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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2config PAGE_EXTENSION
3	bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
4	---help---
5	  Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
6	  could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
7	  field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
8	  by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
9	  configuration.
10
11config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
12	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
13	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
14	depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
15	select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
16	---help---
17	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
18	  Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
19	  slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
20
21	  Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as
22	  pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes
23	  often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free,
24	  use-after-free). The error reports for these checks can be augmented
25	  with stack traces of last allocation and freeing of the page, when
26	  PAGE_OWNER is also selected and enabled on boot.
27
28	  For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
29	  fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
30	  the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally, this option cannot
31	  be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in
32	  incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free
33	  pages are not saved to the suspend image.
34
35	  By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
36	  allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
37	  architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
38	  enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
39	  command line parameter.
40
41config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
42	bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
43	depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
44	---help---
45	  Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
46	  can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
47
48config PAGE_OWNER
49	bool "Track page owner"
50	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
51	select DEBUG_FS
52	select STACKTRACE
53	select STACKDEPOT
54	select PAGE_EXTENSION
55	help
56	  This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
57	  help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
58	  feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
59	  "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
60	  a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
61	  for user-space helper.
62
63	  If unsure, say N.
64
65config PAGE_POISONING
66	bool "Poison pages after freeing"
67	select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
68	---help---
69	  Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
70	  the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
71	  reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
72	  have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
73	  "page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
74
75	  Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
76	  for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
77
78	  If unsure, say N
79
80config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
81	depends on PAGE_POISONING
82	bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
83	---help---
84	   Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
85	   poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
86	   poisoning feature.
87
88	   If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
89	   say N.
90
91config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
92	bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
93	depends on PAGE_POISONING
94	---help---
95	   Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
96	   zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
97	   due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
98	   no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on
99	   allocation.
100
101	   If unsure, say N
102
103config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
104	bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
105	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
106	depends on TRACEPOINTS
107	---help---
108	  This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
109	  manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
110	  due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches.  Be
111	  careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
112	  kernel code.  However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
113	  nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
114
115config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
116    bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
117    depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
118    ---help---
119      This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
120
121config GENERIC_PTDUMP
122	bool
123
124config PTDUMP_CORE
125	bool
126
127config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
128	bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
129	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
130	depends on DEBUG_FS
131	depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
132	select PTDUMP_CORE
133	help
134	  Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
135	  debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
136	  who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
137	  It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
138	  kernel.
139
140	  If in doubt, say N.
141