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 CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 40 range 1 15 41 default "7" 42 help 43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 44 45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 47 value is specified here as well. 48 49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 51 option. 52 53config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 55 range 1 15 56 default "4" 57 help 58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 59 60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 63 64config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 65 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 66 range 1 7 67 default "4" 68 help 69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 70 71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 73 priority. 74 75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 78 79config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 82 help 83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 86 using "boot_delay=N". 87 88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 89 the "loops per jiffie" value. 90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 95 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 96 97config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 99 default n 100 depends on PRINTK 101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 102 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 103 help 104 105 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 106 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 107 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 108 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 109 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 110 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 111 112 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 113 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 114 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 115 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 116 117 Usage: 118 119 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 120 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 121 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 122 making use of this feature. 123 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 124 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 125 format for each line of the file is: 126 127 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 128 129 filename : source file of the debug statement 130 lineno : line number of the debug statement 131 module : module that contains the debug statement 132 function : function that contains the debug statement 133 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 134 format : the format used for the debug statement 135 136 From a live system: 137 138 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 139 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 140 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 141 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 142 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 143 144 Example usage: 145 146 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 147 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 148 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 149 150 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 151 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 152 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 153 154 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 157 158 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 161 162 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 165 166 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 167 information. 168 169config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 170 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 171 depends on PRINTK 172 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 173 help 174 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 175 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 176 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 177 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 178 sensitive for people. 179 180config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 181 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 182 default y if PRINTK 183 help 184 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 185 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 186 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 187 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 188 189config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 190 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 191 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 192 default y 193 help 194 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 195 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 196 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 197 198endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 199 200menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 201 202config DEBUG_INFO 203 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" 204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST 205 help 206 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include 207 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 208 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 209 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 210 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 211 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel. 212 213 If unsure, say N. 214 215if DEBUG_INFO 216 217config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 218 bool "Reduce debugging information" 219 help 220 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 221 information for structure types. This means that tools that 222 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 223 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 224 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 225 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 226 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 227 Only works with newer gcc versions. 228 229config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 230 bool "Compressed debugging information" 231 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 232 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 233 help 234 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 235 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 236 237 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 238 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 239 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 240 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 241 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 242 larger. 243 244config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 245 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 246 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 247 help 248 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 249 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 250 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 251 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 252 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 253 254 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 255 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 256 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 257 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 258 259config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 260 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo" 261 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) 262 help 263 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions 264 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger. 265 But it significantly improves the success of resolving 266 variables in gdb on optimized code. 267 268config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 269 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 270 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 271 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 272 help 273 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 274 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 275 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 276 277config GDB_SCRIPTS 278 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 279 help 280 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 281 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 282 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 283 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 284 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 285 for further details. 286 287endif # DEBUG_INFO 288 289config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK 290 bool "Enable __must_check logic" 291 default y 292 help 293 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to 294 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with 295 attribute warn_unused_result" messages. 296 297config FRAME_WARN 298 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 299 range 0 8192 300 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 301 default 2048 if PARISC 302 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 303 default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT 304 default 1024 if !64BIT 305 default 2048 if 64BIT 306 help 307 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 308 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 309 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 310 311config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 312 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 313 default n 314 help 315 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 316 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 317 get_wchan() and suchlike. 318 319config READABLE_ASM 320 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 322 help 323 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 324 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 325 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 326 sane. 327 328config HEADERS_INSTALL 329 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 330 depends on !UML 331 help 332 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 333 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 334 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 335 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 336 as uapi header sanity checks. 337 338config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 339 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 340 help 341 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 342 references from one section to another section. 343 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 344 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 345 most likely result in an oops. 346 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 347 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 348 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 349 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 350 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 351 additional step to occur: 352 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 353 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 354 function, we would lose the section information and thus 355 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 356 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 357 a larger kernel). 358 359config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 360 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 361 default y 362 help 363 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 364 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 365 366 If unsure, say Y. 367 368config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B 369 bool "Force all function address 32B aligned" if EXPERT 370 help 371 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 372 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 373 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 374 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 375 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 376 377 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 378 379# 380# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 381# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 382# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 383# 384config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 385 bool 386 387config FRAME_POINTER 388 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 389 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 390 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 391 help 392 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 393 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 394 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 395 396config STACK_VALIDATION 397 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 398 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION 399 default n 400 help 401 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame 402 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure 403 that runtime stack traces are more reliable. 404 405 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which 406 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC. 407 408 For more information, see 409 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 410 411config VMLINUX_VALIDATION 412 bool 413 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT 414 default y 415 416config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 417 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 418 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 419 help 420 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 421 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 422 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 423 definitions. 424 425 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 426 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 427 428 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 429 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 430 431endmenu # "Compiler options" 432 433menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 434 435config MAGIC_SYSRQ 436 bool "Magic SysRq key" 437 depends on !UML 438 help 439 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 440 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 441 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 442 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 443 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 444 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 445 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 446 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 447 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 448 449config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 450 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 451 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 452 default 0x1 453 help 454 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 455 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 456 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 457 458config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 459 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 460 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 461 default y 462 help 463 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 464 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 465 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 466 magic SysRq key. 467 468config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 469 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 470 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 471 default "" 472 help 473 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 474 SysRq on a serial console. 475 476 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 477 478config DEBUG_FS 479 bool "Debug Filesystem" 480 help 481 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 482 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 483 write to these files. 484 485 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 486 Documentation/filesystems/. 487 488 If unsure, say N. 489 490choice 491 prompt "Debugfs default access" 492 depends on DEBUG_FS 493 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 494 help 495 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 496 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 497 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 498 and filesystem registration. 499 500config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 501 bool "Access normal" 502 help 503 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 504 is on. This is the normal default operation. 505 506config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 507 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 508 help 509 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 510 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 511 debugfs filesystem. 512 513config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 514 bool "No access" 515 help 516 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 517 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 518 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 519 520endchoice 521 522source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 523source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 524source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 525 526endmenu 527 528config DEBUG_KERNEL 529 bool "Kernel debugging" 530 help 531 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 532 identify kernel problems. 533 534config DEBUG_MISC 535 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 536 default DEBUG_KERNEL 537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 538 help 539 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 540 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 541 542 543menu "Memory Debugging" 544 545source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 546 547config DEBUG_OBJECTS 548 bool "Debug object operations" 549 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 550 help 551 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 552 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 553 the operations on those objects. 554 555config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 556 bool "Debug objects selftest" 557 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 558 help 559 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 560 561config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 562 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 563 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 564 help 565 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 566 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 567 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 568 much slower. 569 570config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 571 bool "Debug timer objects" 572 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 573 help 574 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 575 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 576 validate the timer operations. 577 578config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 579 bool "Debug work objects" 580 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 581 help 582 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 583 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 584 validate the work operations. 585 586config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 587 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 588 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 589 help 590 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 591 592config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 593 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 594 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 595 help 596 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 597 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 598 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 599 600config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 601 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 602 range 0 1 603 default "1" 604 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 605 help 606 Debug objects boot parameter default value 607 608config DEBUG_SLAB 609 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 610 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 611 help 612 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 613 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 614 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 615 616config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 617 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 618 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 619 default n 620 help 621 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 622 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 623 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 624 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 625 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 626 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 627 "slub_debug=-". 628 629config SLUB_STATS 630 default n 631 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 632 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 633 help 634 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 635 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 636 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 637 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 638 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 639 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 640 Try running: slabinfo -DA 641 642config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 643 bool 644 645config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 646 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 647 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 648 select DEBUG_FS 649 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 650 select KALLSYMS 651 select CRC32 652 help 653 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 654 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 655 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 656 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 657 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 658 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 659 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 660 details. 661 662 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 663 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 664 665 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 666 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 667 668config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 669 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 670 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 671 range 200 1000000 672 default 16000 673 help 674 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 675 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 676 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 677 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 678 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 679 if slab allocations fail. 680 681config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 682 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 683 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 684 help 685 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 686 687 If unsure, say N. 688 689config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 690 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 691 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 692 help 693 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 694 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 695 696config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 697 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 698 default y 699 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 700 help 701 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 702 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 703 kmemleak scan at boot up. 704 705 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 706 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 707 memory leaks. 708 709 If unsure, say Y. 710 711config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 712 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 714 help 715 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 716 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 717 718 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 719 720config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 721 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 723 default n 724 help 725 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 726 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 727 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 728 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 729 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 730 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 731 732config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 733 bool 734 help 735 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 736 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 737 738config DEBUG_VM 739 bool "Debug VM" 740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 741 help 742 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 743 that may impact performance. 744 745 If unsure, say N. 746 747config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 748 bool "Debug VMA caching" 749 depends on DEBUG_VM 750 help 751 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 752 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 753 environments. 754 755 If unsure, say N. 756 757config DEBUG_VM_RB 758 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 759 depends on DEBUG_VM 760 help 761 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 762 763 If unsure, say N. 764 765config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 766 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 767 depends on DEBUG_VM 768 help 769 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 770 771 If unsure, say N. 772 773config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 774 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 775 depends on MMU 776 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 777 default y if DEBUG_VM 778 help 779 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 780 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 781 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 782 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 783 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 784 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 785 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 786 787 If unsure, say N. 788 789config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 790 bool 791 792config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 793 bool "Debug VM translations" 794 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 795 help 796 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 797 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 798 799 If unsure, say N. 800 801config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 802 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 803 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 804 help 805 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 806 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 807 808config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 809 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 810 default !EXPERT 811 help 812 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 813 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 814 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 815 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 816 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 817 818 If unsure, say Y 819 820config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 821 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 822 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 823 help 824 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 825 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 826 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 827 828 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 829 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 830 831 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 832 833 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 834 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 835 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 836 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 837 838 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 839 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 840 841 If unsure, say N. 842 843config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 844 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 845 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 846 depends on SMP 847 help 848 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 849 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 850 and decreases performance. 851 852 Say N if unsure. 853 854config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 855 bool "Highmem debugging" 856 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 857 help 858 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 859 systems. Disable for production systems. 860 861config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 862 bool 863 864config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 865 bool "Check for stack overflows" 866 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 867 help 868 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 869 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 870 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 871 below a certain limit. 872 873 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 874 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 875 involved. 876 877 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 878 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 879 880 If in doubt, say "N". 881 882source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 883 884endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 885 886config DEBUG_SHIRQ 887 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 888 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 889 help 890 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 891 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 892 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 893 don't and need to be caught. 894 895menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 896 897config PANIC_ON_OOPS 898 bool "Panic on Oops" 899 help 900 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 901 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 902 line. 903 904 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 905 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 906 corruption or other issues. 907 908 Say N if unsure. 909 910config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 911 int 912 range 0 1 913 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 914 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 915 916config PANIC_TIMEOUT 917 int "panic timeout" 918 default 0 919 help 920 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 921 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 922 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 923 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 924 925config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 926 bool 927 928config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 929 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 931 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 932 help 933 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 934 soft lockups. 935 936 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 937 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 938 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 939 detection and the system will stay locked up. 940 941config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 942 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 943 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 944 help 945 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 946 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 947 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 948 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 949 950 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 951 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 952 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 953 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 954 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 955 956 Say N if unsure. 957 958config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 959 int 960 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 961 range 0 1 962 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 963 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 964 965config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 966 bool 967 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 968 969# 970# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 971# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 972# 973config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 974 bool 975 976# 977# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 978# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 979# 980config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 981 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 982 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 983 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 984 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 985 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 986 help 987 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 988 hard lockups. 989 990 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 991 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 992 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 993 and the system will stay locked up. 994 995config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 996 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 997 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 998 help 999 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1000 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1001 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1002 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1003 1004 Say N if unsure. 1005 1006config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1007 int 1008 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1009 range 0 1 1010 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1011 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1012 1013config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1014 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1015 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1016 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1017 help 1018 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1019 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1020 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1021 1022 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1023 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1024 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1025 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1026 feature has negligible overhead. 1027 1028config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1029 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1030 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1031 default 120 1032 help 1033 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1034 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1035 be considered hung. 1036 1037 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1038 sysctl or by writing a value to 1039 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1040 1041 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1042 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1043 1044config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1045 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1046 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1047 help 1048 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1049 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1050 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1051 1052 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1053 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1054 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1055 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1056 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1057 1058 Say N if unsure. 1059 1060config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1061 int 1062 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1063 range 0 1 1064 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1065 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1066 1067config WQ_WATCHDOG 1068 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1069 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1070 help 1071 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1072 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1073 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1074 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1075 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1076 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1077 1078config TEST_LOCKUP 1079 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1080 depends on m 1081 help 1082 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1083 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1084 1085 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1086 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1087 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1088 1089 If unsure, say N. 1090 1091endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1092 1093menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1094 1095config SCHED_DEBUG 1096 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1098 default y 1099 help 1100 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1101 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1102 option is minimal. 1103 1104config SCHED_INFO 1105 bool 1106 default n 1107 1108config SCHEDSTATS 1109 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1111 select SCHED_INFO 1112 help 1113 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1114 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1115 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1116 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1117 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1118 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1119 this adds. 1120 1121endmenu 1122 1123config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1124 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1125 help 1126 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1127 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1128 problems are suspected. 1129 1130 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1131 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1132 workloads. 1133 1134 If unsure, say N. 1135 1136config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1137 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1139 help 1140 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1141 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1142 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1143 will detect preemption count underflows. 1144 1145 This option has potential to introduce high runtime overhead, 1146 depending on workload as it triggers debugging routines for each 1147 this_cpu operation. It should only be used for debugging purposes. 1148 1149menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1150 1151config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1152 bool 1153 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1154 default y 1155 1156config PROVE_LOCKING 1157 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1159 select LOCKDEP 1160 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1161 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1162 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1163 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1164 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1165 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1166 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1167 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1168 default n 1169 help 1170 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1171 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1172 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1173 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1174 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1175 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1176 deadlock. 1177 1178 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1179 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1180 1181 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1182 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1183 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1184 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1185 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1186 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1187 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1188 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1189 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1190 1191 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1192 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1193 kernel reports nothing. 1194 1195 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1196 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1197 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1198 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1199 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1200 1201 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1202 1203config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1204 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1205 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1206 default n 1207 help 1208 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1209 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1210 not violated. 1211 1212 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1213 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1214 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1215 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1216 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1217 1218 If unsure, select N. 1219 1220config LOCK_STAT 1221 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1223 select LOCKDEP 1224 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1225 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1226 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1227 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1228 default n 1229 help 1230 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1231 1232 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1233 1234 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1235 subcommand of perf. 1236 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1237 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1238 1239 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1240 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1241 1242config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1243 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1245 help 1246 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1247 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1248 1249config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1250 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1251 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1252 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1253 help 1254 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1255 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1256 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1257 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1258 1259config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1260 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1261 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1262 help 1263 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1264 reported. 1265 1266config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1267 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1269 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1270 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1271 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1272 help 1273 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1274 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1275 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1276 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1277 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1278 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1279 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1280 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1281 you are a distro, do not. 1282 1283config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1284 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1285 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1286 help 1287 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1288 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1289 1290config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1291 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1292 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1293 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1294 select DEBUG_MUTEXES 1295 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1296 select LOCKDEP 1297 help 1298 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1299 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1300 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1301 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1302 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1303 held during task exit. 1304 1305config LOCKDEP 1306 bool 1307 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1308 select STACKTRACE 1309 select KALLSYMS 1310 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1311 1312config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1313 bool 1314 1315config LOCKDEP_BITS 1316 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1317 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1318 range 10 30 1319 default 15 1320 help 1321 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1322 1323config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1324 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1325 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1326 range 10 30 1327 default 16 1328 help 1329 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1330 1331config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1332 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1333 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1334 range 10 30 1335 default 19 1336 help 1337 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1338 1339config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1340 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1341 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1342 range 10 30 1343 default 14 1344 help 1345 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1346 1347config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1348 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1349 depends on LOCKDEP 1350 range 10 30 1351 default 12 1352 help 1353 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1354 1355config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1356 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1358 help 1359 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1360 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1361 of more runtime overhead. 1362 1363config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1364 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1365 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1366 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1367 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1368 help 1369 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1370 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1371 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1372 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1373 1374config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1375 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1377 help 1378 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1379 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1380 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1381 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) 1382 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1383 mutexes and rwsems. 1384 1385config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1386 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1388 select TORTURE_TEST 1389 help 1390 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1391 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1392 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1393 1394 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1395 to be built into the kernel. 1396 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1397 Say N if you are unsure. 1398 1399config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1400 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1401 help 1402 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1403 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1404 1405 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1406 with this test harness. 1407 1408 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1409 Say N if you are unsure. 1410 1411config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1412 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1413 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1414 select TORTURE_TEST 1415 help 1416 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1417 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1418 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1419 be tested, if desired. 1420 1421config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1422 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1423 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1424 depends on 64BIT 1425 default n 1426 help 1427 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1428 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1429 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1430 and relevant stack traces. 1431 1432endmenu # lock debugging 1433 1434config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1435 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1436 bool 1437 help 1438 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1439 either tracing or lock debugging. 1440 1441config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1442 def_bool y 1443 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1444 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1445 1446config STACKTRACE 1447 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1448 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1449 help 1450 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1451 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1452 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1453 stack trace generation. 1454 1455config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1456 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1457 default n 1458 help 1459 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1460 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1461 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1462 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1463 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1464 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1465 it. 1466 1467 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1468 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1469 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1470 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1471 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1472 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1473 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1474 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1475 1476 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1477 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1478 those developers interested in improving the security of 1479 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1480 subarchitecture). 1481 1482config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1483 bool "kobject debugging" 1484 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1485 help 1486 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1487 to the syslog. 1488 1489config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1490 bool "kobject release debugging" 1491 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1492 help 1493 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1494 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1495 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1496 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1497 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1498 unregistered. 1499 1500 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1501 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1502 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1503 1504 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1505 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1506 kind of kobject release bug. 1507 1508config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1509 bool 1510 1511menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1512 1513config DEBUG_LIST 1514 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1515 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1516 help 1517 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1518 walking routines. 1519 1520 If unsure, say N. 1521 1522config DEBUG_PLIST 1523 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1525 help 1526 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1527 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1528 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1529 1530 If unsure, say N. 1531 1532config DEBUG_SG 1533 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1534 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1535 help 1536 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1537 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1538 their sg tables. 1539 1540 If unsure, say N. 1541 1542config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1543 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1545 help 1546 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1547 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1548 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1549 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1550 performance, say N. 1551 1552config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1553 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1554 select DEBUG_LIST 1555 help 1556 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1557 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1558 for validity. 1559 1560 If unsure, say N. 1561 1562endmenu 1563 1564config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1565 bool "Debug credential management" 1566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1567 help 1568 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1569 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1570 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1571 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1572 struct. 1573 1574 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1575 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1576 1577 If unsure, say N. 1578 1579source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1580 1581config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1582 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1584 default n 1585 help 1586 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1587 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1588 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1589 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1590 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1591 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1592 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1593 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1594 be impacted. 1595 1596config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 1597 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them" 1598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1599 depends on BLOCK 1600 default n 1601 help 1602 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON 1603 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT 1604 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever 1605 is broken. 1606 1607 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from 1608 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area 1609 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This 1610 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from 1611 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or 1612 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous 1613 device number allocation. 1614 1615 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the 1616 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata 1617 ones, so root partition specified using device number 1618 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore. 1619 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work. 1620 1621 Say N if you are unsure. 1622 1623config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1624 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1625 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1626 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1627 default n 1628 help 1629 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1630 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1631 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1632 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1633 1634 Say N if your are unsure. 1635 1636config LATENCYTOP 1637 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1638 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1639 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1640 depends on PROC_FS 1641 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1642 select KALLSYMS 1643 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1644 select STACKTRACE 1645 select SCHEDSTATS 1646 select SCHED_DEBUG 1647 help 1648 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1649 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1650 1651source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1652 1653config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1654 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1655 depends on PCI && X86 1656 help 1657 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1658 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1659 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1660 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1661 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1662 1663 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1664 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1665 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1666 1667 Usage: 1668 1669 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1670 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1671 1672 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1673 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1674 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1675 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1676 1677 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1678 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1679 1680 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1681 1682source "samples/Kconfig" 1683 1684config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1685 bool 1686 1687config STRICT_DEVMEM 1688 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1689 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1690 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1691 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1692 help 1693 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1694 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1695 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1696 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1697 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1698 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1699 1700 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1701 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1702 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1703 users of /dev/mem. 1704 1705 If in doubt, say Y. 1706 1707config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1708 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1709 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1710 help 1711 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1712 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1713 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1714 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1715 1716 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1717 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1718 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1719 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1720 1721 If in doubt, say Y. 1722 1723menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1724 1725source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1726 1727endmenu 1728 1729menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1730 1731source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1732 1733config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1734 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1735 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1736 select DEBUG_FS 1737 help 1738 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1739 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1740 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1741 1742 Say N if unsure. 1743 1744config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1745 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1746 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1747 default m if PM_DEBUG 1748 help 1749 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1750 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1751 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1752 1753 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1754 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1755 1756 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1757 1758 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1759 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1760 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1761 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1762 1763 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1764 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1765 1766 If unsure, say N. 1767 1768config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1769 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1770 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1771 help 1772 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1773 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1774 through debugfs interface under 1775 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1776 1777 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1778 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1779 1780 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1781 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1782 1783 If unsure, say N. 1784 1785config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1786 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1787 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1788 help 1789 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1790 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1791 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1792 1793 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1794 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1795 1796 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1797 1798 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1799 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1800 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1801 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1802 1803 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1804 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1805 1806 If unsure, say N. 1807 1808config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1809 bool "Fault-injections of functions" 1810 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1811 help 1812 Add fault injections into various functions that are annotated with 1813 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() in the kernel. BPF may also modify the return 1814 value of theses functions. This is useful to test error paths of code. 1815 1816 If unsure, say N 1817 1818config FAULT_INJECTION 1819 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1820 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1821 help 1822 Provide fault-injection framework. 1823 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1824 1825config FAILSLAB 1826 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1827 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1828 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1829 help 1830 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1831 1832config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1833 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1834 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1835 help 1836 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1837 1838config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1839 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1840 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1841 help 1842 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1843 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1844 1845config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1846 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1847 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1848 help 1849 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1850 1851config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1852 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1853 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1854 help 1855 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1856 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1857 thus exercising the error handling. 1858 1859 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1860 for others it wont do anything. 1861 1862config FAIL_FUTEX 1863 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1864 select DEBUG_FS 1865 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1866 help 1867 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1868 1869config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1870 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1871 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1872 help 1873 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1874 1875config FAIL_FUNCTION 1876 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1877 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1878 help 1879 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1880 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1881 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1882 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1883 error handling in various subsystems. 1884 1885config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1886 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 1887 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 1888 help 1889 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 1890 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 1891 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 1892 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 1893 the block device. 1894 1895config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 1896 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 1897 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1898 depends on !X86_64 1899 select STACKTRACE 1900 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1901 help 1902 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 1903 1904config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1905 bool 1906 help 1907 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 1908 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 1909 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 1910 1911config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1912 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 1913 1914 1915config KCOV 1916 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 1917 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 1918 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 1919 select DEBUG_FS 1920 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 1921 help 1922 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 1923 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 1924 1925 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 1926 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 1927 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 1928 1929 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 1930 1931config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 1932 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 1933 depends on KCOV 1934 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 1935 help 1936 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 1937 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 1938 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 1939 of fuzzing coverage. 1940 1941config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 1942 bool "Instrument all code by default" 1943 depends on KCOV 1944 default y 1945 help 1946 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 1947 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 1948 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 1949 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 1950 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 1951 1952config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 1953 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 1954 depends on KCOV 1955 default 0x40000 1956 help 1957 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 1958 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 1959 number of unsigned long words. 1960 1961menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1962 bool "Runtime Testing" 1963 def_bool y 1964 1965if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 1966 1967config LKDTM 1968 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 1969 depends on DEBUG_FS 1970 help 1971 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 1972 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 1973 If you don't need it: say N 1974 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 1975 called lkdtm. 1976 1977 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 1978 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 1979 1980config TEST_LIST_SORT 1981 tristate "Linked list sorting test" 1982 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1983 help 1984 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 1985 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1986 or at module load time. 1987 1988 If unsure, say N. 1989 1990config TEST_MIN_HEAP 1991 tristate "Min heap test" 1992 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 1993 help 1994 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 1995 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 1996 or at module load time. 1997 1998 If unsure, say N. 1999 2000config TEST_SORT 2001 tristate "Array-based sort test" 2002 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2003 help 2004 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2005 or at module load time. 2006 2007 If unsure, say N. 2008 2009config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2010 bool "Kprobes sanity tests" 2011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2012 depends on KPROBES 2013 help 2014 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2015 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2016 verified for functionality. 2017 2018 Say N if you are unsure. 2019 2020config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2021 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2022 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2023 help 2024 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2025 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2026 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2027 developers working on architecture code. 2028 2029 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2030 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2031 2032 Say N if you are unsure. 2033 2034config RBTREE_TEST 2035 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2036 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2037 help 2038 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2039 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2040 2041config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2042 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2043 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2044 select REED_SOLOMON 2045 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2046 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2047 help 2048 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2049 or at module load time. 2050 2051 If unsure, say N. 2052 2053config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2054 tristate "Interval tree test" 2055 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2056 select INTERVAL_TREE 2057 help 2058 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2059 2060config PERCPU_TEST 2061 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2062 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2063 help 2064 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2065 operations. 2066 2067 If unsure, say N. 2068 2069config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2070 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2071 help 2072 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2073 at module load time. 2074 2075 If unsure, say N. 2076 2077config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2078 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2079 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2080 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2081 help 2082 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2083 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2084 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2085 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2086 engine if one is available. 2087 2088 If unsure, say N. 2089 2090config TEST_HEXDUMP 2091 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2092 2093config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2094 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2095 2096config TEST_STRSCPY 2097 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2098 2099config TEST_KSTRTOX 2100 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2101 2102config TEST_PRINTF 2103 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2104 2105config TEST_BITMAP 2106 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2107 help 2108 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2109 2110 If unsure, say N. 2111 2112config TEST_UUID 2113 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2114 2115config TEST_XARRAY 2116 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2117 2118config TEST_OVERFLOW 2119 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" 2120 2121config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2122 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2123 help 2124 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2125 2126 If unsure, say N. 2127 2128config TEST_HASH 2129 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions" 2130 help 2131 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>), 2132 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) 2133 hash functions on boot (or module load). 2134 2135 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2136 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2137 2138config TEST_IDA 2139 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2140 2141config TEST_PARMAN 2142 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2143 depends on PARMAN 2144 help 2145 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2146 (or module load). 2147 2148 If unsure, say N. 2149 2150config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2151 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2152 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2153 help 2154 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2155 2156 If unsure, say N. 2157 2158config TEST_LKM 2159 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2160 depends on m 2161 help 2162 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2163 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2164 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2165 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2166 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2167 requested by name. 2168 2169 If unsure, say N. 2170 2171config TEST_BITOPS 2172 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2173 depends on m 2174 help 2175 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2176 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2177 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2178 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2179 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2180 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2181 2182 If unsure, say N. 2183 2184config TEST_VMALLOC 2185 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2186 default n 2187 depends on MMU 2188 depends on m 2189 help 2190 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2191 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2192 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2193 of view. 2194 2195 If unsure, say N. 2196 2197config TEST_USER_COPY 2198 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2199 depends on m 2200 help 2201 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2202 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2203 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2204 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2205 protections. 2206 2207 If unsure, say N. 2208 2209config TEST_BPF 2210 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2211 depends on m && NET 2212 help 2213 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2214 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2215 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2216 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2217 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2218 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2219 2220 If unsure, say N. 2221 2222config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2223 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2224 depends on m && NET 2225 help 2226 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2227 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2228 2229 If unsure, say N. 2230 2231config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2232 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2233 help 2234 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2235 functions performance. 2236 2237 If unsure, say N. 2238 2239config TEST_FIRMWARE 2240 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2241 depends on FW_LOADER 2242 help 2243 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2244 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2245 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2246 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2247 userspace. 2248 2249 If unsure, say N. 2250 2251config TEST_SYSCTL 2252 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2253 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2254 help 2255 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2256 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2257 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2258 2259 If unsure, say N. 2260 2261config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2262 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" 2263 depends on KUNIT 2264 help 2265 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2266 2267 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2268 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2269 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2270 production build. 2271 2272 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2273 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2274 2275 If unsure, say N. 2276 2277config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2278 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2279 depends on KUNIT 2280 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2281 help 2282 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2283 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2284 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2285 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2286 2287 If unsure, say N. 2288 2289config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2290 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2291 depends on KUNIT 2292 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2293 help 2294 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2295 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2296 and associated macros. 2297 2298 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2299 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2300 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2301 production build. 2302 2303 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2304 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2305 2306 If unsure, say N. 2307 2308config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2309 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2310 depends on KUNIT 2311 select LINEAR_RANGES 2312 help 2313 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2314 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2315 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2316 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2317 2318 If unsure, say N. 2319 2320config BITS_TEST 2321 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" 2322 depends on KUNIT 2323 help 2324 This builds the bits unit test. 2325 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2326 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2327 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2328 2329 If unsure, say N. 2330 2331config TEST_UDELAY 2332 tristate "udelay test driver" 2333 help 2334 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2335 that udelay() is working properly. 2336 2337 If unsure, say N. 2338 2339config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2340 tristate "Test static keys" 2341 depends on m 2342 help 2343 Test the static key interfaces. 2344 2345 If unsure, say N. 2346 2347config TEST_KMOD 2348 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2349 depends on m 2350 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2351 depends on BLOCK 2352 select TEST_LKM 2353 select XFS_FS 2354 select TUN 2355 select BTRFS_FS 2356 help 2357 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2358 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2359 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2360 2361 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2362 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2363 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2364 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2365 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2366 2367 To run tests run: 2368 2369 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2370 2371 If unsure, say N. 2372 2373config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2374 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2375 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2376 help 2377 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2378 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2379 kernel's virtual address map. 2380 2381 If unsure, say N. 2382 2383config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2384 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2385 help 2386 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2387 pointer arrays together. 2388 2389 If unsure, say N. 2390 2391config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2392 tristate "Test livepatching" 2393 default n 2394 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2395 depends on LIVEPATCH 2396 depends on m 2397 help 2398 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2399 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2400 2401 To run all the livepatching tests: 2402 2403 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2404 2405 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2406 2407 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2408 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2409 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2410 2411 If unsure, say N. 2412 2413config TEST_OBJAGG 2414 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2415 default n 2416 depends on OBJAGG 2417 help 2418 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2419 (or module load). 2420 2421 2422config TEST_STACKINIT 2423 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" 2424 help 2425 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2426 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2427 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2428 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2429 2430 If unsure, say N. 2431 2432config TEST_MEMINIT 2433 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2434 help 2435 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2436 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2437 2438 If unsure, say N. 2439 2440config TEST_HMM 2441 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2442 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2443 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2444 select HMM_MIRROR 2445 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2446 help 2447 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2448 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2449 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2450 2451 If unsure, say N. 2452 2453config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2454 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2455 help 2456 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2457 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2458 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2459 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2460 probably OOM your system. 2461 2462config TEST_FPU 2463 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2464 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2465 help 2466 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2467 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2468 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2469 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2470 2471 If unsure, say N. 2472 2473endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2474 2475config MEMTEST 2476 bool "Memtest" 2477 help 2478 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2479 to be set. 2480 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2481 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2482 ... 2483 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2484 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2485 2486 2487 2488config HYPERV_TESTING 2489 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2490 default n 2491 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2492 help 2493 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2494 2495endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2496 2497source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2498 2499endmenu # Kernel hacking 2500