1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 40 range 1 15 41 default "7" 42 help 43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 44 45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 47 value is specified here as well. 48 49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 51 option. 52 53config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 55 range 1 15 56 default "4" 57 help 58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 59 60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 63 64config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 65 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 66 range 1 7 67 default "4" 68 help 69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 70 71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 73 priority. 74 75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 78 79config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 82 help 83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 86 using "boot_delay=N". 87 88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 89 the "loops per jiffie" value. 90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 95 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 96 97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 99 default n 100 depends on PRINTK 101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 102 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 103 help 104 105 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 106 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 107 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 108 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 109 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 110 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 111 112 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 113 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 114 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 115 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 116 117 Usage: 118 119 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 120 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 121 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 122 making use of this feature. 123 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 124 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 125 format for each line of the file is: 126 127 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 128 129 filename : source file of the debug statement 130 lineno : line number of the debug statement 131 module : module that contains the debug statement 132 function : function that contains the debug statement 133 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 134 format : the format used for the debug statement 135 136 From a live system: 137 138 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 139 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 140 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 141 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 142 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 143 144 Example usage: 145 146 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 147 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 148 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 149 150 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 151 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 152 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 153 154 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 157 158 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 161 162 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 165 166 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 167 information. 168 169config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 170 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 171 depends on PRINTK 172 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 173 help 174 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 175 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 176 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 177 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 178 sensitive for people. 179 180config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 181 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 182 default y if PRINTK 183 help 184 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 185 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 186 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 187 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 188 189config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 190 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 191 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 192 default y 193 help 194 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 195 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 196 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 197 198endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 199 200menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 201 202config DEBUG_INFO 203 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 205 help 206 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 207 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 208 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 209 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 210 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 211 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 212 213 If unsure, say N. 214 215config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 216 bool "Reduce debugging information" 217 depends on DEBUG_INFO 218 help 219 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 220 information for structure types. This means that tools that 221 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 222 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 223 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 224 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 225 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 226 Only works with newer gcc versions. 227 228config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 229 bool "Compressed debugging information" 230 depends on DEBUG_INFO 231 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 232 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 233 help 234 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 235 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 236 237 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 238 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 239 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 240 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 241 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 242 larger. 243 244config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 245 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 246 depends on DEBUG_INFO 247 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 248 help 249 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 250 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 251 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 252 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 253 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 254 255 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 256 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 257 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 258 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 259 260config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 261 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 262 depends on DEBUG_INFO 263 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 264 help 265 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 266 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 267 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 268 variables in gdb on optimized code. 269 270config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 271 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 272 depends on DEBUG_INFO 273 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 274 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 275 help 276 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 277 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 278 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 279 280config GDB_SCRIPTS 281 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 282 depends on DEBUG_INFO 283 help 284 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 285 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 286 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 287 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 288 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 289 for further details. 290 291config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 292 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 293 default y 294 help 295 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 296 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 297 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 298 299config FRAME_WARN 300 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 301 range 0 8192 302 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 303 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 304 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 305 default 2048 if 64BIT 306 help 307 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 308 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 309 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 310 311config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 312 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 313 default n 314 help 315 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 316 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 317 get_wchan() and suchlike. 318 319config READABLE_ASM 320 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 322 help 323 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 324 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 325 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 326 sane. 327 328config HEADERS_INSTALL 329 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 330 depends on !UML 331 help 332 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 333 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 334 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 335 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 336 as uapi header sanity checks. 337 338config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 339 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 340 help 341 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 342 references from one section to another section. 343 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 344 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 345 most likely result in an oops. 346 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 347 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 348 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 349 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 350 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 351 additional step to occur: 352 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 353 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 354 function, we would lose the section information and thus 355 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 356 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 357 a larger kernel). 358 359config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 360 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 361 default y 362 help 363 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 364 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 365 366 If unsure, say Y. 367 368# 369# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 370# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 371# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 372# 373config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 374 bool 375 376config FRAME_POINTER 377 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 379 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 380 help 381 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 382 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 383 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 384 385config STACK_VALIDATION 386 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 387 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 388 default n 389 help 390 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 391 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 392 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 393 394 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 395 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 396 397 For more information, see 398 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 399 400config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 401 bool 402 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT 403 default y 404 405config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 406 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 408 help 409 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 410 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 411 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 412 definitions. 413 414 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 415 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 416 417 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 418 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 419 420endmenu # "Compiler options" 421 422menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 423 424config MAGIC_SYSRQ 425 bool "Magic SysRq key" 426 depends on !UML 427 help 428 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 429 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 430 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 431 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 432 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 433 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 434 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 435 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 436 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 437 438config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 439 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 440 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 441 default 0x1 442 help 443 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 444 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 445 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 446 447config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 448 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 449 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 450 default y 451 help 452 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 453 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 454 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 455 magic SysRq key. 456 457config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 458 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 459 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 460 default "" 461 help 462 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 463 SysRq on a serial console. 464 465 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 466 467config DEBUG_FS 468 bool "Debug Filesystem" 469 help 470 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 471 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 472 write to these files. 473 474 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 475 Documentation/filesystems/. 476 477 If unsure, say N. 478 479source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 480 481source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 482 483endmenu 484 485config DEBUG_KERNEL 486 bool "Kernel debugging" 487 help 488 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 489 identify kernel problems. 490 491config DEBUG_MISC 492 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 493 default DEBUG_KERNEL 494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 495 help 496 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 497 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 498 499 500menu "Memory Debugging" 501 502source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 503 504config DEBUG_OBJECTS 505 bool "Debug object operations" 506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 507 help 508 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 509 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 510 the operations on those objects. 511 512config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 513 bool "Debug objects selftest" 514 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 515 help 516 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 517 518config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 519 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 520 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 521 help 522 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 523 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 524 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 525 much slower. 526 527config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 528 bool "Debug timer objects" 529 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 530 help 531 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 532 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 533 validate the timer operations. 534 535config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 536 bool "Debug work objects" 537 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 538 help 539 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 540 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 541 validate the work operations. 542 543config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 544 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 545 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 546 help 547 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 548 549config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 550 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 551 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 552 help 553 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 554 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 555 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 556 557config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 558 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 559 range 0 1 560 default "1" 561 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 562 help 563 Debug objects boot parameter default value 564 565config DEBUG_SLAB 566 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 567 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 568 help 569 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 570 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 571 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 572 573config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 574 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 575 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 576 default n 577 help 578 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 579 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 580 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 581 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 582 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 583 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 584 "slub_debug=-". 585 586config SLUB_STATS 587 default n 588 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 589 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 590 help 591 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 592 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 593 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 594 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 595 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 596 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 597 Try running: slabinfo -DA 598 599config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 600 bool 601 602config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 603 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 604 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 605 select DEBUG_FS 606 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 607 select KALLSYMS 608 select CRC32 609 help 610 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 611 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 612 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 613 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 614 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 615 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 616 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 617 details. 618 619 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 620 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 621 622 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 623 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 624 625config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 626 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 627 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 628 range 200 1000000 629 default 16000 630 help 631 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 632 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 633 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 634 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 635 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 636 if slab allocations fail. 637 638config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 639 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 640 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 641 help 642 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 643 644 If unsure, say N. 645 646config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 647 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 648 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 649 help 650 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 651 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 652 653config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 654 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 655 default y 656 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 657 help 658 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 659 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 660 kmemleak scan at boot up. 661 662 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 663 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 664 memory leaks. 665 666 If unsure, say Y. 667 668config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 669 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 670 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 671 help 672 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 673 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 674 675 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 676 677config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 678 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 679 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 680 default n 681 help 682 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 683 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 684 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 685 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 686 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 687 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 688 689config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 690 bool 691 help 692 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 693 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 694 695config DEBUG_VM 696 bool "Debug VM" 697 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 698 help 699 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 700 that may impact performance. 701 702 If unsure, say N. 703 704config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 705 bool "Debug VMA caching" 706 depends on DEBUG_VM 707 help 708 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 709 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 710 environments. 711 712 If unsure, say N. 713 714config DEBUG_VM_RB 715 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 716 depends on DEBUG_VM 717 help 718 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 719 720 If unsure, say N. 721 722config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 723 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 724 depends on DEBUG_VM 725 help 726 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 727 728 If unsure, say N. 729 730config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 731 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 732 depends on MMU 733 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 734 default y if DEBUG_VM 735 help 736 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 737 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 738 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 739 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 740 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 741 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 742 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 743 744 If unsure, say N. 745 746config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 747 bool 748 749config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 750 bool "Debug VM translations" 751 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 752 help 753 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 754 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 755 756 If unsure, say N. 757 758config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 759 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 760 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 761 help 762 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 763 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 764 765config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 766 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 767 default !EXPERT 768 help 769 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 770 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 771 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 772 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 773 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 774 775 If unsure, say Y 776 777config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 778 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 779 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 780 help 781 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 782 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 783 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 784 785 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 786 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 787 788 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 789 790 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 791 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 792 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 793 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 794 795 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 796 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 797 798 If unsure, say N. 799 800config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 801 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 802 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 803 depends on SMP 804 help 805 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 806 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 807 and decreases performance. 808 809 Say N if unsure. 810 811config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 812 bool "Highmem debugging" 813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 814 help 815 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 816 systems. Disable for production systems. 817 818config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 819 bool 820 821config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 822 bool "Check for stack overflows" 823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 824 help 825 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 826 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 827 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 828 below a certain limit. 829 830 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 831 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 832 involved. 833 834 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 835 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 836 837 If in doubt, say "N". 838 839source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 840 841endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 842 843config DEBUG_SHIRQ 844 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 845 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 846 help 847 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 848 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 849 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 850 points; some don't and need to be caught. 851 852menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 853 854config PANIC_ON_OOPS 855 bool "Panic on Oops" 856 help 857 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 858 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 859 line. 860 861 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 862 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 863 corruption or other issues. 864 865 Say N if unsure. 866 867config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 868 int 869 range 0 1 870 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 871 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 872 873config PANIC_TIMEOUT 874 int "panic timeout" 875 default 0 876 help 877 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 878 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 879 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 880 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 881 882config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 883 bool 884 885config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 886 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 887 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 888 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 889 help 890 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 891 soft lockups. 892 893 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 894 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 895 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 896 detection and the system will stay locked up. 897 898config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 899 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 900 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 901 help 902 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 903 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 904 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 905 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 906 907 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 908 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 909 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 910 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 911 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 912 913 Say N if unsure. 914 915config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 916 int 917 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 918 range 0 1 919 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 920 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 921 922config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 923 bool 924 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 925 926# 927# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 928# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 929# 930config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 931 bool 932 933# 934# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 935# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 936# 937config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 938 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 939 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 940 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 941 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 942 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 943 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 944 help 945 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 946 hard lockups. 947 948 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 949 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 950 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 951 and the system will stay locked up. 952 953config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 954 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 955 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 956 help 957 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 958 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 959 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 960 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 961 962 Say N if unsure. 963 964config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 965 int 966 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 967 range 0 1 968 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 969 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 970 971config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 972 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 973 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 974 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 975 help 976 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 977 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 978 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 979 980 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 981 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 982 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 983 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 984 feature has negligible overhead. 985 986config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 987 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 988 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 989 default 120 990 help 991 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 992 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 993 be considered hung. 994 995 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 996 sysctl or by writing a value to 997 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 998 999 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1000 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1001 1002config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1003 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1004 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1005 help 1006 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1007 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1008 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1009 1010 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1011 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1012 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1013 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1014 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1015 1016 Say N if unsure. 1017 1018config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1019 int 1020 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1021 range 0 1 1022 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1023 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1024 1025config WQ_WATCHDOG 1026 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1027 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1028 help 1029 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1030 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1031 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1032 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1033 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1034 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1035 1036config TEST_LOCKUP 1037 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1038 help 1039 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1040 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1041 1042 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1043 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1044 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1045 1046 If unsure, say N. 1047 1048endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1049 1050menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1051 1052config SCHED_DEBUG 1053 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1054 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1055 default y 1056 help 1057 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1058 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1059 option is minimal. 1060 1061config SCHED_INFO 1062 bool 1063 default n 1064 1065config SCHEDSTATS 1066 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1068 select SCHED_INFO 1069 help 1070 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1071 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1072 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1073 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1074 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1075 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1076 this adds. 1077 1078endmenu 1079 1080config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1081 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1082 help 1083 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1084 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1085 problems are suspected. 1086 1087 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1088 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1089 workloads. 1090 1091 If unsure, say N. 1092 1093config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1094 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1095 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1096 default y 1097 help 1098 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1099 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1100 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1101 will detect preemption count underflows. 1102 1103menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1104 1105config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1106 bool 1107 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1108 default y 1109 1110config PROVE_LOCKING 1111 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1113 select LOCKDEP 1114 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1115 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1116 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1117 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1118 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1119 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1120 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1121 default n 1122 help 1123 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1124 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1125 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1126 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1127 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1128 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1129 deadlock. 1130 1131 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1132 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1133 1134 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1135 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1136 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1137 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1138 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1139 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1140 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1141 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1142 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1143 1144 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1145 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1146 kernel reports nothing. 1147 1148 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1149 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1150 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1151 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1152 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1153 1154 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1155 1156config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1157 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1158 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1159 default n 1160 help 1161 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1162 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1163 not violated. 1164 1165 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1166 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1167 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1168 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1169 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1170 1171 If unsure, select N. 1172 1173config LOCK_STAT 1174 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1176 select LOCKDEP 1177 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1178 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1179 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1180 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1181 default n 1182 help 1183 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1184 1185 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1186 1187 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1188 subcommand of perf. 1189 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1190 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1191 1192 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1193 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1194 1195config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1196 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1197 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1198 help 1199 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1200 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1201 1202config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1203 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1205 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1206 help 1207 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1208 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1209 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1210 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1211 1212config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1213 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1215 help 1216 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1217 reported. 1218 1219config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1220 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1221 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1222 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1223 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1224 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1225 help 1226 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1227 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1228 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1229 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1230 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1231 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1232 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1233 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1234 you are a distro, do not. 1235 1236config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1237 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1239 help 1240 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1241 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1242 1243config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1244 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1245 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1246 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1247 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1248 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1249 select LOCKDEP 1250 help 1251 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1252 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1253 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1254 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1255 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1256 held during task exit. 1257 1258config LOCKDEP 1259 bool 1260 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1261 select STACKTRACE 1262 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86 1263 select KALLSYMS 1264 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1265 1266config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1267 bool 1268 1269config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1270 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1272 help 1273 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1274 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1275 of more runtime overhead. 1276 1277config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1278 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1279 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1281 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1282 help 1283 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1284 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1285 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1286 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1287 1288config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1289 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1291 help 1292 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1293 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1294 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1295 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1296 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1297 mutexes and rwsems. 1298 1299config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1300 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1302 select TORTURE_TEST 1303 help 1304 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1305 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1306 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1307 1308 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1309 to be built into the kernel. 1310 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1311 Say N if you are unsure. 1312 1313config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1314 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1315 help 1316 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1317 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1318 1319 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1320 with this test harness. 1321 1322 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1323 Say N if you are unsure. 1324 1325endmenu # lock debugging 1326 1327config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1328 bool 1329 help 1330 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1331 either tracing or lock debugging. 1332 1333config STACKTRACE 1334 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1335 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1336 help 1337 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1338 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1339 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1340 stack trace generation. 1341 1342config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1343 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1344 default n 1345 help 1346 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1347 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1348 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1349 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1350 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1351 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1352 it. 1353 1354 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1355 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1356 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1357 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1358 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1359 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1360 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1361 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1362 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1363 1364 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1365 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1366 those developers interested in improving the security of 1367 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1368 subarchitecture). 1369 1370config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1371 bool "kobject debugging" 1372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1373 help 1374 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1375 to the syslog. 1376 1377config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1378 bool "kobject release debugging" 1379 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1380 help 1381 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1382 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1383 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1384 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1385 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1386 unregistered. 1387 1388 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1389 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1390 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1391 1392 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1393 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1394 kind of kobject release bug. 1395 1396config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1397 bool 1398 1399menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1400 1401config DEBUG_LIST 1402 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1404 help 1405 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1406 walking routines. 1407 1408 If unsure, say N. 1409 1410config DEBUG_PLIST 1411 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1413 help 1414 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1415 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1416 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1417 1418 If unsure, say N. 1419 1420config DEBUG_SG 1421 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1423 help 1424 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1425 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1426 their sg tables. 1427 1428 If unsure, say N. 1429 1430config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1431 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1433 help 1434 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1435 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1436 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1437 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1438 performance, say N. 1439 1440config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1441 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1442 select DEBUG_LIST 1443 help 1444 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1445 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1446 for validity. 1447 1448 If unsure, say N. 1449 1450endmenu 1451 1452config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1453 bool "Debug credential management" 1454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1455 help 1456 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1457 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1458 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1459 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1460 struct. 1461 1462 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1463 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1464 1465 If unsure, say N. 1466 1467source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1468 1469config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1470 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1472 default n 1473 help 1474 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1475 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1476 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1477 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1478 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1479 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1480 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1481 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1482 be impacted. 1483 1484config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1485 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1487 depends on BLOCK 1488 default n 1489 help 1490 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1491 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1492 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1493 is broken. 1494 1495 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1496 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1497 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1498 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1499 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1500 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1501 device number allocation. 1502 1503 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1504 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1505 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1506 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1507 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1508 1509 Say N if you are unsure. 1510 1511config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1512 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1513 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1514 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1515 default n 1516 help 1517 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1518 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1519 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1520 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1521 1522 Say N if your are unsure. 1523 1524config LATENCYTOP 1525 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1526 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1527 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1528 depends on PROC_FS 1529 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1530 select KALLSYMS 1531 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1532 select STACKTRACE 1533 select SCHEDSTATS 1534 select SCHED_DEBUG 1535 help 1536 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1537 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1538 1539source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1540 1541config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1542 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1543 depends on PCI && X86 1544 help 1545 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1546 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1547 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1548 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1549 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1550 1551 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1552 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1553 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1554 1555 Usage: 1556 1557 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1558 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1559 1560 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1561 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1562 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1563 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1564 1565 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1566 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1567 1568 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1569 1570source "samples/Kconfig" 1571 1572source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 1573 1574config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1575 bool 1576 1577config STRICT_DEVMEM 1578 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1579 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1580 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1581 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1582 help 1583 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1584 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1585 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1586 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1587 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1588 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1589 1590 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1591 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1592 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1593 users of /dev/mem. 1594 1595 If in doubt, say Y. 1596 1597config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1598 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1599 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1600 help 1601 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1602 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1603 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1604 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1605 1606 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1607 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1608 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1609 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1610 1611 If in doubt, say Y. 1612 1613menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1614 1615source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1616 1617endmenu 1618 1619menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1620 1621source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1622 1623config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1624 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1626 select DEBUG_FS 1627 help 1628 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1629 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1630 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1631 1632 Say N if unsure. 1633 1634config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1635 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1636 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1637 default m if PM_DEBUG 1638 help 1639 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1640 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1641 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1642 1643 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1644 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1645 1646 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1647 1648 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1649 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1650 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1651 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1652 1653 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1654 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1655 1656 If unsure, say N. 1657 1658config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1659 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1660 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1661 help 1662 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1663 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1664 through debugfs interface under 1665 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1666 1667 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1668 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1669 1670 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1671 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1672 1673 If unsure, say N. 1674 1675config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1676 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1677 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1678 help 1679 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1680 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1681 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1682 1683 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1684 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1685 1686 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1687 1688 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1689 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1690 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1691 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1692 1693 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1694 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1695 1696 If unsure, say N. 1697 1698config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1699 def_bool y 1700 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1701 1702config FAULT_INJECTION 1703 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1705 help 1706 Provide fault-injection framework. 1707 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1708 1709config FAILSLAB 1710 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1711 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1712 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1713 help 1714 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1715 1716config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1717 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1718 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1719 help 1720 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1721 1722config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1723 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1724 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1725 help 1726 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1727 1728config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1729 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1730 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1731 help 1732 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1733 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1734 thus exercising the error handling. 1735 1736 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1737 for others it wont do anything. 1738 1739config FAIL_FUTEX 1740 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1741 select DEBUG_FS 1742 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1743 help 1744 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1745 1746config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1747 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1748 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1749 help 1750 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1751 1752config FAIL_FUNCTION 1753 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1754 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1755 help 1756 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1757 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1758 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1759 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1760 error handling in various subsystems. 1761 1762config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1763 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1764 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1765 help 1766 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1767 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1768 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1769 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1770 the block device. 1771 1772config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1773 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1774 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1775 depends on !X86_64 1776 select STACKTRACE 1777 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1778 help 1779 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1780 1781config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1782 bool 1783 help 1784 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1785 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1786 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1787 1788config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1789 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1790 1791 1792config KCOV 1793 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1794 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1795 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1796 select DEBUG_FS 1797 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1798 help 1799 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1800 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1801 1802 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1803 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1804 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1805 1806 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1807 1808config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1809 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1810 depends on KCOV 1811 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1812 help 1813 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1814 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1815 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1816 of fuzzing coverage. 1817 1818config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 1819 bool "Instrument all code by default" 1820 depends on KCOV 1821 default y 1822 help 1823 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 1824 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 1825 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 1826 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 1827 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 1828 1829config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 1830 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 1831 depends on KCOV 1832 default 0x40000 1833 help 1834 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 1835 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 1836 number of unsigned long words. 1837 1838menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1839 bool "Runtime Testing" 1840 def_bool y 1841 1842if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1843 1844config LKDTM 1845 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1846 depends on DEBUG_FS 1847 help 1848 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1849 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1850 If you don't need it: say N 1851 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1852 called lkdtm. 1853 1854 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1855 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 1856 1857config TEST_LIST_SORT 1858 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1859 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1860 help 1861 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1862 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1863 or at module load time. 1864 1865 If unsure, say N. 1866 1867config TEST_MIN_HEAP 1868 tristate "Min heap test" 1869 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1870 help 1871 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 1872 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1873 or at module load time. 1874 1875 If unsure, say N. 1876 1877config TEST_SORT 1878 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1879 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1880 help 1881 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1882 or at module load time. 1883 1884 If unsure, say N. 1885 1886config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1887 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1888 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1889 depends on KPROBES 1890 help 1891 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1892 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1893 verified for functionality. 1894 1895 Say N if you are unsure. 1896 1897config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1898 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1899 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1900 help 1901 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1902 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1903 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1904 developers working on architecture code. 1905 1906 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1907 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1908 1909 Say N if you are unsure. 1910 1911config RBTREE_TEST 1912 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1913 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1914 help 1915 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1916 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1917 1918config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 1919 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 1920 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1921 select REED_SOLOMON 1922 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 1923 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 1924 help 1925 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 1926 or at module load time. 1927 1928 If unsure, say N. 1929 1930config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1931 tristate "Interval tree test" 1932 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1933 select INTERVAL_TREE 1934 help 1935 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1936 1937config PERCPU_TEST 1938 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1939 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1940 help 1941 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1942 operations. 1943 1944 If unsure, say N. 1945 1946config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1947 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1948 help 1949 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1950 at module load time. 1951 1952 If unsure, say N. 1953 1954config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1955 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1956 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1957 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1958 help 1959 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1960 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1961 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1962 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1963 engine if one is available. 1964 1965 If unsure, say N. 1966 1967config TEST_HEXDUMP 1968 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1969 1970config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1971 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1972 1973config TEST_STRSCPY 1974 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 1975 1976config TEST_KSTRTOX 1977 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1978 1979config TEST_PRINTF 1980 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1981 1982config TEST_BITMAP 1983 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1984 help 1985 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1986 1987 If unsure, say N. 1988 1989config TEST_BITFIELD 1990 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime" 1991 help 1992 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 1993 1994 If unsure, say N. 1995 1996config TEST_UUID 1997 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1998 1999config TEST_XARRAY 2000 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2001 2002config TEST_OVERFLOW 2003 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2004 2005config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2006 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2007 help 2008 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2009 2010 If unsure, say N. 2011 2012config TEST_HASH 2013 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2014 help 2015 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2016 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2017 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2018 2019 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2020 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2021 2022config TEST_IDA 2023 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2024 2025config TEST_PARMAN 2026 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2027 depends on PARMAN 2028 help 2029 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2030 (or module load). 2031 2032 If unsure, say N. 2033 2034config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2035 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2036 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2037 help 2038 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2039 2040 If unsure, say N. 2041 2042config TEST_LKM 2043 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2044 depends on m 2045 help 2046 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2047 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2048 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2049 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2050 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2051 requested by name. 2052 2053 If unsure, say N. 2054 2055config TEST_BITOPS 2056 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2057 depends on m 2058 help 2059 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2060 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2061 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2062 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2063 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2064 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2065 2066 If unsure, say N. 2067 2068config TEST_VMALLOC 2069 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2070 default n 2071 depends on MMU 2072 depends on m 2073 help 2074 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2075 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2076 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2077 of view. 2078 2079 If unsure, say N. 2080 2081config TEST_USER_COPY 2082 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2083 depends on m 2084 help 2085 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2086 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2087 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2088 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2089 protections. 2090 2091 If unsure, say N. 2092 2093config TEST_BPF 2094 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2095 depends on m && NET 2096 help 2097 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2098 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2099 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2100 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2101 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2102 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2103 2104 If unsure, say N. 2105 2106config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2107 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2108 depends on m && NET 2109 help 2110 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2111 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2112 2113 If unsure, say N. 2114 2115config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2116 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2117 help 2118 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2119 functions performance. 2120 2121 If unsure, say N. 2122 2123config TEST_FIRMWARE 2124 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2125 depends on FW_LOADER 2126 help 2127 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2128 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2129 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2130 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2131 userspace. 2132 2133 If unsure, say N. 2134 2135config TEST_SYSCTL 2136 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2137 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2138 help 2139 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2140 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2141 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2142 2143 If unsure, say N. 2144 2145config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2146 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2147 depends on KUNIT 2148 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2149 help 2150 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2151 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2152 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2153 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2154 2155 If unsure, say N. 2156 2157config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2158 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2159 depends on KUNIT 2160 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2161 help 2162 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2163 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2164 and associated macros. 2165 2166 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2167 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2168 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2169 production build. 2170 2171 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2172 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2173 2174 If unsure, say N. 2175 2176config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2177 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2178 depends on KUNIT 2179 select LINEAR_RANGES 2180 help 2181 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2182 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2183 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2184 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2185 2186 If unsure, say N. 2187 2188config TEST_UDELAY 2189 tristate "udelay test driver" 2190 help 2191 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2192 that udelay() is working properly. 2193 2194 If unsure, say N. 2195 2196config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2197 tristate "Test static keys" 2198 depends on m 2199 help 2200 Test the static key interfaces. 2201 2202 If unsure, say N. 2203 2204config TEST_KMOD 2205 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2206 depends on m 2207 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2208 depends on BLOCK 2209 select TEST_LKM 2210 select XFS_FS 2211 select TUN 2212 select BTRFS_FS 2213 help 2214 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2215 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2216 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2217 2218 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2219 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2220 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2221 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2222 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2223 2224 To run tests run: 2225 2226 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2227 2228 If unsure, say N. 2229 2230config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2231 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2232 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2233 help 2234 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2235 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2236 kernel's virtual address map. 2237 2238 If unsure, say N. 2239 2240config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2241 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2242 help 2243 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2244 pointer arrays together. 2245 2246 If unsure, say N. 2247 2248config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2249 tristate "Test livepatching" 2250 default n 2251 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2252 depends on LIVEPATCH 2253 depends on m 2254 help 2255 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2256 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2257 2258 To run all the livepatching tests: 2259 2260 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2261 2262 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2263 2264 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2265 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2266 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2267 2268 If unsure, say N. 2269 2270config TEST_OBJAGG 2271 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2272 default n 2273 depends on OBJAGG 2274 help 2275 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2276 (or module load). 2277 2278 2279config TEST_STACKINIT 2280 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2281 help 2282 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2283 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2284 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2285 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2286 2287 If unsure, say N. 2288 2289config TEST_MEMINIT 2290 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2291 help 2292 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2293 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2294 2295 If unsure, say N. 2296 2297config TEST_HMM 2298 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2299 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2300 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2301 select HMM_MIRROR 2302 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2303 help 2304 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2305 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2306 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2307 2308 If unsure, say N. 2309 2310endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2311 2312config MEMTEST 2313 bool "Memtest" 2314 help 2315 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2316 to be set. 2317 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2318 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2319 ... 2320 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2321 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2322 2323 2324 2325config HYPERV_TESTING 2326 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2327 default n 2328 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2329 help 2330 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2331 2332endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2333 2334endmenu # Kernel hacking 2335