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 CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 40 range 1 15 41 default "7" 42 help 43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 44 45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 47 value is specified here as well. 48 49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 51 option. 52 53config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 55 range 1 15 56 default "4" 57 help 58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 59 60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 63 64config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 65 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 66 range 1 7 67 default "4" 68 help 69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 70 71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 73 priority. 74 75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 78 79config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 82 help 83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 86 using "boot_delay=N". 87 88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 89 the "loops per jiffie" value. 90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 95 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 96 97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 99 default n 100 depends on PRINTK 101 depends on DEBUG_FS 102 help 103 104 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 105 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 106 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 107 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 108 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 109 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 110 111 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 112 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 113 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 114 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 115 116 Usage: 117 118 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 119 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 120 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 121 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 122 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 123 format for each line of the file is: 124 125 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 126 127 filename : source file of the debug statement 128 lineno : line number of the debug statement 129 module : module that contains the debug statement 130 function : function that contains the debug statement 131 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 132 format : the format used for the debug statement 133 134 From a live system: 135 136 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 137 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 138 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 139 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 140 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 141 142 Example usage: 143 144 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 145 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 146 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 147 148 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 149 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 150 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 151 152 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 153 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 154 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 155 156 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 157 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 158 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 159 160 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 161 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 162 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 163 164 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 165 information. 166 167endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 168 169menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 170 171config DEBUG_INFO 172 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 174 help 175 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 176 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 177 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 178 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 179 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 180 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 181 182 If unsure, say N. 183 184config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 185 bool "Reduce debugging information" 186 depends on DEBUG_INFO 187 help 188 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 189 information for structure types. This means that tools that 190 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 191 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 192 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 193 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 194 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 195 Only works with newer gcc versions. 196 197config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 198 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 199 depends on DEBUG_INFO 200 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 201 help 202 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 203 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 204 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 205 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 206 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 207 208 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 209 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 210 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 211 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 212 213config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 214 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 215 depends on DEBUG_INFO 216 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 217 help 218 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 219 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 220 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 221 variables in gdb on optimized code. 222 223config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 224 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 225 depends on DEBUG_INFO 226 help 227 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 228 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 229 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 230 231config GDB_SCRIPTS 232 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 233 depends on DEBUG_INFO 234 help 235 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 236 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 237 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 238 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 239 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 240 for further details. 241 242config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 243 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 244 default y 245 help 246 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 247 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 248 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 249 250config FRAME_WARN 251 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 252 range 0 8192 253 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 254 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 255 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 256 default 2048 if 64BIT 257 help 258 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 259 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 260 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 261 Requires gcc 4.4 262 263config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 264 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 265 default n 266 help 267 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 268 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 269 get_wchan() and suchlike. 270 271config READABLE_ASM 272 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 274 help 275 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 276 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 277 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 278 sane. 279 280config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 281 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 282 default y if X86 283 help 284 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 285 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 286 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 287 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 288 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 289 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 290 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 291 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 292 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 293 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 294 your module is. 295 296config DEBUG_FS 297 bool "Debug Filesystem" 298 help 299 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 300 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 301 write to these files. 302 303 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 304 Documentation/filesystems/. 305 306 If unsure, say N. 307 308config HEADERS_CHECK 309 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 310 depends on !UML 311 help 312 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 313 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 314 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 315 were not exported, etc. 316 317 If you're making modifications to header files which are 318 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 319 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 320 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 321 322config OPTIMIZE_INLINING 323 bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'" 324 help 325 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions 326 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to 327 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of 328 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and 329 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully 330 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the 331 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option 332 is there to test gcc for this. 333 334 If unsure, say N. 335 336config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 337 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 338 help 339 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 340 references from one section to another section. 341 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 342 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 343 most likely result in an oops. 344 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 345 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 346 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 347 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 348 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 349 additional steps to occur: 350 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 351 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 352 function, we would lose the section information and thus 353 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 354 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 355 a larger kernel). 356 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file. 357 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 358 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 359 introduced. 360 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file 361 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 362 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 363 reported at least twice. 364 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 365 the section mismatches that are reported. 366 367config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 368 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 369 default y 370 help 371 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 372 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 373 374 If unsure, say Y. 375 376# 377# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 378# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 379# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 380# 381config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 382 bool 383 384config FRAME_POINTER 385 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 387 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 388 help 389 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 390 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 391 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 392 393config STACK_VALIDATION 394 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 395 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 396 default n 397 help 398 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 399 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 400 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 401 402 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 403 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 404 405 For more information, see 406 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 407 408config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 409 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 411 help 412 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 413 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 414 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 415 definitions. 416 417 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 418 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 419 420 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 421 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 422 423endmenu # "Compiler options" 424 425config MAGIC_SYSRQ 426 bool "Magic SysRq key" 427 depends on !UML 428 help 429 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 430 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 431 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 432 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 433 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 434 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 435 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 436 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 437 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 438 439config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 440 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 441 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 442 default 0x1 443 help 444 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 445 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 446 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 447 448config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 449 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 450 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 451 default y 452 help 453 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 454 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 455 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 456 magic SysRq key. 457 458config DEBUG_KERNEL 459 bool "Kernel debugging" 460 help 461 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 462 identify kernel problems. 463 464config DEBUG_MISC 465 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 466 default DEBUG_KERNEL 467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 468 help 469 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 470 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 471 472 473menu "Memory Debugging" 474 475source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 476 477config DEBUG_OBJECTS 478 bool "Debug object operations" 479 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 480 help 481 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 482 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 483 the operations on those objects. 484 485config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 486 bool "Debug objects selftest" 487 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 488 help 489 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 490 491config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 492 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 493 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 494 help 495 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 496 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 497 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 498 much slower. 499 500config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 501 bool "Debug timer objects" 502 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 503 help 504 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 505 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 506 validate the timer operations. 507 508config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 509 bool "Debug work objects" 510 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 511 help 512 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 513 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 514 validate the work operations. 515 516config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 517 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 518 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 519 help 520 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 521 522config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 523 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 524 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 525 help 526 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 527 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 528 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 529 530config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 531 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 532 range 0 1 533 default "1" 534 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 535 help 536 Debug objects boot parameter default value 537 538config DEBUG_SLAB 539 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 540 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 541 help 542 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 543 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 544 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 545 546config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 547 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 548 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 549 default n 550 help 551 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 552 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 553 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 554 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 555 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 556 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 557 "slub_debug=-". 558 559config SLUB_STATS 560 default n 561 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 562 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 563 help 564 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 565 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 566 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 567 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 568 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 569 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 570 Try running: slabinfo -DA 571 572config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 573 bool 574 575config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 576 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 577 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 578 select DEBUG_FS 579 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 580 select KALLSYMS 581 select CRC32 582 help 583 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 584 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 585 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 586 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 587 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 588 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 589 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 590 details. 591 592 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 593 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 594 595 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 596 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 597 598config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 599 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 600 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 601 range 200 40000 602 default 400 603 help 604 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 605 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 606 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 607 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 608 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 609 610config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 611 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 612 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 613 help 614 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 615 616 If unsure, say N. 617 618config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 619 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 620 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 621 help 622 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 623 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 624 625config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 626 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 627 default y 628 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 629 help 630 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 631 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 632 kmemleak scan at boot up. 633 634 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 635 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 636 memory leaks. 637 638 If unsure, say Y. 639 640config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 641 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 643 help 644 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 645 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 646 647 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 648 649config DEBUG_VM 650 bool "Debug VM" 651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 652 help 653 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 654 that may impact performance. 655 656 If unsure, say N. 657 658config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 659 bool "Debug VMA caching" 660 depends on DEBUG_VM 661 help 662 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 663 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 664 environments. 665 666 If unsure, say N. 667 668config DEBUG_VM_RB 669 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 670 depends on DEBUG_VM 671 help 672 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 673 674 If unsure, say N. 675 676config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 677 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 678 depends on DEBUG_VM 679 help 680 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 681 682 If unsure, say N. 683 684config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 685 bool 686 687config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 688 bool "Debug VM translations" 689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 690 help 691 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 692 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 693 694 If unsure, say N. 695 696config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 697 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 698 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 699 help 700 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 701 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 702 703config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 704 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 705 default !EXPERT 706 help 707 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 708 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 709 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 710 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 711 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 712 713 If unsure, say Y 714 715config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 716 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 717 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 718 help 719 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 720 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 721 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 722 723 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 724 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 725 726 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 727 728 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 729 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 730 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 731 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 732 733 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 734 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 735 736 If unsure, say N. 737 738config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 739 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 741 depends on SMP 742 help 743 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 744 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 745 and decreases performance. 746 747 Say N if unsure. 748 749config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 750 bool "Highmem debugging" 751 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 752 help 753 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 754 systems. Disable for production systems. 755 756config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 757 bool 758 759config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 760 bool "Check for stack overflows" 761 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 762 ---help--- 763 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 764 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 765 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 766 below a certain limit. 767 768 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 769 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 770 involved. 771 772 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 773 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 774 775 If in doubt, say "N". 776 777source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 778 779endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 780 781config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 782 bool 783 help 784 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 785 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 786 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 787 788config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 789 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 790 791config KCOV 792 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 793 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 794 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 795 select DEBUG_FS 796 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 797 help 798 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 799 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 800 801 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 802 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 803 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 804 805 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 806 807config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 808 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 809 depends on KCOV 810 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 811 help 812 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 813 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 814 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 815 of fuzzing coverage. 816 817config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 818 bool "Instrument all code by default" 819 depends on KCOV 820 default y 821 help 822 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 823 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 824 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 825 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 826 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 827 828config DEBUG_SHIRQ 829 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 830 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 831 help 832 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 833 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 834 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 835 points; some don't and need to be caught. 836 837menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 838 839config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 840 bool 841 842config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 843 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 844 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 845 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 846 help 847 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 848 soft lockups. 849 850 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 851 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 852 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 853 detection and the system will stay locked up. 854 855config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 856 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 857 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 858 help 859 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 860 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 861 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 862 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 863 864 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 865 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 866 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 867 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 868 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 869 870 Say N if unsure. 871 872config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 873 int 874 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 875 range 0 1 876 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 877 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 878 879config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 880 bool 881 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 882 883# 884# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 885# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 886# 887config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 888 bool 889 890# 891# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 892# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 893# 894config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 895 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 896 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 897 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 898 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 899 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 900 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 901 help 902 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 903 hard lockups. 904 905 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 906 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 907 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 908 and the system will stay locked up. 909 910config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 911 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 912 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 913 help 914 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 915 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 916 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 917 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 918 919 Say N if unsure. 920 921config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 922 int 923 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 924 range 0 1 925 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 926 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 927 928config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 929 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 931 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 932 help 933 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 934 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 935 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 936 937 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 938 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 939 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 940 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 941 feature has negligible overhead. 942 943config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 944 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 945 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 946 default 120 947 help 948 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 949 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 950 be considered hung. 951 952 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 953 sysctl or by writing a value to 954 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 955 956 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 957 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 958 959config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 960 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 961 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 962 help 963 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 964 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 965 in uninterruptible "D" state. 966 967 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 968 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 969 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 970 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 971 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 972 973 Say N if unsure. 974 975config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 976 int 977 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 978 range 0 1 979 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 980 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 981 982config WQ_WATCHDOG 983 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 985 help 986 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 987 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 988 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 989 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 990 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 991 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 992 993endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 994 995config PANIC_ON_OOPS 996 bool "Panic on Oops" 997 help 998 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 999 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1000 line. 1001 1002 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1003 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1004 corruption or other issues. 1005 1006 Say N if unsure. 1007 1008config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1009 int 1010 range 0 1 1011 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1012 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1013 1014config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1015 int "panic timeout" 1016 default 0 1017 help 1018 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 1019 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1020 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1021 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1022 1023config SCHED_DEBUG 1024 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1025 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1026 default y 1027 help 1028 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1029 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1030 option is minimal. 1031 1032config SCHED_INFO 1033 bool 1034 default n 1035 1036config SCHEDSTATS 1037 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1038 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1039 select SCHED_INFO 1040 help 1041 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1042 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1043 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1044 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1045 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1046 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1047 this adds. 1048 1049config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 1050 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 1051 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1052 default n 1053 help 1054 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 1055 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 1056 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 1057 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 1058 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 1059 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 1060 1061config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1062 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1063 help 1064 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1065 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1066 problems are suspected. 1067 1068 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1069 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1070 workloads. 1071 1072 If unsure, say N. 1073 1074config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1075 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1076 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1077 default y 1078 help 1079 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1080 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1081 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1082 will detect preemption count underflows. 1083 1084menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1085 1086config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1087 bool 1088 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1089 default y 1090 1091config PROVE_LOCKING 1092 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1094 select LOCKDEP 1095 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1096 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1097 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1098 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1099 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1100 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1101 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1102 default n 1103 help 1104 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1105 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1106 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1107 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1108 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1109 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1110 deadlock. 1111 1112 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1113 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1114 1115 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1116 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1117 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1118 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1119 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1120 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1121 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1122 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1123 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1124 1125 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1126 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1127 kernel reports nothing. 1128 1129 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1130 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1131 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1132 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1133 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1134 1135 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1136 1137config LOCK_STAT 1138 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1140 select LOCKDEP 1141 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1142 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1143 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1144 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1145 default n 1146 help 1147 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1148 1149 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1150 1151 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1152 subcommand of perf. 1153 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1154 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1155 1156 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1157 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1158 1159config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1160 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1161 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1162 help 1163 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1164 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1165 1166config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1167 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1169 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1170 help 1171 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1172 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1173 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1174 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1175 1176config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1177 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1179 help 1180 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1181 reported. 1182 1183config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1184 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1186 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1187 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1188 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1189 help 1190 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1191 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1192 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1193 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1194 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1195 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1196 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1197 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1198 you are a distro, do not. 1199 1200config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1201 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 1203 help 1204 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks 1205 to be detected and reported. 1206 1207config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1208 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1209 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1210 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1211 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1212 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1213 select LOCKDEP 1214 help 1215 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1216 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1217 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1218 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1219 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1220 held during task exit. 1221 1222config LOCKDEP 1223 bool 1224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1225 select STACKTRACE 1226 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86 1227 select KALLSYMS 1228 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1229 1230config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1231 bool 1232 1233config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1234 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1235 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1236 help 1237 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1238 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1239 of more runtime overhead. 1240 1241config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1242 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1243 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1245 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1246 help 1247 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1248 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1249 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1250 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1251 1252config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1253 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1254 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1255 help 1256 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1257 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1258 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1259 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1260 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1261 mutexes and rwsems. 1262 1263config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1264 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1266 select TORTURE_TEST 1267 help 1268 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1269 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1270 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1271 1272 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1273 to be built into the kernel. 1274 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1275 Say N if you are unsure. 1276 1277config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1278 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1279 help 1280 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1281 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1282 1283 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1284 with this test harness. 1285 1286 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1287 Say N if you are unsure. 1288 1289endmenu # lock debugging 1290 1291config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1292 bool 1293 help 1294 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1295 either tracing or lock debugging. 1296 1297config STACKTRACE 1298 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1299 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1300 help 1301 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1302 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1303 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1304 stack trace generation. 1305 1306config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1307 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1308 default n 1309 help 1310 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1311 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1312 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1313 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1314 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1315 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1316 it. 1317 1318 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1319 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1320 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1321 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1322 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1323 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1324 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1325 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1326 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1327 1328 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1329 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1330 those developers interested in improving the security of 1331 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1332 subarchitecture). 1333 1334config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1335 bool "kobject debugging" 1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1337 help 1338 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1339 to the syslog. 1340 1341config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1342 bool "kobject release debugging" 1343 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1344 help 1345 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1346 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1347 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1348 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1349 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1350 unregistered. 1351 1352 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1353 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1354 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1355 1356 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1357 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1358 kind of kobject release bug. 1359 1360config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1361 bool 1362 1363config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1364 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1365 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1366 default y 1367 help 1368 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1369 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1370 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1371 1372config DEBUG_LIST 1373 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1375 help 1376 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1377 walking routines. 1378 1379 If unsure, say N. 1380 1381config DEBUG_PLIST 1382 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1384 help 1385 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1386 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1387 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1388 1389 If unsure, say N. 1390 1391config DEBUG_SG 1392 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1394 help 1395 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1396 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1397 their sg tables. 1398 1399 If unsure, say N. 1400 1401config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1402 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1403 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1404 help 1405 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1406 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1407 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1408 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1409 performance, say N. 1410 1411config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1412 bool "Debug credential management" 1413 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1414 help 1415 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1416 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1417 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1418 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1419 struct. 1420 1421 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1422 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1423 1424 If unsure, say N. 1425 1426source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1427 1428config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1429 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1431 default n 1432 help 1433 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1434 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1435 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1436 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1437 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1438 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1439 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1440 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1441 be impacted. 1442 1443config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1444 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1445 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1446 depends on BLOCK 1447 default n 1448 help 1449 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1450 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1451 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1452 is broken. 1453 1454 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1455 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1456 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1457 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1458 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1459 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1460 device number allocation. 1461 1462 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1463 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1464 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1465 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1466 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1467 1468 Say N if you are unsure. 1469 1470config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1471 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1473 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1474 default n 1475 help 1476 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1477 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1478 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1479 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1480 1481 Say N if your are unsure. 1482 1483config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1484 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1485 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1486 select DEBUG_FS 1487 help 1488 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1489 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1490 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1491 1492 Say N if unsure. 1493 1494config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1495 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1496 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1497 default m if PM_DEBUG 1498 help 1499 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1500 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1501 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1502 1503 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1504 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1505 1506 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1507 1508 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1509 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1510 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1511 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1512 1513 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1514 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1515 1516 If unsure, say N. 1517 1518config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1519 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1520 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1521 help 1522 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1523 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1524 through debugfs interface under 1525 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1526 1527 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1528 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1529 1530 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1531 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1532 1533 If unsure, say N. 1534 1535config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1536 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1537 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1538 help 1539 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1540 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1541 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1542 1543 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1544 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1545 1546 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1547 1548 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1549 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1550 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1551 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1552 1553 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1554 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1555 1556 If unsure, say N. 1557 1558config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1559 def_bool y 1560 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1561 1562config FAULT_INJECTION 1563 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1564 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1565 help 1566 Provide fault-injection framework. 1567 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1568 1569config FAILSLAB 1570 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1571 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1572 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1573 help 1574 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1575 1576config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1577 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1578 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1579 help 1580 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1581 1582config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1583 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1584 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1585 help 1586 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1587 1588config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1589 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1590 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1591 help 1592 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1593 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1594 thus exercising the error handling. 1595 1596 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1597 for others it wont do anything. 1598 1599config FAIL_FUTEX 1600 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1601 select DEBUG_FS 1602 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1603 help 1604 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1605 1606config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1607 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1608 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1609 help 1610 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1611 1612config FAIL_FUNCTION 1613 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1614 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1615 help 1616 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1617 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1618 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1619 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1620 error handling in various subsystems. 1621 1622config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1623 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1624 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1625 help 1626 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1627 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1628 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1629 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1630 the block device. 1631 1632config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1633 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1634 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1635 depends on !X86_64 1636 select STACKTRACE 1637 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1638 help 1639 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1640 1641config LATENCYTOP 1642 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1644 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1645 depends on PROC_FS 1646 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86 1647 select KALLSYMS 1648 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1649 select STACKTRACE 1650 select SCHEDSTATS 1651 select SCHED_DEBUG 1652 help 1653 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1654 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1655 1656source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1657 1658config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1659 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1660 depends on PCI && X86 1661 help 1662 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1663 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1664 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1665 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1666 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1667 1668 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1669 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1670 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1671 1672 Usage: 1673 1674 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1675 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1676 1677 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1678 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1679 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1680 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1681 1682 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1683 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1684 1685 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1686 1687menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1688 bool "Runtime Testing" 1689 def_bool y 1690 1691if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1692 1693config LKDTM 1694 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1695 depends on DEBUG_FS 1696 help 1697 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1698 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1699 If you don't need it: say N 1700 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1701 called lkdtm. 1702 1703 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1704 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1705 1706config TEST_LIST_SORT 1707 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1708 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1709 help 1710 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1711 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1712 or at module load time. 1713 1714 If unsure, say N. 1715 1716config TEST_SORT 1717 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1719 help 1720 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1721 or at module load time. 1722 1723 If unsure, say N. 1724 1725config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1726 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1727 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1728 depends on KPROBES 1729 help 1730 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1731 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1732 verified for functionality. 1733 1734 Say N if you are unsure. 1735 1736config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1737 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1738 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1739 help 1740 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1741 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1742 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1743 developers working on architecture code. 1744 1745 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1746 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1747 1748 Say N if you are unsure. 1749 1750config RBTREE_TEST 1751 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1752 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1753 help 1754 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1755 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1756 1757config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1758 tristate "Interval tree test" 1759 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1760 select INTERVAL_TREE 1761 help 1762 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1763 1764config PERCPU_TEST 1765 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1766 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1767 help 1768 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1769 operations. 1770 1771 If unsure, say N. 1772 1773config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1774 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1775 help 1776 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1777 at module load time. 1778 1779 If unsure, say N. 1780 1781config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1782 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1783 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1784 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1785 ---help--- 1786 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1787 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1788 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1789 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1790 engine if one is available. 1791 1792 If unsure, say N. 1793 1794config TEST_HEXDUMP 1795 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1796 1797config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1798 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1799 1800config TEST_STRSCPY 1801 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 1802 1803config TEST_KSTRTOX 1804 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1805 1806config TEST_PRINTF 1807 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1808 1809config TEST_BITMAP 1810 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1811 help 1812 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1813 1814 If unsure, say N. 1815 1816config TEST_BITFIELD 1817 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime" 1818 help 1819 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 1820 1821 If unsure, say N. 1822 1823config TEST_UUID 1824 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1825 1826config TEST_XARRAY 1827 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 1828 1829config TEST_OVERFLOW 1830 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 1831 1832config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1833 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1834 help 1835 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1836 1837 If unsure, say N. 1838 1839config TEST_HASH 1840 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1841 help 1842 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1843 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1844 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1845 1846 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1847 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1848 1849config TEST_IDA 1850 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 1851 1852config TEST_PARMAN 1853 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1854 depends on PARMAN 1855 help 1856 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1857 (or module load). 1858 1859 If unsure, say N. 1860 1861config TEST_LKM 1862 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1863 depends on m 1864 help 1865 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1866 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1867 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1868 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1869 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1870 requested by name. 1871 1872 If unsure, say N. 1873 1874config TEST_VMALLOC 1875 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 1876 default n 1877 depends on MMU 1878 depends on m 1879 help 1880 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 1881 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 1882 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 1883 of view. 1884 1885 If unsure, say N. 1886 1887config TEST_USER_COPY 1888 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1889 depends on m 1890 help 1891 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1892 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1893 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1894 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1895 protections. 1896 1897 If unsure, say N. 1898 1899config TEST_BPF 1900 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1901 depends on m && NET 1902 help 1903 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1904 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1905 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1906 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1907 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1908 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1909 1910 If unsure, say N. 1911 1912config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 1913 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 1914 help 1915 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 1916 functions performance. 1917 1918 If unsure, say N. 1919 1920config TEST_FIRMWARE 1921 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1922 depends on FW_LOADER 1923 help 1924 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1925 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1926 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1927 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1928 userspace. 1929 1930 If unsure, say N. 1931 1932config TEST_SYSCTL 1933 tristate "sysctl test driver" 1934 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1935 help 1936 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 1937 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 1938 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 1939 1940 If unsure, say N. 1941 1942config TEST_UDELAY 1943 tristate "udelay test driver" 1944 help 1945 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1946 that udelay() is working properly. 1947 1948 If unsure, say N. 1949 1950config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1951 tristate "Test static keys" 1952 depends on m 1953 help 1954 Test the static key interfaces. 1955 1956 If unsure, say N. 1957 1958config TEST_KMOD 1959 tristate "kmod stress tester" 1960 depends on m 1961 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 1962 depends on BLOCK 1963 select TEST_LKM 1964 select XFS_FS 1965 select TUN 1966 select BTRFS_FS 1967 help 1968 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 1969 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 1970 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 1971 1972 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 1973 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 1974 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 1975 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 1976 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 1977 1978 To run tests run: 1979 1980 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 1981 1982 If unsure, say N. 1983 1984config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1985 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 1986 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1987 help 1988 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 1989 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 1990 kernel's virtual address map. 1991 1992 If unsure, say N. 1993 1994config TEST_MEMCAT_P 1995 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 1996 help 1997 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 1998 pointer arrays together. 1999 2000 If unsure, say N. 2001 2002config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2003 tristate "Test livepatching" 2004 default n 2005 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2006 depends on LIVEPATCH 2007 depends on m 2008 help 2009 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2010 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2011 2012 To run all the livepatching tests: 2013 2014 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2015 2016 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2017 2018 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2019 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2020 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2021 2022 If unsure, say N. 2023 2024config TEST_OBJAGG 2025 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2026 default n 2027 depends on OBJAGG 2028 help 2029 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2030 (or module load). 2031 2032 2033config TEST_STACKINIT 2034 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2035 help 2036 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2037 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2038 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2039 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2040 2041 If unsure, say N. 2042 2043endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2044 2045config MEMTEST 2046 bool "Memtest" 2047 ---help--- 2048 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2049 to be set. 2050 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2051 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2052 ... 2053 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2054 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2055 2056config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 2057 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 2058 select DEBUG_LIST 2059 help 2060 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 2061 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 2062 for validity. 2063 2064 If unsure, say N. 2065 2066source "samples/Kconfig" 2067 2068source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 2069 2070source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 2071 2072config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2073 bool 2074 2075config STRICT_DEVMEM 2076 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 2077 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 2078 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 2079 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 2080 ---help--- 2081 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2082 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 2083 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 2084 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 2085 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 2086 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 2087 2088 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 2089 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 2090 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 2091 users of /dev/mem. 2092 2093 If in doubt, say Y. 2094 2095config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 2096 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 2097 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 2098 ---help--- 2099 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 2100 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 2101 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 2102 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 2103 2104 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 2105 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 2106 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 2107 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 2108 2109 If in doubt, say Y. 2110 2111source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 2112 2113endmenu # Kernel hacking 2114