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