1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234choice 235 prompt "Debug information" 236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 237 help 238 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 239 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 240 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 241 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 242 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 243 244 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 245 select "Toolchain default". 246 247config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 248 bool "Disable debug information" 249 help 250 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 251 result in a faster and smaller build. 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 254 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 255 select DEBUG_INFO 256 help 257 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 258 toolchain changes over time. 259 260 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 261 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 262 those should be less common scenarios. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 265 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 266 select DEBUG_INFO 267 help 268 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 269 270 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 271 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 272 config select this. 273 274config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 275 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 276 select DEBUG_INFO 277 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 278 help 279 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 280 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 281 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 282 283 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 284 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 285 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 286 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 287 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 288 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 289 support DWARF Version 5. 290 291endchoice # "Debug information" 292 293if DEBUG_INFO 294 295config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 296 bool "Reduce debugging information" 297 help 298 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 299 information for structure types. This means that tools that 300 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 301 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 302 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 303 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 304 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 305 Only works with newer gcc versions. 306 307config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 308 bool "Compressed debugging information" 309 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 310 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 311 help 312 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 313 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 314 315 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 316 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 317 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 318 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 319 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 320 larger. 321 322config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 323 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 324 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 325 help 326 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 327 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 328 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 329 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 330 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 331 332 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 333 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 334 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 335 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 336 337config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 338 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 339 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 340 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 341 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 342 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 343 help 344 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 345 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 346 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 347 348config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 349 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 350 351config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 352 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 353 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 354 help 355 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 356 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 357 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 358 359config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 360 def_bool y 361 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 362 help 363 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 364 365config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 366 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 367 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 help 369 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 370 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 371 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 372 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 373 it when a mismatch is found. 374 375config GDB_SCRIPTS 376 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 377 help 378 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 379 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 380 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 381 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 382 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 383 for further details. 384 385endif # DEBUG_INFO 386 387config FRAME_WARN 388 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 389 range 0 8192 390 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 391 default 2048 if PARISC 392 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 393 default 1024 if !64BIT 394 default 2048 if 64BIT 395 help 396 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 397 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 398 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 399 400config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 401 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 402 default n 403 help 404 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 405 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 406 get_wchan() and suchlike. 407 408config READABLE_ASM 409 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 411 depends on CC_IS_GCC 412 help 413 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 414 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 415 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 416 sane. 417 418config HEADERS_INSTALL 419 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 420 depends on !UML 421 help 422 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 423 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 424 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 425 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 426 as uapi header sanity checks. 427 428config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 429 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 430 depends on CC_IS_GCC 431 help 432 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 433 references from one section to another section. 434 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 435 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 436 most likely result in an oops. 437 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 438 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 439 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 440 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 441 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 442 additional step to occur: 443 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 444 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 445 function, we would lose the section information and thus 446 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 447 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 448 a larger kernel). 449 450config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 451 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 452 default y 453 help 454 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 455 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 456 457 If unsure, say Y. 458 459config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 460 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 461 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 462 help 463 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 464 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 465 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 466 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 467 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 468 469 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 470 471# 472# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 473# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 474# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 475# 476config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 477 bool 478 479config FRAME_POINTER 480 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 482 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 483 help 484 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 485 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 486 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 487 488config OBJTOOL 489 bool 490 491config STACK_VALIDATION 492 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 493 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 494 select OBJTOOL 495 default n 496 help 497 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 498 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 499 500 For more information, see 501 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 502 503config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 504 bool 505 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 506 select OBJTOOL 507 default y 508 509config VMLINUX_MAP 510 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 511 depends on EXPERT 512 help 513 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 514 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 515 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 516 pieces of code get eliminated with 517 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 518 519config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 520 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 521 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 522 help 523 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 524 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 525 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 526 definitions. 527 528 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 529 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 530 531 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 532 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 533 534endmenu # "Compiler options" 535 536menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 537 538config MAGIC_SYSRQ 539 bool "Magic SysRq key" 540 depends on !UML 541 help 542 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 543 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 544 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 545 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 546 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 547 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 548 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 549 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 550 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 551 552config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 553 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 554 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 555 default 0x1 556 help 557 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 558 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 559 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 560 561config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 562 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 563 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 564 default y 565 help 566 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 567 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 568 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 569 magic SysRq key. 570 571config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 572 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 573 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 574 default "" 575 help 576 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 577 SysRq on a serial console. 578 579 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 580 581config DEBUG_FS 582 bool "Debug Filesystem" 583 help 584 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 585 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 586 write to these files. 587 588 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 589 Documentation/filesystems/. 590 591 If unsure, say N. 592 593choice 594 prompt "Debugfs default access" 595 depends on DEBUG_FS 596 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 597 help 598 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 599 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 600 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 601 and filesystem registration. 602 603config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 604 bool "Access normal" 605 help 606 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 607 is on. This is the normal default operation. 608 609config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 610 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 611 help 612 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 613 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 614 debugfs filesystem. 615 616config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 617 bool "No access" 618 help 619 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 620 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 621 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 622 623endchoice 624 625source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 626source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 627source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 628 629endmenu 630 631menu "Networking Debugging" 632 633source "net/Kconfig.debug" 634 635endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 636 637menu "Memory Debugging" 638 639source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 640 641config DEBUG_OBJECTS 642 bool "Debug object operations" 643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 644 help 645 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 646 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 647 the operations on those objects. 648 649config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 650 bool "Debug objects selftest" 651 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 652 help 653 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 654 655config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 656 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 657 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 658 help 659 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 660 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 661 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 662 much slower. 663 664config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 665 bool "Debug timer objects" 666 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 667 help 668 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 669 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 670 validate the timer operations. 671 672config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 673 bool "Debug work objects" 674 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 675 help 676 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 677 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 678 validate the work operations. 679 680config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 681 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 682 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 683 help 684 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 685 686config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 687 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 688 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 689 help 690 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 691 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 692 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 693 694config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 695 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 696 range 0 1 697 default "1" 698 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 699 help 700 Debug objects boot parameter default value 701 702config SHRINKER_DEBUG 703 default y 704 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 705 depends on DEBUG_FS 706 help 707 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 708 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 709 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 710 711config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 712 bool 713 714config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 715 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 716 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 717 select DEBUG_FS 718 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 719 select KALLSYMS 720 select CRC32 721 help 722 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 723 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 724 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 725 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 726 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 727 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 728 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 729 details. 730 731 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 732 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 733 734 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 735 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 736 737config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 738 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 739 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 740 range 200 1000000 741 default 16000 742 help 743 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 744 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 745 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 746 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 747 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 748 if slab allocations fail. 749 750config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 751 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 752 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 753 help 754 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 755 756 If unsure, say N. 757 758config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 759 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 760 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 761 help 762 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 763 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 764 765config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 766 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 767 default y 768 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 769 help 770 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 771 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 772 kmemleak scan at boot up. 773 774 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 775 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 776 memory leaks. 777 778 If unsure, say Y. 779 780config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 781 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 782 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 783 help 784 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 785 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 786 787 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 788 789config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 790 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 791 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 792 default n 793 help 794 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 795 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 796 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 797 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 798 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 799 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 800 801config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 802 bool 803 help 804 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 805 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 806 807config DEBUG_VM 808 bool "Debug VM" 809 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 810 help 811 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 812 that may impact performance. 813 814 If unsure, say N. 815 816config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 817 bool "Debug VMA caching" 818 depends on DEBUG_VM 819 help 820 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 821 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 822 environments. 823 824 If unsure, say N. 825 826config DEBUG_VM_RB 827 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 828 depends on DEBUG_VM 829 help 830 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 831 832 If unsure, say N. 833 834config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 835 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 836 depends on DEBUG_VM 837 help 838 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 839 840 If unsure, say N. 841 842config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 843 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 844 depends on MMU 845 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 846 default y if DEBUG_VM 847 help 848 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 849 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 850 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 851 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 852 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 853 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 854 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 855 856 If unsure, say N. 857 858config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 859 bool 860 861config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 862 bool "Debug VM translations" 863 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 864 help 865 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 866 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 867 868 If unsure, say N. 869 870config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 871 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 872 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 873 help 874 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 875 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 876 877config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 878 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 879 default !EXPERT 880 help 881 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 882 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 883 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 884 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 885 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 886 887 If unsure, say Y 888 889config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 890 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 891 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 892 help 893 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 894 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 895 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 896 897 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 898 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 899 900 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 901 902 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 903 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 904 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 905 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 906 907 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 908 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 909 910 If unsure, say N. 911 912config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 913 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 914 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 915 depends on SMP 916 help 917 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 918 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 919 and decreases performance. 920 921 Say N if unsure. 922 923config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 924 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 925 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 926 help 927 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 928 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 929 930config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 931 bool 932 933config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 934 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 935 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 936 select KMAP_LOCAL 937 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 938 help 939 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 940 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 941 Disable this for production systems! 942 943config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 944 bool "Highmem debugging" 945 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 946 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 947 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 948 help 949 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 950 systems. Disable for production systems. 951 952config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 953 bool 954 955config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 956 bool "Check for stack overflows" 957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 958 help 959 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 960 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 961 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 962 below a certain limit. 963 964 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 965 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 966 involved. 967 968 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 969 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 970 971 If in doubt, say "N". 972 973source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 974source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 975 976endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 977 978config DEBUG_SHIRQ 979 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 980 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 981 help 982 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 983 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 984 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 985 don't and need to be caught. 986 987menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 988 989config PANIC_ON_OOPS 990 bool "Panic on Oops" 991 help 992 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 993 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 994 line. 995 996 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 997 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 998 corruption or other issues. 999 1000 Say N if unsure. 1001 1002config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1003 int 1004 range 0 1 1005 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1006 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1007 1008config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1009 int "panic timeout" 1010 default 0 1011 help 1012 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1013 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1014 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1015 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1016 1017config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1018 bool 1019 1020config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1021 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1022 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1023 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1024 help 1025 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1026 soft lockups. 1027 1028 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1029 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1030 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1031 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1032 1033config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1034 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1035 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1036 help 1037 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1038 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1039 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1040 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1041 1042 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1043 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1044 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1045 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1046 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1047 1048 Say N if unsure. 1049 1050config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1051 bool 1052 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1053 1054# 1055# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1056# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1057# 1058config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1059 bool 1060 1061# 1062# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1063# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1064# 1065config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1066 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1068 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1069 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1070 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1071 help 1072 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1073 hard lockups. 1074 1075 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1076 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1077 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1078 and the system will stay locked up. 1079 1080config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1081 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1082 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1083 help 1084 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1085 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1086 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1087 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1088 1089 Say N if unsure. 1090 1091config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1092 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1094 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1095 help 1096 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1097 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1098 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1099 1100 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1101 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1102 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1103 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1104 feature has negligible overhead. 1105 1106config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1107 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1108 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1109 default 120 1110 help 1111 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1112 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1113 be considered hung. 1114 1115 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1116 sysctl or by writing a value to 1117 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1118 1119 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1120 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1121 1122config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1123 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1124 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1125 help 1126 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1127 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1128 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1129 1130 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1131 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1132 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1133 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1134 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1135 1136 Say N if unsure. 1137 1138config WQ_WATCHDOG 1139 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1141 help 1142 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1143 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1144 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1145 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1146 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1147 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1148 1149config TEST_LOCKUP 1150 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1151 depends on m 1152 help 1153 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1154 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1155 1156 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1157 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1158 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1159 1160 If unsure, say N. 1161 1162endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1163 1164menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1165 1166config SCHED_DEBUG 1167 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1169 default y 1170 help 1171 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1172 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1173 option is minimal. 1174 1175config SCHED_INFO 1176 bool 1177 default n 1178 1179config SCHEDSTATS 1180 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1182 select SCHED_INFO 1183 help 1184 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1185 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1186 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1187 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1188 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1189 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1190 this adds. 1191 1192endmenu 1193 1194config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1195 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1196 help 1197 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1198 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1199 problems are suspected. 1200 1201 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1202 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1203 workloads. 1204 1205 If unsure, say N. 1206 1207config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1208 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1209 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1210 default y 1211 help 1212 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1213 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1214 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1215 will detect preemption count underflows. 1216 1217menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1218 1219config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1220 bool 1221 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1222 default y 1223 1224config PROVE_LOCKING 1225 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1227 select LOCKDEP 1228 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1229 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1230 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1231 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1232 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1233 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1234 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1235 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1236 default n 1237 help 1238 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1239 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1240 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1241 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1242 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1243 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1244 deadlock. 1245 1246 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1247 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1248 1249 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1250 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1251 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1252 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1253 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1254 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1255 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1256 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1257 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1258 1259 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1260 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1261 kernel reports nothing. 1262 1263 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1264 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1265 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1266 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1267 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1268 1269 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1270 1271config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1272 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1273 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1274 default n 1275 help 1276 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1277 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1278 not violated. 1279 1280 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1281 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1282 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1283 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1284 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1285 1286 If unsure, select N. 1287 1288config LOCK_STAT 1289 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1291 select LOCKDEP 1292 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1293 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1294 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1295 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1296 default n 1297 help 1298 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1299 1300 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1301 1302 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1303 subcommand of perf. 1304 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1305 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1306 1307 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1308 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1309 1310config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1311 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1313 help 1314 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1315 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1316 1317config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1318 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1319 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1320 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1321 help 1322 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1323 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1324 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1325 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1326 1327config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1328 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1329 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1330 help 1331 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1332 reported. 1333 1334config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1335 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1337 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1338 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1339 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1340 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1341 help 1342 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1343 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1344 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1345 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1346 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1347 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1348 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1349 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1350 you are a distro, do not. 1351 1352config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1353 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1355 help 1356 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1357 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1358 1359config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1360 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1361 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1362 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1363 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1364 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1365 select LOCKDEP 1366 help 1367 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1368 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1369 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1370 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1371 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1372 held during task exit. 1373 1374config LOCKDEP 1375 bool 1376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1377 select STACKTRACE 1378 select KALLSYMS 1379 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1380 1381config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1382 bool 1383 1384config LOCKDEP_BITS 1385 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1386 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1387 range 10 30 1388 default 15 1389 help 1390 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1391 1392config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1393 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1394 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1395 range 10 30 1396 default 16 1397 help 1398 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1399 1400config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1401 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1402 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1403 range 10 30 1404 default 19 1405 help 1406 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1407 1408config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1409 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1410 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1411 range 10 30 1412 default 14 1413 help 1414 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1415 1416config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1417 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1418 depends on LOCKDEP 1419 range 10 30 1420 default 12 1421 help 1422 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1423 1424config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1425 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1427 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1428 help 1429 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1430 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1431 of more runtime overhead. 1432 1433config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1434 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1435 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1437 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1438 help 1439 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1440 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1441 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1442 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1443 1444config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1445 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1447 help 1448 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1449 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1450 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1451 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1452 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1453 mutexes and rwsems. 1454 1455config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1456 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1457 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1458 select TORTURE_TEST 1459 help 1460 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1461 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1462 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1463 1464 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1465 to be built into the kernel. 1466 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1467 Say N if you are unsure. 1468 1469config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1470 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1471 help 1472 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1473 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1474 1475 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1476 with this test harness. 1477 1478 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1479 Say N if you are unsure. 1480 1481config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1482 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1484 select TORTURE_TEST 1485 help 1486 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1487 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1488 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1489 be tested, if desired. 1490 1491config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1492 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1494 depends on 64BIT 1495 default n 1496 help 1497 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1498 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1499 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1500 and relevant stack traces. 1501 1502endmenu # lock debugging 1503 1504config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1505 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1506 bool 1507 help 1508 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1509 either tracing or lock debugging. 1510 1511config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1512 def_bool y 1513 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1514 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1515 1516config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1517 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1518 help 1519 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1520 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1521 are enabled. 1522 1523config STACKTRACE 1524 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1525 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1526 help 1527 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1528 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1529 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1530 stack trace generation. 1531 1532config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1533 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1534 default n 1535 help 1536 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1537 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1538 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1539 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1540 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1541 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1542 it. 1543 1544 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1545 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1546 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1547 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1548 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1549 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1550 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1551 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1552 1553 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1554 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1555 those developers interested in improving the security of 1556 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1557 subarchitecture). 1558 1559config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1560 bool "kobject debugging" 1561 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1562 help 1563 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1564 to the syslog. 1565 1566config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1567 bool "kobject release debugging" 1568 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1569 help 1570 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1571 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1572 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1573 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1574 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1575 unregistered. 1576 1577 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1578 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1579 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1580 1581 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1582 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1583 kind of kobject release bug. 1584 1585config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1586 bool 1587 1588menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1589 1590config DEBUG_LIST 1591 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1592 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1593 help 1594 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1595 walking routines. 1596 1597 If unsure, say N. 1598 1599config DEBUG_PLIST 1600 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1601 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1602 help 1603 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1604 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1605 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1606 1607 If unsure, say N. 1608 1609config DEBUG_SG 1610 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1612 help 1613 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1614 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1615 their sg tables. 1616 1617 If unsure, say N. 1618 1619config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1620 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1621 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1622 help 1623 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1624 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1625 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1626 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1627 performance, say N. 1628 1629config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1630 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1631 select DEBUG_LIST 1632 help 1633 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1634 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1635 for validity. 1636 1637 If unsure, say N. 1638 1639endmenu 1640 1641config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1642 bool "Debug credential management" 1643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1644 help 1645 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1646 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1647 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1648 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1649 struct. 1650 1651 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1652 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1653 1654 If unsure, say N. 1655 1656source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1657 1658config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1659 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1660 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1661 default n 1662 help 1663 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1664 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1665 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1666 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1667 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1668 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1669 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1670 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1671 be impacted. 1672 1673config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1674 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1675 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1676 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1677 default n 1678 help 1679 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1680 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1681 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1682 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1683 1684 Say N if your are unsure. 1685 1686config LATENCYTOP 1687 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1689 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1690 depends on PROC_FS 1691 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1692 select KALLSYMS 1693 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1694 select STACKTRACE 1695 select SCHEDSTATS 1696 help 1697 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1698 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1699 1700source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1701 1702config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1703 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1704 depends on PCI && X86 1705 help 1706 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1707 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1708 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1709 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1710 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1711 1712 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1713 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1714 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1715 1716 Usage: 1717 1718 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1719 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1720 1721 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1722 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1723 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1724 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1725 1726 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1727 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1728 1729 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1730 1731source "samples/Kconfig" 1732 1733config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1734 bool 1735 1736config STRICT_DEVMEM 1737 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1738 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1739 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1740 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1741 help 1742 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1743 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1744 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1745 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1746 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1747 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1748 1749 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1750 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1751 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1752 users of /dev/mem. 1753 1754 If in doubt, say Y. 1755 1756config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1757 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1758 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1759 help 1760 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1761 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1762 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1763 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1764 1765 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1766 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1767 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1768 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1769 1770 If in doubt, say Y. 1771 1772menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1773 1774source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1775 1776endmenu 1777 1778menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1779 1780source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1781 1782config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1783 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1785 select DEBUG_FS 1786 help 1787 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1788 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1789 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1790 1791 Say N if unsure. 1792 1793config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1794 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1795 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1796 default m if PM_DEBUG 1797 help 1798 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1799 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1800 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1801 1802 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1803 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1804 1805 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1806 1807 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1808 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1809 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1810 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1811 1812 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1813 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1814 1815 If unsure, say N. 1816 1817config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1818 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1819 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1820 help 1821 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1822 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1823 through debugfs interface under 1824 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1825 1826 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1827 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1828 1829 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1830 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1831 1832 If unsure, say N. 1833 1834config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1835 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1836 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1837 help 1838 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1839 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1840 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1841 1842 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1843 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1844 1845 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1846 1847 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1848 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1849 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1850 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1851 1852 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1853 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1854 1855 If unsure, say N. 1856 1857config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1858 def_bool y 1859 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1860 1861config FAULT_INJECTION 1862 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1863 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1864 help 1865 Provide fault-injection framework. 1866 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1867 1868config FAILSLAB 1869 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1870 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1871 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1872 help 1873 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1874 1875config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1876 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1877 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1878 help 1879 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1880 1881config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1882 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1883 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1884 help 1885 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1886 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1887 1888config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1889 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1890 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1891 help 1892 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1893 1894config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1895 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1896 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1897 help 1898 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1899 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1900 thus exercising the error handling. 1901 1902 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1903 for others it won't do anything. 1904 1905config FAIL_FUTEX 1906 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1907 select DEBUG_FS 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1911 1912config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1913 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1915 help 1916 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1917 1918config FAIL_FUNCTION 1919 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1920 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1921 help 1922 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1923 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1924 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1925 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1926 error handling in various subsystems. 1927 1928config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1929 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1930 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1931 help 1932 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1933 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1934 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1935 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1936 the block device. 1937 1938config FAIL_SUNRPC 1939 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1940 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1941 help 1942 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1943 its consumers. 1944 1945config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1946 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1947 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1948 depends on !X86_64 1949 select STACKTRACE 1950 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1951 help 1952 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1953 1954config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1955 bool 1956 help 1957 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1958 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1959 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1960 1961config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1962 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1963 1964 1965config KCOV 1966 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1967 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1968 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1969 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1970 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1971 select DEBUG_FS 1972 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1973 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1974 help 1975 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1976 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1977 1978 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1979 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1980 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1981 1982 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1983 1984config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1985 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1986 depends on KCOV 1987 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1988 help 1989 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1990 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1991 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1992 of fuzzing coverage. 1993 1994config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 1995 bool "Instrument all code by default" 1996 depends on KCOV 1997 default y 1998 help 1999 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2000 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2001 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2002 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2003 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2004 2005config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2006 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2007 depends on KCOV 2008 default 0x40000 2009 help 2010 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2011 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2012 number of unsigned long words. 2013 2014menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2015 bool "Runtime Testing" 2016 def_bool y 2017 2018if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2019 2020config LKDTM 2021 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2022 depends on DEBUG_FS 2023 help 2024 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2025 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2026 If you don't need it: say N 2027 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2028 called lkdtm. 2029 2030 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2031 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2032 2033config TEST_LIST_SORT 2034 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2035 depends on KUNIT 2036 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2037 help 2038 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2039 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2040 or at module load time. 2041 2042 If unsure, say N. 2043 2044config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2045 tristate "Min heap test" 2046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2047 help 2048 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2049 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2050 or at module load time. 2051 2052 If unsure, say N. 2053 2054config TEST_SORT 2055 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2056 depends on KUNIT 2057 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2058 help 2059 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2060 or at module load time. 2061 2062 If unsure, say N. 2063 2064config TEST_DIV64 2065 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2066 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2067 help 2068 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2069 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2070 or at module load time. 2071 2072 If unsure, say N. 2073 2074config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2075 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2076 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2077 depends on KPROBES 2078 depends on KUNIT 2079 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2080 help 2081 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2082 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2083 verified for functionality. 2084 2085 Say N if you are unsure. 2086 2087config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2088 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2089 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2090 depends on FPROBE 2091 depends on KUNIT=y 2092 help 2093 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2094 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2095 properly. 2096 2097 Say N if you are unsure. 2098 2099config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2100 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2101 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2102 help 2103 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2104 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2105 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2106 developers working on architecture code. 2107 2108 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2109 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2110 2111 Say N if you are unsure. 2112 2113config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2114 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2115 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2116 select REF_TRACKER 2117 help 2118 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2119 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2120 2121 Say N if you are unsure. 2122 2123config RBTREE_TEST 2124 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2126 help 2127 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2128 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2129 2130config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2131 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2133 select REED_SOLOMON 2134 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2135 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2136 help 2137 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2138 or at module load time. 2139 2140 If unsure, say N. 2141 2142config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2143 tristate "Interval tree test" 2144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2145 select INTERVAL_TREE 2146 help 2147 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2148 2149config PERCPU_TEST 2150 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2151 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2152 help 2153 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2154 operations. 2155 2156 If unsure, say N. 2157 2158config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2159 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2160 help 2161 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2162 at module load time. 2163 2164 If unsure, say N. 2165 2166config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2167 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2168 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2169 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2170 help 2171 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2172 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2173 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2174 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2175 engine if one is available. 2176 2177 If unsure, say N. 2178 2179config TEST_HEXDUMP 2180 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2181 2182config STRING_SELFTEST 2183 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2184 2185config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2186 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2187 2188config TEST_STRSCPY 2189 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2190 2191config TEST_KSTRTOX 2192 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2193 2194config TEST_PRINTF 2195 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2196 2197config TEST_SCANF 2198 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2199 2200config TEST_BITMAP 2201 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2202 help 2203 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2204 2205 If unsure, say N. 2206 2207config TEST_UUID 2208 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2209 2210config TEST_XARRAY 2211 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2212 2213config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2214 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2215 help 2216 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2217 2218 If unsure, say N. 2219 2220config TEST_SIPHASH 2221 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2222 help 2223 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2224 functions on boot (or module load). 2225 2226 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2227 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2228 2229config TEST_IDA 2230 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2231 2232config TEST_PARMAN 2233 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2234 depends on PARMAN 2235 help 2236 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2237 (or module load). 2238 2239 If unsure, say N. 2240 2241config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2242 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2243 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2244 help 2245 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2246 2247 If unsure, say N. 2248 2249config TEST_LKM 2250 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2251 depends on m 2252 help 2253 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2254 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2255 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2256 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2257 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2258 requested by name. 2259 2260 If unsure, say N. 2261 2262config TEST_BITOPS 2263 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2264 depends on m 2265 help 2266 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2267 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2268 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2269 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2270 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2271 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2272 2273 If unsure, say N. 2274 2275config TEST_VMALLOC 2276 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2277 default n 2278 depends on MMU 2279 depends on m 2280 help 2281 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2282 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2283 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2284 of view. 2285 2286 If unsure, say N. 2287 2288config TEST_USER_COPY 2289 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2290 depends on m 2291 help 2292 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2293 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2294 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2295 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2296 protections. 2297 2298 If unsure, say N. 2299 2300config TEST_BPF 2301 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2302 depends on m && NET 2303 help 2304 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2305 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2306 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2307 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2308 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2309 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2310 2311 If unsure, say N. 2312 2313config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2314 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2315 depends on m && NET 2316 help 2317 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2318 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2319 2320 If unsure, say N. 2321 2322config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2323 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2324 help 2325 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2326 functions performance. 2327 2328 If unsure, say N. 2329 2330config TEST_FIRMWARE 2331 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2332 depends on FW_LOADER 2333 help 2334 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2335 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2336 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2337 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2338 userspace. 2339 2340 If unsure, say N. 2341 2342config TEST_SYSCTL 2343 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2344 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2345 help 2346 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2347 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2348 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2349 2350 If unsure, say N. 2351 2352config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2353 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2354 depends on KUNIT 2355 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2356 help 2357 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2358 2359 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2360 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2361 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2362 production build. 2363 2364 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2365 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2366 2367 If unsure, say N. 2368 2369config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2370 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2371 depends on KUNIT 2372 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2373 help 2374 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2375 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2376 2377 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2378 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2379 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2380 production build. 2381 2382 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2383 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2384 2385 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2386 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2387 2388config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2389 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2390 depends on KUNIT 2391 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2392 help 2393 This builds the resource API unit test. 2394 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2395 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2396 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2397 2398 If unsure, say N. 2399 2400config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2401 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2402 depends on KUNIT 2403 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2404 help 2405 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2406 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2407 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2408 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2409 2410 If unsure, say N. 2411 2412config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2413 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2414 depends on KUNIT 2415 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2416 help 2417 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2418 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2419 and associated macros. 2420 2421 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2422 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2423 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2424 production build. 2425 2426 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2427 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2428 2429 If unsure, say N. 2430 2431config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2432 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2433 depends on KUNIT 2434 select LINEAR_RANGES 2435 help 2436 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2437 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2438 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2439 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2440 2441 If unsure, say N. 2442 2443config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2444 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2445 depends on KUNIT 2446 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2447 help 2448 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2449 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2450 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2451 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2452 2453 If unsure, say N. 2454 2455config BITS_TEST 2456 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2457 depends on KUNIT 2458 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2459 help 2460 This builds the bits unit test. 2461 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2462 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2463 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2464 2465 If unsure, say N. 2466 2467config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2468 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2469 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2470 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2471 help 2472 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2473 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2474 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2475 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2476 2477 If unsure, say N. 2478 2479config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2480 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2481 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2482 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2483 help 2484 This builds the rational math unit test. 2485 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2486 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2487 2488 If unsure, say N. 2489 2490config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2491 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2492 depends on KUNIT 2493 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2494 help 2495 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2496 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2497 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2498 2499 If unsure, say N. 2500 2501config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2502 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2503 depends on KUNIT 2504 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2505 help 2506 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2507 related functions. 2508 2509 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2510 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2511 2512 If unsure, say N. 2513 2514config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2515 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2516 depends on KUNIT 2517 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2518 help 2519 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2520 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2521 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2522 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2523 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2524 2525config TEST_UDELAY 2526 tristate "udelay test driver" 2527 help 2528 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2529 that udelay() is working properly. 2530 2531 If unsure, say N. 2532 2533config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2534 tristate "Test static keys" 2535 depends on m 2536 help 2537 Test the static key interfaces. 2538 2539 If unsure, say N. 2540 2541config TEST_KMOD 2542 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2543 depends on m 2544 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2545 depends on BLOCK 2546 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2547 select TEST_LKM 2548 select XFS_FS 2549 select TUN 2550 select BTRFS_FS 2551 help 2552 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2553 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2554 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2555 2556 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2557 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2558 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2559 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2560 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2561 2562 To run tests run: 2563 2564 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2565 2566 If unsure, say N. 2567 2568config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2569 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2570 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2571 help 2572 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2573 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2574 kernel's virtual address map. 2575 2576 If unsure, say N. 2577 2578config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2579 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2580 help 2581 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2582 pointer arrays together. 2583 2584 If unsure, say N. 2585 2586config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2587 tristate "Test livepatching" 2588 default n 2589 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2590 depends on LIVEPATCH 2591 depends on m 2592 help 2593 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2594 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2595 2596 To run all the livepatching tests: 2597 2598 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2599 2600 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2601 2602 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2603 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2604 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2605 2606 If unsure, say N. 2607 2608config TEST_OBJAGG 2609 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2610 default n 2611 depends on OBJAGG 2612 help 2613 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2614 (or module load). 2615 2616config TEST_MEMINIT 2617 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2618 help 2619 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2620 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2621 2622 If unsure, say N. 2623 2624config TEST_HMM 2625 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2626 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2627 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2628 select HMM_MIRROR 2629 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2630 help 2631 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2632 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2633 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2634 2635 If unsure, say N. 2636 2637config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2638 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2639 help 2640 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2641 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2642 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2643 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2644 probably OOM your system. 2645 2646config TEST_FPU 2647 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2648 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2649 help 2650 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2651 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2652 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2653 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2654 2655 If unsure, say N. 2656 2657config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2658 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2659 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2660 help 2661 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2662 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2663 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2664 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2665 shortly after boot. 2666 2667 If unsure, say N. 2668 2669endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2670 2671config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2672 bool 2673 help 2674 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2675 during boot process. 2676 2677config MEMTEST 2678 bool "Memtest" 2679 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2680 help 2681 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2682 to be set and executed. 2683 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2684 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2685 ... 2686 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2687 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2688 2689 2690 2691config HYPERV_TESTING 2692 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2693 default n 2694 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2695 help 2696 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2697 2698endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2699 2700source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2701 2702endmenu # Kernel hacking 2703