1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 212 213config DEBUG_INFO 214 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 216 help 217 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 218 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 219 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 220 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 221 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 222 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 223 224 If unsure, say N. 225 226if DEBUG_INFO 227 228config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 229 bool "Reduce debugging information" 230 help 231 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 232 information for structure types. This means that tools that 233 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 234 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 235 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 236 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 237 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 238 Only works with newer gcc versions. 239 240config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 241 bool "Compressed debugging information" 242 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 243 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 244 help 245 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 246 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 247 248 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 249 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 250 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 251 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 252 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 253 larger. 254 255config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 256 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 257 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 258 help 259 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 260 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 261 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 262 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 263 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 264 265 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 266 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 267 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 268 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 269 270choice 271 prompt "DWARF version" 272 help 273 Which version of DWARF debug info to emit. 274 275config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 276 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 277 help 278 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 279 toolchain changes over time. 280 281 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 282 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 283 those should be less common scenarios. 284 285 If unsure, say Y. 286 287config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 288 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 289 help 290 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 291 292 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 293 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 294 config select this. 295 296config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 297 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 298 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 299 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF 300 help 301 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 302 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 303 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 304 305 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 306 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 307 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 308 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 309 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 310 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 311 support DWARF Version 5. 312 313endchoice # "DWARF version" 314 315config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 316 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 317 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 318 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 319 help 320 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 321 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 322 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 323 324config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 325 def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119") 326 327config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 328 def_bool y 329 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 330 help 331 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 332 333config GDB_SCRIPTS 334 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 335 help 336 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 337 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 338 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 339 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 340 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 341 for further details. 342 343endif # DEBUG_INFO 344 345config FRAME_WARN 346 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 347 range 0 8192 348 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 349 default 2048 if PARISC 350 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 351 default 1024 if !64BIT 352 default 2048 if 64BIT 353 help 354 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 355 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 356 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 357 358config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 359 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 360 default n 361 help 362 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 363 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 364 get_wchan() and suchlike. 365 366config READABLE_ASM 367 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 369 depends on CC_IS_GCC 370 help 371 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 372 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 373 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 374 sane. 375 376config HEADERS_INSTALL 377 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 378 depends on !UML 379 help 380 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 381 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 382 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 383 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 384 as uapi header sanity checks. 385 386config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 387 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 388 depends on CC_IS_GCC 389 help 390 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 391 references from one section to another section. 392 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 393 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 394 most likely result in an oops. 395 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 396 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 397 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 398 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 399 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 400 additional step to occur: 401 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 402 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 403 function, we would lose the section information and thus 404 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 405 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 406 a larger kernel). 407 408config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 409 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 410 default y 411 help 412 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 413 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 414 415 If unsure, say Y. 416 417config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 418 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" if EXPERT 419 help 420 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 421 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 422 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 423 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 424 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 425 426 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 427 428# 429# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 430# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 431# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 432# 433config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 434 bool 435 436config FRAME_POINTER 437 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 438 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 439 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 440 help 441 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 442 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 443 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 444 445config STACK_VALIDATION 446 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 447 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 448 default n 449 help 450 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 451 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 452 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 453 454 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 455 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 456 457 For more information, see 458 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 459 460config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 461 bool 462 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 463 default y 464 465config VMLINUX_MAP 466 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 467 depends on EXPERT 468 help 469 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 470 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 471 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 472 pieces of code get eliminated with 473 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 474 475config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 476 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 478 help 479 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 480 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 481 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 482 definitions. 483 484 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 485 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 486 487 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 488 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 489 490endmenu # "Compiler options" 491 492menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 493 494config MAGIC_SYSRQ 495 bool "Magic SysRq key" 496 depends on !UML 497 help 498 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 499 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 500 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 501 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 502 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 503 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 504 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 505 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 506 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 507 508config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 509 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 510 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 511 default 0x1 512 help 513 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 514 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 515 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 516 517config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 518 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 519 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 520 default y 521 help 522 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 523 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 524 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 525 magic SysRq key. 526 527config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 528 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 529 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 530 default "" 531 help 532 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 533 SysRq on a serial console. 534 535 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 536 537config DEBUG_FS 538 bool "Debug Filesystem" 539 help 540 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 541 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 542 write to these files. 543 544 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 545 Documentation/filesystems/. 546 547 If unsure, say N. 548 549choice 550 prompt "Debugfs default access" 551 depends on DEBUG_FS 552 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 553 help 554 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 555 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 556 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 557 and filesystem registration. 558 559config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 560 bool "Access normal" 561 help 562 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 563 is on. This is the normal default operation. 564 565config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 566 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 567 help 568 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 569 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 570 debugfs filesystem. 571 572config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 573 bool "No access" 574 help 575 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 576 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 577 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 578 579endchoice 580 581source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 582source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 583source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 584 585endmenu 586 587config DEBUG_KERNEL 588 bool "Kernel debugging" 589 help 590 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 591 identify kernel problems. 592 593config DEBUG_MISC 594 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 595 default DEBUG_KERNEL 596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 597 help 598 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 599 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 600 601 602menu "Memory Debugging" 603 604source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 605 606config DEBUG_OBJECTS 607 bool "Debug object operations" 608 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 609 help 610 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 611 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 612 the operations on those objects. 613 614config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 615 bool "Debug objects selftest" 616 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 617 help 618 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 619 620config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 621 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 622 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 623 help 624 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 625 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 626 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 627 much slower. 628 629config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 630 bool "Debug timer objects" 631 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 632 help 633 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 634 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 635 validate the timer operations. 636 637config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 638 bool "Debug work objects" 639 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 640 help 641 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 642 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 643 validate the work operations. 644 645config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 646 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 647 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 648 help 649 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 650 651config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 652 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 653 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 654 help 655 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 656 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 657 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 658 659config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 660 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 661 range 0 1 662 default "1" 663 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 664 help 665 Debug objects boot parameter default value 666 667config DEBUG_SLAB 668 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 670 help 671 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 672 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 673 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 674 675config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 676 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 677 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 678 default n 679 help 680 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 681 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 682 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 683 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 684 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 685 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 686 "slub_debug=-". 687 688config SLUB_STATS 689 default n 690 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 691 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 692 help 693 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 694 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 695 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 696 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 697 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 698 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 699 Try running: slabinfo -DA 700 701config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 702 bool 703 704config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 705 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 707 select DEBUG_FS 708 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 709 select KALLSYMS 710 select CRC32 711 help 712 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 713 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 714 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 715 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 716 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 717 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 718 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 719 details. 720 721 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 722 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 723 724 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 725 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 726 727config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 728 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 729 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 730 range 200 1000000 731 default 16000 732 help 733 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 734 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 735 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 736 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 737 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 738 if slab allocations fail. 739 740config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 741 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 742 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 743 help 744 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 745 746 If unsure, say N. 747 748config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 749 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 750 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 751 help 752 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 753 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 754 755config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 756 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 757 default y 758 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 759 help 760 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 761 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 762 kmemleak scan at boot up. 763 764 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 765 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 766 memory leaks. 767 768 If unsure, say Y. 769 770config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 771 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 772 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 773 help 774 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 775 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 776 777 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 778 779config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 780 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 781 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 782 default n 783 help 784 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 785 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 786 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 787 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 788 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 789 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 790 791config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 792 bool 793 help 794 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 795 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 796 797config DEBUG_VM 798 bool "Debug VM" 799 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 800 help 801 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 802 that may impact performance. 803 804 If unsure, say N. 805 806config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 807 bool "Debug VMA caching" 808 depends on DEBUG_VM 809 help 810 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 811 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 812 environments. 813 814 If unsure, say N. 815 816config DEBUG_VM_RB 817 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 818 depends on DEBUG_VM 819 help 820 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 821 822 If unsure, say N. 823 824config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 825 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 826 depends on DEBUG_VM 827 help 828 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 829 830 If unsure, say N. 831 832config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 833 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 834 depends on MMU 835 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 836 default y if DEBUG_VM 837 help 838 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 839 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 840 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 841 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 842 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 843 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 844 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 845 846 If unsure, say N. 847 848config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 849 bool 850 851config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 852 bool "Debug VM translations" 853 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 854 help 855 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 856 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 857 858 If unsure, say N. 859 860config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 861 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 862 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 863 help 864 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 865 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 866 867config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 868 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 869 default !EXPERT 870 help 871 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 872 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 873 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 874 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 875 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 876 877 If unsure, say Y 878 879config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 880 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 881 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 882 help 883 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 884 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 885 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 886 887 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 888 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 889 890 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 891 892 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 893 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 894 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 895 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 896 897 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 898 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 899 900 If unsure, say N. 901 902config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 903 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 904 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 905 depends on SMP 906 help 907 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 908 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 909 and decreases performance. 910 911 Say N if unsure. 912 913config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 914 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 915 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 916 help 917 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 918 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 919 920config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 921 bool 922 923config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 924 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 925 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 926 select KMAP_LOCAL 927 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 928 help 929 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 930 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 931 Disable this for production systems! 932 933config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 934 bool "Highmem debugging" 935 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 936 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 937 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 938 help 939 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 940 systems. Disable for production systems. 941 942config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 943 bool 944 945config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 946 bool "Check for stack overflows" 947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 948 help 949 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 950 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 951 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 952 below a certain limit. 953 954 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 955 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 956 involved. 957 958 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 959 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 960 961 If in doubt, say "N". 962 963source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 964source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 965 966endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 967 968config DEBUG_SHIRQ 969 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 970 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 971 help 972 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 973 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 974 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 975 don't and need to be caught. 976 977menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 978 979config PANIC_ON_OOPS 980 bool "Panic on Oops" 981 help 982 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 983 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 984 line. 985 986 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 987 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 988 corruption or other issues. 989 990 Say N if unsure. 991 992config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 993 int 994 range 0 1 995 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 996 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 997 998config PANIC_TIMEOUT 999 int "panic timeout" 1000 default 0 1001 help 1002 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1003 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1004 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1005 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1006 1007config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1008 bool 1009 1010config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1011 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1012 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1013 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1014 help 1015 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1016 soft lockups. 1017 1018 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1019 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1020 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1021 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1022 1023config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1024 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1025 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1026 help 1027 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1028 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1029 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1030 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1031 1032 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1033 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1034 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1035 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1036 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1037 1038 Say N if unsure. 1039 1040config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1041 int 1042 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1043 range 0 1 1044 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1045 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1046 1047config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1048 bool 1049 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1050 1051# 1052# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1053# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1054# 1055config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1056 bool 1057 1058# 1059# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1060# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1061# 1062config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1063 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1064 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1065 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1066 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1067 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1068 help 1069 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1070 hard lockups. 1071 1072 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1073 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1074 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1075 and the system will stay locked up. 1076 1077config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1078 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1079 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1080 help 1081 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1082 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1083 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1084 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1085 1086 Say N if unsure. 1087 1088config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1089 int 1090 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1091 range 0 1 1092 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1093 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1094 1095config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1096 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1098 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1099 help 1100 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1101 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1102 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1103 1104 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1105 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1106 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1107 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1108 feature has negligible overhead. 1109 1110config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1111 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1112 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1113 default 120 1114 help 1115 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1116 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1117 be considered hung. 1118 1119 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1120 sysctl or by writing a value to 1121 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1122 1123 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1124 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1125 1126config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1127 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1128 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1129 help 1130 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1131 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1132 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1133 1134 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1135 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1136 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1137 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1138 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1139 1140 Say N if unsure. 1141 1142config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1143 int 1144 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1145 range 0 1 1146 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1147 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1148 1149config WQ_WATCHDOG 1150 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1152 help 1153 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1154 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1155 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1156 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1157 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1158 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1159 1160config TEST_LOCKUP 1161 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1162 depends on m 1163 help 1164 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1165 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1166 1167 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1168 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1169 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1170 1171 If unsure, say N. 1172 1173endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1174 1175menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1176 1177config SCHED_DEBUG 1178 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1180 default y 1181 help 1182 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1183 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1184 option is minimal. 1185 1186config SCHED_INFO 1187 bool 1188 default n 1189 1190config SCHEDSTATS 1191 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1193 select SCHED_INFO 1194 help 1195 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1196 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1197 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1198 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1199 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1200 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1201 this adds. 1202 1203endmenu 1204 1205config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1206 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1207 help 1208 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1209 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1210 problems are suspected. 1211 1212 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1213 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1214 workloads. 1215 1216 If unsure, say N. 1217 1218config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1219 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1224 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1225 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1226 will detect preemption count underflows. 1227 1228menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1229 1230config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1231 bool 1232 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1233 default y 1234 1235config PROVE_LOCKING 1236 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1238 select LOCKDEP 1239 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1240 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1241 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1242 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1243 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1244 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1245 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1246 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1247 default n 1248 help 1249 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1250 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1251 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1252 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1253 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1254 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1255 deadlock. 1256 1257 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1258 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1259 1260 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1261 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1262 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1263 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1264 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1265 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1266 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1267 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1268 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1269 1270 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1271 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1272 kernel reports nothing. 1273 1274 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1275 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1276 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1277 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1278 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1279 1280 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1281 1282config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1283 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1284 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1285 default n 1286 help 1287 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1288 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1289 not violated. 1290 1291 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1292 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1293 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1294 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1295 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1296 1297 If unsure, select N. 1298 1299config LOCK_STAT 1300 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1302 select LOCKDEP 1303 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1304 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1305 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1306 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1307 default n 1308 help 1309 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1310 1311 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1312 1313 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1314 subcommand of perf. 1315 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1316 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1317 1318 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1319 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1320 1321config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1322 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1324 help 1325 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1326 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1327 1328config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1329 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1332 help 1333 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1334 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1335 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1336 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1337 1338config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1339 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1341 help 1342 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1343 reported. 1344 1345config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1346 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1348 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1349 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1350 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1351 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1352 help 1353 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1354 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1355 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1356 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1357 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1358 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1359 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1360 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1361 you are a distro, do not. 1362 1363config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1364 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1366 help 1367 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1368 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1369 1370config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1371 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1373 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1374 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1375 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1376 select LOCKDEP 1377 help 1378 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1379 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1380 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1381 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1382 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1383 held during task exit. 1384 1385config LOCKDEP 1386 bool 1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1388 select STACKTRACE 1389 select KALLSYMS 1390 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1391 1392config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1393 bool 1394 1395config LOCKDEP_BITS 1396 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1397 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1398 range 10 30 1399 default 15 1400 help 1401 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1402 1403config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1404 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1405 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1406 range 10 30 1407 default 16 1408 help 1409 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1410 1411config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1412 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1413 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1414 range 10 30 1415 default 19 1416 help 1417 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1418 1419config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1420 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1421 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1422 range 10 30 1423 default 14 1424 help 1425 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1426 1427config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1428 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1429 depends on LOCKDEP 1430 range 10 30 1431 default 12 1432 help 1433 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1434 1435config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1436 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1437 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1438 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1439 help 1440 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1441 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1442 of more runtime overhead. 1443 1444config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1445 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1446 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1447 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1448 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1449 help 1450 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1451 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1452 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1453 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1454 1455config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1456 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1457 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1458 help 1459 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1460 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1461 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1462 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1463 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1464 mutexes and rwsems. 1465 1466config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1467 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1468 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1469 select TORTURE_TEST 1470 help 1471 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1472 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1473 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1474 1475 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1476 to be built into the kernel. 1477 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1478 Say N if you are unsure. 1479 1480config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1481 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1482 help 1483 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1484 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1485 1486 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1487 with this test harness. 1488 1489 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1490 Say N if you are unsure. 1491 1492config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1493 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1495 select TORTURE_TEST 1496 help 1497 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1498 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1499 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1500 be tested, if desired. 1501 1502config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1503 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1505 depends on 64BIT 1506 default n 1507 help 1508 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1509 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1510 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1511 and relevant stack traces. 1512 1513endmenu # lock debugging 1514 1515config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1516 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1517 bool 1518 help 1519 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1520 either tracing or lock debugging. 1521 1522config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1523 def_bool y 1524 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1525 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1526 1527config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1528 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1529 help 1530 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1531 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1532 are enabled. 1533 1534config STACKTRACE 1535 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1536 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1537 help 1538 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1539 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1540 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1541 stack trace generation. 1542 1543config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1544 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1545 default n 1546 help 1547 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1548 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1549 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1550 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1551 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1552 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1553 it. 1554 1555 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1556 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1557 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1558 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1559 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1560 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1561 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1562 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1563 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1564 1565 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1566 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1567 those developers interested in improving the security of 1568 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1569 subarchitecture). 1570 1571config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1572 bool "kobject debugging" 1573 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1574 help 1575 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1576 to the syslog. 1577 1578config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1579 bool "kobject release debugging" 1580 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1581 help 1582 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1583 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1584 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1585 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1586 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1587 unregistered. 1588 1589 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1590 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1591 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1592 1593 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1594 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1595 kind of kobject release bug. 1596 1597config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1598 bool 1599 1600menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1601 1602config DEBUG_LIST 1603 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1604 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1605 help 1606 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1607 walking routines. 1608 1609 If unsure, say N. 1610 1611config DEBUG_PLIST 1612 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1613 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1614 help 1615 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1616 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1617 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1618 1619 If unsure, say N. 1620 1621config DEBUG_SG 1622 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1623 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1624 help 1625 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1626 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1627 their sg tables. 1628 1629 If unsure, say N. 1630 1631config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1632 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1633 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1634 help 1635 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1636 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1637 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1638 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1639 performance, say N. 1640 1641config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1642 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1643 select DEBUG_LIST 1644 help 1645 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1646 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1647 for validity. 1648 1649 If unsure, say N. 1650 1651endmenu 1652 1653config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1654 bool "Debug credential management" 1655 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1656 help 1657 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1658 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1659 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1660 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1661 struct. 1662 1663 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1664 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1665 1666 If unsure, say N. 1667 1668source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1669 1670config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1671 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1672 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1673 default n 1674 help 1675 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1676 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1677 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1678 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1679 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1680 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1681 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1682 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1683 be impacted. 1684 1685config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1686 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1687 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1688 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1689 default n 1690 help 1691 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1692 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1693 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1694 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1695 1696 Say N if your are unsure. 1697 1698config LATENCYTOP 1699 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1700 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1701 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1702 depends on PROC_FS 1703 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1704 select KALLSYMS 1705 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1706 select STACKTRACE 1707 select SCHEDSTATS 1708 help 1709 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1710 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1711 1712source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1713 1714config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1715 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1716 depends on PCI && X86 1717 help 1718 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1719 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1720 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1721 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1722 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1723 1724 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1725 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1726 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1727 1728 Usage: 1729 1730 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1731 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1732 1733 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1734 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1735 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1736 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1737 1738 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1739 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1740 1741 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1742 1743source "samples/Kconfig" 1744 1745config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1746 bool 1747 1748config STRICT_DEVMEM 1749 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1750 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1751 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1752 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1753 help 1754 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1755 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1756 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1757 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1758 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1759 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1760 1761 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1762 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1763 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1764 users of /dev/mem. 1765 1766 If in doubt, say Y. 1767 1768config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1769 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1770 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1771 help 1772 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1773 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1774 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1775 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1776 1777 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1778 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1779 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1780 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1781 1782 If in doubt, say Y. 1783 1784menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1785 1786source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1787 1788endmenu 1789 1790menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1791 1792source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1793 1794config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1795 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1797 select DEBUG_FS 1798 help 1799 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1800 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1801 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1802 1803 Say N if unsure. 1804 1805config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1806 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1807 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1808 default m if PM_DEBUG 1809 help 1810 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1811 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1812 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1813 1814 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1815 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1816 1817 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1818 1819 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1820 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1821 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1822 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1823 1824 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1825 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1826 1827 If unsure, say N. 1828 1829config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1830 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1831 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1832 help 1833 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1834 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1835 through debugfs interface under 1836 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1837 1838 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1839 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1840 1841 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1842 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1843 1844 If unsure, say N. 1845 1846config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1847 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1848 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1849 help 1850 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1851 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1852 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1853 1854 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1855 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1856 1857 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1858 1859 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1860 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1861 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1862 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1863 1864 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1865 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1866 1867 If unsure, say N. 1868 1869config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1870 def_bool y 1871 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1872 1873config FAULT_INJECTION 1874 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1876 help 1877 Provide fault-injection framework. 1878 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1879 1880config FAILSLAB 1881 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1882 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1883 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1884 help 1885 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1886 1887config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1888 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1889 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1890 help 1891 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1892 1893config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1894 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1896 help 1897 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1898 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1899 1900config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1901 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1902 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1903 help 1904 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1905 1906config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1911 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1912 thus exercising the error handling. 1913 1914 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1915 for others it won't do anything. 1916 1917config FAIL_FUTEX 1918 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1919 select DEBUG_FS 1920 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1921 help 1922 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1923 1924config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1925 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1926 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1927 help 1928 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1929 1930config FAIL_FUNCTION 1931 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1932 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1933 help 1934 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1935 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1936 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1937 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1938 error handling in various subsystems. 1939 1940config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1941 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1942 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1943 help 1944 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1945 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1946 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1947 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1948 the block device. 1949 1950config FAIL_SUNRPC 1951 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1953 help 1954 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1955 its consumers. 1956 1957config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1958 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1959 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1960 depends on !X86_64 1961 select STACKTRACE 1962 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1963 help 1964 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1965 1966config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1967 bool 1968 help 1969 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1970 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1971 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1972 1973config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1974 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1975 1976 1977config KCOV 1978 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1979 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1980 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1981 select DEBUG_FS 1982 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1983 help 1984 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1985 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1986 1987 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1988 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1989 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1990 1991 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1992 1993config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1994 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1995 depends on KCOV 1996 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1997 help 1998 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1999 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2000 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2001 of fuzzing coverage. 2002 2003config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2004 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2005 depends on KCOV 2006 default y 2007 help 2008 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2009 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2010 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2011 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2012 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2013 2014config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2015 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2016 depends on KCOV 2017 default 0x40000 2018 help 2019 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2020 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2021 number of unsigned long words. 2022 2023menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2024 bool "Runtime Testing" 2025 def_bool y 2026 2027if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2028 2029config LKDTM 2030 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2031 depends on DEBUG_FS 2032 help 2033 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2034 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2035 If you don't need it: say N 2036 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2037 called lkdtm. 2038 2039 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2040 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2041 2042config TEST_LIST_SORT 2043 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2044 depends on KUNIT 2045 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2046 help 2047 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2048 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2049 or at module load time. 2050 2051 If unsure, say N. 2052 2053config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2054 tristate "Min heap test" 2055 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2056 help 2057 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2058 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2059 or at module load time. 2060 2061 If unsure, say N. 2062 2063config TEST_SORT 2064 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2065 depends on KUNIT 2066 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2067 help 2068 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2069 or at module load time. 2070 2071 If unsure, say N. 2072 2073config TEST_DIV64 2074 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2075 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2076 help 2077 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2078 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2079 or at module load time. 2080 2081 If unsure, say N. 2082 2083config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2084 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" 2085 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2086 depends on KPROBES 2087 depends on KUNIT 2088 help 2089 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2090 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2091 verified for functionality. 2092 2093 Say N if you are unsure. 2094 2095config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2096 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2098 help 2099 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2100 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2101 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2102 developers working on architecture code. 2103 2104 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2105 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2106 2107 Say N if you are unsure. 2108 2109config RBTREE_TEST 2110 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2111 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2112 help 2113 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2114 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2115 2116config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2117 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2119 select REED_SOLOMON 2120 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2121 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2122 help 2123 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2124 or at module load time. 2125 2126 If unsure, say N. 2127 2128config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2129 tristate "Interval tree test" 2130 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2131 select INTERVAL_TREE 2132 help 2133 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2134 2135config PERCPU_TEST 2136 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2137 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2138 help 2139 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2140 operations. 2141 2142 If unsure, say N. 2143 2144config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2145 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2146 help 2147 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2148 at module load time. 2149 2150 If unsure, say N. 2151 2152config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2153 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2154 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2155 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2156 help 2157 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2158 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2159 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2160 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2161 engine if one is available. 2162 2163 If unsure, say N. 2164 2165config TEST_HEXDUMP 2166 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2167 2168config STRING_SELFTEST 2169 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2170 2171config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2172 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2173 2174config TEST_STRSCPY 2175 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2176 2177config TEST_KSTRTOX 2178 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2179 2180config TEST_PRINTF 2181 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2182 2183config TEST_SCANF 2184 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2185 2186config TEST_BITMAP 2187 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2188 help 2189 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2190 2191 If unsure, say N. 2192 2193config TEST_UUID 2194 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2195 2196config TEST_XARRAY 2197 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2198 2199config TEST_OVERFLOW 2200 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2201 2202config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2203 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2204 help 2205 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2206 2207 If unsure, say N. 2208 2209config TEST_HASH 2210 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2211 help 2212 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2213 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2214 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2215 2216 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2217 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2218 2219config TEST_IDA 2220 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2221 2222config TEST_PARMAN 2223 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2224 depends on PARMAN 2225 help 2226 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2227 (or module load). 2228 2229 If unsure, say N. 2230 2231config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2232 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2233 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2234 help 2235 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2236 2237 If unsure, say N. 2238 2239config TEST_LKM 2240 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2241 depends on m 2242 help 2243 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2244 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2245 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2246 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2247 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2248 requested by name. 2249 2250 If unsure, say N. 2251 2252config TEST_BITOPS 2253 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2254 depends on m 2255 help 2256 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2257 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2258 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2259 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2260 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2261 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2262 2263 If unsure, say N. 2264 2265config TEST_VMALLOC 2266 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2267 default n 2268 depends on MMU 2269 depends on m 2270 help 2271 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2272 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2273 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2274 of view. 2275 2276 If unsure, say N. 2277 2278config TEST_USER_COPY 2279 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2280 depends on m 2281 help 2282 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2283 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2284 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2285 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2286 protections. 2287 2288 If unsure, say N. 2289 2290config TEST_BPF 2291 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2292 depends on m && NET 2293 help 2294 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2295 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2296 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2297 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2298 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2299 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2300 2301 If unsure, say N. 2302 2303config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2304 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2305 depends on m && NET 2306 help 2307 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2308 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2309 2310 If unsure, say N. 2311 2312config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2313 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2314 help 2315 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2316 functions performance. 2317 2318 If unsure, say N. 2319 2320config TEST_FIRMWARE 2321 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2322 depends on FW_LOADER 2323 help 2324 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2325 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2326 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2327 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2328 userspace. 2329 2330 If unsure, say N. 2331 2332config TEST_SYSCTL 2333 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2334 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2335 help 2336 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2337 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2338 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2339 2340 If unsure, say N. 2341 2342config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2343 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2344 depends on KUNIT 2345 help 2346 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2347 2348 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2349 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2350 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2351 production build. 2352 2353 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2354 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2355 2356 If unsure, say N. 2357 2358config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2359 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2360 depends on KUNIT 2361 help 2362 This builds the resource API unit test. 2363 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2364 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2365 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2366 2367 If unsure, say N. 2368 2369config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2370 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2371 depends on KUNIT 2372 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2373 help 2374 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2375 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2376 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2377 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2378 2379 If unsure, say N. 2380 2381config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2382 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2383 depends on KUNIT 2384 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2385 help 2386 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2387 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2388 and associated macros. 2389 2390 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2391 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2392 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2393 production build. 2394 2395 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2396 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2397 2398 If unsure, say N. 2399 2400config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2401 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2402 depends on KUNIT 2403 select LINEAR_RANGES 2404 help 2405 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2406 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2407 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2408 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2409 2410 If unsure, say N. 2411 2412config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2413 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2414 depends on KUNIT 2415 help 2416 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2417 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2418 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2419 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2420 2421 If unsure, say N. 2422 2423config BITS_TEST 2424 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2425 depends on KUNIT 2426 help 2427 This builds the bits unit test. 2428 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2429 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2430 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2431 2432 If unsure, say N. 2433 2434config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2435 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2436 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2437 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2438 help 2439 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2440 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2441 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2442 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2443 2444 If unsure, say N. 2445 2446config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2447 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2448 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2449 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2450 help 2451 This builds the rational math unit test. 2452 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2453 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2454 2455 If unsure, say N. 2456 2457config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2458 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2459 depends on KUNIT 2460 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2461 help 2462 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2463 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2464 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2465 2466 If unsure, say N. 2467 2468config TEST_UDELAY 2469 tristate "udelay test driver" 2470 help 2471 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2472 that udelay() is working properly. 2473 2474 If unsure, say N. 2475 2476config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2477 tristate "Test static keys" 2478 depends on m 2479 help 2480 Test the static key interfaces. 2481 2482 If unsure, say N. 2483 2484config TEST_KMOD 2485 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2486 depends on m 2487 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2488 depends on BLOCK 2489 select TEST_LKM 2490 select XFS_FS 2491 select TUN 2492 select BTRFS_FS 2493 help 2494 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2495 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2496 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2497 2498 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2499 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2500 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2501 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2502 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2503 2504 To run tests run: 2505 2506 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2507 2508 If unsure, say N. 2509 2510config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2511 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2512 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2513 help 2514 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2515 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2516 kernel's virtual address map. 2517 2518 If unsure, say N. 2519 2520config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2521 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2522 help 2523 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2524 pointer arrays together. 2525 2526 If unsure, say N. 2527 2528config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2529 tristate "Test livepatching" 2530 default n 2531 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2532 depends on LIVEPATCH 2533 depends on m 2534 help 2535 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2536 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2537 2538 To run all the livepatching tests: 2539 2540 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2541 2542 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2543 2544 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2545 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2546 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2547 2548 If unsure, say N. 2549 2550config TEST_OBJAGG 2551 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2552 default n 2553 depends on OBJAGG 2554 help 2555 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2556 (or module load). 2557 2558 2559config TEST_STACKINIT 2560 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2561 help 2562 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2563 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2564 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2565 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2566 2567 If unsure, say N. 2568 2569config TEST_MEMINIT 2570 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2571 help 2572 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2573 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2574 2575 If unsure, say N. 2576 2577config TEST_HMM 2578 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2579 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2580 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2581 select HMM_MIRROR 2582 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2583 help 2584 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2585 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2586 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2587 2588 If unsure, say N. 2589 2590config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2591 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2592 help 2593 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2594 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2595 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2596 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2597 probably OOM your system. 2598 2599config TEST_FPU 2600 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2601 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2602 help 2603 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2604 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2605 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2606 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2607 2608 If unsure, say N. 2609 2610config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2611 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2612 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2613 help 2614 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2615 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2616 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2617 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2618 shortly after boot. 2619 2620 If unsure, say N. 2621 2622endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2623 2624config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2625 bool 2626 help 2627 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2628 during boot process. 2629 2630config MEMTEST 2631 bool "Memtest" 2632 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2633 help 2634 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2635 to be set and executed. 2636 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2637 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2638 ... 2639 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2640 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2641 2642 2643 2644config HYPERV_TESTING 2645 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2646 default n 2647 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2648 help 2649 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2650 2651endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2652 2653source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2654 2655endmenu # Kernel hacking 2656