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 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 268 help 269 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 270 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 271 272 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 273 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 274 config select this. 275 276config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 277 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 278 select DEBUG_INFO 279 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 280 help 281 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 282 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 283 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 284 285 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 286 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 287 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 288 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 289 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 290 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 291 support DWARF Version 5. 292 293endchoice # "Debug information" 294 295if DEBUG_INFO 296 297config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 298 bool "Reduce debugging information" 299 help 300 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 301 information for structure types. This means that tools that 302 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 303 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 304 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 305 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 306 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 307 Only works with newer gcc versions. 308 309config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 310 bool "Compressed debugging information" 311 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 312 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 313 help 314 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 315 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 316 317 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 318 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 319 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 320 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 321 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 322 larger. 323 324config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 325 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 326 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 327 help 328 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 329 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 330 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 331 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 332 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 333 334 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 335 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 336 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 337 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 338 339config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 340 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 341 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 342 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 343 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 344 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 345 help 346 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 347 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 348 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 349 350config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 351 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 352 353config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 354 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 355 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 356 help 357 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 358 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 359 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 360 361config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 362 def_bool y 363 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 364 help 365 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 366 367config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 368 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 369 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 370 help 371 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 372 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 373 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 374 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 375 it when a mismatch is found. 376 377config GDB_SCRIPTS 378 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 379 help 380 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 381 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 382 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 383 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 384 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 385 for further details. 386 387endif # DEBUG_INFO 388 389config FRAME_WARN 390 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 391 range 0 8192 392 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 393 default 2048 if PARISC 394 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 395 default 1024 if !64BIT 396 default 2048 if 64BIT 397 help 398 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 399 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 400 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 401 402config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 403 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 404 default n 405 help 406 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 407 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 408 get_wchan() and suchlike. 409 410config READABLE_ASM 411 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 413 depends on CC_IS_GCC 414 help 415 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 416 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 417 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 418 sane. 419 420config HEADERS_INSTALL 421 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 422 depends on !UML 423 help 424 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 425 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 426 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 427 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 428 as uapi header sanity checks. 429 430config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 431 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 432 depends on CC_IS_GCC 433 help 434 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 435 references from one section to another section. 436 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 437 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 438 most likely result in an oops. 439 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 440 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 441 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 442 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 443 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 444 additional step to occur: 445 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 446 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 447 function, we would lose the section information and thus 448 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 449 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 450 a larger kernel). 451 452config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 453 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 454 default y 455 help 456 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 457 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 458 459 If unsure, say Y. 460 461config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 462 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 463 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 464 help 465 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 466 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 467 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 468 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 469 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 470 471 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 472 473# 474# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 475# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 476# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 477# 478config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 479 bool 480 481config FRAME_POINTER 482 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 484 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 485 help 486 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 487 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 488 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 489 490config OBJTOOL 491 bool 492 493config STACK_VALIDATION 494 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 495 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 496 select OBJTOOL 497 default n 498 help 499 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 500 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 501 502 For more information, see 503 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 504 505config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 506 bool 507 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 508 select OBJTOOL 509 default y 510 511config VMLINUX_MAP 512 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 513 depends on EXPERT 514 help 515 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 516 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 517 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 518 pieces of code get eliminated with 519 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 520 521config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 522 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 523 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 524 help 525 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 526 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 527 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 528 definitions. 529 530 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 531 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 532 533 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 534 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 535 536endmenu # "Compiler options" 537 538menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 539 540config MAGIC_SYSRQ 541 bool "Magic SysRq key" 542 depends on !UML 543 help 544 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 545 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 546 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 547 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 548 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 549 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 550 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 551 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 552 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 553 554config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 555 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 556 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 557 default 0x1 558 help 559 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 560 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 561 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 562 563config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 564 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 565 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 566 default y 567 help 568 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 569 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 570 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 571 magic SysRq key. 572 573config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 574 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 575 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 576 default "" 577 help 578 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 579 SysRq on a serial console. 580 581 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 582 583config DEBUG_FS 584 bool "Debug Filesystem" 585 help 586 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 587 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 588 write to these files. 589 590 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 591 Documentation/filesystems/. 592 593 If unsure, say N. 594 595choice 596 prompt "Debugfs default access" 597 depends on DEBUG_FS 598 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 599 help 600 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 601 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 602 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 603 and filesystem registration. 604 605config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 606 bool "Access normal" 607 help 608 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 609 is on. This is the normal default operation. 610 611config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 612 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 613 help 614 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 615 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 616 debugfs filesystem. 617 618config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 619 bool "No access" 620 help 621 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 622 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 623 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 624 625endchoice 626 627source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 628source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 629source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 630 631endmenu 632 633menu "Networking Debugging" 634 635source "net/Kconfig.debug" 636 637endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 638 639menu "Memory Debugging" 640 641source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 642 643config DEBUG_OBJECTS 644 bool "Debug object operations" 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 646 help 647 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 648 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 649 the operations on those objects. 650 651config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 652 bool "Debug objects selftest" 653 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 654 help 655 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 656 657config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 658 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 659 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 660 help 661 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 662 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 663 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 664 much slower. 665 666config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 667 bool "Debug timer objects" 668 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 669 help 670 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 671 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 672 validate the timer operations. 673 674config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 675 bool "Debug work objects" 676 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 677 help 678 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 679 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 680 validate the work operations. 681 682config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 683 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 684 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 685 help 686 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 687 688config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 689 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 690 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 691 help 692 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 693 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 694 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 695 696config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 697 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 698 range 0 1 699 default "1" 700 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 701 help 702 Debug objects boot parameter default value 703 704config SHRINKER_DEBUG 705 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 706 depends on DEBUG_FS 707 help 708 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 709 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 710 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 711 712config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 713 bool 714 715config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 716 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 718 select DEBUG_FS 719 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 720 select KALLSYMS 721 select CRC32 722 help 723 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 724 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 725 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 726 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 727 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 728 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 729 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 730 details. 731 732 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 733 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 734 735 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 736 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 737 738config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 739 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 740 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 741 range 200 1000000 742 default 16000 743 help 744 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 745 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 746 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 747 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 748 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 749 if slab allocations fail. 750 751config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 752 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 753 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 754 help 755 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 756 757 If unsure, say N. 758 759config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 760 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 761 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 762 help 763 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 764 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 765 766config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 767 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 768 default y 769 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 770 help 771 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 772 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 773 kmemleak scan at boot up. 774 775 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 776 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 777 memory leaks. 778 779 If unsure, say Y. 780 781config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 782 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 783 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 784 help 785 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 786 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 787 788 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 789 790config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 791 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 793 default n 794 help 795 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 796 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 797 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 798 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 799 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 800 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 801 802config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 803 bool 804 help 805 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 806 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 807 808config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 809 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 810 811config DEBUG_VM 812 bool "Debug VM" 813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 814 help 815 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 816 that may impact performance. 817 818 If unsure, say N. 819 820config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 821 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 822 depends on DEBUG_VM 823 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 824 help 825 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 826 827 If unsure, say N. 828 829config DEBUG_VM_RB 830 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 831 depends on DEBUG_VM 832 help 833 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 834 835 If unsure, say N. 836 837config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 838 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 839 depends on DEBUG_VM 840 help 841 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 842 843 If unsure, say N. 844 845config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 846 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 847 depends on MMU 848 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 849 default y if DEBUG_VM 850 help 851 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 852 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 853 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 854 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 855 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 856 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 857 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 858 859 If unsure, say N. 860 861config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 862 bool 863 864config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 865 bool "Debug VM translations" 866 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 867 help 868 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 869 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 870 871 If unsure, say N. 872 873config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 874 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 876 help 877 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 878 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 879 880config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 881 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 882 default !EXPERT 883 help 884 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 885 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 886 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 887 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 888 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 889 890 If unsure, say Y 891 892config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 893 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 894 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 895 help 896 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 897 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 898 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 899 900 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 901 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 902 903 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 904 905 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 906 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 907 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 908 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 909 910 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 911 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 912 913 If unsure, say N. 914 915config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 916 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 917 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 918 depends on SMP 919 help 920 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 921 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 922 and decreases performance. 923 924 Say N if unsure. 925 926config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 927 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 928 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 929 help 930 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 931 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 932 933config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 934 bool 935 936config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 937 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 938 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 939 select KMAP_LOCAL 940 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 941 help 942 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 943 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 944 Disable this for production systems! 945 946config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 947 bool "Highmem debugging" 948 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 949 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 950 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 951 help 952 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 953 systems. Disable for production systems. 954 955config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 956 bool 957 958config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 959 bool "Check for stack overflows" 960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 961 help 962 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 963 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 964 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 965 below a certain limit. 966 967 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 968 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 969 involved. 970 971 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 972 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 973 974 If in doubt, say "N". 975 976source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 977source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 978source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 979 980endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 981 982config DEBUG_SHIRQ 983 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 985 help 986 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 987 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 988 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 989 don't and need to be caught. 990 991menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 992 993config PANIC_ON_OOPS 994 bool "Panic on Oops" 995 help 996 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 997 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 998 line. 999 1000 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1001 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1002 corruption or other issues. 1003 1004 Say N if unsure. 1005 1006config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1007 int 1008 range 0 1 1009 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1010 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1011 1012config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1013 int "panic timeout" 1014 default 0 1015 help 1016 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1017 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1018 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1019 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1020 1021config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1022 bool 1023 1024config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1025 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1026 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1027 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1028 help 1029 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1030 soft lockups. 1031 1032 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1033 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1034 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1035 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1036 1037config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1038 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1039 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1040 help 1041 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1042 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1043 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1044 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1045 1046 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1047 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1048 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1049 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1050 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1051 1052 Say N if unsure. 1053 1054config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1055 bool 1056 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1057 1058# 1059# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1060# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1061# 1062config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1063 bool 1064 1065# 1066# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1067# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1068# 1069config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1070 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1071 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1072 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1073 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1074 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1075 help 1076 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1077 hard lockups. 1078 1079 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1080 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1081 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1082 and the system will stay locked up. 1083 1084config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1085 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1086 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1087 help 1088 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1089 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1090 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1091 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1092 1093 Say N if unsure. 1094 1095config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1096 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1098 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1099 help 1100 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1101 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1102 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1103 1104 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1105 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1106 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1107 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1108 feature has negligible overhead. 1109 1110config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1111 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1112 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1113 default 120 1114 help 1115 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1116 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1117 be considered hung. 1118 1119 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1120 sysctl or by writing a value to 1121 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1122 1123 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1124 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1125 1126config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1127 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1128 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1129 help 1130 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1131 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1132 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1133 1134 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1135 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1136 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1137 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1138 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1139 1140 Say N if unsure. 1141 1142config WQ_WATCHDOG 1143 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1145 help 1146 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1147 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1148 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1149 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1150 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1151 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1152 1153config TEST_LOCKUP 1154 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1155 depends on m 1156 help 1157 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1158 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1159 1160 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1161 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1162 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1163 1164 If unsure, say N. 1165 1166endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1167 1168menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1169 1170config SCHED_DEBUG 1171 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1173 default y 1174 help 1175 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1176 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1177 option is minimal. 1178 1179config SCHED_INFO 1180 bool 1181 default n 1182 1183config SCHEDSTATS 1184 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1186 select SCHED_INFO 1187 help 1188 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1189 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1190 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1191 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1192 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1193 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1194 this adds. 1195 1196endmenu 1197 1198config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1199 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1200 help 1201 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1202 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1203 problems are suspected. 1204 1205 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1206 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1207 workloads. 1208 1209 If unsure, say N. 1210 1211config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1212 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1213 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1214 default y 1215 help 1216 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1217 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1218 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1219 will detect preemption count underflows. 1220 1221menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1222 1223config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1224 bool 1225 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1226 default y 1227 1228config PROVE_LOCKING 1229 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1230 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1231 select LOCKDEP 1232 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1233 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1234 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1235 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1236 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1237 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1238 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1239 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1240 default n 1241 help 1242 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1243 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1244 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1245 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1246 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1247 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1248 deadlock. 1249 1250 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1251 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1252 1253 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1254 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1255 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1256 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1257 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1258 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1259 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1260 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1261 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1262 1263 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1264 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1265 kernel reports nothing. 1266 1267 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1268 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1269 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1270 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1271 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1272 1273 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1274 1275config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1276 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1277 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1278 default n 1279 help 1280 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1281 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1282 not violated. 1283 1284 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1285 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1286 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1287 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1288 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1289 1290 If unsure, select N. 1291 1292config LOCK_STAT 1293 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1294 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1295 select LOCKDEP 1296 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1297 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1298 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1299 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1300 default n 1301 help 1302 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1303 1304 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1305 1306 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1307 subcommand of perf. 1308 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1309 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1310 1311 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1312 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1313 1314config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1315 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1317 help 1318 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1319 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1320 1321config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1322 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1324 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1325 help 1326 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1327 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1328 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1329 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1330 1331config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1332 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1334 help 1335 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1336 reported. 1337 1338config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1339 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1341 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1342 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1343 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1344 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1345 help 1346 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1347 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1348 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1349 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1350 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1351 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1352 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1353 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1354 you are a distro, do not. 1355 1356config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1357 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1359 help 1360 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1361 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1362 1363config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1364 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1366 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1367 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1368 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1369 select LOCKDEP 1370 help 1371 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1372 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1373 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1374 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1375 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1376 held during task exit. 1377 1378config LOCKDEP 1379 bool 1380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1381 select STACKTRACE 1382 select KALLSYMS 1383 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1384 1385config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1386 bool 1387 1388config LOCKDEP_BITS 1389 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1390 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1391 range 10 30 1392 default 15 1393 help 1394 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1395 1396config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1397 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1398 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1399 range 10 30 1400 default 16 1401 help 1402 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1403 1404config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1405 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1406 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1407 range 10 30 1408 default 19 1409 help 1410 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1411 1412config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1413 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1414 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1415 range 10 30 1416 default 14 1417 help 1418 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1419 1420config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1421 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1422 depends on LOCKDEP 1423 range 10 30 1424 default 12 1425 help 1426 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1427 1428config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1429 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1431 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1432 help 1433 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1434 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1435 of more runtime overhead. 1436 1437config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1438 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1439 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1440 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1441 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1442 help 1443 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1444 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1445 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1446 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1447 1448config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1449 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1450 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1451 help 1452 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1453 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1454 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1455 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1456 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1457 mutexes and rwsems. 1458 1459config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1460 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1462 select TORTURE_TEST 1463 help 1464 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1465 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1466 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1467 1468 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1469 to be built into the kernel. 1470 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1471 Say N if you are unsure. 1472 1473config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1474 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1475 help 1476 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1477 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1478 1479 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1480 with this test harness. 1481 1482 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1483 Say N if you are unsure. 1484 1485config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1486 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1487 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1488 select TORTURE_TEST 1489 help 1490 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1491 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1492 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1493 be tested, if desired. 1494 1495config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1496 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1497 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1498 depends on 64BIT 1499 default n 1500 help 1501 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1502 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1503 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1504 and relevant stack traces. 1505 1506endmenu # lock debugging 1507 1508config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1509 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1510 bool 1511 help 1512 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1513 either tracing or lock debugging. 1514 1515config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1516 def_bool y 1517 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1518 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1519 1520config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1521 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1522 help 1523 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1524 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1525 are enabled. 1526 1527config STACKTRACE 1528 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1529 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1530 help 1531 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1532 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1533 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1534 stack trace generation. 1535 1536config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1537 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1538 default n 1539 help 1540 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1541 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1542 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1543 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1544 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1545 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1546 it. 1547 1548 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1549 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1550 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1551 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1552 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1553 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1554 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1555 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1556 1557 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1558 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1559 those developers interested in improving the security of 1560 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1561 subarchitecture). 1562 1563config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1564 bool "kobject debugging" 1565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1566 help 1567 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1568 to the syslog. 1569 1570config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1571 bool "kobject release debugging" 1572 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1573 help 1574 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1575 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1576 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1577 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1578 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1579 unregistered. 1580 1581 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1582 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1583 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1584 1585 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1586 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1587 kind of kobject release bug. 1588 1589config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1590 bool 1591 1592menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1593 1594config DEBUG_LIST 1595 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1597 help 1598 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1599 walking routines. 1600 1601 If unsure, say N. 1602 1603config DEBUG_PLIST 1604 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1606 help 1607 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1608 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1609 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1610 1611 If unsure, say N. 1612 1613config DEBUG_SG 1614 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1616 help 1617 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1618 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1619 their sg tables. 1620 1621 If unsure, say N. 1622 1623config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1624 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1626 help 1627 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1628 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1629 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1630 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1631 performance, say N. 1632 1633config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1634 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1635 select DEBUG_LIST 1636 help 1637 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1638 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1639 for validity. 1640 1641 If unsure, say N. 1642 1643config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1644 bool "Debug maple trees" 1645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1646 help 1647 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1648 1649 If unsure, say N. 1650 1651endmenu 1652 1653config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1654 bool "Debug credential management" 1655 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1656 help 1657 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1658 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1659 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1660 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1661 struct. 1662 1663 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1664 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1665 1666 If unsure, say N. 1667 1668source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1669 1670config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1671 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1672 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1673 default n 1674 help 1675 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1676 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1677 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1678 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1679 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1680 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1681 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1682 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1683 be impacted. 1684 1685config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1686 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1687 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1688 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1689 default n 1690 help 1691 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1692 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1693 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1694 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1695 1696 Say N if your are unsure. 1697 1698config LATENCYTOP 1699 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1700 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1701 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1702 depends on PROC_FS 1703 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1704 select KALLSYMS 1705 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1706 select STACKTRACE 1707 select SCHEDSTATS 1708 help 1709 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1710 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1711 1712source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1713 1714config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1715 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1716 depends on PCI && X86 1717 help 1718 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1719 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1720 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1721 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1722 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1723 1724 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1725 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1726 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1727 1728 Usage: 1729 1730 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1731 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1732 1733 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1734 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1735 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1736 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1737 1738 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1739 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1740 1741 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1742 1743source "samples/Kconfig" 1744 1745config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1746 bool 1747 1748config STRICT_DEVMEM 1749 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1750 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1751 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1752 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1753 help 1754 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1755 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1756 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1757 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1758 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1759 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1760 1761 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1762 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1763 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1764 users of /dev/mem. 1765 1766 If in doubt, say Y. 1767 1768config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1769 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1770 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1771 help 1772 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1773 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1774 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1775 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1776 1777 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1778 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1779 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1780 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1781 1782 If in doubt, say Y. 1783 1784menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1785 1786source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1787 1788endmenu 1789 1790menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1791 1792source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1793 1794config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1795 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1797 select DEBUG_FS 1798 help 1799 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1800 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1801 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1802 1803 Say N if unsure. 1804 1805config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1806 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1807 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1808 default m if PM_DEBUG 1809 help 1810 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1811 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1812 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1813 1814 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1815 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1816 1817 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1818 1819 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1820 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1821 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1822 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1823 1824 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1825 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1826 1827 If unsure, say N. 1828 1829config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1830 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1831 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1832 help 1833 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1834 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1835 through debugfs interface under 1836 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1837 1838 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1839 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1840 1841 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1842 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1843 1844 If unsure, say N. 1845 1846config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1847 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1848 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1849 help 1850 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1851 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1852 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1853 1854 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1855 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1856 1857 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1858 1859 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1860 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1861 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1862 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1863 1864 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1865 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1866 1867 If unsure, say N. 1868 1869config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1870 def_bool y 1871 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1872 1873config FAULT_INJECTION 1874 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1876 help 1877 Provide fault-injection framework. 1878 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1879 1880config FAILSLAB 1881 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1882 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1883 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1884 help 1885 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1886 1887config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1888 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1889 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1890 help 1891 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1892 1893config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1894 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1896 help 1897 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1898 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1899 1900config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1901 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1902 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1903 help 1904 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1905 1906config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1911 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1912 thus exercising the error handling. 1913 1914 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1915 for others it won't do anything. 1916 1917config FAIL_FUTEX 1918 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1919 select DEBUG_FS 1920 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1921 help 1922 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1923 1924config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1925 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1926 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1927 help 1928 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1929 1930config FAIL_FUNCTION 1931 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1932 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1933 help 1934 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1935 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1936 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1937 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1938 error handling in various subsystems. 1939 1940config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1941 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1942 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1943 help 1944 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1945 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1946 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1947 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1948 the block device. 1949 1950config FAIL_SUNRPC 1951 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1953 help 1954 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1955 its consumers. 1956 1957config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1958 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1959 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1960 depends on !X86_64 1961 select STACKTRACE 1962 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1963 help 1964 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1965 1966config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1967 bool 1968 help 1969 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1970 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1971 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1972 1973config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1974 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1975 1976 1977config KCOV 1978 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1979 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1980 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1981 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1982 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1983 select DEBUG_FS 1984 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1985 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1986 help 1987 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1988 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1989 1990 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1991 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1992 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1993 1994 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1995 1996config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1997 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1998 depends on KCOV 1999 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2000 help 2001 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2002 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2003 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2004 of fuzzing coverage. 2005 2006config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2007 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2008 depends on KCOV 2009 default y 2010 help 2011 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2012 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2013 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2014 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2015 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2016 2017config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2018 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2019 depends on KCOV 2020 default 0x40000 2021 help 2022 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2023 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2024 number of unsigned long words. 2025 2026menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2027 bool "Runtime Testing" 2028 def_bool y 2029 2030if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2031 2032config LKDTM 2033 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2034 depends on DEBUG_FS 2035 help 2036 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2037 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2038 If you don't need it: say N 2039 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2040 called lkdtm. 2041 2042 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2043 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2044 2045config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2046 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2047 depends on KUNIT 2048 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2049 help 2050 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2051 2052 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2053 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2054 2055 If unsure, say N. 2056 2057config TEST_LIST_SORT 2058 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2059 depends on KUNIT 2060 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2061 help 2062 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2063 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2064 or at module load time. 2065 2066 If unsure, say N. 2067 2068config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2069 tristate "Min heap test" 2070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2071 help 2072 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2073 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2074 or at module load time. 2075 2076 If unsure, say N. 2077 2078config TEST_SORT 2079 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2080 depends on KUNIT 2081 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2082 help 2083 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2084 or at module load time. 2085 2086 If unsure, say N. 2087 2088config TEST_DIV64 2089 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2090 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2091 help 2092 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2093 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2094 or at module load time. 2095 2096 If unsure, say N. 2097 2098config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2099 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2100 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2101 depends on KPROBES 2102 depends on KUNIT 2103 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2104 help 2105 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2106 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2107 verified for functionality. 2108 2109 Say N if you are unsure. 2110 2111config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2112 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2113 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2114 depends on FPROBE 2115 depends on KUNIT=y 2116 help 2117 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2118 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2119 properly. 2120 2121 Say N if you are unsure. 2122 2123config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2124 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2126 help 2127 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2128 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2129 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2130 developers working on architecture code. 2131 2132 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2133 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2134 2135 Say N if you are unsure. 2136 2137config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2138 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2140 select REF_TRACKER 2141 help 2142 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2143 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2144 2145 Say N if you are unsure. 2146 2147config RBTREE_TEST 2148 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2149 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2150 help 2151 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2152 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2153 2154config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2155 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2156 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2157 select REED_SOLOMON 2158 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2159 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2160 help 2161 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2162 or at module load time. 2163 2164 If unsure, say N. 2165 2166config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2167 tristate "Interval tree test" 2168 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2169 select INTERVAL_TREE 2170 help 2171 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2172 2173config PERCPU_TEST 2174 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2175 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2176 help 2177 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2178 operations. 2179 2180 If unsure, say N. 2181 2182config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2183 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2184 help 2185 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2186 at module load time. 2187 2188 If unsure, say N. 2189 2190config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2191 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2192 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2193 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2194 help 2195 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2196 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2197 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2198 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2199 engine if one is available. 2200 2201 If unsure, say N. 2202 2203config TEST_HEXDUMP 2204 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2205 2206config STRING_SELFTEST 2207 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2208 2209config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2210 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2211 2212config TEST_STRSCPY 2213 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2214 2215config TEST_KSTRTOX 2216 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2217 2218config TEST_PRINTF 2219 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2220 2221config TEST_SCANF 2222 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2223 2224config TEST_BITMAP 2225 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2226 help 2227 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2228 2229 If unsure, say N. 2230 2231config TEST_UUID 2232 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2233 2234config TEST_XARRAY 2235 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2236 2237config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2238 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2239 help 2240 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2241 2242 If unsure, say N. 2243 2244config TEST_SIPHASH 2245 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2246 help 2247 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2248 functions on boot (or module load). 2249 2250 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2251 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2252 2253config TEST_IDA 2254 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2255 2256config TEST_PARMAN 2257 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2258 depends on PARMAN 2259 help 2260 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2261 (or module load). 2262 2263 If unsure, say N. 2264 2265config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2266 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2267 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2268 help 2269 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2270 2271 If unsure, say N. 2272 2273config TEST_LKM 2274 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2275 depends on m 2276 help 2277 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2278 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2279 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2280 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2281 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2282 requested by name. 2283 2284 If unsure, say N. 2285 2286config TEST_BITOPS 2287 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2288 depends on m 2289 help 2290 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2291 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2292 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2293 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2294 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2295 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2296 2297 If unsure, say N. 2298 2299config TEST_VMALLOC 2300 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2301 default n 2302 depends on MMU 2303 depends on m 2304 help 2305 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2306 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2307 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2308 of view. 2309 2310 If unsure, say N. 2311 2312config TEST_USER_COPY 2313 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2314 depends on m 2315 help 2316 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2317 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2318 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2319 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2320 protections. 2321 2322 If unsure, say N. 2323 2324config TEST_BPF 2325 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2326 depends on m && NET 2327 help 2328 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2329 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2330 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2331 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2332 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2333 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2334 2335 If unsure, say N. 2336 2337config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2338 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2339 depends on m && NET 2340 help 2341 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2342 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2343 2344 If unsure, say N. 2345 2346config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2347 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2348 help 2349 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2350 functions performance. 2351 2352 If unsure, say N. 2353 2354config TEST_FIRMWARE 2355 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2356 depends on FW_LOADER 2357 help 2358 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2359 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2360 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2361 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2362 userspace. 2363 2364 If unsure, say N. 2365 2366config TEST_SYSCTL 2367 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2368 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2369 help 2370 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2371 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2372 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2373 2374 If unsure, say N. 2375 2376config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2377 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2378 depends on KUNIT 2379 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2380 help 2381 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2382 2383 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2384 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2385 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2386 production build. 2387 2388 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2389 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2390 2391 If unsure, say N. 2392 2393config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2394 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2395 depends on KUNIT 2396 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2397 help 2398 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2399 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2400 2401 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2402 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2403 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2404 production build. 2405 2406 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2407 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2408 2409 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2410 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2411 2412config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2413 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2414 depends on KUNIT 2415 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2416 help 2417 This builds the resource API unit test. 2418 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2419 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2420 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2421 2422 If unsure, say N. 2423 2424config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2425 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2426 depends on KUNIT 2427 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2428 help 2429 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2430 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2431 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2432 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2433 2434 If unsure, say N. 2435 2436config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2437 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2438 depends on KUNIT 2439 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2440 help 2441 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2442 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2443 and associated macros. 2444 2445 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2446 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2447 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2448 production build. 2449 2450 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2451 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2452 2453 If unsure, say N. 2454 2455config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2456 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2457 depends on KUNIT 2458 select LINEAR_RANGES 2459 help 2460 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2461 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2462 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2463 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2464 2465 If unsure, say N. 2466 2467config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2468 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2469 depends on KUNIT 2470 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2471 help 2472 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2473 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2474 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2475 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2476 2477 If unsure, say N. 2478 2479config BITS_TEST 2480 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2481 depends on KUNIT 2482 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2483 help 2484 This builds the bits unit test. 2485 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2486 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2487 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2488 2489 If unsure, say N. 2490 2491config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2492 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2493 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2494 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2495 help 2496 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2497 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2498 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2499 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2500 2501 If unsure, say N. 2502 2503config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2504 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2505 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2506 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2507 help 2508 This builds the rational math unit test. 2509 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2510 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2511 2512 If unsure, say N. 2513 2514config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2515 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2516 depends on KUNIT 2517 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2518 help 2519 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2520 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2521 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2522 2523 If unsure, say N. 2524 2525config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2526 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2527 depends on KUNIT 2528 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2529 help 2530 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2531 2532 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2533 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2534 2535 If unsure, say N. 2536 2537config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2538 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2539 depends on KUNIT 2540 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2541 help 2542 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2543 related functions. 2544 2545 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2546 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2547 2548 If unsure, say N. 2549 2550config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2551 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2552 depends on KUNIT 2553 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2554 help 2555 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2556 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2557 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2558 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2559 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2560 2561config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2562 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2563 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2564 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2565 help 2566 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2567 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2568 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2569 2570config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2571 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2572 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2573 depends on KUNIT=y 2574 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2575 help 2576 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2577 2578 If unsure, say N. 2579 2580config TEST_UDELAY 2581 tristate "udelay test driver" 2582 help 2583 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2584 that udelay() is working properly. 2585 2586 If unsure, say N. 2587 2588config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2589 tristate "Test static keys" 2590 depends on m 2591 help 2592 Test the static key interfaces. 2593 2594 If unsure, say N. 2595 2596config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2597 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2598 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2599 help 2600 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2601 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2602 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2603 2604 If unsure, say N. 2605 2606config TEST_KMOD 2607 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2608 depends on m 2609 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2610 depends on BLOCK 2611 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2612 select TEST_LKM 2613 select XFS_FS 2614 select TUN 2615 select BTRFS_FS 2616 help 2617 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2618 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2619 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2620 2621 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2622 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2623 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2624 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2625 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2626 2627 To run tests run: 2628 2629 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2630 2631 If unsure, say N. 2632 2633config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2634 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2635 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2636 help 2637 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2638 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2639 kernel's virtual address map. 2640 2641 If unsure, say N. 2642 2643config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2644 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2645 help 2646 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2647 pointer arrays together. 2648 2649 If unsure, say N. 2650 2651config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2652 tristate "Test livepatching" 2653 default n 2654 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2655 depends on LIVEPATCH 2656 depends on m 2657 help 2658 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2659 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2660 2661 To run all the livepatching tests: 2662 2663 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2664 2665 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2666 2667 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2668 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2669 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2670 2671 If unsure, say N. 2672 2673config TEST_OBJAGG 2674 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2675 default n 2676 depends on OBJAGG 2677 help 2678 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2679 (or module load). 2680 2681config TEST_MEMINIT 2682 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2683 help 2684 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2685 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2686 2687 If unsure, say N. 2688 2689config TEST_HMM 2690 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2691 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2692 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2693 select HMM_MIRROR 2694 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2695 help 2696 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2697 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2698 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2699 2700 If unsure, say N. 2701 2702config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2703 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2704 help 2705 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2706 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2707 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2708 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2709 probably OOM your system. 2710 2711config TEST_FPU 2712 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2713 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2714 help 2715 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2716 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2717 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2718 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2719 2720 If unsure, say N. 2721 2722config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2723 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2724 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2725 help 2726 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2727 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2728 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2729 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2730 shortly after boot. 2731 2732 If unsure, say N. 2733 2734endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2735 2736config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2737 bool 2738 help 2739 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2740 during boot process. 2741 2742config MEMTEST 2743 bool "Memtest" 2744 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2745 help 2746 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2747 to be set and executed. 2748 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2749 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2750 ... 2751 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2752 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2753 2754 2755 2756config HYPERV_TESTING 2757 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2758 default n 2759 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2760 help 2761 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2762 2763endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2764 2765menu "Rust hacking" 2766 2767config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2768 bool "Debug assertions" 2769 depends on RUST 2770 help 2771 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2772 2773 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2774 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2775 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2776 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2777 2778 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2779 2780 If unsure, say N. 2781 2782config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2783 bool "Overflow checks" 2784 default y 2785 depends on RUST 2786 help 2787 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2788 2789 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2790 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2791 on overflow. 2792 2793 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2794 2795 If unsure, say Y. 2796 2797endmenu # "Rust" 2798 2799source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2800 2801endmenu # Kernel hacking 2802