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1menu "printk and dmesg options"
2
3config PRINTK_TIME
4	bool "Show timing information on printks"
5	depends on PRINTK
6	help
7	  Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8	  messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9	  call and at the console.
10
11	  The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12	  to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13	  be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
14
15	  The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16	  parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
17
18config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19	int "Default message log level (1-7)"
20	range 1 7
21	default "4"
22	help
23	  Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
24
25	  This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
26	  that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
27	  priority.
28
29config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
30	bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
31	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
32	help
33	  This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
34	  by inserting a short delay after each one.  The delay is
35	  specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
36	  using "boot_delay=N".
37
38	  It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
39	  the "loops per jiffie" value.
40	  See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
41	  system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
42	  NOTE:  Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
43	  I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
44	  BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
45	  what it believes to be lockup conditions.
46
47config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
48	bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
49	default n
50	depends on PRINTK
51	depends on DEBUG_FS
52	help
53
54	  Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
55	  otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
56	  enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
57	  function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
58	  implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
59	  enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
60
61	  If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
62	  pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
63	  disabled at runtime as below.  Note that DEBUG flag is
64	  turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
65
66	  Usage:
67
68	  Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
69	  which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
70	  filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
71	  We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
72	  file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
73	  format for each line of the file is:
74
75		filename:lineno [module]function flags format
76
77	  filename : source file of the debug statement
78	  lineno : line number of the debug statement
79	  module : module that contains the debug statement
80	  function : function that contains the debug statement
81          flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
82          format : the format used for the debug statement
83
84	  From a live system:
85
86		nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
87		# filename:lineno [module]function flags format
88		fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
89		fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
90		fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
91
92	  Example usage:
93
94		// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
95		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
96						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
97
98		// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
99		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
100						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
101
102		// enable all the messages in the NFS server module
103		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
104						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
105
106		// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
107		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
108						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
109
110		// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
111		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
112						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
113
114	  See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
115
116endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
117
118menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
119
120config DEBUG_INFO
121	bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
122	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
123	help
124          If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
125	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
126	  This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
127	  is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
128	  tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
129	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
130
131	  If unsure, say N.
132
133config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
134	bool "Reduce debugging information"
135	depends on DEBUG_INFO
136	help
137	  If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
138	  information for structure types. This means that tools that
139	  need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
140	  be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
141	  resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
142	  build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
143	  DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
144	  Only works with newer gcc versions.
145
146config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
147	bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
148	depends on DEBUG_INFO
149	help
150	  Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
151	  reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
152	  because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
153	  files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
154	  In addition the debug information is also compressed.
155
156	  Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
157	  Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
158	  to know about the .dwo files and include them.
159	  Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
160
161config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
162	bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
163	depends on DEBUG_INFO
164	help
165	  Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
166	  of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
167	  But it significantly improves the success of resolving
168	  variables in gdb on optimized code.
169
170config GDB_SCRIPTS
171	bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
172	depends on DEBUG_INFO
173	help
174	  This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
175	  build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
176	  scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
177	  additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
178	  instance. See Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further
179	  details.
180
181config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
182	bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
183	default y
184	help
185	  Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
186	  Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
187	  (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
188
189config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
190	bool "Enable __must_check logic"
191	default y
192	help
193	  Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build.  Disable this to
194	  suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
195	  attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
196
197config FRAME_WARN
198	int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
199	range 0 8192
200	default 0 if KASAN
201	default 1024 if !64BIT
202	default 2048 if 64BIT
203	help
204	  Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
205	  Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
206	  Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
207	  Requires gcc 4.4
208
209config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
210	bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
211	default n
212	help
213	  Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
214	  that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
215	  get_wchan() and suchlike.
216
217config READABLE_ASM
218        bool "Generate readable assembler code"
219        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
220        help
221          Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
222          assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
223          to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
224          sane.
225
226config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
227	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
228	default y if X86
229	help
230	  Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger.  For
231	  that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed.  This
232	  option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
233	  some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
234	  encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
235	  using the right API.  (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
236	  this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
237	  wrong interface to use).  If you really need the symbol, please send a
238	  mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
239	  you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
240	  your module is.
241
242config PAGE_OWNER
243	bool "Track page owner"
244	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
245	select DEBUG_FS
246	select STACKTRACE
247	select PAGE_EXTENSION
248	help
249	  This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
250	  help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
251	  feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
252	  "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
253	  a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
254	  for user-space helper.
255
256	  If unsure, say N.
257
258config DEBUG_FS
259	bool "Debug Filesystem"
260	help
261	  debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
262	  debugging files into.  Enable this option to be able to read and
263	  write to these files.
264
265	  For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
266	  Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
267
268	  If unsure, say N.
269
270config HEADERS_CHECK
271	bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
272	depends on !UML
273	help
274	  This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
275	  building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
276	  ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
277	  were not exported, etc.
278
279	  If you're making modifications to header files which are
280	  relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
281	  exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
282	  your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
283
284config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
285	bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
286	help
287	  The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
288	  references from one section to another section.
289	  During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
290	  any use of code/data previously in these sections would
291	  most likely result in an oops.
292	  In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
293	  __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
294	  which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
295	  The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
296	  kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
297	  additional steps to occur:
298	  - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
299	    When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
300	    function, we would lose the section information and thus
301	    the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
302	    This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
303	    a larger kernel).
304	  - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
305	    When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
306	    lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
307	    introduced.
308	    Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
309	    tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
310	    source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
311	    reported at least twice.
312	  - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
313	    the section mismatches that are reported.
314
315config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
316	bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
317	default y
318	help
319	  If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
320	  section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
321
322	  If unsure, say Y.
323
324#
325# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
326# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
327# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
328#
329config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
330	bool
331	help
332
333config FRAME_POINTER
334	bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
335	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
336		(CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
337		 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
338		ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
339	default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
340	help
341	  If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
342	  larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
343	  in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
344
345config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
346	bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
347	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
348	help
349	  s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
350	  defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
351	  puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
352	  definitions.
353
354	  1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
355	  2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
356
357	  To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
358	  option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
359
360endmenu # "Compiler options"
361
362config MAGIC_SYSRQ
363	bool "Magic SysRq key"
364	depends on !UML
365	help
366	  If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
367	  if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
368	  will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
369	  immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
370	  by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
371	  also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
372	  send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
373	  keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
374	  unless you really know what this hack does.
375
376config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
377	hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
378	depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
379	default 0x1
380	help
381	  Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
382	  This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
383	  to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
384
385config DEBUG_KERNEL
386	bool "Kernel debugging"
387	help
388	  Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
389	  identify kernel problems.
390
391menu "Memory Debugging"
392
393source mm/Kconfig.debug
394
395config DEBUG_OBJECTS
396	bool "Debug object operations"
397	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
398	help
399	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
400	  kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
401	  the operations on those objects.
402
403config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
404	bool "Debug objects selftest"
405	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
406	help
407	  This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
408
409config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
410	bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
411	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
412	help
413	  This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
414	  which contains an object which has not been deactivated
415	  properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
416	  much slower.
417
418config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
419	bool "Debug timer objects"
420	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
421	help
422	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
423	  timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
424	  validate the timer operations.
425
426config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
427	bool "Debug work objects"
428	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
429	help
430	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
431	  work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
432	  validate the work operations.
433
434config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
435	bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
436	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
437	help
438	  Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
439
440config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
441	bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
442	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
443	help
444	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
445	  percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
446	  objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
447
448config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
449	int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
450        range 0 1
451        default "1"
452        depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
453        help
454          Debug objects boot parameter default value
455
456config DEBUG_SLAB
457	bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
458	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
459	help
460	  Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
461	  allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
462	  memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
463
464config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
465	bool "Memory leak debugging"
466	depends on DEBUG_SLAB
467
468config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
469	bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
470	depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
471	default n
472	help
473	  Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
474	  the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
475	  equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
476	  There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
477	  possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
478	  off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
479	  "slub_debug=-".
480
481config SLUB_STATS
482	default n
483	bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
484	depends on SLUB && SYSFS
485	help
486	  SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
487	  order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
488	  enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
489	  the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
490	  supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
491	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
492	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
493
494config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
495	bool
496
497config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
498	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
499	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
500	select DEBUG_FS
501	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
502	select KALLSYMS
503	select CRC32
504	help
505	  Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
506	  detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
507	  similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
508	  difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
509	  only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
510	  feature will introduce an overhead to memory
511	  allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
512	  details.
513
514	  Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
515	  of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
516
517	  In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
518	  mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
519
520config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
521	int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
522	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
523	range 200 40000
524	default 400
525	help
526	  Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
527	  reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
528	  freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
529	  used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
530	  buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
531
532config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
533	tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
534	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
535	help
536	  This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
537
538	  If unsure, say N.
539
540config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
541	bool "Default kmemleak to off"
542	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
543	help
544	  Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
545	  on the command line via kmemleak=on.
546
547config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
548	bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
549	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 && !PARISC && !METAG
550	help
551	  Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
552	  task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
553
554	  This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
555
556config DEBUG_VM
557	bool "Debug VM"
558	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
559	help
560	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
561          that may impact performance.
562
563	  If unsure, say N.
564
565config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
566	bool "Debug VMA caching"
567	depends on DEBUG_VM
568	help
569	  Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
570	  can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
571	  environments.
572
573	  If unsure, say N.
574
575config DEBUG_VM_RB
576	bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
577	depends on DEBUG_VM
578	help
579	  Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
580
581	  If unsure, say N.
582
583config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
584	bool "Debug page-flags operations"
585	depends on DEBUG_VM
586	help
587	  Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
588
589	  If unsure, say N.
590
591config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
592	bool "Debug VM translations"
593	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
594	help
595	  Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
596	  catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
597
598	  If unsure, say N.
599
600config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
601	bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
602	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
603	help
604	  This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
605	  regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
606
607config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
608	bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
609	default !EXPERT
610	help
611	  Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
612	  The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
613	  and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
614	  information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
615	  on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
616
617	  If unsure, say Y
618
619config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
620	tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
621	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
622	help
623	  This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
624	  memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through
625	  debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
626
627	  If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
628	  notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
629
630	  Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
631
632	  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
633	  # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
634	  # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
635	  bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
636
637	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
638	  be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
639
640	  If unsure, say N.
641
642config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
643	bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
644	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
645	depends on SMP
646	help
647	  Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
648	  been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
649	  and decreases performance.
650
651	  Say N if unsure.
652
653config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
654	bool "Highmem debugging"
655	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
656	help
657	  This option enables additional error checking for high memory
658	  systems.  Disable for production systems.
659
660config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
661	bool
662
663config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
664	bool "Check for stack overflows"
665	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
666	---help---
667	  Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
668	  and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
669	  option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
670	  below a certain limit.
671
672	  These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
673	  kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
674	  involved.
675
676	  Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
677	  corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
678
679	  If in doubt, say "N".
680
681source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
682
683source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
684
685endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
686
687config DEBUG_SHIRQ
688	bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
689	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
690	help
691	  Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
692	  interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
693	  Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
694	  points; some don't and need to be caught.
695
696menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
697
698config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
699	bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
700	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
701	help
702	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
703	  hard and soft lockups.
704
705	  Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
706	  mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
707	  chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon
708	  detection and the system will stay locked up.
709
710	  Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
711	  for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
712	  chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
713	  and the system will stay locked up.
714
715	  The overhead should be minimal.  A periodic hrtimer runs to
716	  generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
717	  An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
718
719	  The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
720	  thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
721
722config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
723	def_bool y
724	depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
725	depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
726
727config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
728	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
729	depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
730	help
731	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
732	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
733	  mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
734	  using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
735
736	  Say N if unsure.
737
738config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
739	int
740	depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
741	range 0 1
742	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
743	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
744
745config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
746	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
747	depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
748	help
749	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
750	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
751	  mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
752	  sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
753
754	  The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
755	  to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
756	  lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
757	  high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
758	  where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
759
760	  Say N if unsure.
761
762config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
763	int
764	depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
765	range 0 1
766	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
767	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
768
769config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
770	bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
771	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
772	default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
773	help
774	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
775	  which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
776	  uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
777
778	  When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
779	  current stack trace (which you should report), but the
780	  task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
781	  enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
782	  feature has negligible overhead.
783
784config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
785	int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
786	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
787	default 120
788	help
789	  This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
790	  to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
791	  be considered hung.
792
793	  It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
794	  sysctl or by writing a value to
795	  /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
796
797	  A timeout of 0 disables the check.  The default is two minutes.
798	  Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
799
800config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
801	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
802	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
803	help
804	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
805	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
806	  in uninterruptible "D" state.
807
808	  The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
809	  to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
810	  hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
811	  high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
812	  where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
813
814	  Say N if unsure.
815
816config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
817	int
818	depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
819	range 0 1
820	default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
821	default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
822
823config WQ_WATCHDOG
824	bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
825	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
826	help
827	  Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues.  If a
828	  worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
829	  item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
830	  warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
831	  state.  This can be configured through kernel parameter
832	  "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
833
834endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
835
836config PANIC_ON_OOPS
837	bool "Panic on Oops"
838	help
839	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
840	  has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
841	  line.
842
843	  This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
844	  anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
845	  corruption or other issues.
846
847	  Say N if unsure.
848
849config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
850	int
851	range 0 1
852	default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
853	default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
854
855config PANIC_TIMEOUT
856	int "panic timeout"
857	default 0
858	help
859	  Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
860	  the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
861	  value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
862	  value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
863
864config SCHED_DEBUG
865	bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
866	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
867	default y
868	help
869	  If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
870	  that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
871	  option is minimal.
872
873config SCHED_INFO
874	bool
875	default n
876
877config SCHEDSTATS
878	bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
879	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
880	select SCHED_INFO
881	help
882	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
883	  scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
884	  scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat.  These
885	  stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
886	  If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
887	  application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
888	  this adds.
889
890config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
891	bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
892	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
893	default n
894	help
895	  This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
896	  If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
897	  the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
898	  This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
899	  data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
900	  is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
901
902config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
903	bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
904	help
905	  This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
906	  which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
907	  problems are suspected.
908
909	  This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
910	  option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
911	  workloads.
912
913	  If unsure, say N.
914
915config TIMER_STATS
916	bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
917	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
918	help
919	  If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
920	  timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
921	  reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
922	  The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
923	  writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
924	  about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
925	  is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
926	  (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
927	  if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
928
929config DEBUG_PREEMPT
930	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
931	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
932	default y
933	help
934	  If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
935	  commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
936	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
937	  will detect preemption count underflows.
938
939menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
940
941config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
942	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
943	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
944	help
945	 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
946	 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
947
948config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
949	bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
950	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
951	select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
952	help
953	  Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
954	  and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made.  This is
955	  best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
956	  deadlocks are also debuggable.
957
958config DEBUG_MUTEXES
959	bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
960	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
961	help
962	 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
963	 reported.
964
965config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
966	bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
967	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
968	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
969	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
970	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
971	help
972	 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
973	 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
974	 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
975	 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
976	 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
977	 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
978	 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
979	 even a debug kernel.  If you are a driver writer, enable it.  If
980	 you are a distro, do not.
981
982config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
983	bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
984	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
985	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
986	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
987	select LOCKDEP
988	help
989	 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
990	 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
991	 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
992	 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
993	 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
994	 held during task exit.
995
996config PROVE_LOCKING
997	bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
998	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
999	select LOCKDEP
1000	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1001	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1002	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1003	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1004	default n
1005	help
1006	 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1007	 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1008	 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1009	 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1010	 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1011	 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1012	 deadlock.
1013
1014	 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1015	 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1016
1017	 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1018	 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1019	 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1020	 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1021	 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1022	 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1023	 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1024	 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1025	 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1026
1027	 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1028	 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1029	 kernel reports nothing.
1030
1031	 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1032	 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1033	 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1034	 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1035	 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1036
1037	 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1038
1039config LOCKDEP
1040	bool
1041	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1042	select STACKTRACE
1043	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
1044	select KALLSYMS
1045	select KALLSYMS_ALL
1046
1047config LOCK_STAT
1048	bool "Lock usage statistics"
1049	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1050	select LOCKDEP
1051	select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1052	select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1053	select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1054	default n
1055	help
1056	 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1057
1058	 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1059
1060	 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1061	 subcommand of perf.
1062	 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1063	 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1064
1065	 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1066	 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1067
1068config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1069	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1070	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1071	help
1072	  If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1073	  additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1074	  of more runtime overhead.
1075
1076config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1077	bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1078	select PREEMPT_COUNT
1079	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1080	help
1081	  If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1082	  noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1083	  held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1084	  sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1085
1086config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1087	bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1088	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1089	help
1090	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1091	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1092	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1093	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1094	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1095	  mutexes and rwsems.
1096
1097config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1098	tristate "torture tests for locking"
1099	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1100	select TORTURE_TEST
1101	default n
1102	help
1103	  This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1104	  on kernel locking primitives.  The kernel module may be built
1105	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1106
1107	  Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1108	  to be built into the kernel.
1109	  Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1110	  Say N if you are unsure.
1111
1112endmenu # lock debugging
1113
1114config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1115	bool
1116	help
1117	  Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1118	  either tracing or lock debugging.
1119
1120config STACKTRACE
1121	bool "Stack backtrace support"
1122	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1123	help
1124	  This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1125	  every process, showing its current stack trace.
1126	  It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1127	  stack trace generation.
1128
1129config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1130	bool "kobject debugging"
1131	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1132	help
1133	  If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1134	  to the syslog.
1135
1136config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1137	bool "kobject release debugging"
1138	depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1139	help
1140	  kobjects are reference counted objects.  This means that their
1141	  last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1142	  live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1143	  initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation.  An
1144	  example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1145	  unregistered.
1146
1147	  However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1148	  the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed.  This
1149	  goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1150
1151	  If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1152	  on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1153	  kind of kobject release bug.
1154
1155config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1156	bool
1157
1158config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1159	bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
1160	depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
1161	default y
1162	help
1163	  Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1164	  of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids
1165	  debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1166
1167config DEBUG_LIST
1168	bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1169	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1170	help
1171	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1172	  walking routines.
1173
1174	  If unsure, say N.
1175
1176config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1177	bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1178	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1179	help
1180	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1181	  linked-list (plist) walking routines.  This checks the entire
1182	  list multiple times during each manipulation.
1183
1184	  If unsure, say N.
1185
1186config DEBUG_SG
1187	bool "Debug SG table operations"
1188	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1189	help
1190	  Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1191	  help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1192	  their sg tables.
1193
1194	  If unsure, say N.
1195
1196config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1197	bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1198	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1199	help
1200	  Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1201	  This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1202	  modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1203	  This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1204	  performance, say N.
1205
1206config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1207	bool "Debug credential management"
1208	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1209	help
1210	  Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1211	  management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
1212	  pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1213	  see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1214	  struct.
1215
1216	  Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1217	  security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1218
1219	  If unsure, say N.
1220
1221menu "RCU Debugging"
1222
1223config PROVE_RCU
1224	def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
1225
1226config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1227	bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1228	depends on PROVE_RCU
1229	default n
1230	help
1231	 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1232	 first warning (or "splat").  This feature prevents such
1233	 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1234	 on a single reboot.
1235
1236	 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1237
1238	 Say N if you are unsure.
1239
1240config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1241	bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1242	default n
1243	help
1244	 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1245	 RCU-protected pointers.  This annotation will cause sparse
1246	 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers.  This can be
1247	 helpful when debugging RCU usage.  Please note that this feature
1248	 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1249	 a debugging aid.
1250
1251	 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1252
1253	 Say N if you are unsure.
1254
1255config TORTURE_TEST
1256	tristate
1257	default n
1258
1259config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1260	tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1261	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1262	select TORTURE_TEST
1263	select SRCU
1264	select TASKS_RCU
1265	default n
1266	help
1267	  This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1268	  on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built
1269	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1270
1271	  Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1272	  the kernel.
1273	  Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1274	  Say N if you are unsure.
1275
1276config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
1277	bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
1278	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
1279	default n
1280	help
1281	  This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
1282	  directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
1283	  time.  You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
1284	  to manually override this setting.  This /proc file is
1285	  available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
1286	  into the kernel.
1287
1288	  Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
1289	  boot (you probably don't).
1290	  Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
1291	  after being manually enabled via /proc.
1292
1293config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1294	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
1295	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1296	help
1297	  This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
1298	  propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
1299	  tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
1300	  consecutive rcu_node structures.  This helps to expose races
1301	  involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
1302	  makes your kernel less stable.  It can also greatly increase
1303	  grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
1304	  of CPUs.  This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
1305	  almost no other circumstance.
1306
1307	  Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1308	  Say N if you want a sane system.
1309
1310config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
1311	int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
1312	range 0 5
1313	default 3
1314	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1315	help
1316	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1317	  each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
1318
1319config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1320	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
1321	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1322	help
1323	  This option delays grace-period initialization for a few
1324	  jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
1325	  rcu_node structures.	This helps to expose races involving
1326	  grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
1327	  kernel less stable.  It can also greatly increase grace-period
1328	  latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
1329	  This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
1330	  other circumstance.
1331
1332	  Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1333	  Say N if you want a sane system.
1334
1335config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
1336	int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
1337	range 0 5
1338	default 3
1339	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1340	help
1341	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1342	  each rcu_node structure initialization.
1343
1344config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1345	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
1346	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1347	help
1348	  This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
1349	  between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
1350	  structures.  This helps to expose races involving grace-period
1351	  cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
1352	  It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
1353	  on systems with large numbers of CPUs.  This is useful when
1354	  torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
1355
1356	  Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1357	  Say N if you want a sane system.
1358
1359config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
1360	int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
1361	range 0 5
1362	default 3
1363	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1364	help
1365	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1366	  each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
1367
1368config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1369	int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
1370	depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
1371	range 3 300
1372	default 21
1373	help
1374	  If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1375	  number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed.  If the
1376	  RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1377	  printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1378
1379config RCU_TRACE
1380	bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1381	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1382	select TRACE_CLOCK
1383	help
1384	  This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1385	  in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
1386
1387	  Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1388	  Say N if you are unsure.
1389
1390config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
1391	bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
1392	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1393	help
1394	  This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
1395	  NO_HZ.  These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
1396	  bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
1397
1398	  Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
1399	  Say Y if you are unsure
1400
1401endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1402
1403config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1404        bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1405	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1406	depends on BLOCK
1407	default n
1408	help
1409	  BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1410	  SOME DISTRIBUTIONS.  DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1411	  YOU ARE DOING.  Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1412	  is broken.
1413
1414	  Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1415	  predetermined contiguous area.  However, extended block area
1416	  may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers.  This
1417	  option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1418	  the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1419	  userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1420	  device number allocation.
1421
1422	  Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1423	  device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1424	  ones, so root partition specified using device number
1425	  directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1426	  Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1427
1428	  Say N if you are unsure.
1429
1430config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1431	tristate "Notifier error injection"
1432	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1433	select DEBUG_FS
1434	help
1435	  This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1436	  specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1437	  handling of notifier call chain failures.
1438
1439	  Say N if unsure.
1440
1441config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1442	tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
1443	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1444	help
1445	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1446	  the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
1447	  errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through
1448	  debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1449
1450	  If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1451	  notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1452
1453	  Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1454
1455	  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1456	  # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1457	  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1458	  bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
1459
1460	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1461	  be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1462
1463	  If unsure, say N.
1464
1465config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1466	tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1467	depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1468	default m if PM_DEBUG
1469	help
1470	  This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1471	  PM notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through debugfs
1472	  interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1473
1474	  If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1475	  notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1476
1477	  Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1478
1479	  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1480	  # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1481	  # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1482	  bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1483
1484	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1485	  be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1486
1487	  If unsure, say N.
1488
1489config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1490	tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1491	depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1492	help
1493	  This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1494	  OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled
1495	  through debugfs interface under
1496	  /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1497
1498	  If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1499	  notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1500
1501	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1502	  be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1503
1504	  If unsure, say N.
1505
1506config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1507	tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1508	depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1509	help
1510	  This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1511	  netdevice notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through debugfs
1512	  interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1513
1514	  If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1515	  notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1516
1517	  Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1518
1519	  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1520	  # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1521	  # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1522	  RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1523
1524	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1525	  be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1526
1527	  If unsure, say N.
1528
1529config FAULT_INJECTION
1530	bool "Fault-injection framework"
1531	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1532	help
1533	  Provide fault-injection framework.
1534	  For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1535
1536config FAILSLAB
1537	bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1538	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1539	depends on SLAB || SLUB
1540	help
1541	  Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1542
1543config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1544	bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1545	depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1546	help
1547	  Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1548
1549config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1550	bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1551	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1552	help
1553	  Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1554
1555config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1556	bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1557	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1558	help
1559	  Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1560	  will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1561	  thus exercising the error handling.
1562
1563	  Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1564	  for others it wont do anything.
1565
1566config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1567	bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1568	depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1569	help
1570	  Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1571	  This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1572	  useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1573	  and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1574	  the block device.
1575
1576config FAIL_FUTEX
1577	bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1578	select DEBUG_FS
1579	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1580	help
1581	  Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1582
1583config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1584	bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1585	depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1586	help
1587	  Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1588
1589config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1590	bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1591	depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1592	depends on !X86_64
1593	select STACKTRACE
1594	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
1595	help
1596	  Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1597
1598config LATENCYTOP
1599	bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1600	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1601	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1602	depends on PROC_FS
1603	select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
1604	select KALLSYMS
1605	select KALLSYMS_ALL
1606	select STACKTRACE
1607	select SCHEDSTATS
1608	select SCHED_DEBUG
1609	help
1610	  Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1611	  to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1612
1613config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1614	bool
1615
1616config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1617	bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1618	depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1619	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1620	help
1621	  Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1622	  copy operations into compile time failures.
1623
1624	  The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1625	  are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1626	  the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1627	  within bounds.
1628
1629	  If unsure, say N.
1630
1631source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1632
1633menu "Runtime Testing"
1634
1635config LKDTM
1636	tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1637	depends on DEBUG_FS
1638	depends on BLOCK
1639	default n
1640	help
1641	This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1642	inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1643	If you don't need it: say N
1644	Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1645	called lkdtm.
1646
1647	Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1648	Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1649
1650config TEST_LIST_SORT
1651	bool "Linked list sorting test"
1652	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1653	help
1654	  Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1655	  executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1656
1657	  If unsure, say N.
1658
1659config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1660	bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1661	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1662	depends on KPROBES
1663	default n
1664	help
1665	  This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1666	  boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1667	  verified for functionality.
1668
1669	  Say N if you are unsure.
1670
1671config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1672	tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1673	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1674	default n
1675	help
1676	  This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1677	  the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1678	  for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1679	  developers working on architecture code.
1680
1681	  Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1682	  have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1683
1684	  Say N if you are unsure.
1685
1686config RBTREE_TEST
1687	tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1688	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1689	help
1690	  A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1691	  Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1692
1693config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1694	tristate "Interval tree test"
1695	depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1696	select INTERVAL_TREE
1697	help
1698	  A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1699
1700config PERCPU_TEST
1701	tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1702	depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1703	help
1704	  Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1705	  operations.
1706
1707	  If unsure, say N.
1708
1709config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1710	bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1711	help
1712	  Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1713
1714	  If unsure, say N.
1715
1716config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1717	tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1718	depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1719	select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1720	---help---
1721	  This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1722	  recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1723	  N-disk array.  Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1724	  raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1725	  engine if one is available.
1726
1727	  If unsure, say N.
1728
1729config TEST_HEXDUMP
1730	tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1731
1732config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1733	tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1734
1735config TEST_KSTRTOX
1736	tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1737
1738config TEST_PRINTF
1739	tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1740
1741config TEST_RHASHTABLE
1742	tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
1743	default n
1744	help
1745	  Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1746
1747	  If unsure, say N.
1748
1749endmenu # runtime tests
1750
1751config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1752	bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1753	depends on PCI && X86
1754	help
1755	  If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1756	  on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1757	  this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1758	  over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1759	  specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1760
1761	  With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1762	  firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1763	  Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1764
1765	  Usage:
1766
1767	  If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1768	  all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1769
1770	  As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1771	  devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1772	  devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1773	  the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1774
1775	  This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1776	  in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1777
1778	  See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1779
1780config BUILD_DOCSRC
1781	bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1782	depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1783	help
1784	  This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1785	  kernel Documentation/ tree.
1786
1787	  Say N if you are unsure.
1788
1789config DMA_API_DEBUG
1790	bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1791	depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1792	help
1793	  Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1794	  With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1795	  drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1796	  were never allocated.
1797
1798	  This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1799	  accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption.  For
1800	  example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1801	  not undergoing DMA.
1802
1803	  This option causes a performance degradation.  Use only if you want to
1804	  debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1805
1806	  If unsure, say N.
1807
1808config TEST_LKM
1809	tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1810	default n
1811	depends on m
1812	help
1813	  This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1814	  on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1815	  evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1816	  validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1817	  and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1818	  requested by name.
1819
1820	  If unsure, say N.
1821
1822config TEST_USER_COPY
1823	tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1824	default n
1825	depends on m
1826	help
1827	  This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1828	  on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1829	  user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1830	  a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1831	  protections.
1832
1833	  If unsure, say N.
1834
1835config TEST_BPF
1836	tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1837	default n
1838	depends on m && NET
1839	help
1840	  This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1841	  against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1842	  current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1843	  development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
1844	  the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1845	  verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
1846
1847	  If unsure, say N.
1848
1849config TEST_FIRMWARE
1850	tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1851	default n
1852	depends on FW_LOADER
1853	help
1854	  This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1855	  interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1856	  control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1857	  actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1858	  userspace.
1859
1860	  If unsure, say N.
1861
1862config TEST_UDELAY
1863	tristate "udelay test driver"
1864	default n
1865	help
1866	  This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1867	  that udelay() is working properly.
1868
1869	  If unsure, say N.
1870
1871config MEMTEST
1872	bool "Memtest"
1873	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1874	---help---
1875	  This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1876	  to be set.
1877	        memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1878	        memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1879	        ...
1880	        memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1881	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1882
1883config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1884	tristate "Test static keys"
1885	default n
1886	depends on m
1887	help
1888	  Test the static key interfaces.
1889
1890	  If unsure, say N.
1891
1892source "samples/Kconfig"
1893
1894source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1895
1896source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1897
1898config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1899	bool
1900
1901config STRICT_DEVMEM
1902	bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1903	depends on MMU
1904	depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1905	default y if TILE || PPC
1906	---help---
1907	  If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1908	  of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1909	  access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1910	  be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1911	  enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1912	  use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1913
1914	  If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1915	  file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1916	  data regions.  This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1917	  users of /dev/mem.
1918
1919	  If in doubt, say Y.
1920
1921config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1922	bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1923	depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1924	---help---
1925	  If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1926	  io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1927	  range.  Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1928	  specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1929
1930	  If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1931	  userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1932	  may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1933	  if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
1934
1935	  If in doubt, say Y.
1936