Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu
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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
42a9dc0b 35config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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36 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
37 range 1 7
38 default "4"
39 help
40 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
41
42 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
43 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
44 priority.
45
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46 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
47 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
48 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
49
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50config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
51 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
52 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
53 help
54 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
55 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
56 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
57 using "boot_delay=N".
58
59 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
60 the "loops per jiffie" value.
61 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
62 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
63 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
64 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
65 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
66 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
67
68config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
69 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
70 default n
71 depends on PRINTK
72 depends on DEBUG_FS
73 help
74
75 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
76 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
77 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
78 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
79 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
80 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
81
82 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
83 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
84 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
85 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
86
87 Usage:
88
89 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
90 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
91 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
92 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
93 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
94 format for each line of the file is:
95
96 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
97
98 filename : source file of the debug statement
99 lineno : line number of the debug statement
100 module : module that contains the debug statement
101 function : function that contains the debug statement
102 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
103 format : the format used for the debug statement
104
105 From a live system:
106
107 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
108 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
109 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
110 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
111 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
112
113 Example usage:
114
115 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
116 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
117 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
118
119 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
120 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
121 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
122
123 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
124 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
125 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
126
127 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
128 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
129 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
130
131 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
132 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
133 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
134
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135 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
136 information.
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137
138endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
139
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140menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
141
142config DEBUG_INFO
143 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 144 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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145 help
146 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
147 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
148 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
149 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
150 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
151 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
152
153 If unsure, say N.
154
155config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
156 bool "Reduce debugging information"
157 depends on DEBUG_INFO
158 help
159 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
160 information for structure types. This means that tools that
161 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
162 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
163 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
164 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
165 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
166 Only works with newer gcc versions.
167
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168config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
169 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
a687a533 170 depends on DEBUG_INFO
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171 help
172 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
173 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
174 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
175 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
176 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
177
178 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
179 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
180 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
181 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
182
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183config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
184 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
185 depends on DEBUG_INFO
186 help
187 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
188 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
189 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
190 variables in gdb on optimized code.
191
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192config GDB_SCRIPTS
193 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
194 depends on DEBUG_INFO
195 help
196 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
197 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
198 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
199 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
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200 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
201 for further details.
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203config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
204 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
205 default y
206 help
207 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
208 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
209 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
210
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211config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
212 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
213 default y
214 help
215 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
216 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
217 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 218
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219config FRAME_WARN
220 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
221 range 0 8192
e7c52b84 222 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
0e07f663 223 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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224 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
225 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
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226 default 2048 if 64BIT
227 help
228 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
229 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
230 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
231 Requires gcc 4.4
232
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233config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
234 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
235 default n
236 help
237 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
238 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
239 get_wchan() and suchlike.
240
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241config READABLE_ASM
242 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
243 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
244 help
245 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
246 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
247 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
248 sane.
249
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250config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
251 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
252 default y if X86
253 help
254 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
255 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
256 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
257 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
258 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
259 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
260 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
261 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
262 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
263 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
264 your module is.
265
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266config PAGE_OWNER
267 bool "Track page owner"
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
269 select DEBUG_FS
270 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 271 select STACKDEPOT
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272 select PAGE_EXTENSION
273 help
274 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
275 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
276 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
277 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
278 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
279 for user-space helper.
280
281 If unsure, say N.
282
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283config DEBUG_FS
284 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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285 help
286 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
287 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
288 write to these files.
289
ff543332 290 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 291 Documentation/filesystems/.
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293 If unsure, say N.
294
295config HEADERS_CHECK
296 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
297 depends on !UML
298 help
299 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
300 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
301 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
302 were not exported, etc.
303
304 If you're making modifications to header files which are
305 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
306 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
307 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
308
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309config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
310 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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311 help
312 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
313 references from one section to another section.
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314 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
315 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 316 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 317 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 318 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 319 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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320 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
321 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
322 additional steps to occur:
323 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
324 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
325 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 326 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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327 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
328 a larger kernel).
f49821ee 329 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
e809ab01 330 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 331 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
91341d4b 332 introduced.
f49821ee 333 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
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334 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
335 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
336 reported at least twice.
337 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
338 the section mismatches that are reported.
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340config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
341 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
342 default y
343 help
344 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
345 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
346
347 If unsure, say Y.
348
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349#
350# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
351# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
352# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
353#
354config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
355 bool
f346f4b3 356
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357config FRAME_POINTER
358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
a687a533 359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
6dfc0665 360 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 361 help
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362 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
363 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
364 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 365
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366config STACK_VALIDATION
367 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
368 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
369 default n
370 help
371 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
372 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
373 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
374
ee9f8fce 375 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
11af8474 376 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
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378 For more information, see
379 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
380
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381config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
382 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 384 help
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385 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
386 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
387 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
388 definitions.
8446f1d3 389
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390 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
391 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 392
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393 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
394 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
5f329089 395
6dfc0665 396endmenu # "Compiler options"
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398config MAGIC_SYSRQ
399 bool "Magic SysRq key"
400 depends on !UML
401 help
402 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
403 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
404 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
405 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
406 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
407 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
408 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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409 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
410 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 411
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412config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
413 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
414 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
415 default 0x1
416 help
417 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
418 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 419 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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421config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
422 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
423 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
424 default y
425 help
426 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
427 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
428 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
429 magic SysRq key.
430
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431config DEBUG_KERNEL
432 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 433 help
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434 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
435 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 436
0610c8a8 437menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 439source mm/Kconfig.debug
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441config DEBUG_OBJECTS
442 bool "Debug object operations"
443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 444 help
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445 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
446 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
447 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 448
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449config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
450 bool "Debug objects selftest"
451 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
452 help
453 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 454
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455config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
456 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
457 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
458 help
459 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
460 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
461 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
462 much slower.
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464config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
465 bool "Debug timer objects"
466 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
467 help
468 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
469 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
470 validate the timer operations.
471
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472config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
473 bool "Debug work objects"
474 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
475 help
476 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
477 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
478 validate the work operations.
479
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480config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
481 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 482 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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483 help
484 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
485
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486config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
487 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
488 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
489 help
490 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
491 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
492 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
493
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494config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
495 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
496 range 0 1
497 default "1"
498 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
499 help
500 Debug objects boot parameter default value
501
1da177e4 502config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 503 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
4675ff05 504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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505 help
506 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
507 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
508 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
509
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510config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
511 bool "Memory leak debugging"
512 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
513
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514config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
515 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
4675ff05 516 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
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517 default n
518 help
519 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
520 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
521 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
522 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
523 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
524 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
525 "slub_debug=-".
526
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527config SLUB_STATS
528 default n
529 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 530 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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531 help
532 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
533 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
534 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
535 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
536 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
537 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
538 Try running: slabinfo -DA
539
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540config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
541 bool
542
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543config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
544 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 545 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 546 select DEBUG_FS
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547 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
548 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 549 select CRC32
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550 help
551 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
552 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
553 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
554 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
555 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
556 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 557 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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558 details.
559
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560 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
561 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
562
563 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
564 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
565
566config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
567 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
568 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
569 range 200 40000
570 default 400
571 help
572 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
573 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
574 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
575 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
576 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
577
578config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
579 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
580 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
581 help
582 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
583
584 If unsure, say N.
585
586config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
587 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
588 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
589 help
590 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
591 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
592
593config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
594 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 595 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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597 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
598 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
599
600 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
601
602config DEBUG_VM
603 bool "Debug VM"
604 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
605 help
606 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
607 that may impact performance.
608
609 If unsure, say N.
610
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611config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
612 bool "Debug VMA caching"
613 depends on DEBUG_VM
614 help
615 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
616 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
617 environments.
618
619 If unsure, say N.
620
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621config DEBUG_VM_RB
622 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
623 depends on DEBUG_VM
624 help
a663dad6 625 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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626
627 If unsure, say N.
628
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629config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
630 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
631 depends on DEBUG_VM
632 help
633 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
634
635 If unsure, say N.
636
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637config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
638 bool
639
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640config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
641 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 642 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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643 help
644 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
645 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
646
647 If unsure, say N.
648
649config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
650 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
651 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
652 help
653 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
654 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
655
656config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
657 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
658 default !EXPERT
659 help
660 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
661 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
662 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
663 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
664 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
665
666 If unsure, say Y
667
668config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
669 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
670 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
671 help
672 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
673 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
674 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
675
676 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
677 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
678
679 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
680
681 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
682 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
683 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
684 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
685
686 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
687 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
688
689 If unsure, say N.
690
691config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
692 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
694 depends on SMP
695 help
696 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
697 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
698 and decreases performance.
699
700 Say N if unsure.
701
702config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
703 bool "Highmem debugging"
704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
705 help
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706 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
707 systems. Disable for production systems.
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709config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
710 bool
711
712config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
713 bool "Check for stack overflows"
714 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
715 ---help---
716 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 717 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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718 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
719 below a certain limit.
720
721 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
722 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
723 involved.
724
725 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
726 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
727
728 If in doubt, say "N".
729
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730source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
731
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732endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
733
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734config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
735 bool
736 help
737 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
738 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
739 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
740
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741config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
742 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
743
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744config KCOV
745 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
746 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
5aadfdeb 747 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
5c9a8750 748 select DEBUG_FS
5aadfdeb 749 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
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750 help
751 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
752 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
753
754 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
755 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
756 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
757
700199b0 758 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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760config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
761 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
762 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 763 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
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764 help
765 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
766 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
767 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
768 of fuzzing coverage.
769
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770config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
771 bool "Instrument all code by default"
772 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 773 default y
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774 help
775 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
776 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
777 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
778 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
779 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
780
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781config DEBUG_SHIRQ
782 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 783 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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785 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
786 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
787 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
788 points; some don't and need to be caught.
789
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790menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
791
58687acb 792config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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793 bool
794
795config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
796 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 797 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 798 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 799 help
58687acb 800 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 801 soft lockups.
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803 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 804 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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805 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
806 detection and the system will stay locked up.
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808config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
809 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
810 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
811 help
812 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
813 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
814 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
815 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
816
817 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
818 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
819 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
820 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
821 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
822
823 Say N if unsure.
824
825config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
826 int
827 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
828 range 0 1
829 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
830 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
831
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832config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
833 bool
834 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
835
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837# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
838# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
839#
840config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
841 bool
842
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844# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
845# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
846#
847config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
848 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
849 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
850 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
851 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
852 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
853 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
854 help
855 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
856 hard lockups.
857
58687acb 858 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 859 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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860 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
861 and the system will stay locked up.
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863config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
864 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 865 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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866 help
867 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
868 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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869 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
870 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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872 Say N if unsure.
873
874config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
875 int
8f1f66ed 876 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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877 range 0 1
878 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
879 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
880
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881config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
882 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
883 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 884 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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886 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
887 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 888 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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890 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
891 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
892 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
893 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
894 feature has negligible overhead.
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896config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
897 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
898 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
899 default 120
f0630fff 900 help
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901 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
902 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
903 be considered hung.
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905 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
906 sysctl or by writing a value to
907 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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909 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
910 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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912config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
913 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
914 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 915 help
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916 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
917 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
918 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 919
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920 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
921 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
922 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
923 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
924 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 926 Say N if unsure.
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928config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
929 int
930 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
931 range 0 1
932 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
933 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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935config WQ_WATCHDOG
936 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
937 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
938 help
939 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
940 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
941 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
942 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
943 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
944 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
945
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946endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
947
948config PANIC_ON_OOPS
949 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 950 help
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951 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
952 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
953 line.
a9d9058a 954
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955 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
956 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
957 corruption or other issues.
958
959 Say N if unsure.
960
961config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
962 int
963 range 0 1
964 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
965 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
966
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967config PANIC_TIMEOUT
968 int "panic timeout"
969 default 0
970 help
971 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
972 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
973 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
974 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
975
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976config SCHED_DEBUG
977 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
978 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
979 default y
0822ee4a 980 help
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981 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
982 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
983 option is minimal.
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985config SCHED_INFO
986 bool
987 default n
988
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989config SCHEDSTATS
990 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
991 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 992 select SCHED_INFO
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993 help
994 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
995 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
996 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
997 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
998 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
999 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1000 this adds.
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1002config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1003 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1004 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1005 default n
1006 help
1007 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1008 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1009 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1010 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1011 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1012 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1013
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1014config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1015 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1016 help
1017 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1018 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1019 problems are suspected.
1020
1021 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1022 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1023 workloads.
1024
1025 If unsure, say N.
1026
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1027config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1028 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1030 default y
1031 help
1032 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1033 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1034 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1035 will detect preemption count underflows.
1036
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1037menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1038
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1039config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1040 bool
1041 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1042 default y
1043
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1044config PROVE_LOCKING
1045 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1047 select LOCKDEP
1048 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1049 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1050 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1051 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1052 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1053 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1054 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1055 default n
1056 help
1057 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1058 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1059 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1060 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1061 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1062 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1063 deadlock.
1064
1065 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1066 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1067
1068 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1069 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1070 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1071 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1072 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1073 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1074 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1075 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1076 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1077
1078 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1079 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1080 kernel reports nothing.
1081
1082 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1083 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1084 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1085 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1086 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1087
1088 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1089
1090config LOCK_STAT
1091 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1092 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1093 select LOCKDEP
1094 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1095 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1096 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1097 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1098 default n
1099 help
1100 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1101
1102 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1103
1104 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1105 subcommand of perf.
1106 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1107 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1108
1109 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1110 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1111
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1113 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1115 help
1116 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1117 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1118
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4d9f34ad 1120 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1121 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1122 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1123 help
1124 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1125 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1126 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1127 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1128
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1129config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1130 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1131 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1132 help
1133 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1134 reported.
1135
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1136config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1137 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
f07cbebb 1138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1139 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1140 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1141 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1142 help
1143 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1144 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1145 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1146 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1147 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1148 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1149 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1150 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1151 you are a distro, do not.
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1153config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1154 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1156 help
1157 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
1158 to be detected and reported.
1159
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1160config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1161 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
f07cbebb 1162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1163 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1164 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1165 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1166 select LOCKDEP
1167 help
1168 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1169 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1170 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1171 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1172 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1173 held during task exit.
1174
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1175config LOCKDEP
1176 bool
f07cbebb 1177 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1178 select STACKTRACE
f5a8eb63 1179 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
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1180 select KALLSYMS
1181 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1182
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1183config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1184 bool
1185
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1186config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1187 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1188 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1189 help
1190 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1191 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1192 of more runtime overhead.
1193
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1194config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1195 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1196 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1197 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1198 help
1199 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1200 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1201 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1202 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1204config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1205 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1206 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1207 help
1208 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1209 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1210 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1211 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1212 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1213 mutexes and rwsems.
1214
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1215config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1216 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1217 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1218 select TORTURE_TEST
1219 default n
1220 help
1221 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1222 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1223 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1224
1225 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1226 to be built into the kernel.
1227 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1228 Say N if you are unsure.
1229
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1230config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1231 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1232 help
1233 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1234 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1235
1236 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1237 with this test harness.
1238
1239 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1240 Say N if you are unsure.
1241
9eade16b 1242endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1243
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1244config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1245 bool
5ca43f6c 1246 help
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1247 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1248 either tracing or lock debugging.
5ca43f6c 1249
8637c099 1250config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1251 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1252 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1253 help
1254 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1255 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1256 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1257 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1258
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1259config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1260 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1261 default n
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1262 help
1263 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1264 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1265 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1266 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1267 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1268 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1269 it.
1270
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1271 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1272 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1273 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1274 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1275 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1276 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1277 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1278 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1279 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1280
1281 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1282 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1283 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1284 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1285 subarchitecture).
d06bfd19 1286
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1287config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1288 bool "kobject debugging"
1289 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1290 help
1291 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1292 to the syslog.
1293
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1294config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1295 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1296 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1297 help
1298 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1299 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1300 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1301 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1302 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1303 unregistered.
1304
1305 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1306 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1307 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1308
1309 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1310 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1311 kind of kobject release bug.
1312
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1313config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1314 bool
1315
1da177e4 1316config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1317 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1318 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1319 default y
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1320 help
1321 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1322 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1323 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1324
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1325config DEBUG_LIST
1326 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1327 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1328 help
1329 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1330 walking routines.
1331
1332 If unsure, say N.
1333
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1334config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1335 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1337 help
1338 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1339 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1340 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1341
1342 If unsure, say N.
1343
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1344config DEBUG_SG
1345 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1346 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1347 help
1348 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1349 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1350 their sg tables.
1351
1352 If unsure, say N.
1353
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1354config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1355 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1356 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1357 help
1358 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1359 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1360 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1361 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1362 performance, say N.
1363
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1364config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1365 bool "Debug credential management"
1366 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1367 help
1368 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1369 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1370 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1371 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1372 struct.
1373
1374 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1375 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1376
1377 If unsure, say N.
1378
43a0a2a7 1379source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
2f03e3ca 1380
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1381config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1382 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1384 default n
1385 help
1386 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1387 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1388 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1389 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1390 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1391 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1392 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1393 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1394 be impacted.
1395
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1396config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1397 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1398 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1399 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1400 default n
870d6656 1401 help
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1402 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1403 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1404 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1405 is broken.
1406
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1407 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1408 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1409 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1410 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1411 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1412 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1413 device number allocation.
1414
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1416 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1417 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1418 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1419 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1420
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1421 Say N if you are unsure.
1422
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1423config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1424 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1425 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1426 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1427 default n
1428 help
1429 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1430 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1431 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1432 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1433
1434 Say N if your are unsure.
1435
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1436config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1437 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1438 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1439 select DEBUG_FS
1440 help
e41e85cc 1441 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1442 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1443 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1444
1445 Say N if unsure.
1446
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1447config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1448 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1449 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1450 default m if PM_DEBUG
1451 help
e41e85cc 1452 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1453 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1454 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1455
1456 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1457 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1458
1459 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1460
1461 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1462 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1463 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1464 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1465
1466 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1467 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1468
1469 If unsure, say N.
1470
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1471config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1472 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1473 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1474 help
e41e85cc 1475 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1476 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1477 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1478 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1480 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1481 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1482
1483 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1484 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1486 If unsure, say N.
1487
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1488config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1489 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1490 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1491 help
1492 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1493 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1494 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1495
1496 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1497 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1498
1499 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1500
1501 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1502 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1503 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1504 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1505
1506 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1507 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1508
1509 If unsure, say N.
1510
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1511config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1512 def_bool y
1513 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1514
6ff1cb35 1515config FAULT_INJECTION
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1516 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1517 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1518 help
1519 Provide fault-injection framework.
1520 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1521
8a8b6502 1522config FAILSLAB
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1523 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1524 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1525 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1526 help
1ab8509a 1527 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1528
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1529config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1530 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1531 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1532 help
1ab8509a 1533 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1534
c17bb495 1535config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1536 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1537 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1538 help
1ab8509a 1539 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1540
581d4e28 1541config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1542 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1543 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1544 help
1545 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1546 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1547 thus exercising the error handling.
1548
1549 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1550 for others it wont do anything.
1551
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1552config FAIL_FUTEX
1553 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1554 select DEBUG_FS
1555 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1556 help
1557 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1558
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1559config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1560 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1561 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1562 help
1563 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1564
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1565config FAIL_FUNCTION
1566 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1567 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1568 help
1569 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1570 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1571 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1572 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1573 error handling in various subsystems.
1574
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1575config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1576 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1577 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
6ff1cb35 1578 help
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1579 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1580 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1581 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1582 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1583 the block device.
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1585config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1586 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1587 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1588 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1589 select STACKTRACE
a687a533 1590 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1591 help
1592 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1593
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1594config LATENCYTOP
1595 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1597 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1598 depends on PROC_FS
a34a766f 1599 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1601 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1602 select STACKTRACE
1603 select SCHEDSTATS
1604 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1606 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1607 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1608
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1610
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1611config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1612 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1613 depends on PCI && X86
1614 help
1615 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1616 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1617 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1618 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1619 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1620
1621 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1622 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1623 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1624
1625 Usage:
1626
1627 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1628 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1629
1630 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1631 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1632 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1633 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1634
1635 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1636 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1637
1638 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1639
1640config DMA_API_DEBUG
1641 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
f616ab59 1642 select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
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1643 help
1644 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1645 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1646 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1647 were never allocated.
1648
1649 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1650 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1651 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1652 not undergoing DMA.
1653
1654 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1655 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1656
1657 If unsure, say N.
1658
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1659config DMA_API_DEBUG_SG
1660 bool "Debug DMA scatter-gather usage"
1661 default y
1662 depends on DMA_API_DEBUG
1663 help
1664 Perform extra checking that callers of dma_map_sg() have respected the
1665 appropriate segment length/boundary limits for the given device when
1666 preparing DMA scatterlists.
1667
1668 This is particularly likely to have been overlooked in cases where the
1669 dma_map_sg() API is used for general bulk mapping of pages rather than
1670 preparing literal scatter-gather descriptors, where there is a risk of
1671 unexpected behaviour from DMA API implementations if the scatterlist
1672 is technically out-of-spec.
1673
1674 If unsure, say N.
1675
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1676menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1677 bool "Runtime Testing"
908009e8 1678 def_bool y
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1679
1680if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1682config LKDTM
1683 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1684 depends on DEBUG_FS
1685 depends on BLOCK
1686 default n
1687 help
1688 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1689 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1690 If you don't need it: say N
1691 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1692 called lkdtm.
1693
1694 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1695 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1696
1697config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1698 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1700 help
1701 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1702 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1703 or at module load time.
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1704
1705 If unsure, say N.
1706
c5adae95 1707config TEST_SORT
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1708 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1709 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1710 help
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1711 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1712 or at module load time.
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1713
1714 If unsure, say N.
1715
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1716config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1717 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1718 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1719 depends on KPROBES
1720 default n
1721 help
1722 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1723 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1724 verified for functionality.
1725
1726 Say N if you are unsure.
1727
1728config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1729 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1730 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1731 default n
1732 help
1733 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1734 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1735 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1736 developers working on architecture code.
1737
1738 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1739 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1740
1741 Say N if you are unsure.
1742
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1743config RBTREE_TEST
1744 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1746 help
1747 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1748 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1749
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1750config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1751 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1752 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1753 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1754 help
1755 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1756
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1757config PERCPU_TEST
1758 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1759 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1760 help
1761 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1762 operations.
1763
1764 If unsure, say N.
1765
881c5149 1766config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1767 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1768 help
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1769 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1770 at module load time.
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1771
1772 If unsure, say N.
1773
1774config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1775 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1776 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1777 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1778 ---help---
1779 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1780 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1781 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1782 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1783 engine if one is available.
1784
1785 If unsure, say N.
1786
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1787config TEST_HEXDUMP
1788 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1789
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1791 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1792
1793config TEST_KSTRTOX
1794 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1795
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1797 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1798
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1799config TEST_BITMAP
1800 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1801 default n
1802 help
1803 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1804
1805 If unsure, say N.
1806
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1807config TEST_UUID
1808 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1809
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1810config TEST_OVERFLOW
1811 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1812
7e1e7763 1813config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1814 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1815 default n
1816 help
1817 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1818
1819 If unsure, say N.
1820
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1821config TEST_HASH
1822 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1823 default n
1824 help
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1826 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1827 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1829 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1830 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1831
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1832config TEST_PARMAN
1833 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1834 default n
1835 depends on PARMAN
1836 help
1837 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1838 (or module load).
1839
1840 If unsure, say N.
1841
8a6f0b47 1842config TEST_LKM
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1843 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1844 default n
1845 depends on m
1846 help
1847 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1848 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1849 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1850 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1851 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1852 requested by name.
1853
1854 If unsure, say N.
1855
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1856config TEST_USER_COPY
1857 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1858 default n
1859 depends on m
1860 help
1861 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1862 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1863 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1864 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1865 protections.
1866
1867 If unsure, say N.
1868
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1869config TEST_BPF
1870 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1871 default n
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1874 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1875 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1876 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1877 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1879 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1881 If unsure, say N.
1882
dceeb3e7 1883config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
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1884 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
1885 default n
1886 help
1887 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1888 functions performance.
1889
1890 If unsure, say N.
1891
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1892config TEST_FIRMWARE
1893 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1894 default n
1895 depends on FW_LOADER
1896 help
1897 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1898 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1899 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1900 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1901 userspace.
1902
1903 If unsure, say N.
1904
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1905config TEST_SYSCTL
1906 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1907 default n
1908 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1909 help
1910 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1911 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1912 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1913
1914 If unsure, say N.
1915
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1917 tristate "udelay test driver"
1918 default n
1919 help
1920 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1921 that udelay() is working properly.
1922
1923 If unsure, say N.
1924
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1926 tristate "Test static keys"
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1927 default n
1928 depends on m
1929 help
2bf9e0ab 1930 Test the static key interfaces.
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1932 If unsure, say N.
1933
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1934config TEST_KMOD
1935 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1936 default n
1937 depends on m
1938 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1939 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1940 select TEST_LKM
1941 select XFS_FS
1942 select TUN
1943 select BTRFS_FS
1944 help
1945 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1946 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1947 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1948
1949 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1950 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1951 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1952 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1953 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1954
1955 To run tests run:
1956
1957 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1958
1959 If unsure, say N.
1960
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1961config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1962 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1963 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1964 help
1965 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1966 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1967 kernel's virtual address map.
1968
1969 If unsure, say N.
1970
d3deafaa 1971endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1973config MEMTEST
1974 bool "Memtest"
1975 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1976 ---help---
1977 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1978 to be set.
1979 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1980 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1981 ...
1982 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1983 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1984
1985config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1986 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1987 select DEBUG_LIST
1988 help
1989 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1990 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1991 for validity.
1992
1993 If unsure, say N.
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267c4025 1995source "samples/Kconfig"
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1997source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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2000
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2001config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2002 bool
2003
2004config STRICT_DEVMEM
2005 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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a687a533 2008 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
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2009 ---help---
2010 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2011 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2012 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2013 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2014 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2015 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2016
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2017 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2018 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2019 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2020 users of /dev/mem.
2021
2022 If in doubt, say Y.
2023
2024config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2025 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2026 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2028 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2029 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2030 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2031 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2032
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2034 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2035 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2036 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2038 If in doubt, say Y.
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2040source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
2041
2042endmenu # Kernel hacking