1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 40 range 1 15 41 default "7" 42 help 43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 44 45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 47 value is specified here as well. 48 49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 51 option. 52 53config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 55 range 1 15 56 default "4" 57 help 58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 59 60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 63 64config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 65 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 66 range 1 7 67 default "4" 68 help 69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 70 71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 73 priority. 74 75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 78 79config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 82 help 83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 86 using "boot_delay=N". 87 88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 89 the "loops per jiffie" value. 90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 95 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 96 97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 99 default n 100 depends on PRINTK 101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 102 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 103 help 104 105 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 106 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 107 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 108 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 109 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 110 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 111 112 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 113 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 114 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 115 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 116 117 Usage: 118 119 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 120 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 121 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 122 making use of this feature. 123 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 124 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 125 format for each line of the file is: 126 127 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 128 129 filename : source file of the debug statement 130 lineno : line number of the debug statement 131 module : module that contains the debug statement 132 function : function that contains the debug statement 133 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 134 format : the format used for the debug statement 135 136 From a live system: 137 138 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 139 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 140 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 141 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 142 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 143 144 Example usage: 145 146 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 147 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 148 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 149 150 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 151 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 152 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 153 154 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 157 158 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 161 162 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 165 166 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 167 information. 168 169config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 170 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 171 depends on PRINTK 172 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 173 help 174 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 175 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 176 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 177 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 178 sensitive for people. 179 180config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 181 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 182 default y if PRINTK 183 help 184 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 185 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 186 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 187 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 188 189config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 190 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 191 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 192 default y 193 help 194 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 195 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 196 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 197 198endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 199 200menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 201 202config DEBUG_INFO 203 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 205 help 206 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 207 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 208 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 209 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 210 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 211 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 212 213 If unsure, say N. 214 215if DEBUG_INFO 216 217config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 218 bool "Reduce debugging information" 219 help 220 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 221 information for structure types. This means that tools that 222 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 223 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 224 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 225 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 226 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 227 Only works with newer gcc versions. 228 229config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 230 bool "Compressed debugging information" 231 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 232 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 233 help 234 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 235 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 236 237 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 238 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 239 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 240 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 241 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 242 larger. 243 244config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 245 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 246 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 247 help 248 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 249 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 250 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 251 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 252 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 253 254 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 255 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 256 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 257 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 258 259config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 260 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 261 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 262 help 263 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 264 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 265 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 266 variables in gdb on optimized code. 267 268config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 269 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 270 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 271 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 272 help 273 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 274 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 275 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 276 277config GDB_SCRIPTS 278 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 279 help 280 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 281 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 282 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 283 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 284 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 285 for further details. 286 287endif # DEBUG_INFO 288 289config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 290 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 291 default y 292 help 293 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 294 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 295 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 296 297config FRAME_WARN 298 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 299 range 0 8192 300 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 301 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 302 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 303 default 2048 if 64BIT 304 help 305 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 306 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 307 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 308 309config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 310 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 311 default n 312 help 313 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 314 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 315 get_wchan() and suchlike. 316 317config READABLE_ASM 318 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 319 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 320 help 321 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 322 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 323 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 324 sane. 325 326config HEADERS_INSTALL 327 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 328 depends on !UML 329 help 330 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 331 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 332 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 333 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 334 as uapi header sanity checks. 335 336config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 337 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 338 help 339 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 340 references from one section to another section. 341 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 342 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 343 most likely result in an oops. 344 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 345 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 346 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 347 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 348 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 349 additional step to occur: 350 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 351 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 352 function, we would lose the section information and thus 353 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 354 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 355 a larger kernel). 356 357config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 358 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 359 default y 360 help 361 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 362 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 363 364 If unsure, say Y. 365 366config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B 367 bool "Force all function address 32B aligned" if EXPERT 368 help 369 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 370 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 371 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 372 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 373 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 374 375 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 376 377# 378# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 379# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 380# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 381# 382config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 383 bool 384 385config FRAME_POINTER 386 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 388 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 389 help 390 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 391 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 392 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 393 394config STACK_VALIDATION 395 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 396 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 397 default n 398 help 399 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 400 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 401 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 402 403 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 404 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 405 406 For more information, see 407 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 408 409config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 410 bool 411 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT 412 default y 413 414config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 415 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 417 help 418 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 419 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 420 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 421 definitions. 422 423 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 424 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 425 426 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 427 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 428 429endmenu # "Compiler options" 430 431menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 432 433config MAGIC_SYSRQ 434 bool "Magic SysRq key" 435 depends on !UML 436 help 437 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 438 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 439 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 440 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 441 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 442 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 443 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 444 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 445 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 446 447config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 448 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 449 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 450 default 0x1 451 help 452 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 453 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 454 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 455 456config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 457 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 458 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 459 default y 460 help 461 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 462 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 463 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 464 magic SysRq key. 465 466config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 467 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 468 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 469 default "" 470 help 471 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 472 SysRq on a serial console. 473 474 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 475 476config DEBUG_FS 477 bool "Debug Filesystem" 478 help 479 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 480 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 481 write to these files. 482 483 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 484 Documentation/filesystems/. 485 486 If unsure, say N. 487 488choice 489 prompt "Debugfs default access" 490 depends on DEBUG_FS 491 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 492 help 493 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 494 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 495 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 496 and filesystem registration. 497 498config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 499 bool "Access normal" 500 help 501 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 502 is on. This is the normal default operation. 503 504config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 505 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 506 help 507 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 508 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 509 debugfs filesystem. 510 511config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 512 bool "No access" 513 help 514 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 515 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 516 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 517 518endchoice 519 520source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 521source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 522source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 523 524endmenu 525 526config DEBUG_KERNEL 527 bool "Kernel debugging" 528 help 529 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 530 identify kernel problems. 531 532config DEBUG_MISC 533 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 534 default DEBUG_KERNEL 535 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 536 help 537 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 538 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 539 540 541menu "Memory Debugging" 542 543source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 544 545config DEBUG_OBJECTS 546 bool "Debug object operations" 547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 548 help 549 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 550 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 551 the operations on those objects. 552 553config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 554 bool "Debug objects selftest" 555 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 556 help 557 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 558 559config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 560 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 561 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 562 help 563 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 564 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 565 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 566 much slower. 567 568config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 569 bool "Debug timer objects" 570 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 571 help 572 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 573 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 574 validate the timer operations. 575 576config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 577 bool "Debug work objects" 578 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 579 help 580 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 581 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 582 validate the work operations. 583 584config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 585 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 586 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 587 help 588 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 589 590config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 591 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 592 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 593 help 594 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 595 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 596 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 597 598config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 599 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 600 range 0 1 601 default "1" 602 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 603 help 604 Debug objects boot parameter default value 605 606config DEBUG_SLAB 607 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 608 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 609 help 610 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 611 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 612 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 613 614config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 615 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 616 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 617 default n 618 help 619 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 620 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 621 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 622 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 623 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 624 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 625 "slub_debug=-". 626 627config SLUB_STATS 628 default n 629 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 630 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 631 help 632 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 633 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 634 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 635 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 636 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 637 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 638 Try running: slabinfo -DA 639 640config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 641 bool 642 643config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 644 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 646 select DEBUG_FS 647 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 648 select KALLSYMS 649 select CRC32 650 help 651 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 652 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 653 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 654 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 655 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 656 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 657 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 658 details. 659 660 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 661 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 662 663 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 664 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 665 666config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 667 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 668 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 669 range 200 1000000 670 default 16000 671 help 672 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 673 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 674 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 675 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 676 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 677 if slab allocations fail. 678 679config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 680 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 681 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 682 help 683 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 684 685 If unsure, say N. 686 687config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 688 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 689 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 690 help 691 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 692 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 693 694config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 695 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 696 default y 697 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 698 help 699 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 700 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 701 kmemleak scan at boot up. 702 703 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 704 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 705 memory leaks. 706 707 If unsure, say Y. 708 709config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 710 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 711 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 712 help 713 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 714 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 715 716 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 717 718config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 719 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 721 default n 722 help 723 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 724 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 725 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 726 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 727 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 728 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 729 730config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 731 bool 732 help 733 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 734 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 735 736config DEBUG_VM 737 bool "Debug VM" 738 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 739 help 740 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 741 that may impact performance. 742 743 If unsure, say N. 744 745config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 746 bool "Debug VMA caching" 747 depends on DEBUG_VM 748 help 749 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 750 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 751 environments. 752 753 If unsure, say N. 754 755config DEBUG_VM_RB 756 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 757 depends on DEBUG_VM 758 help 759 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 760 761 If unsure, say N. 762 763config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 764 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 765 depends on DEBUG_VM 766 help 767 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 768 769 If unsure, say N. 770 771config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 772 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 773 depends on MMU 774 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 775 default y if DEBUG_VM 776 help 777 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 778 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 779 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 780 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 781 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 782 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 783 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 784 785 If unsure, say N. 786 787config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 788 bool 789 790config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 791 bool "Debug VM translations" 792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 793 help 794 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 795 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 796 797 If unsure, say N. 798 799config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 800 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 802 help 803 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 804 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 805 806config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 807 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 808 default !EXPERT 809 help 810 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 811 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 812 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 813 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 814 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 815 816 If unsure, say Y 817 818config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 819 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 820 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 821 help 822 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 823 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 824 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 825 826 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 827 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 828 829 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 830 831 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 832 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 833 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 834 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 835 836 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 837 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 838 839 If unsure, say N. 840 841config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 842 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 843 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 844 depends on SMP 845 help 846 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 847 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 848 and decreases performance. 849 850 Say N if unsure. 851 852config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 853 bool "Highmem debugging" 854 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 855 help 856 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 857 systems. Disable for production systems. 858 859config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 860 bool 861 862config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 863 bool "Check for stack overflows" 864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 865 help 866 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 867 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 868 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 869 below a certain limit. 870 871 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 872 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 873 involved. 874 875 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 876 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 877 878 If in doubt, say "N". 879 880source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 881 882endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 883 884config DEBUG_SHIRQ 885 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 886 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 887 help 888 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 889 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 890 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 891 don't and need to be caught. 892 893menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 894 895config PANIC_ON_OOPS 896 bool "Panic on Oops" 897 help 898 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 899 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 900 line. 901 902 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 903 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 904 corruption or other issues. 905 906 Say N if unsure. 907 908config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 909 int 910 range 0 1 911 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 912 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 913 914config PANIC_TIMEOUT 915 int "panic timeout" 916 default 0 917 help 918 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 919 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 920 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 921 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 922 923config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 924 bool 925 926config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 927 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 928 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 929 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 930 help 931 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 932 soft lockups. 933 934 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 935 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 936 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 937 detection and the system will stay locked up. 938 939config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 940 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 941 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 942 help 943 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 944 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 945 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 946 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 947 948 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 949 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 950 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 951 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 952 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 953 954 Say N if unsure. 955 956config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 957 int 958 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 959 range 0 1 960 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 961 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 962 963config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 964 bool 965 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 966 967# 968# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 969# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 970# 971config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 972 bool 973 974# 975# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 976# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 977# 978config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 979 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 980 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 981 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 982 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 983 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 984 help 985 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 986 hard lockups. 987 988 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 989 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 990 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 991 and the system will stay locked up. 992 993config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 994 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 995 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 996 help 997 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 998 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 999 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1000 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1001 1002 Say N if unsure. 1003 1004config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1005 int 1006 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1007 range 0 1 1008 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1009 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1010 1011config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1012 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1013 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1014 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1015 help 1016 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1017 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1018 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1019 1020 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1021 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1022 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1023 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1024 feature has negligible overhead. 1025 1026config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1027 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1028 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1029 default 120 1030 help 1031 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1032 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1033 be considered hung. 1034 1035 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1036 sysctl or by writing a value to 1037 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1038 1039 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1040 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1041 1042config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1043 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1044 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1045 help 1046 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1047 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1048 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1049 1050 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1051 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1052 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1053 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1054 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1055 1056 Say N if unsure. 1057 1058config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1059 int 1060 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1061 range 0 1 1062 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1063 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1064 1065config WQ_WATCHDOG 1066 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1067 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1068 help 1069 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1070 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1071 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1072 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1073 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1074 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1075 1076config TEST_LOCKUP 1077 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1078 depends on m 1079 help 1080 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1081 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1082 1083 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1084 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1085 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1086 1087 If unsure, say N. 1088 1089endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1090 1091menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1092 1093config SCHED_DEBUG 1094 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1095 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1096 default y 1097 help 1098 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1099 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1100 option is minimal. 1101 1102config SCHED_INFO 1103 bool 1104 default n 1105 1106config SCHEDSTATS 1107 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1108 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1109 select SCHED_INFO 1110 help 1111 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1112 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1113 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1114 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1115 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1116 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1117 this adds. 1118 1119endmenu 1120 1121config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1122 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1123 help 1124 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1125 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1126 problems are suspected. 1127 1128 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1129 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1130 workloads. 1131 1132 If unsure, say N. 1133 1134config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1135 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1137 default y 1138 help 1139 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1140 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1141 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1142 will detect preemption count underflows. 1143 1144menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1145 1146config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1147 bool 1148 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1149 default y 1150 1151config PROVE_LOCKING 1152 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1154 select LOCKDEP 1155 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1156 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1157 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1158 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1159 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1160 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1161 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1162 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1163 default n 1164 help 1165 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1166 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1167 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1168 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1169 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1170 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1171 deadlock. 1172 1173 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1174 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1175 1176 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1177 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1178 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1179 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1180 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1181 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1182 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1183 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1184 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1185 1186 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1187 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1188 kernel reports nothing. 1189 1190 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1191 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1192 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1193 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1194 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1195 1196 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1197 1198config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1199 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1200 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1201 default n 1202 help 1203 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1204 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1205 not violated. 1206 1207 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1208 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1209 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1210 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1211 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1212 1213 If unsure, select N. 1214 1215config LOCK_STAT 1216 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1217 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1218 select LOCKDEP 1219 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1220 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1221 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1222 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1223 default n 1224 help 1225 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1226 1227 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1228 1229 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1230 subcommand of perf. 1231 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1232 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1233 1234 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1235 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1236 1237config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1238 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1240 help 1241 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1242 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1243 1244config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1245 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1247 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1248 help 1249 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1250 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1251 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1252 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1253 1254config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1255 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1256 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1257 help 1258 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1259 reported. 1260 1261config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1262 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1264 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1265 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1266 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1267 help 1268 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1269 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1270 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1271 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1272 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1273 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1274 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1275 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1276 you are a distro, do not. 1277 1278config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1279 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1281 help 1282 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1283 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1284 1285config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1286 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1287 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1288 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1289 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1290 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1291 select LOCKDEP 1292 help 1293 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1294 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1295 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1296 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1297 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1298 held during task exit. 1299 1300config LOCKDEP 1301 bool 1302 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1303 select STACKTRACE 1304 select KALLSYMS 1305 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1306 1307config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1308 bool 1309 1310config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1311 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1313 help 1314 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1315 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1316 of more runtime overhead. 1317 1318config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1319 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1320 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1322 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1323 help 1324 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1325 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1326 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1327 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1328 1329config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1330 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1332 help 1333 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1334 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1335 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1336 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1337 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1338 mutexes and rwsems. 1339 1340config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1341 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1342 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1343 select TORTURE_TEST 1344 help 1345 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1346 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1347 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1348 1349 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1350 to be built into the kernel. 1351 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1352 Say N if you are unsure. 1353 1354config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1355 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1356 help 1357 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1358 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1359 1360 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1361 with this test harness. 1362 1363 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1364 Say N if you are unsure. 1365 1366config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1367 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1369 select TORTURE_TEST 1370 help 1371 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1372 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1373 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1374 be tested, if desired. 1375 1376config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1377 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1379 depends on 64BIT 1380 default n 1381 help 1382 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1383 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1384 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1385 and relevant stack traces. 1386 1387endmenu # lock debugging 1388 1389config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1390 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1391 bool 1392 help 1393 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1394 either tracing or lock debugging. 1395 1396config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1397 def_bool y 1398 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1399 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1400 1401config STACKTRACE 1402 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1403 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1404 help 1405 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1406 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1407 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1408 stack trace generation. 1409 1410config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1411 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1412 default n 1413 help 1414 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1415 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1416 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1417 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1418 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1419 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1420 it. 1421 1422 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1423 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1424 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1425 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1426 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1427 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1428 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1429 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1430 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1431 1432 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1433 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1434 those developers interested in improving the security of 1435 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1436 subarchitecture). 1437 1438config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1439 bool "kobject debugging" 1440 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1441 help 1442 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1443 to the syslog. 1444 1445config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1446 bool "kobject release debugging" 1447 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1448 help 1449 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1450 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1451 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1452 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1453 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1454 unregistered. 1455 1456 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1457 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1458 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1459 1460 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1461 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1462 kind of kobject release bug. 1463 1464config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1465 bool 1466 1467menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1468 1469config DEBUG_LIST 1470 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1472 help 1473 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1474 walking routines. 1475 1476 If unsure, say N. 1477 1478config DEBUG_PLIST 1479 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1480 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1481 help 1482 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1483 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1484 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1485 1486 If unsure, say N. 1487 1488config DEBUG_SG 1489 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1490 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1491 help 1492 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1493 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1494 their sg tables. 1495 1496 If unsure, say N. 1497 1498config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1499 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1500 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1501 help 1502 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1503 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1504 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1505 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1506 performance, say N. 1507 1508config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1509 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1510 select DEBUG_LIST 1511 help 1512 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1513 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1514 for validity. 1515 1516 If unsure, say N. 1517 1518endmenu 1519 1520config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1521 bool "Debug credential management" 1522 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1523 help 1524 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1525 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1526 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1527 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1528 struct. 1529 1530 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1531 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1532 1533 If unsure, say N. 1534 1535source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1536 1537config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1538 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1539 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1540 default n 1541 help 1542 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1543 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1544 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1545 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1546 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1547 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1548 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1549 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1550 be impacted. 1551 1552config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1553 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1554 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1555 depends on BLOCK 1556 default n 1557 help 1558 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1559 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1560 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1561 is broken. 1562 1563 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1564 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1565 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1566 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1567 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1568 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1569 device number allocation. 1570 1571 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1572 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1573 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1574 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1575 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1576 1577 Say N if you are unsure. 1578 1579config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1580 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1581 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1582 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1583 default n 1584 help 1585 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1586 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1587 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1588 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1589 1590 Say N if your are unsure. 1591 1592config LATENCYTOP 1593 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1594 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1595 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1596 depends on PROC_FS 1597 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1598 select KALLSYMS 1599 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1600 select STACKTRACE 1601 select SCHEDSTATS 1602 select SCHED_DEBUG 1603 help 1604 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1605 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1606 1607source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1608 1609config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1610 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1611 depends on PCI && X86 1612 help 1613 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1614 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1615 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1616 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1617 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1618 1619 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1620 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1621 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1622 1623 Usage: 1624 1625 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1626 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1627 1628 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1629 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1630 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1631 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1632 1633 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1634 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1635 1636 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1637 1638source "samples/Kconfig" 1639 1640config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1641 bool 1642 1643config STRICT_DEVMEM 1644 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1645 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1646 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1647 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1648 help 1649 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1650 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1651 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1652 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1653 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1654 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1655 1656 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1657 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1658 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1659 users of /dev/mem. 1660 1661 If in doubt, say Y. 1662 1663config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1664 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1665 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1666 help 1667 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1668 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1669 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1670 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1671 1672 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1673 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1674 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1675 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1676 1677 If in doubt, say Y. 1678 1679menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1680 1681source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1682 1683endmenu 1684 1685menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1686 1687source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1688 1689config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1690 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1692 select DEBUG_FS 1693 help 1694 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1695 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1696 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1697 1698 Say N if unsure. 1699 1700config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1701 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1702 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1703 default m if PM_DEBUG 1704 help 1705 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1706 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1707 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1708 1709 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1710 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1711 1712 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1713 1714 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1715 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1716 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1717 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1718 1719 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1720 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1721 1722 If unsure, say N. 1723 1724config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1725 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1726 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1727 help 1728 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1729 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1730 through debugfs interface under 1731 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1732 1733 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1734 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1735 1736 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1737 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1738 1739 If unsure, say N. 1740 1741config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1742 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1743 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1744 help 1745 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1746 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1747 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1748 1749 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1750 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1751 1752 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1753 1754 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1755 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1756 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1757 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1758 1759 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1760 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1761 1762 If unsure, say N. 1763 1764config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1765 def_bool y 1766 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1767 1768config FAULT_INJECTION 1769 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1771 help 1772 Provide fault-injection framework. 1773 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1774 1775config FAILSLAB 1776 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1777 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1778 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1779 help 1780 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1781 1782config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1783 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1784 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1785 help 1786 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1787 1788config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1789 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1790 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1791 help 1792 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1793 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1794 1795config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1796 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1797 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1798 help 1799 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1800 1801config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1802 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1803 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1804 help 1805 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1806 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1807 thus exercising the error handling. 1808 1809 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1810 for others it wont do anything. 1811 1812config FAIL_FUTEX 1813 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1814 select DEBUG_FS 1815 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1816 help 1817 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1818 1819config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1820 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1821 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1822 help 1823 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1824 1825config FAIL_FUNCTION 1826 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1827 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1828 help 1829 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1830 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1831 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1832 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1833 error handling in various subsystems. 1834 1835config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1836 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1837 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1838 help 1839 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1840 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1841 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1842 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1843 the block device. 1844 1845config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1846 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1847 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1848 depends on !X86_64 1849 select STACKTRACE 1850 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1851 help 1852 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1853 1854config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1855 bool 1856 help 1857 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1858 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1859 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1860 1861config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1862 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1863 1864 1865config KCOV 1866 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1867 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1868 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1869 select DEBUG_FS 1870 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1871 help 1872 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1873 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1874 1875 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1876 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1877 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1878 1879 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1880 1881config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1882 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1883 depends on KCOV 1884 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1885 help 1886 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1887 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1888 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1889 of fuzzing coverage. 1890 1891config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 1892 bool "Instrument all code by default" 1893 depends on KCOV 1894 default y 1895 help 1896 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 1897 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 1898 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 1899 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 1900 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 1901 1902config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 1903 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 1904 depends on KCOV 1905 default 0x40000 1906 help 1907 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 1908 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 1909 number of unsigned long words. 1910 1911menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1912 bool "Runtime Testing" 1913 def_bool y 1914 1915if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1916 1917config LKDTM 1918 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1919 depends on DEBUG_FS 1920 help 1921 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1922 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1923 If you don't need it: say N 1924 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1925 called lkdtm. 1926 1927 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1928 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 1929 1930config TEST_LIST_SORT 1931 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1932 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1933 help 1934 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1935 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1936 or at module load time. 1937 1938 If unsure, say N. 1939 1940config TEST_MIN_HEAP 1941 tristate "Min heap test" 1942 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1943 help 1944 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 1945 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1946 or at module load time. 1947 1948 If unsure, say N. 1949 1950config TEST_SORT 1951 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1952 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1953 help 1954 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1955 or at module load time. 1956 1957 If unsure, say N. 1958 1959config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1960 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1961 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1962 depends on KPROBES 1963 help 1964 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1965 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1966 verified for functionality. 1967 1968 Say N if you are unsure. 1969 1970config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1971 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1972 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1973 help 1974 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1975 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1976 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1977 developers working on architecture code. 1978 1979 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1980 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1981 1982 Say N if you are unsure. 1983 1984config RBTREE_TEST 1985 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1986 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1987 help 1988 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1989 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1990 1991config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 1992 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 1993 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1994 select REED_SOLOMON 1995 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 1996 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 1997 help 1998 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 1999 or at module load time. 2000 2001 If unsure, say N. 2002 2003config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2004 tristate "Interval tree test" 2005 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2006 select INTERVAL_TREE 2007 help 2008 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2009 2010config PERCPU_TEST 2011 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2012 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2013 help 2014 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2015 operations. 2016 2017 If unsure, say N. 2018 2019config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2020 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2021 help 2022 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2023 at module load time. 2024 2025 If unsure, say N. 2026 2027config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2028 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2029 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2030 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2031 help 2032 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2033 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2034 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2035 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2036 engine if one is available. 2037 2038 If unsure, say N. 2039 2040config TEST_HEXDUMP 2041 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2042 2043config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2044 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2045 2046config TEST_STRSCPY 2047 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2048 2049config TEST_KSTRTOX 2050 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2051 2052config TEST_PRINTF 2053 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2054 2055config TEST_BITMAP 2056 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2057 help 2058 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2059 2060 If unsure, say N. 2061 2062config TEST_UUID 2063 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2064 2065config TEST_XARRAY 2066 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2067 2068config TEST_OVERFLOW 2069 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2070 2071config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2072 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2073 help 2074 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2075 2076 If unsure, say N. 2077 2078config TEST_HASH 2079 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2080 help 2081 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2082 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2083 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2084 2085 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2086 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2087 2088config TEST_IDA 2089 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2090 2091config TEST_PARMAN 2092 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2093 depends on PARMAN 2094 help 2095 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2096 (or module load). 2097 2098 If unsure, say N. 2099 2100config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2101 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2102 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2103 help 2104 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2105 2106 If unsure, say N. 2107 2108config TEST_LKM 2109 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2110 depends on m 2111 help 2112 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2113 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2114 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2115 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2116 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2117 requested by name. 2118 2119 If unsure, say N. 2120 2121config TEST_BITOPS 2122 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2123 depends on m 2124 help 2125 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2126 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2127 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2128 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2129 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2130 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2131 2132 If unsure, say N. 2133 2134config TEST_VMALLOC 2135 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2136 default n 2137 depends on MMU 2138 depends on m 2139 help 2140 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2141 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2142 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2143 of view. 2144 2145 If unsure, say N. 2146 2147config TEST_USER_COPY 2148 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2149 depends on m 2150 help 2151 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2152 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2153 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2154 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2155 protections. 2156 2157 If unsure, say N. 2158 2159config TEST_BPF 2160 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2161 depends on m && NET 2162 help 2163 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2164 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2165 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2166 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2167 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2168 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2169 2170 If unsure, say N. 2171 2172config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2173 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2174 depends on m && NET 2175 help 2176 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2177 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2178 2179 If unsure, say N. 2180 2181config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2182 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2183 help 2184 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2185 functions performance. 2186 2187 If unsure, say N. 2188 2189config TEST_FIRMWARE 2190 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2191 depends on FW_LOADER 2192 help 2193 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2194 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2195 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2196 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2197 userspace. 2198 2199 If unsure, say N. 2200 2201config TEST_SYSCTL 2202 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2203 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2204 help 2205 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2206 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2207 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2208 2209 If unsure, say N. 2210 2211config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2212 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2213 depends on KUNIT 2214 help 2215 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2216 2217 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2218 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2219 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2220 production build. 2221 2222 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2223 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2224 2225 If unsure, say N. 2226 2227config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2228 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2229 depends on KUNIT 2230 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2231 help 2232 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2233 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2234 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2235 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2236 2237 If unsure, say N. 2238 2239config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2240 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2241 depends on KUNIT 2242 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2243 help 2244 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2245 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2246 and associated macros. 2247 2248 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2249 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2250 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2251 production build. 2252 2253 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2254 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2255 2256 If unsure, say N. 2257 2258config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2259 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2260 depends on KUNIT 2261 select LINEAR_RANGES 2262 help 2263 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2264 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2265 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2266 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2267 2268 If unsure, say N. 2269 2270config BITS_TEST 2271 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2272 depends on KUNIT 2273 help 2274 This builds the bits unit test. 2275 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2276 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2277 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2278 2279 If unsure, say N. 2280 2281config TEST_UDELAY 2282 tristate "udelay test driver" 2283 help 2284 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2285 that udelay() is working properly. 2286 2287 If unsure, say N. 2288 2289config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2290 tristate "Test static keys" 2291 depends on m 2292 help 2293 Test the static key interfaces. 2294 2295 If unsure, say N. 2296 2297config TEST_KMOD 2298 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2299 depends on m 2300 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2301 depends on BLOCK 2302 select TEST_LKM 2303 select XFS_FS 2304 select TUN 2305 select BTRFS_FS 2306 help 2307 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2308 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2309 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2310 2311 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2312 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2313 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2314 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2315 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2316 2317 To run tests run: 2318 2319 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2320 2321 If unsure, say N. 2322 2323config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2324 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2325 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2326 help 2327 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2328 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2329 kernel's virtual address map. 2330 2331 If unsure, say N. 2332 2333config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2334 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2335 help 2336 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2337 pointer arrays together. 2338 2339 If unsure, say N. 2340 2341config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2342 tristate "Test livepatching" 2343 default n 2344 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2345 depends on LIVEPATCH 2346 depends on m 2347 help 2348 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2349 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2350 2351 To run all the livepatching tests: 2352 2353 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2354 2355 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2356 2357 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2358 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2359 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2360 2361 If unsure, say N. 2362 2363config TEST_OBJAGG 2364 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2365 default n 2366 depends on OBJAGG 2367 help 2368 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2369 (or module load). 2370 2371 2372config TEST_STACKINIT 2373 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2374 help 2375 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2376 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2377 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2378 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2379 2380 If unsure, say N. 2381 2382config TEST_MEMINIT 2383 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2384 help 2385 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2386 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2387 2388 If unsure, say N. 2389 2390config TEST_HMM 2391 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2392 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2393 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2394 select HMM_MIRROR 2395 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2396 help 2397 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2398 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2399 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2400 2401 If unsure, say N. 2402 2403config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2404 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2405 help 2406 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2407 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2408 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2409 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2410 probably OOM your system. 2411 2412config TEST_FPU 2413 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2414 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2415 help 2416 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2417 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2418 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2419 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2420 2421 If unsure, say N. 2422 2423endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2424 2425config MEMTEST 2426 bool "Memtest" 2427 help 2428 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2429 to be set. 2430 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2431 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2432 ... 2433 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2434 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2435 2436 2437 2438config HYPERV_TESTING 2439 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2440 default n 2441 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2442 help 2443 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2444 2445endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2446 2447source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2448 2449endmenu # Kernel hacking 2450