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1menu "Kernel hacking"
2
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5config PRINTK_TIME
6 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 7 depends on PRINTK
1da177e4 8 help
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9 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
10 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
11 call and at the console.
12
13 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
14 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
15 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
16
17 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
8c27ceff 18 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
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20config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
21 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
22 range 1 15
23 default "7"
24 help
25 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
26
27 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
28 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
29 value is specified here as well.
30
50f4d9bd 31 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
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32 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
33 option.
34
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35config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
36 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
37 range 1 15
38 default "4"
39 help
40 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
41
42 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
43 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
44 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
45
42a9dc0b 46config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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47 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
48 range 1 7
49 default "4"
50 help
51 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
52
53 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
54 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
55 priority.
56
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57 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
58 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
59 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
60
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61config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
62 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
63 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
64 help
65 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
66 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
67 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
68 using "boot_delay=N".
69
70 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
71 the "loops per jiffie" value.
72 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
73 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
74 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
75 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
76 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
77 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
78
79config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
80 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
81 default n
82 depends on PRINTK
83 depends on DEBUG_FS
84 help
85
86 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
87 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
88 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
89 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
90 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
91 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
92
93 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
94 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
95 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
96 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
97
98 Usage:
99
100 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
101 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
102 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
103 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
104 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
105 format for each line of the file is:
106
107 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
108
109 filename : source file of the debug statement
110 lineno : line number of the debug statement
111 module : module that contains the debug statement
112 function : function that contains the debug statement
113 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
114 format : the format used for the debug statement
115
116 From a live system:
117
118 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
119 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
120 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
121 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
122 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
123
124 Example usage:
125
126 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
127 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
128 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
129
130 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
131 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
132 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
133
134 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
135 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
136 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
137
138 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
139 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
140 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
141
142 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
143 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
144 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
145
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146 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
147 information.
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149endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
150
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151menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
152
153config DEBUG_INFO
154 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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156 help
157 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
158 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
159 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
160 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
161 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
162 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
163
164 If unsure, say N.
165
166config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
167 bool "Reduce debugging information"
168 depends on DEBUG_INFO
169 help
170 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
171 information for structure types. This means that tools that
172 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
173 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
174 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
175 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
176 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
177 Only works with newer gcc versions.
178
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179config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
180 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
a687a533 181 depends on DEBUG_INFO
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182 help
183 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
184 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
185 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
186 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
187 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
188
189 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
190 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
191 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
192 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
193
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194config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
195 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
196 depends on DEBUG_INFO
197 help
198 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
199 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
200 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
201 variables in gdb on optimized code.
202
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203config GDB_SCRIPTS
204 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
205 depends on DEBUG_INFO
206 help
207 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
208 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
209 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
210 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
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211 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
212 for further details.
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214config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
215 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
216 default y
217 help
218 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
219 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
220 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 221
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222config FRAME_WARN
223 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
224 range 0 8192
e7c52b84 225 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
0e07f663 226 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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227 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
228 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
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229 default 2048 if 64BIT
230 help
231 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
232 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
233 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
234 Requires gcc 4.4
235
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236config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
237 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
238 default n
239 help
240 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
241 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
242 get_wchan() and suchlike.
243
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244config READABLE_ASM
245 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
246 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
247 help
248 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
249 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
250 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
251 sane.
252
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253config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
254 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
255 default y if X86
256 help
257 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
258 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
259 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
260 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
261 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
262 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
263 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
264 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
265 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
266 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
267 your module is.
268
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269config PAGE_OWNER
270 bool "Track page owner"
271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
272 select DEBUG_FS
273 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 274 select STACKDEPOT
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275 select PAGE_EXTENSION
276 help
277 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
278 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
279 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
280 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
281 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
282 for user-space helper.
283
284 If unsure, say N.
285
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286config DEBUG_FS
287 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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288 help
289 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
290 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
291 write to these files.
292
ff543332 293 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 294 Documentation/filesystems/.
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296 If unsure, say N.
297
298config HEADERS_CHECK
299 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
300 depends on !UML
301 help
302 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
303 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
304 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
305 were not exported, etc.
306
307 If you're making modifications to header files which are
308 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
309 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
310 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
311
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312config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
313 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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314 help
315 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
316 references from one section to another section.
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317 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
318 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 319 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 320 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 321 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 322 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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323 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
324 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
325 additional steps to occur:
326 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
327 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
328 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 329 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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330 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
331 a larger kernel).
f49821ee 332 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
e809ab01 333 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 334 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
91341d4b 335 introduced.
f49821ee 336 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
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337 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
338 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
339 reported at least twice.
340 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
341 the section mismatches that are reported.
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343config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
344 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
345 default y
346 help
347 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
348 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
349
350 If unsure, say Y.
351
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352#
353# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
354# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
355# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
356#
357config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
358 bool
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360config FRAME_POINTER
361 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
a687a533 362 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
6dfc0665 363 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 364 help
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365 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
366 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
367 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
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369config STACK_VALIDATION
370 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
371 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
372 default n
373 help
374 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
375 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
376 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
377
ee9f8fce 378 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
11af8474 379 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
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381 For more information, see
382 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
383
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384config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
385 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 387 help
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388 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
389 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
390 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
391 definitions.
8446f1d3 392
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393 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
394 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 395
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396 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
397 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 399endmenu # "Compiler options"
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401config MAGIC_SYSRQ
402 bool "Magic SysRq key"
403 depends on !UML
404 help
405 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
406 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
407 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
408 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
409 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
410 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
411 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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412 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
413 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 414
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415config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
416 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
417 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
418 default 0x1
419 help
420 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
421 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 422 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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424config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
425 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
427 default y
428 help
429 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
430 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
431 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
432 magic SysRq key.
433
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434config DEBUG_KERNEL
435 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 436 help
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437 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
438 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 439
0610c8a8 440menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 442source mm/Kconfig.debug
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444config DEBUG_OBJECTS
445 bool "Debug object operations"
446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 447 help
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448 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
449 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
450 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 451
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452config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
453 bool "Debug objects selftest"
454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
455 help
456 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 457
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458config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
459 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
460 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
461 help
462 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
463 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
464 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
465 much slower.
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467config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
468 bool "Debug timer objects"
469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
470 help
471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
472 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
473 validate the timer operations.
474
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475config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
476 bool "Debug work objects"
477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
478 help
479 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
480 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
481 validate the work operations.
482
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483config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
484 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 485 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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487 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
488
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489config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
490 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
491 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
492 help
493 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
494 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
495 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
496
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497config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
498 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
499 range 0 1
500 default "1"
501 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
502 help
503 Debug objects boot parameter default value
504
1da177e4 505config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 506 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
4675ff05 507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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508 help
509 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
510 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
511 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
512
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513config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
514 bool "Memory leak debugging"
515 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
516
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517config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
518 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
4675ff05 519 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
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520 default n
521 help
522 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
523 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
524 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
525 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
526 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
527 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
528 "slub_debug=-".
529
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530config SLUB_STATS
531 default n
532 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 533 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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534 help
535 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
536 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
537 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
538 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
539 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
540 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
541 Try running: slabinfo -DA
542
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543config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
544 bool
545
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546config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
547 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 548 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
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550 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
551 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 552 select CRC32
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553 help
554 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
555 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
556 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
557 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
558 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
559 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 560 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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561 details.
562
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563 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
564 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
565
566 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
567 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
568
569config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
570 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
571 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
572 range 200 40000
573 default 400
574 help
575 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
576 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
577 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
578 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
579 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
580
581config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
582 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
583 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
584 help
585 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
586
587 If unsure, say N.
588
589config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
590 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
591 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
592 help
593 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
594 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
595
596config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
597 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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600 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
601 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
602
603 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
604
605config DEBUG_VM
606 bool "Debug VM"
607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
608 help
609 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
610 that may impact performance.
611
612 If unsure, say N.
613
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614config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
615 bool "Debug VMA caching"
616 depends on DEBUG_VM
617 help
618 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
619 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
620 environments.
621
622 If unsure, say N.
623
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624config DEBUG_VM_RB
625 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
626 depends on DEBUG_VM
627 help
a663dad6 628 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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630 If unsure, say N.
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632config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
633 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
634 depends on DEBUG_VM
635 help
636 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
637
638 If unsure, say N.
639
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640config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
641 bool
642
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643config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
644 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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646 help
647 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
648 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
649
650 If unsure, say N.
651
652config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
653 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
655 help
656 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
657 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
658
659config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
660 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
661 default !EXPERT
662 help
663 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
664 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
665 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
666 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
667 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
668
669 If unsure, say Y
670
671config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
672 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
673 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
674 help
675 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
676 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
677 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
678
679 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
680 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
681
682 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
683
684 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
685 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
686 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
687 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
688
689 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
690 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
691
692 If unsure, say N.
693
694config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
695 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
697 depends on SMP
698 help
699 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
700 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
701 and decreases performance.
702
703 Say N if unsure.
704
705config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
706 bool "Highmem debugging"
707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
708 help
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709 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
710 systems. Disable for production systems.
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712config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
713 bool
714
715config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
716 bool "Check for stack overflows"
717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
718 ---help---
719 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 720 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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721 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
722 below a certain limit.
723
724 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
725 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
726 involved.
727
728 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
729 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
730
731 If in doubt, say "N".
732
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733source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
734
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735endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
736
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737config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
738 bool
739 help
740 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
741 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
742 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
743
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744config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
745 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
746
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747config KCOV
748 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
749 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
5aadfdeb 750 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
5c9a8750 751 select DEBUG_FS
5aadfdeb 752 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
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753 help
754 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
755 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
756
757 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
758 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
759 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
760
700199b0 761 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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763config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
764 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
765 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 766 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
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767 help
768 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
769 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
770 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
771 of fuzzing coverage.
772
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773config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
774 bool "Instrument all code by default"
775 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 776 default y
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777 help
778 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
779 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
780 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
781 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
782 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
783
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784config DEBUG_SHIRQ
785 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 786 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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788 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
789 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
790 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
791 points; some don't and need to be caught.
792
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793menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
794
58687acb 795config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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796 bool
797
798config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
799 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 800 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 801 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 802 help
58687acb 803 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 804 soft lockups.
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806 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 807 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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808 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
809 detection and the system will stay locked up.
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811config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
812 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
813 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
814 help
815 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
816 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
817 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
818 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
819
820 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
821 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
822 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
823 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
824 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
825
826 Say N if unsure.
827
828config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
829 int
830 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
831 range 0 1
832 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
833 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
834
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835config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
836 bool
837 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
838
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840# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
841# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
842#
843config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
844 bool
845
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846#
847# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
848# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
849#
850config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
851 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
852 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
853 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
854 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
855 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
856 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
857 help
858 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
859 hard lockups.
860
58687acb 861 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 862 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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863 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
864 and the system will stay locked up.
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866config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
867 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 868 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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869 help
870 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
871 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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872 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
873 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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875 Say N if unsure.
876
877config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
878 int
8f1f66ed 879 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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880 range 0 1
881 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
882 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
883
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884config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
885 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
886 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 887 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 888 help
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889 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
890 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 891 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
1da177e4 892
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893 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
894 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
895 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
896 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
897 feature has negligible overhead.
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899config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
900 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
901 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
902 default 120
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904 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
905 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
906 be considered hung.
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908 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
909 sysctl or by writing a value to
910 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
8ff12cfc 911
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912 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
913 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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915config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
916 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
917 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 918 help
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919 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
920 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
921 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 922
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923 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
924 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
925 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
926 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
927 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 929 Say N if unsure.
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931config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
932 int
933 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
934 range 0 1
935 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
936 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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938config WQ_WATCHDOG
939 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
940 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
941 help
942 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
943 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
944 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
945 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
946 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
947 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
948
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949endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
950
951config PANIC_ON_OOPS
952 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 953 help
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954 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
955 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
956 line.
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958 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
959 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
960 corruption or other issues.
961
962 Say N if unsure.
963
964config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
965 int
966 range 0 1
967 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
968 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
969
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970config PANIC_TIMEOUT
971 int "panic timeout"
972 default 0
973 help
974 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
975 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
976 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
977 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
978
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979config SCHED_DEBUG
980 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
981 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
982 default y
0822ee4a 983 help
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984 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
985 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
986 option is minimal.
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988config SCHED_INFO
989 bool
990 default n
991
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992config SCHEDSTATS
993 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
994 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 995 select SCHED_INFO
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996 help
997 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
998 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
999 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1000 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1001 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1002 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1003 this adds.
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1005config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1006 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1007 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1008 default n
1009 help
1010 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1011 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1012 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1013 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1014 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1015 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1016
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1017config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1018 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1019 help
1020 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1021 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1022 problems are suspected.
1023
1024 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1025 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1026 workloads.
1027
1028 If unsure, say N.
1029
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1030config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1031 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1033 default y
1034 help
1035 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1036 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1037 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1038 will detect preemption count underflows.
1039
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1040menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1041
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1042config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1043 bool
1044 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1045 default y
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1047config PROVE_LOCKING
1048 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1049 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1050 select LOCKDEP
1051 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1052 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1053 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1054 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1055 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1056 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1057 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1058 default n
1059 help
1060 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1061 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1062 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1063 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1064 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1065 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1066 deadlock.
1067
1068 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1069 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1070
1071 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1072 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1073 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1074 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1075 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1076 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1077 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1078 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1079 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1080
1081 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1082 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1083 kernel reports nothing.
1084
1085 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1086 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1087 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1088 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1089 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1090
1091 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1092
1093config LOCK_STAT
1094 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1095 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1096 select LOCKDEP
1097 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1098 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1099 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1100 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1101 default n
1102 help
1103 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1104
1105 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1106
1107 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1108 subcommand of perf.
1109 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1110 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1111
1112 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1113 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1114
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1116 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1117 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1118 help
1119 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1120 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1121
1da177e4 1122config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1123 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1125 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1126 help
1127 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1128 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1129 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1130 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1131
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1132config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1133 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1134 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1135 help
1136 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1137 reported.
1138
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1139config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1140 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
f07cbebb 1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1142 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1143 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1144 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1145 help
1146 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1147 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1148 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1149 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1150 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1151 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1152 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1153 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1154 you are a distro, do not.
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1156config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1157 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1159 help
1160 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
1161 to be detected and reported.
1162
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1163config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1164 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
f07cbebb 1165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1166 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1167 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1168 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1169 select LOCKDEP
1170 help
1171 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1172 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1173 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1174 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1175 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1176 held during task exit.
1177
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1178config LOCKDEP
1179 bool
f07cbebb 1180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1181 select STACKTRACE
f5a8eb63 1182 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
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1183 select KALLSYMS
1184 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1185
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1186config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1187 bool
1188
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1189config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1190 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1192 help
1193 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1194 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1195 of more runtime overhead.
1196
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1197config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1198 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1199 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1da177e4 1200 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
87a4c375 1201 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
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1202 help
1203 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1204 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1205 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1206 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1208config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1209 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1210 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1211 help
1212 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1213 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1214 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1215 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1216 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1217 mutexes and rwsems.
1218
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1219config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1220 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1221 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1222 select TORTURE_TEST
1223 default n
1224 help
1225 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1226 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1227 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1228
1229 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1230 to be built into the kernel.
1231 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1232 Say N if you are unsure.
1233
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1234config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1235 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1236 help
1237 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1238 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1239
1240 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1241 with this test harness.
1242
1243 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1244 Say N if you are unsure.
1245
9eade16b 1246endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1247
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1248config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1249 bool
5ca43f6c 1250 help
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1251 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1252 either tracing or lock debugging.
5ca43f6c 1253
8637c099 1254config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1255 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1256 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1257 help
1258 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1259 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1260 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1261 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1262
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1263config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1264 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1265 default n
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1266 help
1267 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1268 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1269 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1270 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1271 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1272 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1273 it.
1274
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1275 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1276 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1277 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1278 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1279 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1280 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1281 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1282 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1283 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1284
1285 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1286 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1287 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1288 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1289 subarchitecture).
d06bfd19 1290
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1291config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1292 bool "kobject debugging"
1293 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1294 help
1295 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1296 to the syslog.
1297
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1298config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1299 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1300 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1302 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1303 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1304 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1305 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1306 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1307 unregistered.
1308
1309 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1310 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1311 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1312
1313 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1314 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1315 kind of kobject release bug.
1316
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1317config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1318 bool
1319
1da177e4 1320config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1321 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1322 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1323 default y
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1324 help
1325 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1326 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1327 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1328
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1329config DEBUG_LIST
1330 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1331 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1332 help
1333 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1334 walking routines.
1335
1336 If unsure, say N.
1337
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1338config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1339 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1341 help
1342 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1343 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1344 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1345
1346 If unsure, say N.
1347
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1348config DEBUG_SG
1349 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1351 help
1352 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1353 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1354 their sg tables.
1355
1356 If unsure, say N.
1357
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1358config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1359 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1361 help
1362 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1363 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1364 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1365 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1366 performance, say N.
1367
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1368config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1369 bool "Debug credential management"
1370 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1371 help
1372 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1373 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1374 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1375 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1376 struct.
1377
1378 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1379 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1380
1381 If unsure, say N.
1382
43a0a2a7 1383source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
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1385config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1386 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1388 default n
1389 help
1390 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1391 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1392 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1393 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1394 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1395 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1396 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1397 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1398 be impacted.
1399
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1400config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1401 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1402 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1403 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1404 default n
870d6656 1405 help
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1406 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1407 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1408 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1409 is broken.
1410
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1411 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1412 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1413 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1414 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1415 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1416 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1417 device number allocation.
1418
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1420 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1421 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1422 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1423 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1424
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1425 Say N if you are unsure.
1426
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1427config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1428 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1429 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1430 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1431 default n
1432 help
1433 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1434 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1435 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1436 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1437
1438 Say N if your are unsure.
1439
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1440config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1441 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1443 select DEBUG_FS
1444 help
e41e85cc 1445 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1446 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1447 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1448
1449 Say N if unsure.
1450
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1451config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1452 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1453 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1454 default m if PM_DEBUG
1455 help
e41e85cc 1456 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1457 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1458 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1459
1460 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1461 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1462
1463 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1464
1465 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1466 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1467 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1468 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1469
1470 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1471 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1472
1473 If unsure, say N.
1474
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1475config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1476 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1477 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1478 help
e41e85cc 1479 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1480 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1481 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1482 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1484 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1485 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1486
1487 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1488 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1490 If unsure, say N.
1491
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1492config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1493 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1494 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1495 help
1496 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1497 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1498 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1499
1500 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1501 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1502
1503 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1504
1505 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1506 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1507 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1508 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1509
1510 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1511 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1512
1513 If unsure, say N.
1514
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1515config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1516 def_bool y
1517 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1518
6ff1cb35 1519config FAULT_INJECTION
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1520 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1521 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1523 Provide fault-injection framework.
1524 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1525
8a8b6502 1526config FAILSLAB
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1527 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1528 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1529 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1530 help
1ab8509a 1531 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1532
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1533config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1534 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1535 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1536 help
1ab8509a 1537 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1538
c17bb495 1539config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1540 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1541 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1542 help
1ab8509a 1543 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1544
581d4e28 1545config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1546 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1547 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1548 help
1549 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1550 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1551 thus exercising the error handling.
1552
1553 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1554 for others it wont do anything.
1555
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1556config FAIL_FUTEX
1557 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1558 select DEBUG_FS
1559 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1560 help
1561 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1562
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1563config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1564 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1565 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1566 help
1567 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1568
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1569config FAIL_FUNCTION
1570 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1571 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1572 help
1573 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1574 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1575 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1576 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1577 error handling in various subsystems.
1578
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1579config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1580 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1581 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
6ff1cb35 1582 help
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1583 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1584 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1585 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1586 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1587 the block device.
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1589config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1590 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1591 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1592 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1593 select STACKTRACE
a687a533 1594 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1596 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1597
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1598config LATENCYTOP
1599 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1601 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1602 depends on PROC_FS
a34a766f 1603 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1605 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1606 select STACKTRACE
1607 select SCHEDSTATS
1608 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1610 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1611 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1612
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1614
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1615config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1616 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1617 depends on PCI && X86
1618 help
1619 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1620 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1621 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1622 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1623 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1624
1625 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1626 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1627 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1628
1629 Usage:
1630
1631 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1632 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1633
1634 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1635 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1636 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1637 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1638
1639 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1640 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1641
1642 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1643
1644config DMA_API_DEBUG
1645 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
f616ab59 1646 select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
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1647 help
1648 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1649 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1650 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1651 were never allocated.
1652
1653 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1654 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1655 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1656 not undergoing DMA.
1657
1658 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1659 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1660
1661 If unsure, say N.
1662
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1663config DMA_API_DEBUG_SG
1664 bool "Debug DMA scatter-gather usage"
1665 default y
1666 depends on DMA_API_DEBUG
1667 help
1668 Perform extra checking that callers of dma_map_sg() have respected the
1669 appropriate segment length/boundary limits for the given device when
1670 preparing DMA scatterlists.
1671
1672 This is particularly likely to have been overlooked in cases where the
1673 dma_map_sg() API is used for general bulk mapping of pages rather than
1674 preparing literal scatter-gather descriptors, where there is a risk of
1675 unexpected behaviour from DMA API implementations if the scatterlist
1676 is technically out-of-spec.
1677
1678 If unsure, say N.
1679
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1680menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1681 bool "Runtime Testing"
908009e8 1682 def_bool y
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1683
1684if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1686config LKDTM
1687 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1688 depends on DEBUG_FS
1689 depends on BLOCK
1690 default n
1691 help
1692 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1693 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1694 If you don't need it: say N
1695 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1696 called lkdtm.
1697
1698 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1699 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1700
1701config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1705 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1706 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1707 or at module load time.
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1708
1709 If unsure, say N.
1710
c5adae95 1711config TEST_SORT
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1712 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1714 help
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1715 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1716 or at module load time.
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1717
1718 If unsure, say N.
1719
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1720config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1721 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1723 depends on KPROBES
1724 default n
1725 help
1726 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
5a6cf77f 1727 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
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1728 verified for functionality.
1729
1730 Say N if you are unsure.
1731
1732config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1733 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1735 default n
1736 help
1737 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1738 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1739 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1740 developers working on architecture code.
1741
1742 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1743 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1744
1745 Say N if you are unsure.
1746
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1747config RBTREE_TEST
1748 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1750 help
1751 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1752 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1753
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1754config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1755 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1756 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1757 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1758 help
1759 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1760
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1761config PERCPU_TEST
1762 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1763 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1764 help
1765 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1766 operations.
1767
1768 If unsure, say N.
1769
881c5149 1770config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1771 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1772 help
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1773 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1774 at module load time.
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1775
1776 If unsure, say N.
1777
1778config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1779 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1780 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1781 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1782 ---help---
1783 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1784 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1785 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1786 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1787 engine if one is available.
1788
1789 If unsure, say N.
1790
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1791config TEST_HEXDUMP
1792 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1793
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1795 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1796
1797config TEST_KSTRTOX
1798 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1799
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1801 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1802
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1804 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1805 default n
1806 help
1807 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1808
1809 If unsure, say N.
1810
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1811config TEST_BITFIELD
1812 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
1813 help
1814 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
1815
1816 If unsure, say N.
1817
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1818config TEST_UUID
1819 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1820
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1821config TEST_OVERFLOW
1822 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1823
7e1e7763 1824config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1825 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1826 default n
1827 help
1828 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1829
1830 If unsure, say N.
1831
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1833 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1834 default n
1835 help
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1837 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1838 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1840 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1841 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1842
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1843config TEST_PARMAN
1844 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1845 default n
1846 depends on PARMAN
1847 help
1848 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1849 (or module load).
1850
1851 If unsure, say N.
1852
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1854 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1855 default n
1856 depends on m
1857 help
1858 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1859 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1860 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1861 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1862 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1863 requested by name.
1864
1865 If unsure, say N.
1866
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1867config TEST_USER_COPY
1868 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1869 default n
1870 depends on m
1871 help
1872 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1873 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1874 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1875 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1876 protections.
1877
1878 If unsure, say N.
1879
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1880config TEST_BPF
1881 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1882 default n
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1885 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1886 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1887 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1888 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1890 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1892 If unsure, say N.
1893
dceeb3e7 1894config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
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1895 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
1896 default n
1897 help
1898 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1899 functions performance.
1900
1901 If unsure, say N.
1902
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1904 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1905 default n
1906 depends on FW_LOADER
1907 help
1908 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1909 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1910 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1911 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1912 userspace.
1913
1914 If unsure, say N.
1915
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1917 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1918 default n
1919 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1920 help
1921 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1922 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1923 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1924
1925 If unsure, say N.
1926
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1928 tristate "udelay test driver"
1929 default n
1930 help
1931 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1932 that udelay() is working properly.
1933
1934 If unsure, say N.
1935
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1937 tristate "Test static keys"
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1939 depends on m
1940 help
2bf9e0ab 1941 Test the static key interfaces.
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1943 If unsure, say N.
1944
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1946 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1947 default n
1948 depends on m
1949 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1950 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1951 select TEST_LKM
1952 select XFS_FS
1953 select TUN
1954 select BTRFS_FS
1955 help
1956 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1957 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1958 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1959
1960 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1961 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1962 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1963 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1964 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1965
1966 To run tests run:
1967
1968 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1969
1970 If unsure, say N.
1971
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1973 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1974 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1975 help
1976 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1977 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1978 kernel's virtual address map.
1979
1980 If unsure, say N.
1981
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1984config MEMTEST
1985 bool "Memtest"
1986 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1987 ---help---
1988 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1989 to be set.
1990 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1991 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1992 ...
1993 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1994 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1995
1996config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1997 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1998 select DEBUG_LIST
1999 help
2000 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
2001 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
2002 for validity.
2003
2004 If unsure, say N.
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267c4025 2006source "samples/Kconfig"
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2008source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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2011
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2013 bool
2014
2015config STRICT_DEVMEM
2016 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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a687a533 2019 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
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2020 ---help---
2021 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2022 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2023 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2024 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2025 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2026 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2027
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2028 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2029 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2030 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2031 users of /dev/mem.
2032
2033 If in doubt, say Y.
2034
2035config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2036 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2037 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2039 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2040 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2041 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2042 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2043
21266be9 2044 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
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2045 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2046 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2047 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2049 If in doubt, say Y.
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2051source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
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