1menu "Kernel hacking" 2 3menu "printk and dmesg options" 4 5config PRINTK_TIME 6 bool "Show timing information on printks" 7 depends on PRINTK 8 help 9 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 10 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 11 call and at the console. 12 13 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 14 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 15 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 16 17 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 18 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 19 20config PRINTK_CALLER 21 bool "Show caller information on printks" 22 depends on PRINTK 23 help 24 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 25 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 26 to every message. 27 28 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 29 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 30 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 31 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 32 33 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 34 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 35 sysfs interface. 36 37config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 38 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 39 range 1 15 40 default "7" 41 help 42 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 43 44 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 45 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 46 value is specified here as well. 47 48 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 49 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 option. 51 52config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 53 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 54 range 1 15 55 default "4" 56 help 57 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 58 59 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 60 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 61 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 62 63config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 64 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 65 range 1 7 66 default "4" 67 help 68 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 69 70 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 71 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 72 priority. 73 74 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 75 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 76 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 77 78config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 79 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 81 help 82 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 83 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 84 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 85 using "boot_delay=N". 86 87 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 88 the "loops per jiffie" value. 89 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 90 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 91 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 92 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 93 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 94 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 95 96config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 97 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 98 default n 99 depends on PRINTK 100 depends on DEBUG_FS 101 help 102 103 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 104 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 105 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 106 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 107 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 108 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 109 110 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 111 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 112 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 113 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 114 115 Usage: 116 117 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 118 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 119 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 120 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 121 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 122 format for each line of the file is: 123 124 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 125 126 filename : source file of the debug statement 127 lineno : line number of the debug statement 128 module : module that contains the debug statement 129 function : function that contains the debug statement 130 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 131 format : the format used for the debug statement 132 133 From a live system: 134 135 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 136 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 137 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 138 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 139 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 140 141 Example usage: 142 143 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 144 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 145 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 146 147 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 148 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 149 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 151 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 152 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 153 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 154 155 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 156 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 157 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 158 159 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 160 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 161 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 162 163 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 164 information. 165 166endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 167 168menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 169 170config DEBUG_INFO 171 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 173 help 174 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 175 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 176 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 177 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 178 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 179 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 180 181 If unsure, say N. 182 183config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 184 bool "Reduce debugging information" 185 depends on DEBUG_INFO 186 help 187 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 188 information for structure types. This means that tools that 189 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 190 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 191 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 192 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 193 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 194 Only works with newer gcc versions. 195 196config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 197 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 198 depends on DEBUG_INFO 199 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 200 help 201 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 202 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 203 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 204 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 205 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 206 207 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 208 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 209 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 210 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 211 212config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 213 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 214 depends on DEBUG_INFO 215 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 216 help 217 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 218 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 219 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 220 variables in gdb on optimized code. 221 222config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 223 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 224 depends on DEBUG_INFO 225 help 226 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 227 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 228 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 229 230config GDB_SCRIPTS 231 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 232 depends on DEBUG_INFO 233 help 234 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 235 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 236 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 237 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 238 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 239 for further details. 240 241config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 242 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 243 default y 244 help 245 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 246 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 247 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 248 249config FRAME_WARN 250 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 251 range 0 8192 252 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 253 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 254 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 255 default 2048 if 64BIT 256 help 257 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 258 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 259 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 260 Requires gcc 4.4 261 262config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 263 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 264 default n 265 help 266 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 267 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 268 get_wchan() and suchlike. 269 270config READABLE_ASM 271 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 273 help 274 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 275 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 276 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 277 sane. 278 279config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 280 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 281 default y if X86 282 help 283 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 284 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 285 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 286 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 287 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 288 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 289 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 290 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 291 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 292 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 293 your module is. 294 295config DEBUG_FS 296 bool "Debug Filesystem" 297 help 298 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 299 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 300 write to these files. 301 302 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 303 Documentation/filesystems/. 304 305 If unsure, say N. 306 307config HEADERS_CHECK 308 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 309 depends on !UML 310 help 311 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 312 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 313 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 314 were not exported, etc. 315 316 If you're making modifications to header files which are 317 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 318 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 319 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 320 321config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 322 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 323 help 324 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 325 references from one section to another section. 326 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 327 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 328 most likely result in an oops. 329 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 330 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 331 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 332 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 333 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 334 additional steps to occur: 335 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 336 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 337 function, we would lose the section information and thus 338 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 339 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 340 a larger kernel). 341 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file. 342 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 343 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 344 introduced. 345 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file 346 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 347 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 348 reported at least twice. 349 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 350 the section mismatches that are reported. 351 352config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 353 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 354 default y 355 help 356 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 357 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 358 359 If unsure, say Y. 360 361# 362# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 363# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 364# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 365# 366config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 367 bool 368 369config FRAME_POINTER 370 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 372 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 373 help 374 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 375 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 376 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 377 378config STACK_VALIDATION 379 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 380 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 381 default n 382 help 383 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 384 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 385 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 386 387 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 388 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 389 390 For more information, see 391 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 392 393config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 394 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 395 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 396 help 397 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 398 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 399 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 400 definitions. 401 402 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 403 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 404 405 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 406 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 407 408endmenu # "Compiler options" 409 410config MAGIC_SYSRQ 411 bool "Magic SysRq key" 412 depends on !UML 413 help 414 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 415 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 416 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 417 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 418 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 419 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 420 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 421 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 422 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 423 424config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 425 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 427 default 0x1 428 help 429 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 430 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 431 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 432 433config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 434 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 435 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 436 default y 437 help 438 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 439 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 440 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 441 magic SysRq key. 442 443config DEBUG_KERNEL 444 bool "Kernel debugging" 445 help 446 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 447 identify kernel problems. 448 449menu "Memory Debugging" 450 451source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 452 453config DEBUG_OBJECTS 454 bool "Debug object operations" 455 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 456 help 457 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 458 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 459 the operations on those objects. 460 461config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 462 bool "Debug objects selftest" 463 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 464 help 465 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 466 467config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 468 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 470 help 471 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 472 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 473 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 474 much slower. 475 476config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 477 bool "Debug timer objects" 478 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 479 help 480 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 481 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 482 validate the timer operations. 483 484config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 485 bool "Debug work objects" 486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 487 help 488 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 489 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 490 validate the work operations. 491 492config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 493 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 494 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 495 help 496 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 497 498config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 499 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 501 help 502 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 503 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 504 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 505 506config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 507 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 508 range 0 1 509 default "1" 510 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 511 help 512 Debug objects boot parameter default value 513 514config DEBUG_SLAB 515 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 516 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 517 help 518 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 519 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 520 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 521 522config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK 523 bool "Memory leak debugging" 524 depends on DEBUG_SLAB 525 526config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 527 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 528 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 529 default n 530 help 531 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 532 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 533 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 534 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 535 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 536 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 537 "slub_debug=-". 538 539config SLUB_STATS 540 default n 541 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 542 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 543 help 544 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 545 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 546 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 547 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 548 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 549 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 550 Try running: slabinfo -DA 551 552config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 553 bool 554 555config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 556 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 557 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 558 select DEBUG_FS 559 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 560 select KALLSYMS 561 select CRC32 562 help 563 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 564 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 565 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 566 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 567 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 568 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 569 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 570 details. 571 572 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 573 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 574 575 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 576 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 577 578config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 579 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 580 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 581 range 200 40000 582 default 400 583 help 584 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 585 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 586 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 587 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 588 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 589 590config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 591 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 592 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 593 help 594 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 595 596 If unsure, say N. 597 598config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 599 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 600 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 601 help 602 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 603 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 604 605config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 606 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 607 default y 608 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 609 help 610 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 611 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 612 kmemleak scan at boot up. 613 614 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 615 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 616 memory leaks. 617 618 If unsure, say Y. 619 620config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 621 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 623 help 624 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 625 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 626 627 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 628 629config DEBUG_VM 630 bool "Debug VM" 631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 632 help 633 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 634 that may impact performance. 635 636 If unsure, say N. 637 638config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 639 bool "Debug VMA caching" 640 depends on DEBUG_VM 641 help 642 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 643 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 644 environments. 645 646 If unsure, say N. 647 648config DEBUG_VM_RB 649 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 650 depends on DEBUG_VM 651 help 652 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 653 654 If unsure, say N. 655 656config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 657 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 658 depends on DEBUG_VM 659 help 660 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 661 662 If unsure, say N. 663 664config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 665 bool 666 667config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 668 bool "Debug VM translations" 669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 670 help 671 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 672 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 673 674 If unsure, say N. 675 676config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 677 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 679 help 680 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 681 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 682 683config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 684 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 685 default !EXPERT 686 help 687 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 688 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 689 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 690 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 691 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 692 693 If unsure, say Y 694 695config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 696 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 697 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 698 help 699 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 700 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 701 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 702 703 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 704 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 705 706 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 707 708 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 709 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 710 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 711 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 712 713 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 714 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 715 716 If unsure, say N. 717 718config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 719 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 721 depends on SMP 722 help 723 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 724 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 725 and decreases performance. 726 727 Say N if unsure. 728 729config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 730 bool "Highmem debugging" 731 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 732 help 733 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 734 systems. Disable for production systems. 735 736config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 737 bool 738 739config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 740 bool "Check for stack overflows" 741 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 742 ---help--- 743 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 744 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 745 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 746 below a certain limit. 747 748 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 749 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 750 involved. 751 752 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 753 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 754 755 If in doubt, say "N". 756 757source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 758 759endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 760 761config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 762 bool 763 help 764 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 765 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 766 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 767 768config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 769 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 770 771config KCOV 772 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 773 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 774 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 775 select DEBUG_FS 776 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 777 help 778 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 779 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 780 781 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 782 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 783 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 784 785 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 786 787config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 788 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 789 depends on KCOV 790 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 791 help 792 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 793 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 794 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 795 of fuzzing coverage. 796 797config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 798 bool "Instrument all code by default" 799 depends on KCOV 800 default y 801 help 802 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 803 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 804 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 805 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 806 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 807 808config DEBUG_SHIRQ 809 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 811 help 812 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 813 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 814 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 815 points; some don't and need to be caught. 816 817menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 818 819config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 820 bool 821 822config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 823 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 825 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 826 help 827 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 828 soft lockups. 829 830 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 831 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 832 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 833 detection and the system will stay locked up. 834 835config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 836 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 837 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 838 help 839 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 840 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 841 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 842 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 843 844 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 845 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 846 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 847 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 848 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 849 850 Say N if unsure. 851 852config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 853 int 854 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 855 range 0 1 856 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 857 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 858 859config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 860 bool 861 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 862 863# 864# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 865# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 866# 867config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 868 bool 869 870# 871# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 872# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 873# 874config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 875 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 876 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 877 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 878 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 879 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 880 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 881 help 882 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 883 hard lockups. 884 885 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 886 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 887 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 888 and the system will stay locked up. 889 890config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 891 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 892 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 893 help 894 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 895 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 896 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 897 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 898 899 Say N if unsure. 900 901config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 902 int 903 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 904 range 0 1 905 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 906 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 907 908config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 909 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 910 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 911 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 912 help 913 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 914 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 915 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 916 917 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 918 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 919 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 920 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 921 feature has negligible overhead. 922 923config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 924 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 925 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 926 default 120 927 help 928 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 929 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 930 be considered hung. 931 932 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 933 sysctl or by writing a value to 934 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 935 936 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 937 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 938 939config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 940 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 941 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 942 help 943 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 944 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 945 in uninterruptible "D" state. 946 947 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 948 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 949 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 950 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 951 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 952 953 Say N if unsure. 954 955config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 956 int 957 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 958 range 0 1 959 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 960 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 961 962config WQ_WATCHDOG 963 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 964 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 965 help 966 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 967 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 968 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 969 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 970 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 971 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 972 973endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 974 975config PANIC_ON_OOPS 976 bool "Panic on Oops" 977 help 978 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 979 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 980 line. 981 982 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 983 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 984 corruption or other issues. 985 986 Say N if unsure. 987 988config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 989 int 990 range 0 1 991 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 992 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 993 994config PANIC_TIMEOUT 995 int "panic timeout" 996 default 0 997 help 998 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 999 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1000 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1001 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1002 1003config SCHED_DEBUG 1004 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1005 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1006 default y 1007 help 1008 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1009 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1010 option is minimal. 1011 1012config SCHED_INFO 1013 bool 1014 default n 1015 1016config SCHEDSTATS 1017 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1019 select SCHED_INFO 1020 help 1021 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1022 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1023 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1024 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1025 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1026 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1027 this adds. 1028 1029config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 1030 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 1031 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1032 default n 1033 help 1034 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 1035 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 1036 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 1037 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 1038 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 1039 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 1040 1041config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1042 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1043 help 1044 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1045 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1046 problems are suspected. 1047 1048 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1049 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1050 workloads. 1051 1052 If unsure, say N. 1053 1054config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1055 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1056 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1057 default y 1058 help 1059 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1060 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1061 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1062 will detect preemption count underflows. 1063 1064menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1065 1066config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1067 bool 1068 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1069 default y 1070 1071config PROVE_LOCKING 1072 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1073 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1074 select LOCKDEP 1075 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1076 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1077 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1078 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1079 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1080 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1081 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1082 default n 1083 help 1084 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1085 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1086 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1087 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1088 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1089 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1090 deadlock. 1091 1092 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1093 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1094 1095 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1096 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1097 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1098 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1099 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1100 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1101 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1102 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1103 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1104 1105 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1106 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1107 kernel reports nothing. 1108 1109 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1110 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1111 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1112 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1113 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1114 1115 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1116 1117config LOCK_STAT 1118 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1120 select LOCKDEP 1121 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1122 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1123 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1124 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1125 default n 1126 help 1127 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1128 1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1130 1131 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1132 subcommand of perf. 1133 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1134 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1135 1136 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1137 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1138 1139config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1140 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1142 help 1143 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1144 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1145 1146config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1147 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1149 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1150 help 1151 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1152 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1153 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1154 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1155 1156config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1157 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1159 help 1160 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1161 reported. 1162 1163config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1164 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1166 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1167 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1168 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1169 help 1170 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1171 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1172 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1173 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1174 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1175 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1176 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1177 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1178 you are a distro, do not. 1179 1180config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1181 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1183 help 1184 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks 1185 to be detected and reported. 1186 1187config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1188 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1189 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1190 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1191 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1192 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1193 select LOCKDEP 1194 help 1195 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1196 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1197 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1198 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1199 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1200 held during task exit. 1201 1202config LOCKDEP 1203 bool 1204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1205 select STACKTRACE 1206 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86 1207 select KALLSYMS 1208 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1209 1210config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1211 bool 1212 1213config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1214 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1216 help 1217 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1218 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1219 of more runtime overhead. 1220 1221config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1222 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1223 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1225 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1226 help 1227 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1228 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1229 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1230 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1231 1232config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1233 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1234 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1235 help 1236 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1237 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1238 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1239 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1240 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1241 mutexes and rwsems. 1242 1243config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1244 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1245 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1246 select TORTURE_TEST 1247 help 1248 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1249 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1250 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1251 1252 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1253 to be built into the kernel. 1254 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1255 Say N if you are unsure. 1256 1257config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1258 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1259 help 1260 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1261 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1262 1263 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1264 with this test harness. 1265 1266 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1267 Say N if you are unsure. 1268 1269endmenu # lock debugging 1270 1271config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1272 bool 1273 help 1274 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1275 either tracing or lock debugging. 1276 1277config STACKTRACE 1278 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1279 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1280 help 1281 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1282 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1283 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1284 stack trace generation. 1285 1286config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1287 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1288 default n 1289 help 1290 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1291 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1292 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1293 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1294 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1295 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1296 it. 1297 1298 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1299 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1300 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1301 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1302 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1303 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1304 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1305 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1306 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1307 1308 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1309 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1310 those developers interested in improving the security of 1311 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1312 subarchitecture). 1313 1314config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1315 bool "kobject debugging" 1316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1317 help 1318 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1319 to the syslog. 1320 1321config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1322 bool "kobject release debugging" 1323 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1324 help 1325 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1326 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1327 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1328 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1329 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1330 unregistered. 1331 1332 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1333 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1334 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1335 1336 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1337 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1338 kind of kobject release bug. 1339 1340config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1341 bool 1342 1343config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1344 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1345 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1346 default y 1347 help 1348 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1349 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1350 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1351 1352config DEBUG_LIST 1353 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1355 help 1356 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1357 walking routines. 1358 1359 If unsure, say N. 1360 1361config DEBUG_PI_LIST 1362 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1364 help 1365 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1366 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1367 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1368 1369 If unsure, say N. 1370 1371config DEBUG_SG 1372 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1374 help 1375 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1376 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1377 their sg tables. 1378 1379 If unsure, say N. 1380 1381config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1382 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1384 help 1385 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1386 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1387 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1388 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1389 performance, say N. 1390 1391config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1392 bool "Debug credential management" 1393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1394 help 1395 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1396 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1397 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1398 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1399 struct. 1400 1401 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1402 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1403 1404 If unsure, say N. 1405 1406source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1407 1408config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1409 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1411 default n 1412 help 1413 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1414 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1415 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1416 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1417 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1418 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1419 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1420 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1421 be impacted. 1422 1423config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1424 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1426 depends on BLOCK 1427 default n 1428 help 1429 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1430 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1431 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1432 is broken. 1433 1434 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1435 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1436 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1437 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1438 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1439 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1440 device number allocation. 1441 1442 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1443 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1444 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1445 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1446 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1447 1448 Say N if you are unsure. 1449 1450config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1451 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1452 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1453 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1454 default n 1455 help 1456 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1457 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1458 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1459 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1460 1461 Say N if your are unsure. 1462 1463config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1464 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1465 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1466 select DEBUG_FS 1467 help 1468 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1469 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1470 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1471 1472 Say N if unsure. 1473 1474config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1475 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1476 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1477 default m if PM_DEBUG 1478 help 1479 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1480 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1481 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1482 1483 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1484 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1485 1486 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1487 1488 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1489 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1490 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1491 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1492 1493 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1494 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1495 1496 If unsure, say N. 1497 1498config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1499 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1500 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1501 help 1502 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1503 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1504 through debugfs interface under 1505 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1506 1507 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1508 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1509 1510 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1511 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1512 1513 If unsure, say N. 1514 1515config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1516 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1517 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1518 help 1519 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1520 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1521 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1522 1523 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1524 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1525 1526 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1527 1528 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1529 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1530 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1531 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1532 1533 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1534 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1535 1536 If unsure, say N. 1537 1538config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1539 def_bool y 1540 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1541 1542config FAULT_INJECTION 1543 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1545 help 1546 Provide fault-injection framework. 1547 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1548 1549config FAILSLAB 1550 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1551 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1552 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1553 help 1554 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1555 1556config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1557 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1558 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1559 help 1560 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1561 1562config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1563 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1564 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1565 help 1566 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1567 1568config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1569 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1570 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1571 help 1572 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1573 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1574 thus exercising the error handling. 1575 1576 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1577 for others it wont do anything. 1578 1579config FAIL_FUTEX 1580 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1581 select DEBUG_FS 1582 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1583 help 1584 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1585 1586config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1587 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1588 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1589 help 1590 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1591 1592config FAIL_FUNCTION 1593 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1594 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1595 help 1596 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1597 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1598 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1599 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1600 error handling in various subsystems. 1601 1602config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1603 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1604 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1605 help 1606 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1607 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1608 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1609 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1610 the block device. 1611 1612config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1613 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1614 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1615 depends on !X86_64 1616 select STACKTRACE 1617 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1618 help 1619 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1620 1621config LATENCYTOP 1622 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1623 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1624 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1625 depends on PROC_FS 1626 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1627 select KALLSYMS 1628 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1629 select STACKTRACE 1630 select SCHEDSTATS 1631 select SCHED_DEBUG 1632 help 1633 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1634 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1635 1636source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1637 1638config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1639 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1640 depends on PCI && X86 1641 help 1642 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1643 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1644 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1645 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1646 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1647 1648 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1649 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1650 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1651 1652 Usage: 1653 1654 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1655 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1656 1657 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1658 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1659 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1660 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1661 1662 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1663 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1664 1665 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1666 1667menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1668 bool "Runtime Testing" 1669 def_bool y 1670 1671if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1672 1673config LKDTM 1674 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1675 depends on DEBUG_FS 1676 help 1677 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1678 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1679 If you don't need it: say N 1680 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1681 called lkdtm. 1682 1683 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1684 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1685 1686config TEST_LIST_SORT 1687 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1689 help 1690 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1691 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1692 or at module load time. 1693 1694 If unsure, say N. 1695 1696config TEST_SORT 1697 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1698 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1699 help 1700 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1701 or at module load time. 1702 1703 If unsure, say N. 1704 1705config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1706 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1708 depends on KPROBES 1709 help 1710 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1711 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1712 verified for functionality. 1713 1714 Say N if you are unsure. 1715 1716config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1717 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1719 help 1720 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1721 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1722 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1723 developers working on architecture code. 1724 1725 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1726 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1727 1728 Say N if you are unsure. 1729 1730config RBTREE_TEST 1731 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1732 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1733 help 1734 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1735 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1736 1737config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1738 tristate "Interval tree test" 1739 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1740 select INTERVAL_TREE 1741 help 1742 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1743 1744config PERCPU_TEST 1745 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1746 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1747 help 1748 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1749 operations. 1750 1751 If unsure, say N. 1752 1753config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1754 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1755 help 1756 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1757 at module load time. 1758 1759 If unsure, say N. 1760 1761config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1762 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1763 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1764 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1765 ---help--- 1766 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1767 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1768 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1769 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1770 engine if one is available. 1771 1772 If unsure, say N. 1773 1774config TEST_HEXDUMP 1775 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1776 1777config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1778 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1779 1780config TEST_STRSCPY 1781 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 1782 1783config TEST_KSTRTOX 1784 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1785 1786config TEST_PRINTF 1787 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1788 1789config TEST_BITMAP 1790 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1791 help 1792 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1793 1794 If unsure, say N. 1795 1796config TEST_BITFIELD 1797 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime" 1798 help 1799 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 1800 1801 If unsure, say N. 1802 1803config TEST_UUID 1804 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1805 1806config TEST_XARRAY 1807 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 1808 1809config TEST_OVERFLOW 1810 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 1811 1812config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1813 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1814 help 1815 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1816 1817 If unsure, say N. 1818 1819config TEST_HASH 1820 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1821 help 1822 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1823 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1824 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1825 1826 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1827 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1828 1829config TEST_IDA 1830 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 1831 1832config TEST_PARMAN 1833 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1834 depends on PARMAN 1835 help 1836 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1837 (or module load). 1838 1839 If unsure, say N. 1840 1841config TEST_LKM 1842 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1843 depends on m 1844 help 1845 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1846 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1847 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1848 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1849 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1850 requested by name. 1851 1852 If unsure, say N. 1853 1854config TEST_VMALLOC 1855 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 1856 default n 1857 depends on MMU 1858 depends on m 1859 help 1860 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 1861 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 1862 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 1863 of view. 1864 1865 If unsure, say N. 1866 1867config TEST_USER_COPY 1868 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1869 depends on m 1870 help 1871 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1872 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1873 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1874 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1875 protections. 1876 1877 If unsure, say N. 1878 1879config TEST_BPF 1880 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1881 depends on m && NET 1882 help 1883 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1884 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1885 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1886 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1887 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1888 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1889 1890 If unsure, say N. 1891 1892config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 1893 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 1894 help 1895 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 1896 functions performance. 1897 1898 If unsure, say N. 1899 1900config TEST_FIRMWARE 1901 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1902 depends on FW_LOADER 1903 help 1904 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1905 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1906 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1907 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1908 userspace. 1909 1910 If unsure, say N. 1911 1912config TEST_SYSCTL 1913 tristate "sysctl test driver" 1914 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1915 help 1916 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 1917 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 1918 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 1919 1920 If unsure, say N. 1921 1922config TEST_UDELAY 1923 tristate "udelay test driver" 1924 help 1925 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1926 that udelay() is working properly. 1927 1928 If unsure, say N. 1929 1930config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1931 tristate "Test static keys" 1932 depends on m 1933 help 1934 Test the static key interfaces. 1935 1936 If unsure, say N. 1937 1938config TEST_KMOD 1939 tristate "kmod stress tester" 1940 depends on m 1941 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 1942 depends on BLOCK 1943 select TEST_LKM 1944 select XFS_FS 1945 select TUN 1946 select BTRFS_FS 1947 help 1948 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 1949 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 1950 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 1951 1952 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 1953 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 1954 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 1955 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 1956 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 1957 1958 To run tests run: 1959 1960 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 1961 1962 If unsure, say N. 1963 1964config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1965 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 1966 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1967 help 1968 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 1969 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 1970 kernel's virtual address map. 1971 1972 If unsure, say N. 1973 1974config TEST_MEMCAT_P 1975 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 1976 help 1977 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 1978 pointer arrays together. 1979 1980 If unsure, say N. 1981 1982config TEST_LIVEPATCH 1983 tristate "Test livepatching" 1984 default n 1985 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 1986 depends on LIVEPATCH 1987 depends on m 1988 help 1989 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 1990 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 1991 1992 To run all the livepatching tests: 1993 1994 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 1995 1996 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 1997 1998 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 1999 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2000 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2001 2002 If unsure, say N. 2003 2004config TEST_OBJAGG 2005 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2006 default n 2007 depends on OBJAGG 2008 help 2009 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2010 (or module load). 2011 2012 2013config TEST_STACKINIT 2014 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2015 help 2016 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2017 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2018 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2019 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2020 2021 If unsure, say N. 2022 2023endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2024 2025config MEMTEST 2026 bool "Memtest" 2027 ---help--- 2028 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2029 to be set. 2030 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2031 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2032 ... 2033 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2034 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2035 2036config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 2037 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 2038 select DEBUG_LIST 2039 help 2040 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 2041 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 2042 for validity. 2043 2044 If unsure, say N. 2045 2046source "samples/Kconfig" 2047 2048source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 2049 2050source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 2051 2052config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2053 bool 2054 2055config STRICT_DEVMEM 2056 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 2057 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 2058 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2059 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 2060 ---help--- 2061 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2062 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 2063 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 2064 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 2065 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 2066 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 2067 2068 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 2069 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 2070 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 2071 users of /dev/mem. 2072 2073 If in doubt, say Y. 2074 2075config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 2076 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 2077 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 2078 ---help--- 2079 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2080 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 2081 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 2082 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 2083 2084 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 2085 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 2086 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 2087 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 2088 2089 If in doubt, say Y. 2090 2091source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 2092 2093endmenu # Kernel hacking 2094