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 211menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 212 213config DEBUG_INFO 214 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 216 help 217 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 218 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 219 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 220 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 221 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 222 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 223 224 If unsure, say N. 225 226if DEBUG_INFO 227 228config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 229 bool "Reduce debugging information" 230 help 231 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 232 information for structure types. This means that tools that 233 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 234 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 235 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 236 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 237 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 238 Only works with newer gcc versions. 239 240config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 241 bool "Compressed debugging information" 242 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 243 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 244 help 245 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 246 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 247 248 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 249 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 250 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 251 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 252 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 253 larger. 254 255config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 256 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 257 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 258 help 259 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 260 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 261 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 262 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 263 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 264 265 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 266 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 267 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 268 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 269 270choice 271 prompt "DWARF version" 272 help 273 Which version of DWARF debug info to emit. 274 275config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 276 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 277 help 278 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 279 toolchain changes over time. 280 281 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 282 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 283 those should be less common scenarios. 284 285 If unsure, say Y. 286 287config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 288 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 289 help 290 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 291 292 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 293 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 294 config select this. 295 296config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 297 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 298 depends on GCC_VERSION >= 50000 || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 299 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF 300 help 301 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 302 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 303 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 304 305 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 306 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 307 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 308 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 309 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 310 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 311 support DWARF Version 5. 312 313endchoice # "DWARF version" 314 315config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 316 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 317 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 318 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 319 help 320 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 321 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 322 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 323 324config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 325 def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119") 326 327config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 328 def_bool y 329 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 330 help 331 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 332 333config GDB_SCRIPTS 334 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 335 help 336 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 337 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 338 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 339 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 340 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 341 for further details. 342 343endif # DEBUG_INFO 344 345config FRAME_WARN 346 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 347 range 0 8192 348 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 349 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC) 350 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC) 351 default 2048 if 64BIT 352 help 353 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 354 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 355 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 356 357config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 358 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 359 default n 360 help 361 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 362 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 363 get_wchan() and suchlike. 364 365config READABLE_ASM 366 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 367 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 368 depends on CC_IS_GCC 369 help 370 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 371 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 372 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 373 sane. 374 375config HEADERS_INSTALL 376 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 377 depends on !UML 378 help 379 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 380 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 381 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 382 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 383 as uapi header sanity checks. 384 385config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 386 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 387 depends on CC_IS_GCC 388 help 389 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 390 references from one section to another section. 391 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 392 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 393 most likely result in an oops. 394 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 395 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 396 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 397 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 398 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 399 additional step to occur: 400 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 401 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 402 function, we would lose the section information and thus 403 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 404 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 405 a larger kernel). 406 407config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 408 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 409 default y 410 help 411 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 412 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 413 414 If unsure, say Y. 415 416config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 417 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" if EXPERT 418 help 419 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 420 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 421 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 422 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 423 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 424 425 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 426 427# 428# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 429# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 430# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 431# 432config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 433 bool 434 435config FRAME_POINTER 436 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 437 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 438 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 439 help 440 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 441 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 442 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 443 444config STACK_VALIDATION 445 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 446 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 447 default n 448 help 449 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 450 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 451 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 452 453 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 454 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 455 456 For more information, see 457 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 458 459config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 460 bool 461 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT 462 default y 463 464config VMLINUX_MAP 465 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 466 depends on EXPERT 467 help 468 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 469 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 470 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 471 pieces of code get eliminated with 472 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 473 474config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 475 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 476 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 477 help 478 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 479 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 480 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 481 definitions. 482 483 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 484 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 485 486 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 487 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 488 489endmenu # "Compiler options" 490 491menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 492 493config MAGIC_SYSRQ 494 bool "Magic SysRq key" 495 depends on !UML 496 help 497 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 498 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 499 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 500 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 501 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 502 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 503 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 504 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 505 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 506 507config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 508 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 509 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 510 default 0x1 511 help 512 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 513 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 514 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 515 516config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 517 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 518 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 519 default y 520 help 521 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 522 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 523 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 524 magic SysRq key. 525 526config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 527 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 528 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 529 default "" 530 help 531 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 532 SysRq on a serial console. 533 534 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 535 536config DEBUG_FS 537 bool "Debug Filesystem" 538 help 539 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 540 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 541 write to these files. 542 543 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 544 Documentation/filesystems/. 545 546 If unsure, say N. 547 548choice 549 prompt "Debugfs default access" 550 depends on DEBUG_FS 551 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 552 help 553 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 554 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 555 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 556 and filesystem registration. 557 558config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 559 bool "Access normal" 560 help 561 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 562 is on. This is the normal default operation. 563 564config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 565 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 566 help 567 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 568 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 569 debugfs filesystem. 570 571config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 572 bool "No access" 573 help 574 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 575 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 576 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 577 578endchoice 579 580source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 581source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 582source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 583 584endmenu 585 586config DEBUG_KERNEL 587 bool "Kernel debugging" 588 help 589 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 590 identify kernel problems. 591 592config DEBUG_MISC 593 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 594 default DEBUG_KERNEL 595 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 596 help 597 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 598 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 599 600 601menu "Memory Debugging" 602 603source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 604 605config DEBUG_OBJECTS 606 bool "Debug object operations" 607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 608 help 609 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 610 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 611 the operations on those objects. 612 613config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 614 bool "Debug objects selftest" 615 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 616 help 617 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 618 619config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 620 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 621 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 622 help 623 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 624 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 625 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 626 much slower. 627 628config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 629 bool "Debug timer objects" 630 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 631 help 632 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 633 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 634 validate the timer operations. 635 636config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 637 bool "Debug work objects" 638 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 639 help 640 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 641 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 642 validate the work operations. 643 644config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 645 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 646 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 647 help 648 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 649 650config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 651 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 652 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 653 help 654 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 655 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 656 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 657 658config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 659 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 660 range 0 1 661 default "1" 662 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 663 help 664 Debug objects boot parameter default value 665 666config DEBUG_SLAB 667 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 669 help 670 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 671 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 672 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 673 674config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 675 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 676 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 677 default n 678 help 679 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 680 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 681 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 682 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 683 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 684 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 685 "slub_debug=-". 686 687config SLUB_STATS 688 default n 689 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 690 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 691 help 692 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 693 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 694 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 695 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 696 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 697 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 698 Try running: slabinfo -DA 699 700config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 701 bool 702 703config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 704 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 705 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 706 select DEBUG_FS 707 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 708 select KALLSYMS 709 select CRC32 710 help 711 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 712 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 713 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 714 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 715 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 716 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 717 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 718 details. 719 720 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 721 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 722 723 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 724 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 725 726config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 727 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 728 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 729 range 200 1000000 730 default 16000 731 help 732 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 733 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 734 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 735 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 736 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 737 if slab allocations fail. 738 739config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 740 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 741 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 742 help 743 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 744 745 If unsure, say N. 746 747config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 748 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 749 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 750 help 751 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 752 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 753 754config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 755 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 756 default y 757 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 758 help 759 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 760 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 761 kmemleak scan at boot up. 762 763 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 764 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 765 memory leaks. 766 767 If unsure, say Y. 768 769config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 770 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 771 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 772 help 773 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 774 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 775 776 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 777 778config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 779 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 780 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 781 default n 782 help 783 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 784 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 785 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 786 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 787 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 788 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 789 790config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 791 bool 792 help 793 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 794 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 795 796config DEBUG_VM 797 bool "Debug VM" 798 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 799 help 800 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 801 that may impact performance. 802 803 If unsure, say N. 804 805config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 806 bool "Debug VMA caching" 807 depends on DEBUG_VM 808 help 809 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 810 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 811 environments. 812 813 If unsure, say N. 814 815config DEBUG_VM_RB 816 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 817 depends on DEBUG_VM 818 help 819 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 820 821 If unsure, say N. 822 823config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 824 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 825 depends on DEBUG_VM 826 help 827 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 828 829 If unsure, say N. 830 831config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 832 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 833 depends on MMU 834 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 835 default y if DEBUG_VM 836 help 837 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 838 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 839 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 840 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 841 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 842 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 843 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 844 845 If unsure, say N. 846 847config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 848 bool 849 850config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 851 bool "Debug VM translations" 852 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 853 help 854 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 855 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 856 857 If unsure, say N. 858 859config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 860 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 861 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 862 help 863 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 864 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 865 866config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 867 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 868 default !EXPERT 869 help 870 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 871 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 872 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 873 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 874 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 875 876 If unsure, say Y 877 878config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 879 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 880 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 881 help 882 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 883 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 884 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 885 886 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 887 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 888 889 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 890 891 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 892 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 893 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 894 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 895 896 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 897 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 898 899 If unsure, say N. 900 901config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 902 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 903 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 904 depends on SMP 905 help 906 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 907 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 908 and decreases performance. 909 910 Say N if unsure. 911 912config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 913 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 914 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 915 help 916 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 917 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 918 919config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 920 bool 921 922config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 923 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 924 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 925 select KMAP_LOCAL 926 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 927 help 928 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 929 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 930 Disable this for production systems! 931 932config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 933 bool "Highmem debugging" 934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 935 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 936 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 937 help 938 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 939 systems. Disable for production systems. 940 941config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 942 bool 943 944config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 945 bool "Check for stack overflows" 946 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 947 help 948 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 949 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 950 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 951 below a certain limit. 952 953 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 954 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 955 involved. 956 957 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 958 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 959 960 If in doubt, say "N". 961 962source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 963source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 964 965endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 966 967config DEBUG_SHIRQ 968 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 969 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 970 help 971 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 972 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 973 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 974 don't and need to be caught. 975 976menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 977 978config PANIC_ON_OOPS 979 bool "Panic on Oops" 980 help 981 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 982 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 983 line. 984 985 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 986 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 987 corruption or other issues. 988 989 Say N if unsure. 990 991config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 992 int 993 range 0 1 994 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 995 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 996 997config PANIC_TIMEOUT 998 int "panic timeout" 999 default 0 1000 help 1001 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1002 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1003 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1004 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1005 1006config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1007 bool 1008 1009config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1010 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1012 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1013 help 1014 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1015 soft lockups. 1016 1017 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1018 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1019 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1020 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1021 1022config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1023 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1024 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1025 help 1026 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1027 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1028 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1029 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1030 1031 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1032 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1033 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1034 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1035 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1036 1037 Say N if unsure. 1038 1039config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1040 int 1041 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1042 range 0 1 1043 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1044 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1045 1046config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1047 bool 1048 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1049 1050# 1051# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1052# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1053# 1054config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1055 bool 1056 1057# 1058# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1059# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1060# 1061config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1062 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1064 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1065 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1066 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1067 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1068 help 1069 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1070 hard lockups. 1071 1072 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1073 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1074 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1075 and the system will stay locked up. 1076 1077config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1078 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1079 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1080 help 1081 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1082 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1083 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1084 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1085 1086 Say N if unsure. 1087 1088config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1089 int 1090 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1091 range 0 1 1092 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1093 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1094 1095config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1096 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1098 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1099 help 1100 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1101 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1102 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1103 1104 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1105 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1106 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1107 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1108 feature has negligible overhead. 1109 1110config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1111 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1112 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1113 default 120 1114 help 1115 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1116 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1117 be considered hung. 1118 1119 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1120 sysctl or by writing a value to 1121 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1122 1123 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1124 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1125 1126config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1127 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1128 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1129 help 1130 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1131 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1132 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1133 1134 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1135 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1136 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1137 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1138 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1139 1140 Say N if unsure. 1141 1142config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1143 int 1144 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1145 range 0 1 1146 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1147 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1148 1149config WQ_WATCHDOG 1150 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1151 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1152 help 1153 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1154 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1155 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1156 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1157 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1158 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1159 1160config TEST_LOCKUP 1161 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1162 depends on m 1163 help 1164 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1165 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1166 1167 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1168 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1169 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1170 1171 If unsure, say N. 1172 1173endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1174 1175menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1176 1177config SCHED_DEBUG 1178 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1180 default y 1181 help 1182 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1183 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1184 option is minimal. 1185 1186config SCHED_INFO 1187 bool 1188 default n 1189 1190config SCHEDSTATS 1191 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1193 select SCHED_INFO 1194 help 1195 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1196 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1197 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1198 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1199 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1200 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1201 this adds. 1202 1203endmenu 1204 1205config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1206 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1207 help 1208 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1209 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1210 problems are suspected. 1211 1212 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1213 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1214 workloads. 1215 1216 If unsure, say N. 1217 1218config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1219 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1221 default y 1222 help 1223 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1224 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1225 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1226 will detect preemption count underflows. 1227 1228menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1229 1230config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1231 bool 1232 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1233 default y 1234 1235config PROVE_LOCKING 1236 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1237 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1238 select LOCKDEP 1239 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1240 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1241 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1242 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1243 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1244 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1245 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1246 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1247 default n 1248 help 1249 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1250 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1251 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1252 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1253 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1254 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1255 deadlock. 1256 1257 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1258 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1259 1260 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1261 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1262 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1263 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1264 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1265 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1266 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1267 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1268 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1269 1270 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1271 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1272 kernel reports nothing. 1273 1274 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1275 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1276 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1277 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1278 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1279 1280 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1281 1282config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1283 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1284 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1285 default n 1286 help 1287 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1288 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1289 not violated. 1290 1291 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1292 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1293 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1294 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1295 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1296 1297 If unsure, select N. 1298 1299config LOCK_STAT 1300 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1302 select LOCKDEP 1303 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1304 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1305 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1306 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1307 default n 1308 help 1309 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1310 1311 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1312 1313 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1314 subcommand of perf. 1315 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1316 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1317 1318 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1319 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1320 1321config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1322 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1324 help 1325 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1326 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1327 1328config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1329 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1331 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1332 help 1333 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1334 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1335 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1336 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1337 1338config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1339 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1341 help 1342 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1343 reported. 1344 1345config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1346 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1348 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1349 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1350 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1351 help 1352 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1353 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1354 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1355 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1356 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1357 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1358 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1359 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1360 you are a distro, do not. 1361 1362config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1363 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1365 help 1366 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1367 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1368 1369config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1370 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1371 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1372 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1373 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1374 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1375 select LOCKDEP 1376 help 1377 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1378 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1379 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1380 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1381 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1382 held during task exit. 1383 1384config LOCKDEP 1385 bool 1386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1387 select STACKTRACE 1388 select KALLSYMS 1389 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1390 1391config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1392 bool 1393 1394config LOCKDEP_BITS 1395 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1396 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1397 range 10 30 1398 default 15 1399 help 1400 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1401 1402config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1403 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1404 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1405 range 10 30 1406 default 16 1407 help 1408 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1409 1410config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1411 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1412 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1413 range 10 30 1414 default 19 1415 help 1416 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1417 1418config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1419 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1420 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1421 range 10 30 1422 default 14 1423 help 1424 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1425 1426config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1427 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1428 depends on LOCKDEP 1429 range 10 30 1430 default 12 1431 help 1432 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1433 1434config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1435 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1437 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1438 help 1439 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1440 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1441 of more runtime overhead. 1442 1443config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1444 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1445 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1447 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1448 help 1449 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1450 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1451 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1452 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1453 1454config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1455 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1456 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1457 help 1458 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1459 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1460 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1461 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1462 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1463 mutexes and rwsems. 1464 1465config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1466 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1467 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1468 select TORTURE_TEST 1469 help 1470 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1471 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1472 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1473 1474 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1475 to be built into the kernel. 1476 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1477 Say N if you are unsure. 1478 1479config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1480 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1481 help 1482 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1483 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1484 1485 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1486 with this test harness. 1487 1488 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1489 Say N if you are unsure. 1490 1491config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1492 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1494 select TORTURE_TEST 1495 help 1496 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1497 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1498 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1499 be tested, if desired. 1500 1501config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1502 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1504 depends on 64BIT 1505 default n 1506 help 1507 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1508 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1509 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1510 and relevant stack traces. 1511 1512endmenu # lock debugging 1513 1514config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1515 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1516 bool 1517 help 1518 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1519 either tracing or lock debugging. 1520 1521config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1522 def_bool y 1523 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1524 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1525 1526config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1527 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1528 help 1529 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1530 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1531 are enabled. 1532 1533config STACKTRACE 1534 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1535 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1536 help 1537 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1538 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1539 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1540 stack trace generation. 1541 1542config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1543 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1544 default n 1545 help 1546 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1547 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1548 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1549 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1550 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1551 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1552 it. 1553 1554 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1555 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1556 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1557 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1558 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1559 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1560 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1561 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single 1562 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. 1563 1564 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1565 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1566 those developers interested in improving the security of 1567 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1568 subarchitecture). 1569 1570config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1571 bool "kobject debugging" 1572 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1573 help 1574 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1575 to the syslog. 1576 1577config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1578 bool "kobject release debugging" 1579 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1580 help 1581 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1582 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1583 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1584 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1585 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1586 unregistered. 1587 1588 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1589 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1590 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1591 1592 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1593 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1594 kind of kobject release bug. 1595 1596config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1597 bool 1598 1599menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1600 1601config DEBUG_LIST 1602 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1604 help 1605 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1606 walking routines. 1607 1608 If unsure, say N. 1609 1610config DEBUG_PLIST 1611 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1612 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1613 help 1614 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1615 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1616 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1617 1618 If unsure, say N. 1619 1620config DEBUG_SG 1621 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1623 help 1624 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1625 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1626 their sg tables. 1627 1628 If unsure, say N. 1629 1630config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1631 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1632 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1633 help 1634 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1635 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1636 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1637 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1638 performance, say N. 1639 1640config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1641 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1642 select DEBUG_LIST 1643 help 1644 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1645 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1646 for validity. 1647 1648 If unsure, say N. 1649 1650endmenu 1651 1652config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1653 bool "Debug credential management" 1654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1655 help 1656 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1657 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1658 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1659 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1660 struct. 1661 1662 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1663 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1664 1665 If unsure, say N. 1666 1667source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1668 1669config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1670 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1671 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1672 default n 1673 help 1674 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1675 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1676 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1677 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1678 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1679 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1680 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1681 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1682 be impacted. 1683 1684config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1685 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1686 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1687 depends on BLOCK 1688 default n 1689 help 1690 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1691 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1692 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1693 is broken. 1694 1695 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1696 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1697 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1698 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1699 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1700 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1701 device number allocation. 1702 1703 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1704 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1705 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1706 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1707 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1708 1709 Say N if you are unsure. 1710 1711config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1712 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1714 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1715 default n 1716 help 1717 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1718 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1719 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1720 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1721 1722 Say N if your are unsure. 1723 1724config LATENCYTOP 1725 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1726 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1727 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1728 depends on PROC_FS 1729 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1730 select KALLSYMS 1731 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1732 select STACKTRACE 1733 select SCHEDSTATS 1734 help 1735 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1736 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1737 1738source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1739 1740config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1741 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1742 depends on PCI && X86 1743 help 1744 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1745 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1746 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1747 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1748 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1749 1750 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1751 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1752 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1753 1754 Usage: 1755 1756 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1757 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1758 1759 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1760 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1761 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1762 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1763 1764 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1765 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1766 1767 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1768 1769source "samples/Kconfig" 1770 1771config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1772 bool 1773 1774config STRICT_DEVMEM 1775 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1776 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1777 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1778 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1779 help 1780 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1781 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1782 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1783 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1784 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1785 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1786 1787 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1788 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1789 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1790 users of /dev/mem. 1791 1792 If in doubt, say Y. 1793 1794config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1795 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1796 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1797 help 1798 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1799 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1800 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1801 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1802 1803 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1804 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1805 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1806 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1807 1808 If in doubt, say Y. 1809 1810menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1811 1812source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1813 1814endmenu 1815 1816menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1817 1818source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1819 1820config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1821 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1822 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1823 select DEBUG_FS 1824 help 1825 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1826 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1827 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1828 1829 Say N if unsure. 1830 1831config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1832 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1833 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1834 default m if PM_DEBUG 1835 help 1836 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1837 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1838 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1839 1840 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1841 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1842 1843 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1844 1845 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1846 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1847 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1848 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1849 1850 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1851 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1852 1853 If unsure, say N. 1854 1855config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1856 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1857 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1858 help 1859 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1860 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1861 through debugfs interface under 1862 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1863 1864 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1865 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1866 1867 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1868 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1869 1870 If unsure, say N. 1871 1872config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1873 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1874 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1875 help 1876 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1877 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1878 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1879 1880 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1881 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1882 1883 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1884 1885 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1886 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1887 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1888 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1889 1890 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1891 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1892 1893 If unsure, say N. 1894 1895config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1896 def_bool y 1897 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1898 1899config FAULT_INJECTION 1900 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1901 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1902 help 1903 Provide fault-injection framework. 1904 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1905 1906config FAILSLAB 1907 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1908 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1909 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1910 help 1911 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1912 1913config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1914 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1915 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1916 help 1917 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1918 1919config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1920 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1921 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1922 help 1923 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1924 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1925 1926config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1927 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1928 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1929 help 1930 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1931 1932config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1933 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1934 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1935 help 1936 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1937 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1938 thus exercising the error handling. 1939 1940 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1941 for others it won't do anything. 1942 1943config FAIL_FUTEX 1944 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1945 select DEBUG_FS 1946 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1947 help 1948 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1949 1950config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1951 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1952 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1953 help 1954 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1955 1956config FAIL_FUNCTION 1957 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1958 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1959 help 1960 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1961 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1962 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1963 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1964 error handling in various subsystems. 1965 1966config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1967 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1968 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1969 help 1970 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1971 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1972 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1973 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1974 the block device. 1975 1976config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1977 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1978 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1979 depends on !X86_64 1980 select STACKTRACE 1981 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1982 help 1983 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1984 1985config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1986 bool 1987 help 1988 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1989 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1990 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1991 1992config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1993 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1994 1995 1996config KCOV 1997 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1998 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1999 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2000 select DEBUG_FS 2001 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2002 help 2003 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2004 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2005 2006 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 2007 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 2008 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2009 2010 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2011 2012config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2013 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2014 depends on KCOV 2015 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2016 help 2017 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2018 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2019 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2020 of fuzzing coverage. 2021 2022config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2023 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2024 depends on KCOV 2025 default y 2026 help 2027 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2028 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2029 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2030 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2031 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2032 2033config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2034 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2035 depends on KCOV 2036 default 0x40000 2037 help 2038 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2039 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2040 number of unsigned long words. 2041 2042menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2043 bool "Runtime Testing" 2044 def_bool y 2045 2046if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2047 2048config LKDTM 2049 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2050 depends on DEBUG_FS 2051 help 2052 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2053 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2054 If you don't need it: say N 2055 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2056 called lkdtm. 2057 2058 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2059 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2060 2061config TEST_LIST_SORT 2062 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2063 depends on KUNIT 2064 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2065 help 2066 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2067 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2068 or at module load time. 2069 2070 If unsure, say N. 2071 2072config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2073 tristate "Min heap test" 2074 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2075 help 2076 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2077 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2078 or at module load time. 2079 2080 If unsure, say N. 2081 2082config TEST_SORT 2083 tristate "Array-based sort test" 2084 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2085 help 2086 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2087 or at module load time. 2088 2089 If unsure, say N. 2090 2091config TEST_DIV64 2092 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2093 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2094 help 2095 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2096 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2097 or at module load time. 2098 2099 If unsure, say N. 2100 2101config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2102 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 2103 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2104 depends on KPROBES 2105 help 2106 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2107 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2108 verified for functionality. 2109 2110 Say N if you are unsure. 2111 2112config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2113 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2115 help 2116 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2117 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2118 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2119 developers working on architecture code. 2120 2121 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2122 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2123 2124 Say N if you are unsure. 2125 2126config RBTREE_TEST 2127 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2128 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2129 help 2130 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2131 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2132 2133config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2134 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2136 select REED_SOLOMON 2137 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2138 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2139 help 2140 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2141 or at module load time. 2142 2143 If unsure, say N. 2144 2145config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2146 tristate "Interval tree test" 2147 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2148 select INTERVAL_TREE 2149 help 2150 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2151 2152config PERCPU_TEST 2153 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2154 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2155 help 2156 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2157 operations. 2158 2159 If unsure, say N. 2160 2161config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2162 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2163 help 2164 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2165 at module load time. 2166 2167 If unsure, say N. 2168 2169config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2170 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2171 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2172 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2173 help 2174 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2175 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2176 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2177 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2178 engine if one is available. 2179 2180 If unsure, say N. 2181 2182config TEST_HEXDUMP 2183 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2184 2185config STRING_SELFTEST 2186 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2187 2188config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2189 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2190 2191config TEST_STRSCPY 2192 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2193 2194config TEST_KSTRTOX 2195 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2196 2197config TEST_PRINTF 2198 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2199 2200config TEST_SCANF 2201 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2202 2203config TEST_BITMAP 2204 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2205 help 2206 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2207 2208 If unsure, say N. 2209 2210config TEST_UUID 2211 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2212 2213config TEST_XARRAY 2214 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2215 2216config TEST_OVERFLOW 2217 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2218 2219config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2220 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2221 help 2222 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2223 2224 If unsure, say N. 2225 2226config TEST_HASH 2227 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2228 help 2229 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2230 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2231 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2232 2233 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2234 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2235 2236config TEST_IDA 2237 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2238 2239config TEST_PARMAN 2240 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2241 depends on PARMAN 2242 help 2243 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2244 (or module load). 2245 2246 If unsure, say N. 2247 2248config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2249 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2250 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2251 help 2252 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2253 2254 If unsure, say N. 2255 2256config TEST_LKM 2257 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2258 depends on m 2259 help 2260 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2261 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2262 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2263 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2264 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2265 requested by name. 2266 2267 If unsure, say N. 2268 2269config TEST_BITOPS 2270 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2271 depends on m 2272 help 2273 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2274 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2275 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2276 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2277 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2278 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2279 2280 If unsure, say N. 2281 2282config TEST_VMALLOC 2283 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2284 default n 2285 depends on MMU 2286 depends on m 2287 help 2288 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2289 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2290 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2291 of view. 2292 2293 If unsure, say N. 2294 2295config TEST_USER_COPY 2296 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2297 depends on m 2298 help 2299 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2300 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2301 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2302 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2303 protections. 2304 2305 If unsure, say N. 2306 2307config TEST_BPF 2308 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2309 depends on m && NET 2310 help 2311 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2312 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2313 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2314 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2315 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2316 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2317 2318 If unsure, say N. 2319 2320config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2321 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2322 depends on m && NET 2323 help 2324 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2325 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2326 2327 If unsure, say N. 2328 2329config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2330 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2331 help 2332 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2333 functions performance. 2334 2335 If unsure, say N. 2336 2337config TEST_FIRMWARE 2338 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2339 depends on FW_LOADER 2340 help 2341 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2342 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2343 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2344 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2345 userspace. 2346 2347 If unsure, say N. 2348 2349config TEST_SYSCTL 2350 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2351 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2352 help 2353 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2354 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2355 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2356 2357 If unsure, say N. 2358 2359config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2360 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2361 depends on KUNIT 2362 help 2363 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2364 2365 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2366 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2367 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2368 production build. 2369 2370 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2371 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2372 2373 If unsure, say N. 2374 2375config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2376 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" 2377 depends on KUNIT 2378 help 2379 This builds the resource API unit test. 2380 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 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 SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2387 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2388 depends on KUNIT 2389 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2390 help 2391 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2392 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2393 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2394 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2395 2396 If unsure, say N. 2397 2398config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2399 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2400 depends on KUNIT 2401 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2402 help 2403 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2404 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2405 and associated macros. 2406 2407 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2408 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2409 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2410 production build. 2411 2412 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2413 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2414 2415 If unsure, say N. 2416 2417config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2418 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2419 depends on KUNIT 2420 select LINEAR_RANGES 2421 help 2422 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2423 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 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 CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2430 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" 2431 depends on KUNIT 2432 help 2433 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2434 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2435 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2436 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2437 2438 If unsure, say N. 2439 2440config BITS_TEST 2441 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2442 depends on KUNIT 2443 help 2444 This builds the bits unit test. 2445 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2446 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2447 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2448 2449 If unsure, say N. 2450 2451config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2452 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2453 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2454 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2455 help 2456 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2457 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2458 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2459 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2460 2461 If unsure, say N. 2462 2463config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2464 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2465 depends on KUNIT 2466 select RATIONAL 2467 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2468 help 2469 This builds the rational math unit test. 2470 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2471 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2472 2473 If unsure, say N. 2474 2475config TEST_UDELAY 2476 tristate "udelay test driver" 2477 help 2478 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2479 that udelay() is working properly. 2480 2481 If unsure, say N. 2482 2483config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2484 tristate "Test static keys" 2485 depends on m 2486 help 2487 Test the static key interfaces. 2488 2489 If unsure, say N. 2490 2491config TEST_KMOD 2492 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2493 depends on m 2494 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2495 depends on BLOCK 2496 select TEST_LKM 2497 select XFS_FS 2498 select TUN 2499 select BTRFS_FS 2500 help 2501 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2502 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2503 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2504 2505 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2506 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2507 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2508 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2509 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2510 2511 To run tests run: 2512 2513 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2514 2515 If unsure, say N. 2516 2517config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2518 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2519 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2520 help 2521 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2522 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2523 kernel's virtual address map. 2524 2525 If unsure, say N. 2526 2527config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2528 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2529 help 2530 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2531 pointer arrays together. 2532 2533 If unsure, say N. 2534 2535config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2536 tristate "Test livepatching" 2537 default n 2538 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2539 depends on LIVEPATCH 2540 depends on m 2541 help 2542 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2543 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2544 2545 To run all the livepatching tests: 2546 2547 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2548 2549 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2550 2551 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2552 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2553 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2554 2555 If unsure, say N. 2556 2557config TEST_OBJAGG 2558 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2559 default n 2560 depends on OBJAGG 2561 help 2562 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2563 (or module load). 2564 2565 2566config TEST_STACKINIT 2567 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2568 help 2569 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2570 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2571 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2572 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2573 2574 If unsure, say N. 2575 2576config TEST_MEMINIT 2577 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2578 help 2579 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2580 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2581 2582 If unsure, say N. 2583 2584config TEST_HMM 2585 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2586 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2587 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2588 select HMM_MIRROR 2589 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2590 help 2591 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2592 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2593 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2594 2595 If unsure, say N. 2596 2597config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2598 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2599 help 2600 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2601 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2602 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2603 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2604 probably OOM your system. 2605 2606config TEST_FPU 2607 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2608 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2609 help 2610 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2611 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2612 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2613 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2614 2615 If unsure, say N. 2616 2617config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2618 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2619 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2620 help 2621 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2622 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2623 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2624 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2625 shortly after boot. 2626 2627 If unsure, say N. 2628 2629endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2630 2631config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2632 bool 2633 help 2634 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2635 during boot process. 2636 2637config MEMTEST 2638 bool "Memtest" 2639 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2640 help 2641 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2642 to be set and executed. 2643 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2644 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2645 ... 2646 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2647 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2648 2649 2650 2651config HYPERV_TESTING 2652 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2653 default n 2654 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2655 help 2656 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2657 2658endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2659 2660source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2661 2662endmenu # Kernel hacking 2663