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604ff0dc 1menu "printk and dmesg options"
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3config PRINTK_TIME
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 5 depends on PRINTK
1da177e4 6 help
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7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
10
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
14
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
8c27ceff 16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
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18config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
20 range 1 15
21 default "7"
22 help
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
24
25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
27 value is specified here as well.
28
50f4d9bd 29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
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30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
31 option.
32
42a9dc0b 33config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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34 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
35 range 1 7
36 default "4"
37 help
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
39
40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
42 priority.
43
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44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
47
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48config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
51 help
52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
55 using "boot_delay=N".
56
57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
58 the "loops per jiffie" value.
59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
64 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
65
66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
68 default n
69 depends on PRINTK
70 depends on DEBUG_FS
71 help
72
73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
79
80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
84
85 Usage:
86
87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
92 format for each line of the file is:
93
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
95
96 filename : source file of the debug statement
97 lineno : line number of the debug statement
98 module : module that contains the debug statement
99 function : function that contains the debug statement
100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
101 format : the format used for the debug statement
102
103 From a live system:
104
105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
110
111 Example usage:
112
113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
116
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
120
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
124
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
128
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
132
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133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
134 information.
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136endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
137
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138menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
139
140config DEBUG_INFO
141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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143 help
144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
150
151 If unsure, say N.
152
153config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
154 bool "Reduce debugging information"
155 depends on DEBUG_INFO
156 help
157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
158 information for structure types. This means that tools that
159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
164 Only works with newer gcc versions.
165
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166config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
a687a533 168 depends on DEBUG_INFO
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169 help
170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
174 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
175
176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
178 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
180
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181config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
183 depends on DEBUG_INFO
184 help
185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
188 variables in gdb on optimized code.
189
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190config GDB_SCRIPTS
191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_INFO
193 help
194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
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198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
199 for further details.
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201config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
203 default y
204 help
205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
208
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209config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
210 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
211 default y
212 help
213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 216
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217config FRAME_WARN
218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
219 range 0 8192
e7c52b84 220 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
0e07f663 221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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222 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
223 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
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224 default 2048 if 64BIT
225 help
226 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
227 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
228 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
229 Requires gcc 4.4
230
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231config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
232 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
233 default n
234 help
235 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
236 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
237 get_wchan() and suchlike.
238
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239config READABLE_ASM
240 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
242 help
243 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
244 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
245 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
246 sane.
247
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248config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
249 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
250 default y if X86
251 help
252 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
253 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
254 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
255 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
256 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
257 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
258 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
259 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
260 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
261 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
262 your module is.
263
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264config PAGE_OWNER
265 bool "Track page owner"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
267 select DEBUG_FS
268 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 269 select STACKDEPOT
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270 select PAGE_EXTENSION
271 help
272 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
273 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
274 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
275 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
276 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
277 for user-space helper.
278
279 If unsure, say N.
280
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281config DEBUG_FS
282 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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283 help
284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
286 write to these files.
287
ff543332 288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 289 Documentation/filesystems/.
ff543332 290
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291 If unsure, say N.
292
293config HEADERS_CHECK
294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
295 depends on !UML
296 help
297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
300 were not exported, etc.
301
302 If you're making modifications to header files which are
303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
306
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307config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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309 help
310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
311 references from one section to another section.
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312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 314 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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318 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
319 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
320 additional steps to occur:
321 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
322 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
323 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
326 a larger kernel).
f49821ee 327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
e809ab01 328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
91341d4b 330 introduced.
f49821ee 331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
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332 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
333 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
334 reported at least twice.
335 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
336 the section mismatches that are reported.
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338config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
340 default y
341 help
342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
344
345 If unsure, say Y.
346
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347#
348# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
349# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
350# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
351#
352config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
353 bool
f346f4b3 354
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355config FRAME_POINTER
356 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
a687a533 357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
6dfc0665 358 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 359 help
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360 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
361 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
362 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 363
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364config STACK_VALIDATION
365 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
366 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
367 default n
368 help
369 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
370 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
371 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
372
ee9f8fce 373 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
11af8474 374 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
ee9f8fce 375
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376 For more information, see
377 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
378
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379config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
380 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 382 help
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383 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
384 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
385 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
386 definitions.
8446f1d3 387
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388 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
389 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 390
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391 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
392 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 394endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 395
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396config MAGIC_SYSRQ
397 bool "Magic SysRq key"
398 depends on !UML
399 help
400 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
401 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
402 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
403 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
404 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
405 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
406 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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407 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
408 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 409
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410config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
411 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
412 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
413 default 0x1
414 help
415 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
416 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 417 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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419config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
420 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
421 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
422 default y
423 help
424 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
425 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
426 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
427 magic SysRq key.
428
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429config DEBUG_KERNEL
430 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 431 help
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432 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
433 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 434
0610c8a8 435menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 437source mm/Kconfig.debug
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439config DEBUG_OBJECTS
440 bool "Debug object operations"
441 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 442 help
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443 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
444 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
445 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 446
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447config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
448 bool "Debug objects selftest"
449 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
450 help
451 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 452
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453config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
454 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
455 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
456 help
457 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
458 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
459 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
460 much slower.
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462config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
463 bool "Debug timer objects"
464 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
465 help
466 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
467 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
468 validate the timer operations.
469
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470config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
471 bool "Debug work objects"
472 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
473 help
474 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
475 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
476 validate the work operations.
477
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478config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
479 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 480 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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481 help
482 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
483
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484config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
485 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
487 help
488 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
489 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
490 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
491
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492config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
493 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
494 range 0 1
495 default "1"
496 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
497 help
498 Debug objects boot parameter default value
499
1da177e4 500config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 501 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
4675ff05 502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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503 help
504 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
505 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
506 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
507
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508config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
509 bool "Memory leak debugging"
510 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
511
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512config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
513 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
4675ff05 514 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
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515 default n
516 help
517 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
518 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
519 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
520 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
521 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
522 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
523 "slub_debug=-".
524
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525config SLUB_STATS
526 default n
527 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 528 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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529 help
530 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
531 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
532 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
533 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
534 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
535 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
536 Try running: slabinfo -DA
537
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538config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
539 bool
540
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541config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
542 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 543 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 544 select DEBUG_FS
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545 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
546 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 547 select CRC32
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548 help
549 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
550 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
551 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
552 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
553 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
554 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 555 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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556 details.
557
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558 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
559 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
560
561 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
562 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
563
564config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
565 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
566 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
567 range 200 40000
568 default 400
569 help
570 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
571 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
572 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
573 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
574 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
575
576config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
577 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
578 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
579 help
580 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
581
582 If unsure, say N.
583
584config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
585 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
586 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
587 help
588 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
589 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
590
591config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
592 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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594 help
595 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
596 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
597
598 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
599
600config DEBUG_VM
601 bool "Debug VM"
602 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
603 help
604 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
605 that may impact performance.
606
607 If unsure, say N.
608
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609config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
610 bool "Debug VMA caching"
611 depends on DEBUG_VM
612 help
613 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
614 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
615 environments.
616
617 If unsure, say N.
618
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619config DEBUG_VM_RB
620 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
621 depends on DEBUG_VM
622 help
a663dad6 623 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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624
625 If unsure, say N.
626
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627config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
628 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
629 depends on DEBUG_VM
630 help
631 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
632
633 If unsure, say N.
634
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635config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
636 bool
637
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638config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
639 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 640 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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641 help
642 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
643 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
644
645 If unsure, say N.
646
647config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
648 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
649 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
650 help
651 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
652 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
653
654config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
655 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
656 default !EXPERT
657 help
658 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
659 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
660 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
661 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
662 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
663
664 If unsure, say Y
665
666config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
667 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
668 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
669 help
670 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
671 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
672 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
673
674 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
675 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
676
677 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
678
679 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
680 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
681 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
682 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
683
684 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
685 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
686
687 If unsure, say N.
688
689config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
690 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
692 depends on SMP
693 help
694 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
695 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
696 and decreases performance.
697
698 Say N if unsure.
699
700config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
701 bool "Highmem debugging"
702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
703 help
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705 systems. Disable for production systems.
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707config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
708 bool
709
710config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
711 bool "Check for stack overflows"
712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
713 ---help---
714 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
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716 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
717 below a certain limit.
718
719 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
720 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
721 involved.
722
723 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
724 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
725
726 If in doubt, say "N".
727
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729
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730endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
731
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732config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
733 bool
734 help
735 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
736 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
737 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
738
739config KCOV
740 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
741 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
742 select DEBUG_FS
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743 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
744 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
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745 help
746 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
747 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
748
749 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
750 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
751 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
752
700199b0 753 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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755config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
756 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
757 depends on KCOV
758 default n
759 help
760 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
761 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
762 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
763 of fuzzing coverage.
764
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765config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
766 bool "Instrument all code by default"
767 depends on KCOV
768 default y if KCOV
769 help
770 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
771 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
772 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
773 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
774 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
775
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776config DEBUG_SHIRQ
777 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 778 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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780 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
781 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
782 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
783 points; some don't and need to be caught.
784
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785menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
786
58687acb 787config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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788 bool
789
790config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
791 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 793 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 794 help
58687acb 795 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 796 soft lockups.
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798 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 799 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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800 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
801 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 802
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803config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
804 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
805 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
806 help
807 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
808 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
809 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
810 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
811
812 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
813 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
814 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
815 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
816 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
817
818 Say N if unsure.
819
820config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
821 int
822 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
823 range 0 1
824 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
825 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
826
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827config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
828 bool
829 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
830
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832# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
833# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
834#
835config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
836 bool
837
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839# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
840# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
841#
842config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
843 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
844 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
845 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
846 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
847 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
848 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
849 help
850 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
851 hard lockups.
852
58687acb 853 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 854 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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855 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
856 and the system will stay locked up.
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858config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
859 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 860 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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861 help
862 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
863 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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864 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
865 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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867 Say N if unsure.
868
869config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
870 int
8f1f66ed 871 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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872 range 0 1
873 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
874 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
875
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876config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
877 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
878 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 879 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 880 help
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881 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
882 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 883 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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885 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
886 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
887 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
888 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
889 feature has negligible overhead.
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891config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
892 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
893 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
894 default 120
f0630fff 895 help
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896 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
897 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
898 be considered hung.
f0630fff 899
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900 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
901 sysctl or by writing a value to
902 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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904 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
905 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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907config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
908 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
909 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 910 help
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911 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
912 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
913 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 914
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915 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
916 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
917 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
918 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
919 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 921 Say N if unsure.
bf96d1e3 922
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923config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
924 int
925 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
926 range 0 1
927 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
928 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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930config WQ_WATCHDOG
931 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
932 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
933 help
934 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
935 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
936 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
937 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
938 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
939 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
940
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942
943config PANIC_ON_OOPS
944 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 945 help
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946 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
947 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
948 line.
a9d9058a 949
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950 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
951 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
952 corruption or other issues.
953
954 Say N if unsure.
955
956config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
957 int
958 range 0 1
959 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
960 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
961
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963 int "panic timeout"
964 default 0
965 help
966 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
967 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
968 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
969 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
970
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971config SCHED_DEBUG
972 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
973 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
974 default y
0822ee4a 975 help
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976 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
977 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
978 option is minimal.
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980config SCHED_INFO
981 bool
982 default n
983
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984config SCHEDSTATS
985 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
986 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 987 select SCHED_INFO
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988 help
989 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
990 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
991 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
992 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
993 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
994 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
995 this adds.
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997config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
998 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
999 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1000 default n
1001 help
1002 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1003 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1004 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1005 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1006 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1007 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1008
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1009config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1010 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1011 help
1012 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1013 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1014 problems are suspected.
1015
1016 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1017 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1018 workloads.
1019
1020 If unsure, say N.
1021
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1022config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1023 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1024 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1025 default y
1026 help
1027 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1028 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1029 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1030 will detect preemption count underflows.
1031
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1032menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1033
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1034config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1035 bool
1036 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1037 default y
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1039config PROVE_LOCKING
1040 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1041 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1042 select LOCKDEP
1043 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1044 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1045 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1046 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1047 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1048 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1049 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1050 default n
1051 help
1052 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1053 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1054 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1055 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1056 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1057 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1058 deadlock.
1059
1060 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1061 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1062
1063 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1064 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1065 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1066 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1067 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1068 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1069 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1070 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1071 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1072
1073 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1074 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1075 kernel reports nothing.
1076
1077 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1078 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1079 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1080 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1081 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1082
1083 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1084
1085config LOCK_STAT
1086 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1087 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1088 select LOCKDEP
1089 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1090 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1091 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1092 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1093 default n
1094 help
1095 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1096
1097 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1098
1099 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1100 subcommand of perf.
1101 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1102 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1103
1104 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1105 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1106
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1108 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1110 help
1111 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1112 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1113
1da177e4 1114config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1115 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1116 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1117 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1119 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1120 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1121 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1122 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1123
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1125 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1126 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1127 help
1128 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1129 reported.
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1132 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
f07cbebb 1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1134 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1135 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1136 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1137 help
1138 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1139 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1140 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1141 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1142 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1144 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1145 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1146 you are a distro, do not.
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1148config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1149 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1151 help
1152 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
1153 to be detected and reported.
1154
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1155config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1156 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
f07cbebb 1157 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1158 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1159 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1160 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1161 select LOCKDEP
1162 help
1163 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1164 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1165 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1166 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1167 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1168 held during task exit.
1169
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1170config LOCKDEP
1171 bool
f07cbebb 1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1173 select STACKTRACE
f5a8eb63 1174 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
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1175 select KALLSYMS
1176 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1177
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1178config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1179 bool
1180
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1181config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1182 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1183 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1184 help
1185 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1186 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1187 of more runtime overhead.
1188
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1190 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1191 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1192 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1193 help
1194 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1195 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1196 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1197 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1199config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1200 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1201 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1202 help
1203 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1204 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1205 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1206 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1207 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1208 mutexes and rwsems.
1209
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1210config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1211 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1213 select TORTURE_TEST
1214 default n
1215 help
1216 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1217 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1218 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1219
1220 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1221 to be built into the kernel.
1222 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1223 Say N if you are unsure.
1224
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1225config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1226 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1227 help
1228 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1229 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1230
1231 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1232 with this test harness.
1233
1234 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1235 Say N if you are unsure.
1236
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1239config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1240 bool
5ca43f6c 1241 help
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1242 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1243 either tracing or lock debugging.
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8637c099 1245config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1246 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1247 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1249 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1250 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1251 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1252 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1253
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1254config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1255 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1256 default n
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1257 help
1258 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1259 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1260 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1261 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1262 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1263 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1264 it.
1265
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1266 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1267 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1268 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1269 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1270 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1271 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1272 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1273 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1274 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1275
1276 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1277 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1278 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1279 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1280 subarchitecture).
d06bfd19 1281
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1282config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1283 bool "kobject debugging"
1284 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1285 help
1286 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1287 to the syslog.
1288
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1289config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1290 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1291 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1292 help
1293 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1294 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1295 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1296 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1297 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1298 unregistered.
1299
1300 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1301 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1302 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1303
1304 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1305 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1306 kind of kobject release bug.
1307
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1308config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1309 bool
1310
1da177e4 1311config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1312 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1313 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1314 default y
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1315 help
1316 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1317 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1318 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1319
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1320config DEBUG_LIST
1321 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1323 help
1324 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1325 walking routines.
1326
1327 If unsure, say N.
1328
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1329config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1330 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1332 help
1333 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1334 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1335 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1336
1337 If unsure, say N.
1338
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1339config DEBUG_SG
1340 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1341 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1342 help
1343 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1344 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1345 their sg tables.
1346
1347 If unsure, say N.
1348
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1349config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1350 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1351 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1352 help
1353 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1354 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1355 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1356 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1357 performance, say N.
1358
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1359config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1360 bool "Debug credential management"
1361 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1362 help
1363 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1364 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1365 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1366 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1367 struct.
1368
1369 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1370 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1371
1372 If unsure, say N.
1373
43a0a2a7 1374source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
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1376config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1377 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1378 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1379 default n
1380 help
1381 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1382 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1383 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1384 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1385 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1386 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1387 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1388 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1389 be impacted.
1390
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1391config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1392 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1394 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1395 default n
870d6656 1396 help
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1397 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1398 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1399 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1400 is broken.
1401
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1402 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1403 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1404 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1405 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1406 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1407 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1408 device number allocation.
1409
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1410 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1411 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1412 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1413 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1414 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1415
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1416 Say N if you are unsure.
1417
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1418config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1419 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1420 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1421 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1422 default n
1423 help
1424 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1425 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1426 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1427 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1428
1429 Say N if your are unsure.
1430
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1431config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1432 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1433 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1434 select DEBUG_FS
1435 help
e41e85cc 1436 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1437 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1438 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1439
1440 Say N if unsure.
1441
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1442config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1443 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1444 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1445 default m if PM_DEBUG
1446 help
e41e85cc 1447 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1448 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1449 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1450
1451 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1452 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1453
1454 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1455
1456 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1457 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1458 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1459 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1460
1461 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1462 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1463
1464 If unsure, say N.
1465
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1466config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1467 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1468 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1469 help
e41e85cc 1470 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1471 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1472 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1473 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1475 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1476 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1477
1478 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1479 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1481 If unsure, say N.
1482
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1483config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1484 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1485 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1486 help
1487 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1488 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1489 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1490
1491 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1492 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1493
1494 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1495
1496 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1497 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1498 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1499 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1500
1501 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1502 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1503
1504 If unsure, say N.
1505
6ff1cb35 1506config FAULT_INJECTION
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1507 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1508 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1509 help
1510 Provide fault-injection framework.
1511 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1512
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1514 def_bool y
1515 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1516
8a8b6502 1517config FAILSLAB
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1518 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1519 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1520 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1521 help
1ab8509a 1522 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1523
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1524config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1525 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1526 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1527 help
1ab8509a 1528 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1529
c17bb495 1530config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1531 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1532 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1533 help
1ab8509a 1534 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1535
581d4e28 1536config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1537 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1538 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1539 help
1540 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1541 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1542 thus exercising the error handling.
1543
1544 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1545 for others it wont do anything.
1546
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1547config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1548 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1549 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1550 help
1551 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1552 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1553 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1554 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1555 the block device.
1556
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1557config FAIL_FUTEX
1558 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1559 select DEBUG_FS
1560 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1561 help
1562 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1563
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1564config FAIL_FUNCTION
1565 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1566 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1567 help
1568 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1569 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1570 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1571 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1572 error handling in various subsystems.
1573
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1574config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1575 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1576 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1577 help
1ab8509a 1578 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1580config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1581 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1582 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1583 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1584 select STACKTRACE
a687a533 1585 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1587 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1588
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1589config LATENCYTOP
1590 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1591 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1592 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1593 depends on PROC_FS
a34a766f 1594 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1596 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1597 select STACKTRACE
1598 select SCHEDSTATS
1599 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1600 help
1601 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1602 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1603
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1605
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1606config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1607 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1608 depends on PCI && X86
1609 help
1610 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1611 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1612 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1613 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1614 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1615
1616 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1617 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1618 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1619
1620 Usage:
1621
1622 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1623 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1624
1625 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1626 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1627 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1628 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1629
1630 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1631 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1632
1633 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1634
1635config DMA_API_DEBUG
1636 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
f616ab59 1637 select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
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1638 help
1639 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1640 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1641 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1642 were never allocated.
1643
1644 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1645 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1646 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1647 not undergoing DMA.
1648
1649 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1650 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1651
1652 If unsure, say N.
1653
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1654config DMA_API_DEBUG_SG
1655 bool "Debug DMA scatter-gather usage"
1656 default y
1657 depends on DMA_API_DEBUG
1658 help
1659 Perform extra checking that callers of dma_map_sg() have respected the
1660 appropriate segment length/boundary limits for the given device when
1661 preparing DMA scatterlists.
1662
1663 This is particularly likely to have been overlooked in cases where the
1664 dma_map_sg() API is used for general bulk mapping of pages rather than
1665 preparing literal scatter-gather descriptors, where there is a risk of
1666 unexpected behaviour from DMA API implementations if the scatterlist
1667 is technically out-of-spec.
1668
1669 If unsure, say N.
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1671menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1672 bool "Runtime Testing"
908009e8 1673 def_bool y
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1674
1675if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1677config LKDTM
1678 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1679 depends on DEBUG_FS
1680 depends on BLOCK
1681 default n
1682 help
1683 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1684 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1685 If you don't need it: say N
1686 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1687 called lkdtm.
1688
1689 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1690 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1691
1692config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1693 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1695 help
1696 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1697 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1698 or at module load time.
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1699
1700 If unsure, say N.
1701
c5adae95 1702config TEST_SORT
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1703 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1705 help
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1706 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1707 or at module load time.
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1708
1709 If unsure, say N.
1710
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1711config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1712 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1714 depends on KPROBES
1715 default n
1716 help
1717 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1718 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1719 verified for functionality.
1720
1721 Say N if you are unsure.
1722
1723config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1724 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1725 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1726 default n
1727 help
1728 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1729 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1730 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1731 developers working on architecture code.
1732
1733 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1734 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1735
1736 Say N if you are unsure.
1737
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1738config RBTREE_TEST
1739 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1741 help
1742 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1743 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1744
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1745config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1746 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1747 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1748 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1749 help
1750 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1751
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1752config PERCPU_TEST
1753 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1754 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1755 help
1756 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1757 operations.
1758
1759 If unsure, say N.
1760
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55ded955 1762 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1763 help
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1764 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1765 at module load time.
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1766
1767 If unsure, say N.
1768
1769config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1770 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1771 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1772 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1773 ---help---
1774 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1775 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1776 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1777 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1778 engine if one is available.
1779
1780 If unsure, say N.
1781
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1782config TEST_HEXDUMP
1783 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1784
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1786 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1787
1788config TEST_KSTRTOX
1789 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1790
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1792 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1793
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1795 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1796 default n
1797 help
1798 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1799
1800 If unsure, say N.
1801
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1803 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1804
7e1e7763 1805config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1806 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1807 default n
1808 help
1809 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1810
1811 If unsure, say N.
1812
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1813config TEST_HASH
1814 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1815 default n
1816 help
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1818 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1819 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1821 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1822 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1823
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1824config TEST_PARMAN
1825 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1826 default n
1827 depends on PARMAN
1828 help
1829 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1830 (or module load).
1831
1832 If unsure, say N.
1833
8a6f0b47 1834config TEST_LKM
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1835 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1836 default n
1837 depends on m
1838 help
1839 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1840 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1841 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1842 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1843 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1844 requested by name.
1845
1846 If unsure, say N.
1847
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1848config TEST_USER_COPY
1849 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1850 default n
1851 depends on m
1852 help
1853 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1854 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1855 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1856 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1857 protections.
1858
1859 If unsure, say N.
1860
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1861config TEST_BPF
1862 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1863 default n
98920ba6 1864 depends on m && NET
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1865 help
1866 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1867 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1868 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1869 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1871 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1873 If unsure, say N.
1874
dceeb3e7 1875config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
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1876 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
1877 default n
1878 help
1879 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1880 functions performance.
1881
1882 If unsure, say N.
1883
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1884config TEST_FIRMWARE
1885 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1886 default n
1887 depends on FW_LOADER
1888 help
1889 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1890 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1891 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1892 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1893 userspace.
1894
1895 If unsure, say N.
1896
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1897config TEST_SYSCTL
1898 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1899 default n
1900 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1901 help
1902 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1903 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1904 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1905
1906 If unsure, say N.
1907
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1908config TEST_UDELAY
1909 tristate "udelay test driver"
1910 default n
1911 help
1912 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1913 that udelay() is working properly.
1914
1915 If unsure, say N.
1916
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1917config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1918 tristate "Test static keys"
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1919 default n
1920 depends on m
1921 help
2bf9e0ab 1922 Test the static key interfaces.
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1924 If unsure, say N.
1925
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1926config TEST_KMOD
1927 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1928 default n
1929 depends on m
1930 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1931 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1932 select TEST_LKM
1933 select XFS_FS
1934 select TUN
1935 select BTRFS_FS
1936 help
1937 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1938 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1939 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1940
1941 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1942 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1943 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1944 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1945 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1946
1947 To run tests run:
1948
1949 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1950
1951 If unsure, say N.
1952
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1953config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1954 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1955 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1956 help
1957 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1958 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1959 kernel's virtual address map.
1960
1961 If unsure, say N.
1962
d3deafaa 1963endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1965config MEMTEST
1966 bool "Memtest"
1967 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1968 ---help---
1969 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1970 to be set.
1971 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1972 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1973 ...
1974 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1975 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1976
1977config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1978 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1979 select DEBUG_LIST
1980 help
1981 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1982 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1983 for validity.
1984
1985 If unsure, say N.
e4dace36 1986
267c4025 1987source "samples/Kconfig"
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1989source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1991source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1992
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1993config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1994 bool
1995
1996config STRICT_DEVMEM
1997 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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a687a533 2000 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
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2001 ---help---
2002 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2003 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2004 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2005 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2006 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2007 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2008
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2009 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2010 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2011 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2012 users of /dev/mem.
2013
2014 If in doubt, say Y.
2015
2016config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2017 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2018 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2019 ---help---
2020 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2021 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2022 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2023 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2024
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2026 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2027 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2028 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2030 If in doubt, say Y.