1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234choice 235 prompt "Debug information" 236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 237 help 238 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 239 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 240 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 241 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 242 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 243 244 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 245 select "Toolchain default". 246 247config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 248 bool "Disable debug information" 249 help 250 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 251 result in a faster and smaller build. 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 254 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 255 select DEBUG_INFO 256 help 257 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 258 toolchain changes over time. 259 260 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 261 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 262 those should be less common scenarios. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 265 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 266 select DEBUG_INFO 267 help 268 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 269 270 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 271 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 272 config select this. 273 274config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 275 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 276 select DEBUG_INFO 277 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 278 help 279 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 280 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 281 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 282 283 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 284 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 285 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 286 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 287 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 288 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 289 support DWARF Version 5. 290 291endchoice # "Debug information" 292 293if DEBUG_INFO 294 295config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 296 bool "Reduce debugging information" 297 help 298 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 299 information for structure types. This means that tools that 300 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 301 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 302 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 303 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 304 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 305 Only works with newer gcc versions. 306 307config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 308 bool "Compressed debugging information" 309 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 310 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 311 help 312 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 313 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 314 315 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 316 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 317 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 318 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 319 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 320 larger. 321 322config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 323 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 324 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 325 help 326 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 327 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 328 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 329 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 330 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 331 332 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 333 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 334 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 335 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 336 337config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 338 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 339 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 340 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 341 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 342 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 343 help 344 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 345 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 346 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 347 348config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 349 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 350 351config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 352 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 353 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 354 help 355 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 356 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 357 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 358 359config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 360 def_bool y 361 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 362 help 363 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 364 365config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 366 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 367 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 help 369 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 370 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 371 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 372 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 373 it when a mismatch is found. 374 375config GDB_SCRIPTS 376 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 377 help 378 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 379 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 380 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 381 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 382 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 383 for further details. 384 385endif # DEBUG_INFO 386 387config FRAME_WARN 388 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 389 range 0 8192 390 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 391 default 2048 if PARISC 392 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 393 default 1024 if !64BIT 394 default 2048 if 64BIT 395 help 396 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 397 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 398 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 399 400config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 401 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 402 default n 403 help 404 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 405 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 406 get_wchan() and suchlike. 407 408config READABLE_ASM 409 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 411 depends on CC_IS_GCC 412 help 413 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 414 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 415 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 416 sane. 417 418config HEADERS_INSTALL 419 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 420 depends on !UML 421 help 422 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 423 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 424 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 425 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 426 as uapi header sanity checks. 427 428config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 429 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 430 depends on CC_IS_GCC 431 help 432 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 433 references from one section to another section. 434 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 435 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 436 most likely result in an oops. 437 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 438 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 439 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 440 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 441 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 442 additional step to occur: 443 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 444 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 445 function, we would lose the section information and thus 446 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 447 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 448 a larger kernel). 449 450config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 451 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 452 default y 453 help 454 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 455 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 456 457 If unsure, say Y. 458 459config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 460 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 461 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 462 help 463 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 464 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 465 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 466 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 467 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 468 469 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 470 471# 472# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 473# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 474# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 475# 476config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 477 bool 478 479config FRAME_POINTER 480 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 482 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 483 help 484 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 485 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 486 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 487 488config STACK_VALIDATION 489 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 490 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 491 default n 492 help 493 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 494 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 495 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 496 497 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 498 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 499 500 For more information, see 501 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 502 503config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 504 bool 505 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 506 default y 507 508config VMLINUX_MAP 509 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 510 depends on EXPERT 511 help 512 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 513 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 514 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 515 pieces of code get eliminated with 516 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 517 518config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 519 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 520 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 521 help 522 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 523 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 524 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 525 definitions. 526 527 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 528 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 529 530 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 531 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 532 533endmenu # "Compiler options" 534 535menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 536 537config MAGIC_SYSRQ 538 bool "Magic SysRq key" 539 depends on !UML 540 help 541 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 542 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 543 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 544 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 545 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 546 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 547 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 548 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 549 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 550 551config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 552 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 553 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 554 default 0x1 555 help 556 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 557 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 558 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 559 560config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 561 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 562 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 563 default y 564 help 565 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 566 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 567 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 568 magic SysRq key. 569 570config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 571 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 572 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 573 default "" 574 help 575 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 576 SysRq on a serial console. 577 578 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 579 580config DEBUG_FS 581 bool "Debug Filesystem" 582 help 583 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 584 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 585 write to these files. 586 587 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 588 Documentation/filesystems/. 589 590 If unsure, say N. 591 592choice 593 prompt "Debugfs default access" 594 depends on DEBUG_FS 595 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 596 help 597 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 598 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 599 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 600 and filesystem registration. 601 602config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 603 bool "Access normal" 604 help 605 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 606 is on. This is the normal default operation. 607 608config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 609 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 610 help 611 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 612 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 613 debugfs filesystem. 614 615config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 616 bool "No access" 617 help 618 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 619 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 620 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 621 622endchoice 623 624source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 625source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 626source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 627 628endmenu 629 630menu "Networking Debugging" 631 632source "net/Kconfig.debug" 633 634endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 635 636menu "Memory Debugging" 637 638source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 639 640config DEBUG_OBJECTS 641 bool "Debug object operations" 642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 643 help 644 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 645 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 646 the operations on those objects. 647 648config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 649 bool "Debug objects selftest" 650 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 651 help 652 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 653 654config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 655 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 656 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 657 help 658 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 659 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 660 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 661 much slower. 662 663config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 664 bool "Debug timer objects" 665 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 666 help 667 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 668 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 669 validate the timer operations. 670 671config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 672 bool "Debug work objects" 673 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 674 help 675 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 676 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 677 validate the work operations. 678 679config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 680 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 681 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 682 help 683 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 684 685config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 686 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 687 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 688 help 689 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 690 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 691 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 692 693config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 694 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 695 range 0 1 696 default "1" 697 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 698 help 699 Debug objects boot parameter default value 700 701config DEBUG_SLAB 702 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 704 help 705 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 706 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 707 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 708 709config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 710 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 711 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 712 default n 713 help 714 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 715 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 716 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 717 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 718 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 719 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 720 "slub_debug=-". 721 722config SLUB_STATS 723 default n 724 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 725 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 726 help 727 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 728 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 729 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 730 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 731 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 732 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 733 Try running: slabinfo -DA 734 735config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 736 bool 737 738config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 739 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 741 select DEBUG_FS 742 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 743 select KALLSYMS 744 select CRC32 745 help 746 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 747 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 748 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 749 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 750 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 751 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 752 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 753 details. 754 755 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 756 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 757 758 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 759 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 760 761config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 762 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 763 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 764 range 200 1000000 765 default 16000 766 help 767 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 768 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 769 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 770 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 771 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 772 if slab allocations fail. 773 774config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 775 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 776 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 777 help 778 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 779 780 If unsure, say N. 781 782config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 783 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 784 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 785 help 786 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 787 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 788 789config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 790 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 791 default y 792 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 793 help 794 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 795 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 796 kmemleak scan at boot up. 797 798 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 799 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 800 memory leaks. 801 802 If unsure, say Y. 803 804config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 805 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 806 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 807 help 808 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 809 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 810 811 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 812 813config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 814 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 816 default n 817 help 818 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 819 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 820 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 821 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 822 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 823 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 824 825config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 826 bool 827 help 828 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 829 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 830 831config DEBUG_VM 832 bool "Debug VM" 833 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 834 help 835 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 836 that may impact performance. 837 838 If unsure, say N. 839 840config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 841 bool "Debug VMA caching" 842 depends on DEBUG_VM 843 help 844 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 845 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 846 environments. 847 848 If unsure, say N. 849 850config DEBUG_VM_RB 851 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 852 depends on DEBUG_VM 853 help 854 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 855 856 If unsure, say N. 857 858config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 859 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 860 depends on DEBUG_VM 861 help 862 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 863 864 If unsure, say N. 865 866config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 867 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 868 depends on MMU 869 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 870 default y if DEBUG_VM 871 help 872 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 873 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 874 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 875 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 876 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 877 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 878 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 879 880 If unsure, say N. 881 882config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 883 bool 884 885config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 886 bool "Debug VM translations" 887 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 888 help 889 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 890 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 891 892 If unsure, say N. 893 894config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 895 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 896 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 897 help 898 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 899 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 900 901config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 902 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 903 default !EXPERT 904 help 905 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 906 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 907 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 908 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 909 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 910 911 If unsure, say Y 912 913config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 914 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 915 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 916 help 917 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 918 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 919 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 920 921 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 922 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 923 924 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 925 926 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 927 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 928 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 929 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 930 931 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 932 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 933 934 If unsure, say N. 935 936config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 937 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 938 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 939 depends on SMP 940 help 941 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 942 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 943 and decreases performance. 944 945 Say N if unsure. 946 947config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 948 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 949 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 950 help 951 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 952 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 953 954config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 955 bool 956 957config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 958 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 959 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 960 select KMAP_LOCAL 961 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 962 help 963 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 964 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 965 Disable this for production systems! 966 967config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 968 bool "Highmem debugging" 969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 970 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 971 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 972 help 973 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 974 systems. Disable for production systems. 975 976config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 977 bool 978 979config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 980 bool "Check for stack overflows" 981 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 982 help 983 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 984 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 985 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 986 below a certain limit. 987 988 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 989 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 990 involved. 991 992 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 993 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 994 995 If in doubt, say "N". 996 997source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 998source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 999 1000endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 1001 1002config DEBUG_SHIRQ 1003 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 1004 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1005 help 1006 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 1007 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 1008 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 1009 don't and need to be caught. 1010 1011menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 1012 1013config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1014 bool "Panic on Oops" 1015 help 1016 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1017 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1018 line. 1019 1020 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1021 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1022 corruption or other issues. 1023 1024 Say N if unsure. 1025 1026config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1027 int 1028 range 0 1 1029 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1030 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1031 1032config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1033 int "panic timeout" 1034 default 0 1035 help 1036 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1037 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1038 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1039 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1040 1041config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1042 bool 1043 1044config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1045 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1047 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1048 help 1049 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1050 soft lockups. 1051 1052 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1053 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1054 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1055 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1056 1057config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1058 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1059 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1060 help 1061 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1062 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1063 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1064 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1065 1066 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1067 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1068 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1069 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1070 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1071 1072 Say N if unsure. 1073 1074config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1075 int 1076 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1077 range 0 1 1078 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1079 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1080 1081config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1082 bool 1083 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1084 1085# 1086# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1087# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1088# 1089config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1090 bool 1091 1092# 1093# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1094# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1095# 1096config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1097 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1098 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1099 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1100 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1101 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1102 help 1103 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1104 hard lockups. 1105 1106 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1107 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1108 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1109 and the system will stay locked up. 1110 1111config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1112 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1113 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1114 help 1115 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1116 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1117 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1118 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1119 1120 Say N if unsure. 1121 1122config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1123 int 1124 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1125 range 0 1 1126 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1127 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1128 1129config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1130 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1132 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1133 help 1134 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1135 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1136 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1137 1138 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1139 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1140 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1141 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1142 feature has negligible overhead. 1143 1144config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1145 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1146 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1147 default 120 1148 help 1149 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1150 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1151 be considered hung. 1152 1153 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1154 sysctl or by writing a value to 1155 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1156 1157 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1158 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1159 1160config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1161 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1162 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1163 help 1164 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1165 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1166 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1167 1168 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1169 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1170 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1171 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1172 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1173 1174 Say N if unsure. 1175 1176config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1177 int 1178 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1179 range 0 1 1180 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1181 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1182 1183config WQ_WATCHDOG 1184 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1186 help 1187 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1188 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1189 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1190 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1191 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1192 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1193 1194config TEST_LOCKUP 1195 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1196 depends on m 1197 help 1198 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1199 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1200 1201 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1202 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1203 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1204 1205 If unsure, say N. 1206 1207endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1208 1209menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1210 1211config SCHED_DEBUG 1212 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1213 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1214 default y 1215 help 1216 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1217 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1218 option is minimal. 1219 1220config SCHED_INFO 1221 bool 1222 default n 1223 1224config SCHEDSTATS 1225 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1226 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1227 select SCHED_INFO 1228 help 1229 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1230 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1231 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1232 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1233 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1234 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1235 this adds. 1236 1237endmenu 1238 1239config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1240 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1241 help 1242 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1243 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1244 problems are suspected. 1245 1246 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1247 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1248 workloads. 1249 1250 If unsure, say N. 1251 1252config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1253 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1254 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1255 default y 1256 help 1257 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1258 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1259 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1260 will detect preemption count underflows. 1261 1262menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1263 1264config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1265 bool 1266 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1267 default y 1268 1269config PROVE_LOCKING 1270 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1272 select LOCKDEP 1273 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1274 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1275 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1276 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1277 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1278 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1279 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1280 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1281 default n 1282 help 1283 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1284 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1285 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1286 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1287 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1288 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1289 deadlock. 1290 1291 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1292 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1293 1294 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1295 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1296 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1297 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1298 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1299 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1300 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1301 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1302 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1303 1304 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1305 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1306 kernel reports nothing. 1307 1308 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1309 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1310 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1311 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1312 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1313 1314 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1315 1316config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1317 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1318 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1319 default n 1320 help 1321 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1322 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1323 not violated. 1324 1325 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1326 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1327 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1328 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1329 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1330 1331 If unsure, select N. 1332 1333config LOCK_STAT 1334 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1335 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1336 select LOCKDEP 1337 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1338 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1339 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1340 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1341 default n 1342 help 1343 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1344 1345 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1346 1347 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1348 subcommand of perf. 1349 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1350 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1351 1352 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1353 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1354 1355config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1356 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1358 help 1359 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1360 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1361 1362config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1363 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1365 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1366 help 1367 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1368 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1369 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1370 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1371 1372config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1373 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1375 help 1376 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1377 reported. 1378 1379config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1380 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1382 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1383 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1384 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1385 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1386 help 1387 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1388 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1389 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1390 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1391 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1392 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1393 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1394 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1395 you are a distro, do not. 1396 1397config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1398 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1399 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1400 help 1401 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1402 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1403 1404config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1405 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1406 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1407 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1408 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1409 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1410 select LOCKDEP 1411 help 1412 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1413 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1414 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1415 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1416 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1417 held during task exit. 1418 1419config LOCKDEP 1420 bool 1421 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1422 select STACKTRACE 1423 select KALLSYMS 1424 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1425 1426config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1427 bool 1428 1429config LOCKDEP_BITS 1430 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1431 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1432 range 10 30 1433 default 15 1434 help 1435 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1436 1437config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1438 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1439 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1440 range 10 30 1441 default 16 1442 help 1443 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1444 1445config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1446 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1447 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1448 range 10 30 1449 default 19 1450 help 1451 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1452 1453config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1454 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1455 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1456 range 10 30 1457 default 14 1458 help 1459 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1460 1461config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1462 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1463 depends on LOCKDEP 1464 range 10 30 1465 default 12 1466 help 1467 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1468 1469config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1470 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1472 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1473 help 1474 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1475 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1476 of more runtime overhead. 1477 1478config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1479 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1480 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1482 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1483 help 1484 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1485 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1486 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1487 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1488 1489config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1490 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1491 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1492 help 1493 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1494 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1495 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1496 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1497 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1498 mutexes and rwsems. 1499 1500config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1501 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1503 select TORTURE_TEST 1504 help 1505 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1506 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1507 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1508 1509 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1510 to be built into the kernel. 1511 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1512 Say N if you are unsure. 1513 1514config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1515 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1516 help 1517 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1518 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1519 1520 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1521 with this test harness. 1522 1523 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1524 Say N if you are unsure. 1525 1526config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1527 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1528 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1529 select TORTURE_TEST 1530 help 1531 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1532 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1533 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1534 be tested, if desired. 1535 1536config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1537 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1538 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1539 depends on 64BIT 1540 default n 1541 help 1542 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1543 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1544 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1545 and relevant stack traces. 1546 1547choice 1548 prompt "Lock debugging: prove subsystem device_lock() correctness" 1549 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1550 help 1551 For subsystems that have instrumented their usage of the device_lock() 1552 with nested annotations, enable lock dependency checking. The locking 1553 hierarchy 'subclass' identifiers are not compatible across 1554 sub-systems, so only one can be enabled at a time. 1555 1556config PROVE_NVDIMM_LOCKING 1557 bool "NVDIMM" 1558 depends on LIBNVDIMM 1559 help 1560 Enable lockdep to validate nd_device_lock() usage. 1561 1562config PROVE_CXL_LOCKING 1563 bool "CXL" 1564 depends on CXL_BUS 1565 help 1566 Enable lockdep to validate cxl_device_lock() usage. 1567 1568endchoice 1569 1570endmenu # lock debugging 1571 1572config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1573 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1574 bool 1575 help 1576 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1577 either tracing or lock debugging. 1578 1579config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1580 def_bool y 1581 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1582 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1583 1584config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1585 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1586 help 1587 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1588 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1589 are enabled. 1590 1591config STACKTRACE 1592 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1593 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1594 help 1595 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1596 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1597 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1598 stack trace generation. 1599 1600config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1601 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1602 default n 1603 help 1604 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1605 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1606 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1607 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1608 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1609 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1610 it. 1611 1612 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1613 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1614 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1615 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1616 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1617 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1618 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1619 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1620 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1621 1622 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1623 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1624 those developers interested in improving the security of 1625 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1626 subarchitecture). 1627 1628config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1629 bool "kobject debugging" 1630 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1631 help 1632 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1633 to the syslog. 1634 1635config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1636 bool "kobject release debugging" 1637 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1638 help 1639 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1640 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1641 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1642 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1643 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1644 unregistered. 1645 1646 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1647 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1648 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1649 1650 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1651 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1652 kind of kobject release bug. 1653 1654config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1655 bool 1656 1657menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1658 1659config DEBUG_LIST 1660 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1661 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1662 help 1663 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1664 walking routines. 1665 1666 If unsure, say N. 1667 1668config DEBUG_PLIST 1669 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1670 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1671 help 1672 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1673 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1674 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1675 1676 If unsure, say N. 1677 1678config DEBUG_SG 1679 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1681 help 1682 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1683 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1684 their sg tables. 1685 1686 If unsure, say N. 1687 1688config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1689 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1690 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1691 help 1692 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1693 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1694 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1695 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1696 performance, say N. 1697 1698config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1699 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1700 select DEBUG_LIST 1701 help 1702 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1703 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1704 for validity. 1705 1706 If unsure, say N. 1707 1708endmenu 1709 1710config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1711 bool "Debug credential management" 1712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1713 help 1714 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1715 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1716 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1717 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1718 struct. 1719 1720 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1721 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1722 1723 If unsure, say N. 1724 1725source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1726 1727config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1728 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1729 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1730 default n 1731 help 1732 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1733 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1734 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1735 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1736 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1737 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1738 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1739 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1740 be impacted. 1741 1742config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1743 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1744 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1745 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1746 default n 1747 help 1748 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1749 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1750 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1751 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1752 1753 Say N if your are unsure. 1754 1755config LATENCYTOP 1756 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1757 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1758 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1759 depends on PROC_FS 1760 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1761 select KALLSYMS 1762 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1763 select STACKTRACE 1764 select SCHEDSTATS 1765 help 1766 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1767 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1768 1769source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1770 1771config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1772 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1773 depends on PCI && X86 1774 help 1775 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1776 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1777 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1778 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1779 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1780 1781 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1782 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1783 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1784 1785 Usage: 1786 1787 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1788 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1789 1790 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1791 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1792 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1793 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1794 1795 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1796 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1797 1798 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1799 1800source "samples/Kconfig" 1801 1802config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1803 bool 1804 1805config STRICT_DEVMEM 1806 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1807 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1808 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1809 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1810 help 1811 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1812 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1813 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1814 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1815 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1816 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1817 1818 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1819 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1820 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1821 users of /dev/mem. 1822 1823 If in doubt, say Y. 1824 1825config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1826 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1827 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1828 help 1829 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1830 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1831 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1832 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1833 1834 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1835 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1836 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1837 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1838 1839 If in doubt, say Y. 1840 1841menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1842 1843source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1844 1845endmenu 1846 1847menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1848 1849source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1850 1851config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1852 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1853 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1854 select DEBUG_FS 1855 help 1856 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1857 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1858 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1859 1860 Say N if unsure. 1861 1862config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1863 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1864 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1865 default m if PM_DEBUG 1866 help 1867 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1868 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1869 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1870 1871 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1872 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1873 1874 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1875 1876 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1877 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1878 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1879 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1880 1881 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1882 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1883 1884 If unsure, say N. 1885 1886config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1887 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1888 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1889 help 1890 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1891 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1892 through debugfs interface under 1893 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1894 1895 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1896 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1897 1898 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1899 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1900 1901 If unsure, say N. 1902 1903config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1904 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1905 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1906 help 1907 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1908 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1909 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1910 1911 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1912 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1913 1914 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1915 1916 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1917 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1918 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1919 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1920 1921 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1922 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1923 1924 If unsure, say N. 1925 1926config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1927 def_bool y 1928 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1929 1930config FAULT_INJECTION 1931 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1932 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1933 help 1934 Provide fault-injection framework. 1935 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1936 1937config FAILSLAB 1938 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1939 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1940 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1941 help 1942 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1943 1944config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1945 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1946 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1947 help 1948 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1949 1950config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1951 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1953 help 1954 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1955 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1956 1957config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1958 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1959 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1960 help 1961 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1962 1963config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1964 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1965 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1966 help 1967 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1968 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1969 thus exercising the error handling. 1970 1971 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1972 for others it won't do anything. 1973 1974config FAIL_FUTEX 1975 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1976 select DEBUG_FS 1977 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1978 help 1979 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1980 1981config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1982 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1983 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1984 help 1985 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1986 1987config FAIL_FUNCTION 1988 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1989 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1990 help 1991 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1992 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1993 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1994 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1995 error handling in various subsystems. 1996 1997config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1998 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1999 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 2000 help 2001 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 2002 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 2003 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 2004 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 2005 the block device. 2006 2007config FAIL_SUNRPC 2008 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 2009 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 2010 help 2011 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 2012 its consumers. 2013 2014config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 2015 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 2016 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2017 depends on !X86_64 2018 select STACKTRACE 2019 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 2020 help 2021 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 2022 2023config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2024 bool 2025 help 2026 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2027 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 2028 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 2029 2030config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2031 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 2032 2033 2034config KCOV 2035 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 2036 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2037 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2038 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || STACK_VALIDATION || \ 2039 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 2040 select DEBUG_FS 2041 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2042 help 2043 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2044 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2045 2046 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 2047 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 2048 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2049 2050 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2051 2052config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2053 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2054 depends on KCOV 2055 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2056 help 2057 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2058 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2059 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2060 of fuzzing coverage. 2061 2062config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2063 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2064 depends on KCOV 2065 default y 2066 help 2067 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2068 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2069 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2070 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2071 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2072 2073config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2074 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2075 depends on KCOV 2076 default 0x40000 2077 help 2078 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2079 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2080 number of unsigned long words. 2081 2082menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2083 bool "Runtime Testing" 2084 def_bool y 2085 2086if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2087 2088config LKDTM 2089 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2090 depends on DEBUG_FS 2091 help 2092 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2093 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2094 If you don't need it: say N 2095 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2096 called lkdtm. 2097 2098 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2099 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2100 2101config TEST_LIST_SORT 2102 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2103 depends on KUNIT 2104 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2105 help 2106 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2107 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2108 or at module load time. 2109 2110 If unsure, say N. 2111 2112config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2113 tristate "Min heap test" 2114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2115 help 2116 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2117 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2118 or at module load time. 2119 2120 If unsure, say N. 2121 2122config TEST_SORT 2123 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2124 depends on KUNIT 2125 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2126 help 2127 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2128 or at module load time. 2129 2130 If unsure, say N. 2131 2132config TEST_DIV64 2133 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2134 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2135 help 2136 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2137 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2138 or at module load time. 2139 2140 If unsure, say N. 2141 2142config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2143 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" 2144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2145 depends on KPROBES 2146 depends on KUNIT 2147 help 2148 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2149 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2150 verified for functionality. 2151 2152 Say N if you are unsure. 2153 2154config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2155 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2157 depends on FPROBE 2158 depends on KUNIT=y 2159 help 2160 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2161 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2162 properly. 2163 2164 Say N if you are unsure. 2165 2166config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2167 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2169 help 2170 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2171 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2172 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2173 developers working on architecture code. 2174 2175 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2176 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2177 2178 Say N if you are unsure. 2179 2180config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2181 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2183 select REF_TRACKER 2184 help 2185 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2186 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2187 2188 Say N if you are unsure. 2189 2190config RBTREE_TEST 2191 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2193 help 2194 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2195 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2196 2197config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2198 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2200 select REED_SOLOMON 2201 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2202 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2203 help 2204 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2205 or at module load time. 2206 2207 If unsure, say N. 2208 2209config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2210 tristate "Interval tree test" 2211 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2212 select INTERVAL_TREE 2213 help 2214 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2215 2216config PERCPU_TEST 2217 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2218 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2219 help 2220 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2221 operations. 2222 2223 If unsure, say N. 2224 2225config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2226 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2227 help 2228 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2229 at module load time. 2230 2231 If unsure, say N. 2232 2233config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2234 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2235 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2236 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2237 help 2238 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2239 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2240 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2241 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2242 engine if one is available. 2243 2244 If unsure, say N. 2245 2246config TEST_HEXDUMP 2247 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2248 2249config STRING_SELFTEST 2250 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2251 2252config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2253 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2254 2255config TEST_STRSCPY 2256 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2257 2258config TEST_KSTRTOX 2259 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2260 2261config TEST_PRINTF 2262 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2263 2264config TEST_SCANF 2265 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2266 2267config TEST_BITMAP 2268 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2269 help 2270 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2271 2272 If unsure, say N. 2273 2274config TEST_UUID 2275 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2276 2277config TEST_XARRAY 2278 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2279 2280config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2281 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2282 help 2283 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2284 2285 If unsure, say N. 2286 2287config TEST_SIPHASH 2288 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2289 help 2290 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2291 functions on boot (or module load). 2292 2293 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2294 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2295 2296config TEST_IDA 2297 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2298 2299config TEST_PARMAN 2300 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2301 depends on PARMAN 2302 help 2303 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2304 (or module load). 2305 2306 If unsure, say N. 2307 2308config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2309 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2310 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2311 help 2312 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2313 2314 If unsure, say N. 2315 2316config TEST_LKM 2317 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2318 depends on m 2319 help 2320 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2321 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2322 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2323 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2324 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2325 requested by name. 2326 2327 If unsure, say N. 2328 2329config TEST_BITOPS 2330 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2331 depends on m 2332 help 2333 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2334 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2335 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2336 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2337 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2338 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2339 2340 If unsure, say N. 2341 2342config TEST_VMALLOC 2343 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2344 default n 2345 depends on MMU 2346 depends on m 2347 help 2348 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2349 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2350 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2351 of view. 2352 2353 If unsure, say N. 2354 2355config TEST_USER_COPY 2356 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2357 depends on m 2358 help 2359 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2360 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2361 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2362 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2363 protections. 2364 2365 If unsure, say N. 2366 2367config TEST_BPF 2368 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2369 depends on m && NET 2370 help 2371 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2372 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2373 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2374 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2375 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2376 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2377 2378 If unsure, say N. 2379 2380config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2381 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2382 depends on m && NET 2383 help 2384 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2385 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2386 2387 If unsure, say N. 2388 2389config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2390 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2391 help 2392 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2393 functions performance. 2394 2395 If unsure, say N. 2396 2397config TEST_FIRMWARE 2398 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2399 depends on FW_LOADER 2400 help 2401 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2402 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2403 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2404 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2405 userspace. 2406 2407 If unsure, say N. 2408 2409config TEST_SYSCTL 2410 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2411 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2412 help 2413 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2414 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2415 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2416 2417 If unsure, say N. 2418 2419config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2420 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2421 depends on KUNIT 2422 help 2423 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2424 2425 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2426 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2427 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2428 production build. 2429 2430 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2431 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2432 2433 If unsure, say N. 2434 2435config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2436 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2437 depends on KUNIT 2438 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2439 help 2440 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2441 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2442 2443 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2444 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2445 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2446 production build. 2447 2448 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2449 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2450 2451 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2452 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2453 2454config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2455 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2456 depends on KUNIT 2457 help 2458 This builds the resource API unit test. 2459 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2460 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2461 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2462 2463 If unsure, say N. 2464 2465config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2466 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2467 depends on KUNIT 2468 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2469 help 2470 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2471 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2472 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2473 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2474 2475 If unsure, say N. 2476 2477config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2478 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2479 depends on KUNIT 2480 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2481 help 2482 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2483 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2484 and associated macros. 2485 2486 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2487 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2488 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2489 production build. 2490 2491 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2492 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2493 2494 If unsure, say N. 2495 2496config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2497 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2498 depends on KUNIT 2499 select LINEAR_RANGES 2500 help 2501 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2502 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2503 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2504 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2505 2506 If unsure, say N. 2507 2508config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2509 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2510 depends on KUNIT 2511 help 2512 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2513 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2514 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2515 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2516 2517 If unsure, say N. 2518 2519config BITS_TEST 2520 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2521 depends on KUNIT 2522 help 2523 This builds the bits unit test. 2524 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2525 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2526 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2527 2528 If unsure, say N. 2529 2530config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2531 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2532 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2533 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2534 help 2535 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2536 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2537 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2538 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2539 2540 If unsure, say N. 2541 2542config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2543 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2544 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2545 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2546 help 2547 This builds the rational math unit test. 2548 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2549 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2550 2551 If unsure, say N. 2552 2553config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2554 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2555 depends on KUNIT 2556 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2557 help 2558 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2559 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2560 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2561 2562 If unsure, say N. 2563 2564config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2565 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2566 depends on KUNIT 2567 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2568 help 2569 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2570 related functions. 2571 2572 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2573 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2574 2575 If unsure, say N. 2576 2577config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2578 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2579 depends on KUNIT 2580 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2581 help 2582 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2583 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2584 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2585 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2586 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2587 2588config TEST_UDELAY 2589 tristate "udelay test driver" 2590 help 2591 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2592 that udelay() is working properly. 2593 2594 If unsure, say N. 2595 2596config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2597 tristate "Test static keys" 2598 depends on m 2599 help 2600 Test the static key interfaces. 2601 2602 If unsure, say N. 2603 2604config TEST_KMOD 2605 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2606 depends on m 2607 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2608 depends on BLOCK 2609 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2610 select TEST_LKM 2611 select XFS_FS 2612 select TUN 2613 select BTRFS_FS 2614 help 2615 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2616 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2617 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2618 2619 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2620 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2621 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2622 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2623 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2624 2625 To run tests run: 2626 2627 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2628 2629 If unsure, say N. 2630 2631config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2632 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2633 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2634 help 2635 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2636 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2637 kernel's virtual address map. 2638 2639 If unsure, say N. 2640 2641config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2642 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2643 help 2644 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2645 pointer arrays together. 2646 2647 If unsure, say N. 2648 2649config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2650 tristate "Test livepatching" 2651 default n 2652 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2653 depends on LIVEPATCH 2654 depends on m 2655 help 2656 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2657 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2658 2659 To run all the livepatching tests: 2660 2661 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2662 2663 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2664 2665 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2666 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2667 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2668 2669 If unsure, say N. 2670 2671config TEST_OBJAGG 2672 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2673 default n 2674 depends on OBJAGG 2675 help 2676 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2677 (or module load). 2678 2679config TEST_MEMINIT 2680 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2681 help 2682 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2683 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2684 2685 If unsure, say N. 2686 2687config TEST_HMM 2688 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2689 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2690 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2691 select HMM_MIRROR 2692 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2693 help 2694 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2695 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2696 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2697 2698 If unsure, say N. 2699 2700config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2701 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2702 help 2703 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2704 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2705 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2706 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2707 probably OOM your system. 2708 2709config TEST_FPU 2710 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2711 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2712 help 2713 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2714 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2715 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2716 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2717 2718 If unsure, say N. 2719 2720config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2721 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2722 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2723 help 2724 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2725 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2726 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2727 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2728 shortly after boot. 2729 2730 If unsure, say N. 2731 2732endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2733 2734config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2735 bool 2736 help 2737 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2738 during boot process. 2739 2740config MEMTEST 2741 bool "Memtest" 2742 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2743 help 2744 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2745 to be set and executed. 2746 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2747 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2748 ... 2749 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2750 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2751 2752 2753 2754config HYPERV_TESTING 2755 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2756 default n 2757 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2758 help 2759 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2760 2761endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2762 2763source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2764 2765endmenu # Kernel hacking 2766