1menu "Kernel hacking" 2 3menu "printk and dmesg options" 4 5config PRINTK_TIME 6 bool "Show timing information on printks" 7 depends on PRINTK 8 help 9 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 10 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 11 call and at the console. 12 13 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 14 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 15 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 16 17 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 18 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 19 20config PRINTK_CALLER 21 bool "Show caller information on printks" 22 depends on PRINTK 23 help 24 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 25 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 26 to every message. 27 28 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 29 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 30 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 31 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 32 33 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 34 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 35 sysfs interface. 36 37config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 38 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 39 range 1 15 40 default "7" 41 help 42 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 43 44 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 45 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 46 value is specified here as well. 47 48 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 49 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 option. 51 52config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 53 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 54 range 1 15 55 default "4" 56 help 57 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 58 59 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 60 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 61 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 62 63config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 64 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 65 range 1 7 66 default "4" 67 help 68 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 69 70 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 71 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 72 priority. 73 74 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 75 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 76 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 77 78config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 79 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 81 help 82 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 83 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 84 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 85 using "boot_delay=N". 86 87 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 88 the "loops per jiffie" value. 89 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 90 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 91 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 92 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 93 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 94 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 95 96config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 97 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 98 default n 99 depends on PRINTK 100 depends on DEBUG_FS 101 help 102 103 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 104 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 105 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 106 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 107 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 108 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 109 110 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 111 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 112 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 113 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 114 115 Usage: 116 117 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 118 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 119 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 120 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 121 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 122 format for each line of the file is: 123 124 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 125 126 filename : source file of the debug statement 127 lineno : line number of the debug statement 128 module : module that contains the debug statement 129 function : function that contains the debug statement 130 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 131 format : the format used for the debug statement 132 133 From a live system: 134 135 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 136 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 137 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 138 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 139 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 140 141 Example usage: 142 143 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 144 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 145 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 146 147 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 148 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 149 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 151 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 152 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 153 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 154 155 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 156 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 157 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 158 159 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 160 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 161 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 162 163 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 164 information. 165 166endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 167 168menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 169 170config DEBUG_INFO 171 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 173 help 174 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 175 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 176 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 177 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 178 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 179 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 180 181 If unsure, say N. 182 183config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 184 bool "Reduce debugging information" 185 depends on DEBUG_INFO 186 help 187 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 188 information for structure types. This means that tools that 189 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 190 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 191 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 192 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 193 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 194 Only works with newer gcc versions. 195 196config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 197 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 198 depends on DEBUG_INFO 199 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 200 help 201 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 202 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 203 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 204 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 205 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 206 207 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 208 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 209 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 210 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 211 212config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 213 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 214 depends on DEBUG_INFO 215 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 216 help 217 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 218 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 219 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 220 variables in gdb on optimized code. 221 222config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 223 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 224 depends on DEBUG_INFO 225 help 226 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 227 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 228 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 229 230config GDB_SCRIPTS 231 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 232 depends on DEBUG_INFO 233 help 234 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 235 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 236 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 237 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 238 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 239 for further details. 240 241config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 242 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 243 default y 244 help 245 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 246 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 247 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 248 249config FRAME_WARN 250 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 251 range 0 8192 252 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 253 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 254 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 255 default 2048 if 64BIT 256 help 257 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 258 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 259 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 260 Requires gcc 4.4 261 262config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 263 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 264 default n 265 help 266 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 267 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 268 get_wchan() and suchlike. 269 270config READABLE_ASM 271 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 273 help 274 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 275 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 276 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 277 sane. 278 279config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 280 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 281 default y if X86 282 help 283 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 284 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 285 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 286 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 287 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 288 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 289 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 290 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 291 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 292 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 293 your module is. 294 295config DEBUG_FS 296 bool "Debug Filesystem" 297 help 298 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 299 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 300 write to these files. 301 302 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 303 Documentation/filesystems/. 304 305 If unsure, say N. 306 307config HEADERS_CHECK 308 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 309 depends on !UML 310 help 311 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 312 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 313 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 314 were not exported, etc. 315 316 If you're making modifications to header files which are 317 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 318 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 319 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 320 321config OPTIMIZE_INLINING 322 bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'" 323 help 324 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions 325 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to 326 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of 327 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and 328 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully 329 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the 330 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option 331 is there to test gcc for this. 332 333 If unsure, say N. 334 335config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 336 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 337 help 338 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 339 references from one section to another section. 340 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 341 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 342 most likely result in an oops. 343 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 344 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 345 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 346 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 347 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 348 additional steps to occur: 349 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 350 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 351 function, we would lose the section information and thus 352 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 353 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 354 a larger kernel). 355 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file. 356 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 357 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 358 introduced. 359 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file 360 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 361 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 362 reported at least twice. 363 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 364 the section mismatches that are reported. 365 366config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 367 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 368 default y 369 help 370 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 371 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 372 373 If unsure, say Y. 374 375# 376# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 377# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 378# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 379# 380config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 381 bool 382 383config FRAME_POINTER 384 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 386 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 387 help 388 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 389 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 390 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 391 392config STACK_VALIDATION 393 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 394 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 395 default n 396 help 397 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 398 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 399 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 400 401 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 402 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 403 404 For more information, see 405 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 406 407config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 408 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 409 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 410 help 411 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 412 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 413 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 414 definitions. 415 416 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 417 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 418 419 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 420 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 421 422endmenu # "Compiler options" 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 DEBUG_KERNEL 458 bool "Kernel debugging" 459 help 460 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 461 identify kernel problems. 462 463menu "Memory Debugging" 464 465source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 466 467config DEBUG_OBJECTS 468 bool "Debug object operations" 469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 470 help 471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 472 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 473 the operations on those objects. 474 475config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 476 bool "Debug objects selftest" 477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 478 help 479 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 480 481config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 482 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 483 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 484 help 485 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 486 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 487 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 488 much slower. 489 490config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 491 bool "Debug timer objects" 492 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 493 help 494 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 495 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 496 validate the timer operations. 497 498config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 499 bool "Debug work objects" 500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 501 help 502 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 503 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 504 validate the work operations. 505 506config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 507 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 508 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 509 help 510 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 511 512config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 513 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 514 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 515 help 516 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 517 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 518 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 519 520config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 521 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 522 range 0 1 523 default "1" 524 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 525 help 526 Debug objects boot parameter default value 527 528config DEBUG_SLAB 529 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 530 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 531 help 532 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 533 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 534 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 535 536config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK 537 bool "Memory leak debugging" 538 depends on DEBUG_SLAB 539 540config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 541 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 542 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 543 default n 544 help 545 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 546 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 547 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 548 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 549 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 550 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 551 "slub_debug=-". 552 553config SLUB_STATS 554 default n 555 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 556 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 557 help 558 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 559 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 560 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 561 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 562 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 563 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 564 Try running: slabinfo -DA 565 566config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 567 bool 568 569config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 570 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 571 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 572 select DEBUG_FS 573 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 574 select KALLSYMS 575 select CRC32 576 help 577 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 578 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 579 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 580 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 581 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 582 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 583 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 584 details. 585 586 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 587 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 588 589 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 590 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 591 592config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 593 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 594 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 595 range 200 40000 596 default 400 597 help 598 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 599 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 600 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 601 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 602 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 603 604config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 605 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 606 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 607 help 608 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 609 610 If unsure, say N. 611 612config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 613 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 614 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 615 help 616 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 617 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 618 619config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 620 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 621 default y 622 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 623 help 624 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 625 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 626 kmemleak scan at boot up. 627 628 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 629 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 630 memory leaks. 631 632 If unsure, say Y. 633 634config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 635 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 637 help 638 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 639 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 640 641 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 642 643config DEBUG_VM 644 bool "Debug VM" 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 646 help 647 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 648 that may impact performance. 649 650 If unsure, say N. 651 652config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 653 bool "Debug VMA caching" 654 depends on DEBUG_VM 655 help 656 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 657 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 658 environments. 659 660 If unsure, say N. 661 662config DEBUG_VM_RB 663 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 664 depends on DEBUG_VM 665 help 666 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 667 668 If unsure, say N. 669 670config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 671 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 672 depends on DEBUG_VM 673 help 674 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 675 676 If unsure, say N. 677 678config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 679 bool 680 681config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 682 bool "Debug VM translations" 683 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 684 help 685 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 686 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 687 688 If unsure, say N. 689 690config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 691 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 693 help 694 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 695 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 696 697config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 698 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 699 default !EXPERT 700 help 701 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 702 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 703 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 704 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 705 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 706 707 If unsure, say Y 708 709config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 710 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 711 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 712 help 713 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 714 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 715 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 716 717 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 718 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 719 720 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 721 722 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 723 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 724 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 725 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 726 727 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 728 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 729 730 If unsure, say N. 731 732config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 733 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 735 depends on SMP 736 help 737 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 738 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 739 and decreases performance. 740 741 Say N if unsure. 742 743config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 744 bool "Highmem debugging" 745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 746 help 747 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 748 systems. Disable for production systems. 749 750config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 751 bool 752 753config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 754 bool "Check for stack overflows" 755 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 756 ---help--- 757 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 758 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 759 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 760 below a certain limit. 761 762 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 763 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 764 involved. 765 766 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 767 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 768 769 If in doubt, say "N". 770 771source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 772 773endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 774 775config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 776 bool 777 help 778 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 779 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 780 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 781 782config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 783 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 784 785config KCOV 786 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 787 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 788 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 789 select DEBUG_FS 790 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 791 help 792 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 793 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 794 795 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 796 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 797 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 798 799 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 800 801config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 802 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 803 depends on KCOV 804 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 805 help 806 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 807 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 808 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 809 of fuzzing coverage. 810 811config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 812 bool "Instrument all code by default" 813 depends on KCOV 814 default y 815 help 816 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 817 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 818 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 819 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 820 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 821 822config DEBUG_SHIRQ 823 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 825 help 826 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 827 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 828 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 829 points; some don't and need to be caught. 830 831menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 832 833config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 834 bool 835 836config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 837 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 838 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 839 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 840 help 841 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 842 soft lockups. 843 844 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 845 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 846 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 847 detection and the system will stay locked up. 848 849config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 850 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 851 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 852 help 853 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 854 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 855 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 856 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 857 858 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 859 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 860 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 861 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 862 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 863 864 Say N if unsure. 865 866config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 867 int 868 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 869 range 0 1 870 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 871 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 872 873config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 874 bool 875 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 876 877# 878# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 879# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 880# 881config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 882 bool 883 884# 885# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 886# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 887# 888config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 889 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 891 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 892 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 893 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 894 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 895 help 896 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 897 hard lockups. 898 899 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 900 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 901 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 902 and the system will stay locked up. 903 904config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 905 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 906 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 907 help 908 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 909 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 910 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 911 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 912 913 Say N if unsure. 914 915config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 916 int 917 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 918 range 0 1 919 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 920 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 921 922config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 923 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 924 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 925 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 926 help 927 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 928 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 929 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 930 931 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 932 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 933 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 934 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 935 feature has negligible overhead. 936 937config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 938 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 939 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 940 default 120 941 help 942 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 943 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 944 be considered hung. 945 946 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 947 sysctl or by writing a value to 948 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 949 950 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 951 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 952 953config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 954 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 955 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 956 help 957 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 958 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 959 in uninterruptible "D" state. 960 961 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 962 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 963 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 964 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 965 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 966 967 Say N if unsure. 968 969config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 970 int 971 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 972 range 0 1 973 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 974 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 975 976config WQ_WATCHDOG 977 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 978 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 979 help 980 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 981 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 982 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 983 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 984 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 985 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 986 987endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 988 989config PANIC_ON_OOPS 990 bool "Panic on Oops" 991 help 992 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 993 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 994 line. 995 996 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 997 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 998 corruption or other issues. 999 1000 Say N if unsure. 1001 1002config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1003 int 1004 range 0 1 1005 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1006 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1007 1008config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1009 int "panic timeout" 1010 default 0 1011 help 1012 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 1013 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1014 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1015 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1016 1017config SCHED_DEBUG 1018 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1019 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1020 default y 1021 help 1022 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1023 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1024 option is minimal. 1025 1026config SCHED_INFO 1027 bool 1028 default n 1029 1030config SCHEDSTATS 1031 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1033 select SCHED_INFO 1034 help 1035 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1036 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1037 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1038 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1039 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1040 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1041 this adds. 1042 1043config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 1044 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 1045 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1046 default n 1047 help 1048 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 1049 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 1050 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 1051 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 1052 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 1053 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 1054 1055config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1056 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1057 help 1058 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1059 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1060 problems are suspected. 1061 1062 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1063 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1064 workloads. 1065 1066 If unsure, say N. 1067 1068config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1069 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1071 default y 1072 help 1073 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1074 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1075 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1076 will detect preemption count underflows. 1077 1078menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1079 1080config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1081 bool 1082 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1083 default y 1084 1085config PROVE_LOCKING 1086 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1087 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1088 select LOCKDEP 1089 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1090 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1091 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1092 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1093 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1094 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1095 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1096 default n 1097 help 1098 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1099 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1100 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1101 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1102 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1103 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1104 deadlock. 1105 1106 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1107 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1108 1109 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1110 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1111 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1112 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1113 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1114 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1115 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1116 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1117 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1118 1119 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1120 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1121 kernel reports nothing. 1122 1123 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1124 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1125 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1126 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1127 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1128 1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1130 1131config LOCK_STAT 1132 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1134 select LOCKDEP 1135 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1136 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1137 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1138 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1139 default n 1140 help 1141 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1142 1143 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1144 1145 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1146 subcommand of perf. 1147 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1148 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1149 1150 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1151 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1152 1153config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1154 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1156 help 1157 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1158 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1159 1160config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1161 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1163 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1164 help 1165 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1166 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1167 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1168 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1169 1170config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1171 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1173 help 1174 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1175 reported. 1176 1177config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1178 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1180 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1181 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1182 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1183 help 1184 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1185 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1186 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1187 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1188 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1189 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1190 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1191 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1192 you are a distro, do not. 1193 1194config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1195 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1196 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1197 help 1198 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks 1199 to be detected and reported. 1200 1201config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1202 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1203 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1204 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1205 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1206 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1207 select LOCKDEP 1208 help 1209 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1210 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1211 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1212 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1213 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1214 held during task exit. 1215 1216config LOCKDEP 1217 bool 1218 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1219 select STACKTRACE 1220 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86 1221 select KALLSYMS 1222 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1223 1224config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1225 bool 1226 1227config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1228 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1230 help 1231 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1232 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1233 of more runtime overhead. 1234 1235config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1236 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1237 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1239 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1240 help 1241 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1242 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1243 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1244 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1245 1246config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1247 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1248 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1249 help 1250 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1251 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1252 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1253 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1254 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1255 mutexes and rwsems. 1256 1257config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1258 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1260 select TORTURE_TEST 1261 help 1262 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1263 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1264 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1265 1266 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1267 to be built into the kernel. 1268 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1269 Say N if you are unsure. 1270 1271config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1272 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1273 help 1274 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1275 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1276 1277 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1278 with this test harness. 1279 1280 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1281 Say N if you are unsure. 1282 1283endmenu # lock debugging 1284 1285config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1286 bool 1287 help 1288 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1289 either tracing or lock debugging. 1290 1291config STACKTRACE 1292 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1293 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1294 help 1295 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1296 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1297 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1298 stack trace generation. 1299 1300config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1301 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1302 default n 1303 help 1304 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1305 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1306 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1307 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1308 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1309 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1310 it. 1311 1312 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1313 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1314 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1315 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1316 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1317 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1318 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1319 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1320 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1321 1322 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1323 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1324 those developers interested in improving the security of 1325 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1326 subarchitecture). 1327 1328config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1329 bool "kobject debugging" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 help 1332 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1333 to the syslog. 1334 1335config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1336 bool "kobject release debugging" 1337 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1338 help 1339 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1340 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1341 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1342 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1343 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1344 unregistered. 1345 1346 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1347 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1348 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1349 1350 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1351 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1352 kind of kobject release bug. 1353 1354config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1355 bool 1356 1357config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1358 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1359 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1360 default y 1361 help 1362 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1363 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1364 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1365 1366config DEBUG_LIST 1367 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1369 help 1370 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1371 walking routines. 1372 1373 If unsure, say N. 1374 1375config DEBUG_PLIST 1376 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1378 help 1379 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1380 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1381 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1382 1383 If unsure, say N. 1384 1385config DEBUG_SG 1386 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1388 help 1389 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1390 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1391 their sg tables. 1392 1393 If unsure, say N. 1394 1395config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1396 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1397 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1398 help 1399 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1400 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1401 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1402 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1403 performance, say N. 1404 1405config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1406 bool "Debug credential management" 1407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1408 help 1409 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1410 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1411 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1412 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1413 struct. 1414 1415 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1416 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1417 1418 If unsure, say N. 1419 1420source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1421 1422config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1423 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1424 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1425 default n 1426 help 1427 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1428 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1429 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1430 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1431 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1432 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1433 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1434 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1435 be impacted. 1436 1437config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1438 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1440 depends on BLOCK 1441 default n 1442 help 1443 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1444 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1445 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1446 is broken. 1447 1448 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1449 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1450 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1451 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1452 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1453 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1454 device number allocation. 1455 1456 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1457 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1458 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1459 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1460 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1461 1462 Say N if you are unsure. 1463 1464config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1465 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1467 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1468 default n 1469 help 1470 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1471 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1472 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1473 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1474 1475 Say N if your are unsure. 1476 1477config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1478 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1479 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1480 select DEBUG_FS 1481 help 1482 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1483 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1484 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1485 1486 Say N if unsure. 1487 1488config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1489 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1490 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1491 default m if PM_DEBUG 1492 help 1493 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1494 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1495 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1496 1497 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1498 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1499 1500 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1501 1502 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1503 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1504 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1505 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1506 1507 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1508 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1509 1510 If unsure, say N. 1511 1512config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1513 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1514 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1515 help 1516 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1517 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1518 through debugfs interface under 1519 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1520 1521 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1522 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1523 1524 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1525 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1526 1527 If unsure, say N. 1528 1529config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1530 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1531 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1532 help 1533 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1534 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1535 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1536 1537 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1538 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1539 1540 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1541 1542 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1543 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1544 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1545 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1546 1547 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1548 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1549 1550 If unsure, say N. 1551 1552config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1553 def_bool y 1554 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1555 1556config FAULT_INJECTION 1557 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1559 help 1560 Provide fault-injection framework. 1561 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1562 1563config FAILSLAB 1564 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1565 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1566 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1567 help 1568 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1569 1570config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1571 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1572 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1573 help 1574 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1575 1576config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1577 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1578 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1579 help 1580 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1581 1582config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1583 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1584 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1585 help 1586 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1587 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1588 thus exercising the error handling. 1589 1590 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1591 for others it wont do anything. 1592 1593config FAIL_FUTEX 1594 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1595 select DEBUG_FS 1596 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1597 help 1598 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1599 1600config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1601 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1602 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1603 help 1604 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1605 1606config FAIL_FUNCTION 1607 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1608 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1609 help 1610 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1611 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1612 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1613 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1614 error handling in various subsystems. 1615 1616config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1617 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1618 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1619 help 1620 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1621 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1622 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1623 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1624 the block device. 1625 1626config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1627 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1628 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1629 depends on !X86_64 1630 select STACKTRACE 1631 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1632 help 1633 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1634 1635config LATENCYTOP 1636 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1637 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1638 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1639 depends on PROC_FS 1640 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1641 select KALLSYMS 1642 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1643 select STACKTRACE 1644 select SCHEDSTATS 1645 select SCHED_DEBUG 1646 help 1647 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1648 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1649 1650source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1651 1652config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1653 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1654 depends on PCI && X86 1655 help 1656 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1657 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1658 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1659 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1660 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1661 1662 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1663 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1664 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1665 1666 Usage: 1667 1668 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1669 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1670 1671 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1672 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1673 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1674 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1675 1676 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1677 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1678 1679 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1680 1681menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1682 bool "Runtime Testing" 1683 def_bool y 1684 1685if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1686 1687config LKDTM 1688 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1689 depends on DEBUG_FS 1690 help 1691 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1692 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1693 If you don't need it: say N 1694 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1695 called lkdtm. 1696 1697 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1698 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1699 1700config TEST_LIST_SORT 1701 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1703 help 1704 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1705 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1706 or at module load time. 1707 1708 If unsure, say N. 1709 1710config TEST_SORT 1711 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1713 help 1714 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1715 or at module load time. 1716 1717 If unsure, say N. 1718 1719config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1720 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1721 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1722 depends on KPROBES 1723 help 1724 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1725 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1726 verified for functionality. 1727 1728 Say N if you are unsure. 1729 1730config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1731 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1732 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1733 help 1734 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1735 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1736 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1737 developers working on architecture code. 1738 1739 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1740 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1741 1742 Say N if you are unsure. 1743 1744config RBTREE_TEST 1745 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1746 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1747 help 1748 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1749 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1750 1751config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1752 tristate "Interval tree test" 1753 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1754 select INTERVAL_TREE 1755 help 1756 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1757 1758config PERCPU_TEST 1759 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1760 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1761 help 1762 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1763 operations. 1764 1765 If unsure, say N. 1766 1767config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1768 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1769 help 1770 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1771 at module load time. 1772 1773 If unsure, say N. 1774 1775config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1776 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1777 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1778 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1779 ---help--- 1780 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1781 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1782 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1783 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1784 engine if one is available. 1785 1786 If unsure, say N. 1787 1788config TEST_HEXDUMP 1789 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1790 1791config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1792 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1793 1794config TEST_STRSCPY 1795 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 1796 1797config TEST_KSTRTOX 1798 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1799 1800config TEST_PRINTF 1801 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1802 1803config TEST_BITMAP 1804 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1805 help 1806 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1807 1808 If unsure, say N. 1809 1810config TEST_BITFIELD 1811 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime" 1812 help 1813 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 1814 1815 If unsure, say N. 1816 1817config TEST_UUID 1818 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1819 1820config TEST_XARRAY 1821 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 1822 1823config TEST_OVERFLOW 1824 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 1825 1826config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1827 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1828 help 1829 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1830 1831 If unsure, say N. 1832 1833config TEST_HASH 1834 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1835 help 1836 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1837 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1838 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1839 1840 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1841 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1842 1843config TEST_IDA 1844 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 1845 1846config TEST_PARMAN 1847 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1848 depends on PARMAN 1849 help 1850 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1851 (or module load). 1852 1853 If unsure, say N. 1854 1855config TEST_LKM 1856 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1857 depends on m 1858 help 1859 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1860 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1861 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1862 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1863 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1864 requested by name. 1865 1866 If unsure, say N. 1867 1868config TEST_VMALLOC 1869 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 1870 default n 1871 depends on MMU 1872 depends on m 1873 help 1874 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 1875 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 1876 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 1877 of view. 1878 1879 If unsure, say N. 1880 1881config TEST_USER_COPY 1882 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1883 depends on m 1884 help 1885 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1886 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1887 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1888 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1889 protections. 1890 1891 If unsure, say N. 1892 1893config TEST_BPF 1894 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1895 depends on m && NET 1896 help 1897 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1898 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1899 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1900 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1901 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1902 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1903 1904 If unsure, say N. 1905 1906config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 1907 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 1908 help 1909 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 1910 functions performance. 1911 1912 If unsure, say N. 1913 1914config TEST_FIRMWARE 1915 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1916 depends on FW_LOADER 1917 help 1918 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1919 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1920 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1921 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1922 userspace. 1923 1924 If unsure, say N. 1925 1926config TEST_SYSCTL 1927 tristate "sysctl test driver" 1928 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1929 help 1930 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 1931 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 1932 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 1933 1934 If unsure, say N. 1935 1936config TEST_UDELAY 1937 tristate "udelay test driver" 1938 help 1939 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1940 that udelay() is working properly. 1941 1942 If unsure, say N. 1943 1944config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1945 tristate "Test static keys" 1946 depends on m 1947 help 1948 Test the static key interfaces. 1949 1950 If unsure, say N. 1951 1952config TEST_KMOD 1953 tristate "kmod stress tester" 1954 depends on m 1955 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 1956 depends on BLOCK 1957 select TEST_LKM 1958 select XFS_FS 1959 select TUN 1960 select BTRFS_FS 1961 help 1962 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 1963 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 1964 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 1965 1966 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 1967 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 1968 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 1969 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 1970 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 1971 1972 To run tests run: 1973 1974 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 1975 1976 If unsure, say N. 1977 1978config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1979 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 1980 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1981 help 1982 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 1983 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 1984 kernel's virtual address map. 1985 1986 If unsure, say N. 1987 1988config TEST_MEMCAT_P 1989 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 1990 help 1991 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 1992 pointer arrays together. 1993 1994 If unsure, say N. 1995 1996config TEST_LIVEPATCH 1997 tristate "Test livepatching" 1998 default n 1999 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2000 depends on LIVEPATCH 2001 depends on m 2002 help 2003 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2004 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2005 2006 To run all the livepatching tests: 2007 2008 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2009 2010 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2011 2012 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2013 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2014 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2015 2016 If unsure, say N. 2017 2018config TEST_OBJAGG 2019 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2020 default n 2021 depends on OBJAGG 2022 help 2023 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2024 (or module load). 2025 2026 2027config TEST_STACKINIT 2028 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2029 help 2030 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2031 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2032 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2033 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2034 2035 If unsure, say N. 2036 2037endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2038 2039config MEMTEST 2040 bool "Memtest" 2041 ---help--- 2042 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2043 to be set. 2044 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2045 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2046 ... 2047 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2048 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2049 2050config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 2051 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 2052 select DEBUG_LIST 2053 help 2054 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 2055 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 2056 for validity. 2057 2058 If unsure, say N. 2059 2060source "samples/Kconfig" 2061 2062source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 2063 2064source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 2065 2066config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2067 bool 2068 2069config STRICT_DEVMEM 2070 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 2071 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 2072 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2073 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 2074 ---help--- 2075 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2076 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 2077 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 2078 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 2079 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 2080 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 2081 2082 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 2083 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 2084 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 2085 users of /dev/mem. 2086 2087 If in doubt, say Y. 2088 2089config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 2090 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 2091 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 2092 ---help--- 2093 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2094 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 2095 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 2096 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 2097 2098 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 2099 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 2100 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 2101 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 2102 2103 If in doubt, say Y. 2104 2105source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 2106 2107endmenu # Kernel hacking 2108