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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"
da0510c4 168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
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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.
3ee7b3fa 200
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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
3f181b4d 220 default 0 if KASAN
0e07f663 221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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222 default 1024 if !64BIT
223 default 2048 if 64BIT
224 help
225 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
226 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
227 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
228 Requires gcc 4.4
229
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230config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
231 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
232 default n
233 help
234 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
235 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
236 get_wchan() and suchlike.
237
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238config READABLE_ASM
239 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
241 help
242 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
243 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
244 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
245 sane.
246
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247config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
248 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
249 default y if X86
250 help
251 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
252 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
253 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
254 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
255 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
256 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
257 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
258 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
259 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
260 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
261 your module is.
262
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263config PAGE_OWNER
264 bool "Track page owner"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
266 select DEBUG_FS
267 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 268 select STACKDEPOT
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269 select PAGE_EXTENSION
270 help
271 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
272 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
273 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
274 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
275 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
276 for user-space helper.
277
278 If unsure, say N.
279
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280config DEBUG_FS
281 bool "Debug Filesystem"
9fd4dcec 282 select SRCU
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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).
327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
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330 introduced.
331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o 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 help
f346f4b3 355
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356config FRAME_POINTER
357 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
359 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
695c1208 360 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
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361 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
362 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 363 help
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364 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
365 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
366 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 367
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368config STACK_VALIDATION
369 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
370 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
371 default n
372 help
373 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
374 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
375 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
376
377 For more information, see
378 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
379
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380config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
381 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 383 help
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384 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
385 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
386 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
387 definitions.
8446f1d3 388
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389 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
390 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 391
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392 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
393 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
5f329089 394
6dfc0665 395endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 396
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397config MAGIC_SYSRQ
398 bool "Magic SysRq key"
399 depends on !UML
400 help
401 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
402 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
403 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
404 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
405 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
406 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
407 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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408 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
409 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 410
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411config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
412 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
413 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
414 default 0x1
415 help
416 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
417 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 418 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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420config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
421 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
422 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
423 default y
424 help
425 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
426 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
427 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
428 magic SysRq key.
429
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430config DEBUG_KERNEL
431 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 432 help
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433 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
434 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 435
0610c8a8 436menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 438source mm/Kconfig.debug
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440config DEBUG_OBJECTS
441 bool "Debug object operations"
442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 443 help
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444 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
445 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
446 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 447
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448config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
449 bool "Debug objects selftest"
450 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
451 help
452 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 453
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454config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
455 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
456 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
457 help
458 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
459 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
460 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
461 much slower.
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463config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
464 bool "Debug timer objects"
465 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
466 help
467 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
468 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
469 validate the timer operations.
470
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471config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
472 bool "Debug work objects"
473 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
474 help
475 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
476 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
477 validate the work operations.
478
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479config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
480 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 481 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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482 help
483 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
484
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485config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
486 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
487 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
488 help
489 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
490 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
491 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
492
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493config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
494 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
495 range 0 1
496 default "1"
497 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
498 help
499 Debug objects boot parameter default value
500
1da177e4 501config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 502 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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504 help
505 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
506 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
507 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
508
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509config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
510 bool "Memory leak debugging"
511 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
512
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513config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
514 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 515 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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516 default n
517 help
518 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
519 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
520 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
521 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
522 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
523 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
524 "slub_debug=-".
525
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526config SLUB_STATS
527 default n
528 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 529 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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530 help
531 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
532 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
533 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
534 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
535 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
536 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
537 Try running: slabinfo -DA
538
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539config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
540 bool
541
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542config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
543 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 545 select DEBUG_FS
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546 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
547 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 548 select CRC32
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549 help
550 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
551 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
552 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
553 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
554 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
555 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 556 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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557 details.
558
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559 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
560 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
561
562 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
563 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
564
565config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
566 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
567 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
568 range 200 40000
569 default 400
570 help
571 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
572 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
573 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
574 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
575 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
576
577config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
578 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
579 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
580 help
581 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
582
583 If unsure, say N.
584
585config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
586 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
587 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
588 help
589 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
590 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
591
592config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
593 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 594 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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595 help
596 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
597 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
598
599 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
600
601config DEBUG_VM
602 bool "Debug VM"
603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
604 help
605 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
606 that may impact performance.
607
608 If unsure, say N.
609
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610config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
611 bool "Debug VMA caching"
612 depends on DEBUG_VM
613 help
614 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
615 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
616 environments.
617
618 If unsure, say N.
619
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620config DEBUG_VM_RB
621 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
622 depends on DEBUG_VM
623 help
a663dad6 624 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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625
626 If unsure, say N.
627
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628config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
629 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
630 depends on DEBUG_VM
631 help
632 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
633
634 If unsure, say N.
635
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636config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
637 bool
638
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639config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
640 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 641 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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642 help
643 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
644 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
645
646 If unsure, say N.
647
648config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
649 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
650 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
651 help
652 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
653 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
654
655config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
656 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
657 default !EXPERT
658 help
659 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
660 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
661 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
662 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
663 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
664
665 If unsure, say Y
666
667config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
668 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
669 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
670 help
671 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
672 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
673 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
674
675 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
676 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
677
678 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
679
680 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
681 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
682 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
683 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
684
685 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
686 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
687
688 If unsure, say N.
689
690config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
691 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
693 depends on SMP
694 help
695 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
696 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
697 and decreases performance.
698
699 Say N if unsure.
700
701config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
702 bool "Highmem debugging"
703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
704 help
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706 systems. Disable for production systems.
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708config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
709 bool
710
711config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
712 bool "Check for stack overflows"
713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
714 ---help---
715 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 716 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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717 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
718 below a certain limit.
719
720 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
721 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
722 involved.
723
724 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
725 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
726
727 If in doubt, say "N".
728
729source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
730
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731source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
732
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733endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
734
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735config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
736 bool
737 help
738 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
739 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
740 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
741
742config KCOV
743 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
744 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
745 select DEBUG_FS
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746 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
747 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
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748 help
749 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
750 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
751
752 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
753 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
754 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
755
700199b0 756 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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758config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
759 bool "Instrument all code by default"
760 depends on KCOV
761 default y if KCOV
762 help
763 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
764 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
765 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
766 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
767 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
768
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769config DEBUG_SHIRQ
770 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 771 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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772 help
773 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
774 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
775 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
776 points; some don't and need to be caught.
777
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778menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
779
58687acb 780config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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781 bool
782
783config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
784 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 785 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 786 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 787 help
58687acb 788 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 789 soft lockups.
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791 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 792 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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793 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
794 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 795
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796config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
797 bool
798 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
799
800#
801# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
802# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
803#
804config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
805 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
806 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
807 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
808 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
809 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
810 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
811 help
812 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
813 hard lockups.
814
58687acb 815 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 816 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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817 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
818 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 819
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820config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
821 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 822 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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823 help
824 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
825 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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826 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
827 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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829 Say N if unsure.
830
831config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
832 int
8f1f66ed 833 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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834 range 0 1
835 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
836 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
837
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838config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
839 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
05a4a952 840 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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841 help
842 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
843 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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844 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
845 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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847 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
848 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
849 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
850 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
851 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
852
853 Say N if unsure.
854
855config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
856 int
05a4a952 857 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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858 range 0 1
859 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
860 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
861
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862config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
863 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 865 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 866 help
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867 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
868 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 869 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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871 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
872 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
873 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
874 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
875 feature has negligible overhead.
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877config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
878 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
879 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
880 default 120
f0630fff 881 help
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882 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
883 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
884 be considered hung.
f0630fff 885
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886 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
887 sysctl or by writing a value to
888 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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890 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
891 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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893config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
894 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
895 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 896 help
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897 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
898 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
899 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 900
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901 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
902 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
903 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
904 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
905 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
bf96d1e3 906
0610c8a8 907 Say N if unsure.
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909config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
910 int
911 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
912 range 0 1
913 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
914 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
3bba00d7 915
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916config WQ_WATCHDOG
917 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
918 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
919 help
920 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
921 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
922 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
923 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
924 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
925 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
926
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927endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
928
929config PANIC_ON_OOPS
930 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 931 help
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932 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
933 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
934 line.
a9d9058a 935
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936 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
937 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
938 corruption or other issues.
939
940 Say N if unsure.
941
942config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
943 int
944 range 0 1
945 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
946 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
947
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949 int "panic timeout"
950 default 0
951 help
952 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
953 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
954 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
955 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
956
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957config SCHED_DEBUG
958 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
959 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
960 default y
0822ee4a 961 help
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962 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
963 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
964 option is minimal.
0822ee4a 965
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966config SCHED_INFO
967 bool
968 default n
969
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970config SCHEDSTATS
971 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
972 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 973 select SCHED_INFO
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974 help
975 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
976 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
977 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
978 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
979 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
980 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
981 this adds.
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983config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
984 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
985 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
986 default n
987 help
988 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
989 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
990 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
991 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
992 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
993 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
994
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995config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
996 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
997 help
998 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
999 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1000 problems are suspected.
1001
1002 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1003 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1004 workloads.
1005
1006 If unsure, say N.
1007
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1008config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1009 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1010 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1011 default y
1012 help
1013 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1014 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1015 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1016 will detect preemption count underflows.
1017
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1018menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1019
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1020config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1021 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1022 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1023 help
1024 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1025 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1026
1da177e4 1027config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1028 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1030 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1031 help
1032 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1033 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1034 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1035 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1036
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1037config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1038 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1040 help
1041 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1042 reported.
1043
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1044config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1045 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1047 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1048 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1049 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1050 help
1051 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1052 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1053 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1054 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1055 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1056 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1057 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1058 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1059 you are a distro, do not.
23010027 1060
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1061config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1062 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 1063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1064 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1065 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1066 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1067 select LOCKDEP
1068 help
1069 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1070 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1071 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1072 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1073 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1074 held during task exit.
1075
1076config PROVE_LOCKING
1077 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 1078 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1079 select LOCKDEP
1080 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1081 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1082 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 1083 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 1084 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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1085 default n
1086 help
1087 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1088 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1089 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1090 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1091 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1092 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1093 deadlock.
1094
1095 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1096 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1097
1098 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1099 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1100 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1101 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1102 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1103 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1104 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1105 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1106 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1107
1108 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1109 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1110 kernel reports nothing.
1111
1112 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1113 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1114 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1115 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1116 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1117
214e0aed 1118 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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1120config LOCKDEP
1121 bool
517e7aa5 1122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1123 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1124 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
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1125 select KALLSYMS
1126 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1127
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1128config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1129 bool
1130
f20786ff 1131config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 1132 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1134 select LOCKDEP
1135 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1136 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1137 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1138 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1139 default n
1140 help
1141 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1142
214e0aed 1143 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
a560aa48 1144
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1145 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1146 subcommand of perf.
1147 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1148 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1150 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1151 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1152
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1153config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1154 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1156 help
1157 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1158 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1159 of more runtime overhead.
1160
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1161config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1162 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1163 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1164 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1165 help
1166 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1167 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1168 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1169 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1171config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1172 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1173 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1174 help
1175 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1176 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1177 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1178 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1179 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1180 mutexes and rwsems.
1181
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1182config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1183 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1184 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1185 select TORTURE_TEST
1186 default n
1187 help
1188 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1189 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1190 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1191
1192 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1193 to be built into the kernel.
1194 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1195 Say N if you are unsure.
1196
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1197config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1198 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1199 help
1200 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1201 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1202
1203 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1204 with this test harness.
1205
1206 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1207 Say N if you are unsure.
1208
9eade16b 1209endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1210
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1211config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1212 bool
5ca43f6c 1213 help
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1214 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1215 either tracing or lock debugging.
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8637c099 1217config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1218 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1219 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1220 help
1221 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1222 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1223 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1224 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1225
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1226config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1227 bool "kobject debugging"
1228 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1229 help
1230 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1231 to the syslog.
1232
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1233config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1234 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1235 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1236 help
1237 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1238 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1239 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1240 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1241 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1242 unregistered.
1243
1244 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1245 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1246 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1247
1248 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1249 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1250 kind of kobject release bug.
1251
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1252config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1253 bool
1254
1da177e4 1255config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1256 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1257 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1258 default y
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1259 help
1260 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1261 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1262 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1263
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1264config DEBUG_LIST
1265 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1267 help
1268 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1269 walking routines.
1270
1271 If unsure, say N.
1272
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1273config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1274 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1275 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1276 help
1277 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1278 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1279 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1280
1281 If unsure, say N.
1282
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1283config DEBUG_SG
1284 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1285 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1286 help
1287 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1288 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1289 their sg tables.
1290
1291 If unsure, say N.
1292
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1293config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1294 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1296 help
1297 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1298 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1299 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1300 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1301 performance, say N.
1302
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1303config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1304 bool "Debug credential management"
1305 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1306 help
1307 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1308 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1309 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1310 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1311 struct.
1312
1313 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1314 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1315
1316 If unsure, say N.
1317
43a0a2a7 1318source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
2f03e3ca 1319
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1320config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1321 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1323 default n
1324 help
1325 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1326 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1327 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1328 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1329 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1330 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1331 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1332 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1333 be impacted.
1334
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1335config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1336 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1337 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1338 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1339 default n
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1341 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1342 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1343 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1344 is broken.
1345
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1346 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1347 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1348 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1349 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1350 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1351 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1352 device number allocation.
1353
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1354 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1355 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1356 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1357 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1358 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1359
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1360 Say N if you are unsure.
1361
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1362config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1363 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1365 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1366 default n
1367 help
1368 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1369 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1370 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1371 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1372
1373 Say N if your are unsure.
1374
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1375config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1376 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1378 select DEBUG_FS
1379 help
e41e85cc 1380 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1381 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1382 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1383
1384 Say N if unsure.
1385
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1386config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1387 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1388 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1389 default m if PM_DEBUG
1390 help
e41e85cc 1391 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1392 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1393 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1394
1395 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1396 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1397
1398 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1399
1400 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1401 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1402 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1403 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1404
1405 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1406 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1407
1408 If unsure, say N.
1409
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1410config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1411 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1412 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1413 help
e41e85cc 1414 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1415 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1416 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1417 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1418
1419 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1420 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1421
1422 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1423 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1424
1425 If unsure, say N.
1426
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1427config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1428 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1429 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1430 help
1431 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1432 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1433 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1434
1435 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1436 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1437
1438 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1439
1440 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1441 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1442 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1443 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1444
1445 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1446 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1447
1448 If unsure, say N.
1449
6ff1cb35 1450config FAULT_INJECTION
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1451 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1452 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1453 help
1454 Provide fault-injection framework.
1455 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1456
8a8b6502 1457config FAILSLAB
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1458 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1459 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1460 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1461 help
1ab8509a 1462 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1463
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1464config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1465 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1466 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1467 help
1ab8509a 1468 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 1470config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1471 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1472 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1473 help
1ab8509a 1474 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1475
581d4e28 1476config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1477 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1478 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1479 help
1480 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1481 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1482 thus exercising the error handling.
1483
1484 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1485 for others it wont do anything.
1486
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1487config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1488 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1489 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1490 help
1491 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1492 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1493 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1494 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1495 the block device.
1496
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1497config FAIL_FUTEX
1498 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1499 select DEBUG_FS
1500 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1501 help
1502 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1503
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1504config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1505 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1506 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1507 help
1ab8509a 1508 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1510config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1511 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1512 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1513 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1514 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1515 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
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1517 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1518
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1520 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1521 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1522 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1523 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1524 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1526 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1527 select STACKTRACE
1528 select SCHEDSTATS
1529 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1530 help
1531 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1532 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1533
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1535
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1536menu "Runtime Testing"
1537
1538config LKDTM
1539 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1540 depends on DEBUG_FS
1541 depends on BLOCK
1542 default n
1543 help
1544 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1545 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1546 If you don't need it: say N
1547 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1548 called lkdtm.
1549
1550 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1551 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1552
1553config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1554 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1555 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1556 help
1557 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1558 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1559 or at module load time.
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1560
1561 If unsure, say N.
1562
c5adae95 1563config TEST_SORT
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1564 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1565 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1566 help
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1567 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1568 or at module load time.
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1569
1570 If unsure, say N.
1571
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1572config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1573 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1574 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1575 depends on KPROBES
1576 default n
1577 help
1578 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1579 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1580 verified for functionality.
1581
1582 Say N if you are unsure.
1583
1584config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1585 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1586 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1587 default n
1588 help
1589 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1590 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1591 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1592 developers working on architecture code.
1593
1594 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1595 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1596
1597 Say N if you are unsure.
1598
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1599config RBTREE_TEST
1600 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1601 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1602 help
1603 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1604 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1605
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1606config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1607 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1608 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1609 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1610 help
1611 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1612
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1613config PERCPU_TEST
1614 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1615 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1616 help
1617 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1618 operations.
1619
1620 If unsure, say N.
1621
881c5149 1622config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1623 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1624 help
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1625 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1626 at module load time.
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1627
1628 If unsure, say N.
1629
1630config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1631 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1632 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1633 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1634 ---help---
1635 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1636 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1637 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1638 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1639 engine if one is available.
1640
1641 If unsure, say N.
1642
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1643config TEST_HEXDUMP
1644 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1645
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1646config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1647 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1648
1649config TEST_KSTRTOX
1650 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1651
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1653 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1654
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1655config TEST_BITMAP
1656 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1657 default n
1658 help
1659 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1660
1661 If unsure, say N.
1662
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1663config TEST_UUID
1664 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1665
7e1e7763 1666config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1667 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1668 default n
1669 help
1670 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1671
1672 If unsure, say N.
1673
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1674config TEST_HASH
1675 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1676 default n
1677 help
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1678 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1679 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1680 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1681
1682 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1683 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1684
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1685config TEST_PARMAN
1686 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1687 default n
1688 depends on PARMAN
1689 help
1690 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1691 (or module load).
1692
1693 If unsure, say N.
1694
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1695endmenu # runtime tests
1696
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080de8c2 1698 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1699 depends on PCI && X86
1700 help
1701 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1702 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1703 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1704 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1705 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1706
1707 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1708 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1709 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1710
1711 Usage:
1712
1713 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1714 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1715
1716 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1717 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1718 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1719 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1720
1721 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1722 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1723
1724 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1726config DMA_API_DEBUG
1727 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1728 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1729 help
1730 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1731 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1732 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1733 were never allocated.
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1734
1735 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1736 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1737 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1738 not undergoing DMA.
1739
1740 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1741 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1742
1743 If unsure, say N.
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8a6f0b47 1745config TEST_LKM
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1746 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1747 default n
1748 depends on m
1749 help
1750 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1751 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1752 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1753 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1754 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1755 requested by name.
1756
1757 If unsure, say N.
1758
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1759config TEST_USER_COPY
1760 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1761 default n
1762 depends on m
1763 help
1764 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1765 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1766 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1767 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1768 protections.
1769
1770 If unsure, say N.
1771
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1772config TEST_BPF
1773 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1774 default n
98920ba6 1775 depends on m && NET
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1776 help
1777 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1778 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1779 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1780 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1782 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1783
1784 If unsure, say N.
1785
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1786config TEST_FIRMWARE
1787 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1788 default n
1789 depends on FW_LOADER
1790 help
1791 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1792 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1793 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1794 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1795 userspace.
1796
1797 If unsure, say N.
1798
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1799config TEST_SYSCTL
1800 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1801 default n
1802 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1803 help
1804 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1805 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1806 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1807
1808 If unsure, say N.
1809
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1810config TEST_UDELAY
1811 tristate "udelay test driver"
1812 default n
1813 help
1814 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1815 that udelay() is working properly.
1816
1817 If unsure, say N.
1818
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1820 bool "Memtest"
1821 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1822 ---help---
1823 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1824 to be set.
1825 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1826 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1827 ...
8d8cfb47 1828 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
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1830
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1831config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1832 tristate "Test static keys"
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1833 default n
1834 depends on m
1835 help
2bf9e0ab 1836 Test the static key interfaces.
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1837
1838 If unsure, say N.
1839
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1840config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1841 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
91a6cee6 1842 select DEBUG_LIST
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1843 help
1844 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1845 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1846 for validity.
1847
1848 If unsure, say N.
1849
267c4025 1850source "samples/Kconfig"
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1851
1852source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1854source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1855
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1856config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1857 bool
1858
1859config STRICT_DEVMEM
1860 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
6b2a65c7 1861 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
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1862 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1863 default y if TILE || PPC
1864 ---help---
1865 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1866 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1867 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1868 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1869 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1870 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1871
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1872 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1873 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1874 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1875 users of /dev/mem.
1876
1877 If in doubt, say Y.
1878
1879config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1880 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1881 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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1882 ---help---
1883 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1884 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1885 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1886 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1887
21266be9 1888 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
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1889 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1890 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1891 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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1892
1893 If in doubt, say Y.