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 jiffie" 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 234choice 235 prompt "Debug information" 236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 237 help 238 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 239 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 240 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 241 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 242 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 243 244 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 245 select "Toolchain default". 246 247config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 248 bool "Disable debug information" 249 help 250 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 251 result in a faster and smaller build. 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 254 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 255 select DEBUG_INFO 256 help 257 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 258 toolchain changes over time. 259 260 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 261 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 262 those should be less common scenarios. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 265 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 266 select DEBUG_INFO 267 help 268 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 269 270 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 271 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 272 config select this. 273 274config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 275 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 276 select DEBUG_INFO 277 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 278 help 279 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 280 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 281 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 282 283 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 284 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 285 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 286 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 287 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 288 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 289 support DWARF Version 5. 290 291endchoice # "Debug information" 292 293if DEBUG_INFO 294 295config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 296 bool "Reduce debugging information" 297 help 298 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 299 information for structure types. This means that tools that 300 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 301 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 302 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 303 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 304 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 305 Only works with newer gcc versions. 306 307config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 308 bool "Compressed debugging information" 309 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 310 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 311 help 312 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 313 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 314 315 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 316 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 317 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 318 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 319 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 320 larger. 321 322config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 323 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 324 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 325 help 326 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 327 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 328 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 329 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 330 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 331 332 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 333 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 334 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 335 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 336 337config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 338 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 339 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 340 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 341 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 342 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 343 help 344 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 345 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 346 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 347 348config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 349 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 350 351config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 352 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 353 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 354 help 355 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 356 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 357 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 358 359config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 360 def_bool y 361 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 362 help 363 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 364 365config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 366 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 367 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 help 369 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 370 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 371 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 372 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 373 it when a mismatch is found. 374 375config GDB_SCRIPTS 376 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 377 help 378 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 379 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 380 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 381 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 382 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 383 for further details. 384 385endif # DEBUG_INFO 386 387config FRAME_WARN 388 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 389 range 0 8192 390 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 391 default 2048 if PARISC 392 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 393 default 1024 if !64BIT 394 default 2048 if 64BIT 395 help 396 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 397 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 398 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 399 400config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 401 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 402 default n 403 help 404 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 405 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 406 get_wchan() and suchlike. 407 408config READABLE_ASM 409 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 411 depends on CC_IS_GCC 412 help 413 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 414 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 415 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 416 sane. 417 418config HEADERS_INSTALL 419 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 420 depends on !UML 421 help 422 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 423 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 424 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 425 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 426 as uapi header sanity checks. 427 428config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 429 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 430 depends on CC_IS_GCC 431 help 432 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 433 references from one section to another section. 434 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 435 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 436 most likely result in an oops. 437 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 438 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 439 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 440 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 441 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 442 additional step to occur: 443 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 444 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 445 function, we would lose the section information and thus 446 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 447 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 448 a larger kernel). 449 450config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 451 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 452 default y 453 help 454 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 455 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 456 457 If unsure, say Y. 458 459config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 460 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 461 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 462 help 463 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 464 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 465 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 466 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 467 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 468 469 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 470 471# 472# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 473# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 474# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 475# 476config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 477 bool 478 479config FRAME_POINTER 480 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 482 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 483 help 484 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 485 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 486 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 487 488config STACK_VALIDATION 489 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 490 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 491 default n 492 help 493 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 494 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 495 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 496 497 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 498 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 499 500 For more information, see 501 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 502 503config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 504 bool 505 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 506 default y 507 508config VMLINUX_MAP 509 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 510 depends on EXPERT 511 help 512 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 513 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 514 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 515 pieces of code get eliminated with 516 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 517 518config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 519 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 520 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 521 help 522 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 523 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 524 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 525 definitions. 526 527 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 528 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 529 530 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 531 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 532 533endmenu # "Compiler options" 534 535menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 536 537config MAGIC_SYSRQ 538 bool "Magic SysRq key" 539 depends on !UML 540 help 541 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 542 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 543 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 544 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 545 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 546 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 547 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 548 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 549 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 550 551config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 552 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 553 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 554 default 0x1 555 help 556 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 557 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 558 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 559 560config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 561 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 562 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 563 default y 564 help 565 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 566 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 567 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 568 magic SysRq key. 569 570config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 571 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 572 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 573 default "" 574 help 575 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 576 SysRq on a serial console. 577 578 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 579 580config DEBUG_FS 581 bool "Debug Filesystem" 582 help 583 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 584 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 585 write to these files. 586 587 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 588 Documentation/filesystems/. 589 590 If unsure, say N. 591 592choice 593 prompt "Debugfs default access" 594 depends on DEBUG_FS 595 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 596 help 597 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 598 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 599 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 600 and filesystem registration. 601 602config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 603 bool "Access normal" 604 help 605 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 606 is on. This is the normal default operation. 607 608config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 609 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 610 help 611 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 612 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 613 debugfs filesystem. 614 615config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 616 bool "No access" 617 help 618 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 619 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 620 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 621 622endchoice 623 624source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 625source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 626source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 627 628endmenu 629 630menu "Networking Debugging" 631 632source "net/Kconfig.debug" 633 634endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 635 636menu "Memory Debugging" 637 638source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 639 640config DEBUG_OBJECTS 641 bool "Debug object operations" 642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 643 help 644 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 645 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 646 the operations on those objects. 647 648config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 649 bool "Debug objects selftest" 650 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 651 help 652 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 653 654config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 655 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 656 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 657 help 658 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 659 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 660 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 661 much slower. 662 663config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 664 bool "Debug timer objects" 665 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 666 help 667 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 668 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 669 validate the timer operations. 670 671config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 672 bool "Debug work objects" 673 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 674 help 675 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 676 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 677 validate the work operations. 678 679config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 680 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 681 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 682 help 683 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 684 685config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 686 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 687 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 688 help 689 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 690 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 691 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 692 693config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 694 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 695 range 0 1 696 default "1" 697 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 698 help 699 Debug objects boot parameter default value 700 701config DEBUG_SLAB 702 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 704 help 705 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 706 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 707 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 708 709config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 710 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 711 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 712 default n 713 help 714 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 715 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 716 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 717 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 718 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 719 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 720 "slub_debug=-". 721 722config SLUB_STATS 723 default n 724 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 725 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 726 help 727 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 728 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 729 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 730 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 731 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 732 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 733 Try running: slabinfo -DA 734 735config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 736 bool 737 738config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 739 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 741 select DEBUG_FS 742 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 743 select KALLSYMS 744 select CRC32 745 help 746 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 747 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 748 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 749 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 750 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 751 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 752 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 753 details. 754 755 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 756 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 757 758 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 759 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 760 761config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 762 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 763 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 764 range 200 1000000 765 default 16000 766 help 767 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 768 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 769 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 770 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 771 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 772 if slab allocations fail. 773 774config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 775 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 776 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 777 help 778 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 779 780 If unsure, say N. 781 782config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 783 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 784 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 785 help 786 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 787 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 788 789config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 790 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 791 default y 792 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 793 help 794 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 795 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 796 kmemleak scan at boot up. 797 798 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 799 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 800 memory leaks. 801 802 If unsure, say Y. 803 804config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 805 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 806 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 807 help 808 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 809 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 810 811 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 812 813config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 814 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 816 default n 817 help 818 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 819 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 820 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 821 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 822 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 823 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 824 825config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 826 bool 827 help 828 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 829 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 830 831config DEBUG_VM 832 bool "Debug VM" 833 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 834 help 835 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 836 that may impact performance. 837 838 If unsure, say N. 839 840config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 841 bool "Debug VMA caching" 842 depends on DEBUG_VM 843 help 844 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 845 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 846 environments. 847 848 If unsure, say N. 849 850config DEBUG_VM_RB 851 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 852 depends on DEBUG_VM 853 help 854 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 855 856 If unsure, say N. 857 858config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 859 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 860 depends on DEBUG_VM 861 help 862 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 863 864 If unsure, say N. 865 866config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 867 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 868 depends on MMU 869 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 870 default y if DEBUG_VM 871 help 872 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 873 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 874 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 875 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 876 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 877 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 878 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 879 880 If unsure, say N. 881 882config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 883 bool 884 885config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 886 bool "Debug VM translations" 887 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 888 help 889 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 890 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 891 892 If unsure, say N. 893 894config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 895 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 896 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 897 help 898 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 899 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 900 901config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 902 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 903 default !EXPERT 904 help 905 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 906 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 907 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 908 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 909 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 910 911 If unsure, say Y 912 913config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 914 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 915 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 916 help 917 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 918 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 919 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 920 921 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 922 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 923 924 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 925 926 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 927 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 928 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 929 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 930 931 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 932 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 933 934 If unsure, say N. 935 936config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 937 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 938 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 939 depends on SMP 940 help 941 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 942 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 943 and decreases performance. 944 945 Say N if unsure. 946 947config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 948 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 949 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 950 help 951 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 952 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 953 954config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 955 bool 956 957config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 958 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 959 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 960 select KMAP_LOCAL 961 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 962 help 963 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 964 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 965 Disable this for production systems! 966 967config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 968 bool "Highmem debugging" 969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 970 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 971 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 972 help 973 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 974 systems. Disable for production systems. 975 976config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 977 bool 978 979config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 980 bool "Check for stack overflows" 981 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 982 help 983 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 984 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 985 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 986 below a certain limit. 987 988 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 989 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 990 involved. 991 992 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 993 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 994 995 If in doubt, say "N". 996 997source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 998source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 999 1000endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 1001 1002config DEBUG_SHIRQ 1003 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 1004 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1005 help 1006 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 1007 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 1008 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 1009 don't and need to be caught. 1010 1011menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 1012 1013config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1014 bool "Panic on Oops" 1015 help 1016 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1017 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1018 line. 1019 1020 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1021 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1022 corruption or other issues. 1023 1024 Say N if unsure. 1025 1026config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1027 int 1028 range 0 1 1029 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1030 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1031 1032config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1033 int "panic timeout" 1034 default 0 1035 help 1036 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1037 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1038 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1039 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1040 1041config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1042 bool 1043 1044config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1045 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1047 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1048 help 1049 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1050 soft lockups. 1051 1052 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1053 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1054 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1055 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1056 1057config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1058 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1059 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1060 help 1061 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1062 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1063 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1064 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1065 1066 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1067 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1068 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1069 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1070 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1071 1072 Say N if unsure. 1073 1074config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1075 bool 1076 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1077 1078# 1079# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1080# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1081# 1082config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1083 bool 1084 1085# 1086# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1087# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1088# 1089config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1090 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1091 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1092 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1093 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1094 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1095 help 1096 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1097 hard lockups. 1098 1099 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1100 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1101 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1102 and the system will stay locked up. 1103 1104config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1105 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1106 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1107 help 1108 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1109 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1110 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1111 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1112 1113 Say N if unsure. 1114 1115config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1116 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1117 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1118 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1119 help 1120 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1121 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1122 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1123 1124 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1125 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1126 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1127 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1128 feature has negligible overhead. 1129 1130config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1131 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1132 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1133 default 120 1134 help 1135 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1136 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1137 be considered hung. 1138 1139 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1140 sysctl or by writing a value to 1141 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1142 1143 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1144 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1145 1146config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1147 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1148 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1149 help 1150 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1151 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1152 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1153 1154 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1155 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1156 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1157 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1158 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1159 1160 Say N if unsure. 1161 1162config WQ_WATCHDOG 1163 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1165 help 1166 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1167 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1168 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1169 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1170 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1171 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1172 1173config TEST_LOCKUP 1174 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1175 depends on m 1176 help 1177 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1178 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1179 1180 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1181 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1182 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1183 1184 If unsure, say N. 1185 1186endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1187 1188menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1189 1190config SCHED_DEBUG 1191 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1193 default y 1194 help 1195 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1196 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1197 option is minimal. 1198 1199config SCHED_INFO 1200 bool 1201 default n 1202 1203config SCHEDSTATS 1204 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1205 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1206 select SCHED_INFO 1207 help 1208 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1209 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1210 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1211 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1212 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1213 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1214 this adds. 1215 1216endmenu 1217 1218config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1219 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1220 help 1221 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1222 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1223 problems are suspected. 1224 1225 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1226 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1227 workloads. 1228 1229 If unsure, say N. 1230 1231config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1232 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1233 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1234 default y 1235 help 1236 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1237 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1238 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1239 will detect preemption count underflows. 1240 1241menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1242 1243config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1244 bool 1245 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1246 default y 1247 1248config PROVE_LOCKING 1249 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1250 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1251 select LOCKDEP 1252 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1253 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1254 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1255 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1256 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1257 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1258 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1259 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1260 default n 1261 help 1262 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1263 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1264 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1265 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1266 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1267 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1268 deadlock. 1269 1270 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1271 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1272 1273 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1274 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1275 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1276 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1277 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1278 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1279 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1280 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1281 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1282 1283 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1284 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1285 kernel reports nothing. 1286 1287 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1288 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1289 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1290 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1291 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1292 1293 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1294 1295config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1296 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1297 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1298 default n 1299 help 1300 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1301 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1302 not violated. 1303 1304 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1305 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1306 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1307 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1308 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1309 1310 If unsure, select N. 1311 1312config LOCK_STAT 1313 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1315 select LOCKDEP 1316 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1317 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1318 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1319 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1320 default n 1321 help 1322 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1323 1324 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1325 1326 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1327 subcommand of perf. 1328 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1329 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1330 1331 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1332 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1333 1334config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1335 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1337 help 1338 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1339 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1340 1341config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1342 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1343 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1344 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1345 help 1346 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1347 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1348 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1349 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1350 1351config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1352 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1353 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1354 help 1355 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1356 reported. 1357 1358config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1359 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1361 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1362 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1363 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1364 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1365 help 1366 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1367 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1368 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1369 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1370 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1371 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1372 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1373 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1374 you are a distro, do not. 1375 1376config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1377 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1379 help 1380 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1381 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1382 1383config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1384 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1386 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1387 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1388 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1389 select LOCKDEP 1390 help 1391 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1392 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1393 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1394 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1395 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1396 held during task exit. 1397 1398config LOCKDEP 1399 bool 1400 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1401 select STACKTRACE 1402 select KALLSYMS 1403 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1404 1405config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1406 bool 1407 1408config LOCKDEP_BITS 1409 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1410 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1411 range 10 30 1412 default 15 1413 help 1414 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1415 1416config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1417 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1418 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1419 range 10 30 1420 default 16 1421 help 1422 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1423 1424config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1425 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1426 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1427 range 10 30 1428 default 19 1429 help 1430 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1431 1432config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1433 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1434 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1435 range 10 30 1436 default 14 1437 help 1438 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1439 1440config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1441 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1442 depends on LOCKDEP 1443 range 10 30 1444 default 12 1445 help 1446 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1447 1448config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1449 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1450 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1451 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1452 help 1453 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1454 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1455 of more runtime overhead. 1456 1457config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1458 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1459 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1460 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1461 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1462 help 1463 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1464 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1465 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1466 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1467 1468config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1469 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1470 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1471 help 1472 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1473 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1474 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1475 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1476 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1477 mutexes and rwsems. 1478 1479config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1480 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1482 select TORTURE_TEST 1483 help 1484 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1485 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1486 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1487 1488 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1489 to be built into the kernel. 1490 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1491 Say N if you are unsure. 1492 1493config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1494 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1495 help 1496 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1497 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1498 1499 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1500 with this test harness. 1501 1502 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1503 Say N if you are unsure. 1504 1505config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1506 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1508 select TORTURE_TEST 1509 help 1510 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1511 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1512 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1513 be tested, if desired. 1514 1515config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1516 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1518 depends on 64BIT 1519 default n 1520 help 1521 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1522 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1523 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1524 and relevant stack traces. 1525 1526choice 1527 prompt "Lock debugging: prove subsystem device_lock() correctness" 1528 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1529 help 1530 For subsystems that have instrumented their usage of the device_lock() 1531 with nested annotations, enable lock dependency checking. The locking 1532 hierarchy 'subclass' identifiers are not compatible across 1533 sub-systems, so only one can be enabled at a time. 1534 1535config PROVE_NVDIMM_LOCKING 1536 bool "NVDIMM" 1537 depends on LIBNVDIMM 1538 help 1539 Enable lockdep to validate nd_device_lock() usage. 1540 1541config PROVE_CXL_LOCKING 1542 bool "CXL" 1543 depends on CXL_BUS 1544 help 1545 Enable lockdep to validate cxl_device_lock() usage. 1546 1547endchoice 1548 1549endmenu # lock debugging 1550 1551config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1552 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1553 bool 1554 help 1555 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1556 either tracing or lock debugging. 1557 1558config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1559 def_bool y 1560 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1561 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1562 1563config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1564 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1565 help 1566 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1567 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1568 are enabled. 1569 1570config STACKTRACE 1571 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1572 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1573 help 1574 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1575 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1576 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1577 stack trace generation. 1578 1579config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1580 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1581 default n 1582 help 1583 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1584 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1585 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1586 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1587 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1588 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1589 it. 1590 1591 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1592 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1593 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1594 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1595 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1596 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1597 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1598 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1599 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1600 1601 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1602 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1603 those developers interested in improving the security of 1604 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1605 subarchitecture). 1606 1607config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1608 bool "kobject debugging" 1609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1610 help 1611 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1612 to the syslog. 1613 1614config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1615 bool "kobject release debugging" 1616 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1617 help 1618 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1619 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1620 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1621 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1622 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1623 unregistered. 1624 1625 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1626 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1627 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1628 1629 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1630 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1631 kind of kobject release bug. 1632 1633config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1634 bool 1635 1636menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1637 1638config DEBUG_LIST 1639 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1641 help 1642 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1643 walking routines. 1644 1645 If unsure, say N. 1646 1647config DEBUG_PLIST 1648 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1649 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1650 help 1651 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1652 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1653 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1654 1655 If unsure, say N. 1656 1657config DEBUG_SG 1658 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1659 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1660 help 1661 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1662 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1663 their sg tables. 1664 1665 If unsure, say N. 1666 1667config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1668 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1669 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1670 help 1671 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1672 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1673 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1674 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1675 performance, say N. 1676 1677config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1678 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1679 select DEBUG_LIST 1680 help 1681 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1682 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1683 for validity. 1684 1685 If unsure, say N. 1686 1687endmenu 1688 1689config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1690 bool "Debug credential management" 1691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1692 help 1693 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1694 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1695 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1696 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1697 struct. 1698 1699 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1700 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1701 1702 If unsure, say N. 1703 1704source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1705 1706config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1707 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1708 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1709 default n 1710 help 1711 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1712 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1713 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1714 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1715 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1716 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1717 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1718 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1719 be impacted. 1720 1721config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1722 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1724 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1725 default n 1726 help 1727 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1728 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1729 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1730 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1731 1732 Say N if your are unsure. 1733 1734config LATENCYTOP 1735 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1736 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1737 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1738 depends on PROC_FS 1739 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1740 select KALLSYMS 1741 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1742 select STACKTRACE 1743 select SCHEDSTATS 1744 help 1745 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1746 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1747 1748source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1749 1750config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1751 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1752 depends on PCI && X86 1753 help 1754 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1755 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1756 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1757 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1758 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1759 1760 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1761 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1762 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1763 1764 Usage: 1765 1766 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1767 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1768 1769 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1770 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1771 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1772 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1773 1774 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1775 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1776 1777 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1778 1779source "samples/Kconfig" 1780 1781config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1782 bool 1783 1784config STRICT_DEVMEM 1785 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1786 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1787 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1788 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1789 help 1790 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1791 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1792 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1793 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1794 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1795 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1796 1797 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1798 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1799 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1800 users of /dev/mem. 1801 1802 If in doubt, say Y. 1803 1804config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1805 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1806 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1807 help 1808 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1809 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1810 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1811 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1812 1813 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1814 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1815 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1816 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1817 1818 If in doubt, say Y. 1819 1820menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1821 1822source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1823 1824endmenu 1825 1826menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1827 1828source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1829 1830config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1831 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1832 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1833 select DEBUG_FS 1834 help 1835 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1836 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1837 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1838 1839 Say N if unsure. 1840 1841config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1842 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1843 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1844 default m if PM_DEBUG 1845 help 1846 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1847 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1848 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1849 1850 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1851 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1852 1853 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1854 1855 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1856 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1857 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1858 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1859 1860 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1861 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1862 1863 If unsure, say N. 1864 1865config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1866 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1867 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1868 help 1869 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1870 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1871 through debugfs interface under 1872 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1873 1874 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1875 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1876 1877 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1878 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1879 1880 If unsure, say N. 1881 1882config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1883 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1884 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1885 help 1886 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1887 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1888 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1889 1890 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1891 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1892 1893 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1894 1895 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1896 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1897 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1898 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1899 1900 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1901 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1902 1903 If unsure, say N. 1904 1905config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1906 def_bool y 1907 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1908 1909config FAULT_INJECTION 1910 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1911 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1912 help 1913 Provide fault-injection framework. 1914 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1915 1916config FAILSLAB 1917 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1918 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1919 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1920 help 1921 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1922 1923config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1924 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1925 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1926 help 1927 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1928 1929config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1930 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1931 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1932 help 1933 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1934 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1935 1936config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1937 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1938 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1939 help 1940 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1941 1942config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1943 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1944 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1945 help 1946 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1947 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1948 thus exercising the error handling. 1949 1950 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1951 for others it won't do anything. 1952 1953config FAIL_FUTEX 1954 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1955 select DEBUG_FS 1956 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1957 help 1958 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1959 1960config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1961 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1962 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1963 help 1964 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1965 1966config FAIL_FUNCTION 1967 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1968 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1969 help 1970 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1971 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1972 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1973 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1974 error handling in various subsystems. 1975 1976config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1977 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1978 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1979 help 1980 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1981 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1982 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1983 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1984 the block device. 1985 1986config FAIL_SUNRPC 1987 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1988 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1989 help 1990 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1991 its consumers. 1992 1993config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1994 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1995 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1996 depends on !X86_64 1997 select STACKTRACE 1998 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1999 help 2000 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 2001 2002config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2003 bool 2004 help 2005 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2006 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 2007 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 2008 2009config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2010 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 2011 2012 2013config KCOV 2014 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 2015 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2016 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2017 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || STACK_VALIDATION || \ 2018 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 2019 select DEBUG_FS 2020 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2021 help 2022 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2023 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2024 2025 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 2026 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 2027 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2028 2029 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2030 2031config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2032 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2033 depends on KCOV 2034 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2035 help 2036 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2037 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2038 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2039 of fuzzing coverage. 2040 2041config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2042 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2043 depends on KCOV 2044 default y 2045 help 2046 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2047 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2048 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2049 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2050 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2051 2052config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2053 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2054 depends on KCOV 2055 default 0x40000 2056 help 2057 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2058 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2059 number of unsigned long words. 2060 2061menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2062 bool "Runtime Testing" 2063 def_bool y 2064 2065if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2066 2067config LKDTM 2068 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2069 depends on DEBUG_FS 2070 help 2071 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2072 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2073 If you don't need it: say N 2074 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2075 called lkdtm. 2076 2077 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2078 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2079 2080config TEST_LIST_SORT 2081 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2082 depends on KUNIT 2083 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2084 help 2085 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2086 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2087 or at module load time. 2088 2089 If unsure, say N. 2090 2091config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2092 tristate "Min heap test" 2093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2094 help 2095 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2096 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2097 or at module load time. 2098 2099 If unsure, say N. 2100 2101config TEST_SORT 2102 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2103 depends on KUNIT 2104 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2105 help 2106 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2107 or at module load time. 2108 2109 If unsure, say N. 2110 2111config TEST_DIV64 2112 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2113 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2114 help 2115 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2116 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2117 or at module load time. 2118 2119 If unsure, say N. 2120 2121config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2122 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" 2123 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2124 depends on KPROBES 2125 depends on KUNIT 2126 help 2127 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2128 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2129 verified for functionality. 2130 2131 Say N if you are unsure. 2132 2133config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2134 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2136 depends on FPROBE 2137 depends on KUNIT=y 2138 help 2139 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2140 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2141 properly. 2142 2143 Say N if you are unsure. 2144 2145config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2146 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2148 help 2149 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2150 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2151 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2152 developers working on architecture code. 2153 2154 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2155 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2156 2157 Say N if you are unsure. 2158 2159config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2160 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2161 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2162 select REF_TRACKER 2163 help 2164 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2165 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2166 2167 Say N if you are unsure. 2168 2169config RBTREE_TEST 2170 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2172 help 2173 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2174 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2175 2176config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2177 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2179 select REED_SOLOMON 2180 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2181 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2182 help 2183 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2184 or at module load time. 2185 2186 If unsure, say N. 2187 2188config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2189 tristate "Interval tree test" 2190 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2191 select INTERVAL_TREE 2192 help 2193 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2194 2195config PERCPU_TEST 2196 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2197 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2198 help 2199 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2200 operations. 2201 2202 If unsure, say N. 2203 2204config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2205 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2206 help 2207 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2208 at module load time. 2209 2210 If unsure, say N. 2211 2212config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2213 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2214 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2215 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2216 help 2217 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2218 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2219 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2220 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2221 engine if one is available. 2222 2223 If unsure, say N. 2224 2225config TEST_HEXDUMP 2226 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2227 2228config STRING_SELFTEST 2229 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2230 2231config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2232 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2233 2234config TEST_STRSCPY 2235 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2236 2237config TEST_KSTRTOX 2238 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2239 2240config TEST_PRINTF 2241 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2242 2243config TEST_SCANF 2244 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2245 2246config TEST_BITMAP 2247 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2248 help 2249 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2250 2251 If unsure, say N. 2252 2253config TEST_UUID 2254 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2255 2256config TEST_XARRAY 2257 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2258 2259config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2260 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2261 help 2262 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2263 2264 If unsure, say N. 2265 2266config TEST_SIPHASH 2267 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2268 help 2269 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2270 functions on boot (or module load). 2271 2272 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2273 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2274 2275config TEST_IDA 2276 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2277 2278config TEST_PARMAN 2279 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2280 depends on PARMAN 2281 help 2282 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2283 (or module load). 2284 2285 If unsure, say N. 2286 2287config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2288 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2289 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2290 help 2291 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2292 2293 If unsure, say N. 2294 2295config TEST_LKM 2296 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2297 depends on m 2298 help 2299 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2300 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2301 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2302 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2303 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2304 requested by name. 2305 2306 If unsure, say N. 2307 2308config TEST_BITOPS 2309 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2310 depends on m 2311 help 2312 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2313 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2314 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2315 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2316 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2317 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2318 2319 If unsure, say N. 2320 2321config TEST_VMALLOC 2322 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2323 default n 2324 depends on MMU 2325 depends on m 2326 help 2327 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2328 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2329 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2330 of view. 2331 2332 If unsure, say N. 2333 2334config TEST_USER_COPY 2335 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2336 depends on m 2337 help 2338 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2339 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2340 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2341 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2342 protections. 2343 2344 If unsure, say N. 2345 2346config TEST_BPF 2347 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2348 depends on m && NET 2349 help 2350 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2351 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2352 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2353 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2354 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2355 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2356 2357 If unsure, say N. 2358 2359config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2360 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2361 depends on m && NET 2362 help 2363 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2364 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2365 2366 If unsure, say N. 2367 2368config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2369 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2370 help 2371 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2372 functions performance. 2373 2374 If unsure, say N. 2375 2376config TEST_FIRMWARE 2377 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2378 depends on FW_LOADER 2379 help 2380 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2381 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2382 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2383 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2384 userspace. 2385 2386 If unsure, say N. 2387 2388config TEST_SYSCTL 2389 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2390 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2391 help 2392 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2393 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2394 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2395 2396 If unsure, say N. 2397 2398config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2399 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2400 depends on KUNIT 2401 help 2402 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2403 2404 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2405 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2406 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2407 production build. 2408 2409 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2410 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2411 2412 If unsure, say N. 2413 2414config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2415 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2416 depends on KUNIT 2417 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2418 help 2419 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2420 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2421 2422 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2423 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2424 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2425 production build. 2426 2427 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2428 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2429 2430 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2431 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2432 2433config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2434 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2435 depends on KUNIT 2436 help 2437 This builds the resource API unit test. 2438 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2439 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2440 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2441 2442 If unsure, say N. 2443 2444config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2445 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2446 depends on KUNIT 2447 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2448 help 2449 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2450 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2451 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2452 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2453 2454 If unsure, say N. 2455 2456config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2457 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2458 depends on KUNIT 2459 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2460 help 2461 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2462 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2463 and associated macros. 2464 2465 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2466 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2467 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2468 production build. 2469 2470 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2471 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2472 2473 If unsure, say N. 2474 2475config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2476 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2477 depends on KUNIT 2478 select LINEAR_RANGES 2479 help 2480 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2481 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2482 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2483 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2484 2485 If unsure, say N. 2486 2487config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2488 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2489 depends on KUNIT 2490 help 2491 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2492 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2493 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2494 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2495 2496 If unsure, say N. 2497 2498config BITS_TEST 2499 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2500 depends on KUNIT 2501 help 2502 This builds the bits unit test. 2503 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2504 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2505 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2506 2507 If unsure, say N. 2508 2509config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2510 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2511 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2512 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2513 help 2514 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2515 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2516 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2517 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2518 2519 If unsure, say N. 2520 2521config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2522 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2523 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2524 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2525 help 2526 This builds the rational math unit test. 2527 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2528 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2529 2530 If unsure, say N. 2531 2532config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2533 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2534 depends on KUNIT 2535 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2536 help 2537 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2538 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2539 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2540 2541 If unsure, say N. 2542 2543config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2544 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2545 depends on KUNIT 2546 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2547 help 2548 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2549 related functions. 2550 2551 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2552 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2553 2554 If unsure, say N. 2555 2556config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2557 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2558 depends on KUNIT 2559 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2560 help 2561 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2562 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2563 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2564 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2565 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2566 2567config TEST_UDELAY 2568 tristate "udelay test driver" 2569 help 2570 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2571 that udelay() is working properly. 2572 2573 If unsure, say N. 2574 2575config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2576 tristate "Test static keys" 2577 depends on m 2578 help 2579 Test the static key interfaces. 2580 2581 If unsure, say N. 2582 2583config TEST_KMOD 2584 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2585 depends on m 2586 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2587 depends on BLOCK 2588 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2589 select TEST_LKM 2590 select XFS_FS 2591 select TUN 2592 select BTRFS_FS 2593 help 2594 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2595 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2596 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2597 2598 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2599 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2600 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2601 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2602 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2603 2604 To run tests run: 2605 2606 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2607 2608 If unsure, say N. 2609 2610config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2611 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2612 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2613 help 2614 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2615 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2616 kernel's virtual address map. 2617 2618 If unsure, say N. 2619 2620config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2621 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2622 help 2623 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2624 pointer arrays together. 2625 2626 If unsure, say N. 2627 2628config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2629 tristate "Test livepatching" 2630 default n 2631 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2632 depends on LIVEPATCH 2633 depends on m 2634 help 2635 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2636 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2637 2638 To run all the livepatching tests: 2639 2640 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2641 2642 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2643 2644 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2645 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2646 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2647 2648 If unsure, say N. 2649 2650config TEST_OBJAGG 2651 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2652 default n 2653 depends on OBJAGG 2654 help 2655 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2656 (or module load). 2657 2658config TEST_MEMINIT 2659 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2660 help 2661 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2662 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2663 2664 If unsure, say N. 2665 2666config TEST_HMM 2667 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2668 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2669 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2670 select HMM_MIRROR 2671 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2672 help 2673 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2674 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2675 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2676 2677 If unsure, say N. 2678 2679config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2680 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2681 help 2682 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2683 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2684 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2685 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2686 probably OOM your system. 2687 2688config TEST_FPU 2689 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2690 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2691 help 2692 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2693 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2694 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2695 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2696 2697 If unsure, say N. 2698 2699config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2700 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2701 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2702 help 2703 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2704 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2705 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2706 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2707 shortly after boot. 2708 2709 If unsure, say N. 2710 2711endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2712 2713config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2714 bool 2715 help 2716 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2717 during boot process. 2718 2719config MEMTEST 2720 bool "Memtest" 2721 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2722 help 2723 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2724 to be set and executed. 2725 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2726 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2727 ... 2728 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2729 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2730 2731 2732 2733config HYPERV_TESTING 2734 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2735 default n 2736 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2737 help 2738 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2739 2740endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2741 2742source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2743 2744endmenu # Kernel hacking 2745