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