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