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 211menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 212 213config DEBUG_INFO 214 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 216 help 217 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 218 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 219 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 220 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 221 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 222 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 223 224 If unsure, say N. 225 226if DEBUG_INFO 227 228config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 229 bool "Reduce debugging information" 230 help 231 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 232 information for structure types. This means that tools that 233 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 234 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 235 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 236 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 237 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 238 Only works with newer gcc versions. 239 240config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 241 bool "Compressed debugging information" 242 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 243 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 244 help 245 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 246 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 247 248 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 249 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 250 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 251 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 252 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 253 larger. 254 255config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 256 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 257 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 258 help 259 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 260 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 261 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 262 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 263 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 264 265 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 266 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 267 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 268 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 269 270choice 271 prompt "DWARF version" 272 help 273 Which version of DWARF debug info to emit. 274 275config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 276 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 277 help 278 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 279 toolchain changes over time. 280 281 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 282 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 283 those should be less common scenarios. 284 285 If unsure, say Y. 286 287config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 288 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 289 help 290 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 291 292 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 293 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 294 config select this. 295 296config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 297 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 298 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 299 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF 300 help 301 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 302 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 303 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 304 305 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 306 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 307 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 308 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 309 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 310 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 311 support DWARF Version 5. 312 313endchoice # "DWARF version" 314 315config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 316 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 317 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 318 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 319 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 320 help 321 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 322 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 323 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 324 325config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 326 def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119") 327 328config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 329 def_bool y 330 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 331 help 332 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 333 334config GDB_SCRIPTS 335 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 336 help 337 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 338 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 339 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 340 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 341 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 342 for further details. 343 344endif # DEBUG_INFO 345 346config FRAME_WARN 347 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 348 range 0 8192 349 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 350 default 2048 if PARISC 351 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 352 default 1024 if !64BIT 353 default 2048 if 64BIT 354 help 355 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 356 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 357 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 358 359config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 360 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 361 default n 362 help 363 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 364 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 365 get_wchan() and suchlike. 366 367config READABLE_ASM 368 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 369 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 370 depends on CC_IS_GCC 371 help 372 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 373 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 374 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 375 sane. 376 377config HEADERS_INSTALL 378 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 379 depends on !UML 380 help 381 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 382 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 383 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 384 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 385 as uapi header sanity checks. 386 387config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 388 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 389 depends on CC_IS_GCC 390 help 391 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 392 references from one section to another section. 393 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 394 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 395 most likely result in an oops. 396 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 397 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 398 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 399 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 400 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 401 additional step to occur: 402 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 403 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 404 function, we would lose the section information and thus 405 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 406 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 407 a larger kernel). 408 409config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 410 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 411 default y 412 help 413 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 414 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 415 416 If unsure, say Y. 417 418config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 419 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" if EXPERT 420 help 421 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 422 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 423 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 424 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 425 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 426 427 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 428 429# 430# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 431# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 432# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 433# 434config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 435 bool 436 437config FRAME_POINTER 438 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 440 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 441 help 442 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 443 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 444 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 445 446config STACK_VALIDATION 447 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 448 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 449 default n 450 help 451 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 452 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 453 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 454 455 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 456 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 457 458 For more information, see 459 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 460 461config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 462 bool 463 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 464 default y 465 466config VMLINUX_MAP 467 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 468 depends on EXPERT 469 help 470 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 471 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 472 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 473 pieces of code get eliminated with 474 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 475 476config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 477 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 478 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 479 help 480 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 481 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 482 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 483 definitions. 484 485 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 486 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 487 488 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 489 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 490 491endmenu # "Compiler options" 492 493menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 494 495config MAGIC_SYSRQ 496 bool "Magic SysRq key" 497 depends on !UML 498 help 499 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 500 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 501 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 502 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 503 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 504 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 505 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 506 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 507 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 508 509config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 510 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 511 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 512 default 0x1 513 help 514 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 515 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 516 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 517 518config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 519 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 520 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 521 default y 522 help 523 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 524 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 525 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 526 magic SysRq key. 527 528config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 529 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 530 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 531 default "" 532 help 533 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 534 SysRq on a serial console. 535 536 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 537 538config DEBUG_FS 539 bool "Debug Filesystem" 540 help 541 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 542 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 543 write to these files. 544 545 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 546 Documentation/filesystems/. 547 548 If unsure, say N. 549 550choice 551 prompt "Debugfs default access" 552 depends on DEBUG_FS 553 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 554 help 555 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 556 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 557 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 558 and filesystem registration. 559 560config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 561 bool "Access normal" 562 help 563 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 564 is on. This is the normal default operation. 565 566config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 567 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 568 help 569 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 570 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 571 debugfs filesystem. 572 573config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 574 bool "No access" 575 help 576 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 577 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 578 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 579 580endchoice 581 582source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 583source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 584source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 585 586endmenu 587 588config DEBUG_KERNEL 589 bool "Kernel debugging" 590 help 591 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 592 identify kernel problems. 593 594config DEBUG_MISC 595 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 596 default DEBUG_KERNEL 597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 598 help 599 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 600 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 601 602menu "Networking Debugging" 603 604source "net/Kconfig.debug" 605 606endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 607 608menu "Memory Debugging" 609 610source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 611 612config DEBUG_OBJECTS 613 bool "Debug object operations" 614 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 615 help 616 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 617 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 618 the operations on those objects. 619 620config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 621 bool "Debug objects selftest" 622 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 623 help 624 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 625 626config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 627 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 628 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 629 help 630 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 631 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 632 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 633 much slower. 634 635config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 636 bool "Debug timer objects" 637 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 638 help 639 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 640 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 641 validate the timer operations. 642 643config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 644 bool "Debug work objects" 645 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 646 help 647 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 648 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 649 validate the work operations. 650 651config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 652 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 653 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 654 help 655 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 656 657config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 658 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 659 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 660 help 661 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 662 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 663 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 664 665config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 666 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 667 range 0 1 668 default "1" 669 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 670 help 671 Debug objects boot parameter default value 672 673config DEBUG_SLAB 674 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 675 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 676 help 677 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 678 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 679 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 680 681config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 682 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 683 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 684 default n 685 help 686 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 687 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 688 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 689 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 690 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 691 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 692 "slub_debug=-". 693 694config SLUB_STATS 695 default n 696 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 697 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 698 help 699 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 700 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 701 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 702 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 703 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 704 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 705 Try running: slabinfo -DA 706 707config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 708 bool 709 710config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 711 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 713 select DEBUG_FS 714 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 715 select KALLSYMS 716 select CRC32 717 help 718 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 719 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 720 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 721 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 722 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 723 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 724 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 725 details. 726 727 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 728 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 729 730 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 731 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 732 733config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 734 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 735 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 736 range 200 1000000 737 default 16000 738 help 739 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 740 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 741 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 742 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 743 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 744 if slab allocations fail. 745 746config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 747 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 748 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 749 help 750 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 751 752 If unsure, say N. 753 754config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 755 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 756 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 757 help 758 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 759 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 760 761config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 762 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 763 default y 764 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 765 help 766 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 767 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 768 kmemleak scan at boot up. 769 770 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 771 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 772 memory leaks. 773 774 If unsure, say Y. 775 776config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 777 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 778 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 779 help 780 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 781 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 782 783 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 784 785config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 786 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 788 default n 789 help 790 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 791 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 792 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 793 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 794 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 795 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 796 797config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 798 bool 799 help 800 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 801 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 802 803config DEBUG_VM 804 bool "Debug VM" 805 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 806 help 807 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 808 that may impact performance. 809 810 If unsure, say N. 811 812config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 813 bool "Debug VMA caching" 814 depends on DEBUG_VM 815 help 816 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 817 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 818 environments. 819 820 If unsure, say N. 821 822config DEBUG_VM_RB 823 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 824 depends on DEBUG_VM 825 help 826 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 827 828 If unsure, say N. 829 830config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 831 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 832 depends on DEBUG_VM 833 help 834 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 835 836 If unsure, say N. 837 838config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 839 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 840 depends on MMU 841 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 842 default y if DEBUG_VM 843 help 844 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 845 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 846 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 847 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 848 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 849 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 850 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 851 852 If unsure, say N. 853 854config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 855 bool 856 857config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 858 bool "Debug VM translations" 859 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 860 help 861 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 862 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 863 864 If unsure, say N. 865 866config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 867 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 868 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 869 help 870 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 871 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 872 873config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 874 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 875 default !EXPERT 876 help 877 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 878 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 879 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 880 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 881 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 882 883 If unsure, say Y 884 885config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 886 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 887 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 888 help 889 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 890 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 891 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 892 893 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 894 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 895 896 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 897 898 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 899 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 900 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 901 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 902 903 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 904 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 905 906 If unsure, say N. 907 908config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 909 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 910 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 911 depends on SMP 912 help 913 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 914 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 915 and decreases performance. 916 917 Say N if unsure. 918 919config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 920 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 921 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 922 help 923 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 924 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 925 926config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 927 bool 928 929config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 930 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 931 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 932 select KMAP_LOCAL 933 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 934 help 935 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 936 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 937 Disable this for production systems! 938 939config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 940 bool "Highmem debugging" 941 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 942 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 943 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 944 help 945 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 946 systems. Disable for production systems. 947 948config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 949 bool 950 951config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 952 bool "Check for stack overflows" 953 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 954 help 955 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 956 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 957 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 958 below a certain limit. 959 960 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 961 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 962 involved. 963 964 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 965 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 966 967 If in doubt, say "N". 968 969source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 970source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 971 972endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 973 974config DEBUG_SHIRQ 975 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 976 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 977 help 978 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 979 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 980 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 981 don't and need to be caught. 982 983menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 984 985config PANIC_ON_OOPS 986 bool "Panic on Oops" 987 help 988 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 989 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 990 line. 991 992 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 993 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 994 corruption or other issues. 995 996 Say N if unsure. 997 998config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 999 int 1000 range 0 1 1001 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1002 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1003 1004config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1005 int "panic timeout" 1006 default 0 1007 help 1008 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1009 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1010 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1011 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1012 1013config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1014 bool 1015 1016config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1017 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1019 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1020 help 1021 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1022 soft lockups. 1023 1024 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1025 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1026 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1027 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1028 1029config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1030 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1031 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1032 help 1033 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1034 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1035 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1036 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1037 1038 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1039 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1040 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1041 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1042 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1043 1044 Say N if unsure. 1045 1046config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1047 int 1048 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1049 range 0 1 1050 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1051 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1052 1053config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1054 bool 1055 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1056 1057# 1058# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1059# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1060# 1061config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1062 bool 1063 1064# 1065# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1066# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1067# 1068config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1069 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1071 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1072 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1073 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1074 help 1075 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1076 hard lockups. 1077 1078 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1079 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1080 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1081 and the system will stay locked up. 1082 1083config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1084 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1085 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1086 help 1087 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1088 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1089 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1090 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1091 1092 Say N if unsure. 1093 1094config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1095 int 1096 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1097 range 0 1 1098 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1099 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1100 1101config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1102 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1103 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1104 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1105 help 1106 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1107 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1108 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1109 1110 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1111 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1112 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1113 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1114 feature has negligible overhead. 1115 1116config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1117 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1118 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1119 default 120 1120 help 1121 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1122 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1123 be considered hung. 1124 1125 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1126 sysctl or by writing a value to 1127 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1128 1129 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1130 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1131 1132config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1133 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1134 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1135 help 1136 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1137 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1138 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1139 1140 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1141 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1142 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1143 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1144 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1145 1146 Say N if unsure. 1147 1148config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1149 int 1150 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1151 range 0 1 1152 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1153 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1154 1155config WQ_WATCHDOG 1156 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1158 help 1159 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1160 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1161 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1162 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1163 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1164 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1165 1166config TEST_LOCKUP 1167 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1168 depends on m 1169 help 1170 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1171 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1172 1173 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1174 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1175 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1176 1177 If unsure, say N. 1178 1179endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1180 1181menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1182 1183config SCHED_DEBUG 1184 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1186 default y 1187 help 1188 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1189 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1190 option is minimal. 1191 1192config SCHED_INFO 1193 bool 1194 default n 1195 1196config SCHEDSTATS 1197 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1198 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1199 select SCHED_INFO 1200 help 1201 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1202 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1203 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1204 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1205 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1206 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1207 this adds. 1208 1209endmenu 1210 1211config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1212 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1213 help 1214 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1215 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1216 problems are suspected. 1217 1218 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1219 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1220 workloads. 1221 1222 If unsure, say N. 1223 1224config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1225 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1227 default y 1228 help 1229 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1230 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1231 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1232 will detect preemption count underflows. 1233 1234menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1235 1236config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1237 bool 1238 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1239 default y 1240 1241config PROVE_LOCKING 1242 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1243 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1244 select LOCKDEP 1245 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1246 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1247 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1248 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1249 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1250 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1251 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1252 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1253 default n 1254 help 1255 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1256 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1257 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1258 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1259 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1260 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1261 deadlock. 1262 1263 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1264 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1265 1266 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1267 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1268 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1269 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1270 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1271 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1272 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1273 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1274 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1275 1276 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1277 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1278 kernel reports nothing. 1279 1280 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1281 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1282 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1283 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1284 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1285 1286 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1287 1288config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1289 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1290 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1291 default n 1292 help 1293 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1294 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1295 not violated. 1296 1297 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1298 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1299 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1300 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1301 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1302 1303 If unsure, select N. 1304 1305config LOCK_STAT 1306 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1307 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1308 select LOCKDEP 1309 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1310 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1311 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1312 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1313 default n 1314 help 1315 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1316 1317 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1318 1319 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1320 subcommand of perf. 1321 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1322 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1323 1324 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1325 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1326 1327config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1328 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1329 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1330 help 1331 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1332 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1333 1334config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1335 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1337 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1338 help 1339 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1340 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1341 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1342 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1343 1344config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1345 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1346 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1347 help 1348 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1349 reported. 1350 1351config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1352 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1353 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1354 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1355 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1356 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1357 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1358 help 1359 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1360 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1361 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1362 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1363 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1364 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1365 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1366 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1367 you are a distro, do not. 1368 1369config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1370 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1372 help 1373 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1374 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1375 1376config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1377 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1379 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1380 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1381 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1382 select LOCKDEP 1383 help 1384 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1385 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1386 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1387 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1388 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1389 held during task exit. 1390 1391config LOCKDEP 1392 bool 1393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1394 select STACKTRACE 1395 select KALLSYMS 1396 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1397 1398config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1399 bool 1400 1401config LOCKDEP_BITS 1402 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1403 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1404 range 10 30 1405 default 15 1406 help 1407 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1408 1409config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1410 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1411 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1412 range 10 30 1413 default 16 1414 help 1415 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1416 1417config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1418 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1419 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1420 range 10 30 1421 default 19 1422 help 1423 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1424 1425config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1426 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1427 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1428 range 10 30 1429 default 14 1430 help 1431 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1432 1433config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1434 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1435 depends on LOCKDEP 1436 range 10 30 1437 default 12 1438 help 1439 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1440 1441config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1442 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1444 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1445 help 1446 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1447 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1448 of more runtime overhead. 1449 1450config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1451 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1452 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1453 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1454 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1455 help 1456 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1457 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1458 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1459 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1460 1461config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1462 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1463 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1464 help 1465 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1466 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1467 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1468 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1469 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1470 mutexes and rwsems. 1471 1472config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1473 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1474 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1475 select TORTURE_TEST 1476 help 1477 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1478 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1479 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1480 1481 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1482 to be built into the kernel. 1483 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1484 Say N if you are unsure. 1485 1486config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1487 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1488 help 1489 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1490 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1491 1492 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1493 with this test harness. 1494 1495 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1496 Say N if you are unsure. 1497 1498config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1499 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1500 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1501 select TORTURE_TEST 1502 help 1503 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1504 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1505 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1506 be tested, if desired. 1507 1508config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1509 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1510 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1511 depends on 64BIT 1512 default n 1513 help 1514 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1515 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1516 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1517 and relevant stack traces. 1518 1519endmenu # lock debugging 1520 1521config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1522 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1523 bool 1524 help 1525 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1526 either tracing or lock debugging. 1527 1528config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1529 def_bool y 1530 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1531 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1532 1533config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1534 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1535 help 1536 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1537 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1538 are enabled. 1539 1540config STACKTRACE 1541 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1542 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1543 help 1544 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1545 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1546 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1547 stack trace generation. 1548 1549config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1550 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1551 default n 1552 help 1553 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1554 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1555 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1556 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1557 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1558 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1559 it. 1560 1561 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1562 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1563 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1564 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1565 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1566 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1567 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1568 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1569 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1570 1571 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1572 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1573 those developers interested in improving the security of 1574 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1575 subarchitecture). 1576 1577config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1578 bool "kobject debugging" 1579 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1580 help 1581 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1582 to the syslog. 1583 1584config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1585 bool "kobject release debugging" 1586 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1587 help 1588 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1589 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1590 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1591 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1592 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1593 unregistered. 1594 1595 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1596 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1597 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1598 1599 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1600 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1601 kind of kobject release bug. 1602 1603config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1604 bool 1605 1606menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1607 1608config DEBUG_LIST 1609 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1610 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1611 help 1612 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1613 walking routines. 1614 1615 If unsure, say N. 1616 1617config DEBUG_PLIST 1618 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1619 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1620 help 1621 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1622 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1623 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1624 1625 If unsure, say N. 1626 1627config DEBUG_SG 1628 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1629 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1630 help 1631 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1632 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1633 their sg tables. 1634 1635 If unsure, say N. 1636 1637config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1638 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1639 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1640 help 1641 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1642 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1643 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1644 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1645 performance, say N. 1646 1647config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1648 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1649 select DEBUG_LIST 1650 help 1651 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1652 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1653 for validity. 1654 1655 If unsure, say N. 1656 1657endmenu 1658 1659config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1660 bool "Debug credential management" 1661 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1662 help 1663 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1664 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1665 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1666 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1667 struct. 1668 1669 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1670 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1671 1672 If unsure, say N. 1673 1674source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1675 1676config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1677 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1679 default n 1680 help 1681 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1682 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1683 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1684 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1685 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1686 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1687 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1688 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1689 be impacted. 1690 1691config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1692 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1694 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1695 default n 1696 help 1697 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1698 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1699 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1700 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1701 1702 Say N if your are unsure. 1703 1704config LATENCYTOP 1705 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1707 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1708 depends on PROC_FS 1709 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1710 select KALLSYMS 1711 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1712 select STACKTRACE 1713 select SCHEDSTATS 1714 help 1715 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1716 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1717 1718source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1719 1720config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1721 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1722 depends on PCI && X86 1723 help 1724 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1725 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1726 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1727 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1728 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1729 1730 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1731 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1732 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1733 1734 Usage: 1735 1736 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1737 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1738 1739 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1740 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1741 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1742 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1743 1744 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1745 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1746 1747 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1748 1749source "samples/Kconfig" 1750 1751config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1752 bool 1753 1754config STRICT_DEVMEM 1755 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1756 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1757 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1758 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1759 help 1760 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1761 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1762 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1763 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1764 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1765 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1766 1767 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1768 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1769 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1770 users of /dev/mem. 1771 1772 If in doubt, say Y. 1773 1774config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1775 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1776 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1777 help 1778 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1779 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1780 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1781 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1782 1783 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1784 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1785 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1786 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1787 1788 If in doubt, say Y. 1789 1790menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1791 1792source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1793 1794endmenu 1795 1796menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1797 1798source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1799 1800config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1801 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1802 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1803 select DEBUG_FS 1804 help 1805 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1806 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1807 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1808 1809 Say N if unsure. 1810 1811config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1812 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1813 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1814 default m if PM_DEBUG 1815 help 1816 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1817 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1818 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1819 1820 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1821 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1822 1823 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1824 1825 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1826 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1827 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1828 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1829 1830 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1831 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1832 1833 If unsure, say N. 1834 1835config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1836 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1837 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1838 help 1839 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1840 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1841 through debugfs interface under 1842 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1843 1844 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1845 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1846 1847 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1848 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1853 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1854 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1855 help 1856 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1857 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1858 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1859 1860 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1861 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1862 1863 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1864 1865 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1866 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1867 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1868 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1869 1870 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1871 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1872 1873 If unsure, say N. 1874 1875config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1876 def_bool y 1877 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1878 1879config FAULT_INJECTION 1880 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1882 help 1883 Provide fault-injection framework. 1884 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1885 1886config FAILSLAB 1887 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1888 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1889 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1890 help 1891 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1892 1893config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1894 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1896 help 1897 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1898 1899config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1900 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1901 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1902 help 1903 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1904 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1905 1906config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1911 1912config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1913 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1915 help 1916 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1917 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1918 thus exercising the error handling. 1919 1920 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1921 for others it won't do anything. 1922 1923config FAIL_FUTEX 1924 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1925 select DEBUG_FS 1926 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1927 help 1928 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1929 1930config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1931 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1932 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1933 help 1934 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1935 1936config FAIL_FUNCTION 1937 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1938 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1939 help 1940 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1941 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1942 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1943 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1944 error handling in various subsystems. 1945 1946config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1947 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1948 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1949 help 1950 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1951 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1952 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1953 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1954 the block device. 1955 1956config FAIL_SUNRPC 1957 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1958 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1959 help 1960 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1961 its consumers. 1962 1963config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1964 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1965 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1966 depends on !X86_64 1967 select STACKTRACE 1968 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1969 help 1970 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1971 1972config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1973 bool 1974 help 1975 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1976 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1977 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1978 1979config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1980 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1981 1982 1983config KCOV 1984 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1985 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1986 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1987 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || STACK_VALIDATION || \ 1988 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1989 select DEBUG_FS 1990 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1991 help 1992 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1993 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1994 1995 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1996 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1997 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1998 1999 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2000 2001config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2002 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2003 depends on KCOV 2004 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2005 help 2006 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2007 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2008 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2009 of fuzzing coverage. 2010 2011config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2012 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2013 depends on KCOV 2014 default y 2015 help 2016 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2017 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2018 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2019 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2020 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2021 2022config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2023 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2024 depends on KCOV 2025 default 0x40000 2026 help 2027 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2028 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2029 number of unsigned long words. 2030 2031menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2032 bool "Runtime Testing" 2033 def_bool y 2034 2035if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2036 2037config LKDTM 2038 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2039 depends on DEBUG_FS 2040 help 2041 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2042 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2043 If you don't need it: say N 2044 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2045 called lkdtm. 2046 2047 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2048 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2049 2050config TEST_LIST_SORT 2051 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2052 depends on KUNIT 2053 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2054 help 2055 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2056 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2057 or at module load time. 2058 2059 If unsure, say N. 2060 2061config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2062 tristate "Min heap test" 2063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2064 help 2065 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2066 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2067 or at module load time. 2068 2069 If unsure, say N. 2070 2071config TEST_SORT 2072 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2073 depends on KUNIT 2074 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2075 help 2076 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2077 or at module load time. 2078 2079 If unsure, say N. 2080 2081config TEST_DIV64 2082 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2084 help 2085 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2086 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2087 or at module load time. 2088 2089 If unsure, say N. 2090 2091config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2092 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" 2093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2094 depends on KPROBES 2095 depends on KUNIT 2096 help 2097 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2098 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2099 verified for functionality. 2100 2101 Say N if you are unsure. 2102 2103config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2104 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2105 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2106 help 2107 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2108 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2109 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2110 developers working on architecture code. 2111 2112 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2113 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2114 2115 Say N if you are unsure. 2116 2117config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2118 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2120 select REF_TRACKER 2121 help 2122 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2123 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2124 2125 Say N if you are unsure. 2126 2127config RBTREE_TEST 2128 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2129 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2130 help 2131 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2132 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2133 2134config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2135 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2137 select REED_SOLOMON 2138 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2139 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2140 help 2141 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2142 or at module load time. 2143 2144 If unsure, say N. 2145 2146config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2147 tristate "Interval tree test" 2148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2149 select INTERVAL_TREE 2150 help 2151 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2152 2153config PERCPU_TEST 2154 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2155 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2156 help 2157 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2158 operations. 2159 2160 If unsure, say N. 2161 2162config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2163 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2164 help 2165 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2166 at module load time. 2167 2168 If unsure, say N. 2169 2170config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2171 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2172 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2173 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2174 help 2175 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2176 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2177 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2178 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2179 engine if one is available. 2180 2181 If unsure, say N. 2182 2183config TEST_HEXDUMP 2184 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2185 2186config STRING_SELFTEST 2187 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2188 2189config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2190 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2191 2192config TEST_STRSCPY 2193 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2194 2195config TEST_KSTRTOX 2196 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2197 2198config TEST_PRINTF 2199 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2200 2201config TEST_SCANF 2202 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2203 2204config TEST_BITMAP 2205 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2206 help 2207 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2208 2209 If unsure, say N. 2210 2211config TEST_UUID 2212 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2213 2214config TEST_XARRAY 2215 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2216 2217config TEST_OVERFLOW 2218 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2219 2220config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2221 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2222 help 2223 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2224 2225 If unsure, say N. 2226 2227config TEST_SIPHASH 2228 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2229 help 2230 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2231 functions on boot (or module load). 2232 2233 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2234 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2235 2236config TEST_IDA 2237 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2238 2239config TEST_PARMAN 2240 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2241 depends on PARMAN 2242 help 2243 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2244 (or module load). 2245 2246 If unsure, say N. 2247 2248config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2249 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2250 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2251 help 2252 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2253 2254 If unsure, say N. 2255 2256config TEST_LKM 2257 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2258 depends on m 2259 help 2260 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2261 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2262 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2263 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2264 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2265 requested by name. 2266 2267 If unsure, say N. 2268 2269config TEST_BITOPS 2270 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2271 depends on m 2272 help 2273 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2274 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2275 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2276 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2277 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2278 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2279 2280 If unsure, say N. 2281 2282config TEST_VMALLOC 2283 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2284 default n 2285 depends on MMU 2286 depends on m 2287 help 2288 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2289 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2290 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2291 of view. 2292 2293 If unsure, say N. 2294 2295config TEST_USER_COPY 2296 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2297 depends on m 2298 help 2299 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2300 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2301 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2302 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2303 protections. 2304 2305 If unsure, say N. 2306 2307config TEST_BPF 2308 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2309 depends on m && NET 2310 help 2311 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2312 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2313 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2314 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2315 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2316 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2317 2318 If unsure, say N. 2319 2320config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2321 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2322 depends on m && NET 2323 help 2324 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2325 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2326 2327 If unsure, say N. 2328 2329config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2330 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2331 help 2332 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2333 functions performance. 2334 2335 If unsure, say N. 2336 2337config TEST_FIRMWARE 2338 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2339 depends on FW_LOADER 2340 help 2341 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2342 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2343 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2344 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2345 userspace. 2346 2347 If unsure, say N. 2348 2349config TEST_SYSCTL 2350 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2351 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2352 help 2353 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2354 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2355 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2356 2357 If unsure, say N. 2358 2359config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2360 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2361 depends on KUNIT 2362 help 2363 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2364 2365 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2366 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2367 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2368 production build. 2369 2370 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2371 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2372 2373 If unsure, say N. 2374 2375config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2376 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2377 depends on KUNIT 2378 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2379 help 2380 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2381 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2382 2383 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2384 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2385 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2386 production build. 2387 2388 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2389 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2390 2391 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2392 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2393 2394config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2395 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2396 depends on KUNIT 2397 help 2398 This builds the resource API unit test. 2399 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2400 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2401 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2402 2403 If unsure, say N. 2404 2405config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2406 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2407 depends on KUNIT 2408 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2409 help 2410 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2411 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2412 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2413 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2414 2415 If unsure, say N. 2416 2417config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2418 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2419 depends on KUNIT 2420 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2421 help 2422 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2423 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2424 and associated macros. 2425 2426 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2427 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2428 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2429 production build. 2430 2431 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2432 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2433 2434 If unsure, say N. 2435 2436config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2437 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2438 depends on KUNIT 2439 select LINEAR_RANGES 2440 help 2441 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2442 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2443 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2444 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2445 2446 If unsure, say N. 2447 2448config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2449 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2450 depends on KUNIT 2451 help 2452 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2453 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2454 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2455 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2456 2457 If unsure, say N. 2458 2459config BITS_TEST 2460 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2461 depends on KUNIT 2462 help 2463 This builds the bits unit test. 2464 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2465 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2466 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2467 2468 If unsure, say N. 2469 2470config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2471 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2472 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2473 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2474 help 2475 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2476 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2477 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2478 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2479 2480 If unsure, say N. 2481 2482config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2483 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2484 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2485 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2486 help 2487 This builds the rational math unit test. 2488 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2489 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2490 2491 If unsure, say N. 2492 2493config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2494 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2495 depends on KUNIT 2496 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2497 help 2498 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2499 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2500 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2501 2502 If unsure, say N. 2503 2504config TEST_UDELAY 2505 tristate "udelay test driver" 2506 help 2507 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2508 that udelay() is working properly. 2509 2510 If unsure, say N. 2511 2512config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2513 tristate "Test static keys" 2514 depends on m 2515 help 2516 Test the static key interfaces. 2517 2518 If unsure, say N. 2519 2520config TEST_KMOD 2521 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2522 depends on m 2523 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2524 depends on BLOCK 2525 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2526 select TEST_LKM 2527 select XFS_FS 2528 select TUN 2529 select BTRFS_FS 2530 help 2531 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2532 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2533 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2534 2535 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2536 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2537 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2538 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2539 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2540 2541 To run tests run: 2542 2543 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2544 2545 If unsure, say N. 2546 2547config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2548 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2549 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2550 help 2551 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2552 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2553 kernel's virtual address map. 2554 2555 If unsure, say N. 2556 2557config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2558 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2559 help 2560 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2561 pointer arrays together. 2562 2563 If unsure, say N. 2564 2565config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2566 tristate "Test livepatching" 2567 default n 2568 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2569 depends on LIVEPATCH 2570 depends on m 2571 help 2572 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2573 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2574 2575 To run all the livepatching tests: 2576 2577 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2578 2579 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2580 2581 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2582 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2583 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2584 2585 If unsure, say N. 2586 2587config TEST_OBJAGG 2588 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2589 default n 2590 depends on OBJAGG 2591 help 2592 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2593 (or module load). 2594 2595 2596config TEST_STACKINIT 2597 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2598 help 2599 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2600 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2601 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2602 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2603 2604 If unsure, say N. 2605 2606config TEST_MEMINIT 2607 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2608 help 2609 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2610 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2611 2612 If unsure, say N. 2613 2614config TEST_HMM 2615 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2616 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2617 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2618 select HMM_MIRROR 2619 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2620 help 2621 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2622 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2623 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2624 2625 If unsure, say N. 2626 2627config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2628 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2629 help 2630 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2631 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2632 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2633 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2634 probably OOM your system. 2635 2636config TEST_FPU 2637 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2638 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2639 help 2640 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2641 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2642 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2643 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2644 2645 If unsure, say N. 2646 2647config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2648 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2649 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2650 help 2651 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2652 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2653 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2654 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2655 shortly after boot. 2656 2657 If unsure, say N. 2658 2659endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2660 2661config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2662 bool 2663 help 2664 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2665 during boot process. 2666 2667config MEMTEST 2668 bool "Memtest" 2669 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2670 help 2671 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2672 to be set and executed. 2673 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2674 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2675 ... 2676 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2677 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2678 2679 2680 2681config HYPERV_TESTING 2682 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2683 default n 2684 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2685 help 2686 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2687 2688endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2689 2690source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2691 2692endmenu # Kernel hacking 2693