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Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02001menu "Kernel hacking"
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Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -07003menu "printk and dmesg options"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004
5config PRINTK_TIME
6 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08007 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07008 help
Kay Sievers649e6ee2012-05-10 04:30:45 +02009 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
10 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
11 call and at the console.
12
13 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
14 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
15 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
16
17 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8c27ceff32016-10-18 10:12:27 -020018 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070019
Tetsuo Handa15ff2062018-12-18 06:05:04 +090020config PRINTK_CALLER
21 bool "Show caller information on printks"
22 depends on PRINTK
23 help
24 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if
25 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context)
26 to every message.
27
28 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads
29 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to
30 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual
31 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from.
32
33 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is
34 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or
35 sysfs interface.
36
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080037config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
38 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
39 range 1 15
40 default "7"
41 help
42 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
43
44 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
45 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
46 value is specified here as well.
47
Borislav Petkov50f4d9b2016-12-19 16:23:15 -080048 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080049 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
50 option.
51
Hans de Goede22eceb82018-06-19 13:57:26 +020052config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
53 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
54 range 1 15
55 default "4"
56 help
57 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
58
59 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
60 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
61 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
62
Alex Elder42a9dc02014-08-06 16:09:01 -070063config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070064 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
65 range 1 7
66 default "4"
67 help
68 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
69
70 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
71 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
72 priority.
73
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080074 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
75 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
76 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
77
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -070078config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
79 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
81 help
82 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
83 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
84 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
85 using "boot_delay=N".
86
87 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
88 the "loops per jiffie" value.
89 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
90 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
91 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
92 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
93 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
94 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
95
96config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
97 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
98 default n
99 depends on PRINTK
100 depends on DEBUG_FS
101 help
102
103 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
104 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
105 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
106 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
107 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
108 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
109
110 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
111 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
112 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
113 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
114
115 Usage:
116
117 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
118 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
119 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
120 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
121 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
122 format for each line of the file is:
123
124 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
125
126 filename : source file of the debug statement
127 lineno : line number of the debug statement
128 module : module that contains the debug statement
129 function : function that contains the debug statement
130 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
131 format : the format used for the debug statement
132
133 From a live system:
134
135 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
136 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
137 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
138 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
139 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
140
141 Example usage:
142
143 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
144 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
145 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
146
147 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
148 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
149 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
150
151 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
152 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
153 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
154
155 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
156 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
157 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
158
159 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
160 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
161 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
162
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100163 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
164 information.
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700165
166endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
167
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700168menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
169
170config DEBUG_INFO
171 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
Linus Torvalds12b13832014-02-04 12:20:01 -0800172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700173 help
174 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
175 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
176 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
177 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
178 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
179 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
180
181 If unsure, say N.
182
183config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
184 bool "Reduce debugging information"
185 depends on DEBUG_INFO
186 help
187 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
188 information for structure types. This means that tools that
189 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
190 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
191 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
192 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
193 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
194 Only works with newer gcc versions.
195
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200196config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
197 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100198 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900199 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200200 help
201 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
202 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
203 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
204 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
205 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
206
207 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
208 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
209 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
210 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
211
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200212config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
213 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
214 depends on DEBUG_INFO
Masahiro Yamada9d937442019-02-22 16:56:09 +0900215 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200216 help
217 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
218 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
219 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
220 variables in gdb on optimized code.
221
Andrii Nakryikoe83b9f52019-04-02 09:49:50 -0700222config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
223 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
224 depends on DEBUG_INFO
225 help
226 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
227 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
228 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
229
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800230config GDB_SCRIPTS
231 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
232 depends on DEBUG_INFO
233 help
234 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
235 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
236 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
237 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800238 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
239 for further details.
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800240
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700241config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
242 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
243 default y
244 help
245 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
246 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
247 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700248
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100249config FRAME_WARN
250 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
251 range 0 8192
Kees Cook0e07f662016-10-27 17:46:41 -0700252 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
Helge Deller432654d2017-09-11 21:41:43 +0200253 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
254 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100255 default 2048 if 64BIT
256 help
257 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
258 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
259 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
260 Requires gcc 4.4
261
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700262config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
263 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
264 default n
265 help
266 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
267 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
268 get_wchan() and suchlike.
269
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -0700270config READABLE_ASM
271 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
273 help
274 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
275 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
276 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
277 sane.
278
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700279config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
280 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
281 default y if X86
282 help
283 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
284 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
285 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
286 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
287 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
288 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
289 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
290 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
291 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
292 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
293 your module is.
294
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800295config DEBUG_FS
296 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800297 help
298 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
299 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
300 write to these files.
301
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200302 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe1b4fc72017-05-14 12:04:55 -0300303 Documentation/filesystems/.
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200304
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800305 If unsure, say N.
306
307config HEADERS_CHECK
308 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
309 depends on !UML
310 help
311 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
312 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
313 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
314 were not exported, etc.
315
316 If you're making modifications to header files which are
317 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
318 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
319 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
320
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100321config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
322 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100323 help
324 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
325 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000326 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
327 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100328 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000329 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
Paul Gortmaker0db06282013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400330 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100331 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000332 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
333 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
334 additional steps to occur:
335 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
336 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
337 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100338 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000339 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
340 a larger kernel).
Nicholas Pigginf49821e2018-02-11 00:25:04 +1000341 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000342 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Uwe Kleine-König67797b92016-09-09 10:04:58 +0200343 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100344 introduced.
Nicholas Pigginf49821e2018-02-11 00:25:04 +1000345 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000346 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
347 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
348 reported at least twice.
349 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
350 the section mismatches that are reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100351
Nicolas Boichat47490ec2015-10-06 09:44:42 +1030352config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
353 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
354 default y
355 help
356 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
357 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
358
359 If unsure, say Y.
360
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700361#
362# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
363# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
364# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
365#
366config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
367 bool
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700368
369config FRAME_POINTER
370 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +0100371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700372 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
373 help
374 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
375 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
376 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
377
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600378config STACK_VALIDATION
379 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
380 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
381 default n
382 help
383 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
384 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
385 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
386
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500387 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
Josh Poimboeuf11af8472017-10-13 15:02:00 -0500388 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
Josh Poimboeufee9f8fc2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500389
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600390 For more information, see
391 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
392
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700393config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
394 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
395 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
396 help
397 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
398 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
399 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
400 definitions.
401
402 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
403 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
404
405 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
406 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
407
408endmenu # "Compiler options"
409
410config MAGIC_SYSRQ
411 bool "Magic SysRq key"
412 depends on !UML
413 help
414 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
415 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
416 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
417 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
418 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
419 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
420 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100421 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
422 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700423
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100424config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
425 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
427 default 0x1
428 help
429 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
430 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100431 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100432
Felix Fietkau732dbf32016-12-22 08:31:34 +0100433config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
434 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
435 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
436 default y
437 help
438 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
439 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
440 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
441 magic SysRq key.
442
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800443config DEBUG_KERNEL
444 bool "Kernel debugging"
445 help
446 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
447 identify kernel problems.
448
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700449menu "Memory Debugging"
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800450
Masahiro Yamada8636a1f2018-12-11 20:01:04 +0900451source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800452
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700453config DEBUG_OBJECTS
454 bool "Debug object operations"
455 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
456 help
457 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
458 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
459 the operations on those objects.
460
461config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
462 bool "Debug objects selftest"
463 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
464 help
465 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
466
467config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
468 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
470 help
471 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
472 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
473 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
474 much slower.
475
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700476config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
477 bool "Debug timer objects"
478 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
479 help
480 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
481 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
482 validate the timer operations.
483
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900484config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
485 bool "Debug work objects"
486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
487 help
488 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
489 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
490 validate the work operations.
491
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400492config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
493 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800494 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400495 help
496 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
497
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700498config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
499 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
501 help
502 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
503 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
504 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
505
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100506config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
507 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
508 range 0 1
509 default "1"
510 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
511 help
512 Debug objects boot parameter default value
513
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700514config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800515 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800516 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700517 help
518 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
519 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
520 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
521
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800522config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
523 bool "Memory leak debugging"
524 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
525
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700526config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
527 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)4675ff02017-11-15 17:36:02 -0800528 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700529 default n
530 help
531 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
532 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
533 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
534 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
535 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
536 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
537 "slub_debug=-".
538
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800539config SLUB_STATS
540 default n
541 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500542 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800543 help
544 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
545 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
546 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
547 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
548 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
549 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
550 Try running: slabinfo -DA
551
Catalin Marinasb69ec422012-10-08 16:28:11 -0700552config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
553 bool
554
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100555config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
556 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Kees Cook525c1f92013-01-16 18:54:16 -0800557 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100558 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100559 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
560 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800561 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100562 help
563 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
564 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
565 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
566 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
567 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
568 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800569 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100570 details.
571
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100572 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
573 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
574
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100575 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
576 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
577
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100578config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
579 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
580 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200581 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100582 default 400
583 help
584 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
585 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
586 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
587 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
588 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
589
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100590config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
591 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700592 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100593 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700594 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100595
596 If unsure, say N.
597
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100598config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
599 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
600 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
601 help
602 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
603 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
604
Sri Krishna chowdaryd53ce042018-12-28 00:38:54 -0800605config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
606 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
607 default y
608 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
609 help
610 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
611 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
612 kmemleak scan at boot up.
613
614 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
615 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
616 memory leaks.
617
618 If unsure, say Y.
619
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700620config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
621 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
Helge Deller6c31da32016-03-19 17:54:10 +0100622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700623 help
624 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
625 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
626
627 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
628
629config DEBUG_VM
630 bool "Debug VM"
631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
632 help
633 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
634 that may impact performance.
635
636 If unsure, say N.
637
Davidlohr Bueso4f115142014-06-04 16:06:46 -0700638config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
639 bool "Debug VMA caching"
640 depends on DEBUG_VM
641 help
642 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
643 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
644 environments.
645
646 If unsure, say N.
647
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700648config DEBUG_VM_RB
649 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
650 depends on DEBUG_VM
651 help
Davidlohr Buesoa663dad2014-04-18 15:07:22 -0700652 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700653
654 If unsure, say N.
655
Kirill A. Shutemov95ad9752016-01-15 16:51:21 -0800656config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
657 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
658 depends on DEBUG_VM
659 help
660 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
661
662 If unsure, say N.
663
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800664config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
665 bool
666
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700667config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
668 bool "Debug VM translations"
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700670 help
671 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
672 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
673
674 If unsure, say N.
675
676config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
677 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
679 help
680 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
681 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
682
683config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
684 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
685 default !EXPERT
686 help
687 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
688 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
689 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
690 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
691 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
692
693 If unsure, say Y
694
695config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
696 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
697 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
698 help
699 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
700 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
701 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
702
703 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
704 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
705
706 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
707
708 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
709 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
710 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
711 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
712
713 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
714 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
715
716 If unsure, say N.
717
718config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
719 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
721 depends on SMP
722 help
723 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
724 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
725 and decreases performance.
726
727 Say N if unsure.
728
729config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
730 bool "Highmem debugging"
731 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
732 help
Geert Uytterhoevenb1357c92014-04-14 18:55:50 +0200733 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
734 systems. Disable for production systems.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700735
736config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
737 bool
738
739config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
740 bool "Check for stack overflows"
741 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
742 ---help---
743 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
Borislav Petkovedb0ec02015-01-25 19:50:34 +0100744 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700745 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
746 below a certain limit.
747
748 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
749 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
750 involved.
751
752 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
753 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
754
755 If in doubt, say "N".
756
Andrey Ryabinin0b24bec2015-02-13 14:39:17 -0800757source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
758
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700759endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
760
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700761config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
762 bool
763 help
764 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
765 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
766 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
767
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900768config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
769 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
770
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700771config KCOV
772 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
773 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900774 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700775 select DEBUG_FS
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900776 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700777 help
778 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
779 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
780
781 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
782 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
783 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
784
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800785 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700786
Victor Chibotarud677a4d2017-11-17 15:30:50 -0800787config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
788 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
789 depends on KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900790 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
Victor Chibotarud677a4d2017-11-17 15:30:50 -0800791 help
792 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
793 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
794 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
795 of fuzzing coverage.
796
Vegard Nossuma4691de2016-08-02 14:07:30 -0700797config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
798 bool "Instrument all code by default"
799 depends on KCOV
Masahiro Yamada5aadfde2018-05-28 18:22:04 +0900800 default y
Vegard Nossuma4691de2016-08-02 14:07:30 -0700801 help
802 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
803 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
804 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
805 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
806 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
807
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700808config DEBUG_SHIRQ
809 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
Martin Schwidefsky0244ad02013-08-30 09:39:53 +0200810 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700811 help
812 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
813 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
814 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
815 points; some don't and need to be caught.
816
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700817menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
818
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700819config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700820 bool
821
822config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
823 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700825 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700826 help
827 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700828 soft lockups.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700829
830 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
831 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
832 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
833 detection and the system will stay locked up.
834
Randy Dunlap5f00ae02018-04-10 16:32:51 -0700835config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
836 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
837 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
838 help
839 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
840 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
841 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
842 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
843
844 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
845 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
846 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
847 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
848 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
849
850 Say N if unsure.
851
852config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
853 int
854 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
855 range 0 1
856 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
857 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
858
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700859config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
860 bool
861 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
862
863#
Thomas Gleixner7edaeb62017-08-15 09:50:13 +0200864# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
865# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
866#
867config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
868 bool
869
870#
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700871# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
872# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
873#
874config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
875 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
876 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
877 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
878 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
879 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
880 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
881 help
882 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
883 hard lockups.
884
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700885 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
886 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
887 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
888 and the system will stay locked up.
889
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700890config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
891 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
892 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
893 help
894 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
895 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
896 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
897 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
898
899 Say N if unsure.
900
901config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
902 int
903 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
904 range 0 1
905 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
906 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
907
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700908config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
909 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
910 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700911 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700912 help
913 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
914 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
Vivien Didelot96b03ab2016-09-22 16:55:13 -0400915 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700916
917 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
918 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
919 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
920 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
921 feature has negligible overhead.
922
923config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
924 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
925 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
926 default 120
927 help
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700928 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700929 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
930 be considered hung.
931
932 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
933 sysctl or by writing a value to
934 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
935
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700936 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
937 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700938
939config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
940 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
941 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
942 help
943 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
944 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
945 in uninterruptible "D" state.
946
947 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700948 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
949 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700950 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700951 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
952
953 Say N if unsure.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700954
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100955config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700956 int
957 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
958 range 0 1
959 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
960 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
961
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -0500962config WQ_WATCHDOG
963 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
964 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
965 help
966 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
967 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
968 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
969 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
970 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
971 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
972
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700973endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
974
975config PANIC_ON_OOPS
976 bool "Panic on Oops"
977 help
978 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
979 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
980 line.
981
982 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
983 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
984 corruption or other issues.
985
986 Say N if unsure.
987
988config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
989 int
990 range 0 1
991 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
992 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
993
Jason Baron5800dc32013-11-25 23:23:04 +0000994config PANIC_TIMEOUT
995 int "panic timeout"
996 default 0
997 help
998 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
999 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
1000 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
1001 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
1002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001003config SCHED_DEBUG
1004 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1005 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1006 default y
1007 help
1008 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1009 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1010 option is minimal.
1011
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301012config SCHED_INFO
1013 bool
1014 default n
1015
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001016config SCHEDSTATS
1017 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +05301019 select SCHED_INFO
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001020 help
1021 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1022 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1023 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1024 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1025 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1026 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1027 this adds.
1028
Aaron Tomlin0d9e2632014-09-12 14:16:19 +01001029config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1030 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1031 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1032 default n
1033 help
1034 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1035 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1036 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1037 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1038 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1039 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1040
John Stultz3c17ad12015-03-11 21:16:32 -07001041config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1042 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1043 help
1044 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1045 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1046 problems are suspected.
1047
1048 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1049 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1050 workloads.
1051
1052 If unsure, say N.
1053
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001054config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1055 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +00001056 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001057 default y
1058 help
1059 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1060 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1061 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1062 will detect preemption count underflows.
1063
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001064menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1065
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001066config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1067 bool
1068 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1069 default y
1070
Waiman Long19193bc2018-03-30 17:28:00 -04001071config PROVE_LOCKING
1072 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1073 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1074 select LOCKDEP
1075 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1076 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1077 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1078 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1079 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1080 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1081 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1082 default n
1083 help
1084 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1085 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1086 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1087 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1088 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1089 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1090 deadlock.
1091
1092 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1093 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1094
1095 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1096 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1097 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1098 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1099 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1100 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1101 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1102 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1103 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1104
1105 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1106 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1107 kernel reports nothing.
1108
1109 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1110 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1111 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1112 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1113 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1114
1115 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1116
1117config LOCK_STAT
1118 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1120 select LOCKDEP
1121 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1122 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1123 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1124 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1125 default n
1126 help
1127 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1128
1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1130
1131 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1132 subcommand of perf.
1133 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1134 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1135
1136 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1137 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1138
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001139config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1140 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1142 help
1143 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1144 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1145
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001146config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001147 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +05301149 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001150 help
1151 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1152 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1153 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1154 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1155
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001156config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1157 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1159 help
1160 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1161 reported.
1162
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001163config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1164 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001166 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1167 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1168 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1169 help
1170 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1171 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1172 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1173 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1174 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Rob Clark4d692372014-08-27 11:19:26 -04001175 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1176 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1177 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1178 you are a distro, do not.
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001179
Waiman Long5149cba2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04001180config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1181 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1183 help
1184 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
1185 to be detected and reported.
1186
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001187config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1188 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001189 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001190 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1191 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001192 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001193 select LOCKDEP
1194 help
1195 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1196 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1197 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1198 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1199 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1200 held during task exit.
1201
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001202config LOCKDEP
1203 bool
Waiman Longf07cbeb2018-03-30 17:27:59 -04001204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001205 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001206 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001207 select KALLSYMS
1208 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1209
Daniel Jordan395102d2017-04-10 11:50:52 -04001210config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1211 bool
1212
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001213config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1214 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001216 help
1217 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1218 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1219 of more runtime overhead.
1220
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001221config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1222 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +02001223 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Christoph Hellwig87a4c372018-07-31 13:39:32 +02001225 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226 help
1227 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001228 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1229 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1230 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001231
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -07001232config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1233 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1234 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1235 help
1236 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1237 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1238 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1239 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1240 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1241 mutexes and rwsems.
1242
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001243config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1244 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1245 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1246 select TORTURE_TEST
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001247 help
1248 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1249 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1250 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1251
1252 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1253 to be built into the kernel.
1254 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1255 Say N if you are unsure.
1256
Chris Wilsonf2a5fec2016-12-01 11:47:06 +00001257config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1258 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1259 help
1260 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1261 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1262
1263 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1264 with this test harness.
1265
1266 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1267 Say N if you are unsure.
1268
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001269endmenu # lock debugging
1270
1271config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1272 bool
1273 help
1274 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1275 either tracing or lock debugging.
1276
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001277config STACKTRACE
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001278 bool "Stack backtrace support"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001279 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001280 help
1281 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1282 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1283 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1284 stack trace generation.
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001285
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001286config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1287 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1288 default n
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001289 help
1290 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1291 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1292 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1293 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1294 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1295 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1296 it.
1297
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001298 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1299 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1300 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1301 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1302 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1303 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001304 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001305 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1306 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1307
1308 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1309 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
Thibaut Sautereau4c5d1142018-09-04 15:46:23 -07001310 those developers interested in improving the security of
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001311 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1312 subarchitecture).
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001314config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1315 bool "kobject debugging"
1316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1317 help
1318 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
Mike Rapoportaca52c32018-10-30 15:07:44 -07001319 to the syslog.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001321config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1322 bool "kobject release debugging"
Linus Torvalds2a999aa2013-10-29 08:33:36 -07001323 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001324 help
1325 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1326 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1327 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1328 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1329 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1330 unregistered.
1331
1332 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1333 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1334 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1335
1336 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1337 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1338 kind of kobject release bug.
1339
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001340config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1341 bool
1342
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001343config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001344 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001345 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -08001346 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001347 help
1348 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1349 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1350 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1351
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001352config DEBUG_LIST
1353 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
Arnd Bergmann4520bcb2016-08-26 17:42:00 +02001354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001355 help
1356 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1357 walking routines.
1358
1359 If unsure, say N.
1360
Dan Streetmanb8cfff62014-06-04 16:11:54 -07001361config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1362 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1364 help
1365 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1366 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1367 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1368
1369 If unsure, say N.
1370
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +02001371config DEBUG_SG
1372 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1373 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1374 help
1375 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1376 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1377 their sg tables.
1378
1379 If unsure, say N.
1380
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07001381config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1382 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1384 help
1385 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1386 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1387 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1388 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1389 performance, say N.
1390
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +01001391config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1392 bool "Debug credential management"
1393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1394 help
1395 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1396 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1397 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1398 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1399 struct.
1400
1401 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1402 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1403
1404 If unsure, say N.
1405
Paul E. McKenney43a0a2a2017-05-17 09:19:44 -07001406source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001407
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05001408config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1409 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1411 default n
1412 help
1413 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1414 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1415 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1416 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1417 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1418 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1419 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1420 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1421 be impacted.
1422
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001423config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1424 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1426 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +02001427 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001428 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001429 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1430 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1431 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1432 is broken.
1433
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001434 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1435 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1436 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1437 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1438 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1439 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1440 device number allocation.
1441
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001442 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1443 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1444 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1445 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1446 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1447
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001448 Say N if you are unsure.
1449
Thomas Gleixner757c9892016-02-26 18:43:32 +00001450config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1451 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1452 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1453 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1454 default n
1455 help
1456 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1457 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1458 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1459 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1460
1461 Say N if your are unsure.
1462
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001463config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1464 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1465 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1466 select DEBUG_FS
1467 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001468 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001469 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1470 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1471
1472 Say N if unsure.
1473
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001474config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1475 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1476 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1477 default m if PM_DEBUG
1478 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001479 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001480 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1481 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1482
1483 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1484 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1485
1486 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1487
1488 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1489 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1490 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1491 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1492
1493 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1494 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1495
1496 If unsure, say N.
1497
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001498config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1499 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1500 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001501 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001502 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001503 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001504 through debugfs interface under
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001505 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001506
1507 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1508 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1509
1510 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
Akinobu Mitae12a95f2013-04-30 15:28:49 -07001511 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001512
1513 If unsure, say N.
1514
Nikolay Aleksandrov02fff962015-11-28 13:45:28 +01001515config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1516 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1517 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1518 help
1519 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1520 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1521 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1522
1523 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1524 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1525
1526 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1527
1528 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1529 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1530 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1531 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1532
1533 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1534 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1535
1536 If unsure, say N.
1537
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001538config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1539 def_bool y
1540 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1541
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001542config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001543 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001545 help
1546 Provide fault-injection framework.
1547 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001548
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001549config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001550 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1551 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001552 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001553 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001554 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001555
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001556config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1557 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001558 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001559 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001560 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001561
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001562config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001563 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001564 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001565 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001566 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001567
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001568config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001569 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001570 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1571 help
1572 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1573 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1574 thus exercising the error handling.
1575
1576 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1577 for others it wont do anything.
1578
Davidlohr Buesoab51fba2015-06-29 23:26:02 -07001579config FAIL_FUTEX
1580 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1581 select DEBUG_FS
1582 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1583 help
1584 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1585
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001586config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1587 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1588 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1589 help
1590 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1591
Masami Hiramatsu4b1a29a2018-01-13 02:56:03 +09001592config FAIL_FUNCTION
1593 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1594 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1595 help
1596 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1597 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1598 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1599 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1600 error handling in various subsystems.
1601
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001602config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1603 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1604 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001605 help
Mikulas Patockaf1b4bd02018-06-14 15:27:48 -07001606 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1607 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1608 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1609 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1610 the block device.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001611
1612config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1613 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1614 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001615 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001616 select STACKTRACE
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001617 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001618 help
1619 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001620
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001621config LATENCYTOP
1622 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001623 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1624 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1625 depends on PROC_FS
Stefan Agnerf9b58e82018-09-30 23:02:33 +01001626 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001627 select KALLSYMS
1628 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1629 select STACKTRACE
1630 select SCHEDSTATS
1631 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001632 help
1633 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1634 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1635
Masahiro Yamada8636a1f2018-12-11 20:01:04 +09001636source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001637
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07001638config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1639 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1640 depends on PCI && X86
1641 help
1642 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1643 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1644 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1645 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1646 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1647
1648 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1649 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1650 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1651
1652 Usage:
1653
1654 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1655 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1656
1657 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1658 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1659 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1660 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1661
1662 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1663 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1664
1665 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1666
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001667menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1668 bool "Runtime Testing"
Anders Roxell908009e82018-02-21 14:46:05 -08001669 def_bool y
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08001670
1671if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001672
1673config LKDTM
1674 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1675 depends on DEBUG_FS
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001676 help
1677 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1678 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1679 If you don't need it: say N
1680 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1681 called lkdtm.
1682
1683 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1684 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1685
1686config TEST_LIST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001687 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001689 help
1690 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001691 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1692 or at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001693
1694 If unsure, say N.
1695
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001696config TEST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001697 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1698 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001699 help
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001700 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1701 or at module load time.
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001702
1703 If unsure, say N.
1704
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001705config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1706 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1708 depends on KPROBES
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001709 help
1710 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
Masami Hiramatsu5a6cf772018-06-20 01:05:07 +09001711 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001712 verified for functionality.
1713
1714 Say N if you are unsure.
1715
1716config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1717 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001719 help
1720 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1721 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1722 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1723 developers working on architecture code.
1724
1725 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1726 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1727
1728 Say N if you are unsure.
1729
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001730config RBTREE_TEST
1731 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
Cody P Schafer7c993e12013-09-11 14:25:19 -07001732 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001733 help
1734 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1735 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1736
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001737config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1738 tristate "Interval tree test"
Davidlohr Bueso0f789b62017-07-10 15:51:43 -07001739 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Chris Wilsona88cc102014-03-17 12:21:54 +00001740 select INTERVAL_TREE
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001741 help
1742 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1743
Greg Thelen623fd802013-11-12 15:08:34 -08001744config PERCPU_TEST
1745 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1746 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1747 help
1748 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1749 operations.
1750
1751 If unsure, say N.
1752
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001753config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001754 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001755 help
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001756 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1757 at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001758
1759 If unsure, say N.
1760
1761config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1762 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1763 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1764 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1765 ---help---
1766 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1767 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1768 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1769 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1770 engine if one is available.
1771
1772 If unsure, say N.
1773
Andy Shevchenko64d1d772015-02-12 15:02:21 -08001774config TEST_HEXDUMP
1775 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1776
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001777config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1778 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1779
1780config TEST_KSTRTOX
1781 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1782
Rasmus Villemoes707cc722015-11-06 16:30:29 -08001783config TEST_PRINTF
1784 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1785
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001786config TEST_BITMAP
1787 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001788 help
1789 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1790
1791 If unsure, say N.
1792
Johannes Berg0e2dc702018-06-20 08:58:30 +02001793config TEST_BITFIELD
1794 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
1795 help
1796 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
1797
1798 If unsure, say N.
1799
Andy Shevchenkocfaff0e2016-05-30 17:40:41 +03001800config TEST_UUID
1801 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1802
Matthew Wilcoxad3d6c72017-11-07 14:57:46 -05001803config TEST_XARRAY
1804 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
1805
Rasmus Villemoes455a35a2018-05-08 00:36:28 +02001806config TEST_OVERFLOW
1807 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1808
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001809config TEST_RHASHTABLE
Geert Uytterhoeven9d6dbe12015-01-29 15:40:25 +01001810 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001811 help
1812 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1813
1814 If unsure, say N.
1815
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001816config TEST_HASH
1817 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001818 help
Jason A. Donenfeld2c956a62017-01-08 13:54:00 +01001819 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1820 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1821 hash functions on boot (or module load).
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001822
1823 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1824 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1825
Matthew Wilcox8ab8ba32018-06-18 16:59:29 -04001826config TEST_IDA
1827 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
1828
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001829config TEST_PARMAN
1830 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001831 depends on PARMAN
1832 help
1833 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1834 (or module load).
1835
1836 If unsure, say N.
1837
Valentin Rothberg8a6f0b42014-10-13 15:51:38 -07001838config TEST_LKM
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001839 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001840 depends on m
1841 help
1842 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1843 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1844 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1845 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1846 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1847 requested by name.
1848
1849 If unsure, say N.
1850
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)3f21a6b2019-03-05 15:43:34 -08001851config TEST_VMALLOC
1852 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
1853 default n
1854 depends on MMU
1855 depends on m
1856 help
1857 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
1858 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
1859 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
1860 of view.
1861
1862 If unsure, say N.
1863
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001864config TEST_USER_COPY
1865 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001866 depends on m
1867 help
1868 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1869 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1870 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1871 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1872 protections.
1873
1874 If unsure, say N.
1875
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001876config TEST_BPF
1877 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
Randy Dunlap98920ba2014-05-13 09:58:44 -07001878 depends on m && NET
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001879 help
1880 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1881 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1882 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1883 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
Alexei Starovoitov3c731eb2014-09-26 00:17:07 -07001884 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1885 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001886
1887 If unsure, say N.
1888
Yury Norovdceeb3e2018-02-06 15:38:27 -08001889config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08001890 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
Yury Norov4441fca2017-11-17 15:28:31 -08001891 help
1892 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1893 functions performance.
1894
1895 If unsure, say N.
1896
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001897config TEST_FIRMWARE
1898 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001899 depends on FW_LOADER
1900 help
1901 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1902 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1903 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1904 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1905 userspace.
1906
1907 If unsure, say N.
1908
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07001909config TEST_SYSCTL
1910 tristate "sysctl test driver"
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07001911 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1912 help
1913 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1914 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1915 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1916
1917 If unsure, say N.
1918
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001919config TEST_UDELAY
1920 tristate "udelay test driver"
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001921 help
1922 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1923 that udelay() is working properly.
1924
1925 If unsure, say N.
1926
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001927config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1928 tristate "Test static keys"
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001929 depends on m
1930 help
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001931 Test the static key interfaces.
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001932
1933 If unsure, say N.
1934
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001935config TEST_KMOD
1936 tristate "kmod stress tester"
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001937 depends on m
1938 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1939 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1940 select TEST_LKM
1941 select XFS_FS
1942 select TUN
1943 select BTRFS_FS
1944 help
1945 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1946 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1947 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1948
1949 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1950 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1951 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1952 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1953 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1954
1955 To run tests run:
1956
1957 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1958
1959 If unsure, say N.
1960
Florian Fainellie4dace32017-09-08 16:15:31 -07001961config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1962 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1963 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1964 help
1965 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1966 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1967 kernel's virtual address map.
1968
1969 If unsure, say N.
1970
Alexander Shishkince76d932018-10-05 15:43:05 +03001971config TEST_MEMCAT_P
1972 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
1973 help
1974 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
1975 pointer arrays together.
1976
1977 If unsure, say N.
1978
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01001979config TEST_LIVEPATCH
1980 tristate "Test livepatching"
1981 default n
Joe Lawrencebae05432019-01-31 11:41:24 -05001982 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
Joe Lawrencea2818ee2019-01-09 13:43:29 +01001983 depends on LIVEPATCH
1984 depends on m
1985 help
1986 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
1987 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
1988
1989 To run all the livepatching tests:
1990
1991 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
1992
1993 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
1994
1995 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
1996 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
1997 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
1998
1999 If unsure, say N.
2000
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002001config TEST_OBJAGG
2002 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2003 default n
2004 depends on OBJAGG
2005 help
2006 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2007 (or module load).
2008
Jiri Pirko0a020d42018-11-14 08:22:28 +00002009
Kees Cook50ceaa95e2019-01-23 12:24:32 -07002010config TEST_STACKINIT
2011 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2012 help
2013 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2014 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2015 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2016 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2017
2018 If unsure, say N.
2019
Vincent Legolld3deafa2018-02-06 15:38:38 -08002020endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002021
2022config MEMTEST
2023 bool "Memtest"
Randy Dunlapcc3fa842017-10-13 15:57:33 -07002024 ---help---
2025 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2026 to be set.
2027 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2028 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2029 ...
2030 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2031 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2032
2033config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
2034 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
2035 select DEBUG_LIST
2036 help
2037 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
2038 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
2039 for validity.
2040
2041 If unsure, say N.
Florian Fainellie4dace32017-09-08 16:15:31 -07002042
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07002043source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02002044
2045source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02002046
Andrey Ryabininc6d30852016-01-20 15:00:55 -08002047source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
2048
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002049config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2050 bool
2051
2052config STRICT_DEVMEM
2053 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
Dave Young6b2a65c2016-12-12 16:46:14 -08002054 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002055 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
Arnd Bergmanna687a532018-03-07 23:30:54 +01002056 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002057 ---help---
2058 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2059 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2060 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2061 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2062 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2063 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2064
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002065 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2066 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2067 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2068 users of /dev/mem.
2069
2070 If in doubt, say Y.
2071
2072config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2073 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2074 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002075 ---help---
2076 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2077 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2078 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2079 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2080
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002081 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002082 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2083 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2084 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002085
2086 If in doubt, say Y.
Christoph Hellwig06ec64b2018-07-31 13:39:31 +02002087
2088source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
2089
2090endmenu # Kernel hacking