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 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || CLANG_VERSION < 140000 || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 257 help 258 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 259 toolchain changes over time. 260 261 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 262 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 263 those should be less common scenarios. 264 265config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 266 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 267 select DEBUG_INFO 268 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 269 help 270 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2 271 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+. 272 273 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 274 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 275 config select this. 276 277config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 278 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 279 select DEBUG_INFO 280 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502) 281 help 282 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 283 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 284 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 285 286 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 287 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 288 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 289 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 290 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 291 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 292 support DWARF Version 5. 293 294endchoice # "Debug information" 295 296if DEBUG_INFO 297 298config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 299 bool "Reduce debugging information" 300 help 301 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 302 information for structure types. This means that tools that 303 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 304 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 305 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 306 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 307 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 308 Only works with newer gcc versions. 309 310config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 311 bool "Compressed debugging information" 312 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 313 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 314 help 315 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 316 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 317 318 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 319 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 320 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 321 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 322 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 323 larger. 324 325config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 326 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 327 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 328 help 329 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 330 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 331 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 332 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 333 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 334 335 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 336 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 337 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 338 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 339 340config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 341 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 342 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 343 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 344 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 345 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 346 help 347 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 348 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 349 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 350 351config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 352 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 353 354config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 355 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 356 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 357 help 358 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 359 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 360 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 361 362config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 363 def_bool y 364 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 365 help 366 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 367 368config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 369 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 370 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 371 help 372 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 373 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 374 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 375 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 376 it when a mismatch is found. 377 378config GDB_SCRIPTS 379 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 380 help 381 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 382 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 383 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 384 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 385 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 386 for further details. 387 388endif # DEBUG_INFO 389 390config FRAME_WARN 391 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 392 range 0 8192 393 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 394 default 2048 if PARISC 395 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 396 default 1024 if !64BIT 397 default 2048 if 64BIT 398 help 399 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 400 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 401 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 402 403config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 404 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 405 default n 406 help 407 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 408 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 409 get_wchan() and suchlike. 410 411config READABLE_ASM 412 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 413 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 414 depends on CC_IS_GCC 415 help 416 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 417 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 418 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 419 sane. 420 421config HEADERS_INSTALL 422 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 423 depends on !UML 424 help 425 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 426 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 427 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 428 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 429 as uapi header sanity checks. 430 431config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 432 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 433 depends on CC_IS_GCC 434 help 435 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 436 references from one section to another section. 437 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 438 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 439 most likely result in an oops. 440 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 441 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 442 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 443 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 444 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 445 additional step to occur: 446 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 447 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 448 function, we would lose the section information and thus 449 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 450 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 451 a larger kernel). 452 453config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 454 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 455 default y 456 help 457 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 458 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 459 460 If unsure, say Y. 461 462config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 463 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 464 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 465 help 466 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 467 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 468 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 469 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 470 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 471 472 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 473 474# 475# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 476# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 477# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 478# 479config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 480 bool 481 482config FRAME_POINTER 483 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 485 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 486 help 487 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 488 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 489 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 490 491config OBJTOOL 492 bool 493 494config STACK_VALIDATION 495 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 496 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 497 select OBJTOOL 498 default n 499 help 500 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 501 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 502 503 For more information, see 504 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt. 505 506config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 507 bool 508 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 509 select OBJTOOL 510 default y 511 512config VMLINUX_MAP 513 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 514 depends on EXPERT 515 help 516 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 517 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 518 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 519 pieces of code get eliminated with 520 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 521 522config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 523 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 525 help 526 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 527 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 528 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 529 definitions. 530 531 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 532 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 533 534 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 535 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 536 537endmenu # "Compiler options" 538 539menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 540 541config MAGIC_SYSRQ 542 bool "Magic SysRq key" 543 depends on !UML 544 help 545 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 546 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 547 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 548 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 549 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 550 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 551 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 552 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 553 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 554 555config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 556 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 557 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 558 default 0x1 559 help 560 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 561 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 562 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 563 564config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 565 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 566 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 567 default y 568 help 569 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 570 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 571 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 572 magic SysRq key. 573 574config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 575 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 576 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 577 default "" 578 help 579 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 580 SysRq on a serial console. 581 582 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 583 584config DEBUG_FS 585 bool "Debug Filesystem" 586 help 587 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 588 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 589 write to these files. 590 591 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 592 Documentation/filesystems/. 593 594 If unsure, say N. 595 596choice 597 prompt "Debugfs default access" 598 depends on DEBUG_FS 599 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 600 help 601 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 602 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 603 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 604 and filesystem registration. 605 606config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 607 bool "Access normal" 608 help 609 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 610 is on. This is the normal default operation. 611 612config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 613 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 614 help 615 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 616 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 617 debugfs filesystem. 618 619config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 620 bool "No access" 621 help 622 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 623 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 624 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 625 626endchoice 627 628source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 629source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 630source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 631 632endmenu 633 634menu "Networking Debugging" 635 636source "net/Kconfig.debug" 637 638endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 639 640menu "Memory Debugging" 641 642source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 643 644config DEBUG_OBJECTS 645 bool "Debug object operations" 646 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 647 help 648 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 649 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 650 the operations on those objects. 651 652config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 653 bool "Debug objects selftest" 654 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 655 help 656 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 657 658config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 659 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 660 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 661 help 662 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 663 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 664 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 665 much slower. 666 667config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 668 bool "Debug timer objects" 669 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 670 help 671 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 672 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 673 validate the timer operations. 674 675config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 676 bool "Debug work objects" 677 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 678 help 679 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 680 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 681 validate the work operations. 682 683config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 684 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 685 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 686 help 687 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 688 689config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 690 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 691 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 692 help 693 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 694 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 695 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 696 697config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 698 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 699 range 0 1 700 default "1" 701 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 702 help 703 Debug objects boot parameter default value 704 705config SHRINKER_DEBUG 706 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support" 707 depends on DEBUG_FS 708 help 709 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides 710 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem. 711 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint. 712 713config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 714 bool 715 716config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 717 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 719 select DEBUG_FS 720 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 721 select KALLSYMS 722 select CRC32 723 help 724 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 725 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 726 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 727 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 728 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 729 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 730 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 731 details. 732 733 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 734 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 735 736 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 737 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 738 739config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 740 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 741 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 742 range 200 1000000 743 default 16000 744 help 745 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 746 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 747 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 748 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 749 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 750 if slab allocations fail. 751 752config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 753 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 754 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 755 help 756 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 757 758 If unsure, say N. 759 760config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 761 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 762 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 763 help 764 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 765 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 766 767config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 768 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 769 default y 770 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 771 help 772 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 773 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 774 kmemleak scan at boot up. 775 776 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 777 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 778 memory leaks. 779 780 If unsure, say Y. 781 782config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 783 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 785 help 786 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 787 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 788 789 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 790 791config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 792 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 793 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 794 default n 795 help 796 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 797 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 798 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 799 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 800 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 801 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 802 803config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 804 bool 805 help 806 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 807 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 808 809config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF 810 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT 811 812config DEBUG_VM 813 bool "Debug VM" 814 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 815 help 816 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 817 that may impact performance. 818 819 If unsure, say N. 820 821config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 822 bool "Debug VMA caching" 823 depends on DEBUG_VM 824 help 825 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 826 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 827 environments. 828 829 If unsure, say N. 830 831config DEBUG_VM_RB 832 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 833 depends on DEBUG_VM 834 help 835 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 836 837 If unsure, say N. 838 839config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 840 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 841 depends on DEBUG_VM 842 help 843 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 844 845 If unsure, say N. 846 847config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 848 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 849 depends on MMU 850 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 851 default y if DEBUG_VM 852 help 853 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 854 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 855 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 856 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 857 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 858 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 859 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 860 861 If unsure, say N. 862 863config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 864 bool 865 866config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 867 bool "Debug VM translations" 868 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 869 help 870 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 871 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 872 873 If unsure, say N. 874 875config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 876 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 877 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 878 help 879 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 880 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 881 882config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 883 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 884 default !EXPERT 885 help 886 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 887 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 888 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 889 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 890 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 891 892 If unsure, say Y 893 894config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 895 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 896 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 897 help 898 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 899 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 900 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 901 902 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 903 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 904 905 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 906 907 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 908 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 909 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 910 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 911 912 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 913 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 914 915 If unsure, say N. 916 917config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 918 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 919 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 920 depends on SMP 921 help 922 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 923 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 924 and decreases performance. 925 926 Say N if unsure. 927 928config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 929 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 931 help 932 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 933 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 934 935config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 936 bool 937 938config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 939 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 940 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 941 select KMAP_LOCAL 942 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 943 help 944 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 945 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 946 Disable this for production systems! 947 948config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 949 bool "Highmem debugging" 950 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 951 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 952 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 953 help 954 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 955 systems. Disable for production systems. 956 957config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 958 bool 959 960config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 961 bool "Check for stack overflows" 962 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 963 help 964 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 965 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 966 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 967 below a certain limit. 968 969 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 970 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 971 involved. 972 973 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 974 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 975 976 If in doubt, say "N". 977 978source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 979source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 980 981endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 982 983config DEBUG_SHIRQ 984 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 985 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 986 help 987 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 988 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 989 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 990 don't and need to be caught. 991 992menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 993 994config PANIC_ON_OOPS 995 bool "Panic on Oops" 996 help 997 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 998 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 999 line. 1000 1001 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1002 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1003 corruption or other issues. 1004 1005 Say N if unsure. 1006 1007config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1008 int 1009 range 0 1 1010 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1011 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1012 1013config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1014 int "panic timeout" 1015 default 0 1016 help 1017 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1018 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1019 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1020 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1021 1022config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1023 bool 1024 1025config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1026 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1027 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1028 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1029 help 1030 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1031 soft lockups. 1032 1033 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1034 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1035 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1036 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1037 1038config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1039 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1040 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1041 help 1042 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1043 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1044 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1045 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1046 1047 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1048 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1049 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1050 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1051 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1052 1053 Say N if unsure. 1054 1055config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1056 bool 1057 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1058 1059# 1060# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1061# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1062# 1063config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1064 bool 1065 1066# 1067# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1068# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1069# 1070config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1071 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1072 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1073 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1074 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1075 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1076 help 1077 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1078 hard lockups. 1079 1080 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1081 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1082 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1083 and the system will stay locked up. 1084 1085config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1086 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1087 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1088 help 1089 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1090 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1091 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1092 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1093 1094 Say N if unsure. 1095 1096config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1097 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1098 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1099 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1100 help 1101 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1102 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1103 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1104 1105 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1106 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1107 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1108 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1109 feature has negligible overhead. 1110 1111config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1112 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1113 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1114 default 120 1115 help 1116 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1117 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1118 be considered hung. 1119 1120 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1121 sysctl or by writing a value to 1122 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1123 1124 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1125 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1126 1127config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1128 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1129 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1130 help 1131 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1132 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1133 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1134 1135 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1136 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1137 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1138 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1139 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1140 1141 Say N if unsure. 1142 1143config WQ_WATCHDOG 1144 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1145 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1146 help 1147 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1148 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1149 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1150 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1151 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1152 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1153 1154config TEST_LOCKUP 1155 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1156 depends on m 1157 help 1158 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1159 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1160 1161 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1162 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1163 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1164 1165 If unsure, say N. 1166 1167endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1168 1169menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1170 1171config SCHED_DEBUG 1172 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1174 default y 1175 help 1176 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1177 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1178 option is minimal. 1179 1180config SCHED_INFO 1181 bool 1182 default n 1183 1184config SCHEDSTATS 1185 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1186 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1187 select SCHED_INFO 1188 help 1189 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1190 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1191 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1192 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1193 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1194 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1195 this adds. 1196 1197endmenu 1198 1199config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1200 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1201 help 1202 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1203 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1204 problems are suspected. 1205 1206 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1207 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1208 workloads. 1209 1210 If unsure, say N. 1211 1212config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1213 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1215 default y 1216 help 1217 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1218 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1219 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1220 will detect preemption count underflows. 1221 1222menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1223 1224config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1225 bool 1226 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1227 default y 1228 1229config PROVE_LOCKING 1230 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1231 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1232 select LOCKDEP 1233 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1234 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1235 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1236 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1237 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1238 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1239 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1240 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1241 default n 1242 help 1243 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1244 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1245 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1246 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1247 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1248 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1249 deadlock. 1250 1251 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1252 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1253 1254 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1255 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1256 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1257 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1258 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1259 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1260 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1261 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1262 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1263 1264 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1265 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1266 kernel reports nothing. 1267 1268 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1269 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1270 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1271 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1272 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1273 1274 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1275 1276config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1277 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1278 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1279 default n 1280 help 1281 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1282 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1283 not violated. 1284 1285 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1286 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1287 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1288 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1289 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1290 1291 If unsure, select N. 1292 1293config LOCK_STAT 1294 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1296 select LOCKDEP 1297 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1298 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1299 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1300 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1301 default n 1302 help 1303 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1304 1305 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1306 1307 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1308 subcommand of perf. 1309 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1310 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1311 1312 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1313 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1314 1315config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1316 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1317 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1318 help 1319 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1320 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1321 1322config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1323 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1324 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1325 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1326 help 1327 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1328 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1329 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1330 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1331 1332config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1333 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1335 help 1336 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1337 reported. 1338 1339config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1340 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1342 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1343 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1344 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1345 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1346 help 1347 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1348 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1349 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1350 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1351 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1352 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1353 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1354 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1355 you are a distro, do not. 1356 1357config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1358 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1360 help 1361 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1362 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1363 1364config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1365 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1366 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1367 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1368 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1369 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1370 select LOCKDEP 1371 help 1372 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1373 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1374 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1375 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1376 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1377 held during task exit. 1378 1379config LOCKDEP 1380 bool 1381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1382 select STACKTRACE 1383 select KALLSYMS 1384 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1385 1386config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1387 bool 1388 1389config LOCKDEP_BITS 1390 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1391 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1392 range 10 30 1393 default 15 1394 help 1395 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1396 1397config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1398 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1399 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1400 range 10 30 1401 default 16 1402 help 1403 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1404 1405config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1406 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1407 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1408 range 10 30 1409 default 19 1410 help 1411 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1412 1413config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1414 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1415 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1416 range 10 30 1417 default 14 1418 help 1419 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1420 1421config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1422 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1423 depends on LOCKDEP 1424 range 10 30 1425 default 12 1426 help 1427 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1428 1429config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1430 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1432 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1433 help 1434 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1435 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1436 of more runtime overhead. 1437 1438config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1439 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1440 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1442 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1443 help 1444 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1445 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1446 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1447 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1448 1449config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1450 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1451 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1452 help 1453 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1454 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1455 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1456 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1457 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1458 mutexes and rwsems. 1459 1460config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1461 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1463 select TORTURE_TEST 1464 help 1465 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1466 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1467 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1468 1469 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1470 to be built into the kernel. 1471 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1472 Say N if you are unsure. 1473 1474config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1475 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1476 help 1477 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1478 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1479 1480 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1481 with this test harness. 1482 1483 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1484 Say N if you are unsure. 1485 1486config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1487 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1488 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1489 select TORTURE_TEST 1490 help 1491 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1492 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1493 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1494 be tested, if desired. 1495 1496config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1497 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1498 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1499 depends on 64BIT 1500 default n 1501 help 1502 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1503 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1504 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1505 and relevant stack traces. 1506 1507endmenu # lock debugging 1508 1509config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1510 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1511 bool 1512 help 1513 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1514 either tracing or lock debugging. 1515 1516config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1517 def_bool y 1518 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1519 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1520 1521config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1522 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1523 help 1524 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1525 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1526 are enabled. 1527 1528config STACKTRACE 1529 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1530 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1531 help 1532 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1533 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1534 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1535 stack trace generation. 1536 1537config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1538 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1539 default n 1540 help 1541 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1542 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1543 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1544 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1545 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1546 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1547 it. 1548 1549 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1550 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1551 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1552 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1553 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1554 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1555 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1556 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1557 1558 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1559 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1560 those developers interested in improving the security of 1561 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1562 subarchitecture). 1563 1564config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1565 bool "kobject debugging" 1566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1567 help 1568 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1569 to the syslog. 1570 1571config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1572 bool "kobject release debugging" 1573 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1574 help 1575 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1576 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1577 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its 1578 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1579 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1580 unregistered. 1581 1582 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1583 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1584 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1585 1586 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1587 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1588 kind of kobject release bug. 1589 1590config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1591 bool 1592 1593menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1594 1595config DEBUG_LIST 1596 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1598 help 1599 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1600 walking routines. 1601 1602 If unsure, say N. 1603 1604config DEBUG_PLIST 1605 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1607 help 1608 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1609 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1610 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1611 1612 If unsure, say N. 1613 1614config DEBUG_SG 1615 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1616 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1617 help 1618 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1619 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1620 their sg tables. 1621 1622 If unsure, say N. 1623 1624config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1625 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1626 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1627 help 1628 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1629 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1630 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1631 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1632 performance, say N. 1633 1634config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1635 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1636 select DEBUG_LIST 1637 help 1638 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1639 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1640 for validity. 1641 1642 If unsure, say N. 1643 1644endmenu 1645 1646config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1647 bool "Debug credential management" 1648 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1649 help 1650 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1651 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1652 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1653 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1654 struct. 1655 1656 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1657 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1658 1659 If unsure, say N. 1660 1661source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1662 1663config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1664 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1665 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1666 default n 1667 help 1668 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1669 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1670 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1671 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1672 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1673 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1674 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1675 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1676 be impacted. 1677 1678config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1679 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1680 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1681 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1682 default n 1683 help 1684 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1685 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1686 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1687 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1688 1689 Say N if your are unsure. 1690 1691config LATENCYTOP 1692 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1694 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1695 depends on PROC_FS 1696 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1697 select KALLSYMS 1698 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1699 select STACKTRACE 1700 select SCHEDSTATS 1701 help 1702 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1703 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1704 1705source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1706 1707config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1708 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1709 depends on PCI && X86 1710 help 1711 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1712 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1713 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1714 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1715 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1716 1717 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1718 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1719 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1720 1721 Usage: 1722 1723 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1724 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1725 1726 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1727 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1728 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1729 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1730 1731 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1732 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1733 1734 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1735 1736source "samples/Kconfig" 1737 1738config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1739 bool 1740 1741config STRICT_DEVMEM 1742 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1743 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1744 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1745 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1746 help 1747 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1748 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1749 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1750 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1751 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1752 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1753 1754 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1755 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1756 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1757 users of /dev/mem. 1758 1759 If in doubt, say Y. 1760 1761config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1762 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1763 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1764 help 1765 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1766 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1767 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1768 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1769 1770 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1771 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1772 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1773 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1774 1775 If in doubt, say Y. 1776 1777menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1778 1779source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1780 1781endmenu 1782 1783menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1784 1785source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1786 1787config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1788 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1789 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1790 select DEBUG_FS 1791 help 1792 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1793 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1794 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1795 1796 Say N if unsure. 1797 1798config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1799 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1800 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1801 default m if PM_DEBUG 1802 help 1803 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1804 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1805 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1806 1807 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1808 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1809 1810 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1811 1812 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1813 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1814 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1815 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1816 1817 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1818 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1819 1820 If unsure, say N. 1821 1822config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1823 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1824 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1825 help 1826 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1827 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1828 through debugfs interface under 1829 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1830 1831 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1832 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1833 1834 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1835 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1836 1837 If unsure, say N. 1838 1839config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1840 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1841 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1842 help 1843 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1844 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1845 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1846 1847 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1848 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1849 1850 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1851 1852 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1853 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1854 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1855 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1856 1857 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1858 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1859 1860 If unsure, say N. 1861 1862config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1863 def_bool y 1864 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1865 1866config FAULT_INJECTION 1867 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1868 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1869 help 1870 Provide fault-injection framework. 1871 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1872 1873config FAILSLAB 1874 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1875 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1876 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1877 help 1878 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1879 1880config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1881 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1882 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1883 help 1884 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1885 1886config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1887 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1888 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1889 help 1890 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1891 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1892 1893config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1894 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1895 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1896 help 1897 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1898 1899config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1900 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1901 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1902 help 1903 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1904 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1905 thus exercising the error handling. 1906 1907 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1908 for others it won't do anything. 1909 1910config FAIL_FUTEX 1911 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1912 select DEBUG_FS 1913 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1914 help 1915 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1916 1917config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1918 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1919 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1920 help 1921 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1922 1923config FAIL_FUNCTION 1924 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1925 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1926 help 1927 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1928 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1929 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1930 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1931 error handling in various subsystems. 1932 1933config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1934 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1935 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1936 help 1937 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1938 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1939 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1940 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1941 the block device. 1942 1943config FAIL_SUNRPC 1944 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 1945 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 1946 help 1947 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 1948 its consumers. 1949 1950config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1951 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1953 depends on !X86_64 1954 select STACKTRACE 1955 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1956 help 1957 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1958 1959config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1960 bool 1961 help 1962 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1963 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1964 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1965 1966config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1967 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1968 1969 1970config KCOV 1971 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1972 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1973 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1974 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 1975 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 1976 select DEBUG_FS 1977 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1978 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 1979 help 1980 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1981 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1982 1983 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1984 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1985 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1986 1987 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1988 1989config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1990 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1991 depends on KCOV 1992 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1993 help 1994 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1995 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1996 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1997 of fuzzing coverage. 1998 1999config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2000 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2001 depends on KCOV 2002 default y 2003 help 2004 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2005 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2006 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2007 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2008 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2009 2010config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2011 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2012 depends on KCOV 2013 default 0x40000 2014 help 2015 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2016 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2017 number of unsigned long words. 2018 2019menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2020 bool "Runtime Testing" 2021 def_bool y 2022 2023if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2024 2025config LKDTM 2026 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2027 depends on DEBUG_FS 2028 help 2029 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2030 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2031 If you don't need it: say N 2032 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2033 called lkdtm. 2034 2035 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2036 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2037 2038config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST 2039 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2040 depends on KUNIT 2041 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2042 help 2043 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time. 2044 2045 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer 2046 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2047 2048 If unsure, say N. 2049 2050config TEST_LIST_SORT 2051 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2052 depends on KUNIT 2053 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2054 help 2055 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2056 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2057 or at module load time. 2058 2059 If unsure, say N. 2060 2061config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2062 tristate "Min heap test" 2063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2064 help 2065 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2066 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2067 or at module load time. 2068 2069 If unsure, say N. 2070 2071config TEST_SORT 2072 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2073 depends on KUNIT 2074 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2075 help 2076 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2077 or at module load time. 2078 2079 If unsure, say N. 2080 2081config TEST_DIV64 2082 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2084 help 2085 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2086 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2087 or at module load time. 2088 2089 If unsure, say N. 2090 2091config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2092 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2094 depends on KPROBES 2095 depends on KUNIT 2096 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2097 help 2098 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2099 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2100 verified for functionality. 2101 2102 Say N if you are unsure. 2103 2104config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2105 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2107 depends on FPROBE 2108 depends on KUNIT=y 2109 help 2110 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2111 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2112 properly. 2113 2114 Say N if you are unsure. 2115 2116config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2117 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2118 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2119 help 2120 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2121 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2122 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2123 developers working on architecture code. 2124 2125 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2126 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2127 2128 Say N if you are unsure. 2129 2130config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2131 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2133 select REF_TRACKER 2134 help 2135 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2136 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2137 2138 Say N if you are unsure. 2139 2140config RBTREE_TEST 2141 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2143 help 2144 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2145 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2146 2147config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2148 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2149 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2150 select REED_SOLOMON 2151 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2152 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2153 help 2154 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2155 or at module load time. 2156 2157 If unsure, say N. 2158 2159config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2160 tristate "Interval tree test" 2161 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2162 select INTERVAL_TREE 2163 help 2164 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2165 2166config PERCPU_TEST 2167 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2168 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2169 help 2170 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2171 operations. 2172 2173 If unsure, say N. 2174 2175config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2176 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2177 help 2178 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2179 at module load time. 2180 2181 If unsure, say N. 2182 2183config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2184 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2185 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2186 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2187 help 2188 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2189 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2190 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2191 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2192 engine if one is available. 2193 2194 If unsure, say N. 2195 2196config TEST_HEXDUMP 2197 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2198 2199config STRING_SELFTEST 2200 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2201 2202config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2203 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2204 2205config TEST_STRSCPY 2206 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2207 2208config TEST_KSTRTOX 2209 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2210 2211config TEST_PRINTF 2212 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2213 2214config TEST_SCANF 2215 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2216 2217config TEST_BITMAP 2218 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2219 help 2220 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2221 2222 If unsure, say N. 2223 2224config TEST_UUID 2225 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2226 2227config TEST_XARRAY 2228 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2229 2230config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2231 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2232 help 2233 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2234 2235 If unsure, say N. 2236 2237config TEST_SIPHASH 2238 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2239 help 2240 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2241 functions on boot (or module load). 2242 2243 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2244 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2245 2246config TEST_IDA 2247 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2248 2249config TEST_PARMAN 2250 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2251 depends on PARMAN 2252 help 2253 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2254 (or module load). 2255 2256 If unsure, say N. 2257 2258config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2259 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2260 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2261 help 2262 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2263 2264 If unsure, say N. 2265 2266config TEST_LKM 2267 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2268 depends on m 2269 help 2270 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2271 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2272 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2273 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2274 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2275 requested by name. 2276 2277 If unsure, say N. 2278 2279config TEST_BITOPS 2280 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2281 depends on m 2282 help 2283 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2284 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2285 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2286 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2287 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2288 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2289 2290 If unsure, say N. 2291 2292config TEST_VMALLOC 2293 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2294 default n 2295 depends on MMU 2296 depends on m 2297 help 2298 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2299 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2300 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2301 of view. 2302 2303 If unsure, say N. 2304 2305config TEST_USER_COPY 2306 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2307 depends on m 2308 help 2309 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2310 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2311 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2312 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2313 protections. 2314 2315 If unsure, say N. 2316 2317config TEST_BPF 2318 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2319 depends on m && NET 2320 help 2321 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2322 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2323 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2324 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2325 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2326 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2327 2328 If unsure, say N. 2329 2330config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2331 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2332 depends on m && NET 2333 help 2334 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2335 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2336 2337 If unsure, say N. 2338 2339config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2340 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2341 help 2342 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2343 functions performance. 2344 2345 If unsure, say N. 2346 2347config TEST_FIRMWARE 2348 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2349 depends on FW_LOADER 2350 help 2351 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2352 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2353 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2354 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2355 userspace. 2356 2357 If unsure, say N. 2358 2359config TEST_SYSCTL 2360 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2361 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2362 help 2363 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2364 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2365 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2366 2367 If unsure, say N. 2368 2369config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2370 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2371 depends on KUNIT 2372 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2373 help 2374 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2375 2376 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2377 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2378 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2379 production build. 2380 2381 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2382 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2383 2384 If unsure, say N. 2385 2386config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2387 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2388 depends on KUNIT 2389 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2390 help 2391 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2392 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2393 2394 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2395 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2396 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2397 production build. 2398 2399 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2400 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2401 2402 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2403 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2404 2405config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2406 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2407 depends on KUNIT 2408 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2409 help 2410 This builds the resource API unit test. 2411 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2412 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2413 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2414 2415 If unsure, say N. 2416 2417config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2418 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2419 depends on KUNIT 2420 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2421 help 2422 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2423 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2424 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2425 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2426 2427 If unsure, say N. 2428 2429config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2430 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2431 depends on KUNIT 2432 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2433 help 2434 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2435 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2436 and associated macros. 2437 2438 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2439 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2440 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2441 production build. 2442 2443 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2444 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2445 2446 If unsure, say N. 2447 2448config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2449 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2450 depends on KUNIT 2451 select LINEAR_RANGES 2452 help 2453 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2454 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2455 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2456 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2457 2458 If unsure, say N. 2459 2460config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2461 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2462 depends on KUNIT 2463 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2464 help 2465 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2466 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2467 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2468 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2469 2470 If unsure, say N. 2471 2472config BITS_TEST 2473 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2474 depends on KUNIT 2475 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2476 help 2477 This builds the bits unit test. 2478 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2479 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2480 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2481 2482 If unsure, say N. 2483 2484config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2485 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2486 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2487 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2488 help 2489 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2490 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2491 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2492 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2493 2494 If unsure, say N. 2495 2496config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2497 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2498 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2499 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2500 help 2501 This builds the rational math unit test. 2502 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2503 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2504 2505 If unsure, say N. 2506 2507config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2508 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2509 depends on KUNIT 2510 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2511 help 2512 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2513 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2514 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2515 2516 If unsure, say N. 2517 2518config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST 2519 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2520 depends on KUNIT 2521 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2522 help 2523 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro. 2524 2525 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2526 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2527 2528 If unsure, say N. 2529 2530config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2531 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2532 depends on KUNIT 2533 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2534 help 2535 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2536 related functions. 2537 2538 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2539 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2540 2541 If unsure, say N. 2542 2543config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2544 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2545 depends on KUNIT 2546 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2547 help 2548 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2549 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2550 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2551 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2552 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2553 2554config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST 2555 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2556 depends on KUNIT && FORTIFY_SOURCE 2557 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2558 help 2559 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used 2560 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime 2561 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests. 2562 2563config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST 2564 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2565 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT 2566 depends on KUNIT=y 2567 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2568 help 2569 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting. 2570 2571 If unsure, say N. 2572 2573config TEST_UDELAY 2574 tristate "udelay test driver" 2575 help 2576 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2577 that udelay() is working properly. 2578 2579 If unsure, say N. 2580 2581config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2582 tristate "Test static keys" 2583 depends on m 2584 help 2585 Test the static key interfaces. 2586 2587 If unsure, say N. 2588 2589config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2590 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG" 2591 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2592 help 2593 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled 2594 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their 2595 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts. 2596 2597 If unsure, say N. 2598 2599config TEST_KMOD 2600 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2601 depends on m 2602 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2603 depends on BLOCK 2604 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2605 select TEST_LKM 2606 select XFS_FS 2607 select TUN 2608 select BTRFS_FS 2609 help 2610 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2611 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2612 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2613 2614 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2615 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2616 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2617 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2618 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2619 2620 To run tests run: 2621 2622 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2623 2624 If unsure, say N. 2625 2626config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2627 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2628 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2629 help 2630 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2631 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2632 kernel's virtual address map. 2633 2634 If unsure, say N. 2635 2636config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2637 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2638 help 2639 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2640 pointer arrays together. 2641 2642 If unsure, say N. 2643 2644config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2645 tristate "Test livepatching" 2646 default n 2647 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2648 depends on LIVEPATCH 2649 depends on m 2650 help 2651 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2652 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2653 2654 To run all the livepatching tests: 2655 2656 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2657 2658 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2659 2660 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2661 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2662 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2663 2664 If unsure, say N. 2665 2666config TEST_OBJAGG 2667 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2668 default n 2669 depends on OBJAGG 2670 help 2671 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2672 (or module load). 2673 2674config TEST_MEMINIT 2675 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2676 help 2677 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2678 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2679 2680 If unsure, say N. 2681 2682config TEST_HMM 2683 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2684 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2685 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2686 select HMM_MIRROR 2687 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2688 help 2689 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2690 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2691 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2692 2693 If unsure, say N. 2694 2695config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2696 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2697 help 2698 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2699 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2700 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2701 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2702 probably OOM your system. 2703 2704config TEST_FPU 2705 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2706 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2707 help 2708 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2709 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2710 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2711 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2712 2713 If unsure, say N. 2714 2715config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2716 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2717 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2718 help 2719 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2720 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2721 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2722 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2723 shortly after boot. 2724 2725 If unsure, say N. 2726 2727endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2728 2729config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2730 bool 2731 help 2732 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2733 during boot process. 2734 2735config MEMTEST 2736 bool "Memtest" 2737 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2738 help 2739 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2740 to be set and executed. 2741 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2742 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2743 ... 2744 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2745 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2746 2747 2748 2749config HYPERV_TESTING 2750 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2751 default n 2752 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2753 help 2754 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2755 2756endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2757 2758menu "Rust hacking" 2759 2760config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS 2761 bool "Debug assertions" 2762 depends on RUST 2763 help 2764 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option. 2765 2766 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional 2767 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging 2768 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls 2769 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro. 2770 2771 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2772 2773 If unsure, say N. 2774 2775config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS 2776 bool "Overflow checks" 2777 default y 2778 depends on RUST 2779 help 2780 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option. 2781 2782 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer 2783 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur 2784 on overflow. 2785 2786 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`. 2787 2788 If unsure, say Y. 2789 2790endmenu # "Rust" 2791 2792source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2793 2794endmenu # Kernel hacking 2795