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. 233 234# Clang is known to generate .{s,u}leb128 with symbol deltas with DWARF5, which 235# some targets may not support: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215 236config AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128 237 def_bool $(as-instr,.uleb128 .Lexpr_end4 - .Lexpr_start3\n.Lexpr_start3:\n.Lexpr_end4:) 238 239choice 240 prompt "Debug information" 241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 242 help 243 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 244 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 245 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 246 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 247 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 248 249 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 250 select "Toolchain default". 251 252config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 253 bool "Disable debug information" 254 help 255 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 256 result in a faster and smaller build. 257 258config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 259 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 260 select DEBUG_INFO 261 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || CLANG_VERSION < 140000 || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128) 262 help 263 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 264 toolchain changes over time. 265 266 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 267 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 268 those should be less common scenarios. 269 270config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 271 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 272 select DEBUG_INFO 273 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 274 help 275 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 276 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 277 278 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 279 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 280 config select this. 281 282config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 283 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 284 select DEBUG_INFO 285 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128) 286 help 287 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 288 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 289 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 290 291 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 292 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 293 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 294 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 295 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 296 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 297 support DWARF Version 5. 298 299endchoice # "Debug information" 300 301if DEBUG_INFO 302 303config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 304 bool "Reduce debugging information" 305 help 306 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 307 information for structure types. This means that tools that 308 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 309 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 310 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 311 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 312 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 313 Only works with newer gcc versions. 314 315choice 316 prompt "Compressed Debug information" 317 help 318 Compress the resulting debug info. Results in smaller debug info sections, 319 but requires that consumers are able to decompress the results. 320 321 If unsure, choose DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE. 322 323config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE 324 bool "Don't compress debug information" 325 help 326 Don't compress debug info sections. 327 328config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB 329 bool "Compress debugging information with zlib" 330 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 331 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 332 help 333 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 334 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 335 336 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 337 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 338 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 339 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 340 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 341 larger. 342 343config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD 344 bool "Compress debugging information with zstd" 345 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zstd) 346 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zstd) 347 help 348 Compress the debug information using zstd. This may provide better 349 compression than zlib, for about the same time costs, but requires newer 350 toolchain support. Requires GCC 13.0+ or Clang 16.0+, binutils 2.40+, and 351 zstd. 352 353endchoice # "Compressed Debug information" 354 355config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 356 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 357 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 358 help 359 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 360 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 361 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 362 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 363 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 364 365 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 366 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 367 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 368 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 369 370config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 371 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 372 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 373 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 374 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 375 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 376 help 377 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 378 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 379 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 380 381config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 382 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 383 384config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 385 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 386 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 387 help 388 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 389 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 390 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 391 392config PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE 393 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 124 394 help 395 Support for the --lang_exclude flag which makes pahole exclude 396 compilation units from the supplied language. Used in Kbuild to 397 omit Rust CUs which are not supported in version 1.24 of pahole, 398 otherwise it would emit malformed kernel and module binaries when 399 using DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES. 400 401config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 402 def_bool y 403 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 404 help 405 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 406 407config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 408 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 409 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 410 help 411 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 412 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 413 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 414 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 415 it when a mismatch is found. 416 417config GDB_SCRIPTS 418 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 419 help 420 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 421 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 422 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 423 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 424 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 425 for further details. 426 427endif # DEBUG_INFO 428 429config FRAME_WARN 430 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 431 range 0 8192 432 default 0 if KMSAN 433 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 434 default 2048 if PARISC 435 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 436 default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT 437 default 1024 if !64BIT 438 default 2048 if 64BIT 439 help 440 Tell the compiler to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 441 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 442 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 443 444config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 445 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 446 default n 447 help 448 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 449 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 450 get_wchan() and suchlike. 451 452config READABLE_ASM 453 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 455 depends on CC_IS_GCC 456 help 457 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 458 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 459 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 460 sane. 461 462config HEADERS_INSTALL 463 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 464 depends on !UML 465 help 466 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 467 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 468 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 469 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 470 as uapi header sanity checks. 471 472config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 473 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 474 depends on CC_IS_GCC 475 help 476 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 477 references from one section to another section. 478 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 479 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 480 most likely result in an oops. 481 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 482 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 483 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 484 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 485 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 486 additional step to occur: 487 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 488 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 489 function, we would lose the section information and thus 490 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 491 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 492 a larger kernel). 493 494config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 495 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 496 default y 497 help 498 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 499 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 500 501 If unsure, say Y. 502 503config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 504 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 505 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 506 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 507 help 508 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 509 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 510 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 511 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 512 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 513 514 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 515 516# 517# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 518# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 519# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 520# 521config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 522 bool 523 524config FRAME_POINTER 525 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 526 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 527 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 528 help 529 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 530 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 531 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 532 533config OBJTOOL 534 bool 535 536config STACK_VALIDATION 537 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 538 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 539 select OBJTOOL 540 default n 541 help 542 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 543 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 544 545 For more information, see 546 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 547 548config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 549 bool 550 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 551 select OBJTOOL 552 default y 553 554config VMLINUX_MAP 555 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 556 depends on EXPERT 557 help 558 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 559 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 560 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 561 pieces of code get eliminated with 562 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 563 564config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 565 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 567 help 568 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 569 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 570 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 571 definitions. 572 573 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 574 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 575 576 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 577 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 578 579endmenu # "Compiler options" 580 581menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 582 583config MAGIC_SYSRQ 584 bool "Magic SysRq key" 585 depends on !UML 586 help 587 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 588 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 589 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 590 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 591 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 592 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 593 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 594 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 595 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 596 597config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 598 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 599 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 600 default 0x1 601 help 602 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 603 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 604 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 605 606config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 607 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 608 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 609 default y 610 help 611 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 612 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 613 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 614 magic SysRq key. 615 616config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 617 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 618 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 619 default "" 620 help 621 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 622 SysRq on a serial console. 623 624 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 625 626config DEBUG_FS 627 bool "Debug Filesystem" 628 help 629 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 630 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 631 write to these files. 632 633 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 634 Documentation/filesystems/. 635 636 If unsure, say N. 637 638choice 639 prompt "Debugfs default access" 640 depends on DEBUG_FS 641 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 642 help 643 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 644 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 645 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 646 and filesystem registration. 647 648config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 649 bool "Access normal" 650 help 651 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 652 is on. This is the normal default operation. 653 654config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 655 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 656 help 657 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 658 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 659 debugfs filesystem. 660 661config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 662 bool "No access" 663 help 664 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 665 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 666 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 667 668endchoice 669 670source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 671source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 672source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 673 674endmenu 675 676menu "Networking Debugging" 677 678source "net/Kconfig.debug" 679 680endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 681 682menu "Memory Debugging" 683 684source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 685 686config DEBUG_OBJECTS 687 bool "Debug object operations" 688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 689 help 690 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 691 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 692 the operations on those objects. 693 694config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 695 bool "Debug objects selftest" 696 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 697 help 698 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 699 700config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 701 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 702 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 703 help 704 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 705 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 706 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 707 much slower. 708 709config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 710 bool "Debug timer objects" 711 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 712 help 713 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 714 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 715 validate the timer operations. 716 717config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 718 bool "Debug work objects" 719 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 720 help 721 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 722 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 723 validate the work operations. 724 725config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 726 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 727 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 728 help 729 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 730 731config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 732 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 733 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 734 help 735 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 736 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 737 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 738 739config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 740 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 741 range 0 1 742 default "1" 743 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 744 help 745 Debug objects boot parameter default value 746 747config SHRINKER_DEBUG 748 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 749 depends on DEBUG_FS 750 help 751 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 752 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 753 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 754 755config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 756 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 757 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 758 help 759 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 760 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 761 762 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 763 764config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 765 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 766 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 767 default n 768 help 769 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 770 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 771 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 772 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 773 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 774 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 775 776config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 777 bool 778 help 779 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 780 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 781 782config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 783 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 784 785config DEBUG_VM 786 bool "Debug VM" 787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 788 help 789 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 790 that may impact performance. 791 792 If unsure, say N. 793 794config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 795 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 796 depends on DEBUG_VM 797 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 798 help 799 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 800 801 If unsure, say N. 802 803config DEBUG_VM_RB 804 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 805 depends on DEBUG_VM 806 help 807 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 808 809 If unsure, say N. 810 811config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 812 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 813 depends on DEBUG_VM 814 help 815 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 816 817 If unsure, say N. 818 819config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 820 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 821 depends on MMU 822 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 823 default y if DEBUG_VM 824 help 825 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 826 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 827 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 828 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 829 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 830 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 831 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 832 833 If unsure, say N. 834 835config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 836 bool 837 838config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 839 bool "Debug VM translations" 840 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 841 help 842 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 843 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 844 845 If unsure, say N. 846 847config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 848 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 849 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 850 help 851 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 852 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 853 854config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 855 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 856 default !EXPERT 857 help 858 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 859 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 860 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 861 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 862 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 863 864 If unsure, say Y 865 866config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 867 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 868 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 869 help 870 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 871 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 872 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 873 874 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 875 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 876 877 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 878 879 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 880 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 881 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 882 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 883 884 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 885 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 886 887 If unsure, say N. 888 889config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 890 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 891 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 892 depends on SMP 893 help 894 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 895 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 896 and decreases performance. 897 898 Say N if unsure. 899 900config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 901 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 902 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 903 help 904 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 905 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 906 907config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 908 bool 909 910config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 911 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 912 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 913 select KMAP_LOCAL 914 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 915 help 916 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 917 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 918 Disable this for production systems! 919 920config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 921 bool "Highmem debugging" 922 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 923 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 924 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 925 help 926 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 927 systems. Disable for production systems. 928 929config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 930 bool 931 932config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 933 bool "Check for stack overflows" 934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 935 help 936 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 937 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 938 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 939 below a certain limit. 940 941 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 942 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 943 involved. 944 945 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 946 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 947 948 If in doubt, say "N". 949 950source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 951source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 952source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 953 954endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 955 956config DEBUG_SHIRQ 957 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 958 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 959 help 960 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 961 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 962 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 963 don't and need to be caught. 964 965menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 966 967config PANIC_ON_OOPS 968 bool "Panic on Oops" 969 help 970 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 971 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 972 line. 973 974 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 975 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 976 corruption or other issues. 977 978 Say N if unsure. 979 980config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 981 int 982 range 0 1 983 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 984 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 985 986config PANIC_TIMEOUT 987 int "panic timeout" 988 default 0 989 help 990 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 991 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 992 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 993 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 994 995config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 996 bool 997 998config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 999 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1000 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1001 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1002 help 1003 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1004 soft lockups. 1005 1006 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1007 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1008 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1009 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1010 1011config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1012 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1013 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1014 help 1015 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1016 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1017 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1018 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1019 1020 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1021 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1022 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1023 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1024 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1025 1026 Say N if unsure. 1027 1028config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1029 bool 1030 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1031 1032# 1033# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1034# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1035# 1036config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1037 bool 1038 1039# 1040# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1041# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1042# 1043config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1044 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1045 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1046 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1047 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1048 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1049 help 1050 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1051 hard lockups. 1052 1053 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1054 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1055 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1056 and the system will stay locked up. 1057 1058config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1059 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1060 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1061 help 1062 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1063 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1064 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1065 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1066 1067 Say N if unsure. 1068 1069config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1070 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1071 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1072 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1073 help 1074 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1075 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1076 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1077 1078 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1079 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1080 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1081 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1082 feature has negligible overhead. 1083 1084config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1085 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1086 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1087 default 120 1088 help 1089 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1090 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1091 be considered hung. 1092 1093 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1094 sysctl or by writing a value to 1095 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1096 1097 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1098 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1099 1100config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1101 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1102 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1103 help 1104 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1105 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1106 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1107 1108 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1109 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1110 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1111 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1112 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1113 1114 Say N if unsure. 1115 1116config WQ_WATCHDOG 1117 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1119 help 1120 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1121 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1122 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1123 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1124 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1125 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1126 1127config TEST_LOCKUP 1128 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1129 depends on m 1130 help 1131 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1132 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1133 1134 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1135 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1136 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1137 1138 If unsure, say N. 1139 1140endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1141 1142menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1143 1144config SCHED_DEBUG 1145 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1147 default y 1148 help 1149 If you say Y here, the /sys/kernel/debug/sched file will be provided 1150 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1151 option is minimal. 1152 1153config SCHED_INFO 1154 bool 1155 default n 1156 1157config SCHEDSTATS 1158 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1159 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1160 select SCHED_INFO 1161 help 1162 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1163 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1164 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1165 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1166 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1167 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1168 this adds. 1169 1170endmenu 1171 1172config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1173 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1174 help 1175 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1176 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1177 problems are suspected. 1178 1179 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1180 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1181 workloads. 1182 1183 If unsure, say N. 1184 1185config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1186 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1187 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1188 default y 1189 help 1190 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1191 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1192 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1193 will detect preemption count underflows. 1194 1195menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1196 1197config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1198 bool 1199 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1200 default y 1201 1202config PROVE_LOCKING 1203 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1205 select LOCKDEP 1206 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1207 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1208 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1209 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1210 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1211 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1212 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1213 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1214 default n 1215 help 1216 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1217 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1218 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1219 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1220 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1221 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1222 deadlock. 1223 1224 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1225 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1226 1227 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1228 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1229 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1230 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1231 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1232 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1233 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1234 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1235 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1236 1237 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1238 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1239 kernel reports nothing. 1240 1241 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1242 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1243 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1244 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1245 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1246 1247 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1248 1249config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1250 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1251 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1252 default n 1253 help 1254 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1255 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1256 not violated. 1257 1258 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1259 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1260 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1261 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1262 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1263 1264 If unsure, select N. 1265 1266config LOCK_STAT 1267 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1269 select LOCKDEP 1270 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1271 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1272 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1273 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1274 default n 1275 help 1276 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1277 1278 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1279 1280 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1281 subcommand of perf. 1282 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1283 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1284 1285 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1286 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1287 1288config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1289 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1290 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1291 help 1292 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1293 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1294 1295config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1296 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1298 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1299 help 1300 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1301 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1302 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1303 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1304 1305config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1306 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1307 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1308 help 1309 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1310 reported. 1311 1312config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1313 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1315 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1316 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1317 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1318 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1319 help 1320 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1321 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1322 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1323 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1324 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1325 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1326 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1327 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1328 you are a distro, do not. 1329 1330config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1331 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1333 help 1334 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1335 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1336 1337config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1338 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1340 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1341 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1342 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1343 select LOCKDEP 1344 help 1345 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1346 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1347 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1348 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1349 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1350 held during task exit. 1351 1352config LOCKDEP 1353 bool 1354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1355 select STACKTRACE 1356 select KALLSYMS 1357 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1358 1359config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1360 bool 1361 1362config LOCKDEP_BITS 1363 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1364 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1365 range 10 30 1366 default 15 1367 help 1368 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1369 1370config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1371 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1372 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1373 range 10 30 1374 default 16 1375 help 1376 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1377 1378config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1379 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1380 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1381 range 10 30 1382 default 19 1383 help 1384 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1385 1386config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1387 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1388 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1389 range 10 30 1390 default 14 1391 help 1392 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1393 1394config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1395 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1396 depends on LOCKDEP 1397 range 10 30 1398 default 12 1399 help 1400 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1401 1402config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1403 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1404 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1405 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1406 help 1407 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1408 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1409 of more runtime overhead. 1410 1411config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1412 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1413 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1414 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1415 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1416 help 1417 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1418 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1419 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1420 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1421 1422config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1423 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1424 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1425 help 1426 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1427 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1428 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1429 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1430 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1431 mutexes and rwsems. 1432 1433config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1434 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1435 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1436 select TORTURE_TEST 1437 help 1438 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1439 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1440 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1441 1442 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1443 to be built into the kernel. 1444 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1445 Say N if you are unsure. 1446 1447config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1448 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1449 help 1450 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1451 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1452 1453 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1454 with this test harness. 1455 1456 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1457 Say N if you are unsure. 1458 1459config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1460 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1462 select TORTURE_TEST 1463 help 1464 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1465 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1466 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1467 be tested, if desired. 1468 1469config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1470 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1472 depends on 64BIT 1473 default n 1474 help 1475 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1476 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1477 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1478 and relevant stack traces. 1479 1480endmenu # lock debugging 1481 1482config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1483 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1484 bool 1485 help 1486 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1487 either tracing or lock debugging. 1488 1489config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1490 def_bool y 1491 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1492 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1493 1494config NMI_CHECK_CPU 1495 bool "Debugging for CPUs failing to respond to backtrace requests" 1496 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1497 depends on X86 1498 default n 1499 help 1500 Enables debug prints when a CPU fails to respond to a given 1501 backtrace NMI. These prints provide some reasons why a CPU 1502 might legitimately be failing to respond, for example, if it 1503 is offline of if ignore_nmis is set. 1504 1505config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1506 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1507 help 1508 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1509 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1510 are enabled. 1511 1512config STACKTRACE 1513 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1514 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1515 help 1516 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1517 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1518 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1519 stack trace generation. 1520 1521config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1522 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1523 default n 1524 help 1525 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1526 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1527 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1528 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1529 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1530 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1531 it. 1532 1533 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1534 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1535 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1536 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1537 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1538 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1539 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1540 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1541 1542 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1543 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1544 those developers interested in improving the security of 1545 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1546 subarchitecture). 1547 1548config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1549 bool "kobject debugging" 1550 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1551 help 1552 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1553 to the syslog. 1554 1555config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1556 bool "kobject release debugging" 1557 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1558 help 1559 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1560 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1561 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1562 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1563 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1564 unregistered. 1565 1566 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1567 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1568 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1569 1570 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1571 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1572 kind of kobject release bug. 1573 1574config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1575 bool 1576 1577menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1578 1579config DEBUG_LIST 1580 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1581 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1582 help 1583 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1584 walking routines. 1585 1586 If unsure, say N. 1587 1588config DEBUG_PLIST 1589 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1590 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1591 help 1592 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1593 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1594 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1595 1596 If unsure, say N. 1597 1598config DEBUG_SG 1599 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1601 help 1602 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1603 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1604 their sg tables. 1605 1606 If unsure, say N. 1607 1608config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1609 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1610 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1611 help 1612 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1613 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1614 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1615 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1616 performance, say N. 1617 1618config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1619 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1620 select DEBUG_LIST 1621 help 1622 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1623 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1624 for validity. 1625 1626 If unsure, say N. 1627 1628config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1629 bool "Debug maple trees" 1630 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1631 help 1632 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1633 1634 If unsure, say N. 1635 1636endmenu 1637 1638config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1639 bool "Debug credential management" 1640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1641 help 1642 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1643 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1644 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1645 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1646 struct. 1647 1648 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1649 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1650 1651 If unsure, say N. 1652 1653source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1654 1655config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1656 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1657 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1658 default n 1659 help 1660 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1661 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1662 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1663 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1664 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1665 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1666 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1667 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1668 be impacted. 1669 1670config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1671 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1672 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1673 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1674 default n 1675 help 1676 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1677 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1678 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1679 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1680 1681 Say N if your are unsure. 1682 1683config LATENCYTOP 1684 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1686 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1687 depends on PROC_FS 1688 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1689 select KALLSYMS 1690 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1691 select STACKTRACE 1692 select SCHEDSTATS 1693 help 1694 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1695 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1696 1697config DEBUG_CGROUP_REF 1698 bool "Disable inlining of cgroup css reference count functions" 1699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1700 depends on CGROUPS 1701 depends on KPROBES 1702 default n 1703 help 1704 Force cgroup css reference count functions to not be inlined so 1705 that they can be kprobed for debugging. 1706 1707source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1708 1709config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1710 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1711 depends on PCI && X86 1712 help 1713 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1714 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1715 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1716 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1717 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1718 1719 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1720 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1721 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1722 1723 Usage: 1724 1725 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1726 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1727 1728 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1729 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1730 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1731 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1732 1733 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1734 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1735 1736 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1737 1738source "samples/Kconfig" 1739 1740config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1741 bool 1742 1743config STRICT_DEVMEM 1744 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1745 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1746 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1747 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1748 help 1749 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1750 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1751 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1752 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1753 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1754 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1755 1756 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1757 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1758 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1759 users of /dev/mem. 1760 1761 If in doubt, say Y. 1762 1763config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1764 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1765 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1766 help 1767 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1768 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1769 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1770 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1771 1772 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1773 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1774 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1775 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1776 1777 If in doubt, say Y. 1778 1779menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1780 1781source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1782 1783endmenu 1784 1785menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1786 1787source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1788 1789config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1790 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1791 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1792 select DEBUG_FS 1793 help 1794 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1795 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1796 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1797 1798 Say N if unsure. 1799 1800config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1801 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1802 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1803 default m if PM_DEBUG 1804 help 1805 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1806 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1807 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1808 1809 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1810 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1811 1812 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1813 1814 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1815 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1816 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1817 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1818 1819 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1820 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1821 1822 If unsure, say N. 1823 1824config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1825 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1826 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1827 help 1828 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1829 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1830 through debugfs interface under 1831 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1832 1833 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1834 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1835 1836 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1837 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1838 1839 If unsure, say N. 1840 1841config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1842 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1843 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1844 help 1845 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1846 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1847 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1848 1849 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1850 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1851 1852 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1853 1854 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1855 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1856 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1857 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1858 1859 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1860 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1861 1862 If unsure, say N. 1863 1864config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1865 bool "Fault-injections of functions" 1866 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1867 help 1868 Add fault injections into various functions that are annotated with 1869 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() in the kernel. BPF may also modify the return 1870 value of these functions. This is useful to test error paths of code. 1871 1872 If unsure, say N 1873 1874config FAULT_INJECTION 1875 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1876 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1877 help 1878 Provide fault-injection framework. 1879 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1880 1881config FAILSLAB 1882 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1883 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1884 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1885 help 1886 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1887 1888config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1889 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1890 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1891 help 1892 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1893 1894config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1895 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1896 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1897 help 1898 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1899 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1900 1901config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1902 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1903 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1904 help 1905 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1906 1907config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1908 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1909 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1910 help 1911 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1912 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1913 thus exercising the error handling. 1914 1915 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1916 for others it won't do anything. 1917 1918config FAIL_FUTEX 1919 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1920 select DEBUG_FS 1921 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1922 help 1923 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1924 1925config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1926 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1927 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1928 help 1929 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1930 1931config FAIL_FUNCTION 1932 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1933 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1934 help 1935 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1936 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1937 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1938 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1939 error handling in various subsystems. 1940 1941config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1942 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1943 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1944 help 1945 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1946 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1947 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1948 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1949 the block device. 1950 1951config FAIL_SUNRPC 1952 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1953 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1954 help 1955 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1956 its consumers. 1957 1958config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1959 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1960 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 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 select STACKTRACE if ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2104 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2105 help 2106 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2107 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2108 verified for functionality. 2109 2110 Say N if you are unsure. 2111 2112config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2113 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2115 depends on FPROBE 2116 depends on KUNIT=y 2117 help 2118 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2119 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2120 properly. 2121 2122 Say N if you are unsure. 2123 2124config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2125 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2126 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2127 help 2128 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2129 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2130 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2131 developers working on architecture code. 2132 2133 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2134 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2135 2136 Say N if you are unsure. 2137 2138config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2139 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2141 select REF_TRACKER 2142 help 2143 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2144 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2145 2146 Say N if you are unsure. 2147 2148config RBTREE_TEST 2149 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2151 help 2152 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2153 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2154 2155config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2156 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2158 select REED_SOLOMON 2159 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2160 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2161 help 2162 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2163 or at module load time. 2164 2165 If unsure, say N. 2166 2167config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2168 tristate "Interval tree test" 2169 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2170 select INTERVAL_TREE 2171 help 2172 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2173 2174config PERCPU_TEST 2175 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2176 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2177 help 2178 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2179 operations. 2180 2181 If unsure, say N. 2182 2183config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2184 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2185 help 2186 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2187 at module load time. 2188 2189 If unsure, say N. 2190 2191config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2192 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2193 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2194 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2195 help 2196 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2197 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2198 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2199 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2200 engine if one is available. 2201 2202 If unsure, say N. 2203 2204config TEST_HEXDUMP 2205 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2206 2207config STRING_SELFTEST 2208 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2209 2210config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2211 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2212 2213config TEST_KSTRTOX 2214 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2215 2216config TEST_PRINTF 2217 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2218 2219config TEST_SCANF 2220 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2221 2222config TEST_BITMAP 2223 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2224 help 2225 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2226 2227 If unsure, say N. 2228 2229config TEST_UUID 2230 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2231 2232config TEST_XARRAY 2233 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2234 2235config TEST_MAPLE_TREE 2236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2237 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 2238 tristate "Test the Maple Tree code at runtime" 2239 2240config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2241 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2242 help 2243 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2244 2245 If unsure, say N. 2246 2247config TEST_IDA 2248 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2249 2250config TEST_PARMAN 2251 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2252 depends on PARMAN 2253 help 2254 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2255 (or module load). 2256 2257 If unsure, say N. 2258 2259config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2260 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2261 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2262 help 2263 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2264 2265 If unsure, say N. 2266 2267config TEST_LKM 2268 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2269 depends on m 2270 help 2271 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2272 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2273 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2274 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2275 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2276 requested by name. 2277 2278 If unsure, say N. 2279 2280config TEST_BITOPS 2281 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2282 depends on m 2283 help 2284 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2285 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2286 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2287 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2288 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2289 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2290 2291 If unsure, say N. 2292 2293config TEST_VMALLOC 2294 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2295 default n 2296 depends on MMU 2297 depends on m 2298 help 2299 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2300 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2301 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2302 of view. 2303 2304 If unsure, say N. 2305 2306config TEST_USER_COPY 2307 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2308 depends on m 2309 help 2310 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2311 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2312 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2313 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2314 protections. 2315 2316 If unsure, say N. 2317 2318config TEST_BPF 2319 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2320 depends on m && NET 2321 help 2322 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2323 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2324 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2325 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2326 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2327 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2328 2329 If unsure, say N. 2330 2331config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2332 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2333 depends on m && NET 2334 help 2335 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2336 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2337 2338 If unsure, say N. 2339 2340config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2341 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2342 help 2343 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2344 functions performance. 2345 2346 If unsure, say N. 2347 2348config TEST_FIRMWARE 2349 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2350 depends on FW_LOADER 2351 help 2352 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2353 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2354 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2355 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2356 userspace. 2357 2358 If unsure, say N. 2359 2360config TEST_SYSCTL 2361 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2362 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2363 help 2364 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2365 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2366 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2367 2368 If unsure, say N. 2369 2370config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2371 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2372 depends on KUNIT 2373 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2374 help 2375 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2376 2377 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2378 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2379 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2380 production build. 2381 2382 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2383 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2384 2385 If unsure, say N. 2386 2387config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2388 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2389 depends on KUNIT 2390 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2391 help 2392 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2393 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2394 2395 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2396 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2397 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2398 production build. 2399 2400 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2401 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2402 2403 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2404 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2405 2406config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2407 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2408 depends on KUNIT 2409 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2410 help 2411 This builds the resource API unit test. 2412 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2413 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2414 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2415 2416 If unsure, say N. 2417 2418config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2419 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2420 depends on KUNIT 2421 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2422 help 2423 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2424 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2425 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2426 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2427 2428 If unsure, say N. 2429 2430config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2431 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2432 depends on KUNIT 2433 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2434 help 2435 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2436 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2437 and associated macros. 2438 2439 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2440 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2441 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2442 production build. 2443 2444 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2445 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2446 2447 If unsure, say N. 2448 2449config HASHTABLE_KUNIT_TEST 2450 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Hashtable structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2451 depends on KUNIT 2452 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2453 help 2454 This builds the hashtable KUnit test suite. 2455 It tests the basic functionality of the API defined in 2456 include/linux/hashtable.h. For more information on KUnit and 2457 unit tests in general please refer to the KUnit documentation 2458 in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2459 2460 If unsure, say N. 2461 2462config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2463 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2464 depends on KUNIT 2465 select LINEAR_RANGES 2466 help 2467 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2468 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2469 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2470 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2471 2472 If unsure, say N. 2473 2474config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2475 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2476 depends on KUNIT 2477 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2478 help 2479 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2480 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2481 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2482 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2483 2484 If unsure, say N. 2485 2486config BITS_TEST 2487 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2488 depends on KUNIT 2489 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2490 help 2491 This builds the bits unit test. 2492 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2493 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2494 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2495 2496 If unsure, say N. 2497 2498config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2499 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2500 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2501 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2502 help 2503 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2504 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2505 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2506 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2507 2508 If unsure, say N. 2509 2510config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2511 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2512 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2513 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2514 help 2515 This builds the rational math unit test. 2516 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2517 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2518 2519 If unsure, say N. 2520 2521config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2522 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2523 depends on KUNIT 2524 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2525 help 2526 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2527 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2528 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2529 2530 If unsure, say N. 2531 2532config MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2533 bool "Include exhaustive memcpy tests" 2534 depends on MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2535 default y 2536 help 2537 Some memcpy tests are quite exhaustive in checking for overlaps 2538 and bit ranges. These can be very slow, so they are split out 2539 as a separate config, in case they need to be disabled. 2540 2541config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2542 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2543 depends on KUNIT 2544 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2545 help 2546 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2547 2548 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2549 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2550 2551 If unsure, say N. 2552 2553config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2554 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2555 depends on KUNIT 2556 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2557 help 2558 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2559 related functions. 2560 2561 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2562 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2563 2564 If unsure, say N. 2565 2566config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2567 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2568 depends on KUNIT 2569 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2570 help 2571 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2572 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2573 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2574 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2575 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2576 2577config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2578 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2579 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2580 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2581 help 2582 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2583 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2584 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2585 2586config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2587 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2588 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2589 depends on KUNIT=y 2590 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2591 help 2592 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2593 2594 If unsure, say N. 2595 2596config STRSCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2597 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2598 depends on KUNIT 2599 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2600 2601config SIPHASH_KUNIT_TEST 2602 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2603 depends on KUNIT 2604 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2605 help 2606 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2607 functions on boot (or module load). 2608 2609 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2610 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2611 2612config TEST_UDELAY 2613 tristate "udelay test driver" 2614 help 2615 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2616 that udelay() is working properly. 2617 2618 If unsure, say N. 2619 2620config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2621 tristate "Test static keys" 2622 depends on m 2623 help 2624 Test the static key interfaces. 2625 2626 If unsure, say N. 2627 2628config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2629 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2630 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2631 help 2632 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2633 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2634 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2635 2636 If unsure, say N. 2637 2638config TEST_KMOD 2639 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2640 depends on m 2641 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2642 depends on BLOCK 2643 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2644 select TEST_LKM 2645 select XFS_FS 2646 select TUN 2647 select BTRFS_FS 2648 help 2649 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2650 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2651 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2652 2653 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2654 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2655 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2656 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2657 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2658 2659 To run tests run: 2660 2661 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2662 2663 If unsure, say N. 2664 2665config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2666 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2667 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2668 help 2669 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2670 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2671 kernel's virtual address map. 2672 2673 If unsure, say N. 2674 2675config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2676 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2677 help 2678 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2679 pointer arrays together. 2680 2681 If unsure, say N. 2682 2683config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2684 tristate "Test livepatching" 2685 default n 2686 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2687 depends on LIVEPATCH 2688 depends on m 2689 help 2690 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2691 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2692 2693 To run all the livepatching tests: 2694 2695 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2696 2697 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2698 2699 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2700 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2701 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2702 2703 If unsure, say N. 2704 2705config TEST_OBJAGG 2706 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2707 default n 2708 depends on OBJAGG 2709 help 2710 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2711 (or module load). 2712 2713config TEST_MEMINIT 2714 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2715 help 2716 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2717 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2718 2719 If unsure, say N. 2720 2721config TEST_HMM 2722 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2723 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2724 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2725 select HMM_MIRROR 2726 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2727 help 2728 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2729 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2730 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2731 2732 If unsure, say N. 2733 2734config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2735 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2736 help 2737 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2738 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2739 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2740 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2741 probably OOM your system. 2742 2743config TEST_FPU 2744 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2745 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2746 help 2747 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2748 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2749 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2750 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2751 2752 If unsure, say N. 2753 2754config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2755 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2756 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2757 help 2758 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2759 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2760 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2761 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2762 shortly after boot. 2763 2764 If unsure, say N. 2765 2766endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2767 2768config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2769 bool 2770 help 2771 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2772 during boot process. 2773 2774config MEMTEST 2775 bool "Memtest" 2776 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2777 help 2778 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2779 to be set and executed. 2780 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2781 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2782 ... 2783 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2784 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2785 2786 2787 2788config HYPERV_TESTING 2789 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2790 default n 2791 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2792 help 2793 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2794 2795endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2796 2797menu "Rust hacking" 2798 2799config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2800 bool "Debug assertions" 2801 depends on RUST 2802 help 2803 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2804 2805 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2806 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2807 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2808 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2809 2810 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2811 2812 If unsure, say N. 2813 2814config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2815 bool "Overflow checks" 2816 default y 2817 depends on RUST 2818 help 2819 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2820 2821 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2822 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2823 on overflow. 2824 2825 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2826 2827 If unsure, say Y. 2828 2829config RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW 2830 bool "Allow unoptimized build-time assertions" 2831 depends on RUST 2832 help 2833 Controls how are `build_error!` and `build_assert!` handled during build. 2834 2835 If calls to them exist in the binary, it may indicate a violated invariant 2836 or that the optimizer failed to verify the invariant during compilation. 2837 2838 This should not happen, thus by default the build is aborted. However, 2839 as an escape hatch, you can choose Y here to ignore them during build 2840 and let the check be carried at runtime (with `panic!` being called if 2841 the check fails). 2842 2843 If unsure, say N. 2844 2845endmenu # "Rust" 2846 2847endmenu # Kernel hacking 2848