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 STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffy" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234# Clang generates .uleb128 with label differences for DWARF v5, a feature that 235# older binutils ports do not support when utilizing RISC-V style linker 236# relaxation: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215 237config AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128 238 def_bool $(as-instr,.uleb128 .Lexpr_end4 - .Lexpr_start3\n.Lexpr_start3:\n.Lexpr_end4:) 239 240choice 241 prompt "Debug information" 242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 243 help 244 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 245 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 246 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 247 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 248 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 249 250 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 251 select "Toolchain default". 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 254 bool "Disable debug information" 255 help 256 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 257 result in a faster and smaller build. 258 259config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 260 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 261 select DEBUG_INFO 262 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || CLANG_VERSION < 140000 || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128) 263 help 264 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 265 toolchain changes over time. 266 267 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 268 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 269 those should be less common scenarios. 270 271config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 272 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 273 select DEBUG_INFO 274 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 275 help 276 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 277 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 278 279 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 280 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 281 config select this. 282 283config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 284 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 285 select DEBUG_INFO 286 depends on !ARCH_HAS_BROKEN_DWARF5 287 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128) 288 help 289 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 290 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 291 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 292 293 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 294 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 295 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 296 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 297 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 298 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 299 support DWARF Version 5. 300 301endchoice # "Debug information" 302 303if DEBUG_INFO 304 305config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 306 bool "Reduce debugging information" 307 help 308 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 309 information for structure types. This means that tools that 310 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 311 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 312 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 313 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 314 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 315 Only works with newer gcc versions. 316 317choice 318 prompt "Compressed Debug information" 319 help 320 Compress the resulting debug info. Results in smaller debug info sections, 321 but requires that consumers are able to decompress the results. 322 323 If unsure, choose DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE. 324 325config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE 326 bool "Don't compress debug information" 327 help 328 Don't compress debug info sections. 329 330config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB 331 bool "Compress debugging information with zlib" 332 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 333 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 334 help 335 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 336 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 337 338 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 339 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 340 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 341 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 342 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 343 larger. 344 345config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD 346 bool "Compress debugging information with zstd" 347 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zstd) 348 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zstd) 349 help 350 Compress the debug information using zstd. This may provide better 351 compression than zlib, for about the same time costs, but requires newer 352 toolchain support. Requires GCC 13.0+ or Clang 16.0+, binutils 2.40+, and 353 zstd. 354 355endchoice # "Compressed Debug information" 356 357config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 358 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 359 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 360 # RISC-V linker relaxation + -gsplit-dwarf has issues with LLVM and GCC 361 # prior to 12.x: 362 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/56642 363 # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99090 364 depends on !RISCV || GCC_VERSION >= 120000 365 help 366 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 367 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 368 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 369 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 370 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 371 372 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 373 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 374 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 375 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 376 377config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 378 bool "Generate BTF type information" 379 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 380 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 381 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 382 depends on PAHOLE_VERSION >= 116 383 depends on DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 384 # pahole uses elfutils, which does not have support for Hexagon relocations 385 depends on !HEXAGON 386 help 387 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 388 Turning this on requires pahole v1.16 or later (v1.21 or later to 389 support DWARF 5), which will convert DWARF type info into equivalent 390 deduplicated BTF type info. 391 392config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 393 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 394 395config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 396 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 397 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 398 help 399 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 400 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 401 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 402 403config PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 404 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 124 405 help 406 Support for the --lang_exclude flag which makes pahole exclude 407 compilation units from the supplied language. Used in Kbuild to 408 omit Rust CUs which are not supported in version 1.24 of pahole, 409 otherwise it would emit malformed kernel and module binaries when 410 using DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES. 411 412config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 413 bool "Generate BTF type information for kernel modules" 414 default y 415 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 416 help 417 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 418 419config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 420 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 421 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 422 help 423 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 424 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 425 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 426 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 427 it when a mismatch is found. 428 429config GDB_SCRIPTS 430 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 431 help 432 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 433 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 434 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 435 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 436 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 437 for further details. 438 439endif # DEBUG_INFO 440 441config FORCE_FRAME_WARN_TO_2K 442 bool "Force FRAME_WARN to 2048 for 32-bit allmod/allyes builds" 443 default n 444 depends on !64BIT 445 446config FRAME_WARN 447 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 448 range 0 8192 449 default 0 if KMSAN 450 default 2048 if FORCE_FRAME_WARN_TO_2K 451 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 452 default 2048 if PARISC 453 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 454 default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT 455 default 1024 if !64BIT 456 default 2048 if 64BIT 457 help 458 Tell the compiler to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 459 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 460 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 461 462config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 463 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 464 default n 465 help 466 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 467 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 468 get_wchan() and suchlike. 469 470config READABLE_ASM 471 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 473 depends on CC_IS_GCC 474 help 475 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 476 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 477 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 478 sane. 479 480config HEADERS_INSTALL 481 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 482 depends on !UML 483 help 484 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 485 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 486 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 487 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 488 as uapi header sanity checks. 489 490config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 491 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 492 depends on CC_IS_GCC 493 help 494 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 495 references from one section to another section. 496 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 497 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 498 most likely result in an oops. 499 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 500 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 501 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 502 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 503 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 504 additional step to occur: 505 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 506 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 507 function, we would lose the section information and thus 508 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 509 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 510 a larger kernel). 511 512config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 513 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 514 default y 515 help 516 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 517 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 518 519 If unsure, say Y. 520 521config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 522 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 523 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC || RISCV || S390) 524 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 525 help 526 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 527 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 528 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 529 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 530 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 531 532 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 533 534# 535# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 536# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 537# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 538# 539config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 540 bool 541 542config FRAME_POINTER 543 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 545 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 546 help 547 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 548 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 549 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 550 551config OBJTOOL 552 bool 553 554config STACK_VALIDATION 555 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 556 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 557 select OBJTOOL 558 default n 559 help 560 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 561 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 562 563 For more information, see 564 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 565 566config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 567 bool 568 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 569 select OBJTOOL 570 default y 571 572config VMLINUX_MAP 573 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 574 depends on EXPERT 575 help 576 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 577 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 578 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 579 pieces of code get eliminated with 580 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 581 582config BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES 583 bool "Generate address range information for builtin modules" 584 depends on !LTO 585 depends on VMLINUX_MAP 586 help 587 When modules are built into the kernel, there will be no module name 588 associated with its symbols in /proc/kallsyms. Tracers may want to 589 identify symbols by module name and symbol name regardless of whether 590 the module is configured as loadable or not. 591 592 This option generates modules.builtin.ranges in the build tree with 593 offset ranges (per ELF section) for the module(s) they belong to. 594 It also records an anchor symbol to determine the load address of the 595 section. 596 597config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 598 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 599 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 600 help 601 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 602 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 603 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 604 definitions. 605 606 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 607 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 608 609 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 610 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 611 612endmenu # "Compiler options" 613 614menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 615 616config MAGIC_SYSRQ 617 bool "Magic SysRq key" 618 depends on !UML 619 help 620 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 621 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 622 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 623 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 624 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 625 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 626 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 627 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 628 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 629 630config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 631 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 632 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 633 default 0x1 634 help 635 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 636 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 637 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 638 639config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 640 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 641 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 642 default y 643 help 644 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 645 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 646 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 647 magic SysRq key. 648 649config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 650 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 651 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 652 default "" 653 help 654 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 655 SysRq on a serial console. 656 657 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 658 659config DEBUG_FS 660 bool "Debug Filesystem" 661 help 662 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 663 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 664 write to these files. 665 666 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 667 Documentation/filesystems/. 668 669 If unsure, say N. 670 671choice 672 prompt "Debugfs default access" 673 depends on DEBUG_FS 674 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 675 help 676 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 677 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 678 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 679 and filesystem registration. 680 681config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 682 bool "Access normal" 683 help 684 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 685 is on. This is the normal default operation. 686 687config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 688 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 689 help 690 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 691 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 692 debugfs filesystem. 693 694config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 695 bool "No access" 696 help 697 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 698 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 699 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 700 701endchoice 702 703source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 704source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 705source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 706 707endmenu 708 709menu "Networking Debugging" 710 711source "net/Kconfig.debug" 712 713endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 714 715menu "Memory Debugging" 716 717source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 718 719config DEBUG_OBJECTS 720 bool "Debug object operations" 721 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 722 help 723 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 724 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 725 the operations on those objects. 726 727config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 728 bool "Debug objects selftest" 729 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 730 help 731 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 732 733config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 734 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 735 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 736 help 737 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 738 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 739 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 740 much slower. 741 742config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 743 bool "Debug timer objects" 744 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 745 help 746 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 747 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 748 validate the timer operations. 749 750config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 751 bool "Debug work objects" 752 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 753 help 754 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 755 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 756 validate the work operations. 757 758config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 759 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 760 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 761 help 762 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 763 764config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 765 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 766 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 767 help 768 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 769 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 770 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 771 772config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 773 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 774 range 0 1 775 default "1" 776 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 777 help 778 Debug objects boot parameter default value 779 780config SHRINKER_DEBUG 781 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 782 depends on DEBUG_FS 783 help 784 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 785 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 786 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 787 788config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 789 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 790 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 791 help 792 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 793 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 794 Also emits a message to dmesg when a process exits if that process 795 used more stack space than previously exiting processes. 796 797 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 798 799config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 800 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 802 default n 803 help 804 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 805 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 806 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 807 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 808 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 809 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 810 811config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 812 bool 813 help 814 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 815 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 816 817config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 818 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 819 820config DEBUG_VM 821 bool "Debug VM" 822 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 823 help 824 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 825 that may impact performance. 826 827 If unsure, say N. 828 829config DEBUG_VM_SHOOT_LAZIES 830 bool "Debug MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN implementation" 831 depends on DEBUG_VM 832 depends on MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN 833 help 834 Enable additional IPIs that ensure lazy tlb mm references are removed 835 before the mm is freed. 836 837 If unsure, say N. 838 839config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 840 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 841 depends on DEBUG_VM 842 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 843 help 844 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 845 846 If unsure, say N. 847 848config DEBUG_VM_RB 849 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 850 depends on DEBUG_VM 851 help 852 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 853 854 If unsure, say N. 855 856config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 857 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 858 depends on DEBUG_VM 859 help 860 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 861 862 If unsure, say N. 863 864config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 865 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 866 depends on MMU 867 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 868 default y if DEBUG_VM 869 help 870 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 871 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 872 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 873 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 874 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 875 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 876 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 877 878 If unsure, say N. 879 880config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 881 bool 882 883config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 884 bool "Debug VM translations" 885 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 886 help 887 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 888 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 889 890 If unsure, say N. 891 892config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 893 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 894 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 895 help 896 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 897 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 898 899config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 900 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 901 default !EXPERT 902 help 903 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 904 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 905 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 906 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 907 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 908 909 If unsure, say Y 910 911config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 912 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 913 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 914 help 915 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 916 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 917 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 918 919 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 920 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 921 922 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 923 924 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 925 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 926 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 927 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 928 929 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 930 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 931 932 If unsure, say N. 933 934config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 935 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 936 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 937 depends on SMP 938 help 939 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 940 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 941 and decreases performance. 942 943 Say N if unsure. 944 945config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 946 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 948 help 949 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 950 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 951 952config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 953 bool 954 955config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 956 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 958 select KMAP_LOCAL 959 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 960 help 961 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 962 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 963 Disable this for production systems! 964 965config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 966 bool "Highmem debugging" 967 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 968 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 969 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 970 help 971 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 972 systems. Disable for production systems. 973 974config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 975 bool 976 977config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 978 bool "Check for stack overflows" 979 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 980 help 981 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 982 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 983 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 984 below a certain limit. 985 986 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 987 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 988 involved. 989 990 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 991 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 992 993 If in doubt, say "N". 994 995config CODE_TAGGING 996 bool 997 select KALLSYMS 998 999config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING 1000 bool "Enable memory allocation profiling" 1001 default n 1002 depends on MMU 1003 depends on PROC_FS 1004 depends on !DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 1005 select CODE_TAGGING 1006 select PAGE_EXTENSION 1007 select SLAB_OBJ_EXT 1008 help 1009 Track allocation source code and record total allocation size 1010 initiated at that code location. The mechanism can be used to track 1011 memory leaks with a low performance and memory impact. 1012 1013config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 1014 bool "Enable memory allocation profiling by default" 1015 default y 1016 depends on MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING 1017 1018config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG 1019 bool "Memory allocation profiler debugging" 1020 default n 1021 depends on MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING 1022 select MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 1023 help 1024 Adds warnings with helpful error messages for memory allocation 1025 profiling. 1026 1027source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 1028source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 1029source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 1030 1031endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 1032 1033config DEBUG_SHIRQ 1034 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 1035 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1036 help 1037 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 1038 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 1039 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 1040 don't and need to be caught. 1041 1042menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 1043 1044config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1045 bool "Panic on Oops" 1046 help 1047 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1048 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1049 line. 1050 1051 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1052 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1053 corruption or other issues. 1054 1055 Say N if unsure. 1056 1057config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1058 int 1059 range 0 1 1060 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1061 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1062 1063config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1064 int "panic timeout" 1065 default 0 1066 help 1067 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1068 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1069 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1070 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. This setting can be overridden 1071 with the kernel command line option panic=, and from userspace via 1072 /proc/sys/kernel/panic. 1073 1074config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1075 bool 1076 1077config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1078 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1079 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1080 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1081 help 1082 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1083 soft lockups. 1084 1085 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1086 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1087 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1088 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1089 1090config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR_INTR_STORM 1091 bool "Detect Interrupt Storm in Soft Lockups" 1092 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR && IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING 1093 select GENERIC_IRQ_STAT_SNAPSHOT 1094 default y if NR_CPUS <= 128 1095 help 1096 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect interrupt storm 1097 during "soft lockups". 1098 1099 "soft lockups" can be caused by a variety of reasons. If one is 1100 caused by an interrupt storm, then the storming interrupts will not 1101 be on the callstack. To detect this case, it is necessary to report 1102 the CPU stats and the interrupt counts during the "soft lockups". 1103 1104config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1105 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1106 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1107 help 1108 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1109 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1110 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1111 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1112 1113 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1114 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1115 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1116 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1117 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1118 1119 Say N if unsure. 1120 1121config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY 1122 bool 1123 depends on SMP 1124 default y 1125 1126# 1127# Global switch whether to build a hardlockup detector at all. It is available 1128# only when the architecture supports at least one implementation. There are 1129# two exceptions. The hardlockup detector is never enabled on: 1130# 1131# s390: it reported many false positives there 1132# 1133# sparc64: has a custom implementation which is not using the common 1134# hardlockup command line options and sysctl interface. 1135# 1136config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1137 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 && !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64 1139 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1140 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1141 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY 1142 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1143 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1144 1145 help 1146 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1147 hard lockups. 1148 1149 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1150 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1151 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1152 and the system will stay locked up. 1153 1154# 1155# Note that arch-specific variants are always preferred. 1156# 1157config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY 1158 bool "Prefer the buddy CPU hardlockup detector" 1159 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1160 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF && HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY 1161 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1162 help 1163 Say Y here to prefer the buddy hardlockup detector over the perf one. 1164 1165 With the buddy detector, each CPU uses its softlockup hrtimer 1166 to check that the next CPU is processing hrtimer interrupts by 1167 verifying that a counter is increasing. 1168 1169 This hardlockup detector is useful on systems that don't have 1170 an arch-specific hardlockup detector or if resources needed 1171 for the hardlockup detector are better used for other things. 1172 1173config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1174 bool 1175 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1176 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF && !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY 1177 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1178 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER 1179 1180config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY 1181 bool 1182 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1183 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY 1184 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY 1185 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1186 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER 1187 1188config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1189 bool 1190 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1191 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1192 help 1193 The arch-specific implementation of the hardlockup detector will 1194 be used. 1195 1196# 1197# Both the "perf" and "buddy" hardlockup detectors count hrtimer 1198# interrupts. This config enables functions managing this common code. 1199# 1200config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER 1201 bool 1202 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1203 1204# 1205# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1206# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1207# 1208config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1209 bool 1210 1211config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1212 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1213 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1214 help 1215 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1216 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1217 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1218 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1219 1220 Say N if unsure. 1221 1222config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1223 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1225 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1226 help 1227 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1228 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1229 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1230 1231 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1232 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1233 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1234 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1235 feature has negligible overhead. 1236 1237config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1238 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1239 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1240 default 120 1241 help 1242 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1243 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1244 be considered hung. 1245 1246 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1247 sysctl or by writing a value to 1248 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1249 1250 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1251 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1252 1253config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1254 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1255 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1256 help 1257 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1258 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1259 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1260 1261 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1262 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1263 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1264 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1265 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1266 1267 Say N if unsure. 1268 1269config DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER 1270 bool "Dump Hung Tasks Blocker" 1271 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1272 depends on !PREEMPT_RT 1273 default n 1274 help 1275 Say Y here to show the blocker task's stacktrace who acquires 1276 the mutex lock which "hung tasks" are waiting. 1277 This will add overhead a bit but shows suspicious tasks and 1278 call trace if it comes from waiting a mutex. 1279 1280config WQ_WATCHDOG 1281 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1283 help 1284 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1285 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1286 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1287 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1288 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1289 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1290 1291config WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT 1292 bool "Report per-cpu work items which hog CPU for too long" 1293 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1294 help 1295 Say Y here to enable reporting of concurrency-managed per-cpu work 1296 items that hog CPUs for longer than 1297 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us. Workqueue automatically 1298 detects and excludes them from concurrency management to prevent 1299 them from stalling other per-cpu work items. Occassional 1300 triggering may not necessarily indicate a problem. Repeated 1301 triggering likely indicates that the work item should be switched 1302 to use an unbound workqueue. 1303 1304config TEST_LOCKUP 1305 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1306 depends on m 1307 help 1308 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1309 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1310 1311 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1312 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1313 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1314 1315 If unsure, say N. 1316 1317endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1318 1319menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1320 1321config SCHED_DEBUG 1322 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && DEBUG_FS 1324 default y 1325 help 1326 If you say Y here, the /sys/kernel/debug/sched file will be provided 1327 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1328 option is minimal. 1329 1330config SCHED_RT_INVARIANT_TEST 1331 bool "RT invariant scheduling tester" 1332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1333 help 1334 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests to make 1335 sure the RT invariant holds (top N priority tasks run on N 1336 available cpus). 1337 1338 Say Y here if you want kernel RT scheduling tests 1339 to be built into the kernel. 1340 Say N if you are unsure. 1341 1342config SCHED_INFO 1343 bool 1344 default n 1345 1346config SCHEDSTATS 1347 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1348 depends on PROC_FS 1349 select SCHED_INFO 1350 help 1351 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1352 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1353 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1354 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1355 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1356 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1357 this adds. 1358 1359endmenu 1360 1361config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1362 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1364 help 1365 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1366 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1367 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1368 will detect preemption count underflows. 1369 1370 This option has potential to introduce high runtime overhead, 1371 depending on workload as it triggers debugging routines for each 1372 this_cpu operation. It should only be used for debugging purposes. 1373 1374menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1375 1376config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1377 bool 1378 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1379 default y 1380 1381config PROVE_LOCKING 1382 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1384 select LOCKDEP 1385 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1386 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1387 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1388 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if !PREEMPT_RT 1389 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1390 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1391 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1392 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1393 default n 1394 help 1395 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1396 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1397 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1398 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1399 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1400 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1401 deadlock. 1402 1403 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1404 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1405 1406 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1407 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1408 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1409 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1410 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1411 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1412 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1413 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1414 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1415 1416 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1417 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1418 kernel reports nothing. 1419 1420 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1421 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1422 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1423 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1424 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1425 1426 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1427 1428config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1429 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1430 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1431 default n 1432 help 1433 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1434 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1435 not violated. 1436 1437 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1438 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1439 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1440 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1441 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1442 1443 If unsure, select N. 1444 1445config LOCK_STAT 1446 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1447 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1448 select LOCKDEP 1449 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1450 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1451 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1452 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1453 default n 1454 help 1455 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1456 1457 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1458 1459 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1460 subcommand of perf. 1461 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1462 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1463 1464 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1465 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1466 1467config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1468 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1470 help 1471 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1472 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1473 1474config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1475 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1477 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1478 help 1479 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1480 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1481 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1482 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1483 1484config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1485 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1486 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1487 help 1488 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1489 reported. 1490 1491config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1492 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1494 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1495 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1496 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1497 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1498 help 1499 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1500 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1501 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1502 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1503 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1504 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1505 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1506 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1507 you are a distro, do not. 1508 1509config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1510 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1511 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1512 help 1513 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1514 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1515 1516config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1517 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1518 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1519 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1520 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1521 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1522 select LOCKDEP 1523 help 1524 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1525 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1526 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1527 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1528 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1529 held during task exit. 1530 1531config LOCKDEP 1532 bool 1533 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1534 select STACKTRACE 1535 select KALLSYMS 1536 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1537 1538config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1539 bool 1540 1541config LOCKDEP_BITS 1542 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1543 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1544 range 10 24 1545 default 15 1546 help 1547 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1548 1549config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1550 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1551 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1552 range 10 21 1553 default 16 1554 help 1555 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1556 1557config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1558 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1559 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1560 range 10 26 1561 default 19 1562 help 1563 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1564 1565config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1566 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1567 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1568 range 10 26 1569 default 14 1570 help 1571 Try increasing this value if you need large STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE. 1572 1573config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1574 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1575 depends on LOCKDEP 1576 range 10 26 1577 default 12 1578 help 1579 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1580 1581config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1582 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1584 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1585 help 1586 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1587 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1588 of more runtime overhead. 1589 1590config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1591 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1592 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1594 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1595 help 1596 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1597 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1598 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1599 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1600 1601config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1602 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1604 help 1605 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1606 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1607 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1608 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1609 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1610 mutexes and rwsems. 1611 1612config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1613 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1614 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1615 select TORTURE_TEST 1616 help 1617 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1618 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1619 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1620 1621 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1622 to be built into the kernel. 1623 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1624 Say N if you are unsure. 1625 1626config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1627 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1628 help 1629 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1630 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1631 1632 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1633 with this test harness. 1634 1635 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1636 Say N if you are unsure. 1637 1638config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1639 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1641 select TORTURE_TEST 1642 help 1643 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1644 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1645 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1646 be tested, if desired. 1647 1648config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1649 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1650 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1651 depends on SMP 1652 depends on 64BIT 1653 default n 1654 help 1655 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1656 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1657 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1658 and relevant stack traces. 1659 1660config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 1661 bool "Default csd_lock_wait() debugging on at boot time" 1662 depends on CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1663 depends on 64BIT 1664 default n 1665 help 1666 This option causes the csdlock_debug= kernel boot parameter to 1667 default to 1 (basic debugging) instead of 0 (no debugging). 1668 1669endmenu # lock debugging 1670 1671config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1672 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1673 bool 1674 help 1675 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1676 either tracing or lock debugging. 1677 1678config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1679 def_bool y 1680 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1681 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1682 1683config NMI_CHECK_CPU 1684 bool "Debugging for CPUs failing to respond to backtrace requests" 1685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1686 depends on X86 1687 default n 1688 help 1689 Enables debug prints when a CPU fails to respond to a given 1690 backtrace NMI. These prints provide some reasons why a CPU 1691 might legitimately be failing to respond, for example, if it 1692 is offline of if ignore_nmis is set. 1693 1694config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1695 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1696 help 1697 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1698 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1699 are enabled. 1700 1701config STACKTRACE 1702 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1703 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1704 help 1705 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1706 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1707 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1708 stack trace generation. 1709 1710config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1711 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1712 default n 1713 help 1714 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1715 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1716 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1717 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1718 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1719 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1720 it. 1721 1722 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1723 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1724 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1725 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1726 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1727 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1728 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1729 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1730 1731 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1732 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1733 those developers interested in improving the security of 1734 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1735 subarchitecture). 1736 1737config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1738 bool "kobject debugging" 1739 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1740 help 1741 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1742 to the syslog. 1743 1744config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1745 bool "kobject release debugging" 1746 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1747 help 1748 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1749 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1750 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1751 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1752 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1753 unregistered. 1754 1755 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1756 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1757 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1758 1759 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1760 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1761 kind of kobject release bug. 1762 1763config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1764 bool 1765 1766menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1767 1768config DEBUG_LIST 1769 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1771 select LIST_HARDENED 1772 help 1773 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list walking 1774 routines. 1775 1776 This option trades better quality error reports for performance, and 1777 is more suitable for kernel debugging. If you care about performance, 1778 you should only enable CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED instead. 1779 1780 If unsure, say N. 1781 1782config DEBUG_PLIST 1783 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1785 help 1786 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1787 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1788 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1789 1790 If unsure, say N. 1791 1792config DEBUG_SG 1793 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1794 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1795 help 1796 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1797 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1798 their sg tables. 1799 1800 If unsure, say N. 1801 1802config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1803 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1804 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1805 help 1806 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1807 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1808 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1809 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1810 performance, say N. 1811 1812config DEBUG_CLOSURES 1813 bool "Debug closures (bcache async widgits)" 1814 depends on CLOSURES 1815 select DEBUG_FS 1816 help 1817 Keeps all active closures in a linked list and provides a debugfs 1818 interface to list them, which makes it possible to see asynchronous 1819 operations that get stuck. 1820 1821config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1822 bool "Debug maple trees" 1823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1824 help 1825 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1826 1827 If unsure, say N. 1828 1829endmenu 1830 1831source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1832 1833config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1834 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1835 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1836 default n 1837 help 1838 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1839 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1840 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1841 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1842 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1843 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1844 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1845 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1846 be impacted. 1847 1848config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1849 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1850 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1851 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1852 default n 1853 help 1854 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1855 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1856 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1857 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1858 1859 Say N if your are unsure. 1860 1861config LATENCYTOP 1862 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1863 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1864 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1865 depends on PROC_FS 1866 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1867 select KALLSYMS 1868 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1869 select STACKTRACE 1870 select SCHEDSTATS 1871 help 1872 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1873 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1874 1875config DEBUG_CGROUP_REF 1876 bool "Disable inlining of cgroup css reference count functions" 1877 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1878 depends on CGROUPS 1879 depends on KPROBES 1880 default n 1881 help 1882 Force cgroup css reference count functions to not be inlined so 1883 that they can be kprobed for debugging. 1884 1885source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1886 1887config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1888 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1889 depends on PCI && X86 1890 help 1891 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1892 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1893 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1894 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1895 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1896 1897 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1898 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1899 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1900 1901 Usage: 1902 1903 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1904 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1905 1906 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1907 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1908 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1909 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1910 1911 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1912 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1913 1914 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1915 1916source "samples/Kconfig" 1917 1918config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1919 bool 1920 1921config STRICT_DEVMEM 1922 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1923 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1924 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1925 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1926 help 1927 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1928 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1929 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1930 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1931 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1932 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1933 1934 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1935 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1936 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1937 users of /dev/mem. 1938 1939 If in doubt, say Y. 1940 1941config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1942 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1943 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1944 help 1945 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1946 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1947 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1948 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1949 1950 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1951 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1952 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1953 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1954 1955 If in doubt, say Y. 1956 1957menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1958 1959source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1960 1961endmenu 1962 1963menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1964 1965source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1966 1967config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1968 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1970 select DEBUG_FS 1971 help 1972 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1973 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1974 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1975 1976 Say N if unsure. 1977 1978config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1979 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1980 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1981 default m if PM_DEBUG 1982 help 1983 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1984 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1985 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1986 1987 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1988 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1989 1990 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1991 1992 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1993 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1994 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1995 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1996 1997 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1998 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1999 2000 If unsure, say N. 2001 2002config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 2003 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 2004 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 2005 help 2006 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 2007 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 2008 through debugfs interface under 2009 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 2010 2011 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 2012 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 2013 2014 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 2015 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 2016 2017 If unsure, say N. 2018 2019config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 2020 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 2021 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 2022 help 2023 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 2024 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 2025 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 2026 2027 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 2028 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 2029 2030 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 2031 2032 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 2033 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 2034 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 2035 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 2036 2037 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 2038 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 2039 2040 If unsure, say N. 2041 2042config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2043 bool "Fault-injections of functions" 2044 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 2045 help 2046 Add fault injections into various functions that are annotated with 2047 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() in the kernel. BPF may also modify the return 2048 value of these functions. This is useful to test error paths of code. 2049 2050 If unsure, say N 2051 2052config FAULT_INJECTION 2053 bool "Fault-injection framework" 2054 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2055 help 2056 Provide fault-injection framework. 2057 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 2058 2059config FAILSLAB 2060 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 2061 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 2062 help 2063 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 2064 2065config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 2066 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 2067 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 2068 help 2069 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 2070 2071config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 2072 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 2073 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 2074 help 2075 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 2076 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 2077 2078config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 2079 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 2080 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 2081 help 2082 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 2083 2084config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 2085 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 2086 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 2087 help 2088 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 2089 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 2090 thus exercising the error handling. 2091 2092 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 2093 for others it won't do anything. 2094 2095config FAIL_FUTEX 2096 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 2097 select DEBUG_FS 2098 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 2099 help 2100 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 2101 2102config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 2103 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 2104 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 2105 help 2106 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 2107 2108config FAIL_FUNCTION 2109 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 2110 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 2111 help 2112 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 2113 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 2114 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 2115 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 2116 error handling in various subsystems. 2117 2118config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 2119 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 2120 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 2121 help 2122 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 2123 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 2124 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 2125 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 2126 the block device. 2127 2128config FAIL_SUNRPC 2129 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 2130 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 2131 help 2132 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 2133 its consumers. 2134 2135config FAULT_INJECTION_CONFIGFS 2136 bool "Configfs interface for fault-injection capabilities" 2137 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 2138 select CONFIGFS_FS 2139 help 2140 This option allows configfs-based drivers to dynamically configure 2141 fault-injection via configfs. Each parameter for driver-specific 2142 fault-injection can be made visible as a configfs attribute in a 2143 configfs group. 2144 2145 2146config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 2147 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 2148 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 2149 depends on (FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS || FAULT_INJECTION_CONFIGFS) && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2150 select STACKTRACE 2151 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 2152 help 2153 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 2154 2155config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2156 bool 2157 help 2158 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2159 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 2160 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 2161 2162config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2163 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 2164 2165 2166config KCOV 2167 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 2168 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2169 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2170 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 2171 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CC_IS_CLANG 2172 select DEBUG_FS 2173 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2174 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 2175 help 2176 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2177 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2178 2179 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2180 2181config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2182 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2183 depends on KCOV 2184 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2185 help 2186 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2187 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2188 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2189 of fuzzing coverage. 2190 2191config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2192 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2193 depends on KCOV 2194 default y 2195 help 2196 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2197 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2198 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2199 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2200 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2201 2202config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2203 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2204 depends on KCOV 2205 default 0x40000 2206 help 2207 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2208 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2209 number of unsigned long words. 2210 2211config KCOV_SELFTEST 2212 bool "Perform short selftests on boot" 2213 depends on KCOV 2214 help 2215 Run short KCOV coverage collection selftests on boot. 2216 On test failure, causes the kernel to panic. Recommended to be 2217 enabled, ensuring critical functionality works as intended. 2218 2219menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2220 bool "Runtime Testing" 2221 default y 2222 2223if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2224 2225config TEST_DHRY 2226 tristate "Dhrystone benchmark test" 2227 help 2228 Enable this to include the Dhrystone 2.1 benchmark. This test 2229 calculates the number of Dhrystones per second, and the number of 2230 DMIPS (Dhrystone MIPS) obtained when the Dhrystone score is divided 2231 by 1757 (the number of Dhrystones per second obtained on the VAX 2232 11/780, nominally a 1 MIPS machine). 2233 2234 To run the benchmark, it needs to be enabled explicitly, either from 2235 the kernel command line (when built-in), or from userspace (when 2236 built-in or modular). 2237 2238 Run once during kernel boot: 2239 2240 test_dhry.run 2241 2242 Set number of iterations from kernel command line: 2243 2244 test_dhry.iterations=<n> 2245 2246 Set number of iterations from userspace: 2247 2248 echo <n> > /sys/module/test_dhry/parameters/iterations 2249 2250 Trigger manual run from userspace: 2251 2252 echo y > /sys/module/test_dhry/parameters/run 2253 2254 If the number of iterations is <= 0, the test will devise a suitable 2255 number of iterations (test runs for at least 2s) automatically. 2256 This process takes ca. 4s. 2257 2258 If unsure, say N. 2259 2260config LKDTM 2261 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2262 depends on DEBUG_FS 2263 help 2264 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2265 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2266 If you don't need it: say N 2267 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2268 called lkdtm. 2269 2270 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2271 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2272 2273config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2274 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2275 depends on KUNIT 2276 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2277 help 2278 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2279 2280 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2281 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2282 2283 If unsure, say N. 2284 2285config TEST_LIST_SORT 2286 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2287 depends on KUNIT 2288 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2289 help 2290 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2291 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2292 or at module load time. 2293 2294 If unsure, say N. 2295 2296config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2297 tristate "Min heap test" 2298 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2299 help 2300 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2301 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2302 or at module load time. 2303 2304 If unsure, say N. 2305 2306config TEST_SORT 2307 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2308 depends on KUNIT 2309 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2310 help 2311 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2312 or at module load time. 2313 2314 If unsure, say N. 2315 2316config TEST_DIV64 2317 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2318 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2319 help 2320 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2321 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2322 or at module load time. 2323 2324 If unsure, say N. 2325 2326config TEST_MULDIV64 2327 tristate "mul_u64_u64_div_u64() test" 2328 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2329 help 2330 Enable this to turn on 'mul_u64_u64_div_u64()' function test. 2331 This test is executed only once during system boot (so affects 2332 only boot time), or at module load time. 2333 2334 If unsure, say N. 2335 2336config TEST_IOV_ITER 2337 tristate "Test iov_iter operation" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2338 depends on KUNIT 2339 depends on MMU 2340 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2341 help 2342 Enable this to turn on testing of the operation of the I/O iterator 2343 (iov_iter). This test is executed only once during system boot (so 2344 affects only boot time), or at module load time. 2345 2346 If unsure, say N. 2347 2348config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2349 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2351 depends on KPROBES 2352 depends on KUNIT 2353 select STACKTRACE if ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2354 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2355 help 2356 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2357 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2358 verified for functionality. 2359 2360 Say N if you are unsure. 2361 2362config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2363 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2365 depends on FPROBE 2366 depends on KUNIT=y 2367 help 2368 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2369 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2370 properly. 2371 2372 Say N if you are unsure. 2373 2374config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2375 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2377 help 2378 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2379 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2380 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2381 developers working on architecture code. 2382 2383 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2384 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2385 2386 Say N if you are unsure. 2387 2388config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2389 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2390 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2391 select REF_TRACKER 2392 help 2393 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2394 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2395 2396 Say N if you are unsure. 2397 2398config RBTREE_TEST 2399 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2400 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2401 help 2402 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2403 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2404 2405config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2406 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2408 select REED_SOLOMON 2409 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2410 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2411 help 2412 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2413 or at module load time. 2414 2415 If unsure, say N. 2416 2417config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2418 tristate "Interval tree test" 2419 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2420 select INTERVAL_TREE 2421 help 2422 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2423 2424config PERCPU_TEST 2425 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2426 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2427 help 2428 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2429 operations. 2430 2431 If unsure, say N. 2432 2433config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2434 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2435 help 2436 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2437 at module load time. 2438 2439 If unsure, say N. 2440 2441config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2442 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2443 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2444 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2445 help 2446 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2447 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2448 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2449 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2450 engine if one is available. 2451 2452 If unsure, say N. 2453 2454config TEST_HEXDUMP 2455 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2456 2457config STRING_KUNIT_TEST 2458 tristate "KUnit test string functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2459 depends on KUNIT 2460 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2461 2462config STRING_HELPERS_KUNIT_TEST 2463 tristate "KUnit test string helpers at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2464 depends on KUNIT 2465 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2466 2467config TEST_KSTRTOX 2468 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2469 2470config TEST_PRINTF 2471 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2472 2473config TEST_SCANF 2474 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2475 2476config TEST_BITMAP 2477 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2478 help 2479 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2480 2481 If unsure, say N. 2482 2483config TEST_UUID 2484 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2485 2486config TEST_XARRAY 2487 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2488 2489config TEST_MAPLE_TREE 2490 tristate "Test the Maple Tree code at runtime or module load" 2491 help 2492 Enable this option to test the maple tree code functions at boot, or 2493 when the module is loaded. Enable "Debug Maple Trees" will enable 2494 more verbose output on failures. 2495 2496 If unsure, say N. 2497 2498config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2499 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2500 help 2501 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2502 2503 If unsure, say N. 2504 2505config TEST_IDA 2506 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2507 2508config TEST_PARMAN 2509 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2510 depends on PARMAN 2511 help 2512 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2513 (or module load). 2514 2515 If unsure, say N. 2516 2517config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2518 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2519 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2520 help 2521 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2522 2523 If unsure, say N. 2524 2525config TEST_LKM 2526 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2527 depends on m 2528 help 2529 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2530 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2531 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2532 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2533 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2534 requested by name. 2535 2536 If unsure, say N. 2537 2538config TEST_BITOPS 2539 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2540 help 2541 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2542 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2543 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2544 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2545 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2546 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2547 2548 If unsure, say N. 2549 2550config TEST_VMALLOC 2551 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2552 default n 2553 depends on MMU 2554 depends on m 2555 help 2556 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2557 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2558 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2559 of view. 2560 2561 If unsure, say N. 2562 2563config TEST_BPF 2564 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2565 depends on m && NET 2566 help 2567 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2568 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2569 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2570 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2571 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2572 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2573 2574 If unsure, say N. 2575 2576config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2577 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2578 depends on m && NET 2579 help 2580 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2581 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2582 2583 If unsure, say N. 2584 2585config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2586 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2587 help 2588 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2589 functions performance. 2590 2591 If unsure, say N. 2592 2593config TEST_FIRMWARE 2594 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2595 depends on FW_LOADER 2596 help 2597 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2598 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2599 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2600 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2601 userspace. 2602 2603 If unsure, say N. 2604 2605config TEST_SYSCTL 2606 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2607 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2608 help 2609 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2610 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2611 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2612 2613 If unsure, say N. 2614 2615config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2616 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2617 depends on KUNIT 2618 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2619 help 2620 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2621 2622 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2623 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2624 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2625 production build. 2626 2627 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2628 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2629 2630 If unsure, say N. 2631 2632config CHECKSUM_KUNIT 2633 tristate "KUnit test checksum functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2634 depends on KUNIT 2635 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2636 help 2637 Enable this option to test the checksum functions at boot. 2638 2639 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2640 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2641 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2642 production build. 2643 2644 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2645 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2646 2647 If unsure, say N. 2648 2649config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2650 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2651 depends on KUNIT 2652 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2653 help 2654 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2655 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2656 2657 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2658 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2659 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2660 production build. 2661 2662 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2663 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2664 2665 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2666 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2667 2668config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2669 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2670 depends on KUNIT 2671 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2672 select GET_FREE_REGION 2673 help 2674 This builds the resource API unit test. 2675 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2676 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2677 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2678 2679 If unsure, say N. 2680 2681config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2682 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2683 depends on KUNIT 2684 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2685 help 2686 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2687 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2688 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2689 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2690 2691 If unsure, say N. 2692 2693config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2694 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2695 depends on KUNIT 2696 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2697 help 2698 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2699 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2700 and associated macros. 2701 2702 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2703 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2704 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2705 production build. 2706 2707 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2708 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2709 2710 If unsure, say N. 2711 2712config HASHTABLE_KUNIT_TEST 2713 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Hashtable structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2714 depends on KUNIT 2715 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2716 help 2717 This builds the hashtable KUnit test suite. 2718 It tests the basic functionality of the API defined in 2719 include/linux/hashtable.h. For more information on KUnit and 2720 unit tests in general please refer to the KUnit documentation 2721 in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2722 2723 If unsure, say N. 2724 2725config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2726 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2727 depends on KUNIT 2728 select LINEAR_RANGES 2729 help 2730 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2731 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2732 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2733 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2734 2735 If unsure, say N. 2736 2737config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2738 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2739 depends on KUNIT 2740 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2741 help 2742 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2743 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2744 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2745 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2746 2747 If unsure, say N. 2748 2749config BITS_TEST 2750 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2751 depends on KUNIT 2752 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2753 help 2754 This builds the bits unit test. 2755 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2756 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2757 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2758 2759 If unsure, say N. 2760 2761config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2762 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2763 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2764 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2765 help 2766 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2767 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2768 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2769 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2770 2771 If unsure, say N. 2772 2773config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2774 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2775 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2776 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2777 help 2778 This builds the rational math unit test. 2779 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2780 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2781 2782 If unsure, say N. 2783 2784config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2785 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2786 depends on KUNIT 2787 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2788 help 2789 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2790 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2791 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2792 2793 If unsure, say N. 2794 2795config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2796 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2797 depends on KUNIT 2798 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2799 help 2800 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2801 2802 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2803 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2804 2805 If unsure, say N. 2806 2807config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2808 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2809 depends on KUNIT 2810 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2811 help 2812 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2813 related functions. 2814 2815 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2816 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2817 2818 If unsure, say N. 2819 2820config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2821 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2822 depends on KUNIT 2823 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2824 help 2825 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2826 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2827 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2828 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2829 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2830 2831config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2832 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2833 depends on KUNIT 2834 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2835 help 2836 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2837 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2838 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2839 2840config LONGEST_SYM_KUNIT_TEST 2841 tristate "Test the longest symbol possible" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2842 depends on KUNIT && KPROBES 2843 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2844 help 2845 Tests the longest symbol possible 2846 2847 If unsure, say N. 2848 2849config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2850 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2851 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2852 depends on KUNIT=y 2853 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2854 help 2855 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2856 2857 If unsure, say N. 2858 2859config SIPHASH_KUNIT_TEST 2860 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2861 depends on KUNIT 2862 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2863 help 2864 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2865 functions on boot (or module load). 2866 2867 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2868 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2869 2870config USERCOPY_KUNIT_TEST 2871 tristate "KUnit Test for user/kernel boundary protections" 2872 depends on KUNIT 2873 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2874 help 2875 This builds the "usercopy_kunit" module that runs sanity checks 2876 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2877 user/kernel boundary testing is working. 2878 2879config TEST_UDELAY 2880 tristate "udelay test driver" 2881 help 2882 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2883 that udelay() is working properly. 2884 2885 If unsure, say N. 2886 2887config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2888 tristate "Test static keys" 2889 depends on m 2890 help 2891 Test the static key interfaces. 2892 2893 If unsure, say N. 2894 2895config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2896 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2897 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2898 help 2899 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2900 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2901 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2902 2903 If unsure, say N. 2904 2905config TEST_KMOD 2906 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2907 depends on m 2908 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2909 depends on BLOCK 2910 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2911 select TEST_LKM 2912 select XFS_FS 2913 select TUN 2914 select BTRFS_FS 2915 help 2916 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2917 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2918 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2919 2920 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2921 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2922 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2923 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2924 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2925 2926 To run tests run: 2927 2928 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2929 2930 If unsure, say N. 2931 2932config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2933 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2934 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2935 help 2936 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2937 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2938 kernel's virtual address map. 2939 2940 If unsure, say N. 2941 2942config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2943 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2944 help 2945 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2946 pointer arrays together. 2947 2948 If unsure, say N. 2949 2950config TEST_OBJAGG 2951 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2952 default n 2953 depends on OBJAGG 2954 help 2955 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2956 (or module load). 2957 2958config TEST_MEMINIT 2959 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2960 help 2961 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2962 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2963 2964 If unsure, say N. 2965 2966config TEST_HMM 2967 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2968 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2969 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2970 select HMM_MIRROR 2971 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2972 help 2973 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2974 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2975 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2976 2977 If unsure, say N. 2978 2979config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2980 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2981 help 2982 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2983 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2984 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2985 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2986 probably OOM your system. 2987 2988config TEST_FPU 2989 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2990 depends on ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2991 help 2992 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2993 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2994 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2995 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2996 2997 If unsure, say N. 2998 2999config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 3000 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 3001 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 3002 help 3003 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 3004 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 3005 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 3006 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 3007 shortly after boot. 3008 3009 If unsure, say N. 3010 3011config TEST_OBJPOOL 3012 tristate "Test module for correctness and stress of objpool" 3013 default n 3014 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 3015 help 3016 This builds the "test_objpool" module that should be used for 3017 correctness verification and concurrent testings of objects 3018 allocation and reclamation. 3019 3020 If unsure, say N. 3021 3022endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 3023 3024config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 3025 bool 3026 help 3027 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 3028 during boot process. 3029 3030config MEMTEST 3031 bool "Memtest" 3032 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 3033 help 3034 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 3035 to be set and executed. 3036 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 3037 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 3038 ... 3039 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 3040 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 3041 3042 3043 3044config HYPERV_TESTING 3045 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 3046 default n 3047 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 3048 help 3049 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 3050 3051endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 3052 3053menu "Rust hacking" 3054 3055config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 3056 bool "Debug assertions" 3057 depends on RUST 3058 help 3059 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 3060 3061 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 3062 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 3063 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 3064 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 3065 3066 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 3067 3068 If unsure, say N. 3069 3070config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 3071 bool "Overflow checks" 3072 default y 3073 depends on RUST 3074 help 3075 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 3076 3077 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 3078 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 3079 on overflow. 3080 3081 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 3082 3083 If unsure, say Y. 3084 3085config RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW 3086 bool "Allow unoptimized build-time assertions" 3087 depends on RUST 3088 help 3089 Controls how `build_error!` and `build_assert!` are handled during the build. 3090 3091 If calls to them exist in the binary, it may indicate a violated invariant 3092 or that the optimizer failed to verify the invariant during compilation. 3093 3094 This should not happen, thus by default the build is aborted. However, 3095 as an escape hatch, you can choose Y here to ignore them during build 3096 and let the check be carried at runtime (with `panic!` being called if 3097 the check fails). 3098 3099 If unsure, say N. 3100 3101config RUST_KERNEL_DOCTESTS 3102 bool "Doctests for the `kernel` crate" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 3103 depends on RUST && KUNIT=y 3104 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 3105 help 3106 This builds the documentation tests of the `kernel` crate 3107 as KUnit tests. 3108 3109 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, 3110 please refer to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 3111 3112 If unsure, say N. 3113 3114endmenu # "Rust" 3115 3116endmenu # Kernel hacking 3117 3118config INT_POW_TEST 3119 tristate "Integer exponentiation (int_pow) test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 3120 depends on KUNIT 3121 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 3122 help 3123 This option enables the KUnit test suite for the int_pow function, 3124 which performs integer exponentiation. The test suite is designed to 3125 verify that the implementation of int_pow correctly computes the power 3126 of a given base raised to a given exponent. 3127 3128 Enabling this option will include tests that check various scenarios 3129 and edge cases to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the exponentiation 3130 function. 3131 3132 If unsure, say N 3133