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 732endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 733 734config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 735 bool 736 help 737 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled 738 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely 739 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code. 740 741config KCOV 742 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 743 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 744 select DEBUG_FS 745 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST 746 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST 747 help 748 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 749 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 750 751 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 752 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 753 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 754 755 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 756 757config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 758 bool "Instrument all code by default" 759 depends on KCOV 760 default y if KCOV 761 help 762 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 763 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 764 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 765 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 766 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 767 768config DEBUG_SHIRQ 769 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 771 help 772 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 773 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 774 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 775 points; some don't and need to be caught. 776 777menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 778 779config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 780 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" 781 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 782 help 783 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 784 hard and soft lockups. 785 786 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 787 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 788 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 789 detection and the system will stay locked up. 790 791 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 792 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 793 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 794 and the system will stay locked up. 795 796 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to 797 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds. 798 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. 799 800 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup 801 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh. 802 803config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 804 def_bool y 805 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG 806 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI 807 808config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 809 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 810 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 811 help 812 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 813 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 814 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 815 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 816 817 Say N if unsure. 818 819config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 820 int 821 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 822 range 0 1 823 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 824 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 825 826config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 827 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 828 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 829 help 830 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 831 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 832 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 833 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 834 835 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 836 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 837 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 838 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 839 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 840 841 Say N if unsure. 842 843config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 844 int 845 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR 846 range 0 1 847 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 848 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 849 850config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 851 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 852 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 853 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR 854 help 855 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 856 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 857 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 858 859 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 860 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 861 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 862 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 863 feature has negligible overhead. 864 865config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 866 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 867 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 868 default 120 869 help 870 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 871 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 872 be considered hung. 873 874 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 875 sysctl or by writing a value to 876 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 877 878 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 879 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 880 881config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 882 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 883 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 884 help 885 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 886 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 887 in uninterruptible "D" state. 888 889 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 890 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 891 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 892 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 893 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 894 895 Say N if unsure. 896 897config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 898 int 899 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 900 range 0 1 901 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 902 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 903 904config WQ_WATCHDOG 905 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 906 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 907 help 908 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 909 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 910 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 911 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 912 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 913 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 914 915endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 916 917config PANIC_ON_OOPS 918 bool "Panic on Oops" 919 help 920 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 921 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 922 line. 923 924 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 925 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 926 corruption or other issues. 927 928 Say N if unsure. 929 930config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 931 int 932 range 0 1 933 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 934 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 935 936config PANIC_TIMEOUT 937 int "panic timeout" 938 default 0 939 help 940 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 941 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 942 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 943 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 944 945config SCHED_DEBUG 946 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 948 default y 949 help 950 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 951 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 952 option is minimal. 953 954config SCHED_INFO 955 bool 956 default n 957 958config SCHEDSTATS 959 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 961 select SCHED_INFO 962 help 963 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 964 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 965 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 966 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 967 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 968 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 969 this adds. 970 971config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 972 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 973 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 974 default n 975 help 976 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 977 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 978 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 979 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 980 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 981 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 982 983config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 984 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 985 help 986 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 987 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 988 problems are suspected. 989 990 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 991 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 992 workloads. 993 994 If unsure, say N. 995 996config DEBUG_PREEMPT 997 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 998 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 999 default y 1000 help 1001 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1002 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1003 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1004 will detect preemption count underflows. 1005 1006menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1007 1008config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1009 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1010 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1011 help 1012 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1013 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1014 1015config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1016 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1017 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1018 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1019 help 1020 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1021 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1022 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1023 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1024 1025config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1026 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1027 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1028 help 1029 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1030 reported. 1031 1032config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1033 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1034 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1035 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1036 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1037 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1038 help 1039 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1040 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1041 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1042 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1043 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1044 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1045 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1046 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1047 you are a distro, do not. 1048 1049config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1050 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1051 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1052 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1053 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1054 select LOCKDEP 1055 help 1056 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1057 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1058 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1059 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1060 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1061 held during task exit. 1062 1063config PROVE_LOCKING 1064 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1065 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1066 select LOCKDEP 1067 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1068 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1069 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1070 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1071 default n 1072 help 1073 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1074 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1075 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1076 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1077 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1078 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1079 deadlock. 1080 1081 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1082 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1083 1084 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1085 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1086 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1087 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1088 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1089 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1090 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1091 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1092 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1093 1094 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1095 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1096 kernel reports nothing. 1097 1098 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1099 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1100 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1101 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1102 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1103 1104 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1105 1106config PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL 1107 bool 1108 1109config LOCKDEP 1110 bool 1111 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1112 select STACKTRACE 1113 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE 1114 select KALLSYMS 1115 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1116 1117config LOCK_STAT 1118 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1120 select LOCKDEP 1121 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1122 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1123 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1124 default n 1125 help 1126 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1127 1128 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1129 1130 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1131 subcommand of perf. 1132 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1133 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1134 1135 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1136 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1137 1138config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1139 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1141 help 1142 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1143 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1144 of more runtime overhead. 1145 1146config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1147 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1148 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1149 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1150 help 1151 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1152 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1153 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1154 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1155 1156config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1157 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1159 help 1160 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1161 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1162 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1163 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1164 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1165 mutexes and rwsems. 1166 1167config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1168 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1170 select TORTURE_TEST 1171 default n 1172 help 1173 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1174 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1175 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1176 1177 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1178 to be built into the kernel. 1179 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1180 Say N if you are unsure. 1181 1182config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1183 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1184 help 1185 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1186 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1187 1188 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1189 with this test harness. 1190 1191 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1192 Say N if you are unsure. 1193 1194endmenu # lock debugging 1195 1196config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1197 bool 1198 help 1199 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1200 either tracing or lock debugging. 1201 1202config STACKTRACE 1203 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1204 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1205 help 1206 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1207 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1208 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1209 stack trace generation. 1210 1211config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1212 bool "kobject debugging" 1213 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1214 help 1215 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1216 to the syslog. 1217 1218config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1219 bool "kobject release debugging" 1220 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1221 help 1222 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1223 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1224 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1225 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1226 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1227 unregistered. 1228 1229 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1230 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1231 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1232 1233 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1234 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1235 kind of kobject release bug. 1236 1237config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1238 bool 1239 1240config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1241 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1242 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1243 default y 1244 help 1245 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1246 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1247 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1248 1249config DEBUG_LIST 1250 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1252 help 1253 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1254 walking routines. 1255 1256 If unsure, say N. 1257 1258config DEBUG_PI_LIST 1259 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1260 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1261 help 1262 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1263 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1264 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1265 1266 If unsure, say N. 1267 1268config DEBUG_SG 1269 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1270 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1271 help 1272 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1273 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1274 their sg tables. 1275 1276 If unsure, say N. 1277 1278config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1279 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1281 help 1282 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1283 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1284 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1285 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1286 performance, say N. 1287 1288config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1289 bool "Debug credential management" 1290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1291 help 1292 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1293 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1294 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1295 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1296 struct. 1297 1298 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1299 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1300 1301 If unsure, say N. 1302 1303menu "RCU Debugging" 1304 1305config PROVE_RCU 1306 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING 1307 1308config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY 1309 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat" 1310 depends on PROVE_RCU 1311 default n 1312 help 1313 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the 1314 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such 1315 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed 1316 on a single reboot. 1317 1318 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot. 1319 1320 Say N if you are unsure. 1321 1322config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER 1323 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage" 1324 default n 1325 help 1326 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for 1327 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse 1328 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be 1329 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature 1330 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely 1331 a debugging aid. 1332 1333 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers 1334 1335 Say N if you are unsure. 1336 1337config TORTURE_TEST 1338 tristate 1339 default n 1340 1341config RCU_PERF_TEST 1342 tristate "performance tests for RCU" 1343 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1344 select TORTURE_TEST 1345 select SRCU 1346 select TASKS_RCU 1347 default n 1348 help 1349 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance 1350 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built 1351 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1352 1353 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into 1354 the kernel. 1355 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module. 1356 Say N if you are unsure. 1357 1358config RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1359 tristate "torture tests for RCU" 1360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1361 select TORTURE_TEST 1362 select SRCU 1363 select TASKS_RCU 1364 default n 1365 help 1366 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1367 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built 1368 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1369 1370 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into 1371 the kernel. 1372 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. 1373 Say N if you are unsure. 1374 1375config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT 1376 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races" 1377 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1378 help 1379 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the 1380 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining 1381 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of 1382 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races 1383 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it 1384 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase 1385 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers 1386 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in 1387 almost no other circumstance. 1388 1389 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1390 Say N if you want a sane system. 1391 1392config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY 1393 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization" 1394 range 0 5 1395 default 3 1396 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT 1397 help 1398 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1399 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step. 1400 1401config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 1402 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races" 1403 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1404 help 1405 This option delays grace-period initialization for a few 1406 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive 1407 rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving 1408 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your 1409 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period 1410 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs. 1411 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no 1412 other circumstance. 1413 1414 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1415 Say N if you want a sane system. 1416 1417config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY 1418 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization" 1419 range 0 5 1420 default 3 1421 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT 1422 help 1423 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1424 each rcu_node structure initialization. 1425 1426config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP 1427 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races" 1428 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST 1429 help 1430 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies 1431 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node 1432 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period 1433 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable. 1434 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially 1435 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when 1436 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance. 1437 1438 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often. 1439 Say N if you want a sane system. 1440 1441config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY 1442 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup" 1443 range 0 5 1444 default 3 1445 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP 1446 help 1447 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between 1448 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation. 1449 1450config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT 1451 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds" 1452 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON 1453 range 3 300 1454 default 21 1455 help 1456 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified 1457 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the 1458 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are 1459 printed at more widely spaced intervals. 1460 1461config RCU_TRACE 1462 bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 1463 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1464 default y if TREE_RCU 1465 select TRACE_CLOCK 1466 help 1467 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 1468 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. It also enables 1469 additional tracepoints for ftrace-style event tracing. 1470 1471 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 1472 Say N if you are unsure. 1473 1474config RCU_EQS_DEBUG 1475 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch" 1476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1477 help 1478 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of 1479 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting 1480 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code. 1481 1482 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies 1483 Say Y if you are unsure 1484 1485endmenu # "RCU Debugging" 1486 1487config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1488 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1489 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1490 default n 1491 help 1492 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1493 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1494 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1495 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1496 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1497 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1498 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1499 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1500 be impacted. 1501 1502config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1503 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1505 depends on BLOCK 1506 default n 1507 help 1508 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1509 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1510 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1511 is broken. 1512 1513 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1514 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1515 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1516 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1517 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1518 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1519 device number allocation. 1520 1521 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1522 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1523 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1524 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1525 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1526 1527 Say N if you are unsure. 1528 1529config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1530 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1531 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1532 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1533 default n 1534 help 1535 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1536 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1537 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1538 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1539 1540 Say N if your are unsure. 1541 1542config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1543 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1545 select DEBUG_FS 1546 help 1547 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1548 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1549 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1550 1551 Say N if unsure. 1552 1553config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1554 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1555 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1556 default m if PM_DEBUG 1557 help 1558 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1559 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1560 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1561 1562 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1563 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1564 1565 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1566 1567 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1568 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1569 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1570 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1571 1572 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1573 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1574 1575 If unsure, say N. 1576 1577config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1578 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1579 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1580 help 1581 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1582 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1583 through debugfs interface under 1584 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1585 1586 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1587 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1588 1589 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1590 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1591 1592 If unsure, say N. 1593 1594config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1595 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1596 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1597 help 1598 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1599 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1600 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1601 1602 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1603 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1604 1605 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1606 1607 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1608 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1609 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1610 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1611 1612 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1613 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1614 1615 If unsure, say N. 1616 1617config FAULT_INJECTION 1618 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1619 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1620 help 1621 Provide fault-injection framework. 1622 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1623 1624config FAILSLAB 1625 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1626 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1627 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1628 help 1629 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1630 1631config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1632 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1633 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1634 help 1635 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1636 1637config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1638 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1639 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1640 help 1641 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1642 1643config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1644 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1645 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1646 help 1647 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1648 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1649 thus exercising the error handling. 1650 1651 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1652 for others it wont do anything. 1653 1654config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1655 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1656 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1657 help 1658 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1659 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1660 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1661 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1662 the block device. 1663 1664config FAIL_FUTEX 1665 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1666 select DEBUG_FS 1667 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1668 help 1669 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1670 1671config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1672 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1673 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1674 help 1675 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1676 1677config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1678 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1679 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1680 depends on !X86_64 1681 select STACKTRACE 1682 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE 1683 help 1684 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1685 1686config LATENCYTOP 1687 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1689 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1690 depends on PROC_FS 1691 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC 1692 select KALLSYMS 1693 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1694 select STACKTRACE 1695 select SCHEDSTATS 1696 select SCHED_DEBUG 1697 help 1698 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1699 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1700 1701source kernel/trace/Kconfig 1702 1703menu "Runtime Testing" 1704 1705config LKDTM 1706 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1707 depends on DEBUG_FS 1708 depends on BLOCK 1709 default n 1710 help 1711 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1712 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1713 If you don't need it: say N 1714 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1715 called lkdtm. 1716 1717 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1718 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1719 1720config TEST_LIST_SORT 1721 bool "Linked list sorting test" 1722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1723 help 1724 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1725 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time. 1726 1727 If unsure, say N. 1728 1729config TEST_SORT 1730 bool "Array-based sort test" 1731 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1732 help 1733 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot. 1734 1735 If unsure, say N. 1736 1737config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1738 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1739 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1740 depends on KPROBES 1741 default n 1742 help 1743 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1744 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1745 verified for functionality. 1746 1747 Say N if you are unsure. 1748 1749config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1750 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1751 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1752 default n 1753 help 1754 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1755 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1756 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1757 developers working on architecture code. 1758 1759 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1760 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1761 1762 Say N if you are unsure. 1763 1764config RBTREE_TEST 1765 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1766 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1767 help 1768 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1769 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1770 1771config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1772 tristate "Interval tree test" 1773 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1774 select INTERVAL_TREE 1775 help 1776 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1777 1778config PERCPU_TEST 1779 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1780 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1781 help 1782 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1783 operations. 1784 1785 If unsure, say N. 1786 1787config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1788 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1789 help 1790 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1791 at module load time. 1792 1793 If unsure, say N. 1794 1795config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1796 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1797 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1798 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1799 ---help--- 1800 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1801 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1802 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1803 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1804 engine if one is available. 1805 1806 If unsure, say N. 1807 1808config TEST_HEXDUMP 1809 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1810 1811config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1812 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1813 1814config TEST_KSTRTOX 1815 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1816 1817config TEST_PRINTF 1818 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1819 1820config TEST_BITMAP 1821 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1822 default n 1823 help 1824 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1825 1826 If unsure, say N. 1827 1828config TEST_UUID 1829 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1830 1831config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1832 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1833 default n 1834 help 1835 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1836 1837 If unsure, say N. 1838 1839config TEST_HASH 1840 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1841 default n 1842 help 1843 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1844 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1845 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1846 1847 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1848 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1849 1850config TEST_PARMAN 1851 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1852 default n 1853 depends on PARMAN 1854 help 1855 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1856 (or module load). 1857 1858 If unsure, say N. 1859 1860endmenu # runtime tests 1861 1862config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1863 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1864 depends on PCI && X86 1865 help 1866 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1867 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1868 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1869 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1870 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1871 1872 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1873 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1874 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1875 1876 Usage: 1877 1878 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1879 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1880 1881 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1882 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1883 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1884 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1885 1886 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1887 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1888 1889 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1890 1891config DMA_API_DEBUG 1892 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" 1893 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 1894 help 1895 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. 1896 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device 1897 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that 1898 were never allocated. 1899 1900 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is 1901 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For 1902 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is 1903 not undergoing DMA. 1904 1905 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to 1906 debug device drivers and dma interactions. 1907 1908 If unsure, say N. 1909 1910config TEST_LKM 1911 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1912 default n 1913 depends on m 1914 help 1915 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1916 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1917 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1918 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1919 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1920 requested by name. 1921 1922 If unsure, say N. 1923 1924config TEST_USER_COPY 1925 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1926 default n 1927 depends on m 1928 help 1929 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1930 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1931 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1932 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1933 protections. 1934 1935 If unsure, say N. 1936 1937config TEST_BPF 1938 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1939 default n 1940 depends on m && NET 1941 help 1942 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1943 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1944 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1945 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1946 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1947 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1948 1949 If unsure, say N. 1950 1951config TEST_FIRMWARE 1952 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1953 default n 1954 depends on FW_LOADER 1955 help 1956 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1957 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1958 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1959 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1960 userspace. 1961 1962 If unsure, say N. 1963 1964config TEST_UDELAY 1965 tristate "udelay test driver" 1966 default n 1967 help 1968 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1969 that udelay() is working properly. 1970 1971 If unsure, say N. 1972 1973config MEMTEST 1974 bool "Memtest" 1975 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK 1976 ---help--- 1977 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 1978 to be set. 1979 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 1980 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 1981 ... 1982 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 1983 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1984 1985config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1986 tristate "Test static keys" 1987 default n 1988 depends on m 1989 help 1990 Test the static key interfaces. 1991 1992 If unsure, say N. 1993 1994config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1995 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1996 select DEBUG_LIST 1997 help 1998 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1999 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 2000 for validity. 2001 2002 If unsure, say N. 2003 2004source "samples/Kconfig" 2005 2006source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 2007 2008source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 2009 2010config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2011 bool 2012 2013config STRICT_DEVMEM 2014 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 2015 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 2016 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2017 default y if TILE || PPC 2018 ---help--- 2019 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2020 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 2021 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 2022 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 2023 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 2024 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 2025 2026 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 2027 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 2028 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 2029 users of /dev/mem. 2030 2031 If in doubt, say Y. 2032 2033config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 2034 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 2035 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 2036 ---help--- 2037 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2038 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 2039 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 2040 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 2041 2042 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 2043 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 2044 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 2045 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 2046 2047 If in doubt, say Y. 2048