1menu "printk and dmesg options" 2 3config PRINTK_TIME 4 bool "Show timing information on printks" 5 depends on PRINTK 6 help 7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 9 call and at the console. 10 11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 14 15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 17 18config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 20 range 1 15 21 default "7" 22 help 23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 24 25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 27 value is specified here as well. 28 29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 31 option. 32 33config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 34 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 35 range 1 7 36 default "4" 37 help 38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 39 40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 42 priority. 43 44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 47 48config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 51 help 52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 55 using "boot_delay=N". 56 57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 58 the "loops per jiffie" value. 59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 64 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 65 66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 68 default n 69 depends on PRINTK 70 depends on DEBUG_FS 71 help 72 73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 79 80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 84 85 Usage: 86 87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 92 format for each line of the file is: 93 94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 95 96 filename : source file of the debug statement 97 lineno : line number of the debug statement 98 module : module that contains the debug statement 99 function : function that contains the debug statement 100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 101 format : the format used for the debug statement 102 103 From a live system: 104 105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 110 111 Example usage: 112 113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 116 117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 120 121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 124 125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 128 129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 132 133 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. 134 135endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 136 137menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 138 139config DEBUG_INFO 140 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 142 help 143 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 144 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 145 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 146 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 147 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 148 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 149 150 If unsure, say N. 151 152config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 153 bool "Reduce debugging information" 154 depends on DEBUG_INFO 155 help 156 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 157 information for structure types. This means that tools that 158 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 159 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 160 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 161 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 162 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 163 Only works with newer gcc versions. 164 165config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 166 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 167 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV 168 help 169 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 170 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 171 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 172 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 173 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 174 175 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 176 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 177 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 178 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 179 180config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 181 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 182 depends on DEBUG_INFO 183 help 184 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 185 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 186 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 187 variables in gdb on optimized code. 188 189config GDB_SCRIPTS 190 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 191 depends on DEBUG_INFO 192 help 193 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 194 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 195 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 196 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 197 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 198 for further details. 199 200config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED 201 bool "Enable __deprecated logic" 202 default y 203 help 204 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. 205 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated 206 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. 207 208config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 209 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 210 default y 211 help 212 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 213 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 214 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 215 216config FRAME_WARN 217 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 218 range 0 8192 219 default 0 if KASAN 220 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 221 default 1024 if !64BIT 222 default 2048 if 64BIT 223 help 224 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 225 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 226 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 227 Requires gcc 4.4 228 229config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 230 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 231 default n 232 help 233 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 234 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 235 get_wchan() and suchlike. 236 237config READABLE_ASM 238 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 240 help 241 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 242 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 243 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 244 sane. 245 246config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 247 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 248 default y if X86 249 help 250 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 251 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 252 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 253 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 254 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 255 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 256 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 257 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 258 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 259 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 260 your module is. 261 262config PAGE_OWNER 263 bool "Track page owner" 264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 265 select DEBUG_FS 266 select STACKTRACE 267 select STACKDEPOT 268 select PAGE_EXTENSION 269 help 270 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may 271 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this 272 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass 273 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats 274 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c 275 for user-space helper. 276 277 If unsure, say N. 278 279config DEBUG_FS 280 bool "Debug Filesystem" 281 select SRCU 282 help 283 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 284 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 285 write to these files. 286 287 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 288 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. 289 290 If unsure, say N. 291 292config HEADERS_CHECK 293 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 294 depends on !UML 295 help 296 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 297 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 298 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 299 were not exported, etc. 300 301 If you're making modifications to header files which are 302 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 303 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 304 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 305 306config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 307 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 308 help 309 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 310 references from one section to another section. 311 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 312 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 313 most likely result in an oops. 314 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 315 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 316 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 317 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 318 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 319 additional steps to occur: 320 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 321 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 322 function, we would lose the section information and thus 323 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 324 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 325 a larger kernel). 326 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file. 327 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 328 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 329 introduced. 330 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file 331 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 332 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 333 reported at least twice. 334 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 335 the section mismatches that are reported. 336 337config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 338 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 339 default y 340 help 341 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 342 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 343 344 If unsure, say Y. 345 346# 347# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 348# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 349# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 350# 351config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 352 bool 353 help 354 355config FRAME_POINTER 356 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ 358 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ 359 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \ 360 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 361 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 362 help 363 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 364 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 365 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 366 367config STACK_VALIDATION 368 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 369 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 370 default n 371 help 372 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 373 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 374 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 375 376 For more information, see 377 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 378 379config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 380 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 382 help 383 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 384 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 385 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 386 definitions. 387 388 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 389 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 390 391 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 392 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 393 394endmenu # "Compiler options" 395 396config MAGIC_SYSRQ 397 bool "Magic SysRq key" 398 depends on !UML 399 help 400 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 401 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 402 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 403 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 404 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 405 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 406 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 407 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y 408 unless you really know what this hack does. 409 410config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 411 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 412 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 413 default 0x1 414 help 415 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 416 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 417 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt. 418 419config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 420 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 421 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 422 default y 423 help 424 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 425 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 426 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 427 magic SysRq key. 428 429config DEBUG_KERNEL 430 bool "Kernel debugging" 431 help 432 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 433 identify kernel problems. 434 435menu "Memory Debugging" 436 437source mm/Kconfig.debug 438 439config DEBUG_OBJECTS 440 bool "Debug object operations" 441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 442 help 443 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 444 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 445 the operations on those objects. 446 447config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 448 bool "Debug objects selftest" 449 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 450 help 451 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 452 453config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 454 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 455 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 456 help 457 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 458 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 459 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 460 much slower. 461 462config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 463 bool "Debug timer objects" 464 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 465 help 466 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 467 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 468 validate the timer operations. 469 470config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 471 bool "Debug work objects" 472 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 473 help 474 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 475 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 476 validate the work operations. 477 478config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 479 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 480 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 481 help 482 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 483 484config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 485 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 487 help 488 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 489 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 490 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 491 492config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 493 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 494 range 0 1 495 default "1" 496 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 497 help 498 Debug objects boot parameter default value 499 500config DEBUG_SLAB 501 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK 503 help 504 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 505 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 506 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 507 508config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK 509 bool "Memory leak debugging" 510 depends on DEBUG_SLAB 511 512config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 513 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 514 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK 515 default n 516 help 517 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 518 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 519 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 520 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 521 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 522 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 523 "slub_debug=-". 524 525config SLUB_STATS 526 default n 527 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 528 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 529 help 530 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 531 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 532 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 533 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 534 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 535 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 536 Try running: slabinfo -DA 537 538config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 539 bool 540 541config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 542 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 543 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 544 select DEBUG_FS 545 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 546 select KALLSYMS 547 select CRC32 548 help 549 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 550 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 551 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 552 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 553 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 554 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 555 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 556 details. 557 558 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 559 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 560 561 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 562 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 563 564config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 565 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 566 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 567 range 200 40000 568 default 400 569 help 570 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 571 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 572 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 573 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 574 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 575 576config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 577 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 578 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 579 help 580 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 581 582 If unsure, say N. 583 584config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 585 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 586 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 587 help 588 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 589 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 590 591config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 592 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 594 help 595 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 596 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 597 598 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 599 600config DEBUG_VM 601 bool "Debug VM" 602 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 603 help 604 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 605 that may impact performance. 606 607 If unsure, say N. 608 609config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 610 bool "Debug VMA caching" 611 depends on DEBUG_VM 612 help 613 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 614 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 615 environments. 616 617 If unsure, say N. 618 619config DEBUG_VM_RB 620 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 621 depends on DEBUG_VM 622 help 623 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 624 625 If unsure, say N. 626 627config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 628 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 629 depends on DEBUG_VM 630 help 631 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 632 633 If unsure, say N. 634 635config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 636 bool 637 638config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 639 bool "Debug VM translations" 640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 641 help 642 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 643 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 644 645 If unsure, say N. 646 647config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 648 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 649 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 650 help 651 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 652 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 653 654config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 655 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 656 default !EXPERT 657 help 658 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 659 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 660 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 661 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 662 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 663 664 If unsure, say Y 665 666config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 667 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 668 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 669 help 670 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 671 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 672 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 673 674 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 675 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 676 677 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 678 679 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 680 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 681 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 682 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 683 684 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 685 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 686 687 If unsure, say N. 688 689config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 690 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 692 depends on SMP 693 help 694 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 695 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 696 and decreases performance. 697 698 Say N if unsure. 699 700config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 701 bool "Highmem debugging" 702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 703 help 704 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 705 systems. Disable for production systems. 706 707config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 708 bool 709 710config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 711 bool "Check for stack overflows" 712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 713 ---help--- 714 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 715 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 716 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 717 below a certain limit. 718 719 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 720 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 721 involved. 722 723 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 724 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 725 726 If in doubt, say "N". 727 728source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" 729 730source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 731 732config DEBUG_REFCOUNT 733 bool "Verbose refcount checks" 734 help 735 Say Y here if you want reference counters (refcount_t and kref) to 736 generate WARNs on dubious usage. Without this refcount_t will still 737 be a saturating counter and avoid Use-After-Free by turning it into 738 a resource leak Denial-Of-Service. 739 740 Use of this option will increase kernel text size but will alert the 741 admin of potential abuse. 742 743 If in doubt, say "N". 744 745endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 746 747config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 748 bool 749 help 750 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled 751 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely 752 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code. 753 754config KCOV 755 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 756 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 757 select DEBUG_FS 758 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST 759 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST 760 help 761 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 762 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 763 764 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 765 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 766 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 767 768 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 769 770config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 771 bool "Instrument all code by default" 772 depends on KCOV 773 default y if KCOV 774 help 775 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 776 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 777 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 778 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 779 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 780 781config DEBUG_SHIRQ 782 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 783 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 784 help 785 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 786 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 787 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 788 points; some don't and need to be caught. 789 790menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 791 792config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 793 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" 794 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 795 help 796 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 797 hard and soft lockups. 798 799 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 800 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 801 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 802 detection and the system will stay locked up. 803 804 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 805 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 806 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 807 and the system will stay locked up. 808 809 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to 810 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds. 811 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. 812 813 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup 814 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh. 815 816config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 817 def_bool y 818 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 819 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 820 821config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 822 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 823 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 824 help 825 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 826 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 827 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 828 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 829 830 Say N if unsure. 831 832config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 833 int 834 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 835 range 0 1 836 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 837 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 838 839config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 840 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 841 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 842 help 843 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 844 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 845 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 846 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 847 848 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 849 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 850 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 851 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 852 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 853 854 Say N if unsure. 855 856config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 857 int 858 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 859 range 0 1 860 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 861 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 862 863config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 864 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 865 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 866 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR 867 help 868 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 869 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 870 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 871 872 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 873 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 874 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 875 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 876 feature has negligible overhead. 877 878config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 879 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 880 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 881 default 120 882 help 883 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 884 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 885 be considered hung. 886 887 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 888 sysctl or by writing a value to 889 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 890 891 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 892 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 893 894config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 895 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 896 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 897 help 898 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 899 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 900 in uninterruptible "D" state. 901 902 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 903 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 904 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 905 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 906 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 907 908 Say N if unsure. 909 910config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 911 int 912 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 913 range 0 1 914 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 915 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 916 917config WQ_WATCHDOG 918 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 919 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 920 help 921 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 922 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 923 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 924 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 925 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 926 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 927 928endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 929 930config PANIC_ON_OOPS 931 bool "Panic on Oops" 932 help 933 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 934 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 935 line. 936 937 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 938 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 939 corruption or other issues. 940 941 Say N if unsure. 942 943config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 944 int 945 range 0 1 946 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 947 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 948 949config PANIC_TIMEOUT 950 int "panic timeout" 951 default 0 952 help 953 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 954 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 955 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 956 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 957 958config SCHED_DEBUG 959 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 961 default y 962 help 963 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 964 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 965 option is minimal. 966 967config SCHED_INFO 968 bool 969 default n 970 971config SCHEDSTATS 972 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 973 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 974 select SCHED_INFO 975 help 976 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 977 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 978 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 979 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 980 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 981 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 982 this adds. 983 984config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 985 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 986 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 987 default n 988 help 989 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 990 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 991 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 992 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 993 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 994 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 995 996config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 997 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 998 help 999 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1000 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1001 problems are suspected. 1002 1003 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1004 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1005 workloads. 1006 1007 If unsure, say N. 1008 1009config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1010 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1012 default y 1013 help 1014 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1015 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1016 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1017 will detect preemption count underflows. 1018 1019menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1020 1021config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1022 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1023 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1024 help 1025 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1026 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1027 1028config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1029 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1030 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1031 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1032 help 1033 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1034 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1035 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1036 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1037 1038config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1039 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1040 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1041 help 1042 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1043 reported. 1044 1045config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1046 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1047 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1048 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1049 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1050 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1051 help 1052 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1053 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1054 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1055 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1056 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1057 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1058 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1059 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1060 you are a distro, do not. 1061 1062config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1063 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1064 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1065 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1066 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1067 select LOCKDEP 1068 help 1069 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1070 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1071 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1072 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1073 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1074 held during task exit. 1075 1076config PROVE_LOCKING 1077 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1078 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1079 select LOCKDEP 1080 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1081 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1082 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1083 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1084 default n 1085 help 1086 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1087 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1088 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1089 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1090 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1091 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1092 deadlock. 1093 1094 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1095 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1096 1097 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1098 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1099 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1100 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1101 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1102 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1103 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1104 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1105 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1106 1107 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1108 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1109 kernel reports nothing. 1110 1111 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1112 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1113 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1114 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1115 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1116 1117 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1118 1119config PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL 1120 bool 1121 1122config LOCKDEP 1123 bool 1124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1125 select STACKTRACE 1126 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE 1127 select KALLSYMS 1128 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1129 1130config LOCK_STAT 1131 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1133 select LOCKDEP 1134 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1135 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1136 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1137 default n 1138 help 1139 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1140 1141 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1142 1143 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1144 subcommand of perf. 1145 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1146 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1147 1148 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1149 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1150 1151config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1152 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1154 help 1155 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1156 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1157 of more runtime overhead. 1158 1159config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1160 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1161 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1163 help 1164 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1165 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1166 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1167 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1168 1169config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1170 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1172 help 1173 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1174 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1175 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1176 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1177 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1178 mutexes and rwsems. 1179 1180config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1181 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1183 select TORTURE_TEST 1184 default n 1185 help 1186 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1187 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1188 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1189 1190 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1191 to be built into the kernel. 1192 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1193 Say N if you are unsure. 1194 1195config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1196 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1197 help 1198 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1199 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1200 1201 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1202 with this test harness. 1203 1204 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1205 Say N if you are unsure. 1206 1207endmenu # lock debugging 1208 1209config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1210 bool 1211 help 1212 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1213 either tracing or lock debugging. 1214 1215config STACKTRACE 1216 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1217 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1218 help 1219 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1220 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1221 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1222 stack trace generation. 1223 1224config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1225 bool "kobject debugging" 1226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1227 help 1228 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1229 to the syslog. 1230 1231config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1232 bool "kobject release debugging" 1233 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1234 help 1235 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1236 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1237 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1238 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1239 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1240 unregistered. 1241 1242 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1243 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1244 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1245 1246 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1247 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1248 kind of kobject release bug. 1249 1250config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1251 bool 1252 1253config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1254 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1255 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1256 default y 1257 help 1258 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1259 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1260 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1261 1262config DEBUG_LIST 1263 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1265 help 1266 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1267 walking routines. 1268 1269 If unsure, say N. 1270 1271config DEBUG_PI_LIST 1272 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1274 help 1275 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1276 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1277 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1278 1279 If unsure, say N. 1280 1281config DEBUG_SG 1282 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1284 help 1285 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1286 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1287 their sg tables. 1288 1289 If unsure, say N. 1290 1291config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1292 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1293 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1294 help 1295 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1296 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1297 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1298 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1299 performance, say N. 1300 1301config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1302 bool "Debug credential management" 1303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1304 help 1305 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1306 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1307 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1308 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1309 struct. 1310 1311 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1312 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1313 1314 If unsure, say N. 1315 1316menu "RCU Debugging" 1317 1318config PROVE_RCU 1319 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING 1320 1321config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY 1322 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat" 1323 depends on PROVE_RCU 1324 default n 1325 help 1326 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the 1327 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such 1328 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed 1329 on a single reboot. 1330 1331 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot. 1332 1333 Say N if you are unsure. 1334 1335config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER 1336 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage" 1337 default n 1338 help 1339 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for 1340 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse 1341 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be 1342 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature 1343 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely 1344 a debugging aid. 1345 1346 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers 1347 1348 Say N if you are unsure. 1349 1350config TORTURE_TEST 1351 tristate 1352 default n 1353 1354config RCU_PERF_TEST 1355 tristate "performance tests for RCU" 1356 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1357 select TORTURE_TEST 1358 select SRCU 1359 select TASKS_RCU 1360 default n 1361 help 1362 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance 1363 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built 1364 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1365 1366 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into 1367 the kernel. 1368 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module. 1369 Say N if you are unsure. 1370 1371config RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1372 tristate "torture tests for RCU" 1373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1374 select TORTURE_TEST 1375 select SRCU 1376 select TASKS_RCU 1377 default n 1378 help 1379 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1380 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built 1381 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1382 1383 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into 1384 the kernel. 1385 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. 1386 Say N if you are unsure. 1387 1388config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT 1389 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races" 1390 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1391 help 1392 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the 1393 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining 1394 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of 1395 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races 1396 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it 1397 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase 1398 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers 1399 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in 1400 almost no other circumstance. 1401 1402 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1403 Say N if you want a sane system. 1404 1405config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY 1406 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization" 1407 range 0 5 1408 default 3 1409 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT 1410 help 1411 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1412 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step. 1413 1414config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 1415 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races" 1416 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1417 help 1418 This option delays grace-period initialization for a few 1419 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive 1420 rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving 1421 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your 1422 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period 1423 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs. 1424 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no 1425 other circumstance. 1426 1427 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1428 Say N if you want a sane system. 1429 1430config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY 1431 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization" 1432 range 0 5 1433 default 3 1434 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 1435 help 1436 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1437 each rcu_node structure initialization. 1438 1439config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP 1440 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races" 1441 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1442 help 1443 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies 1444 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node 1445 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period 1446 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable. 1447 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially 1448 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when 1449 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance. 1450 1451 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1452 Say N if you want a sane system. 1453 1454config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY 1455 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup" 1456 range 0 5 1457 default 3 1458 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP 1459 help 1460 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1461 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation. 1462 1463config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT 1464 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds" 1465 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON 1466 range 3 300 1467 default 21 1468 help 1469 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified 1470 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the 1471 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are 1472 printed at more widely spaced intervals. 1473 1474config RCU_TRACE 1475 bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 1476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1477 default y if TREE_RCU 1478 select TRACE_CLOCK 1479 help 1480 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 1481 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. It also enables 1482 additional tracepoints for ftrace-style event tracing. 1483 1484 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 1485 Say N if you are unsure. 1486 1487config RCU_EQS_DEBUG 1488 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch" 1489 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1490 help 1491 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of 1492 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting 1493 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code. 1494 1495 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies 1496 Say Y if you are unsure 1497 1498endmenu # "RCU Debugging" 1499 1500config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1501 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1503 default n 1504 help 1505 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1506 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1507 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1508 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1509 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1510 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1511 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1512 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1513 be impacted. 1514 1515config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1516 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1518 depends on BLOCK 1519 default n 1520 help 1521 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1522 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1523 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1524 is broken. 1525 1526 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1527 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1528 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1529 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1530 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1531 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1532 device number allocation. 1533 1534 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1535 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1536 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1537 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1538 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1539 1540 Say N if you are unsure. 1541 1542config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1543 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1545 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1546 default n 1547 help 1548 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1549 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1550 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1551 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1552 1553 Say N if your are unsure. 1554 1555config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1556 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1557 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1558 select DEBUG_FS 1559 help 1560 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1561 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1562 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1563 1564 Say N if unsure. 1565 1566config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1567 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1568 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1569 default m if PM_DEBUG 1570 help 1571 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1572 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1573 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1574 1575 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1576 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1577 1578 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1579 1580 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1581 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1582 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1583 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1584 1585 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1586 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1587 1588 If unsure, say N. 1589 1590config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1591 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1592 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1593 help 1594 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1595 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1596 through debugfs interface under 1597 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1598 1599 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1600 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1601 1602 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1603 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1604 1605 If unsure, say N. 1606 1607config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1608 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1609 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1610 help 1611 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1612 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1613 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1614 1615 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1616 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1617 1618 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1619 1620 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1621 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1622 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1623 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1624 1625 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1626 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1627 1628 If unsure, say N. 1629 1630config FAULT_INJECTION 1631 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1632 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1633 help 1634 Provide fault-injection framework. 1635 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1636 1637config FAILSLAB 1638 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1639 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1640 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1641 help 1642 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1643 1644config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1645 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1646 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1647 help 1648 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1649 1650config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1651 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1652 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1653 help 1654 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1655 1656config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1657 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1658 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1659 help 1660 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1661 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1662 thus exercising the error handling. 1663 1664 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1665 for others it wont do anything. 1666 1667config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1668 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1669 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1670 help 1671 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1672 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1673 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1674 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1675 the block device. 1676 1677config FAIL_FUTEX 1678 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1679 select DEBUG_FS 1680 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1681 help 1682 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1683 1684config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1685 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1686 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1687 help 1688 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1689 1690config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1691 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1692 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1693 depends on !X86_64 1694 select STACKTRACE 1695 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE 1696 help 1697 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1698 1699config LATENCYTOP 1700 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1701 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1702 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1703 depends on PROC_FS 1704 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC 1705 select KALLSYMS 1706 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1707 select STACKTRACE 1708 select SCHEDSTATS 1709 select SCHED_DEBUG 1710 help 1711 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1712 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1713 1714source kernel/trace/Kconfig 1715 1716menu "Runtime Testing" 1717 1718config LKDTM 1719 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1720 depends on DEBUG_FS 1721 depends on BLOCK 1722 default n 1723 help 1724 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1725 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1726 If you don't need it: say N 1727 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1728 called lkdtm. 1729 1730 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1731 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1732 1733config TEST_LIST_SORT 1734 bool "Linked list sorting test" 1735 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1736 help 1737 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1738 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time. 1739 1740 If unsure, say N. 1741 1742config TEST_SORT 1743 bool "Array-based sort test" 1744 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1745 help 1746 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot. 1747 1748 If unsure, say N. 1749 1750config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1751 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1752 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1753 depends on KPROBES 1754 default n 1755 help 1756 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1757 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1758 verified for functionality. 1759 1760 Say N if you are unsure. 1761 1762config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1763 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1764 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1765 default n 1766 help 1767 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1768 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1769 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1770 developers working on architecture code. 1771 1772 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1773 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1774 1775 Say N if you are unsure. 1776 1777config RBTREE_TEST 1778 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1779 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1780 help 1781 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1782 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1783 1784config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1785 tristate "Interval tree test" 1786 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1787 select INTERVAL_TREE 1788 help 1789 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1790 1791config PERCPU_TEST 1792 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1793 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1794 help 1795 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1796 operations. 1797 1798 If unsure, say N. 1799 1800config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1801 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1802 help 1803 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1804 at module load time. 1805 1806 If unsure, say N. 1807 1808config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1809 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1810 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1811 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1812 ---help--- 1813 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1814 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1815 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1816 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1817 engine if one is available. 1818 1819 If unsure, say N. 1820 1821config TEST_HEXDUMP 1822 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1823 1824config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1825 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1826 1827config TEST_KSTRTOX 1828 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1829 1830config TEST_PRINTF 1831 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1832 1833config TEST_BITMAP 1834 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1835 default n 1836 help 1837 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1838 1839 If unsure, say N. 1840 1841config TEST_UUID 1842 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1843 1844config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1845 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1846 default n 1847 help 1848 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config TEST_HASH 1853 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1854 default n 1855 help 1856 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1857 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1858 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1859 1860 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1861 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1862 1863config TEST_PARMAN 1864 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1865 default n 1866 depends on PARMAN 1867 help 1868 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1869 (or module load). 1870 1871 If unsure, say N. 1872 1873endmenu # runtime tests 1874 1875config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1876 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1877 depends on PCI && X86 1878 help 1879 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1880 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1881 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1882 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1883 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1884 1885 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1886 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1887 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1888 1889 Usage: 1890 1891 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1892 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1893 1894 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1895 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1896 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1897 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1898 1899 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1900 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1901 1902 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1903 1904config DMA_API_DEBUG 1905 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" 1906 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 1907 help 1908 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. 1909 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device 1910 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that 1911 were never allocated. 1912 1913 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is 1914 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For 1915 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is 1916 not undergoing DMA. 1917 1918 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to 1919 debug device drivers and dma interactions. 1920 1921 If unsure, say N. 1922 1923config TEST_LKM 1924 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1925 default n 1926 depends on m 1927 help 1928 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1929 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1930 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1931 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1932 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1933 requested by name. 1934 1935 If unsure, say N. 1936 1937config TEST_USER_COPY 1938 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1939 default n 1940 depends on m 1941 help 1942 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1943 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1944 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1945 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1946 protections. 1947 1948 If unsure, say N. 1949 1950config TEST_BPF 1951 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1952 default n 1953 depends on m && NET 1954 help 1955 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1956 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1957 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1958 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1959 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1960 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1961 1962 If unsure, say N. 1963 1964config TEST_FIRMWARE 1965 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1966 default n 1967 depends on FW_LOADER 1968 help 1969 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1970 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1971 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1972 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1973 userspace. 1974 1975 If unsure, say N. 1976 1977config TEST_UDELAY 1978 tristate "udelay test driver" 1979 default n 1980 help 1981 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1982 that udelay() is working properly. 1983 1984 If unsure, say N. 1985 1986config MEMTEST 1987 bool "Memtest" 1988 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK 1989 ---help--- 1990 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 1991 to be set. 1992 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 1993 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 1994 ... 1995 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 1996 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1997 1998config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1999 tristate "Test static keys" 2000 default n 2001 depends on m 2002 help 2003 Test the static key interfaces. 2004 2005 If unsure, say N. 2006 2007config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 2008 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 2009 select DEBUG_LIST 2010 help 2011 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 2012 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 2013 for validity. 2014 2015 If unsure, say N. 2016 2017source "samples/Kconfig" 2018 2019source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 2020 2021source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 2022 2023config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2024 bool 2025 2026config STRICT_DEVMEM 2027 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 2028 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 2029 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2030 default y if TILE || PPC 2031 ---help--- 2032 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2033 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 2034 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 2035 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 2036 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 2037 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 2038 2039 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 2040 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 2041 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 2042 users of /dev/mem. 2043 2044 If in doubt, say Y. 2045 2046config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 2047 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 2048 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 2049 ---help--- 2050 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2051 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 2052 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 2053 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 2054 2055 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 2056 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 2057 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 2058 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 2059 2060 If in doubt, say Y. 2061