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Thomas Gleixnerec8f24b2019-05-19 13:07:45 +01001# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02002menu "Kernel hacking"
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Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -07004menu "printk and dmesg options"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005
6config PRINTK_TIME
7 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08008 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009 help
Kay Sievers649e6ee2012-05-10 04:30:45 +020010 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
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8c27ceff32016-10-18 10:12:27 -020019 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020
Tetsuo Handa15ff2062018-12-18 06:05:04 +090021config 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
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080038config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
40 range 1 15
41 default "7"
42 help
43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
44
45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
47 value is specified here as well.
48
Borislav Petkov50f4d9b2016-12-19 16:23:15 -080049 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080050 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
51 option.
52
Hans de Goede22eceb82018-06-19 13:57:26 +020053config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
55 range 1 15
56 default "4"
57 help
58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
59
60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
63
Alex Elder42a9dc02014-08-06 16:09:01 -070064config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070065 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
66 range 1 7
67 default "4"
68 help
69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
70
71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
73 priority.
74
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080075 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
78
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -070079config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
82 help
83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
86 using "boot_delay=N".
87
88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
89 the "loops per jiffie" value.
90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
95 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
96
97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
99 default n
100 depends on PRINTK
101 depends on DEBUG_FS
102 help
103
104 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
105 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
106 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
107 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
108 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
109 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
110
111 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
112 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
113 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
114 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
115
116 Usage:
117
118 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
119 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
120 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
121 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
122 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
123 format for each line of the file is:
124
125 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
126
127 filename : source file of the debug statement
128 lineno : line number of the debug statement
129 module : module that contains the debug statement
130 function : function that contains the debug statement
131 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
132 format : the format used for the debug statement
133
134 From a live system:
135
136 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
137 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
138 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
139 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
140 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
141
142 Example usage:
143
144 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
145 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
146 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
147
148 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
149 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
150 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
151
152 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
153 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
154 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
155
156 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
157 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
158 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
159
160 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
161 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
162 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
163
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100164 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
165 information.
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700166
167endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
168
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700169menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
170
171config DEBUG_INFO
172 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
Linus Torvalds12b13832014-02-04 12:20:01 -0800173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700174 help
175 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
176 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
177 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
178 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
179 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
180 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
181
182 If unsure, say N.
183
184config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
185 bool "Reduce debugging information"
186 depends on DEBUG_INFO
187 help
188 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
189 information for structure types. This means that tools that
190 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
191 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
192 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
193 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
194 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
195 Only works with newer gcc versions.
196
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200197config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
198 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100199 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900200 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200201 help
202 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
203 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
204 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
205 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
206 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
207
208 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
209 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
210 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
211 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
212
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200213config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
214 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
215 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900216 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200217 help
218 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
219 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
220 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
221 variables in gdb on optimized code.
222
Andrii Nakryikoe83b9f52019-04-02 09:49:50 -0700223config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
224 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
225 depends on DEBUG_INFO
226 help
227 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
228 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
229 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
230
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800231config GDB_SCRIPTS
232 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
233 depends on DEBUG_INFO
234 help
235 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
236 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
237 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
238 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800239 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
240 for further details.
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800241
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700242config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
243 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
244 default y
245 help
246 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
247 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
248 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700249
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100250config FRAME_WARN
251 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
252 range 0 8192
Kees Cook0e07f662016-10-27 17:46:41 -0700253 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
Helge Deller432654d2017-09-11 21:41:43 +0200254 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
255 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100256 default 2048 if 64BIT
257 help
258 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
259 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
260 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
261 Requires gcc 4.4
262
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700263config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
264 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
265 default n
266 help
267 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
268 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
269 get_wchan() and suchlike.
270
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -0700271config READABLE_ASM
272 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
274 help
275 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
276 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
277 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
278 sane.
279
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700280config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
281 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
282 default y if X86
283 help
284 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
285 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
286 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
287 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
288 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
289 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
290 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
291 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
292 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
293 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
294 your module is.
295
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800296config DEBUG_FS
297 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800298 help
299 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
300 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
301 write to these files.
302
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200303 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe1b4fc72017-05-14 12:04:55 -0300304 Documentation/filesystems/.
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200305
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800306 If unsure, say N.
307
Masahiro Yamadae949f4c2019-06-04 19:13:59 +0900308config HEADERS_INSTALL
309 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800310 depends on !UML
311 help
Masahiro Yamadae949f4c2019-06-04 19:13:59 +0900312 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
313 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
314 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
315 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
316 as uapi header sanity checks.
317
318config HEADERS_CHECK
319 bool "Run sanity checks on uapi headers when building 'all'"
320 depends on HEADERS_INSTALL
321 help
322 This option will run basic sanity checks on uapi headers when
323 building the 'all' target, for example, ensure that they do not
324 attempt to include files which were not exported, etc.
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800325
326 If you're making modifications to header files which are
Masahiro Yamada59b2bd02019-06-04 19:14:02 +0900327 relevant for userspace, say 'Y'.
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800328
Masahiro Yamada9012d012019-05-14 15:42:25 -0700329config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
330 bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
331 help
332 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
333 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
334 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
335 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
336 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
337 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
338 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
339 is there to test gcc for this.
340
341 If unsure, say N.
342
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100343config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
344 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100345 help
346 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
347 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000348 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
349 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100350 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000351 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
Paul Gortmaker0db06282013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400352 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100353 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000354 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
355 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
Masahiro Yamadab7dca6d2019-07-17 15:17:57 +0900356 additional step to occur:
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000357 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
358 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
359 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100360 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000361 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
362 a larger kernel).
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100363
Nicolas Boichat47490ec2015-10-06 09:44:42 +1030364config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
365 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
366 default y
367 help
368 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
369 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
370
371 If unsure, say Y.
372
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700373#
374# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
375# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
376# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
377#
378config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
379 bool
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700380
381config FRAME_POINTER
382 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700384 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
385 help
386 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
387 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
388 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
389
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600390config STACK_VALIDATION
391 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
392 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
393 default n
394 help
395 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
396 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
397 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
398
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500399 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
Josh Poimboeuf11af8472017-10-13 15:02:00 -0500400 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500401
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600402 For more information, see
403 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
404
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700405config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
406 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
408 help
409 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
410 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
411 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
412 definitions.
413
414 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
415 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
416
417 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
418 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
419
420endmenu # "Compiler options"
421
422config MAGIC_SYSRQ
423 bool "Magic SysRq key"
424 depends on !UML
425 help
426 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
427 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
428 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
429 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
430 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
431 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
432 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100433 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
434 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700435
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100436config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
437 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
438 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
439 default 0x1
440 help
441 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
442 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100443 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100444
Felix Fietkau732dbf32016-12-22 08:31:34 +0100445config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
446 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
447 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
448 default y
449 help
450 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
451 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
452 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
453 magic SysRq key.
454
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800455config DEBUG_KERNEL
456 bool "Kernel debugging"
457 help
458 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
459 identify kernel problems.
460
Sinan Kayac66d7a22019-05-14 15:44:00 -0700461config DEBUG_MISC
462 bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
463 default DEBUG_KERNEL
464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
465 help
466 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
467 be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
468
469
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700470menu "Memory Debugging"
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800471
Masahiro Yamada8636a1f2018-12-11 20:01:04 +0900472source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800473
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700474config DEBUG_OBJECTS
475 bool "Debug object operations"
476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
477 help
478 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
479 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
480 the operations on those objects.
481
482config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
483 bool "Debug objects selftest"
484 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
485 help
486 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
487
488config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
489 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
490 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
491 help
492 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
493 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
494 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
495 much slower.
496
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700497config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
498 bool "Debug timer objects"
499 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
500 help
501 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
502 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
503 validate the timer operations.
504
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900505config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
506 bool "Debug work objects"
507 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
508 help
509 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
510 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
511 validate the work operations.
512
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400513config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
514 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800515 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400516 help
517 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
518
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700519config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
520 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
521 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
522 help
523 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
524 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
525 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
526
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100527config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
528 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
529 range 0 1
530 default "1"
531 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
532 help
533 Debug objects boot parameter default value
534
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700535config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800536 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700538 help
539 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
540 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
541 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
542
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700543config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
544 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800545 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700546 default n
547 help
548 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
549 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
550 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
551 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
552 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
553 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
554 "slub_debug=-".
555
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800556config SLUB_STATS
557 default n
558 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500559 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800560 help
561 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
562 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
563 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
564 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
565 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
566 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
567 Try running: slabinfo -DA
568
Catalin Marinasb69ec422012-10-08 16:28:11 -0700569config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
570 bool
571
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100572config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
573 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Kees Cook525c1f92013-01-16 18:54:16 -0800574 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100575 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100576 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
577 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800578 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100579 help
580 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
581 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
582 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
583 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
584 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
585 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800586 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100587 details.
588
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100589 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
590 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
591
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100592 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
593 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
594
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100595config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
596 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
597 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200598 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100599 default 400
600 help
601 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
602 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
603 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
604 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
605 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
606
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100607config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
608 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700609 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100610 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700611 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100612
613 If unsure, say N.
614
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100615config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
616 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
617 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
618 help
619 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
620 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
621
Sri Krishna chowdaryd53ce042018-12-28 00:38:54 -0800622config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
623 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
624 default y
625 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
626 help
627 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
628 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
629 kmemleak scan at boot up.
630
631 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
632 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
633 memory leaks.
634
635 If unsure, say Y.
636
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700637config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
638 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
Helge Deller6c31da32016-03-19 17:54:10 +0100639 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700640 help
641 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
642 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
643
644 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
645
646config DEBUG_VM
647 bool "Debug VM"
648 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
649 help
650 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
651 that may impact performance.
652
653 If unsure, say N.
654
Davidlohr Bueso4f115142014-06-04 16:06:46 -0700655config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
656 bool "Debug VMA caching"
657 depends on DEBUG_VM
658 help
659 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
660 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
661 environments.
662
663 If unsure, say N.
664
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700665config DEBUG_VM_RB
666 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
667 depends on DEBUG_VM
668 help
Davidlohr Buesoa663dad2014-04-18 15:07:22 -0700669 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700670
671 If unsure, say N.
672
Kirill A. Shutemov95ad9752016-01-15 16:51:21 -0800673config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
674 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
675 depends on DEBUG_VM
676 help
677 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
678
679 If unsure, say N.
680
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800681config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
682 bool
683
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700684config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
685 bool "Debug VM translations"
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800686 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700687 help
688 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
689 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
690
691 If unsure, say N.
692
693config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
694 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
695 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
696 help
697 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
698 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
699
700config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
701 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
702 default !EXPERT
703 help
704 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
705 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
706 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
707 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
708 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
709
710 If unsure, say Y
711
712config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
713 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
714 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
715 help
716 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
717 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
718 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
719
720 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
721 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
722
723 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
724
725 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
726 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
727 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
728 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
729
730 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
731 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
732
733 If unsure, say N.
734
735config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
736 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
737 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
738 depends on SMP
739 help
740 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
741 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
742 and decreases performance.
743
744 Say N if unsure.
745
746config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
747 bool "Highmem debugging"
748 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
749 help
Geert Uytterhoevenb1357c92014-04-14 18:55:50 +0200750 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
751 systems. Disable for production systems.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700752
753config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
754 bool
755
756config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
757 bool "Check for stack overflows"
758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
759 ---help---
760 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
Borislav Petkovedb0ec02015-01-25 19:50:34 +0100761 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700762 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
763 below a certain limit.
764
765 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
766 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
767 involved.
768
769 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
770 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
771
772 If in doubt, say "N".
773
Andrey Ryabinin0b24bec2015-02-13 14:39:17 -0800774source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
775
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700776endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
777
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700778config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
779 bool
780 help
Mark Rutland40453c42019-04-18 17:50:37 -0700781 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
782 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
783 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700784
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900785config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
786 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
787
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700788config KCOV
789 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
790 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900791 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700792 select DEBUG_FS
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900793 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700794 help
795 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
796 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
797
798 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
799 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
800 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
801
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800802 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700803
Victor Chibotarud677a4d2017-11-17 15:30:50 -0800804config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
805 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
806 depends on KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900807 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
Victor Chibotarud677a4d2017-11-17 15:30:50 -0800808 help
809 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
810 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
811 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
812 of fuzzing coverage.
813
Vegard Nossuma4691de2016-08-02 14:07:30 -0700814config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
815 bool "Instrument all code by default"
816 depends on KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900817 default y
Vegard Nossuma4691de2016-08-02 14:07:30 -0700818 help
819 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
820 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
821 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
822 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
823 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
824
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700825config DEBUG_SHIRQ
826 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
Martin Schwidefsky0244ad02013-08-30 09:39:53 +0200827 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700828 help
829 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
830 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
831 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
832 points; some don't and need to be caught.
833
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700834menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700836config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700837 bool
838
839config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
840 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700841 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700842 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700843 help
844 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700845 soft lockups.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700846
847 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
848 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
849 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
850 detection and the system will stay locked up.
851
Randy Dunlap5f00ae02018-04-10 16:32:51 -0700852config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
853 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
854 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
855 help
856 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
857 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
858 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
859 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
860
861 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
862 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
863 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
864 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
865 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
866
867 Say N if unsure.
868
869config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
870 int
871 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
872 range 0 1
873 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
874 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
875
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700876config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
877 bool
878 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
879
880#
Thomas Gleixner7edaeb62017-08-15 09:50:13 +0200881# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
882# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
883#
884config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
885 bool
886
887#
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700888# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
889# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
890#
891config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
892 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
893 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
894 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
895 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
896 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
897 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
898 help
899 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
900 hard lockups.
901
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700902 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
903 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
904 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
905 and the system will stay locked up.
906
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700907config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
908 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
909 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
910 help
911 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
912 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
913 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
914 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
915
916 Say N if unsure.
917
918config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
919 int
920 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
921 range 0 1
922 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
923 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
924
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700925config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
926 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
927 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700928 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700929 help
930 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
931 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
Vivien Didelot96b03ab2016-09-22 16:55:13 -0400932 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700933
934 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
935 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
936 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
937 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
938 feature has negligible overhead.
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800939
940config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
941 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
942 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700943 default 120
944 help
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700945 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700946 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
947 be considered hung.
948
949 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
950 sysctl or by writing a value to
951 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
952
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700953 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
954 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700955
956config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
957 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
958 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
959 help
960 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
961 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
962 in uninterruptible "D" state.
963
964 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700965 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
966 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700967 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700968 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
969
970 Say N if unsure.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700971
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100972config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700973 int
974 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
975 range 0 1
976 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
977 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
978
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -0500979config WQ_WATCHDOG
980 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
981 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
982 help
983 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
984 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
985 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
986 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
987 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
988 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
989
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700990endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
991
992config PANIC_ON_OOPS
993 bool "Panic on Oops"
994 help
995 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
996 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
997 line.
998
999 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
1000 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
1001 corruption or other issues.
1002
1003 Say N if unsure.
1004
1005config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
1006 int
1007 range 0 1
1008 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
1009 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
1010
Jason Baron5800dc32013-11-25 23:23:04 +00001011config PANIC_TIMEOUT
1012 int "panic timeout"
1013 default 0
1014 help
1015 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
1016 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
1017 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
1018 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
1019
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001020config SCHED_DEBUG
1021 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1022 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1023 default y
1024 help
1025 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1026 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1027 option is minimal.
1028
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301029config SCHED_INFO
1030 bool
1031 default n
1032
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001033config SCHEDSTATS
1034 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1035 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301036 select SCHED_INFO
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001037 help
1038 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1039 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1040 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1041 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1042 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1043 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1044 this adds.
1045
Aaron Tomlin0d9e2632014-09-12 14:16:19 +01001046config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1047 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1048 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1049 default n
1050 help
1051 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1052 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1053 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1054 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1055 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1056 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1057
John Stultz3c17ad12015-03-11 21:16:32 -07001058config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1059 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1060 help
1061 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1062 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1063 problems are suspected.
1064
1065 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1066 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1067 workloads.
1068
1069 If unsure, say N.
1070
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001071config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1072 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +00001073 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001074 default y
1075 help
1076 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1077 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1078 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1079 will detect preemption count underflows.
1080
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001081menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1082
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001083config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1084 bool
1085 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1086 default y
1087
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001088config PROVE_LOCKING
1089 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1090 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1091 select LOCKDEP
1092 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1093 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1094 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001095 select DEBUG_RWSEMS
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001096 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1097 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1098 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1099 default n
1100 help
1101 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1102 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1103 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1104 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1105 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1106 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1107 deadlock.
1108
1109 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1110 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1111
1112 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1113 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1114 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1115 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1116 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1117 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1118 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1119 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1120 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1121
1122 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1123 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1124 kernel reports nothing.
1125
1126 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1127 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1128 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1129 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1130 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1131
Mauro Carvalho Chehab387b1462019-04-10 08:32:41 -03001132 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001133
1134config LOCK_STAT
1135 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1137 select LOCKDEP
1138 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1139 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1140 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1141 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1142 default n
1143 help
1144 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1145
Mauro Carvalho Chehab387b1462019-04-10 08:32:41 -03001146 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001147
1148 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1149 subcommand of perf.
1150 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1151 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1152
1153 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1154 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1155
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001156config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1157 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1159 help
1160 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1161 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1162
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001163config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001164 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +05301166 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001167 help
1168 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1169 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1170 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1171 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1172
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001173config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1174 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1176 help
1177 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1178 reported.
1179
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001180config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1181 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001183 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1184 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1185 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1186 help
1187 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1188 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1189 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1190 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1191 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Rob Clark4d692372014-08-27 11:19:26 -04001192 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1193 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1194 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1195 you are a distro, do not.
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001196
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001197config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1198 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001200 help
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001201 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
1202 and unlocks to be detected and reported.
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001203
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001204config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1205 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001206 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001207 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1208 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001209 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001210 select LOCKDEP
1211 help
1212 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1213 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1214 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1215 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1216 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1217 held during task exit.
1218
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001219config LOCKDEP
1220 bool
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001221 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001222 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001223 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001224 select KALLSYMS
1225 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1226
Daniel Jordan395102d2017-04-10 11:50:52 -04001227config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1228 bool
1229
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001230config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1231 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001233 help
1234 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1235 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1236 of more runtime overhead.
1237
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001238config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1239 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +02001240 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Christoph Hellwig87a4c372018-07-31 13:39:32 +02001242 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001243 help
1244 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001245 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1246 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1247 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001248
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -07001249config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1250 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1252 help
1253 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1254 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1255 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1256 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1257 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1258 mutexes and rwsems.
1259
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001260config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1261 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1262 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1263 select TORTURE_TEST
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001264 help
1265 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1266 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1267 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1268
1269 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1270 to be built into the kernel.
1271 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1272 Say N if you are unsure.
1273
Chris Wilsonf2a5fec2016-12-01 11:47:06 +00001274config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1275 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1276 help
1277 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1278 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1279
1280 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1281 with this test harness.
1282
1283 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1284 Say N if you are unsure.
1285
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001286endmenu # lock debugging
1287
1288config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1289 bool
1290 help
1291 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1292 either tracing or lock debugging.
1293
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001294config STACKTRACE
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001295 bool "Stack backtrace support"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001296 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001297 help
1298 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1299 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1300 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1301 stack trace generation.
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001302
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001303config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1304 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1305 default n
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001306 help
1307 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1308 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1309 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1310 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1311 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1312 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1313 it.
1314
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001315 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1316 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1317 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1318 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1319 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1320 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001321 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001322 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1323 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1324
1325 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1326 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001327 those developers interested in improving the security of
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001328 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1329 subarchitecture).
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001330
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001331config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1332 bool "kobject debugging"
1333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1334 help
1335 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
Mike Rapoportaca52c32018-10-30 15:07:44 -07001336 to the syslog.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001337
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001338config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1339 bool "kobject release debugging"
Linus Torvalds2a999aa2013-10-29 08:33:36 -07001340 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001341 help
1342 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1343 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1344 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1345 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1346 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1347 unregistered.
1348
1349 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1350 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1351 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1352
1353 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1354 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1355 kind of kobject release bug.
1356
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001357config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1358 bool
1359
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001360config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001361 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001362 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -08001363 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001364 help
1365 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1366 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1367 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1368
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001369config DEBUG_LIST
1370 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
Arnd Bergmann4520bcb2016-08-26 17:42:00 +02001371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001372 help
1373 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1374 walking routines.
1375
1376 If unsure, say N.
1377
Davidlohr Bueso8e18fae2019-05-14 15:42:46 -07001378config DEBUG_PLIST
Dan Streetmanb8cfff62014-06-04 16:11:54 -07001379 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1381 help
1382 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1383 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1384 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1385
1386 If unsure, say N.
1387
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +02001388config DEBUG_SG
1389 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1390 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1391 help
1392 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1393 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1394 their sg tables.
1395
1396 If unsure, say N.
1397
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07001398config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1399 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1400 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1401 help
1402 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1403 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1404 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1405 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1406 performance, say N.
1407
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +01001408config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1409 bool "Debug credential management"
1410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1411 help
1412 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1413 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1414 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1415 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1416 struct.
1417
1418 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1419 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1420
1421 If unsure, say N.
1422
Paul E. McKenney43a0a2a2017-05-17 09:19:44 -07001423source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001424
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05001425config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1426 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1427 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1428 default n
1429 help
1430 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1431 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1432 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1433 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1434 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1435 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1436 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1437 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1438 be impacted.
1439
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001440config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1441 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1443 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +02001444 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001445 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001446 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1447 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1448 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1449 is broken.
1450
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001451 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1452 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1453 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1454 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1455 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1456 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1457 device number allocation.
1458
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001459 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1460 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1461 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1462 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1463 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1464
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001465 Say N if you are unsure.
1466
Thomas Gleixner757c9892016-02-26 18:43:32 +00001467config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1468 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1470 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1471 default n
1472 help
1473 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1474 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1475 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1476 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1477
1478 Say N if your are unsure.
1479
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001480config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1481 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1483 select DEBUG_FS
1484 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001485 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001486 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1487 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1488
1489 Say N if unsure.
1490
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001491config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1492 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1493 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1494 default m if PM_DEBUG
1495 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001496 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001497 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1498 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1499
1500 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1501 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1502
1503 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1504
1505 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1506 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1507 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1508 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1509
1510 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1511 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1512
1513 If unsure, say N.
1514
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001515config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1516 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1517 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001518 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001519 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001520 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001521 through debugfs interface under
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001522 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001523
1524 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1525 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1526
1527 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
Akinobu Mitae12a95f2013-04-30 15:28:49 -07001528 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001529
1530 If unsure, say N.
1531
Nikolay Aleksandrov02fff962015-11-28 13:45:28 +01001532config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1533 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1534 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1535 help
1536 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1537 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1538 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1539
1540 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1541 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1542
1543 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1544
1545 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1546 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1547 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1548 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1549
1550 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1551 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1552
1553 If unsure, say N.
1554
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001555config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1556 def_bool y
1557 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1558
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001559config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001560 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1561 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001562 help
1563 Provide fault-injection framework.
1564 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001565
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001566config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001567 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1568 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001569 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001570 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001571 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001572
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001573config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1574 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001575 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001576 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001577 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001578
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001579config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001580 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001581 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001582 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001583 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001584
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001585config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001586 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001587 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1588 help
1589 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1590 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1591 thus exercising the error handling.
1592
1593 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1594 for others it wont do anything.
1595
Davidlohr Buesoab51fba2015-06-29 23:26:02 -07001596config FAIL_FUTEX
1597 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1598 select DEBUG_FS
1599 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1600 help
1601 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1602
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001603config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1604 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1605 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1606 help
1607 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1608
Masami Hiramatsu4b1a29a2018-01-13 02:56:03 +09001609config FAIL_FUNCTION
1610 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1611 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1612 help
1613 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1614 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1615 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1616 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1617 error handling in various subsystems.
1618
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001619config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1620 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1621 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001622 help
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001623 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1624 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1625 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1626 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1627 the block device.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001628
1629config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1630 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1631 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001632 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001633 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001634 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001635 help
1636 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001637
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001638config LATENCYTOP
1639 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1641 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1642 depends on PROC_FS
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001643 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001644 select KALLSYMS
1645 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1646 select STACKTRACE
1647 select SCHEDSTATS
1648 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001649 help
1650 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1651 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1652
Masahiro Yamada8636a1f2018-12-11 20:01:04 +09001653source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001654
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001655config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1656 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1657 depends on PCI && X86
1658 help
1659 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1660 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1661 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1662 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1663 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1664
1665 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1666 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1667 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1668
1669 Usage:
1670
1671 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1672 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1673
1674 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1675 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1676 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1677 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1678
1679 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1680 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1681
1682 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1683
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001684menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1685 bool "Runtime Testing"
Anders Roxell908009e82018-02-21 14:46:05 -08001686 def_bool y
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001687
1688if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001689
1690config LKDTM
1691 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1692 depends on DEBUG_FS
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001693 help
1694 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1695 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1696 If you don't need it: say N
1697 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1698 called lkdtm.
1699
1700 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Mauro Carvalho Chehab10ffebb2019-06-12 14:52:44 -03001701 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001702
1703config TEST_LIST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001704 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1705 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001706 help
1707 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001708 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1709 or at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001710
1711 If unsure, say N.
1712
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001713config TEST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001714 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1715 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001716 help
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001717 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1718 or at module load time.
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001719
1720 If unsure, say N.
1721
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001722config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1723 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1724 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1725 depends on KPROBES
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001726 help
1727 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
Masami Hiramatsu5a6cf772018-06-20 01:05:07 +09001728 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001729 verified for functionality.
1730
1731 Say N if you are unsure.
1732
1733config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1734 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1735 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001736 help
1737 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1738 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1739 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1740 developers working on architecture code.
1741
1742 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1743 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1744
1745 Say N if you are unsure.
1746
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001747config RBTREE_TEST
1748 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
Cody P Schafer7c993e12013-09-11 14:25:19 -07001749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001750 help
1751 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1752 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1753
Ferdinand Blomqvist4b4f3ac2019-06-20 17:10:33 +03001754config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
1755 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
1756 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1757 select REED_SOLOMON
1758 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
1759 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
1760 help
1761 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
1762 or at module load time.
1763
1764 If unsure, say N.
1765
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001766config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1767 tristate "Interval tree test"
Davidlohr Bueso0f789b62017-07-10 15:51:43 -07001768 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Chris Wilsona88cc102014-03-17 12:21:54 +00001769 select INTERVAL_TREE
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001770 help
1771 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1772
Greg Thelen623fd802013-11-12 15:08:34 -08001773config PERCPU_TEST
1774 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1775 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1776 help
1777 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1778 operations.
1779
1780 If unsure, say N.
1781
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001782config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001783 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001784 help
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001785 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1786 at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001787
1788 If unsure, say N.
1789
1790config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1791 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1792 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1793 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1794 ---help---
1795 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1796 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1797 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1798 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1799 engine if one is available.
1800
1801 If unsure, say N.
1802
Andy Shevchenko64d1d772015-02-12 15:02:21 -08001803config TEST_HEXDUMP
1804 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1805
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001806config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1807 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1808
Tobin C. Harding0b0600c2019-04-05 12:58:59 +11001809config TEST_STRSCPY
1810 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
1811
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001812config TEST_KSTRTOX
1813 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1814
Rasmus Villemoes707cc722015-11-06 16:30:29 -08001815config TEST_PRINTF
1816 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1817
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001818config TEST_BITMAP
1819 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001820 help
1821 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1822
1823 If unsure, say N.
1824
Johannes Berg0e2dc702018-06-20 08:58:30 +02001825config TEST_BITFIELD
1826 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
1827 help
1828 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
1829
1830 If unsure, say N.
1831
Andy Shevchenkocfaff0e2016-05-30 17:40:41 +03001832config TEST_UUID
1833 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1834
Matthew Wilcoxad3d6c72017-11-07 14:57:46 -05001835config TEST_XARRAY
1836 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
1837
Rasmus Villemoes455a35a2018-05-08 00:36:28 +02001838config TEST_OVERFLOW
1839 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1840
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001841config TEST_RHASHTABLE
Geert Uytterhoeven9d6dbe12015-01-29 15:40:25 +01001842 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001843 help
1844 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1845
1846 If unsure, say N.
1847
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001848config TEST_HASH
1849 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001850 help
Jason A. Donenfeld2c956a62017-01-08 13:54:00 +01001851 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1852 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1853 hash functions on boot (or module load).
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001854
1855 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1856 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1857
Matthew Wilcox8ab8ba32018-06-18 16:59:29 -04001858config TEST_IDA
1859 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
1860
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001861config TEST_PARMAN
1862 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001863 depends on PARMAN
1864 help
1865 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1866 (or module load).
1867
1868 If unsure, say N.
1869
Daniel Lezcano6aed82d2019-05-27 22:55:19 +02001870config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
1871 bool "IRQ timings selftest"
1872 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
1873 help
1874 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
1875
1876 If unsure, say N.
1877
Valentin Rothberg8a6f0b42014-10-13 15:51:38 -07001878config TEST_LKM
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001879 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001880 depends on m
1881 help
1882 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1883 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1884 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1885 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1886 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1887 requested by name.
1888
1889 If unsure, say N.
1890
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)3f21a6b2019-03-05 15:43:34 -08001891config TEST_VMALLOC
1892 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
1893 default n
1894 depends on MMU
1895 depends on m
1896 help
1897 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
1898 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
1899 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
1900 of view.
1901
1902 If unsure, say N.
1903
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001904config TEST_USER_COPY
1905 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001906 depends on m
1907 help
1908 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1909 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1910 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1911 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1912 protections.
1913
1914 If unsure, say N.
1915
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001916config TEST_BPF
1917 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
Randy Dunlap98920ba2014-05-13 09:58:44 -07001918 depends on m && NET
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001919 help
1920 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1921 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1922 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1923 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
Alexei Starovoitov3c731eb2014-09-26 00:17:07 -07001924 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1925 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001926
1927 If unsure, say N.
1928
Mahesh Bandewar509e56b2019-07-01 14:39:01 -07001929config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
1930 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
1931 depends on m && NET
1932 help
1933 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
1934 data path through this blackhole netdev.
1935
1936 If unsure, say N.
1937
Yury Norovdceeb3e2018-02-06 15:38:27 -08001938config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08001939 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08001940 help
1941 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1942 functions performance.
1943
1944 If unsure, say N.
1945
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001946config TEST_FIRMWARE
1947 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001948 depends on FW_LOADER
1949 help
1950 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1951 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1952 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1953 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1954 userspace.
1955
1956 If unsure, say N.
1957
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07001958config TEST_SYSCTL
1959 tristate "sysctl test driver"
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07001960 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1961 help
1962 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1963 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1964 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1965
1966 If unsure, say N.
1967
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001968config TEST_UDELAY
1969 tristate "udelay test driver"
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001970 help
1971 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1972 that udelay() is working properly.
1973
1974 If unsure, say N.
1975
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001976config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1977 tristate "Test static keys"
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001978 depends on m
1979 help
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001980 Test the static key interfaces.
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001981
1982 If unsure, say N.
1983
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001984config TEST_KMOD
1985 tristate "kmod stress tester"
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001986 depends on m
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001987 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
YueHaibingae3d6a32019-04-25 22:23:44 -07001988 depends on BLOCK
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001989 select TEST_LKM
1990 select XFS_FS
1991 select TUN
1992 select BTRFS_FS
1993 help
1994 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1995 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1996 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1997
1998 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1999 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
2000 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
2001 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
2002 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
2003
2004 To run tests run:
2005
2006 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
2007
2008 If unsure, say N.
2009
Florian Fainellie4dace32017-09-08 16:15:31 -07002010config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2011 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
2012 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2013 help
2014 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
2015 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
2016 kernel's virtual address map.
2017
2018 If unsure, say N.
2019
Alexander Shishkince76d932018-10-05 15:43:05 +03002020config TEST_MEMCAT_P
2021 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
2022 help
2023 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
2024 pointer arrays together.
2025
2026 If unsure, say N.
2027
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01002028config TEST_LIVEPATCH
2029 tristate "Test livepatching"
2030 default n
Joe Lawrencebae05432019-01-31 11:41:24 -05002031 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01002032 depends on LIVEPATCH
2033 depends on m
2034 help
2035 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
2036 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
2037
2038 To run all the livepatching tests:
2039
2040 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
2041
2042 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
2043
2044 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
2045 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
2046 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
2047
2048 If unsure, say N.
2049
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002050config TEST_OBJAGG
2051 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2052 default n
2053 depends on OBJAGG
2054 help
2055 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2056 (or module load).
2057
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002058
Kees Cook50ceaa95e2019-01-23 12:24:32 -07002059config TEST_STACKINIT
2060 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2061 help
2062 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2063 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2064 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2065 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2066
2067 If unsure, say N.
2068
Alexander Potapenko5015a302019-07-16 16:27:27 -07002069config TEST_MEMINIT
2070 tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
2071 help
2072 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
2073 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
2074
2075 If unsure, say N.
2076
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08002077endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002078
2079config MEMTEST
2080 bool "Memtest"
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002081 ---help---
2082 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2083 to be set.
2084 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2085 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2086 ...
2087 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2088 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2089
2090config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
2091 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
2092 select DEBUG_LIST
2093 help
2094 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
2095 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
2096 for validity.
2097
2098 If unsure, say N.
Florian Fainellie4dace32017-09-08 16:15:31 -07002099
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07002100source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02002101
2102source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02002103
Andrey Ryabininc6d30852016-01-20 15:00:55 -08002104source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
2105
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002106config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2107 bool
2108
2109config STRICT_DEVMEM
2110 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
Dave Young6b2a65c2016-12-12 16:46:14 -08002111 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002112 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +01002113 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002114 ---help---
2115 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2116 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2117 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2118 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2119 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2120 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2121
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002122 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2123 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2124 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2125 users of /dev/mem.
2126
2127 If in doubt, say Y.
2128
2129config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2130 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2131 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002132 ---help---
2133 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2134 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2135 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2136 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2137
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002138 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002139 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2140 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2141 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002142
2143 If in doubt, say Y.
Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02002144
2145source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
2146
2147endmenu # Kernel hacking