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 315config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 316 bool "Compressed debugging information" 317 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 318 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 319 help 320 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 321 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 322 323 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 324 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 325 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 326 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 327 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 328 larger. 329 330config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 331 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 332 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 333 help 334 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 335 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 336 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 337 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 338 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 339 340 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 341 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 342 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 343 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 344 345config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 346 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 347 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 348 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 349 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 350 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 351 help 352 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 353 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 354 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 355 356config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 357 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 358 359config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 360 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 361 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 362 help 363 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 364 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 365 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 366 367config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 def_bool y 369 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 370 help 371 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 372 373config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 374 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 375 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 376 help 377 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 378 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 379 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 380 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 381 it when a mismatch is found. 382 383config GDB_SCRIPTS 384 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 385 help 386 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 387 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 388 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 389 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 390 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 391 for further details. 392 393endif # DEBUG_INFO 394 395config FRAME_WARN 396 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 397 range 0 8192 398 default 0 if KMSAN 399 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 400 default 2048 if PARISC 401 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 402 default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT 403 default 1024 if !64BIT 404 default 2048 if 64BIT 405 help 406 Tell the compiler to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 407 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 408 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 409 410config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 411 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 412 default n 413 help 414 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 415 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 416 get_wchan() and suchlike. 417 418config READABLE_ASM 419 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 420 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 421 depends on CC_IS_GCC 422 help 423 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 424 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 425 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 426 sane. 427 428config HEADERS_INSTALL 429 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 430 depends on !UML 431 help 432 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 433 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 434 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 435 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 436 as uapi header sanity checks. 437 438config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 439 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 440 depends on CC_IS_GCC 441 help 442 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 443 references from one section to another section. 444 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 445 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 446 most likely result in an oops. 447 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 448 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 449 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 450 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 451 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 452 additional step to occur: 453 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 454 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 455 function, we would lose the section information and thus 456 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 457 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 458 a larger kernel). 459 460config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 461 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 462 default y 463 help 464 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 465 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 466 467 If unsure, say Y. 468 469config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 470 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 471 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 472 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B 473 help 474 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 475 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 476 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 477 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 478 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 479 480 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 481 482# 483# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 484# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 485# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 486# 487config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 488 bool 489 490config FRAME_POINTER 491 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 493 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 494 help 495 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 496 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 497 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 498 499config OBJTOOL 500 bool 501 502config STACK_VALIDATION 503 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 504 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 505 select OBJTOOL 506 default n 507 help 508 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 509 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 510 511 For more information, see 512 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 513 514config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 515 bool 516 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 517 select OBJTOOL 518 default y 519 520config VMLINUX_MAP 521 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 522 depends on EXPERT 523 help 524 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 525 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 526 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 527 pieces of code get eliminated with 528 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 529 530config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 531 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 532 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 533 help 534 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 535 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 536 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 537 definitions. 538 539 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 540 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 541 542 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 543 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 544 545endmenu # "Compiler options" 546 547menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 548 549config MAGIC_SYSRQ 550 bool "Magic SysRq key" 551 depends on !UML 552 help 553 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 554 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 555 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 556 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 557 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 558 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 559 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 560 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 561 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 562 563config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 564 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 565 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 566 default 0x1 567 help 568 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 569 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 570 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 571 572config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 573 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 574 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 575 default y 576 help 577 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 578 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 579 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 580 magic SysRq key. 581 582config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 583 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 584 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 585 default "" 586 help 587 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 588 SysRq on a serial console. 589 590 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 591 592config DEBUG_FS 593 bool "Debug Filesystem" 594 help 595 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 596 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 597 write to these files. 598 599 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 600 Documentation/filesystems/. 601 602 If unsure, say N. 603 604choice 605 prompt "Debugfs default access" 606 depends on DEBUG_FS 607 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 608 help 609 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 610 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 611 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 612 and filesystem registration. 613 614config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 615 bool "Access normal" 616 help 617 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 618 is on. This is the normal default operation. 619 620config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 621 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 622 help 623 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 624 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 625 debugfs filesystem. 626 627config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 628 bool "No access" 629 help 630 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 631 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 632 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 633 634endchoice 635 636source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 637source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 638source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 639 640endmenu 641 642menu "Networking Debugging" 643 644source "net/Kconfig.debug" 645 646endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 647 648menu "Memory Debugging" 649 650source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 651 652config DEBUG_OBJECTS 653 bool "Debug object operations" 654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 655 help 656 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 657 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 658 the operations on those objects. 659 660config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 661 bool "Debug objects selftest" 662 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 663 help 664 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 665 666config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 667 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 668 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 669 help 670 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 671 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 672 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 673 much slower. 674 675config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 676 bool "Debug timer objects" 677 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 678 help 679 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 680 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 681 validate the timer operations. 682 683config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 684 bool "Debug work objects" 685 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 686 help 687 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 688 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 689 validate the work operations. 690 691config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 692 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 693 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 694 help 695 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 696 697config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 698 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 699 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 700 help 701 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 702 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 703 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 704 705config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 706 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 707 range 0 1 708 default "1" 709 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 710 help 711 Debug objects boot parameter default value 712 713config SHRINKER_DEBUG 714 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 715 depends on DEBUG_FS 716 help 717 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 718 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 719 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 720 721config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 722 bool 723 724config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 725 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 726 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 727 select DEBUG_FS 728 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 729 select KALLSYMS 730 select CRC32 731 help 732 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 733 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 734 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 735 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 736 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 737 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 738 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 739 details. 740 741 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 742 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 743 744 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 745 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 746 747config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 748 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 749 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 750 range 200 1000000 751 default 16000 752 help 753 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 754 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 755 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 756 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 757 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 758 if slab allocations fail. 759 760config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 761 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 762 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 763 help 764 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 765 766 If unsure, say N. 767 768config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 769 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 770 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 771 help 772 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 773 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 774 775config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 776 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 777 default y 778 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 779 help 780 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 781 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 782 kmemleak scan at boot up. 783 784 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 785 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 786 memory leaks. 787 788 If unsure, say Y. 789 790config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 791 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 793 help 794 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 795 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 796 797 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 798 799config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 800 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 802 default n 803 help 804 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 805 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 806 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 807 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 808 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 809 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 810 811config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 812 bool 813 help 814 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 815 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 816 817config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 818 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 819 820config DEBUG_VM 821 bool "Debug VM" 822 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 823 help 824 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 825 that may impact performance. 826 827 If unsure, say N. 828 829config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 830 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 831 depends on DEBUG_VM 832 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 833 help 834 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 835 836 If unsure, say N. 837 838config DEBUG_VM_RB 839 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 840 depends on DEBUG_VM 841 help 842 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 843 844 If unsure, say N. 845 846config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 847 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 848 depends on DEBUG_VM 849 help 850 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 851 852 If unsure, say N. 853 854config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 855 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 856 depends on MMU 857 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 858 default y if DEBUG_VM 859 help 860 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 861 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 862 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 863 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 864 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 865 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 866 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 867 868 If unsure, say N. 869 870config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 871 bool 872 873config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 874 bool "Debug VM translations" 875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 876 help 877 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 878 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 879 880 If unsure, say N. 881 882config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 883 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 884 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 885 help 886 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 887 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 888 889config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 890 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 891 default !EXPERT 892 help 893 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 894 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 895 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 896 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 897 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 898 899 If unsure, say Y 900 901config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 902 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 903 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 904 help 905 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 906 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 907 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 908 909 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 910 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 911 912 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 913 914 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 915 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 916 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 917 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 918 919 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 920 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 921 922 If unsure, say N. 923 924config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 925 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 926 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 927 depends on SMP 928 help 929 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 930 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 931 and decreases performance. 932 933 Say N if unsure. 934 935config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 936 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 937 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 938 help 939 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 940 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 941 942config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 943 bool 944 945config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 946 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 948 select KMAP_LOCAL 949 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 950 help 951 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 952 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 953 Disable this for production systems! 954 955config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 956 bool "Highmem debugging" 957 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 958 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 959 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 960 help 961 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 962 systems. Disable for production systems. 963 964config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 965 bool 966 967config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 968 bool "Check for stack overflows" 969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 970 help 971 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 972 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 973 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 974 below a certain limit. 975 976 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 977 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 978 involved. 979 980 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 981 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 982 983 If in doubt, say "N". 984 985source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 986source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 987source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 988 989endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 990 991config DEBUG_SHIRQ 992 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 993 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 994 help 995 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 996 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 997 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 998 don't and need to be caught. 999 1000menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 1001 1002config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1003 bool "Panic on Oops" 1004 help 1005 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1006 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1007 line. 1008 1009 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1010 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1011 corruption or other issues. 1012 1013 Say N if unsure. 1014 1015config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1016 int 1017 range 0 1 1018 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1019 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1020 1021config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1022 int "panic timeout" 1023 default 0 1024 help 1025 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1026 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1027 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1028 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1029 1030config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1031 bool 1032 1033config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1034 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1035 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1036 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1037 help 1038 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1039 soft lockups. 1040 1041 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1042 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1043 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1044 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1045 1046config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1047 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1048 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1049 help 1050 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1051 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1052 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1053 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1054 1055 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1056 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1057 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1058 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1059 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1060 1061 Say N if unsure. 1062 1063config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1064 bool 1065 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1066 1067# 1068# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1069# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1070# 1071config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1072 bool 1073 1074# 1075# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1076# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1077# 1078config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1079 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1080 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1081 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1082 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1083 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1084 help 1085 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1086 hard lockups. 1087 1088 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1089 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1090 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1091 and the system will stay locked up. 1092 1093config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1094 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1095 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1096 help 1097 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1098 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1099 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1100 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1101 1102 Say N if unsure. 1103 1104config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1105 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1107 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1108 help 1109 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1110 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1111 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1112 1113 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1114 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1115 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1116 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1117 feature has negligible overhead. 1118 1119config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1120 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1121 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1122 default 120 1123 help 1124 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1125 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1126 be considered hung. 1127 1128 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1129 sysctl or by writing a value to 1130 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1131 1132 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1133 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1134 1135config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1136 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1137 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1138 help 1139 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1140 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1141 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1142 1143 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1144 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1145 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1146 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1147 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1148 1149 Say N if unsure. 1150 1151config WQ_WATCHDOG 1152 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1154 help 1155 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1156 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1157 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1158 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1159 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1160 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1161 1162config TEST_LOCKUP 1163 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1164 depends on m 1165 help 1166 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1167 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1168 1169 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1170 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1171 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1172 1173 If unsure, say N. 1174 1175endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1176 1177menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1178 1179config SCHED_DEBUG 1180 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1182 default y 1183 help 1184 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1185 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1186 option is minimal. 1187 1188config SCHED_INFO 1189 bool 1190 default n 1191 1192config SCHEDSTATS 1193 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1194 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1195 select SCHED_INFO 1196 help 1197 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1198 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1199 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1200 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1201 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1202 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1203 this adds. 1204 1205endmenu 1206 1207config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1208 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1209 help 1210 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1211 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1212 problems are suspected. 1213 1214 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1215 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1216 workloads. 1217 1218 If unsure, say N. 1219 1220config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1221 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1223 default y 1224 help 1225 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1226 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1227 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1228 will detect preemption count underflows. 1229 1230menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1231 1232config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1233 bool 1234 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1235 default y 1236 1237config PROVE_LOCKING 1238 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1240 select LOCKDEP 1241 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1242 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1243 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1244 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1245 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1246 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1247 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1248 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1249 default n 1250 help 1251 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1252 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1253 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1254 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1255 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1256 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1257 deadlock. 1258 1259 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1260 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1261 1262 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1263 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1264 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1265 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1266 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1267 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1268 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1269 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1270 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1271 1272 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1273 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1274 kernel reports nothing. 1275 1276 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1277 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1278 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1279 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1280 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1281 1282 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1283 1284config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1285 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1286 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1287 default n 1288 help 1289 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1290 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1291 not violated. 1292 1293 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1294 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1295 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1296 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1297 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1298 1299 If unsure, select N. 1300 1301config LOCK_STAT 1302 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1304 select LOCKDEP 1305 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1306 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1307 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1308 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1309 default n 1310 help 1311 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1312 1313 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1314 1315 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1316 subcommand of perf. 1317 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1318 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1319 1320 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1321 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1322 1323config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1324 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1325 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1326 help 1327 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1328 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1329 1330config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1331 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1333 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1334 help 1335 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1336 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1337 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1338 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1339 1340config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1341 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1342 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1343 help 1344 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1345 reported. 1346 1347config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1348 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1350 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1351 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1352 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1353 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1354 help 1355 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1356 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1357 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1358 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1359 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1360 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1361 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1362 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1363 you are a distro, do not. 1364 1365config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1366 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1367 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1368 help 1369 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1370 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1371 1372config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1373 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1375 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1376 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1377 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1378 select LOCKDEP 1379 help 1380 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1381 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1382 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1383 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1384 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1385 held during task exit. 1386 1387config LOCKDEP 1388 bool 1389 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1390 select STACKTRACE 1391 select KALLSYMS 1392 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1393 1394config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1395 bool 1396 1397config LOCKDEP_BITS 1398 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1399 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1400 range 10 30 1401 default 15 1402 help 1403 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1404 1405config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1406 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1407 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1408 range 10 30 1409 default 16 1410 help 1411 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1412 1413config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1414 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1415 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1416 range 10 30 1417 default 19 1418 help 1419 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1420 1421config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1422 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1423 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1424 range 10 30 1425 default 14 1426 help 1427 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1428 1429config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1430 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1431 depends on LOCKDEP 1432 range 10 30 1433 default 12 1434 help 1435 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1436 1437config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1438 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1440 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1441 help 1442 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1443 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1444 of more runtime overhead. 1445 1446config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1447 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1448 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1450 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1451 help 1452 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1453 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1454 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1455 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1456 1457config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1458 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1459 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1460 help 1461 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1462 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1463 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1464 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1465 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1466 mutexes and rwsems. 1467 1468config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1469 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1470 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1471 select TORTURE_TEST 1472 help 1473 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1474 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1475 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1476 1477 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1478 to be built into the kernel. 1479 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1480 Say N if you are unsure. 1481 1482config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1483 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1484 help 1485 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1486 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1487 1488 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1489 with this test harness. 1490 1491 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1492 Say N if you are unsure. 1493 1494config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1495 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1496 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1497 select TORTURE_TEST 1498 help 1499 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1500 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1501 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1502 be tested, if desired. 1503 1504config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1505 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1507 depends on 64BIT 1508 default n 1509 help 1510 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1511 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1512 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1513 and relevant stack traces. 1514 1515endmenu # lock debugging 1516 1517config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1518 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1519 bool 1520 help 1521 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1522 either tracing or lock debugging. 1523 1524config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1525 def_bool y 1526 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1527 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1528 1529config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1530 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1531 help 1532 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1533 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1534 are enabled. 1535 1536config STACKTRACE 1537 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1538 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1539 help 1540 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1541 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1542 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1543 stack trace generation. 1544 1545config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1546 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1547 default n 1548 help 1549 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1550 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1551 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1552 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1553 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1554 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1555 it. 1556 1557 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1558 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1559 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1560 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1561 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1562 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1563 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1564 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1565 1566 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1567 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1568 those developers interested in improving the security of 1569 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1570 subarchitecture). 1571 1572config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1573 bool "kobject debugging" 1574 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1575 help 1576 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1577 to the syslog. 1578 1579config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1580 bool "kobject release debugging" 1581 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1582 help 1583 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1584 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1585 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1586 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1587 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1588 unregistered. 1589 1590 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1591 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1592 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1593 1594 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1595 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1596 kind of kobject release bug. 1597 1598config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1599 bool 1600 1601menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1602 1603config DEBUG_LIST 1604 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1606 help 1607 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1608 walking routines. 1609 1610 If unsure, say N. 1611 1612config DEBUG_PLIST 1613 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1614 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1615 help 1616 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1617 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1618 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1619 1620 If unsure, say N. 1621 1622config DEBUG_SG 1623 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1624 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1625 help 1626 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1627 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1628 their sg tables. 1629 1630 If unsure, say N. 1631 1632config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1633 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1634 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1635 help 1636 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1637 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1638 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1639 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1640 performance, say N. 1641 1642config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1643 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1644 select DEBUG_LIST 1645 help 1646 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1647 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1648 for validity. 1649 1650 If unsure, say N. 1651 1652config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1653 bool "Debug maple trees" 1654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1655 help 1656 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1657 1658 If unsure, say N. 1659 1660endmenu 1661 1662config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1663 bool "Debug credential management" 1664 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1665 help 1666 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1667 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1668 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1669 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1670 struct. 1671 1672 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1673 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1674 1675 If unsure, say N. 1676 1677source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1678 1679config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1680 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1681 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1682 default n 1683 help 1684 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1685 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1686 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1687 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1688 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1689 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1690 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1691 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1692 be impacted. 1693 1694config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1695 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1697 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1698 default n 1699 help 1700 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1701 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1702 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1703 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1704 1705 Say N if your are unsure. 1706 1707config LATENCYTOP 1708 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1710 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1711 depends on PROC_FS 1712 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1713 select KALLSYMS 1714 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1715 select STACKTRACE 1716 select SCHEDSTATS 1717 help 1718 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1719 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1720 1721config DEBUG_CGROUP_REF 1722 bool "Disable inlining of cgroup css reference count functions" 1723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1724 depends on CGROUPS 1725 depends on KPROBES 1726 default n 1727 help 1728 Force cgroup css reference count functions to not be inlined so 1729 that they can be kprobed for debugging. 1730 1731source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1732 1733config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1734 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1735 depends on PCI && X86 1736 help 1737 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1738 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1739 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1740 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1741 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1742 1743 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1744 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1745 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1746 1747 Usage: 1748 1749 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1750 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1751 1752 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1753 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1754 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1755 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1756 1757 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1758 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1759 1760 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1761 1762source "samples/Kconfig" 1763 1764config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1765 bool 1766 1767config STRICT_DEVMEM 1768 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1769 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1770 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1771 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1772 help 1773 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1774 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1775 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1776 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1777 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1778 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1779 1780 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1781 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1782 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1783 users of /dev/mem. 1784 1785 If in doubt, say Y. 1786 1787config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1788 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1789 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1790 help 1791 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1792 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1793 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1794 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1795 1796 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1797 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1798 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1799 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1800 1801 If in doubt, say Y. 1802 1803menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1804 1805source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1806 1807endmenu 1808 1809menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1810 1811source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1812 1813config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1814 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1816 select DEBUG_FS 1817 help 1818 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1819 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1820 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1821 1822 Say N if unsure. 1823 1824config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1825 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1826 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1827 default m if PM_DEBUG 1828 help 1829 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1830 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1831 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 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 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1837 1838 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1839 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1840 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1841 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1842 1843 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1844 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1845 1846 If unsure, say N. 1847 1848config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1849 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1850 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1851 help 1852 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1853 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1854 through debugfs interface under 1855 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1856 1857 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1858 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1859 1860 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1861 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1862 1863 If unsure, say N. 1864 1865config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1866 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1867 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1868 help 1869 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1870 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1871 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1872 1873 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1874 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1875 1876 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1877 1878 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1879 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1880 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1881 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1882 1883 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1884 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1885 1886 If unsure, say N. 1887 1888config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1889 bool "Fault-injections of functions" 1890 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1891 help 1892 Add fault injections into various functions that are annotated with 1893 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() in the kernel. BPF may also modify the return 1894 value of theses functions. This is useful to test error paths of code. 1895 1896 If unsure, say N 1897 1898config FAULT_INJECTION 1899 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1900 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1901 help 1902 Provide fault-injection framework. 1903 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1904 1905config FAILSLAB 1906 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1907 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1908 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1911 1912config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1913 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1915 help 1916 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1917 1918config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1919 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1920 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1921 help 1922 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1923 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1924 1925config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1926 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1927 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1928 help 1929 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1930 1931config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1932 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1933 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1934 help 1935 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1936 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1937 thus exercising the error handling. 1938 1939 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1940 for others it won't do anything. 1941 1942config FAIL_FUTEX 1943 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1944 select DEBUG_FS 1945 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1946 help 1947 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1948 1949config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1950 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1951 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1952 help 1953 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1954 1955config FAIL_FUNCTION 1956 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1957 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1958 help 1959 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1960 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1961 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1962 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1963 error handling in various subsystems. 1964 1965config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1966 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1967 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1968 help 1969 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1970 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1971 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1972 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1973 the block device. 1974 1975config FAIL_SUNRPC 1976 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1977 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1978 help 1979 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1980 its consumers. 1981 1982config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1983 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1984 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1985 depends on !X86_64 1986 select STACKTRACE 1987 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1988 help 1989 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1990 1991config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1992 bool 1993 help 1994 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1995 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1996 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1997 1998config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1999 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 2000 2001 2002config KCOV 2003 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 2004 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2005 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2006 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 2007 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 2008 select DEBUG_FS 2009 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2010 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 2011 help 2012 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2013 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2014 2015 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 2016 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 2017 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2018 2019 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2020 2021config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2022 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2023 depends on KCOV 2024 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2025 help 2026 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2027 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2028 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2029 of fuzzing coverage. 2030 2031config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2032 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2033 depends on KCOV 2034 default y 2035 help 2036 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2037 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2038 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2039 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2040 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2041 2042config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2043 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2044 depends on KCOV 2045 default 0x40000 2046 help 2047 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2048 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2049 number of unsigned long words. 2050 2051menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2052 bool "Runtime Testing" 2053 def_bool y 2054 2055if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2056 2057config LKDTM 2058 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2059 depends on DEBUG_FS 2060 help 2061 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2062 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2063 If you don't need it: say N 2064 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2065 called lkdtm. 2066 2067 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2068 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2069 2070config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2071 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2072 depends on KUNIT 2073 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2074 help 2075 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2076 2077 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2078 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2079 2080 If unsure, say N. 2081 2082config TEST_LIST_SORT 2083 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2084 depends on KUNIT 2085 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2086 help 2087 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2088 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2089 or at module load time. 2090 2091 If unsure, say N. 2092 2093config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2094 tristate "Min heap test" 2095 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2096 help 2097 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2098 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2099 or at module load time. 2100 2101 If unsure, say N. 2102 2103config TEST_SORT 2104 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2105 depends on KUNIT 2106 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2107 help 2108 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2109 or at module load time. 2110 2111 If unsure, say N. 2112 2113config TEST_DIV64 2114 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2115 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2116 help 2117 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2118 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2119 or at module load time. 2120 2121 If unsure, say N. 2122 2123config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2124 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2126 depends on KPROBES 2127 depends on KUNIT 2128 select STACKTRACE if ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE 2129 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2130 help 2131 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2132 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2133 verified for functionality. 2134 2135 Say N if you are unsure. 2136 2137config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2138 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2140 depends on FPROBE 2141 depends on KUNIT=y 2142 help 2143 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2144 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2145 properly. 2146 2147 Say N if you are unsure. 2148 2149config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2150 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2152 help 2153 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2154 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2155 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2156 developers working on architecture code. 2157 2158 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2159 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2160 2161 Say N if you are unsure. 2162 2163config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2164 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2166 select REF_TRACKER 2167 help 2168 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2169 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2170 2171 Say N if you are unsure. 2172 2173config RBTREE_TEST 2174 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2175 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2176 help 2177 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2178 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2179 2180config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2181 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2182 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2183 select REED_SOLOMON 2184 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2185 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2186 help 2187 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2188 or at module load time. 2189 2190 If unsure, say N. 2191 2192config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2193 tristate "Interval tree test" 2194 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2195 select INTERVAL_TREE 2196 help 2197 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2198 2199config PERCPU_TEST 2200 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2201 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2202 help 2203 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2204 operations. 2205 2206 If unsure, say N. 2207 2208config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2209 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2210 help 2211 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2212 at module load time. 2213 2214 If unsure, say N. 2215 2216config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2217 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2218 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2219 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2220 help 2221 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2222 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2223 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2224 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2225 engine if one is available. 2226 2227 If unsure, say N. 2228 2229config TEST_HEXDUMP 2230 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2231 2232config STRING_SELFTEST 2233 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2234 2235config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2236 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2237 2238config TEST_KSTRTOX 2239 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2240 2241config TEST_PRINTF 2242 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2243 2244config TEST_SCANF 2245 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2246 2247config TEST_BITMAP 2248 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2249 help 2250 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2251 2252 If unsure, say N. 2253 2254config TEST_UUID 2255 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2256 2257config TEST_XARRAY 2258 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2259 2260config TEST_MAPLE_TREE 2261 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2262 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 2263 tristate "Test the Maple Tree code at runtime" 2264 2265config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2266 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2267 help 2268 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2269 2270 If unsure, say N. 2271 2272config TEST_IDA 2273 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2274 2275config TEST_PARMAN 2276 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2277 depends on PARMAN 2278 help 2279 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2280 (or module load). 2281 2282 If unsure, say N. 2283 2284config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2285 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2286 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2287 help 2288 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2289 2290 If unsure, say N. 2291 2292config TEST_LKM 2293 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2294 depends on m 2295 help 2296 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2297 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2298 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2299 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2300 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2301 requested by name. 2302 2303 If unsure, say N. 2304 2305config TEST_BITOPS 2306 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2307 depends on m 2308 help 2309 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2310 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2311 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2312 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2313 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2314 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2315 2316 If unsure, say N. 2317 2318config TEST_VMALLOC 2319 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2320 default n 2321 depends on MMU 2322 depends on m 2323 help 2324 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2325 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2326 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2327 of view. 2328 2329 If unsure, say N. 2330 2331config TEST_USER_COPY 2332 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2333 depends on m 2334 help 2335 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2336 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2337 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2338 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2339 protections. 2340 2341 If unsure, say N. 2342 2343config TEST_BPF 2344 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2345 depends on m && NET 2346 help 2347 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2348 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2349 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2350 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2351 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2352 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2353 2354 If unsure, say N. 2355 2356config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2357 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2358 depends on m && NET 2359 help 2360 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2361 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2362 2363 If unsure, say N. 2364 2365config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2366 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2367 help 2368 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2369 functions performance. 2370 2371 If unsure, say N. 2372 2373config TEST_FIRMWARE 2374 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2375 depends on FW_LOADER 2376 help 2377 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2378 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2379 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2380 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2381 userspace. 2382 2383 If unsure, say N. 2384 2385config TEST_SYSCTL 2386 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2387 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2388 help 2389 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2390 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2391 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2392 2393 If unsure, say N. 2394 2395config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2396 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2397 depends on KUNIT 2398 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2399 help 2400 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2401 2402 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2403 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2404 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2405 production build. 2406 2407 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2408 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2409 2410 If unsure, say N. 2411 2412config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2413 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2414 depends on KUNIT 2415 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2416 help 2417 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2418 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2419 2420 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2421 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2422 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2423 production build. 2424 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 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2429 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2430 2431config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2432 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2433 depends on KUNIT 2434 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2435 help 2436 This builds the resource API unit test. 2437 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2438 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2439 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2440 2441 If unsure, say N. 2442 2443config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2444 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2445 depends on KUNIT 2446 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2447 help 2448 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2449 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2450 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2451 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2452 2453 If unsure, say N. 2454 2455config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2456 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2457 depends on KUNIT 2458 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2459 help 2460 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2461 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2462 and associated macros. 2463 2464 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2465 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2466 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2467 production build. 2468 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 LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2475 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2476 depends on KUNIT 2477 select LINEAR_RANGES 2478 help 2479 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2480 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 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 CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2487 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2488 depends on KUNIT 2489 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2490 help 2491 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2492 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2493 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2494 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2495 2496 If unsure, say N. 2497 2498config BITS_TEST 2499 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2500 depends on KUNIT 2501 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2502 help 2503 This builds the bits unit test. 2504 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 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 SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2511 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2512 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2513 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2514 help 2515 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2516 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2517 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2518 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2519 2520 If unsure, say N. 2521 2522config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2523 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2524 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2525 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2526 help 2527 This builds the rational math unit test. 2528 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2529 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2530 2531 If unsure, say N. 2532 2533config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2534 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2535 depends on KUNIT 2536 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2537 help 2538 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2539 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2540 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2541 2542 If unsure, say N. 2543 2544config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2545 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2546 depends on KUNIT 2547 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2548 help 2549 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2550 2551 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2552 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2553 2554 If unsure, say N. 2555 2556config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2557 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2558 depends on KUNIT 2559 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2560 help 2561 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2562 related functions. 2563 2564 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2565 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2566 2567 If unsure, say N. 2568 2569config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2570 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2571 depends on KUNIT 2572 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2573 help 2574 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2575 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2576 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2577 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2578 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2579 2580config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2581 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2582 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2583 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2584 help 2585 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2586 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2587 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2588 2589config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2590 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2591 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2592 depends on KUNIT=y 2593 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2594 help 2595 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2596 2597 If unsure, say N. 2598 2599config STRSCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2600 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2601 depends on KUNIT 2602 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2603 2604config SIPHASH_KUNIT_TEST 2605 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2606 depends on KUNIT 2607 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2608 help 2609 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2610 functions on boot (or module load). 2611 2612 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2613 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2614 2615config TEST_UDELAY 2616 tristate "udelay test driver" 2617 help 2618 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2619 that udelay() is working properly. 2620 2621 If unsure, say N. 2622 2623config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2624 tristate "Test static keys" 2625 depends on m 2626 help 2627 Test the static key interfaces. 2628 2629 If unsure, say N. 2630 2631config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2632 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2633 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2634 help 2635 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2636 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2637 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2638 2639 If unsure, say N. 2640 2641config TEST_KMOD 2642 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2643 depends on m 2644 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2645 depends on BLOCK 2646 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2647 select TEST_LKM 2648 select XFS_FS 2649 select TUN 2650 select BTRFS_FS 2651 help 2652 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2653 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2654 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2655 2656 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2657 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2658 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2659 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2660 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2661 2662 To run tests run: 2663 2664 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2665 2666 If unsure, say N. 2667 2668config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2669 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2670 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2671 help 2672 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2673 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2674 kernel's virtual address map. 2675 2676 If unsure, say N. 2677 2678config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2679 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2680 help 2681 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2682 pointer arrays together. 2683 2684 If unsure, say N. 2685 2686config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2687 tristate "Test livepatching" 2688 default n 2689 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2690 depends on LIVEPATCH 2691 depends on m 2692 help 2693 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2694 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2695 2696 To run all the livepatching tests: 2697 2698 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2699 2700 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2701 2702 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2703 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2704 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2705 2706 If unsure, say N. 2707 2708config TEST_OBJAGG 2709 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2710 default n 2711 depends on OBJAGG 2712 help 2713 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2714 (or module load). 2715 2716config TEST_MEMINIT 2717 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2718 help 2719 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2720 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2721 2722 If unsure, say N. 2723 2724config TEST_HMM 2725 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2726 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2727 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2728 select HMM_MIRROR 2729 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2730 help 2731 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2732 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2733 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2734 2735 If unsure, say N. 2736 2737config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2738 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2739 help 2740 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2741 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2742 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2743 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2744 probably OOM your system. 2745 2746config TEST_FPU 2747 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2748 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2749 help 2750 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2751 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2752 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2753 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2754 2755 If unsure, say N. 2756 2757config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2758 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2759 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2760 help 2761 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2762 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2763 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2764 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2765 shortly after boot. 2766 2767 If unsure, say N. 2768 2769endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2770 2771config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2772 bool 2773 help 2774 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2775 during boot process. 2776 2777config MEMTEST 2778 bool "Memtest" 2779 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2780 help 2781 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2782 to be set and executed. 2783 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2784 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2785 ... 2786 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2787 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2788 2789 2790 2791config HYPERV_TESTING 2792 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2793 default n 2794 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2795 help 2796 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2797 2798endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2799 2800menu "Rust hacking" 2801 2802config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2803 bool "Debug assertions" 2804 depends on RUST 2805 help 2806 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2807 2808 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2809 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2810 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2811 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2812 2813 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2814 2815 If unsure, say N. 2816 2817config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2818 bool "Overflow checks" 2819 default y 2820 depends on RUST 2821 help 2822 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2823 2824 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2825 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2826 on overflow. 2827 2828 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2829 2830 If unsure, say Y. 2831 2832config RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW 2833 bool "Allow unoptimized build-time assertions" 2834 depends on RUST 2835 help 2836 Controls how are `build_error!` and `build_assert!` handled during build. 2837 2838 If calls to them exist in the binary, it may indicate a violated invariant 2839 or that the optimizer failed to verify the invariant during compilation. 2840 2841 This should not happen, thus by default the build is aborted. However, 2842 as an escape hatch, you can choose Y here to ignore them during build 2843 and let the check be carried at runtime (with `panic!` being called if 2844 the check fails). 2845 2846 If unsure, say N. 2847 2848endmenu # "Rust" 2849 2850source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2851 2852endmenu # Kernel hacking 2853