1menu "printk and dmesg options" 2 3config PRINTK_TIME 4 bool "Show timing information on printks" 5 depends on PRINTK 6 help 7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 9 call and at the console. 10 11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 14 15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 17 18config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 20 range 1 15 21 default "7" 22 help 23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 24 25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 27 value is specified here as well. 28 29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 31 option. 32 33config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 34 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 35 range 1 7 36 default "4" 37 help 38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 39 40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 42 priority. 43 44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 47 48config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 51 help 52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 55 using "boot_delay=N". 56 57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 58 the "loops per jiffie" value. 59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 64 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 65 66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 68 default n 69 depends on PRINTK 70 depends on DEBUG_FS 71 help 72 73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 79 80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 84 85 Usage: 86 87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 92 format for each line of the file is: 93 94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 95 96 filename : source file of the debug statement 97 lineno : line number of the debug statement 98 module : module that contains the debug statement 99 function : function that contains the debug statement 100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 101 format : the format used for the debug statement 102 103 From a live system: 104 105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 110 111 Example usage: 112 113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 116 117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 120 121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 124 125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 128 129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 132 133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 134 information. 135 136endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 137 138menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 139 140config DEBUG_INFO 141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 143 help 144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 150 151 If unsure, say N. 152 153config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 154 bool "Reduce debugging information" 155 depends on DEBUG_INFO 156 help 157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 158 information for structure types. This means that tools that 159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 164 Only works with newer gcc versions. 165 166config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV 169 help 170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 174 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 175 176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 178 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 180 181config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 183 depends on DEBUG_INFO 184 help 185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 188 variables in gdb on optimized code. 189 190config GDB_SCRIPTS 191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 192 depends on DEBUG_INFO 193 help 194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 199 for further details. 200 201config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED 202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic" 203 default y 204 help 205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. 206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated 207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. 208 209config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 210 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 211 default y 212 help 213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 216 217config FRAME_WARN 218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 219 range 0 8192 220 default 0 if KASAN 221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 222 default 1024 if !64BIT 223 default 2048 if 64BIT 224 help 225 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 226 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 227 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 228 Requires gcc 4.4 229 230config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 231 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 232 default n 233 help 234 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 235 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 236 get_wchan() and suchlike. 237 238config READABLE_ASM 239 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 241 help 242 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 243 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 244 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 245 sane. 246 247config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 248 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 249 default y if X86 250 help 251 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 252 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 253 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 254 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 255 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 256 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 257 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 258 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 259 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 260 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 261 your module is. 262 263config PAGE_OWNER 264 bool "Track page owner" 265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 266 select DEBUG_FS 267 select STACKTRACE 268 select STACKDEPOT 269 select PAGE_EXTENSION 270 help 271 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may 272 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this 273 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass 274 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats 275 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c 276 for user-space helper. 277 278 If unsure, say N. 279 280config DEBUG_FS 281 bool "Debug Filesystem" 282 select SRCU 283 help 284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 286 write to these files. 287 288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 289 Documentation/filesystems/. 290 291 If unsure, say N. 292 293config HEADERS_CHECK 294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 295 depends on !UML 296 help 297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 300 were not exported, etc. 301 302 If you're making modifications to header files which are 303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 306 307config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 309 help 310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 311 references from one section to another section. 312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 314 most likely result in an oops. 315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 318 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 319 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 320 additional steps to occur: 321 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 322 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 323 function, we would lose the section information and thus 324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 326 a larger kernel). 327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file. 328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 330 introduced. 331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file 332 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 333 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 334 reported at least twice. 335 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 336 the section mismatches that are reported. 337 338config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 340 default y 341 help 342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 344 345 If unsure, say Y. 346 347# 348# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 349# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 350# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 351# 352config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 353 bool 354 help 355 356config FRAME_POINTER 357 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ 359 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ 360 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \ 361 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 362 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 363 help 364 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 365 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 366 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 367 368config STACK_VALIDATION 369 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 370 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 371 default n 372 help 373 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 374 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 375 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 376 377 For more information, see 378 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 379 380config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 381 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 383 help 384 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 385 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 386 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 387 definitions. 388 389 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 390 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 391 392 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 393 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 394 395endmenu # "Compiler options" 396 397config MAGIC_SYSRQ 398 bool "Magic SysRq key" 399 depends on !UML 400 help 401 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 402 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 403 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 404 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 405 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 406 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 407 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 408 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 409 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 410 411config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 412 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 413 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 414 default 0x1 415 help 416 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 417 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 418 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 419 420config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 421 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 422 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 423 default y 424 help 425 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 426 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 427 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 428 magic SysRq key. 429 430config DEBUG_KERNEL 431 bool "Kernel debugging" 432 help 433 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 434 identify kernel problems. 435 436menu "Memory Debugging" 437 438source mm/Kconfig.debug 439 440config DEBUG_OBJECTS 441 bool "Debug object operations" 442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 443 help 444 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 445 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 446 the operations on those objects. 447 448config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 449 bool "Debug objects selftest" 450 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 451 help 452 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 453 454config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 455 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 456 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 457 help 458 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 459 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 460 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 461 much slower. 462 463config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 464 bool "Debug timer objects" 465 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 466 help 467 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 468 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 469 validate the timer operations. 470 471config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 472 bool "Debug work objects" 473 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 474 help 475 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 476 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 477 validate the work operations. 478 479config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 480 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 481 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 482 help 483 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 484 485config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 486 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 487 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 488 help 489 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 490 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 491 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 492 493config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 494 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 495 range 0 1 496 default "1" 497 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 498 help 499 Debug objects boot parameter default value 500 501config DEBUG_SLAB 502 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK 504 help 505 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 506 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 507 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 508 509config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK 510 bool "Memory leak debugging" 511 depends on DEBUG_SLAB 512 513config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 514 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 515 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK 516 default n 517 help 518 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 519 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 520 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 521 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 522 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 523 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 524 "slub_debug=-". 525 526config SLUB_STATS 527 default n 528 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 529 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 530 help 531 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 532 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 533 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 534 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 535 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 536 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 537 Try running: slabinfo -DA 538 539config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 540 bool 541 542config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 543 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 545 select DEBUG_FS 546 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 547 select KALLSYMS 548 select CRC32 549 help 550 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 551 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 552 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 553 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 554 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 555 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 556 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 557 details. 558 559 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 560 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 561 562 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 563 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 564 565config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 566 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 567 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 568 range 200 40000 569 default 400 570 help 571 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 572 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 573 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 574 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 575 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 576 577config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 578 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 579 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 580 help 581 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 582 583 If unsure, say N. 584 585config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 586 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 587 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 588 help 589 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 590 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 591 592config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 593 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 594 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 595 help 596 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 597 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 598 599 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 600 601config DEBUG_VM 602 bool "Debug VM" 603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 604 help 605 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 606 that may impact performance. 607 608 If unsure, say N. 609 610config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 611 bool "Debug VMA caching" 612 depends on DEBUG_VM 613 help 614 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 615 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 616 environments. 617 618 If unsure, say N. 619 620config DEBUG_VM_RB 621 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 622 depends on DEBUG_VM 623 help 624 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 625 626 If unsure, say N. 627 628config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 629 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 630 depends on DEBUG_VM 631 help 632 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 633 634 If unsure, say N. 635 636config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 637 bool 638 639config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 640 bool "Debug VM translations" 641 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 642 help 643 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 644 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 645 646 If unsure, say N. 647 648config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 649 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 650 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 651 help 652 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 653 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 654 655config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 656 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 657 default !EXPERT 658 help 659 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 660 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 661 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 662 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 663 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 664 665 If unsure, say Y 666 667config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 668 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 669 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 670 help 671 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 672 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 673 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 674 675 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 676 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 677 678 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 679 680 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 681 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 682 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 683 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 684 685 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 686 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 687 688 If unsure, say N. 689 690config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 691 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 693 depends on SMP 694 help 695 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 696 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 697 and decreases performance. 698 699 Say N if unsure. 700 701config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 702 bool "Highmem debugging" 703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 704 help 705 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 706 systems. Disable for production systems. 707 708config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 709 bool 710 711config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 712 bool "Check for stack overflows" 713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 714 ---help--- 715 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 716 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 717 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 718 below a certain limit. 719 720 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 721 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 722 involved. 723 724 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 725 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 726 727 If in doubt, say "N". 728 729source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" 730 731source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 732 733endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 734 735config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 736 bool 737 help 738 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled 739 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely 740 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code. 741 742config KCOV 743 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 744 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 745 select DEBUG_FS 746 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST 747 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST 748 help 749 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 750 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 751 752 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 753 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 754 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 755 756 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 757 758config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 759 bool "Instrument all code by default" 760 depends on KCOV 761 default y if KCOV 762 help 763 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 764 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 765 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 766 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 767 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 768 769config DEBUG_SHIRQ 770 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 771 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 772 help 773 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 774 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 775 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 776 points; some don't and need to be caught. 777 778menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 779 780config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 781 bool 782 783config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 784 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 785 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 786 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 787 help 788 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 789 soft lockups. 790 791 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 792 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 793 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 794 detection and the system will stay locked up. 795 796config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 797 bool 798 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 799 800# 801# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 802# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 803# 804config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 805 bool 806 807# 808# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 809# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 810# 811config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 812 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 814 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 815 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 816 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 817 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 818 help 819 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 820 hard lockups. 821 822 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 823 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 824 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 825 and the system will stay locked up. 826 827config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 828 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 829 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 830 help 831 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 832 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 833 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 834 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 835 836 Say N if unsure. 837 838config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 839 int 840 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 841 range 0 1 842 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 843 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 844 845config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 846 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 847 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 848 help 849 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 850 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 851 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 852 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 853 854 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 855 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 856 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 857 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 858 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 859 860 Say N if unsure. 861 862config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 863 int 864 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 865 range 0 1 866 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 867 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 868 869config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 870 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 871 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 872 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 873 help 874 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 875 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 876 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 877 878 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 879 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 880 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 881 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 882 feature has negligible overhead. 883 884config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 885 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 886 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 887 default 120 888 help 889 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 890 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 891 be considered hung. 892 893 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 894 sysctl or by writing a value to 895 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 896 897 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 898 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 899 900config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 901 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 902 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 903 help 904 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 905 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 906 in uninterruptible "D" state. 907 908 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 909 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 910 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 911 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 912 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 913 914 Say N if unsure. 915 916config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 917 int 918 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 919 range 0 1 920 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 921 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 922 923config WQ_WATCHDOG 924 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 925 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 926 help 927 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 928 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 929 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 930 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 931 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 932 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 933 934endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 935 936config PANIC_ON_OOPS 937 bool "Panic on Oops" 938 help 939 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 940 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 941 line. 942 943 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 944 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 945 corruption or other issues. 946 947 Say N if unsure. 948 949config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 950 int 951 range 0 1 952 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 953 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 954 955config PANIC_TIMEOUT 956 int "panic timeout" 957 default 0 958 help 959 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 960 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 961 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 962 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 963 964config SCHED_DEBUG 965 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 966 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 967 default y 968 help 969 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 970 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 971 option is minimal. 972 973config SCHED_INFO 974 bool 975 default n 976 977config SCHEDSTATS 978 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 979 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 980 select SCHED_INFO 981 help 982 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 983 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 984 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 985 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 986 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 987 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 988 this adds. 989 990config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 991 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 992 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 993 default n 994 help 995 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 996 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 997 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 998 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 999 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 1000 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 1001 1002config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1003 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1004 help 1005 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1006 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1007 problems are suspected. 1008 1009 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1010 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1011 workloads. 1012 1013 If unsure, say N. 1014 1015config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1016 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1017 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1018 default y 1019 help 1020 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1021 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1022 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1023 will detect preemption count underflows. 1024 1025menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1026 1027config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1028 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1030 help 1031 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1032 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1033 1034config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1035 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1036 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1037 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1038 help 1039 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1040 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1041 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1042 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1043 1044config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1045 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1047 help 1048 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1049 reported. 1050 1051config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1052 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1053 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1054 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1055 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1056 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1057 help 1058 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1059 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1060 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1061 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1062 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1063 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1064 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1065 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1066 you are a distro, do not. 1067 1068config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1069 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1071 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1072 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1073 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1074 select LOCKDEP 1075 help 1076 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1077 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1078 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1079 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1080 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1081 held during task exit. 1082 1083config PROVE_LOCKING 1084 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1085 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1086 select LOCKDEP 1087 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1088 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1089 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1090 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1091 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1092 default n 1093 help 1094 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1095 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1096 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1097 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1098 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1099 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1100 deadlock. 1101 1102 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1103 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1104 1105 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1106 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1107 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1108 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1109 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1110 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1111 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1112 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1113 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1114 1115 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1116 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1117 kernel reports nothing. 1118 1119 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1120 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1121 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1122 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1123 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1124 1125 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1126 1127config LOCKDEP 1128 bool 1129 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1130 select STACKTRACE 1131 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE 1132 select KALLSYMS 1133 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1134 1135config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1136 bool 1137 1138config LOCK_STAT 1139 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1141 select LOCKDEP 1142 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1143 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1144 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1145 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1146 default n 1147 help 1148 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1149 1150 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1151 1152 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1153 subcommand of perf. 1154 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1155 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1156 1157 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1158 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1159 1160config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1161 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1163 help 1164 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1165 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1166 of more runtime overhead. 1167 1168config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1169 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1170 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1172 help 1173 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1174 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1175 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1176 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1177 1178config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1179 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1181 help 1182 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1183 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1184 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1185 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1186 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1187 mutexes and rwsems. 1188 1189config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1190 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1192 select TORTURE_TEST 1193 default n 1194 help 1195 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1196 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1197 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1198 1199 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1200 to be built into the kernel. 1201 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1202 Say N if you are unsure. 1203 1204config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1205 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1206 help 1207 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1208 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1209 1210 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1211 with this test harness. 1212 1213 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1214 Say N if you are unsure. 1215 1216endmenu # lock debugging 1217 1218config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1219 bool 1220 help 1221 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1222 either tracing or lock debugging. 1223 1224config STACKTRACE 1225 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1226 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1227 help 1228 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1229 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1230 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1231 stack trace generation. 1232 1233config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1234 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1235 default n 1236 help 1237 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1238 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1239 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1240 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1241 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1242 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1243 it. 1244 1245 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1246 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1247 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1248 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1249 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1250 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1251 However, since users can not do anything actionble to 1252 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1253 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1254 1255 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1256 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1257 those developers interersted in improving the security of 1258 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1259 subarchitecture). 1260 1261config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1262 bool "kobject debugging" 1263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1264 help 1265 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1266 to the syslog. 1267 1268config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1269 bool "kobject release debugging" 1270 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1271 help 1272 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1273 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1274 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1275 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1276 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1277 unregistered. 1278 1279 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1280 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1281 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1282 1283 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1284 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1285 kind of kobject release bug. 1286 1287config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1288 bool 1289 1290config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1291 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1292 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1293 default y 1294 help 1295 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1296 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1297 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1298 1299config DEBUG_LIST 1300 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1302 help 1303 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1304 walking routines. 1305 1306 If unsure, say N. 1307 1308config DEBUG_PI_LIST 1309 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1310 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1311 help 1312 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1313 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1314 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1315 1316 If unsure, say N. 1317 1318config DEBUG_SG 1319 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1321 help 1322 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1323 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1324 their sg tables. 1325 1326 If unsure, say N. 1327 1328config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1329 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 help 1332 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1333 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1334 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1335 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1336 performance, say N. 1337 1338config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1339 bool "Debug credential management" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1341 help 1342 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1343 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1344 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1345 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1346 struct. 1347 1348 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1349 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1350 1351 If unsure, say N. 1352 1353source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1354 1355config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1356 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1358 default n 1359 help 1360 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1361 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1362 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1363 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1364 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1365 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1366 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1367 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1368 be impacted. 1369 1370config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1371 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1373 depends on BLOCK 1374 default n 1375 help 1376 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1377 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1378 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1379 is broken. 1380 1381 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1382 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1383 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1384 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1385 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1386 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1387 device number allocation. 1388 1389 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1390 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1391 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1392 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1393 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1394 1395 Say N if you are unsure. 1396 1397config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1398 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1399 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1400 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1401 default n 1402 help 1403 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1404 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1405 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1406 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1407 1408 Say N if your are unsure. 1409 1410config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1411 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1413 select DEBUG_FS 1414 help 1415 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1416 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1417 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1418 1419 Say N if unsure. 1420 1421config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1422 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1423 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1424 default m if PM_DEBUG 1425 help 1426 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1427 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1428 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1429 1430 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1431 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1432 1433 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1434 1435 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1436 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1437 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1438 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1439 1440 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1441 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1442 1443 If unsure, say N. 1444 1445config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1446 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1447 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1448 help 1449 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1450 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1451 through debugfs interface under 1452 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1453 1454 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1455 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1456 1457 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1458 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1459 1460 If unsure, say N. 1461 1462config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1463 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1464 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1465 help 1466 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1467 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1468 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1469 1470 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1471 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1472 1473 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1474 1475 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1476 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1477 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1478 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1479 1480 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1481 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1482 1483 If unsure, say N. 1484 1485config FAULT_INJECTION 1486 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1487 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1488 help 1489 Provide fault-injection framework. 1490 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1491 1492config FAILSLAB 1493 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1494 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1495 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1496 help 1497 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1498 1499config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1500 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1501 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1502 help 1503 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1504 1505config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1506 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1507 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1508 help 1509 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1510 1511config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1512 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1513 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1514 help 1515 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1516 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1517 thus exercising the error handling. 1518 1519 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1520 for others it wont do anything. 1521 1522config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1523 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1524 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1525 help 1526 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1527 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1528 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1529 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1530 the block device. 1531 1532config FAIL_FUTEX 1533 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1534 select DEBUG_FS 1535 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1536 help 1537 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1538 1539config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1540 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1541 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1542 help 1543 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1544 1545config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1546 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1547 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1548 depends on !X86_64 1549 select STACKTRACE 1550 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE 1551 help 1552 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1553 1554config LATENCYTOP 1555 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1556 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1557 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1558 depends on PROC_FS 1559 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC 1560 select KALLSYMS 1561 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1562 select STACKTRACE 1563 select SCHEDSTATS 1564 select SCHED_DEBUG 1565 help 1566 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1567 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1568 1569source kernel/trace/Kconfig 1570 1571menu "Runtime Testing" 1572 1573config LKDTM 1574 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1575 depends on DEBUG_FS 1576 depends on BLOCK 1577 default n 1578 help 1579 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1580 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1581 If you don't need it: say N 1582 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1583 called lkdtm. 1584 1585 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1586 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1587 1588config TEST_LIST_SORT 1589 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1590 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1591 help 1592 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1593 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1594 or at module load time. 1595 1596 If unsure, say N. 1597 1598config TEST_SORT 1599 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1601 help 1602 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1603 or at module load time. 1604 1605 If unsure, say N. 1606 1607config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1608 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1610 depends on KPROBES 1611 default n 1612 help 1613 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1614 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1615 verified for functionality. 1616 1617 Say N if you are unsure. 1618 1619config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1620 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1621 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1622 default n 1623 help 1624 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1625 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1626 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1627 developers working on architecture code. 1628 1629 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1630 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1631 1632 Say N if you are unsure. 1633 1634config RBTREE_TEST 1635 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1637 help 1638 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1639 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1640 1641config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1642 tristate "Interval tree test" 1643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1644 select INTERVAL_TREE 1645 help 1646 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1647 1648config PERCPU_TEST 1649 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1650 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1651 help 1652 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1653 operations. 1654 1655 If unsure, say N. 1656 1657config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1658 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1659 help 1660 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1661 at module load time. 1662 1663 If unsure, say N. 1664 1665config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1666 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1667 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1668 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1669 ---help--- 1670 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1671 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1672 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1673 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1674 engine if one is available. 1675 1676 If unsure, say N. 1677 1678config TEST_HEXDUMP 1679 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1680 1681config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1682 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1683 1684config TEST_KSTRTOX 1685 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1686 1687config TEST_PRINTF 1688 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1689 1690config TEST_BITMAP 1691 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1692 default n 1693 help 1694 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1695 1696 If unsure, say N. 1697 1698config TEST_UUID 1699 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1700 1701config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1702 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1703 default n 1704 help 1705 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1706 1707 If unsure, say N. 1708 1709config TEST_HASH 1710 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1711 default n 1712 help 1713 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1714 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1715 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1716 1717 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1718 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1719 1720config TEST_PARMAN 1721 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1722 default n 1723 depends on PARMAN 1724 help 1725 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1726 (or module load). 1727 1728 If unsure, say N. 1729 1730endmenu # runtime tests 1731 1732config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1733 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1734 depends on PCI && X86 1735 help 1736 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1737 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1738 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1739 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1740 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1741 1742 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1743 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1744 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1745 1746 Usage: 1747 1748 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1749 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1750 1751 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1752 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1753 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1754 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1755 1756 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1757 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1758 1759 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1760 1761config DMA_API_DEBUG 1762 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" 1763 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 1764 help 1765 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. 1766 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device 1767 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that 1768 were never allocated. 1769 1770 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is 1771 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For 1772 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is 1773 not undergoing DMA. 1774 1775 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to 1776 debug device drivers and dma interactions. 1777 1778 If unsure, say N. 1779 1780config TEST_LKM 1781 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1782 default n 1783 depends on m 1784 help 1785 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1786 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1787 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1788 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1789 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1790 requested by name. 1791 1792 If unsure, say N. 1793 1794config TEST_USER_COPY 1795 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1796 default n 1797 depends on m 1798 help 1799 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1800 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1801 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1802 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1803 protections. 1804 1805 If unsure, say N. 1806 1807config TEST_BPF 1808 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1809 default n 1810 depends on m && NET 1811 help 1812 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1813 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1814 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1815 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1816 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1817 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1818 1819 If unsure, say N. 1820 1821config TEST_FIRMWARE 1822 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1823 default n 1824 depends on FW_LOADER 1825 help 1826 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1827 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1828 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1829 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1830 userspace. 1831 1832 If unsure, say N. 1833 1834config TEST_SYSCTL 1835 tristate "sysctl test driver" 1836 default n 1837 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1838 help 1839 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 1840 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 1841 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 1842 1843 If unsure, say N. 1844 1845config TEST_UDELAY 1846 tristate "udelay test driver" 1847 default n 1848 help 1849 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1850 that udelay() is working properly. 1851 1852 If unsure, say N. 1853 1854config MEMTEST 1855 bool "Memtest" 1856 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK 1857 ---help--- 1858 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 1859 to be set. 1860 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 1861 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 1862 ... 1863 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 1864 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1865 1866config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1867 tristate "Test static keys" 1868 default n 1869 depends on m 1870 help 1871 Test the static key interfaces. 1872 1873 If unsure, say N. 1874 1875config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1876 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1877 select DEBUG_LIST 1878 help 1879 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1880 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1881 for validity. 1882 1883 If unsure, say N. 1884 1885config TEST_KMOD 1886 tristate "kmod stress tester" 1887 default n 1888 depends on m 1889 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS 1890 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 1891 select TEST_LKM 1892 select XFS_FS 1893 select TUN 1894 select BTRFS_FS 1895 help 1896 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 1897 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 1898 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 1899 1900 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 1901 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 1902 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 1903 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 1904 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 1905 1906 To run tests run: 1907 1908 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 1909 1910 If unsure, say N. 1911 1912source "samples/Kconfig" 1913 1914source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 1915 1916source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 1917 1918config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1919 bool 1920 1921config STRICT_DEVMEM 1922 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1923 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1924 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1925 default y if TILE || PPC 1926 ---help--- 1927 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1928 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1929 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1930 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1931 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1932 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1933 1934 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1935 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1936 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1937 users of /dev/mem. 1938 1939 If in doubt, say Y. 1940 1941config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1942 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1943 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1944 ---help--- 1945 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1946 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1947 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1948 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1949 1950 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1951 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1952 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1953 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1954 1955 If in doubt, say Y. 1956