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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
Greg Kroah-Hartman239a5792020-02-10 13:11:42 -0800101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS)
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700102 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,
Greg Kroah-Hartman239a5792020-02-10 13:11:42 -0800119 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs.
120 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before
121 making use of this feature.
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700122 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
123 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
124 format for each line of the file is:
125
126 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
127
128 filename : source file of the debug statement
129 lineno : line number of the debug statement
130 module : module that contains the debug statement
131 function : function that contains the debug statement
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800132 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
133 format : the format used for the debug statement
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700134
135 From a live system:
136
137 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
138 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
139 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
140 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
141 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
142
143 Example usage:
144
145 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
146 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
147 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
148
149 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
150 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
151 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
152
153 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
154 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
155 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
156
157 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
160
161 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
164
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100165 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
166 information.
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700167
Rasmus Villemoes57f56772019-10-15 21:07:05 +0200168config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME
169 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf"
170 default y if PRINTK
171 help
172 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will
173 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead
174 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger
175 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read.
176
Changbin Du2b05bb72019-12-06 17:04:03 -0800177config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
178 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
179 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
180 default y
181 help
182 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
183 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
184 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
185
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700186endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
187
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700188menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
189
190config DEBUG_INFO
191 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
Linus Torvalds12b13832014-02-04 12:20:01 -0800192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700193 help
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800194 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700195 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
196 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
197 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
198 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
199 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
200
201 If unsure, say N.
202
203config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
204 bool "Reduce debugging information"
205 depends on DEBUG_INFO
206 help
207 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
208 information for structure types. This means that tools that
209 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
210 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
211 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
212 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
213 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
214 Only works with newer gcc versions.
215
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200216config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
217 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100218 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900219 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200220 help
221 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
222 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
223 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
224 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
225 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
226
227 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
228 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
229 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
230 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
231
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200232config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
233 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
234 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900235 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200236 help
237 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
238 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
239 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
240 variables in gdb on optimized code.
241
Andrii Nakryikoe83b9f52019-04-02 09:49:50 -0700242config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
243 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
244 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Slava Bacherikov7d32e692020-04-02 23:41:39 +0300245 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
246 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
Andrii Nakryikoe83b9f52019-04-02 09:49:50 -0700247 help
248 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
249 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
250 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
251
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800252config GDB_SCRIPTS
253 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
254 depends on DEBUG_INFO
255 help
256 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
257 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
258 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
259 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800260 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
261 for further details.
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800262
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700263config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
264 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
265 default y
266 help
267 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
268 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
269 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700270
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100271config FRAME_WARN
Masahiro Yamadaa83e4ca2020-02-17 00:19:36 +0900272 int "Warn for stack frames larger than"
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100273 range 0 8192
Kees Cook0e07f662016-10-27 17:46:41 -0700274 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
Helge Deller432654d2017-09-11 21:41:43 +0200275 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
276 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100277 default 2048 if 64BIT
278 help
279 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
280 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
281 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100282
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700283config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
284 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
285 default n
286 help
287 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
288 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
289 get_wchan() and suchlike.
290
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -0700291config READABLE_ASM
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800292 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
293 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800294 help
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800295 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
296 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
297 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
298 sane.
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800299
Masahiro Yamadae949f4c2019-06-04 19:13:59 +0900300config HEADERS_INSTALL
301 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800302 depends on !UML
303 help
Masahiro Yamadae949f4c2019-06-04 19:13:59 +0900304 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
305 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
306 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
307 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
308 as uapi header sanity checks.
309
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100310config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
311 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100312 help
313 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
314 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000315 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
316 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100317 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000318 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
Paul Gortmaker0db06282013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400319 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100320 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000321 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
322 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
Masahiro Yamadab7dca6d2019-07-17 15:17:57 +0900323 additional step to occur:
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000324 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
325 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
326 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100327 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000328 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
329 a larger kernel).
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100330
Nicolas Boichat47490ec2015-10-06 09:44:42 +1030331config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
332 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
333 default y
334 help
335 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
336 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
337
338 If unsure, say Y.
339
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700340#
341# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
342# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
343# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
344#
345config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
346 bool
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700347
348config FRAME_POINTER
349 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700351 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
352 help
353 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
354 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
355 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
356
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600357config STACK_VALIDATION
358 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
359 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
360 default n
361 help
362 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
363 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
364 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
365
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500366 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
Josh Poimboeuf11af8472017-10-13 15:02:00 -0500367 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500368
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600369 For more information, see
370 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
371
Peter Zijlstra6804c1a2020-03-18 13:33:54 +0100372config VMLINUX_VALIDATION
373 bool
374 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT
375 default y
376
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700377config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
378 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
379 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
380 help
381 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
382 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
383 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
384 definitions.
385
386 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
387 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
388
389 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
390 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
391
392endmenu # "Compiler options"
393
Changbin Du6210b642019-12-06 17:03:42 -0800394menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments"
395
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700396config MAGIC_SYSRQ
397 bool "Magic SysRq key"
398 depends on !UML
399 help
400 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
401 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
402 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
403 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
404 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
405 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
406 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100407 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
408 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700409
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100410config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
411 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
412 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
413 default 0x1
414 help
415 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
416 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100417 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100418
Felix Fietkau732dbf32016-12-22 08:31:34 +0100419config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
420 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
421 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
422 default y
423 help
424 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
425 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
426 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
427 magic SysRq key.
428
Dmitry Safonov68af4312020-03-02 17:51:35 +0000429config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE
430 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial"
431 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
432 default ""
433 help
434 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable
435 SysRq on a serial console.
436
Dmitry Safonovd3394b32020-03-06 15:31:56 +0000437 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled.
438
Changbin Duec29a5c2019-12-06 17:04:06 -0800439config DEBUG_FS
440 bool "Debug Filesystem"
441 help
442 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
443 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
444 write to these files.
445
446 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
447 Documentation/filesystems/.
448
449 If unsure, say N.
450
Changbin Du6210b642019-12-06 17:03:42 -0800451source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
452
453source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
454
455endmenu
456
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800457config DEBUG_KERNEL
458 bool "Kernel debugging"
459 help
460 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
461 identify kernel problems.
462
Sinan Kayac66d7a22019-05-14 15:44:00 -0700463config DEBUG_MISC
464 bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
465 default DEBUG_KERNEL
466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
467 help
468 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
469 be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
470
471
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700472menu "Memory Debugging"
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800473
Masahiro Yamada8636a1f2018-12-11 20:01:04 +0900474source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800475
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700476config DEBUG_OBJECTS
477 bool "Debug object operations"
478 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
479 help
480 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
481 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
482 the operations on those objects.
483
484config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
485 bool "Debug objects selftest"
486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
487 help
488 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
489
490config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
491 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
492 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
493 help
494 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
495 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
496 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
497 much slower.
498
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700499config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
500 bool "Debug timer objects"
501 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
502 help
503 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
504 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
505 validate the timer operations.
506
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900507config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
508 bool "Debug work objects"
509 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
510 help
511 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
512 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
513 validate the work operations.
514
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400515config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
516 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800517 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400518 help
519 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
520
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700521config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
522 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
523 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
524 help
525 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
526 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
527 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
528
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100529config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
530 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800531 range 0 1
532 default "1"
533 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
534 help
535 Debug objects boot parameter default value
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100536
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700537config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800538 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700540 help
541 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
542 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
543 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
544
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700545config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
546 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800547 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700548 default n
549 help
550 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
551 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
552 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
553 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
554 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
555 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
556 "slub_debug=-".
557
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800558config SLUB_STATS
559 default n
560 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500561 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800562 help
563 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
564 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
565 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
566 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
567 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
568 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
569 Try running: slabinfo -DA
570
Catalin Marinasb69ec422012-10-08 16:28:11 -0700571config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
572 bool
573
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100574config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
575 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Kees Cook525c1f92013-01-16 18:54:16 -0800576 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100577 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100578 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
579 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800580 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100581 help
582 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
583 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
584 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
585 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
586 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
587 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800588 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100589 details.
590
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100591 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
592 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
593
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100594 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
595 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
596
Catalin Marinasc5665862019-09-23 15:34:05 -0700597config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
598 int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100599 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Qian Caic59180a2019-09-23 15:34:10 -0700600 range 200 1000000
Nicolas Boichatb751c522019-09-23 15:33:55 -0700601 default 16000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100602 help
603 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
604 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
Catalin Marinasc5665862019-09-23 15:34:05 -0700605 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
606 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
607 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
608 if slab allocations fail.
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100609
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100610config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
611 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700612 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100613 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700614 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100615
616 If unsure, say N.
617
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100618config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
619 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
620 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
621 help
622 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
623 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
624
Sri Krishna chowdaryd53ce042018-12-28 00:38:54 -0800625config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
626 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
627 default y
628 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
629 help
630 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
631 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
632 kmemleak scan at boot up.
633
634 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
635 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
636 memory leaks.
637
638 If unsure, say Y.
639
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700640config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
641 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
Helge Deller6c31da32016-03-19 17:54:10 +0100642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700643 help
644 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
645 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
646
647 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
648
Changbin Dudc9b9632019-12-06 17:03:57 -0800649config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
650 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
652 default n
653 help
654 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
655 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
656 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
657 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
658 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
659 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
660
Anshuman Khandual399145f2020-06-04 16:47:15 -0700661config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
662 bool
663 help
664 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
665 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
666
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700667config DEBUG_VM
668 bool "Debug VM"
669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
670 help
671 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -0800672 that may impact performance.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700673
674 If unsure, say N.
675
Davidlohr Bueso4f115142014-06-04 16:06:46 -0700676config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
677 bool "Debug VMA caching"
678 depends on DEBUG_VM
679 help
680 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
681 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
682 environments.
683
684 If unsure, say N.
685
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700686config DEBUG_VM_RB
687 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
688 depends on DEBUG_VM
689 help
Davidlohr Buesoa663dad2014-04-18 15:07:22 -0700690 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700691
692 If unsure, say N.
693
Kirill A. Shutemov95ad9752016-01-15 16:51:21 -0800694config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
695 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
696 depends on DEBUG_VM
697 help
698 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
699
700 If unsure, say N.
701
Anshuman Khandual399145f2020-06-04 16:47:15 -0700702config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
703 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
704 depends on MMU
705 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
706 default y if DEBUG_VM
707 help
708 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
709 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
710 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
711 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
712 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
713 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for
714 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
715
716 If unsure, say N.
717
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800718config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
719 bool
720
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700721config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
722 bool "Debug VM translations"
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700724 help
725 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
726 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
727
728 If unsure, say N.
729
730config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
731 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
732 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
733 help
734 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
735 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
736
737config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
738 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
739 default !EXPERT
740 help
741 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
742 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
743 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
744 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
745 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
746
747 If unsure, say Y
748
749config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
750 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
751 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
752 help
753 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
754 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
755 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
756
757 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
758 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
759
760 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
761
762 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
763 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
764 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
765 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
766
767 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
768 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
769
770 If unsure, say N.
771
772config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
773 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
774 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
775 depends on SMP
776 help
777 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
778 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
779 and decreases performance.
780
781 Say N if unsure.
782
783config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
784 bool "Highmem debugging"
785 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
786 help
Geert Uytterhoevenb1357c92014-04-14 18:55:50 +0200787 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
788 systems. Disable for production systems.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700789
790config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
791 bool
792
793config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
794 bool "Check for stack overflows"
795 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
796 ---help---
797 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
Borislav Petkovedb0ec02015-01-25 19:50:34 +0100798 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700799 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
800 below a certain limit.
801
802 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
803 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
804 involved.
805
806 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
807 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
808
809 If in doubt, say "N".
810
Andrey Ryabinin0b24bec2015-02-13 14:39:17 -0800811source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
812
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700813endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
814
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700815config DEBUG_SHIRQ
816 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
Martin Schwidefsky0244ad02013-08-30 09:39:53 +0200817 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700818 help
819 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
820 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
821 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
822 points; some don't and need to be caught.
823
Changbin Duf43a2892019-12-06 17:03:54 -0800824menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs"
825
826config PANIC_ON_OOPS
827 bool "Panic on Oops"
828 help
829 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
830 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
831 line.
832
833 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
834 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
835 corruption or other issues.
836
837 Say N if unsure.
838
839config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
840 int
841 range 0 1
842 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
843 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
844
845config PANIC_TIMEOUT
846 int "panic timeout"
847 default 0
848 help
849 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
850 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
851 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
852 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700853
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700854config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700855 bool
856
857config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
858 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700859 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700860 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700861 help
862 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700863 soft lockups.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700864
865 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
866 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
867 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
868 detection and the system will stay locked up.
869
Randy Dunlap5f00ae02018-04-10 16:32:51 -0700870config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
871 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
872 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
873 help
874 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
875 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
876 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
877 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
878
879 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
880 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
881 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
882 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
883 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
884
885 Say N if unsure.
886
887config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
888 int
889 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
890 range 0 1
891 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
892 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
893
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700894config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
895 bool
896 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
897
898#
Thomas Gleixner7edaeb62017-08-15 09:50:13 +0200899# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
900# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
901#
902config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
903 bool
904
905#
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700906# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
907# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
908#
909config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
910 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
911 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
912 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
913 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
914 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
915 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
916 help
917 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
918 hard lockups.
919
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700920 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
921 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
922 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
923 and the system will stay locked up.
924
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700925config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
926 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
927 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
928 help
929 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
930 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
931 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
932 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
933
934 Say N if unsure.
935
936config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
937 int
938 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
939 range 0 1
940 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
941 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
942
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700943config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
944 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
945 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700946 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700947 help
948 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
949 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
Vivien Didelot96b03ab2016-09-22 16:55:13 -0400950 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700951
952 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
953 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
954 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
955 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
956 feature has negligible overhead.
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800957
958config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
959 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
960 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700961 default 120
962 help
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700963 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700964 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
965 be considered hung.
966
967 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
968 sysctl or by writing a value to
969 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
970
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700971 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
972 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700973
974config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
975 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
976 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
977 help
978 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
979 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
980 in uninterruptible "D" state.
981
982 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700983 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
984 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700985 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700986 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
987
988 Say N if unsure.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700989
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100990config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700991 int
992 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
993 range 0 1
994 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
995 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
996
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -0500997config WQ_WATCHDOG
998 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
999 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1000 help
1001 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
1002 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
1003 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
1004 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
1005 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
1006 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
1007
Konstantin Khlebnikov30428ef2020-04-06 20:09:47 -07001008config TEST_LOCKUP
1009 tristate "Test module to generate lockups"
1010 help
1011 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure
1012 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly.
1013
1014 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard
1015 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time.
1016 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods.
1017
1018 If unsure, say N.
1019
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -07001020endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
1021
Changbin Duebebdd02019-12-06 17:04:00 -08001022menu "Scheduler Debugging"
Jason Baron5800dc32013-11-25 23:23:04 +00001023
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001024config SCHED_DEBUG
1025 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1026 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1027 default y
1028 help
1029 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1030 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1031 option is minimal.
1032
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301033config SCHED_INFO
1034 bool
1035 default n
1036
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001037config SCHEDSTATS
1038 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301040 select SCHED_INFO
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001041 help
1042 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1043 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1044 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1045 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1046 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1047 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1048 this adds.
1049
Changbin Duebebdd02019-12-06 17:04:00 -08001050endmenu
Aaron Tomlin0d9e2632014-09-12 14:16:19 +01001051
John Stultz3c17ad12015-03-11 21:16:32 -07001052config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1053 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1054 help
1055 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1056 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1057 problems are suspected.
1058
1059 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1060 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1061 workloads.
1062
1063 If unsure, say N.
1064
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1066 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior9f472862019-10-15 21:18:19 +02001067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001068 default y
1069 help
1070 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1071 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1072 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1073 will detect preemption count underflows.
1074
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001075menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1076
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001077config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1078 bool
1079 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1080 default y
1081
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001082config PROVE_LOCKING
1083 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1084 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1085 select LOCKDEP
1086 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1087 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1088 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001089 select DEBUG_RWSEMS
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001090 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1091 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1092 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1093 default n
1094 help
1095 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1096 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1097 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1098 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1099 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1100 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1101 deadlock.
1102
1103 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1104 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1105
1106 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1107 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1108 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1109 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1110 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1111 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1112 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1113 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1114 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1115
1116 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1117 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1118 kernel reports nothing.
1119
1120 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1121 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1122 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1123 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1124 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1125
Mauro Carvalho Chehab387b1462019-04-10 08:32:41 -03001126 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001127
Peter Zijlstrade8f5e42020-03-21 12:26:01 +01001128config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING
1129 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks"
1130 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1131 default n
1132 help
1133 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure
1134 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are
1135 not violated.
1136
1137 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this
1138 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully
1139 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to
1140 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the
1141 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed.
1142
1143 If unsure, select N.
1144
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001145config LOCK_STAT
1146 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1148 select LOCKDEP
1149 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1150 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1151 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1152 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1153 default n
1154 help
1155 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1156
Mauro Carvalho Chehab387b1462019-04-10 08:32:41 -03001157 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001158
1159 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1160 subcommand of perf.
1161 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1162 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1163
1164 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1165 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1166
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001167config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1168 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1170 help
1171 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1172 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1173
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001174config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001175 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +05301177 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001178 help
1179 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1180 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1181 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1182 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1183
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001184config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1185 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1186 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1187 help
1188 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1189 reported.
1190
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001191config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1192 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001193 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001194 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1195 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1196 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1197 help
1198 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1199 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1200 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1201 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1202 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Rob Clark4d692372014-08-27 11:19:26 -04001203 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1204 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1205 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1206 you are a distro, do not.
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001207
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001208config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1209 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001210 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001211 help
Waiman Longc71fd892019-05-20 16:59:00 -04001212 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
1213 and unlocks to be detected and reported.
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001214
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001215config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1216 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001217 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001218 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1219 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001220 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001221 select LOCKDEP
1222 help
1223 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1224 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1225 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1226 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1227 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1228 held during task exit.
1229
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001230config LOCKDEP
1231 bool
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001233 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001234 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001235 select KALLSYMS
1236 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1237
Daniel Jordan395102d2017-04-10 11:50:52 -04001238config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1239 bool
1240
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001241config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1242 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001243 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001244 help
1245 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1246 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1247 of more runtime overhead.
1248
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001249config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1250 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +02001251 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001252 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Christoph Hellwig87a4c372018-07-31 13:39:32 +02001253 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001254 help
1255 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001256 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1257 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1258 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001259
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -07001260config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1261 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1262 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1263 help
1264 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1265 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1266 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1267 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1268 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1269 mutexes and rwsems.
1270
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001271config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1272 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1274 select TORTURE_TEST
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001275 help
1276 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1277 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1278 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1279
1280 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1281 to be built into the kernel.
1282 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1283 Say N if you are unsure.
1284
Chris Wilsonf2a5fec2016-12-01 11:47:06 +00001285config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1286 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1287 help
1288 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1289 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1290
1291 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1292 with this test harness.
1293
1294 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1295 Say N if you are unsure.
1296
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001297endmenu # lock debugging
1298
1299config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1300 bool
1301 help
1302 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1303 either tracing or lock debugging.
1304
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001305config STACKTRACE
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001306 bool "Stack backtrace support"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001307 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001308 help
1309 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1310 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1311 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1312 stack trace generation.
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001313
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001314config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1315 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1316 default n
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001317 help
1318 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1319 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1320 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1321 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1322 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1323 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1324 it.
1325
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001326 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1327 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1328 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1329 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1330 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1331 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001332 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001333 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1334 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1335
1336 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1337 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001338 those developers interested in improving the security of
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001339 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1340 subarchitecture).
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001341
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001342config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1343 bool "kobject debugging"
1344 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1345 help
1346 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
Mike Rapoportaca52c32018-10-30 15:07:44 -07001347 to the syslog.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001348
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001349config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1350 bool "kobject release debugging"
Linus Torvalds2a999aa2013-10-29 08:33:36 -07001351 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001352 help
1353 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1354 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1355 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1356 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1357 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1358 unregistered.
1359
1360 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1361 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1362 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1363
1364 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1365 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1366 kind of kobject release bug.
1367
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001368config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1369 bool
1370
Changbin Du3be5cbc2019-12-06 17:03:48 -08001371menu "Debug kernel data structures"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001372
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001373config DEBUG_LIST
1374 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
Arnd Bergmann4520bcb2016-08-26 17:42:00 +02001375 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001376 help
1377 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1378 walking routines.
1379
1380 If unsure, say N.
1381
Davidlohr Bueso8e18fae2019-05-14 15:42:46 -07001382config DEBUG_PLIST
Dan Streetmanb8cfff62014-06-04 16:11:54 -07001383 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1384 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1385 help
1386 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1387 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1388 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1389
1390 If unsure, say N.
1391
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +02001392config DEBUG_SG
1393 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1394 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1395 help
1396 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1397 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1398 their sg tables.
1399
1400 If unsure, say N.
1401
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07001402config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1403 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1405 help
1406 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1407 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1408 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1409 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1410 performance, say N.
1411
Changbin Du3be5cbc2019-12-06 17:03:48 -08001412config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1413 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1414 select DEBUG_LIST
1415 help
1416 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1417 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1418 for validity.
1419
1420 If unsure, say N.
1421
1422endmenu
1423
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +01001424config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1425 bool "Debug credential management"
1426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1427 help
1428 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1429 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1430 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1431 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1432 struct.
1433
1434 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1435 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1436
1437 If unsure, say N.
1438
Paul E. McKenney43a0a2a2017-05-17 09:19:44 -07001439source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001440
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05001441config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1442 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1444 default n
1445 help
1446 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1447 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1448 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1449 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1450 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1451 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1452 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1453 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1454 be impacted.
1455
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001456config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
Krzysztof Kozlowski68d4b3d2019-12-06 17:04:08 -08001457 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001458 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1459 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +02001460 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001461 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001462 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1463 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1464 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1465 is broken.
1466
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001467 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1468 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1469 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1470 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1471 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1472 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1473 device number allocation.
1474
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001475 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1476 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1477 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1478 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1479 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1480
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001481 Say N if you are unsure.
1482
Thomas Gleixner757c9892016-02-26 18:43:32 +00001483config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1484 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1485 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1486 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1487 default n
1488 help
1489 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1490 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1491 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1492 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1493
1494 Say N if your are unsure.
1495
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001496config LATENCYTOP
1497 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1498 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1499 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1500 depends on PROC_FS
1501 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1502 select KALLSYMS
1503 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1504 select STACKTRACE
1505 select SCHEDSTATS
1506 select SCHED_DEBUG
1507 help
1508 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1509 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1510
1511source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
1512
1513config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1514 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1515 depends on PCI && X86
1516 help
1517 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1518 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1519 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1520 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1521 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1522
1523 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1524 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1525 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1526
1527 Usage:
1528
1529 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1530 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1531
1532 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1533 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1534 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1535 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1536
1537 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1538 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1539
Mauro Carvalho Chehaba74e2a22020-05-01 17:37:50 +02001540 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information.
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001541
Changbin Du045f6d72019-12-17 20:51:56 -08001542source "samples/Kconfig"
1543
1544config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1545 bool
1546
1547config STRICT_DEVMEM
1548 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1549 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1550 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1551 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
1552 help
1553 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1554 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1555 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1556 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1557 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1558 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1559
1560 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1561 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1562 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1563 users of /dev/mem.
1564
1565 If in doubt, say Y.
1566
1567config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1568 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1569 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1570 help
1571 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1572 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1573 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1574 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1575
1576 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1577 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1578 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1579 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
1580
1581 If in doubt, say Y.
1582
1583menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging"
1584
1585source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
1586
1587endmenu
1588
1589menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
1590
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001591source "lib/kunit/Kconfig"
1592
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001593config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1594 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1595 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1596 select DEBUG_FS
1597 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001598 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001599 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1600 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1601
1602 Say N if unsure.
1603
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001604config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1605 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1606 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1607 default m if PM_DEBUG
1608 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001609 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001610 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1611 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1612
1613 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1614 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1615
1616 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1617
1618 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1619 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1620 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1621 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1622
1623 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1624 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1625
1626 If unsure, say N.
1627
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001628config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1629 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1630 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001631 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001632 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001633 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001634 through debugfs interface under
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001635 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001636
1637 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1638 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1639
1640 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
Akinobu Mitae12a95f2013-04-30 15:28:49 -07001641 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001642
1643 If unsure, say N.
1644
Nikolay Aleksandrov02fff962015-11-28 13:45:28 +01001645config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1646 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1647 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1648 help
1649 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1650 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1651 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1652
1653 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1654 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1655
1656 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1657
1658 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1659 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1660 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1661 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1662
1663 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1664 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1665
1666 If unsure, say N.
1667
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001668config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1669 def_bool y
1670 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1671
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001672config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001673 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1674 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001675 help
1676 Provide fault-injection framework.
1677 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001678
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001679config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001680 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1681 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001682 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001683 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001684 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001685
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001686config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
Qiujun Huang29b46fa2020-04-06 20:12:49 -07001687 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001688 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001689 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001690 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001691
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001692config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001693 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001694 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001695 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001696 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001697
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001698config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001699 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001700 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1701 help
1702 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1703 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1704 thus exercising the error handling.
1705
1706 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1707 for others it wont do anything.
1708
Davidlohr Buesoab51fba2015-06-29 23:26:02 -07001709config FAIL_FUTEX
1710 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1711 select DEBUG_FS
1712 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1713 help
1714 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1715
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001716config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1717 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1718 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1719 help
1720 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1721
Masami Hiramatsu4b1a29a2018-01-13 02:56:03 +09001722config FAIL_FUNCTION
1723 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1724 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1725 help
1726 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1727 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1728 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1729 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1730 error handling in various subsystems.
1731
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001732config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1733 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1734 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001735 help
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001736 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1737 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1738 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1739 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1740 the block device.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001741
1742config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1743 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1744 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001745 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001746 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001747 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001748 help
1749 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001750
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001751config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1752 bool
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001753 help
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001754 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
1755 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
1756 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001757
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001758config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
1759 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001760
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001761
1762config KCOV
1763 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
1764 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1765 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
1766 select DEBUG_FS
1767 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001768 help
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001769 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
1770 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001771
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001772 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
1773 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
1774 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001775
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001776 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001777
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001778config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
1779 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
1780 depends on KCOV
1781 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
1782 help
1783 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
1784 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
1785 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
1786 of fuzzing coverage.
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001787
Changbin Du09a74952019-12-06 17:03:51 -08001788config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
1789 bool "Instrument all code by default"
1790 depends on KCOV
1791 default y
1792 help
1793 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
1794 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
1795 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
1796 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
1797 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
Brendan Higgins84bc8092019-09-23 02:02:36 -07001798
Andrey Konovalov5ff3b302020-06-04 16:46:04 -07001799config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
1800 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
1801 depends on KCOV
1802 default 0x40000
1803 help
1804 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
1805 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
1806 number of unsigned long words.
1807
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001808menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1809 bool "Runtime Testing"
Anders Roxell908009e82018-02-21 14:46:05 -08001810 def_bool y
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001811
1812if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001813
1814config LKDTM
1815 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1816 depends on DEBUG_FS
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001817 help
1818 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1819 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1820 If you don't need it: say N
1821 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1822 called lkdtm.
1823
1824 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Mauro Carvalho Chehab10ffebb2019-06-12 14:52:44 -03001825 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001826
1827config TEST_LIST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001828 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1829 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001830 help
1831 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001832 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1833 or at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001834
1835 If unsure, say N.
1836
Ian Rogers6e246282020-02-13 23:51:29 -08001837config TEST_MIN_HEAP
1838 tristate "Min heap test"
1839 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1840 help
1841 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is
1842 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1843 or at module load time.
1844
1845 If unsure, say N.
1846
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001847config TEST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001848 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1849 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001850 help
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001851 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1852 or at module load time.
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001853
1854 If unsure, say N.
1855
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001856config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1857 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1858 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1859 depends on KPROBES
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001860 help
1861 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
Masami Hiramatsu5a6cf772018-06-20 01:05:07 +09001862 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001863 verified for functionality.
1864
1865 Say N if you are unsure.
1866
1867config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1868 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1869 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001870 help
1871 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1872 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1873 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1874 developers working on architecture code.
1875
1876 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1877 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1878
1879 Say N if you are unsure.
1880
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001881config RBTREE_TEST
1882 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
Cody P Schafer7c993e12013-09-11 14:25:19 -07001883 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001884 help
1885 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1886 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1887
Ferdinand Blomqvist4b4f3ac2019-06-20 17:10:33 +03001888config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
1889 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
1890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1891 select REED_SOLOMON
1892 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
1893 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
1894 help
1895 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
1896 or at module load time.
1897
1898 If unsure, say N.
1899
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001900config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1901 tristate "Interval tree test"
Davidlohr Bueso0f789b62017-07-10 15:51:43 -07001902 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Chris Wilsona88cc102014-03-17 12:21:54 +00001903 select INTERVAL_TREE
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001904 help
1905 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1906
Greg Thelen623fd802013-11-12 15:08:34 -08001907config PERCPU_TEST
1908 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1909 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1910 help
1911 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1912 operations.
1913
1914 If unsure, say N.
1915
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001916config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001917 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001918 help
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001919 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1920 at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001921
1922 If unsure, say N.
1923
1924config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1925 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1926 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1927 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1928 ---help---
1929 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1930 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1931 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1932 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1933 engine if one is available.
1934
1935 If unsure, say N.
1936
Andy Shevchenko64d1d772015-02-12 15:02:21 -08001937config TEST_HEXDUMP
1938 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1939
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001940config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1941 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1942
Tobin C. Harding0b0600c82019-04-05 12:58:59 +11001943config TEST_STRSCPY
1944 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
1945
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001946config TEST_KSTRTOX
1947 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1948
Rasmus Villemoes707cc722015-11-06 16:30:29 -08001949config TEST_PRINTF
1950 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1951
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001952config TEST_BITMAP
1953 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001954 help
1955 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1956
1957 If unsure, say N.
1958
Johannes Berg0e2dc702018-06-20 08:58:30 +02001959config TEST_BITFIELD
1960 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
1961 help
1962 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
1963
1964 If unsure, say N.
1965
Andy Shevchenkocfaff0e2016-05-30 17:40:41 +03001966config TEST_UUID
1967 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1968
Matthew Wilcoxad3d6c72017-11-07 14:57:46 -05001969config TEST_XARRAY
1970 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
1971
Rasmus Villemoes455a35a2018-05-08 00:36:28 +02001972config TEST_OVERFLOW
1973 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1974
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001975config TEST_RHASHTABLE
Geert Uytterhoeven9d6dbe12015-01-29 15:40:25 +01001976 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001977 help
1978 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1979
1980 If unsure, say N.
1981
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001982config TEST_HASH
1983 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001984 help
Jason A. Donenfeld2c956a62017-01-08 13:54:00 +01001985 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1986 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1987 hash functions on boot (or module load).
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001988
1989 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1990 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1991
Matthew Wilcox8ab8ba32018-06-18 16:59:29 -04001992config TEST_IDA
1993 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
1994
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001995config TEST_PARMAN
1996 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001997 depends on PARMAN
1998 help
1999 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
2000 (or module load).
2001
2002 If unsure, say N.
2003
Daniel Lezcano6aed82d2019-05-27 22:55:19 +02002004config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
2005 bool "IRQ timings selftest"
2006 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
2007 help
2008 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
2009
2010 If unsure, say N.
2011
Valentin Rothberg8a6f0b42014-10-13 15:51:38 -07002012config TEST_LKM
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08002013 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08002014 depends on m
2015 help
2016 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
2017 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
2018 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
2019 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
2020 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
2021 requested by name.
2022
2023 If unsure, say N.
2024
Jesse Brandeburgc348c162020-06-04 16:50:27 -07002025config TEST_BITOPS
2026 tristate "Test module for compilation of clear_bit/set_bit operations"
2027 depends on m
2028 help
2029 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the
2030 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the
2031 clear_bit and set_bit macros to make sure there are no compiler
2032 warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra compilations. It has
2033 no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless explicitly requested
2034 by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops.
2035
2036 If unsure, say N.
2037
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)3f21a6b2019-03-05 15:43:34 -08002038config TEST_VMALLOC
2039 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
2040 default n
2041 depends on MMU
2042 depends on m
2043 help
2044 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
2045 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
2046 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
2047 of view.
2048
2049 If unsure, say N.
2050
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08002051config TEST_USER_COPY
2052 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08002053 depends on m
2054 help
2055 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
2056 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
2057 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
2058 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
2059 protections.
2060
2061 If unsure, say N.
2062
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07002063config TEST_BPF
2064 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
Randy Dunlap98920ba2014-05-13 09:58:44 -07002065 depends on m && NET
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07002066 help
2067 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
2068 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
2069 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
2070 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
Alexei Starovoitov3c731eb2014-09-26 00:17:07 -07002071 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
2072 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07002073
2074 If unsure, say N.
2075
Mahesh Bandewar509e56b2019-07-01 14:39:01 -07002076config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
2077 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
2078 depends on m && NET
2079 help
2080 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
2081 data path through this blackhole netdev.
2082
2083 If unsure, say N.
2084
Yury Norovdceeb3e2018-02-06 15:38:27 -08002085config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08002086 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08002087 help
2088 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
2089 functions performance.
2090
2091 If unsure, say N.
2092
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07002093config TEST_FIRMWARE
2094 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07002095 depends on FW_LOADER
2096 help
2097 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
2098 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
2099 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
2100 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
2101 userspace.
2102
2103 If unsure, say N.
2104
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07002105config TEST_SYSCTL
2106 tristate "sysctl test driver"
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07002107 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
2108 help
2109 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
2110 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
2111 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
2112
2113 If unsure, say N.
2114
Iurii Zaikin2cb80db2019-09-23 02:02:47 -07002115config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST
Alan Maguirec475c772020-01-06 22:28:20 +00002116 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl"
Iurii Zaikin2cb80db2019-09-23 02:02:47 -07002117 depends on KUNIT
2118 help
2119 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot.
2120 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl.
2121 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2122 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2123
2124 If unsure, say N.
2125
David Gowea2dd7c2019-10-24 15:46:31 -07002126config LIST_KUNIT_TEST
Alan Maguirec475c772020-01-06 22:28:20 +00002127 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures"
David Gowea2dd7c2019-10-24 15:46:31 -07002128 depends on KUNIT
2129 help
2130 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite.
2131 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type
2132 and associated macros.
2133
2134 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2135 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2136 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2137 production build.
2138
2139 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2140 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2141
2142 If unsure, say N.
2143
Matti Vaittinen33d599f2020-05-08 18:40:43 +03002144config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST
2145 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges"
2146 depends on KUNIT
2147 select LINEAR_RANGES
2148 help
2149 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot.
2150 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness.
2151 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2152 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2153
2154 If unsure, say N.
2155
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07002156config TEST_UDELAY
2157 tristate "udelay test driver"
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07002158 help
2159 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
2160 that udelay() is working properly.
2161
2162 If unsure, say N.
2163
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02002164config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
2165 tristate "Test static keys"
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00002166 depends on m
2167 help
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02002168 Test the static key interfaces.
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00002169
2170 If unsure, say N.
2171
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07002172config TEST_KMOD
2173 tristate "kmod stress tester"
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07002174 depends on m
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07002175 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
YueHaibingae3d6a32019-04-25 22:23:44 -07002176 depends on BLOCK
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07002177 select TEST_LKM
2178 select XFS_FS
2179 select TUN
2180 select BTRFS_FS
2181 help
2182 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
2183 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
2184 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
2185
2186 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
2187 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
2188 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
2189 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
2190 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
2191
2192 To run tests run:
2193
2194 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
2195
2196 If unsure, say N.
2197
Florian Fainellie4dace32017-09-08 16:15:31 -07002198config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2199 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
2200 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2201 help
2202 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
2203 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
2204 kernel's virtual address map.
2205
2206 If unsure, say N.
2207
Alexander Shishkince76d932018-10-05 15:43:05 +03002208config TEST_MEMCAT_P
2209 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
2210 help
2211 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
2212 pointer arrays together.
2213
2214 If unsure, say N.
2215
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01002216config TEST_LIVEPATCH
2217 tristate "Test livepatching"
2218 default n
Joe Lawrencebae05432019-01-31 11:41:24 -05002219 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01002220 depends on LIVEPATCH
2221 depends on m
2222 help
2223 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
2224 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
2225
2226 To run all the livepatching tests:
2227
2228 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
2229
2230 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
2231
2232 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
2233 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
2234 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
2235
2236 If unsure, say N.
2237
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002238config TEST_OBJAGG
2239 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2240 default n
2241 depends on OBJAGG
2242 help
2243 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2244 (or module load).
2245
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002246
Kees Cook50ceaa95e2019-01-23 12:24:32 -07002247config TEST_STACKINIT
2248 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2249 help
2250 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2251 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2252 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2253 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2254
2255 If unsure, say N.
2256
Alexander Potapenko5015a302019-07-16 16:27:27 -07002257config TEST_MEMINIT
2258 tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
2259 help
2260 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
2261 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
2262
2263 If unsure, say N.
2264
Ralph Campbellb2ef9f52020-04-22 12:50:26 -07002265config TEST_HMM
2266 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)"
2267 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
2268 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE
2269 select HMM_MIRROR
2270 select MMU_NOTIFIER
2271 help
2272 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM.
2273 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module.
2274 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests.
2275
2276 If unsure, say N.
2277
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08002278endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002279
2280config MEMTEST
2281 bool "Memtest"
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002282 ---help---
2283 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2284 to be set.
2285 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2286 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2287 ...
2288 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2289 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2290
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002291
Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02002292
Branden Bonabyaf9ca6f2019-10-03 17:01:49 -04002293config HYPERV_TESTING
2294 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing"
2295 default n
2296 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS
2297 help
2298 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing.
2299
Changbin Du045f6d72019-12-17 20:51:56 -08002300endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
2301
Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02002302endmenu # Kernel hacking