1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234choice 235 prompt "Debug information" 236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 237 help 238 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 239 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 240 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 241 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 242 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 243 244 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 245 select "Toolchain default". 246 247config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 248 bool "Disable debug information" 249 help 250 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 251 result in a faster and smaller build. 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 254 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 255 select DEBUG_INFO 256 help 257 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 258 toolchain changes over time. 259 260 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 261 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 262 those should be less common scenarios. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 265 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 266 select DEBUG_INFO 267 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 268 help 269 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 270 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 271 272 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 273 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 274 config select this. 275 276config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 277 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 278 select DEBUG_INFO 279 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 280 help 281 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 282 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 283 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 284 285 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 286 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 287 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 288 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 289 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 290 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 291 support DWARF Version 5. 292 293endchoice # "Debug information" 294 295if DEBUG_INFO 296 297config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 298 bool "Reduce debugging information" 299 help 300 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 301 information for structure types. This means that tools that 302 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 303 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 304 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 305 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 306 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 307 Only works with newer gcc versions. 308 309config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 310 bool "Compressed debugging information" 311 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 312 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 313 help 314 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 315 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 316 317 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 318 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 319 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 320 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 321 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 322 larger. 323 324config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 325 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 326 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 327 help 328 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 329 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 330 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 331 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 332 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 333 334 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 335 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 336 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 337 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 338 339config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 340 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 341 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 342 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 343 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 344 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 345 help 346 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 347 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 348 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 349 350config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 351 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 352 353config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 354 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 355 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 356 help 357 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 358 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 359 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 360 361config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 362 def_bool y 363 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 364 help 365 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 366 367config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 368 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 369 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 370 help 371 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 372 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 373 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 374 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 375 it when a mismatch is found. 376 377config GDB_SCRIPTS 378 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 379 help 380 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 381 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 382 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 383 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 384 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 385 for further details. 386 387endif # DEBUG_INFO 388 389config FRAME_WARN 390 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 391 range 0 8192 392 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 393 default 2048 if PARISC 394 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 395 default 1024 if !64BIT 396 default 2048 if 64BIT 397 help 398 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 399 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 400 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 401 402config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 403 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 404 default n 405 help 406 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 407 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 408 get_wchan() and suchlike. 409 410config READABLE_ASM 411 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 413 depends on CC_IS_GCC 414 help 415 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 416 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 417 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 418 sane. 419 420config HEADERS_INSTALL 421 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 422 depends on !UML 423 help 424 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 425 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 426 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 427 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 428 as uapi header sanity checks. 429 430config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 431 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 432 depends on CC_IS_GCC 433 help 434 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 435 references from one section to another section. 436 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 437 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 438 most likely result in an oops. 439 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 440 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 441 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 442 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 443 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 444 additional step to occur: 445 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 446 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 447 function, we would lose the section information and thus 448 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 449 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 450 a larger kernel). 451 452config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 453 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 454 default y 455 help 456 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 457 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 458 459 If unsure, say Y. 460 461config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 462 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 463 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 464 help 465 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 466 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 467 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 468 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 469 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 470 471 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 472 473# 474# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 475# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 476# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 477# 478config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 479 bool 480 481config FRAME_POINTER 482 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 484 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 485 help 486 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 487 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 488 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 489 490config OBJTOOL 491 bool 492 493config STACK_VALIDATION 494 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 495 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 496 select OBJTOOL 497 default n 498 help 499 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 500 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 501 502 For more information, see 503 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 504 505config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 506 bool 507 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 508 select OBJTOOL 509 default y 510 511config VMLINUX_MAP 512 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 513 depends on EXPERT 514 help 515 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 516 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 517 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 518 pieces of code get eliminated with 519 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 520 521config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 522 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 523 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 524 help 525 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 526 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 527 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 528 definitions. 529 530 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 531 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 532 533 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 534 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 535 536endmenu # "Compiler options" 537 538menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 539 540config MAGIC_SYSRQ 541 bool "Magic SysRq key" 542 depends on !UML 543 help 544 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 545 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 546 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 547 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 548 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 549 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 550 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 551 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 552 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 553 554config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 555 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 556 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 557 default 0x1 558 help 559 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 560 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 561 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 562 563config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 564 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 565 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 566 default y 567 help 568 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 569 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 570 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 571 magic SysRq key. 572 573config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 574 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 575 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 576 default "" 577 help 578 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 579 SysRq on a serial console. 580 581 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 582 583config DEBUG_FS 584 bool "Debug Filesystem" 585 help 586 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 587 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 588 write to these files. 589 590 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 591 Documentation/filesystems/. 592 593 If unsure, say N. 594 595choice 596 prompt "Debugfs default access" 597 depends on DEBUG_FS 598 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 599 help 600 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 601 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 602 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 603 and filesystem registration. 604 605config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 606 bool "Access normal" 607 help 608 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 609 is on. This is the normal default operation. 610 611config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 612 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 613 help 614 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 615 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 616 debugfs filesystem. 617 618config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 619 bool "No access" 620 help 621 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 622 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 623 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 624 625endchoice 626 627source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 628source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 629source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 630 631endmenu 632 633menu "Networking Debugging" 634 635source "net/Kconfig.debug" 636 637endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 638 639menu "Memory Debugging" 640 641source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 642 643config DEBUG_OBJECTS 644 bool "Debug object operations" 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 646 help 647 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 648 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 649 the operations on those objects. 650 651config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 652 bool "Debug objects selftest" 653 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 654 help 655 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 656 657config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 658 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 659 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 660 help 661 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 662 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 663 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 664 much slower. 665 666config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 667 bool "Debug timer objects" 668 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 669 help 670 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 671 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 672 validate the timer operations. 673 674config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 675 bool "Debug work objects" 676 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 677 help 678 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 679 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 680 validate the work operations. 681 682config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 683 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 684 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 685 help 686 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 687 688config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 689 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 690 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 691 help 692 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 693 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 694 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 695 696config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 697 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 698 range 0 1 699 default "1" 700 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 701 help 702 Debug objects boot parameter default value 703 704config SHRINKER_DEBUG 705 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 706 depends on DEBUG_FS 707 help 708 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 709 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 710 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 711 712config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 713 bool 714 715config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 716 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 718 select DEBUG_FS 719 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 720 select KALLSYMS 721 select CRC32 722 help 723 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 724 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 725 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 726 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 727 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 728 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 729 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 730 details. 731 732 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 733 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 734 735 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 736 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 737 738config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 739 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 740 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 741 range 200 1000000 742 default 16000 743 help 744 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 745 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 746 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 747 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 748 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 749 if slab allocations fail. 750 751config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 752 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 753 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 754 help 755 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 756 757 If unsure, say N. 758 759config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 760 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 761 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 762 help 763 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 764 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 765 766config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 767 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 768 default y 769 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 770 help 771 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 772 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 773 kmemleak scan at boot up. 774 775 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 776 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 777 memory leaks. 778 779 If unsure, say Y. 780 781config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 782 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 783 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 784 help 785 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 786 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 787 788 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 789 790config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 791 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 793 default n 794 help 795 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 796 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 797 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 798 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 799 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 800 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 801 802config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 803 bool 804 help 805 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 806 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 807 808config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 809 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 810 811config DEBUG_VM 812 bool "Debug VM" 813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 814 help 815 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 816 that may impact performance. 817 818 If unsure, say N. 819 820config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 821 bool "Debug VMA caching" 822 depends on DEBUG_VM 823 help 824 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 825 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 826 environments. 827 828 If unsure, say N. 829 830config DEBUG_VM_RB 831 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 832 depends on DEBUG_VM 833 help 834 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 835 836 If unsure, say N. 837 838config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 839 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 840 depends on DEBUG_VM 841 help 842 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 843 844 If unsure, say N. 845 846config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 847 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 848 depends on MMU 849 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 850 default y if DEBUG_VM 851 help 852 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 853 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 854 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 855 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 856 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 857 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 858 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 859 860 If unsure, say N. 861 862config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 863 bool 864 865config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 866 bool "Debug VM translations" 867 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 868 help 869 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 870 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 871 872 If unsure, say N. 873 874config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 875 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 876 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 877 help 878 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 879 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 880 881config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 882 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 883 default !EXPERT 884 help 885 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 886 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 887 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 888 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 889 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 890 891 If unsure, say Y 892 893config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 894 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 895 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 896 help 897 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 898 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 899 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 900 901 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 902 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 903 904 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 905 906 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 907 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 908 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 909 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 910 911 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 912 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 913 914 If unsure, say N. 915 916config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 917 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 918 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 919 depends on SMP 920 help 921 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 922 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 923 and decreases performance. 924 925 Say N if unsure. 926 927config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 928 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 929 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 930 help 931 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 932 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 933 934config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 935 bool 936 937config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 938 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 939 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 940 select KMAP_LOCAL 941 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 942 help 943 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 944 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 945 Disable this for production systems! 946 947config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 948 bool "Highmem debugging" 949 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 950 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 951 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 952 help 953 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 954 systems. Disable for production systems. 955 956config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 957 bool 958 959config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 960 bool "Check for stack overflows" 961 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 962 help 963 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 964 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 965 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 966 below a certain limit. 967 968 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 969 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 970 involved. 971 972 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 973 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 974 975 If in doubt, say "N". 976 977source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 978source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 979 980endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 981 982config DEBUG_SHIRQ 983 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 985 help 986 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 987 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 988 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 989 don't and need to be caught. 990 991menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 992 993config PANIC_ON_OOPS 994 bool "Panic on Oops" 995 help 996 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 997 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 998 line. 999 1000 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1001 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1002 corruption or other issues. 1003 1004 Say N if unsure. 1005 1006config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1007 int 1008 range 0 1 1009 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1010 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1011 1012config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1013 int "panic timeout" 1014 default 0 1015 help 1016 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1017 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1018 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1019 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1020 1021config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1022 bool 1023 1024config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1025 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1026 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1027 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1028 help 1029 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1030 soft lockups. 1031 1032 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1033 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1034 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1035 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1036 1037config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1038 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1039 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1040 help 1041 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1042 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1043 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1044 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1045 1046 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1047 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1048 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1049 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1050 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1051 1052 Say N if unsure. 1053 1054config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1055 bool 1056 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1057 1058# 1059# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1060# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1061# 1062config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1063 bool 1064 1065# 1066# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1067# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1068# 1069config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1070 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1071 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1072 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1073 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1074 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1075 help 1076 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1077 hard lockups. 1078 1079 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1080 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1081 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1082 and the system will stay locked up. 1083 1084config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1085 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1086 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1087 help 1088 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1089 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1090 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1091 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1092 1093 Say N if unsure. 1094 1095config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1096 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1098 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1099 help 1100 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1101 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1102 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1103 1104 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1105 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1106 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1107 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1108 feature has negligible overhead. 1109 1110config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1111 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1112 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1113 default 120 1114 help 1115 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1116 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1117 be considered hung. 1118 1119 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1120 sysctl or by writing a value to 1121 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1122 1123 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1124 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1125 1126config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1127 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1128 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1129 help 1130 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1131 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1132 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1133 1134 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1135 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1136 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1137 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1138 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1139 1140 Say N if unsure. 1141 1142config WQ_WATCHDOG 1143 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1145 help 1146 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1147 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1148 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1149 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1150 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1151 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1152 1153config TEST_LOCKUP 1154 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1155 depends on m 1156 help 1157 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1158 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1159 1160 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1161 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1162 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1163 1164 If unsure, say N. 1165 1166endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1167 1168menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1169 1170config SCHED_DEBUG 1171 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1173 default y 1174 help 1175 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1176 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1177 option is minimal. 1178 1179config SCHED_INFO 1180 bool 1181 default n 1182 1183config SCHEDSTATS 1184 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1186 select SCHED_INFO 1187 help 1188 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1189 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1190 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1191 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1192 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1193 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1194 this adds. 1195 1196endmenu 1197 1198config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1199 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1200 help 1201 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1202 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1203 problems are suspected. 1204 1205 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1206 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1207 workloads. 1208 1209 If unsure, say N. 1210 1211config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1212 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1213 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1214 default y 1215 help 1216 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1217 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1218 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1219 will detect preemption count underflows. 1220 1221menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1222 1223config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1224 bool 1225 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1226 default y 1227 1228config PROVE_LOCKING 1229 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1230 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1231 select LOCKDEP 1232 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1233 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1234 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1235 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1236 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1237 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1238 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1239 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1240 default n 1241 help 1242 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1243 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1244 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1245 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1246 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1247 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1248 deadlock. 1249 1250 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1251 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1252 1253 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1254 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1255 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1256 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1257 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1258 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1259 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1260 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1261 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1262 1263 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1264 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1265 kernel reports nothing. 1266 1267 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1268 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1269 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1270 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1271 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1272 1273 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1274 1275config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1276 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1277 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1278 default n 1279 help 1280 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1281 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1282 not violated. 1283 1284 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1285 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1286 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1287 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1288 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1289 1290 If unsure, select N. 1291 1292config LOCK_STAT 1293 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1294 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1295 select LOCKDEP 1296 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1297 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1298 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1299 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1300 default n 1301 help 1302 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1303 1304 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1305 1306 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1307 subcommand of perf. 1308 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1309 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1310 1311 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1312 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1313 1314config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1315 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1317 help 1318 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1319 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1320 1321config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1322 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1324 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1325 help 1326 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1327 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1328 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1329 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1330 1331config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1332 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1334 help 1335 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1336 reported. 1337 1338config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1339 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1341 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1342 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1343 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1344 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1345 help 1346 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1347 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1348 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1349 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1350 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1351 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1352 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1353 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1354 you are a distro, do not. 1355 1356config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1357 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1359 help 1360 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1361 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1362 1363config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1364 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1365 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1366 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1367 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1368 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1369 select LOCKDEP 1370 help 1371 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1372 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1373 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1374 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1375 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1376 held during task exit. 1377 1378config LOCKDEP 1379 bool 1380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1381 select STACKTRACE 1382 select KALLSYMS 1383 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1384 1385config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1386 bool 1387 1388config LOCKDEP_BITS 1389 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1390 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1391 range 10 30 1392 default 15 1393 help 1394 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1395 1396config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1397 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1398 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1399 range 10 30 1400 default 16 1401 help 1402 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1403 1404config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1405 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1406 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1407 range 10 30 1408 default 19 1409 help 1410 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1411 1412config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1413 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1414 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1415 range 10 30 1416 default 14 1417 help 1418 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1419 1420config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1421 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1422 depends on LOCKDEP 1423 range 10 30 1424 default 12 1425 help 1426 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1427 1428config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1429 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1430 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1431 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1432 help 1433 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1434 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1435 of more runtime overhead. 1436 1437config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1438 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1439 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1440 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1441 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1442 help 1443 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1444 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1445 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1446 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1447 1448config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1449 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1450 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1451 help 1452 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1453 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1454 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1455 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1456 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1457 mutexes and rwsems. 1458 1459config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1460 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1462 select TORTURE_TEST 1463 help 1464 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1465 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1466 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1467 1468 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1469 to be built into the kernel. 1470 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1471 Say N if you are unsure. 1472 1473config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1474 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1475 help 1476 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1477 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1478 1479 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1480 with this test harness. 1481 1482 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1483 Say N if you are unsure. 1484 1485config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1486 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1487 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1488 select TORTURE_TEST 1489 help 1490 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1491 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1492 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1493 be tested, if desired. 1494 1495config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1496 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1497 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1498 depends on 64BIT 1499 default n 1500 help 1501 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1502 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1503 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1504 and relevant stack traces. 1505 1506endmenu # lock debugging 1507 1508config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1509 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1510 bool 1511 help 1512 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1513 either tracing or lock debugging. 1514 1515config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1516 def_bool y 1517 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1518 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1519 1520config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1521 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1522 help 1523 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1524 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1525 are enabled. 1526 1527config STACKTRACE 1528 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1529 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1530 help 1531 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1532 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1533 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1534 stack trace generation. 1535 1536config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1537 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1538 default n 1539 help 1540 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1541 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1542 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1543 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1544 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1545 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1546 it. 1547 1548 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1549 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1550 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1551 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1552 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1553 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1554 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1555 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1556 1557 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1558 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1559 those developers interested in improving the security of 1560 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1561 subarchitecture). 1562 1563config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1564 bool "kobject debugging" 1565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1566 help 1567 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1568 to the syslog. 1569 1570config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1571 bool "kobject release debugging" 1572 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1573 help 1574 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1575 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1576 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1577 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1578 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1579 unregistered. 1580 1581 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1582 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1583 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1584 1585 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1586 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1587 kind of kobject release bug. 1588 1589config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1590 bool 1591 1592menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1593 1594config DEBUG_LIST 1595 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1597 help 1598 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1599 walking routines. 1600 1601 If unsure, say N. 1602 1603config DEBUG_PLIST 1604 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1606 help 1607 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1608 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1609 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1610 1611 If unsure, say N. 1612 1613config DEBUG_SG 1614 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1616 help 1617 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1618 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1619 their sg tables. 1620 1621 If unsure, say N. 1622 1623config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1624 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1626 help 1627 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1628 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1629 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1630 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1631 performance, say N. 1632 1633config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1634 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1635 select DEBUG_LIST 1636 help 1637 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1638 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1639 for validity. 1640 1641 If unsure, say N. 1642 1643endmenu 1644 1645config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1646 bool "Debug credential management" 1647 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1648 help 1649 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1650 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1651 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1652 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1653 struct. 1654 1655 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1656 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1657 1658 If unsure, say N. 1659 1660source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1661 1662config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1663 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1664 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1665 default n 1666 help 1667 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1668 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1669 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1670 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1671 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1672 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1673 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1674 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1675 be impacted. 1676 1677config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1678 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1679 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1680 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1681 default n 1682 help 1683 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1684 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1685 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1686 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1687 1688 Say N if your are unsure. 1689 1690config LATENCYTOP 1691 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1693 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1694 depends on PROC_FS 1695 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1696 select KALLSYMS 1697 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1698 select STACKTRACE 1699 select SCHEDSTATS 1700 help 1701 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1702 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1703 1704source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1705 1706config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1707 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1708 depends on PCI && X86 1709 help 1710 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1711 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1712 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1713 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1714 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1715 1716 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1717 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1718 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1719 1720 Usage: 1721 1722 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1723 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1724 1725 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1726 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1727 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1728 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1729 1730 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1731 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1732 1733 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1734 1735source "samples/Kconfig" 1736 1737config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1738 bool 1739 1740config STRICT_DEVMEM 1741 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1742 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1743 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1744 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1745 help 1746 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1747 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1748 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1749 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1750 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1751 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1752 1753 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1754 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1755 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1756 users of /dev/mem. 1757 1758 If in doubt, say Y. 1759 1760config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1761 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1762 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1763 help 1764 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1765 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1766 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1767 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1768 1769 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1770 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1771 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1772 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1773 1774 If in doubt, say Y. 1775 1776menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1777 1778source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1779 1780endmenu 1781 1782menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1783 1784source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1785 1786config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1787 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1788 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1789 select DEBUG_FS 1790 help 1791 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1792 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1793 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1794 1795 Say N if unsure. 1796 1797config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1798 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1799 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1800 default m if PM_DEBUG 1801 help 1802 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1803 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1804 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1805 1806 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1807 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1808 1809 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1810 1811 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1812 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1813 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1814 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1815 1816 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1817 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1818 1819 If unsure, say N. 1820 1821config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1822 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1823 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1824 help 1825 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1826 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1827 through debugfs interface under 1828 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1829 1830 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1831 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1832 1833 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1834 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1835 1836 If unsure, say N. 1837 1838config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1839 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1840 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1841 help 1842 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1843 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1844 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1845 1846 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1847 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1848 1849 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1850 1851 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1852 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1853 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1854 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1855 1856 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1857 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1858 1859 If unsure, say N. 1860 1861config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1862 def_bool y 1863 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1864 1865config FAULT_INJECTION 1866 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1867 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1868 help 1869 Provide fault-injection framework. 1870 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1871 1872config FAILSLAB 1873 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1874 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1875 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1876 help 1877 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1878 1879config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1880 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1881 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1882 help 1883 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1884 1885config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1886 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1887 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1888 help 1889 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1890 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1891 1892config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1893 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1894 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1895 help 1896 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1897 1898config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1899 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1900 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1901 help 1902 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1903 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1904 thus exercising the error handling. 1905 1906 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1907 for others it won't do anything. 1908 1909config FAIL_FUTEX 1910 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1911 select DEBUG_FS 1912 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1913 help 1914 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1915 1916config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1917 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1918 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1919 help 1920 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1921 1922config FAIL_FUNCTION 1923 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1924 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1925 help 1926 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1927 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1928 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1929 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1930 error handling in various subsystems. 1931 1932config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1933 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1934 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1935 help 1936 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1937 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1938 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1939 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1940 the block device. 1941 1942config FAIL_SUNRPC 1943 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1944 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1945 help 1946 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1947 its consumers. 1948 1949config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1950 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1951 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1952 depends on !X86_64 1953 select STACKTRACE 1954 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1955 help 1956 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1957 1958config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1959 bool 1960 help 1961 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1962 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1963 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1964 1965config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1966 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1967 1968 1969config KCOV 1970 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1971 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1972 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1973 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1974 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1975 select DEBUG_FS 1976 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1977 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1978 help 1979 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1980 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1981 1982 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1983 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1984 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1985 1986 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1987 1988config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1989 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1990 depends on KCOV 1991 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1992 help 1993 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1994 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1995 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1996 of fuzzing coverage. 1997 1998config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 1999 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2000 depends on KCOV 2001 default y 2002 help 2003 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2004 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2005 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2006 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2007 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2008 2009config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2010 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2011 depends on KCOV 2012 default 0x40000 2013 help 2014 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2015 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2016 number of unsigned long words. 2017 2018menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2019 bool "Runtime Testing" 2020 def_bool y 2021 2022if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2023 2024config LKDTM 2025 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2026 depends on DEBUG_FS 2027 help 2028 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2029 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2030 If you don't need it: say N 2031 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2032 called lkdtm. 2033 2034 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2035 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2036 2037config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2038 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2039 depends on KUNIT 2040 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2041 help 2042 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2043 2044 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2045 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2046 2047 If unsure, say N. 2048 2049config TEST_LIST_SORT 2050 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2051 depends on KUNIT 2052 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2053 help 2054 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2055 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2056 or at module load time. 2057 2058 If unsure, say N. 2059 2060config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2061 tristate "Min heap test" 2062 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2063 help 2064 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2065 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2066 or at module load time. 2067 2068 If unsure, say N. 2069 2070config TEST_SORT 2071 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2072 depends on KUNIT 2073 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2074 help 2075 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2076 or at module load time. 2077 2078 If unsure, say N. 2079 2080config TEST_DIV64 2081 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2082 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2083 help 2084 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2085 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2086 or at module load time. 2087 2088 If unsure, say N. 2089 2090config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2091 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2092 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2093 depends on KPROBES 2094 depends on KUNIT 2095 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2096 help 2097 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2098 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2099 verified for functionality. 2100 2101 Say N if you are unsure. 2102 2103config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2104 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2105 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2106 depends on FPROBE 2107 depends on KUNIT=y 2108 help 2109 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2110 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2111 properly. 2112 2113 Say N if you are unsure. 2114 2115config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2116 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2117 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2118 help 2119 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2120 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2121 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2122 developers working on architecture code. 2123 2124 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2125 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2126 2127 Say N if you are unsure. 2128 2129config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2130 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2132 select REF_TRACKER 2133 help 2134 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2135 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2136 2137 Say N if you are unsure. 2138 2139config RBTREE_TEST 2140 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2142 help 2143 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2144 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2145 2146config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2147 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2148 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2149 select REED_SOLOMON 2150 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2151 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2152 help 2153 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2154 or at module load time. 2155 2156 If unsure, say N. 2157 2158config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2159 tristate "Interval tree test" 2160 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2161 select INTERVAL_TREE 2162 help 2163 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2164 2165config PERCPU_TEST 2166 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2167 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2168 help 2169 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2170 operations. 2171 2172 If unsure, say N. 2173 2174config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2175 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2176 help 2177 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2178 at module load time. 2179 2180 If unsure, say N. 2181 2182config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2183 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2184 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2185 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2186 help 2187 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2188 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2189 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2190 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2191 engine if one is available. 2192 2193 If unsure, say N. 2194 2195config TEST_HEXDUMP 2196 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2197 2198config STRING_SELFTEST 2199 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2200 2201config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2202 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2203 2204config TEST_STRSCPY 2205 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2206 2207config TEST_KSTRTOX 2208 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2209 2210config TEST_PRINTF 2211 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2212 2213config TEST_SCANF 2214 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2215 2216config TEST_BITMAP 2217 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2218 help 2219 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2220 2221 If unsure, say N. 2222 2223config TEST_UUID 2224 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2225 2226config TEST_XARRAY 2227 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2228 2229config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2230 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2231 help 2232 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2233 2234 If unsure, say N. 2235 2236config TEST_SIPHASH 2237 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2238 help 2239 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2240 functions on boot (or module load). 2241 2242 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2243 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2244 2245config TEST_IDA 2246 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2247 2248config TEST_PARMAN 2249 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2250 depends on PARMAN 2251 help 2252 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2253 (or module load). 2254 2255 If unsure, say N. 2256 2257config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2258 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2259 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2260 help 2261 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2262 2263 If unsure, say N. 2264 2265config TEST_LKM 2266 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2267 depends on m 2268 help 2269 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2270 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2271 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2272 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2273 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2274 requested by name. 2275 2276 If unsure, say N. 2277 2278config TEST_BITOPS 2279 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2280 depends on m 2281 help 2282 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2283 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2284 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2285 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2286 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2287 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2288 2289 If unsure, say N. 2290 2291config TEST_VMALLOC 2292 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2293 default n 2294 depends on MMU 2295 depends on m 2296 help 2297 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2298 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2299 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2300 of view. 2301 2302 If unsure, say N. 2303 2304config TEST_USER_COPY 2305 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2306 depends on m 2307 help 2308 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2309 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2310 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2311 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2312 protections. 2313 2314 If unsure, say N. 2315 2316config TEST_BPF 2317 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2318 depends on m && NET 2319 help 2320 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2321 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2322 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2323 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2324 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2325 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2326 2327 If unsure, say N. 2328 2329config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2330 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2331 depends on m && NET 2332 help 2333 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2334 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2335 2336 If unsure, say N. 2337 2338config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2339 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2340 help 2341 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2342 functions performance. 2343 2344 If unsure, say N. 2345 2346config TEST_FIRMWARE 2347 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2348 depends on FW_LOADER 2349 help 2350 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2351 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2352 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2353 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2354 userspace. 2355 2356 If unsure, say N. 2357 2358config TEST_SYSCTL 2359 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2360 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2361 help 2362 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2363 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2364 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2365 2366 If unsure, say N. 2367 2368config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2369 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2370 depends on KUNIT 2371 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2372 help 2373 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2374 2375 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2376 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2377 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2378 production build. 2379 2380 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2381 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2382 2383 If unsure, say N. 2384 2385config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2386 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2387 depends on KUNIT 2388 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2389 help 2390 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2391 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2392 2393 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2394 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2395 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2396 production build. 2397 2398 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2399 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2400 2401 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2402 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2403 2404config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2405 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2406 depends on KUNIT 2407 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2408 help 2409 This builds the resource API unit test. 2410 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2411 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2412 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2413 2414 If unsure, say N. 2415 2416config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2417 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2418 depends on KUNIT 2419 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2420 help 2421 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2422 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2423 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2424 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2425 2426 If unsure, say N. 2427 2428config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2429 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2430 depends on KUNIT 2431 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2432 help 2433 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2434 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2435 and associated macros. 2436 2437 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2438 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2439 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2440 production build. 2441 2442 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2443 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2444 2445 If unsure, say N. 2446 2447config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2448 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2449 depends on KUNIT 2450 select LINEAR_RANGES 2451 help 2452 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2453 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2454 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2455 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2456 2457 If unsure, say N. 2458 2459config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2460 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2461 depends on KUNIT 2462 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2463 help 2464 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2465 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2466 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2467 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2468 2469 If unsure, say N. 2470 2471config BITS_TEST 2472 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2473 depends on KUNIT 2474 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2475 help 2476 This builds the bits unit test. 2477 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2478 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2479 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2480 2481 If unsure, say N. 2482 2483config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2484 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2485 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2486 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2487 help 2488 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2489 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2490 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2491 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2492 2493 If unsure, say N. 2494 2495config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2496 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2497 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2498 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2499 help 2500 This builds the rational math unit test. 2501 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2502 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2503 2504 If unsure, say N. 2505 2506config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2507 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2508 depends on KUNIT 2509 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2510 help 2511 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2512 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2513 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2514 2515 If unsure, say N. 2516 2517config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2518 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2519 depends on KUNIT 2520 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2521 help 2522 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2523 2524 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2525 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2526 2527 If unsure, say N. 2528 2529config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2530 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2531 depends on KUNIT 2532 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2533 help 2534 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2535 related functions. 2536 2537 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2538 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2539 2540 If unsure, say N. 2541 2542config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2543 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2544 depends on KUNIT 2545 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2546 help 2547 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2548 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2549 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2550 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2551 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2552 2553config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2554 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2555 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2556 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2557 help 2558 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2559 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2560 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2561 2562config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2563 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2564 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2565 depends on KUNIT=y 2566 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2567 help 2568 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2569 2570 If unsure, say N. 2571 2572config TEST_UDELAY 2573 tristate "udelay test driver" 2574 help 2575 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2576 that udelay() is working properly. 2577 2578 If unsure, say N. 2579 2580config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2581 tristate "Test static keys" 2582 depends on m 2583 help 2584 Test the static key interfaces. 2585 2586 If unsure, say N. 2587 2588config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2589 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2590 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2591 help 2592 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2593 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2594 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2595 2596 If unsure, say N. 2597 2598config TEST_KMOD 2599 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2600 depends on m 2601 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2602 depends on BLOCK 2603 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2604 select TEST_LKM 2605 select XFS_FS 2606 select TUN 2607 select BTRFS_FS 2608 help 2609 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2610 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2611 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2612 2613 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2614 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2615 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2616 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2617 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2618 2619 To run tests run: 2620 2621 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2622 2623 If unsure, say N. 2624 2625config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2626 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2627 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2628 help 2629 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2630 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2631 kernel's virtual address map. 2632 2633 If unsure, say N. 2634 2635config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2636 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2637 help 2638 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2639 pointer arrays together. 2640 2641 If unsure, say N. 2642 2643config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2644 tristate "Test livepatching" 2645 default n 2646 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2647 depends on LIVEPATCH 2648 depends on m 2649 help 2650 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2651 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2652 2653 To run all the livepatching tests: 2654 2655 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2656 2657 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2658 2659 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2660 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2661 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2662 2663 If unsure, say N. 2664 2665config TEST_OBJAGG 2666 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2667 default n 2668 depends on OBJAGG 2669 help 2670 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2671 (or module load). 2672 2673config TEST_MEMINIT 2674 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2675 help 2676 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2677 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2678 2679 If unsure, say N. 2680 2681config TEST_HMM 2682 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2683 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2684 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2685 select HMM_MIRROR 2686 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2687 help 2688 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2689 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2690 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2691 2692 If unsure, say N. 2693 2694config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2695 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2696 help 2697 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2698 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2699 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2700 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2701 probably OOM your system. 2702 2703config TEST_FPU 2704 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2705 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2706 help 2707 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2708 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2709 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2710 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2711 2712 If unsure, say N. 2713 2714config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2715 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2716 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2717 help 2718 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2719 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2720 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2721 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2722 shortly after boot. 2723 2724 If unsure, say N. 2725 2726endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2727 2728config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2729 bool 2730 help 2731 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2732 during boot process. 2733 2734config MEMTEST 2735 bool "Memtest" 2736 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2737 help 2738 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2739 to be set and executed. 2740 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2741 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2742 ... 2743 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2744 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2745 2746 2747 2748config HYPERV_TESTING 2749 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2750 default n 2751 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2752 help 2753 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2754 2755endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2756 2757menu "Rust hacking" 2758 2759config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2760 bool "Debug assertions" 2761 depends on RUST 2762 help 2763 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2764 2765 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2766 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2767 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2768 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2769 2770 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2771 2772 If unsure, say N. 2773 2774config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2775 bool "Overflow checks" 2776 default y 2777 depends on RUST 2778 help 2779 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2780 2781 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2782 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2783 on overflow. 2784 2785 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2786 2787 If unsure, say Y. 2788 2789endmenu # "Rust" 2790 2791source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2792 2793endmenu # Kernel hacking 2794