1menu "printk and dmesg options" 2 3config PRINTK_TIME 4 bool "Show timing information on printks" 5 depends on PRINTK 6 help 7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 9 call and at the console. 10 11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 14 15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 17 18config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 20 range 1 15 21 default "7" 22 help 23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 24 25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 27 value is specified here as well. 28 29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 31 option. 32 33config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 34 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 35 range 1 7 36 default "4" 37 help 38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 39 40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 42 priority. 43 44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 47 48config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 51 help 52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 55 using "boot_delay=N". 56 57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 58 the "loops per jiffie" value. 59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 64 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 65 66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 68 default n 69 depends on PRINTK 70 depends on DEBUG_FS 71 help 72 73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 79 80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 84 85 Usage: 86 87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs 89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. 90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 92 format for each line of the file is: 93 94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 95 96 filename : source file of the debug statement 97 lineno : line number of the debug statement 98 module : module that contains the debug statement 99 function : function that contains the debug statement 100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 101 format : the format used for the debug statement 102 103 From a live system: 104 105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 110 111 Example usage: 112 113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 116 117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 120 121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 124 125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 128 129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 132 133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 134 information. 135 136endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 137 138menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 139 140config DEBUG_INFO 141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 143 help 144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 150 151 If unsure, say N. 152 153config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 154 bool "Reduce debugging information" 155 depends on DEBUG_INFO 156 help 157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 158 information for structure types. This means that tools that 159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 164 Only works with newer gcc versions. 165 166config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV 169 help 170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 174 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 175 176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 178 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 180 181config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 183 depends on DEBUG_INFO 184 help 185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 188 variables in gdb on optimized code. 189 190config GDB_SCRIPTS 191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 192 depends on DEBUG_INFO 193 help 194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 199 for further details. 200 201config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED 202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic" 203 default y 204 help 205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build. 206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated 207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages. 208 209config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 210 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 211 default y 212 help 213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 216 217config FRAME_WARN 218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)" 219 range 0 8192 220 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA 221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 222 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 223 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 224 default 2048 if 64BIT 225 help 226 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 227 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 228 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 229 Requires gcc 4.4 230 231config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 232 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 233 default n 234 help 235 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 236 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 237 get_wchan() and suchlike. 238 239config READABLE_ASM 240 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 242 help 243 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 244 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 245 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 246 sane. 247 248config UNUSED_SYMBOLS 249 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" 250 default y if X86 251 help 252 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For 253 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This 254 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case 255 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you 256 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually 257 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using 258 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the 259 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a 260 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why 261 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for 262 your module is. 263 264config PAGE_OWNER 265 bool "Track page owner" 266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 267 select DEBUG_FS 268 select STACKTRACE 269 select STACKDEPOT 270 select PAGE_EXTENSION 271 help 272 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may 273 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this 274 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass 275 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats 276 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c 277 for user-space helper. 278 279 If unsure, say N. 280 281config DEBUG_FS 282 bool "Debug Filesystem" 283 select SRCU 284 help 285 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 286 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 287 write to these files. 288 289 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 290 Documentation/filesystems/. 291 292 If unsure, say N. 293 294config HEADERS_CHECK 295 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" 296 depends on !UML 297 help 298 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever 299 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to 300 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which 301 were not exported, etc. 302 303 If you're making modifications to header files which are 304 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers 305 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in 306 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable. 307 308config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 309 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 310 help 311 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 312 references from one section to another section. 313 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 314 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 315 most likely result in an oops. 316 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 317 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 318 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 319 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 320 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 321 additional steps to occur: 322 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 323 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 324 function, we would lose the section information and thus 325 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 326 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 327 a larger kernel). 328 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file. 329 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we 330 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was 331 introduced. 332 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file 333 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the 334 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is 335 reported at least twice. 336 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve 337 the section mismatches that are reported. 338 339config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 340 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 341 default y 342 help 343 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 344 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 345 346 If unsure, say Y. 347 348# 349# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 350# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 351# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 352# 353config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 354 bool 355 help 356 357config FRAME_POINTER 358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ 360 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \ 361 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \ 362 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 363 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 364 help 365 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 366 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 367 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 368 369config STACK_VALIDATION 370 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 371 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 372 default n 373 help 374 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 375 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 376 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 377 378 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 379 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 380 381 For more information, see 382 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 383 384config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 385 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 387 help 388 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 389 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 390 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 391 definitions. 392 393 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 394 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 395 396 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 397 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 398 399endmenu # "Compiler options" 400 401config MAGIC_SYSRQ 402 bool "Magic SysRq key" 403 depends on !UML 404 help 405 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 406 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 407 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 408 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 409 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 410 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 411 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 412 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 413 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 414 415config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 416 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 417 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 418 default 0x1 419 help 420 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 421 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 422 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 423 424config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 425 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 427 default y 428 help 429 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 430 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 431 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 432 magic SysRq key. 433 434config DEBUG_KERNEL 435 bool "Kernel debugging" 436 help 437 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 438 identify kernel problems. 439 440menu "Memory Debugging" 441 442source mm/Kconfig.debug 443 444config DEBUG_OBJECTS 445 bool "Debug object operations" 446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 447 help 448 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 449 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 450 the operations on those objects. 451 452config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 453 bool "Debug objects selftest" 454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 455 help 456 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 457 458config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 459 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 460 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 461 help 462 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 463 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 464 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 465 much slower. 466 467config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 468 bool "Debug timer objects" 469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 470 help 471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 472 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 473 validate the timer operations. 474 475config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 476 bool "Debug work objects" 477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 478 help 479 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 480 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 481 validate the work operations. 482 483config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 484 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 485 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 486 help 487 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 488 489config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 490 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 491 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 492 help 493 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 494 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 495 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 496 497config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 498 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 499 range 0 1 500 default "1" 501 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 502 help 503 Debug objects boot parameter default value 504 505config DEBUG_SLAB 506 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 508 help 509 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 510 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 511 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 512 513config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK 514 bool "Memory leak debugging" 515 depends on DEBUG_SLAB 516 517config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 518 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 519 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 520 default n 521 help 522 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 523 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 524 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 525 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 526 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 527 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 528 "slub_debug=-". 529 530config SLUB_STATS 531 default n 532 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 533 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 534 help 535 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 536 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 537 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 538 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 539 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 540 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 541 Try running: slabinfo -DA 542 543config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 544 bool 545 546config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 547 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 548 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 549 select DEBUG_FS 550 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 551 select KALLSYMS 552 select CRC32 553 help 554 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 555 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 556 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 557 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 558 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 559 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 560 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 561 details. 562 563 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 564 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 565 566 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 567 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 568 569config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE 570 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" 571 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 572 range 200 40000 573 default 16000 574 help 575 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 576 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 577 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is 578 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log 579 buffer exceeded", please increase this value. 580 581config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 582 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 583 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 584 help 585 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 586 587 If unsure, say N. 588 589config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 590 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 591 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 592 help 593 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 594 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 595 596config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 597 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 599 help 600 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 601 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 602 603 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 604 605config DEBUG_VM 606 bool "Debug VM" 607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 608 help 609 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 610 that may impact performance. 611 612 If unsure, say N. 613 614config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 615 bool "Debug VMA caching" 616 depends on DEBUG_VM 617 help 618 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 619 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 620 environments. 621 622 If unsure, say N. 623 624config DEBUG_VM_RB 625 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 626 depends on DEBUG_VM 627 help 628 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 629 630 If unsure, say N. 631 632config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 633 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 634 depends on DEBUG_VM 635 help 636 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 637 638 If unsure, say N. 639 640config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 641 bool 642 643config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 644 bool "Debug VM translations" 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 646 help 647 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 648 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 649 650 If unsure, say N. 651 652config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 653 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 655 help 656 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 657 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 658 659config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 660 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 661 default !EXPERT 662 help 663 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 664 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 665 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 666 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 667 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 668 669 If unsure, say Y 670 671config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 672 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 673 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 674 help 675 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 676 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 677 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 678 679 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 680 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 681 682 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 683 684 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 685 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 686 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 687 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 688 689 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 690 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 691 692 If unsure, say N. 693 694config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 695 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 697 depends on SMP 698 help 699 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 700 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 701 and decreases performance. 702 703 Say N if unsure. 704 705config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 706 bool "Highmem debugging" 707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 708 help 709 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 710 systems. Disable for production systems. 711 712config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 713 bool 714 715config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 716 bool "Check for stack overflows" 717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 718 ---help--- 719 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 720 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 721 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 722 below a certain limit. 723 724 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 725 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 726 involved. 727 728 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 729 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 730 731 If in doubt, say "N". 732 733source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 734 735endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 736 737config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 738 bool 739 help 740 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled 741 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely 742 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code. 743 744config KCOV 745 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 746 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 747 select DEBUG_FS 748 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST 749 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST 750 help 751 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 752 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 753 754 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 755 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 756 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 757 758 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 759 760config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 761 bool "Instrument all code by default" 762 depends on KCOV 763 default y if KCOV 764 help 765 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 766 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 767 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 768 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 769 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 770 771config DEBUG_SHIRQ 772 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 774 help 775 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared 776 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered. 777 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those 778 points; some don't and need to be caught. 779 780menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" 781 782config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 783 bool 784 785config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 786 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 788 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 789 help 790 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 791 soft lockups. 792 793 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 794 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 795 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 796 detection and the system will stay locked up. 797 798config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 799 bool 800 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 801 802# 803# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 804# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 805# 806config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 807 bool 808 809# 810# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 811# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 812# 813config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 814 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 816 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 817 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 818 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 819 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 820 help 821 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 822 hard lockups. 823 824 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 825 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 826 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 827 and the system will stay locked up. 828 829config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 830 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 831 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 832 help 833 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 834 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 835 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 836 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 837 838 Say N if unsure. 839 840config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 841 int 842 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 843 range 0 1 844 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 845 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 846 847config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 848 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 849 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 850 help 851 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 852 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 853 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 854 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 855 856 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 857 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 858 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 859 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 860 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 861 862 Say N if unsure. 863 864config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 865 int 866 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 867 range 0 1 868 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 869 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 870 871config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 872 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 873 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 874 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 875 help 876 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 877 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 878 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 879 880 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 881 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 882 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 883 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 884 feature has negligible overhead. 885 886config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 887 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 888 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 889 default 120 890 help 891 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 892 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 893 be considered hung. 894 895 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 896 sysctl or by writing a value to 897 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 898 899 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 900 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 901 902config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 903 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 904 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 905 help 906 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 907 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 908 in uninterruptible "D" state. 909 910 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 911 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 912 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 913 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 914 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 915 916 Say N if unsure. 917 918config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 919 int 920 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 921 range 0 1 922 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 923 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 924 925config WQ_WATCHDOG 926 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 927 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 928 help 929 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 930 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 931 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 932 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 933 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 934 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 935 936endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 937 938config PANIC_ON_OOPS 939 bool "Panic on Oops" 940 help 941 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 942 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 943 line. 944 945 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 946 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 947 corruption or other issues. 948 949 Say N if unsure. 950 951config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 952 int 953 range 0 1 954 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 955 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 956 957config PANIC_TIMEOUT 958 int "panic timeout" 959 default 0 960 help 961 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the 962 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 963 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 964 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 965 966config SCHED_DEBUG 967 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 968 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 969 default y 970 help 971 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 972 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 973 option is minimal. 974 975config SCHED_INFO 976 bool 977 default n 978 979config SCHEDSTATS 980 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 981 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 982 select SCHED_INFO 983 help 984 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 985 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 986 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 987 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 988 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 989 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 990 this adds. 991 992config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 993 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 994 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 995 default n 996 help 997 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 998 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 999 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 1000 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 1001 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 1002 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 1003 1004config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1005 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1006 help 1007 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1008 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1009 problems are suspected. 1010 1011 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1012 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1013 workloads. 1014 1015 If unsure, say N. 1016 1017config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1018 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1019 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1020 default y 1021 help 1022 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1023 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1024 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1025 will detect preemption count underflows. 1026 1027menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1028 1029config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1030 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1031 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1032 help 1033 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1034 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1035 1036config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1037 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1038 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1039 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1040 help 1041 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1042 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1043 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1044 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1045 1046config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1047 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1048 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1049 help 1050 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1051 reported. 1052 1053config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1054 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1055 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1056 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1057 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1058 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1059 help 1060 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1061 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1062 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1063 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1064 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1065 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1066 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1067 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1068 you are a distro, do not. 1069 1070config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1071 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1073 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1074 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1075 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1076 select LOCKDEP 1077 help 1078 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1079 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1080 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1081 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1082 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1083 held during task exit. 1084 1085config PROVE_LOCKING 1086 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1087 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1088 select LOCKDEP 1089 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1090 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1091 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1092 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1093 select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE if BROKEN 1094 select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS if BROKEN 1095 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1096 default n 1097 help 1098 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1099 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1100 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1101 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1102 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1103 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1104 deadlock. 1105 1106 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1107 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1108 1109 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1110 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1111 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1112 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1113 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1114 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1115 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1116 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1117 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1118 1119 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1120 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1121 kernel reports nothing. 1122 1123 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1124 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1125 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1126 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1127 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1128 1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. 1130 1131config LOCKDEP 1132 bool 1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1134 select STACKTRACE 1135 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86 1136 select KALLSYMS 1137 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1138 1139config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1140 bool 1141 1142config LOCK_STAT 1143 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1145 select LOCKDEP 1146 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1147 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1148 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1149 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1150 default n 1151 help 1152 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1153 1154 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt 1155 1156 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1157 subcommand of perf. 1158 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1159 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1160 1161 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1162 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1163 1164config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE 1165 bool 1166 help 1167 This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to 1168 be released in a different context from the acquisition context. 1169 Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock. 1170 However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives 1171 such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness 1172 detector, lockdep. 1173 1174config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS 1175 bool 1176 help 1177 A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be 1178 detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature. 1179 1180config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1181 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1183 help 1184 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1185 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1186 of more runtime overhead. 1187 1188config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1189 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1190 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1192 help 1193 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1194 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1195 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1196 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1197 1198config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1199 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1201 help 1202 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1203 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1204 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1205 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1206 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1207 mutexes and rwsems. 1208 1209config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1210 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1211 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1212 select TORTURE_TEST 1213 default n 1214 help 1215 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1216 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1217 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1218 1219 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1220 to be built into the kernel. 1221 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1222 Say N if you are unsure. 1223 1224config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1225 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1226 help 1227 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1228 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1229 1230 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1231 with this test harness. 1232 1233 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1234 Say N if you are unsure. 1235 1236endmenu # lock debugging 1237 1238config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1239 bool 1240 help 1241 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1242 either tracing or lock debugging. 1243 1244config STACKTRACE 1245 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1246 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1247 help 1248 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1249 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1250 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1251 stack trace generation. 1252 1253config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1254 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1255 default n 1256 help 1257 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1258 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1259 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1260 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1261 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1262 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1263 it. 1264 1265 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1266 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1267 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1268 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1269 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1270 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1271 However, since users can not do anything actionble to 1272 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1273 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1274 1275 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1276 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1277 those developers interersted in improving the security of 1278 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1279 subarchitecture). 1280 1281config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1282 bool "kobject debugging" 1283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1284 help 1285 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1286 to the syslog. 1287 1288config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1289 bool "kobject release debugging" 1290 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1291 help 1292 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1293 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1294 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1295 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1296 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1297 unregistered. 1298 1299 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1300 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1301 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1302 1303 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1304 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1305 kind of kobject release bug. 1306 1307config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1308 bool 1309 1310config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1311 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 1312 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 1313 default y 1314 help 1315 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 1316 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 1317 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 1318 1319config DEBUG_LIST 1320 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1322 help 1323 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1324 walking routines. 1325 1326 If unsure, say N. 1327 1328config DEBUG_PI_LIST 1329 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 help 1332 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1333 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1334 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1335 1336 If unsure, say N. 1337 1338config DEBUG_SG 1339 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1341 help 1342 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1343 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1344 their sg tables. 1345 1346 If unsure, say N. 1347 1348config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1349 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1351 help 1352 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1353 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1354 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1355 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1356 performance, say N. 1357 1358config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1359 bool "Debug credential management" 1360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1361 help 1362 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1363 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1364 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1365 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1366 struct. 1367 1368 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1369 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1370 1371 If unsure, say N. 1372 1373source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1374 1375config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1376 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1378 default n 1379 help 1380 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1381 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1382 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1383 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1384 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1385 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1386 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1387 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1388 be impacted. 1389 1390config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1391 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1392 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1393 depends on BLOCK 1394 default n 1395 help 1396 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1397 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1398 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1399 is broken. 1400 1401 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1402 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1403 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1404 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1405 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1406 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1407 device number allocation. 1408 1409 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1410 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1411 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1412 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1413 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1414 1415 Say N if you are unsure. 1416 1417config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1418 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1419 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1420 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1421 default n 1422 help 1423 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1424 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1425 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1426 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1427 1428 Say N if your are unsure. 1429 1430config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1431 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1433 select DEBUG_FS 1434 help 1435 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1436 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1437 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1438 1439 Say N if unsure. 1440 1441config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1442 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1443 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1444 default m if PM_DEBUG 1445 help 1446 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1447 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1448 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1449 1450 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1451 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1452 1453 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1454 1455 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1456 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1457 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1458 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1459 1460 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1461 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1462 1463 If unsure, say N. 1464 1465config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1466 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1467 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1468 help 1469 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1470 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1471 through debugfs interface under 1472 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1473 1474 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1475 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1476 1477 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1478 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1479 1480 If unsure, say N. 1481 1482config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1483 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1484 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1485 help 1486 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1487 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1488 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1489 1490 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1491 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1492 1493 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1494 1495 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1496 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1497 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1498 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1499 1500 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1501 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1502 1503 If unsure, say N. 1504 1505config FAULT_INJECTION 1506 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1508 help 1509 Provide fault-injection framework. 1510 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1511 1512config FAILSLAB 1513 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1514 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1515 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1516 help 1517 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1518 1519config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1520 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()" 1521 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1522 help 1523 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1524 1525config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1526 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1527 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1528 help 1529 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1530 1531config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1532 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1533 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1534 help 1535 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1536 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1537 thus exercising the error handling. 1538 1539 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1540 for others it wont do anything. 1541 1542config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1543 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1544 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1545 help 1546 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1547 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1548 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1549 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1550 the block device. 1551 1552config FAIL_FUTEX 1553 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1554 select DEBUG_FS 1555 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1556 help 1557 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1558 1559config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1560 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1561 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1562 help 1563 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1564 1565config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1566 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1567 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1568 depends on !X86_64 1569 select STACKTRACE 1570 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86 1571 help 1572 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1573 1574config LATENCYTOP 1575 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1576 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1577 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1578 depends on PROC_FS 1579 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86 1580 select KALLSYMS 1581 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1582 select STACKTRACE 1583 select SCHEDSTATS 1584 select SCHED_DEBUG 1585 help 1586 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1587 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1588 1589source kernel/trace/Kconfig 1590 1591config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1592 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1593 depends on PCI && X86 1594 help 1595 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1596 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1597 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1598 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1599 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1600 1601 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1602 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1603 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1604 1605 Usage: 1606 1607 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1608 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1609 1610 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1611 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1612 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1613 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1614 1615 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1616 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1617 1618 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information. 1619 1620config DMA_API_DEBUG 1621 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage" 1622 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG 1623 help 1624 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers. 1625 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device 1626 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that 1627 were never allocated. 1628 1629 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is 1630 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For 1631 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is 1632 not undergoing DMA. 1633 1634 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to 1635 debug device drivers and dma interactions. 1636 1637 If unsure, say N. 1638 1639menu "Runtime Testing" 1640 1641config LKDTM 1642 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1643 depends on DEBUG_FS 1644 depends on BLOCK 1645 default n 1646 help 1647 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1648 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1649 If you don't need it: say N 1650 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1651 called lkdtm. 1652 1653 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1654 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt 1655 1656config TEST_LIST_SORT 1657 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1658 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1659 help 1660 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1661 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1662 or at module load time. 1663 1664 If unsure, say N. 1665 1666config TEST_SORT 1667 tristate "Array-based sort test" 1668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1669 help 1670 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 1671 or at module load time. 1672 1673 If unsure, say N. 1674 1675config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 1676 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 1677 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1678 depends on KPROBES 1679 default n 1680 help 1681 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 1682 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 1683 verified for functionality. 1684 1685 Say N if you are unsure. 1686 1687config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 1688 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 1689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1690 default n 1691 help 1692 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 1693 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 1694 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 1695 developers working on architecture code. 1696 1697 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 1698 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 1699 1700 Say N if you are unsure. 1701 1702config RBTREE_TEST 1703 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 1704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1705 help 1706 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 1707 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 1708 1709config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 1710 tristate "Interval tree test" 1711 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1712 select INTERVAL_TREE 1713 help 1714 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 1715 1716config PERCPU_TEST 1717 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 1718 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 1719 help 1720 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 1721 operations. 1722 1723 If unsure, say N. 1724 1725config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 1726 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 1727 help 1728 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 1729 at module load time. 1730 1731 If unsure, say N. 1732 1733config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 1734 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 1735 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 1736 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 1737 ---help--- 1738 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 1739 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 1740 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 1741 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 1742 engine if one is available. 1743 1744 If unsure, say N. 1745 1746config TEST_HEXDUMP 1747 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 1748 1749config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 1750 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 1751 1752config TEST_KSTRTOX 1753 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 1754 1755config TEST_PRINTF 1756 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 1757 1758config TEST_BITMAP 1759 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 1760 default n 1761 help 1762 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 1763 1764 If unsure, say N. 1765 1766config TEST_UUID 1767 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 1768 1769config TEST_RHASHTABLE 1770 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 1771 default n 1772 help 1773 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 1774 1775 If unsure, say N. 1776 1777config TEST_HASH 1778 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 1779 default n 1780 help 1781 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 1782 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 1783 hash functions on boot (or module load). 1784 1785 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 1786 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 1787 1788config TEST_PARMAN 1789 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 1790 default n 1791 depends on PARMAN 1792 help 1793 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 1794 (or module load). 1795 1796 If unsure, say N. 1797 1798config TEST_LKM 1799 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 1800 default n 1801 depends on m 1802 help 1803 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 1804 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 1805 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 1806 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 1807 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 1808 requested by name. 1809 1810 If unsure, say N. 1811 1812config TEST_USER_COPY 1813 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 1814 default n 1815 depends on m 1816 help 1817 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 1818 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 1819 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 1820 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 1821 protections. 1822 1823 If unsure, say N. 1824 1825config TEST_BPF 1826 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 1827 default n 1828 depends on m && NET 1829 help 1830 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 1831 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 1832 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 1833 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 1834 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 1835 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 1836 1837 If unsure, say N. 1838 1839config TEST_FIRMWARE 1840 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 1841 default n 1842 depends on FW_LOADER 1843 help 1844 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 1845 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 1846 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 1847 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 1848 userspace. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config TEST_SYSCTL 1853 tristate "sysctl test driver" 1854 default n 1855 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 1856 help 1857 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 1858 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 1859 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 1860 1861 If unsure, say N. 1862 1863config TEST_UDELAY 1864 tristate "udelay test driver" 1865 default n 1866 help 1867 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 1868 that udelay() is working properly. 1869 1870 If unsure, say N. 1871 1872config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 1873 tristate "Test static keys" 1874 default n 1875 depends on m 1876 help 1877 Test the static key interfaces. 1878 1879 If unsure, say N. 1880 1881config TEST_KMOD 1882 tristate "kmod stress tester" 1883 default n 1884 depends on m 1885 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS 1886 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 1887 depends on BLOCK 1888 select TEST_LKM 1889 select XFS_FS 1890 select TUN 1891 select BTRFS_FS 1892 help 1893 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 1894 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 1895 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 1896 1897 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 1898 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 1899 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 1900 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 1901 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 1902 1903 To run tests run: 1904 1905 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 1906 1907 If unsure, say N. 1908 1909config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1910 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 1911 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 1912 help 1913 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 1914 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 1915 kernel's virtual address map. 1916 1917 If unsure, say N. 1918 1919endmenu # runtime tests 1920 1921config MEMTEST 1922 bool "Memtest" 1923 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK 1924 ---help--- 1925 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 1926 to be set. 1927 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 1928 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 1929 ... 1930 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 1931 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1932 1933config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1934 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1935 select DEBUG_LIST 1936 help 1937 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1938 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1939 for validity. 1940 1941 If unsure, say N. 1942 1943source "samples/Kconfig" 1944 1945source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 1946 1947source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 1948 1949config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1950 bool 1951 1952config STRICT_DEVMEM 1953 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1954 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1955 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1956 default y if TILE || PPC 1957 ---help--- 1958 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1959 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1960 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1961 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1962 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1963 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1964 1965 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1966 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1967 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1968 users of /dev/mem. 1969 1970 If in doubt, say Y. 1971 1972config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1973 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1974 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1975 ---help--- 1976 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1977 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1978 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1979 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1980 1981 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1982 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1983 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1984 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1985 1986 If in doubt, say Y. 1987