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 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 399 default 2048 if PARISC 400 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 401 default 1024 if !64BIT 402 default 2048 if 64BIT 403 help 404 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 405 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 406 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 407 408config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 409 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 410 default n 411 help 412 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 413 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 414 get_wchan() and suchlike. 415 416config READABLE_ASM 417 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 418 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 419 depends on CC_IS_GCC 420 help 421 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 422 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 423 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 424 sane. 425 426config HEADERS_INSTALL 427 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 428 depends on !UML 429 help 430 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 431 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 432 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 433 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 434 as uapi header sanity checks. 435 436config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 437 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 438 depends on CC_IS_GCC 439 help 440 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 441 references from one section to another section. 442 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 443 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 444 most likely result in an oops. 445 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 446 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 447 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 448 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 449 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 450 additional step to occur: 451 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 452 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 453 function, we would lose the section information and thus 454 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 455 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 456 a larger kernel). 457 458config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 459 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 460 default y 461 help 462 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 463 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 464 465 If unsure, say Y. 466 467config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 468 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 469 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 470 help 471 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 472 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 473 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 474 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 475 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 476 477 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 478 479# 480# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 481# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 482# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 483# 484config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 485 bool 486 487config FRAME_POINTER 488 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 489 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 490 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 491 help 492 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 493 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 494 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 495 496config OBJTOOL 497 bool 498 499config STACK_VALIDATION 500 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 501 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 502 select OBJTOOL 503 default n 504 help 505 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 506 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 507 508 For more information, see 509 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 510 511config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 512 bool 513 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 514 select OBJTOOL 515 default y 516 517config VMLINUX_MAP 518 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 519 depends on EXPERT 520 help 521 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 522 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 523 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 524 pieces of code get eliminated with 525 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 526 527config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 528 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 530 help 531 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 532 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 533 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 534 definitions. 535 536 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 537 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 538 539 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 540 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 541 542endmenu # "Compiler options" 543 544menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 545 546config MAGIC_SYSRQ 547 bool "Magic SysRq key" 548 depends on !UML 549 help 550 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 551 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 552 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 553 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 554 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 555 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 556 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 557 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 558 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 559 560config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 561 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 562 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 563 default 0x1 564 help 565 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 566 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 567 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 568 569config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 570 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 571 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 572 default y 573 help 574 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 575 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 576 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 577 magic SysRq key. 578 579config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 580 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 581 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 582 default "" 583 help 584 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 585 SysRq on a serial console. 586 587 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 588 589config DEBUG_FS 590 bool "Debug Filesystem" 591 help 592 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 593 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 594 write to these files. 595 596 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 597 Documentation/filesystems/. 598 599 If unsure, say N. 600 601choice 602 prompt "Debugfs default access" 603 depends on DEBUG_FS 604 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 605 help 606 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 607 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 608 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 609 and filesystem registration. 610 611config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 612 bool "Access normal" 613 help 614 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 615 is on. This is the normal default operation. 616 617config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 618 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 619 help 620 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 621 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 622 debugfs filesystem. 623 624config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 625 bool "No access" 626 help 627 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 628 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 629 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 630 631endchoice 632 633source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 634source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 635source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 636 637endmenu 638 639menu "Networking Debugging" 640 641source "net/Kconfig.debug" 642 643endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 644 645menu "Memory Debugging" 646 647source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 648 649config DEBUG_OBJECTS 650 bool "Debug object operations" 651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 652 help 653 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 654 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 655 the operations on those objects. 656 657config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 658 bool "Debug objects selftest" 659 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 660 help 661 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 662 663config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 664 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 665 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 666 help 667 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 668 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 669 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 670 much slower. 671 672config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 673 bool "Debug timer objects" 674 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 675 help 676 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 677 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 678 validate the timer operations. 679 680config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 681 bool "Debug work objects" 682 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 683 help 684 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 685 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 686 validate the work operations. 687 688config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 689 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 690 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 691 help 692 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 693 694config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 695 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 696 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 697 help 698 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 699 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 700 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 701 702config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 703 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 704 range 0 1 705 default "1" 706 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 707 help 708 Debug objects boot parameter default value 709 710config SHRINKER_DEBUG 711 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 712 depends on DEBUG_FS 713 help 714 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 715 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 716 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 717 718config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 719 bool 720 721config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 722 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 724 select DEBUG_FS 725 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 726 select KALLSYMS 727 select CRC32 728 help 729 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 730 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 731 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 732 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 733 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 734 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 735 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 736 details. 737 738 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 739 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 740 741 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 742 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 743 744config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 745 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 746 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 747 range 200 1000000 748 default 16000 749 help 750 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 751 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 752 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 753 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 754 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 755 if slab allocations fail. 756 757config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 758 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 759 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 760 help 761 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 762 763 If unsure, say N. 764 765config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 766 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 767 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 768 help 769 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 770 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 771 772config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 773 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 774 default y 775 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 776 help 777 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 778 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 779 kmemleak scan at boot up. 780 781 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 782 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 783 memory leaks. 784 785 If unsure, say Y. 786 787config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 788 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 789 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 790 help 791 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 792 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 793 794 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 795 796config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 797 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 798 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 799 default n 800 help 801 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 802 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 803 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 804 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 805 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 806 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 807 808config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 809 bool 810 help 811 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 812 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 813 814config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 815 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 816 817config DEBUG_VM 818 bool "Debug VM" 819 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 820 help 821 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 822 that may impact performance. 823 824 If unsure, say N. 825 826config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE 827 bool "Debug VM maple trees" 828 depends on DEBUG_VM 829 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 830 help 831 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 832 833 If unsure, say N. 834 835config DEBUG_VM_RB 836 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 837 depends on DEBUG_VM 838 help 839 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 840 841 If unsure, say N. 842 843config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 844 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 845 depends on DEBUG_VM 846 help 847 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 848 849 If unsure, say N. 850 851config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 852 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 853 depends on MMU 854 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 855 default y if DEBUG_VM 856 help 857 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 858 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 859 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 860 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 861 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 862 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 863 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 864 865 If unsure, say N. 866 867config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 868 bool 869 870config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 871 bool "Debug VM translations" 872 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 873 help 874 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 875 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 876 877 If unsure, say N. 878 879config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 880 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 882 help 883 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 884 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 885 886config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 887 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 888 default !EXPERT 889 help 890 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 891 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 892 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 893 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 894 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 895 896 If unsure, say Y 897 898config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 899 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 900 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 901 help 902 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 903 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 904 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 905 906 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 907 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 908 909 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 910 911 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 912 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 913 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 914 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 915 916 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 917 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 918 919 If unsure, say N. 920 921config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 922 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 923 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 924 depends on SMP 925 help 926 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 927 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 928 and decreases performance. 929 930 Say N if unsure. 931 932config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 933 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 935 help 936 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 937 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 938 939config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 940 bool 941 942config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 943 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 944 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 945 select KMAP_LOCAL 946 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 947 help 948 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 949 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 950 Disable this for production systems! 951 952config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 953 bool "Highmem debugging" 954 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 955 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 956 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 957 help 958 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 959 systems. Disable for production systems. 960 961config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 962 bool 963 964config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 965 bool "Check for stack overflows" 966 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 967 help 968 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 969 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 970 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 971 below a certain limit. 972 973 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 974 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 975 involved. 976 977 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 978 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 979 980 If in doubt, say "N". 981 982source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 983source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 984source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" 985 986endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 987 988config DEBUG_SHIRQ 989 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 990 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 991 help 992 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 993 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 994 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 995 don't and need to be caught. 996 997menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 998 999config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1000 bool "Panic on Oops" 1001 help 1002 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1003 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1004 line. 1005 1006 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1007 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1008 corruption or other issues. 1009 1010 Say N if unsure. 1011 1012config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1013 int 1014 range 0 1 1015 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1016 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1017 1018config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1019 int "panic timeout" 1020 default 0 1021 help 1022 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1023 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1024 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1025 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1026 1027config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1028 bool 1029 1030config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1031 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1033 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1034 help 1035 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1036 soft lockups. 1037 1038 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1039 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1040 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1041 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1042 1043config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1044 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1045 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1046 help 1047 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1048 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1049 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1050 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1051 1052 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1053 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1054 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1055 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1056 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1057 1058 Say N if unsure. 1059 1060config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1061 bool 1062 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1063 1064# 1065# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1066# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1067# 1068config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1069 bool 1070 1071# 1072# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1073# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1074# 1075config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1076 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1077 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1078 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1079 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1080 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1081 help 1082 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1083 hard lockups. 1084 1085 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1086 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1087 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1088 and the system will stay locked up. 1089 1090config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1091 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1092 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1093 help 1094 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1095 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1096 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1097 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1098 1099 Say N if unsure. 1100 1101config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1102 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1103 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1104 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1105 help 1106 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1107 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1108 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1109 1110 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1111 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1112 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1113 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1114 feature has negligible overhead. 1115 1116config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1117 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1118 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1119 default 120 1120 help 1121 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1122 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1123 be considered hung. 1124 1125 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1126 sysctl or by writing a value to 1127 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1128 1129 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1130 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1131 1132config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1133 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1134 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1135 help 1136 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1137 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1138 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1139 1140 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1141 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1142 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1143 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1144 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1145 1146 Say N if unsure. 1147 1148config WQ_WATCHDOG 1149 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1151 help 1152 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1153 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1154 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1155 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1156 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1157 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1158 1159config TEST_LOCKUP 1160 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1161 depends on m 1162 help 1163 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1164 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1165 1166 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1167 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1168 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1169 1170 If unsure, say N. 1171 1172endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1173 1174menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1175 1176config SCHED_DEBUG 1177 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1178 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1179 default y 1180 help 1181 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1182 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1183 option is minimal. 1184 1185config SCHED_INFO 1186 bool 1187 default n 1188 1189config SCHEDSTATS 1190 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1192 select SCHED_INFO 1193 help 1194 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1195 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1196 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1197 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1198 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1199 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1200 this adds. 1201 1202endmenu 1203 1204config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1205 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1206 help 1207 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1208 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1209 problems are suspected. 1210 1211 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1212 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1213 workloads. 1214 1215 If unsure, say N. 1216 1217config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1218 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1219 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1220 default y 1221 help 1222 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1223 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1224 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1225 will detect preemption count underflows. 1226 1227menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1228 1229config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1230 bool 1231 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1232 default y 1233 1234config PROVE_LOCKING 1235 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1237 select LOCKDEP 1238 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1239 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1240 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1241 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1242 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1243 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1244 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1245 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1246 default n 1247 help 1248 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1249 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1250 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1251 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1252 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1253 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1254 deadlock. 1255 1256 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1257 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1258 1259 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1260 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1261 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1262 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1263 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1264 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1265 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1266 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1267 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1268 1269 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1270 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1271 kernel reports nothing. 1272 1273 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1274 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1275 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1276 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1277 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1278 1279 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1280 1281config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1282 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1283 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1284 default n 1285 help 1286 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1287 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1288 not violated. 1289 1290 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1291 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1292 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1293 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1294 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1295 1296 If unsure, select N. 1297 1298config LOCK_STAT 1299 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1300 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1301 select LOCKDEP 1302 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1303 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1304 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1305 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1306 default n 1307 help 1308 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1309 1310 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1311 1312 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1313 subcommand of perf. 1314 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1315 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1316 1317 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1318 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1319 1320config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1321 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1323 help 1324 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1325 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1326 1327config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1328 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1329 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1330 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1331 help 1332 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1333 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1334 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1335 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1336 1337config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1338 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1340 help 1341 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1342 reported. 1343 1344config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1345 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1346 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1347 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1348 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1349 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1350 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1351 help 1352 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1353 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1354 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1355 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1356 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1357 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1358 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1359 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1360 you are a distro, do not. 1361 1362config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1363 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1365 help 1366 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1367 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1368 1369config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1370 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1372 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1373 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1374 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1375 select LOCKDEP 1376 help 1377 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1378 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1379 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1380 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1381 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1382 held during task exit. 1383 1384config LOCKDEP 1385 bool 1386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1387 select STACKTRACE 1388 select KALLSYMS 1389 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1390 1391config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1392 bool 1393 1394config LOCKDEP_BITS 1395 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1396 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1397 range 10 30 1398 default 15 1399 help 1400 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1401 1402config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1403 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1404 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1405 range 10 30 1406 default 16 1407 help 1408 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1409 1410config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1411 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1412 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1413 range 10 30 1414 default 19 1415 help 1416 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1417 1418config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1419 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1420 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1421 range 10 30 1422 default 14 1423 help 1424 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1425 1426config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1427 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1428 depends on LOCKDEP 1429 range 10 30 1430 default 12 1431 help 1432 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1433 1434config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1435 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1437 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1438 help 1439 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1440 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1441 of more runtime overhead. 1442 1443config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1444 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1445 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1447 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1448 help 1449 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1450 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1451 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1452 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1453 1454config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1455 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1456 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1457 help 1458 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1459 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1460 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1461 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1462 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1463 mutexes and rwsems. 1464 1465config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1466 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1468 select TORTURE_TEST 1469 help 1470 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1471 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1472 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1473 1474 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1475 to be built into the kernel. 1476 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1477 Say N if you are unsure. 1478 1479config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1480 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1481 help 1482 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1483 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1484 1485 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1486 with this test harness. 1487 1488 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1489 Say N if you are unsure. 1490 1491config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1492 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1494 select TORTURE_TEST 1495 help 1496 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1497 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1498 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1499 be tested, if desired. 1500 1501config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1502 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1504 depends on 64BIT 1505 default n 1506 help 1507 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1508 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1509 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1510 and relevant stack traces. 1511 1512endmenu # lock debugging 1513 1514config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1515 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1516 bool 1517 help 1518 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1519 either tracing or lock debugging. 1520 1521config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1522 def_bool y 1523 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1524 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1525 1526config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1527 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1528 help 1529 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1530 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1531 are enabled. 1532 1533config STACKTRACE 1534 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1535 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1536 help 1537 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1538 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1539 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1540 stack trace generation. 1541 1542config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1543 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1544 default n 1545 help 1546 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1547 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1548 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1549 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1550 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1551 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1552 it. 1553 1554 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1555 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1556 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1557 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1558 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1559 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1560 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1561 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1562 1563 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1564 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1565 those developers interested in improving the security of 1566 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1567 subarchitecture). 1568 1569config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1570 bool "kobject debugging" 1571 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1572 help 1573 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1574 to the syslog. 1575 1576config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1577 bool "kobject release debugging" 1578 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1579 help 1580 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1581 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1582 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1583 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1584 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1585 unregistered. 1586 1587 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1588 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1589 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1590 1591 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1592 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1593 kind of kobject release bug. 1594 1595config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1596 bool 1597 1598menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1599 1600config DEBUG_LIST 1601 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1602 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1603 help 1604 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1605 walking routines. 1606 1607 If unsure, say N. 1608 1609config DEBUG_PLIST 1610 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1611 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1612 help 1613 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1614 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1615 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1616 1617 If unsure, say N. 1618 1619config DEBUG_SG 1620 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1621 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1622 help 1623 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1624 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1625 their sg tables. 1626 1627 If unsure, say N. 1628 1629config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1630 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1632 help 1633 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1634 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1635 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1636 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1637 performance, say N. 1638 1639config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1640 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1641 select DEBUG_LIST 1642 help 1643 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1644 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1645 for validity. 1646 1647 If unsure, say N. 1648 1649config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE 1650 bool "Debug maple trees" 1651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1652 help 1653 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations. 1654 1655 If unsure, say N. 1656 1657endmenu 1658 1659config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1660 bool "Debug credential management" 1661 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1662 help 1663 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1664 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1665 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1666 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1667 struct. 1668 1669 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1670 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1671 1672 If unsure, say N. 1673 1674source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1675 1676config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1677 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1679 default n 1680 help 1681 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1682 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1683 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1684 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1685 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1686 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1687 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1688 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1689 be impacted. 1690 1691config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1692 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1694 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1695 default n 1696 help 1697 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1698 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1699 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1700 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1701 1702 Say N if your are unsure. 1703 1704config LATENCYTOP 1705 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1707 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1708 depends on PROC_FS 1709 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1710 select KALLSYMS 1711 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1712 select STACKTRACE 1713 select SCHEDSTATS 1714 help 1715 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1716 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1717 1718source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1719 1720config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1721 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1722 depends on PCI && X86 1723 help 1724 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1725 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1726 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1727 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1728 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1729 1730 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1731 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1732 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1733 1734 Usage: 1735 1736 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1737 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1738 1739 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1740 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1741 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1742 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1743 1744 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1745 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1746 1747 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1748 1749source "samples/Kconfig" 1750 1751config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1752 bool 1753 1754config STRICT_DEVMEM 1755 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1756 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1757 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1758 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1759 help 1760 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1761 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1762 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1763 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1764 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1765 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1766 1767 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1768 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1769 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1770 users of /dev/mem. 1771 1772 If in doubt, say Y. 1773 1774config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1775 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1776 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1777 help 1778 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1779 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1780 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1781 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1782 1783 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1784 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1785 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1786 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1787 1788 If in doubt, say Y. 1789 1790menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1791 1792source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1793 1794endmenu 1795 1796menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1797 1798source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1799 1800config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1801 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1802 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1803 select DEBUG_FS 1804 help 1805 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1806 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1807 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1808 1809 Say N if unsure. 1810 1811config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1812 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1813 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1814 default m if PM_DEBUG 1815 help 1816 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1817 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1818 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1819 1820 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1821 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1822 1823 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1824 1825 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1826 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1827 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1828 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1829 1830 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1831 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1832 1833 If unsure, say N. 1834 1835config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1836 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1837 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1838 help 1839 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1840 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1841 through debugfs interface under 1842 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1843 1844 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1845 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1846 1847 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1848 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1849 1850 If unsure, say N. 1851 1852config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1853 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1854 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1855 help 1856 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1857 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1858 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1859 1860 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1861 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1862 1863 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1864 1865 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1866 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1867 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1868 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1869 1870 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1871 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1872 1873 If unsure, say N. 1874 1875config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1876 def_bool y 1877 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1878 1879config FAULT_INJECTION 1880 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1882 help 1883 Provide fault-injection framework. 1884 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1885 1886config FAILSLAB 1887 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1888 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1889 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1890 help 1891 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1892 1893config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1894 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1896 help 1897 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1898 1899config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1900 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1901 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1902 help 1903 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1904 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1905 1906config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1909 help 1910 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1911 1912config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1913 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1914 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1915 help 1916 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1917 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1918 thus exercising the error handling. 1919 1920 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1921 for others it won't do anything. 1922 1923config FAIL_FUTEX 1924 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1925 select DEBUG_FS 1926 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1927 help 1928 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1929 1930config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1931 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1932 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1933 help 1934 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1935 1936config FAIL_FUNCTION 1937 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1938 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1939 help 1940 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1941 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1942 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1943 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1944 error handling in various subsystems. 1945 1946config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1947 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1948 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1949 help 1950 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1951 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1952 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1953 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1954 the block device. 1955 1956config FAIL_SUNRPC 1957 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1958 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1959 help 1960 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1961 its consumers. 1962 1963config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1964 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1965 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1966 depends on !X86_64 1967 select STACKTRACE 1968 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1969 help 1970 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1971 1972config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1973 bool 1974 help 1975 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1976 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1977 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1978 1979config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1980 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1981 1982 1983config KCOV 1984 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1985 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1986 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1987 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1988 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1989 select DEBUG_FS 1990 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1991 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1992 help 1993 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1994 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1995 1996 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1997 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1998 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1999 2000 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2001 2002config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2003 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2004 depends on KCOV 2005 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2006 help 2007 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2008 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2009 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2010 of fuzzing coverage. 2011 2012config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2013 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2014 depends on KCOV 2015 default y 2016 help 2017 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2018 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2019 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2020 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2021 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2022 2023config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2024 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2025 depends on KCOV 2026 default 0x40000 2027 help 2028 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2029 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2030 number of unsigned long words. 2031 2032menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2033 bool "Runtime Testing" 2034 def_bool y 2035 2036if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2037 2038config LKDTM 2039 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2040 depends on DEBUG_FS 2041 help 2042 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2043 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2044 If you don't need it: say N 2045 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2046 called lkdtm. 2047 2048 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2049 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2050 2051config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2052 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2053 depends on KUNIT 2054 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2055 help 2056 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2057 2058 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2059 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2060 2061 If unsure, say N. 2062 2063config TEST_LIST_SORT 2064 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2065 depends on KUNIT 2066 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2067 help 2068 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2069 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2070 or at module load time. 2071 2072 If unsure, say N. 2073 2074config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2075 tristate "Min heap test" 2076 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2077 help 2078 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2079 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2080 or at module load time. 2081 2082 If unsure, say N. 2083 2084config TEST_SORT 2085 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2086 depends on KUNIT 2087 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2088 help 2089 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2090 or at module load time. 2091 2092 If unsure, say N. 2093 2094config TEST_DIV64 2095 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2096 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2097 help 2098 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2099 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2100 or at module load time. 2101 2102 If unsure, say N. 2103 2104config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2105 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2107 depends on KPROBES 2108 depends on KUNIT 2109 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2110 help 2111 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2112 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2113 verified for functionality. 2114 2115 Say N if you are unsure. 2116 2117config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2118 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2119 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2120 depends on FPROBE 2121 depends on KUNIT=y 2122 help 2123 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2124 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2125 properly. 2126 2127 Say N if you are unsure. 2128 2129config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2130 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2132 help 2133 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2134 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2135 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2136 developers working on architecture code. 2137 2138 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2139 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2140 2141 Say N if you are unsure. 2142 2143config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2144 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2146 select REF_TRACKER 2147 help 2148 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2149 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2150 2151 Say N if you are unsure. 2152 2153config RBTREE_TEST 2154 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2156 help 2157 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2158 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2159 2160config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2161 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2163 select REED_SOLOMON 2164 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2165 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2166 help 2167 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2168 or at module load time. 2169 2170 If unsure, say N. 2171 2172config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2173 tristate "Interval tree test" 2174 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2175 select INTERVAL_TREE 2176 help 2177 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2178 2179config PERCPU_TEST 2180 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2181 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2182 help 2183 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2184 operations. 2185 2186 If unsure, say N. 2187 2188config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2189 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2190 help 2191 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2192 at module load time. 2193 2194 If unsure, say N. 2195 2196config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2197 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2198 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2199 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2200 help 2201 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2202 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2203 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2204 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2205 engine if one is available. 2206 2207 If unsure, say N. 2208 2209config TEST_HEXDUMP 2210 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2211 2212config STRING_SELFTEST 2213 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2214 2215config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2216 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2217 2218config TEST_STRSCPY 2219 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2220 2221config TEST_KSTRTOX 2222 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2223 2224config TEST_PRINTF 2225 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2226 2227config TEST_SCANF 2228 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2229 2230config TEST_BITMAP 2231 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2232 help 2233 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2234 2235 If unsure, say N. 2236 2237config TEST_UUID 2238 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2239 2240config TEST_XARRAY 2241 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2242 2243config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2244 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2245 help 2246 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2247 2248 If unsure, say N. 2249 2250config TEST_SIPHASH 2251 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2252 help 2253 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2254 functions on boot (or module load). 2255 2256 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2257 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2258 2259config TEST_IDA 2260 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2261 2262config TEST_PARMAN 2263 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2264 depends on PARMAN 2265 help 2266 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2267 (or module load). 2268 2269 If unsure, say N. 2270 2271config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2272 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2273 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2274 help 2275 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2276 2277 If unsure, say N. 2278 2279config TEST_LKM 2280 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2281 depends on m 2282 help 2283 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2284 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2285 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2286 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2287 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2288 requested by name. 2289 2290 If unsure, say N. 2291 2292config TEST_BITOPS 2293 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2294 depends on m 2295 help 2296 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2297 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2298 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2299 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2300 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2301 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2302 2303 If unsure, say N. 2304 2305config TEST_VMALLOC 2306 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2307 default n 2308 depends on MMU 2309 depends on m 2310 help 2311 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2312 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2313 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2314 of view. 2315 2316 If unsure, say N. 2317 2318config TEST_USER_COPY 2319 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2320 depends on m 2321 help 2322 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2323 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2324 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2325 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2326 protections. 2327 2328 If unsure, say N. 2329 2330config TEST_BPF 2331 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2332 depends on m && NET 2333 help 2334 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2335 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2336 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2337 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2338 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2339 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2340 2341 If unsure, say N. 2342 2343config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2344 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2345 depends on m && NET 2346 help 2347 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2348 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2349 2350 If unsure, say N. 2351 2352config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2353 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2354 help 2355 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2356 functions performance. 2357 2358 If unsure, say N. 2359 2360config TEST_FIRMWARE 2361 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2362 depends on FW_LOADER 2363 help 2364 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2365 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2366 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2367 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2368 userspace. 2369 2370 If unsure, say N. 2371 2372config TEST_SYSCTL 2373 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2374 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2375 help 2376 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2377 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2378 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2379 2380 If unsure, say N. 2381 2382config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2383 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2384 depends on KUNIT 2385 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2386 help 2387 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2388 2389 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2390 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2391 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2392 production build. 2393 2394 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2395 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2396 2397 If unsure, say N. 2398 2399config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2400 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2401 depends on KUNIT 2402 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2403 help 2404 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2405 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2406 2407 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2408 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2409 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2410 production build. 2411 2412 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2413 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2414 2415 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2416 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2417 2418config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2419 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2420 depends on KUNIT 2421 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2422 help 2423 This builds the resource API unit test. 2424 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2425 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2426 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2427 2428 If unsure, say N. 2429 2430config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2431 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2432 depends on KUNIT 2433 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2434 help 2435 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2436 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2437 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2438 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2439 2440 If unsure, say N. 2441 2442config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2443 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2444 depends on KUNIT 2445 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2446 help 2447 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2448 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2449 and associated macros. 2450 2451 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2452 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2453 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2454 production build. 2455 2456 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2457 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2458 2459 If unsure, say N. 2460 2461config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2462 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2463 depends on KUNIT 2464 select LINEAR_RANGES 2465 help 2466 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2467 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2468 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2469 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2470 2471 If unsure, say N. 2472 2473config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2474 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2475 depends on KUNIT 2476 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2477 help 2478 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2479 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2480 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2481 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2482 2483 If unsure, say N. 2484 2485config BITS_TEST 2486 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2487 depends on KUNIT 2488 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2489 help 2490 This builds the bits unit test. 2491 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2492 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2493 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2494 2495 If unsure, say N. 2496 2497config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2498 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2499 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2500 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2501 help 2502 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2503 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2504 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2505 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2506 2507 If unsure, say N. 2508 2509config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2510 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2511 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2512 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2513 help 2514 This builds the rational math unit test. 2515 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2516 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2517 2518 If unsure, say N. 2519 2520config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2521 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2522 depends on KUNIT 2523 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2524 help 2525 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2526 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2527 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2528 2529 If unsure, say N. 2530 2531config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2532 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2533 depends on KUNIT 2534 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2535 help 2536 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2537 2538 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2539 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2540 2541 If unsure, say N. 2542 2543config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2544 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2545 depends on KUNIT 2546 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2547 help 2548 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2549 related functions. 2550 2551 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2552 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2553 2554 If unsure, say N. 2555 2556config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2557 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2558 depends on KUNIT 2559 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2560 help 2561 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2562 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2563 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2564 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2565 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2566 2567config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2568 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2569 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2570 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2571 help 2572 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2573 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2574 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2575 2576config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2577 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2578 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2579 depends on KUNIT=y 2580 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2581 help 2582 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2583 2584 If unsure, say N. 2585 2586config TEST_UDELAY 2587 tristate "udelay test driver" 2588 help 2589 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2590 that udelay() is working properly. 2591 2592 If unsure, say N. 2593 2594config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2595 tristate "Test static keys" 2596 depends on m 2597 help 2598 Test the static key interfaces. 2599 2600 If unsure, say N. 2601 2602config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2603 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2604 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2605 help 2606 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2607 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2608 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2609 2610 If unsure, say N. 2611 2612config TEST_KMOD 2613 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2614 depends on m 2615 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2616 depends on BLOCK 2617 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2618 select TEST_LKM 2619 select XFS_FS 2620 select TUN 2621 select BTRFS_FS 2622 help 2623 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2624 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2625 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2626 2627 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2628 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2629 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2630 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2631 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2632 2633 To run tests run: 2634 2635 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2636 2637 If unsure, say N. 2638 2639config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2640 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2641 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2642 help 2643 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2644 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2645 kernel's virtual address map. 2646 2647 If unsure, say N. 2648 2649config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2650 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2651 help 2652 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2653 pointer arrays together. 2654 2655 If unsure, say N. 2656 2657config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2658 tristate "Test livepatching" 2659 default n 2660 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2661 depends on LIVEPATCH 2662 depends on m 2663 help 2664 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2665 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2666 2667 To run all the livepatching tests: 2668 2669 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2670 2671 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2672 2673 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2674 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2675 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2676 2677 If unsure, say N. 2678 2679config TEST_OBJAGG 2680 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2681 default n 2682 depends on OBJAGG 2683 help 2684 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2685 (or module load). 2686 2687config TEST_MEMINIT 2688 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2689 help 2690 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2691 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2692 2693 If unsure, say N. 2694 2695config TEST_HMM 2696 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2697 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2698 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2699 select HMM_MIRROR 2700 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2701 help 2702 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2703 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2704 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2705 2706 If unsure, say N. 2707 2708config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2709 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2710 help 2711 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2712 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2713 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2714 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2715 probably OOM your system. 2716 2717config TEST_FPU 2718 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2719 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2720 help 2721 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2722 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2723 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2724 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2725 2726 If unsure, say N. 2727 2728config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2729 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2730 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2731 help 2732 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2733 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2734 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2735 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2736 shortly after boot. 2737 2738 If unsure, say N. 2739 2740endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2741 2742config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2743 bool 2744 help 2745 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2746 during boot process. 2747 2748config MEMTEST 2749 bool "Memtest" 2750 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2751 help 2752 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2753 to be set and executed. 2754 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2755 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2756 ... 2757 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2758 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2759 2760 2761 2762config HYPERV_TESTING 2763 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2764 default n 2765 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2766 help 2767 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2768 2769endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2770 2771menu "Rust hacking" 2772 2773config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2774 bool "Debug assertions" 2775 depends on RUST 2776 help 2777 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2778 2779 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2780 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2781 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2782 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2783 2784 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2785 2786 If unsure, say N. 2787 2788config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2789 bool "Overflow checks" 2790 default y 2791 depends on RUST 2792 help 2793 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2794 2795 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2796 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2797 on overflow. 2798 2799 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2800 2801 If unsure, say Y. 2802 2803endmenu # "Rust" 2804 2805source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2806 2807endmenu # Kernel hacking 2808