LKM 2281 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2282 depends on m 2283 help 2284 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2285 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2286 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2287 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2288 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2289 requested by name. 2290 2291 If unsure, say N. 2292 2293config TEST_BITOPS 2294 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2295 depends on m 2296 help 2297 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2298 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2299 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2300 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2301 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2302 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2303 2304 If unsure, say N. 2305 2306config TEST_VMALLOC 2307 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2308 default n 2309 depends on MMU 2310 depends on m 2311 help 2312 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2313 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2314 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2315 of view. 2316 2317 If unsure, say N. 2318 2319config TEST_USER_COPY 2320 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2321 depends on m 2322 help 2323 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2324 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2325 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2326 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2327 protections. 2328 2329 If unsure, say N. 2330 2331config TEST_BPF 2332 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2333 depends on m && NET 2334 help 2335 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2336 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2337 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2338 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2339 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2340 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2341 2342 If unsure, say N. 2343 2344config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2345 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2346 depends on m && NET 2347 help 2348 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2349 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2350 2351 If unsure, say N. 2352 2353config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2354 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2355 help 2356 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2357 functions performance. 2358 2359 If unsure, say N. 2360 2361config TEST_FIRMWARE 2362 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2363 depends on FW_LOADER 2364 help 2365 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2366 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2367 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2368 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2369 userspace. 2370 2371 If unsure, say N. 2372 2373config TEST_SYSCTL 2374 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2375 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2376 help 2377 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2378 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2379 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2380 2381 If unsure, say N. 2382 2383config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2384 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2385 depends on KUNIT 2386 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2387 help 2388 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2389 2390 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2391 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2392 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2393 production build. 2394 2395 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2396 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2397 2398 If unsure, say N. 2399 2400config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2401 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2402 depends on KUNIT 2403 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2404 help 2405 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2406 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2407 2408 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2409 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2410 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2411 production build. 2412 2413 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2414 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2415 2416 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2417 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2418 2419config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2420 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2421 depends on KUNIT 2422 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2423 help 2424 This builds the resource API unit test. 2425 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2426 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2427 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2428 2429 If unsure, say N. 2430 2431config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2432 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2433 depends on KUNIT 2434 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2435 help 2436 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2437 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2438 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2439 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2440 2441 If unsure, say N. 2442 2443config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2444 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2445 depends on KUNIT 2446 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2447 help 2448 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2449 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2450 and associated macros. 2451 2452 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2453 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2454 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2455 production build. 2456 2457 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2458 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2459 2460 If unsure, say N. 2461 2462config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2463 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2464 depends on KUNIT 2465 select LINEAR_RANGES 2466 help 2467 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2468 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2469 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2470 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2471 2472 If unsure, say N. 2473 2474config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2475 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2476 depends on KUNIT 2477 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2478 help 2479 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2480 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2481 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2482 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2483 2484 If unsure, say N. 2485 2486config BITS_TEST 2487 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2488 depends on KUNIT 2489 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2490 help 2491 This builds the bits unit test. 2492 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2493 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2494 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2495 2496 If unsure, say N. 2497 2498config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2499 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2500 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2501 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2502 help 2503 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2504 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2505 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2506 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2507 2508 If unsure, say N. 2509 2510config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2511 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2512 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2513 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2514 help 2515 This builds the rational math unit test. 2516 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2517 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2518 2519 If unsure, say N. 2520 2521config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2522 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2523 depends on KUNIT 2524 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2525 help 2526 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2527 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2528 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2529 2530 If unsure, say N. 2531 2532config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2533 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2534 depends on KUNIT 2535 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2536 help 2537 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2538 2539 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2540 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2541 2542 If unsure, say N. 2543 2544config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2545 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2546 depends on KUNIT 2547 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2548 help 2549 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2550 related functions. 2551 2552 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2553 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2554 2555 If unsure, say N. 2556 2557config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2558 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2559 depends on KUNIT 2560 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2561 help 2562 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2563 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2564 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2565 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2566 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2567 2568config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2569 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2570 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2571 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2572 help 2573 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2574 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2575 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2576 2577config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2578 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2579 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2580 depends on KUNIT=y 2581 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2582 help 2583 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2584 2585 If unsure, say N. 2586 2587config TEST_UDELAY 2588 tristate "udelay test driver" 2589 help 2590 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2591 that udelay() is working properly. 2592 2593 If unsure, say N. 2594 2595config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2596 tristate "Test static keys" 2597 depends on m 2598 help 2599 Test the static key interfaces. 2600 2601 If unsure, say N. 2602 2603config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2604 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2605 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2606 help 2607 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2608 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2609 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2610 2611 If unsure, say N. 2612 2613config TEST_KMOD 2614 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2615 depends on m 2616 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2617 depends on BLOCK 2618 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2619 select TEST_LKM 2620 select XFS_FS 2621 select TUN 2622 select BTRFS_FS 2623 help 2624 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2625 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2626 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2627 2628 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2629 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2630 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2631 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2632 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2633 2634 To run tests run: 2635 2636 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2637 2638 If unsure, say N. 2639 2640config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2641 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2642 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2643 help 2644 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2645 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2646 kernel's virtual address map. 2647 2648 If unsure, say N. 2649 2650config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2651 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2652 help 2653 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2654 pointer arrays together. 2655 2656 If unsure, say N. 2657 2658config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2659 tristate "Test livepatching" 2660 default n 2661 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2662 depends on LIVEPATCH 2663 depends on m 2664 help 2665 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2666 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2667 2668 To run all the livepatching tests: 2669 2670 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2671 2672 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2673 2674 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2675 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2676 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2677 2678 If unsure, say N. 2679 2680config TEST_OBJAGG 2681 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2682 default n 2683 depends on OBJAGG 2684 help 2685 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2686 (or module load). 2687 2688config TEST_MEMINIT 2689 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2690 help 2691 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2692 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2693 2694 If unsure, say N. 2695 2696config TEST_HMM 2697 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2698 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2699 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2700 select HMM_MIRROR 2701 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2702 help 2703 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2704 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2705 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2706 2707 If unsure, say N. 2708 2709config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2710 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2711 help 2712 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2713 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2714 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2715 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2716 probably OOM your system. 2717 2718config TEST_FPU 2719 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2720 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2721 help 2722 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2723 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2724 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2725 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2726 2727 If unsure, say N. 2728 2729config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2730 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2731 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2732 help 2733 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2734 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2735 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2736 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2737 shortly after boot. 2738 2739 If unsure, say N. 2740 2741endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2742 2743config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2744 bool 2745 help 2746 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2747 during boot process. 2748 2749config MEMTEST 2750 bool "Memtest" 2751 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2752 help 2753 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2754 to be set and executed. 2755 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2756 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2757 ... 2758 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2759 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2760 2761 2762 2763config HYPERV_TESTING 2764 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2765 default n 2766 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2767 help 2768 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2769 2770endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2771 2772menu "Rust hacking" 2773 2774config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2775 bool "Debug assertions" 2776 depends on RUST 2777 help 2778 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2779 2780 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2781 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2782 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2783 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2784 2785 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2786 2787 If unsure, say N. 2788 2789config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2790 bool "Overflow checks" 2791 default y 2792 depends on RUST 2793 help 2794 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2795 2796 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2797 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2798 on overflow. 2799 2800 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2801 2802 If unsure, say Y. 2803 2804endmenu # "Rust" 2805 2806source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2807 2808endmenu # Kernel hacking 2809