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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
1da177e4 19
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20config PRINTK_CALLER
21 bool "Show caller information on printks"
22 depends on PRINTK
23 help
24 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if
25 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context)
26 to every message.
27
28 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads
29 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to
30 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual
31 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from.
32
33 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is
34 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or
35 sysfs interface.
36
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37config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
38 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
39 range 1 15
40 default "7"
41 help
42 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
43
44 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
45 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
46 value is specified here as well.
47
50f4d9bd 48 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
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49 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
50 option.
51
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52config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
53 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
54 range 1 15
55 default "4"
56 help
57 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
58
59 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
60 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
61 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
62
42a9dc0b 63config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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64 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
65 range 1 7
66 default "4"
67 help
68 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
69
70 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
71 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
72 priority.
73
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74 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
75 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
76 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
77
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78config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
79 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
80 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
81 help
82 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
83 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
84 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
85 using "boot_delay=N".
86
87 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
88 the "loops per jiffie" value.
89 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
90 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
91 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
92 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
93 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
94 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
95
96config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
97 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
98 default n
99 depends on PRINTK
100 depends on DEBUG_FS
101 help
102
103 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
104 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
105 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
106 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
107 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
108 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
109
110 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
111 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
112 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
113 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
114
115 Usage:
116
117 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
118 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
119 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
120 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
121 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
122 format for each line of the file is:
123
124 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
125
126 filename : source file of the debug statement
127 lineno : line number of the debug statement
128 module : module that contains the debug statement
129 function : function that contains the debug statement
130 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
131 format : the format used for the debug statement
132
133 From a live system:
134
135 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
136 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
137 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
138 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
139 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
140
141 Example usage:
142
143 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
144 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
145 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
146
147 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
148 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
149 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
150
151 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
152 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
153 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
154
155 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
156 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
157 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
158
159 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
160 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
161 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
162
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163 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
164 information.
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166endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
167
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168menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
169
170config DEBUG_INFO
171 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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173 help
174 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
175 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
176 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
177 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
178 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
179 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
180
181 If unsure, say N.
182
183config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
184 bool "Reduce debugging information"
185 depends on DEBUG_INFO
186 help
187 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
188 information for structure types. This means that tools that
189 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
190 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
191 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
192 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
193 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
194 Only works with newer gcc versions.
195
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196config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
197 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
a687a533 198 depends on DEBUG_INFO
9d937444 199 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
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200 help
201 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
202 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
203 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
204 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
205 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
206
207 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
208 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
209 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
210 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
211
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212config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
213 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
214 depends on DEBUG_INFO
9d937444 215 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
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216 help
217 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
218 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
219 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
220 variables in gdb on optimized code.
221
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222config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
223 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
224 depends on DEBUG_INFO
225 help
226 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
227 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
228 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
229
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230config GDB_SCRIPTS
231 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
232 depends on DEBUG_INFO
233 help
234 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
235 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
236 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
237 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
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238 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
239 for further details.
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241config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
242 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
243 default y
244 help
245 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
246 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
247 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 248
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249config FRAME_WARN
250 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
251 range 0 8192
0e07f663 252 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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253 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
254 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
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255 default 2048 if 64BIT
256 help
257 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
258 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
259 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
260 Requires gcc 4.4
261
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262config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
263 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
264 default n
265 help
266 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
267 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
268 get_wchan() and suchlike.
269
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270config READABLE_ASM
271 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
272 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
273 help
274 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
275 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
276 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
277 sane.
278
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279config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
280 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
281 default y if X86
282 help
283 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
284 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
285 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
286 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
287 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
288 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
289 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
290 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
291 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
292 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
293 your module is.
294
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295config DEBUG_FS
296 bool "Debug Filesystem"
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297 help
298 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
299 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
300 write to these files.
301
ff543332 302 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 303 Documentation/filesystems/.
ff543332 304
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305 If unsure, say N.
306
307config HEADERS_CHECK
308 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
309 depends on !UML
310 help
311 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
312 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
313 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
314 were not exported, etc.
315
316 If you're making modifications to header files which are
317 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
318 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
319 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
320
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321config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
322 bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
323 help
324 This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
325 developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
326 do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
327 compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
328 enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
329 this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
330 decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
331 is there to test gcc for this.
332
333 If unsure, say N.
334
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335config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
336 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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337 help
338 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
339 references from one section to another section.
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340 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
341 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 342 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 343 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 344 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 345 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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346 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
347 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
348 additional steps to occur:
349 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
350 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
351 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 352 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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353 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
354 a larger kernel).
f49821ee 355 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
e809ab01 356 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 357 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
91341d4b 358 introduced.
f49821ee 359 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
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360 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
361 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
362 reported at least twice.
363 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
364 the section mismatches that are reported.
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366config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
367 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
368 default y
369 help
370 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
371 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
372
373 If unsure, say Y.
374
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376# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
377# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
378# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
379#
380config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
381 bool
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383config FRAME_POINTER
384 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
a687a533 385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
6dfc0665 386 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 387 help
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388 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
389 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
390 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 391
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392config STACK_VALIDATION
393 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
394 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
395 default n
396 help
397 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
398 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
399 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
400
ee9f8fce 401 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
11af8474 402 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
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404 For more information, see
405 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
406
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407config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
408 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
409 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 410 help
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411 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
412 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
413 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
414 definitions.
8446f1d3 415
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416 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
417 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 418
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419 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
420 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
5f329089 421
6dfc0665 422endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 423
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424config MAGIC_SYSRQ
425 bool "Magic SysRq key"
426 depends on !UML
427 help
428 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
429 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
430 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
431 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
432 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
433 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
434 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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435 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
436 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 437
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438config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
439 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
440 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
441 default 0x1
442 help
443 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
444 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 445 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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447config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
448 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
449 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
450 default y
451 help
452 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
453 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
454 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
455 magic SysRq key.
456
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457config DEBUG_KERNEL
458 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 459 help
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460 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
461 identify kernel problems.
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0610c8a8 463menu "Memory Debugging"
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8636a1f9 465source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
fef2c9bc 466
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467config DEBUG_OBJECTS
468 bool "Debug object operations"
469 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 470 help
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471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
472 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
473 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 474
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475config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
476 bool "Debug objects selftest"
477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
478 help
479 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 480
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481config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
482 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
483 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
484 help
485 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
486 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
487 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
488 much slower.
3ac7fe5a 489
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490config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
491 bool "Debug timer objects"
492 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
493 help
494 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
495 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
496 validate the timer operations.
497
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498config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
499 bool "Debug work objects"
500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
501 help
502 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
503 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
504 validate the work operations.
505
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506config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
507 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 508 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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509 help
510 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
511
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512config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
513 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
514 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
515 help
516 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
517 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
518 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
519
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520config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
521 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
522 range 0 1
523 default "1"
524 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
525 help
526 Debug objects boot parameter default value
527
1da177e4 528config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 529 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
4675ff05 530 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
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531 help
532 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
533 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
534 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
535
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536config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
537 bool "Memory leak debugging"
538 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
539
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540config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
541 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
4675ff05 542 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
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543 default n
544 help
545 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
546 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
547 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
548 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
549 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
550 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
551 "slub_debug=-".
552
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553config SLUB_STATS
554 default n
555 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 556 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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557 help
558 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
559 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
560 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
561 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
562 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
563 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
564 Try running: slabinfo -DA
565
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566config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
567 bool
568
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569config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
570 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 571 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 572 select DEBUG_FS
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573 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
574 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 575 select CRC32
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576 help
577 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
578 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
579 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
580 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
581 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
582 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
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584 details.
585
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586 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
587 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
588
589 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
590 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
591
592config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
593 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
594 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
595 range 200 40000
596 default 400
597 help
598 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
599 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
600 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
601 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
602 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
603
604config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
605 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
606 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
607 help
608 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
609
610 If unsure, say N.
611
612config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
613 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
614 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
615 help
616 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
617 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
618
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619config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
620 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
621 default y
622 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
623 help
624 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
625 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
626 kmemleak scan at boot up.
627
628 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
629 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
630 memory leaks.
631
632 If unsure, say Y.
633
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634config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
635 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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637 help
638 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
639 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
640
641 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
642
643config DEBUG_VM
644 bool "Debug VM"
645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
646 help
647 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
648 that may impact performance.
649
650 If unsure, say N.
651
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652config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
653 bool "Debug VMA caching"
654 depends on DEBUG_VM
655 help
656 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
657 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
658 environments.
659
660 If unsure, say N.
661
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662config DEBUG_VM_RB
663 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
664 depends on DEBUG_VM
665 help
a663dad6 666 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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667
668 If unsure, say N.
669
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670config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
671 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
672 depends on DEBUG_VM
673 help
674 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
675
676 If unsure, say N.
677
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678config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
679 bool
680
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681config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
682 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 683 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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684 help
685 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
686 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
687
688 If unsure, say N.
689
690config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
691 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
693 help
694 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
695 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
696
697config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
698 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
699 default !EXPERT
700 help
701 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
702 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
703 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
704 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
705 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
706
707 If unsure, say Y
708
709config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
710 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
711 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
712 help
713 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
714 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
715 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
716
717 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
718 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
719
720 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
721
722 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
723 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
724 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
725 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
726
727 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
728 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
729
730 If unsure, say N.
731
732config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
733 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
735 depends on SMP
736 help
737 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
738 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
739 and decreases performance.
740
741 Say N if unsure.
742
743config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
744 bool "Highmem debugging"
745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
746 help
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748 systems. Disable for production systems.
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750config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
751 bool
752
753config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
754 bool "Check for stack overflows"
755 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
756 ---help---
757 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 758 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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759 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
760 below a certain limit.
761
762 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
763 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
764 involved.
765
766 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
767 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
768
769 If in doubt, say "N".
770
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771source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
772
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773endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
774
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775config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
776 bool
777 help
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778 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
779 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
780 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
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782config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
783 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
784
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785config KCOV
786 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
787 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
5aadfdeb 788 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
5c9a8750 789 select DEBUG_FS
5aadfdeb 790 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
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791 help
792 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
793 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
794
795 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
796 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
797 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
798
700199b0 799 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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801config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
802 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
803 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 804 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
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805 help
806 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
807 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
808 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
809 of fuzzing coverage.
810
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811config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
812 bool "Instrument all code by default"
813 depends on KCOV
5aadfdeb 814 default y
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815 help
816 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
817 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
818 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
819 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
820 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
821
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822config DEBUG_SHIRQ
823 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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825 help
826 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
827 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
828 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
829 points; some don't and need to be caught.
830
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831menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
832
58687acb 833config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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834 bool
835
836config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
837 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 838 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 839 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 840 help
58687acb 841 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 842 soft lockups.
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844 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 845 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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846 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
847 detection and the system will stay locked up.
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849config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
850 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
851 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
852 help
853 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
854 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
855 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
856 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
857
858 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
859 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
860 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
861 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
862 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
863
864 Say N if unsure.
865
866config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
867 int
868 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
869 range 0 1
870 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
871 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
872
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873config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
874 bool
875 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
876
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878# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
879# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
880#
881config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
882 bool
883
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885# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
886# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
887#
888config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
889 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
890 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
891 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
892 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
893 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
894 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
895 help
896 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
897 hard lockups.
898
58687acb 899 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 900 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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901 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
902 and the system will stay locked up.
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904config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
905 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 906 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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907 help
908 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
909 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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910 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
911 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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912
913 Say N if unsure.
914
915config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
916 int
8f1f66ed 917 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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918 range 0 1
919 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
920 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
921
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922config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
923 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
924 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 925 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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927 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
928 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 929 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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931 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
932 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
933 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
934 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
935 feature has negligible overhead.
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937config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
938 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
939 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
940 default 120
f0630fff 941 help
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942 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
943 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
944 be considered hung.
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946 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
947 sysctl or by writing a value to
948 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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950 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
951 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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953config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
954 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
955 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 956 help
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957 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
958 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
959 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 960
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961 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
962 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
963 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
964 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
965 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 967 Say N if unsure.
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969config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
970 int
971 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
972 range 0 1
973 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
974 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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976config WQ_WATCHDOG
977 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
978 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
979 help
980 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
981 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
982 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
983 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
984 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
985 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
986
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987endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
988
989config PANIC_ON_OOPS
990 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 991 help
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992 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
993 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
994 line.
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996 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
997 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
998 corruption or other issues.
999
1000 Say N if unsure.
1001
1002config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
1003 int
1004 range 0 1
1005 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
1006 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
1007
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1008config PANIC_TIMEOUT
1009 int "panic timeout"
1010 default 0
1011 help
1012 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
1013 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
1014 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
1015 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
1016
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1017config SCHED_DEBUG
1018 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1019 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1020 default y
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1022 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1023 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1024 option is minimal.
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1026config SCHED_INFO
1027 bool
1028 default n
1029
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1030config SCHEDSTATS
1031 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 1033 select SCHED_INFO
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1034 help
1035 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1036 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1037 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1038 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1039 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1040 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1041 this adds.
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1043config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1044 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1045 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1046 default n
1047 help
1048 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1049 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1050 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1051 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1052 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1053 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1054
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1055config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1056 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1057 help
1058 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1059 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1060 problems are suspected.
1061
1062 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1063 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1064 workloads.
1065
1066 If unsure, say N.
1067
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1068config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1069 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1071 default y
1072 help
1073 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1074 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1075 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1076 will detect preemption count underflows.
1077
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1078menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1079
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1080config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1081 bool
1082 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1083 default y
1084
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1085config PROVE_LOCKING
1086 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1087 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1088 select LOCKDEP
1089 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1090 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1091 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1092 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1093 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1094 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1095 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1096 default n
1097 help
1098 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1099 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1100 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1101 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1102 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1103 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1104 deadlock.
1105
1106 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1107 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1108
1109 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1110 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1111 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1112 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1113 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1114 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1115 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1116 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1117 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1118
1119 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1120 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1121 kernel reports nothing.
1122
1123 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1124 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1125 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1126 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1127 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1128
1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1130
1131config LOCK_STAT
1132 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1134 select LOCKDEP
1135 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1136 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1137 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1138 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1139 default n
1140 help
1141 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1142
1143 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1144
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.
1149
1150 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1151 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1152
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1154 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1156 help
1157 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1158 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1159
1da177e4 1160config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1161 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1163 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1165 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1166 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1167 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1168 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1169
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1170config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1171 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1173 help
1174 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1175 reported.
1176
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1177config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1178 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
f07cbebb 1179 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1180 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1181 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1182 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1183 help
1184 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1185 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1186 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1187 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1188 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1189 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1190 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1191 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1192 you are a distro, do not.
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1194config DEBUG_RWSEMS
1195 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1196 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
1197 help
1198 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
1199 to be detected and reported.
1200
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1201config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1202 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
f07cbebb 1203 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
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1204 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1205 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1206 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1207 select LOCKDEP
1208 help
1209 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1210 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1211 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1212 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1213 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1214 held during task exit.
1215
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1216config LOCKDEP
1217 bool
f07cbebb 1218 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1219 select STACKTRACE
f9b58e8c 1220 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
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1221 select KALLSYMS
1222 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1223
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1224config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1225 bool
1226
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1227config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1228 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1229 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1230 help
1231 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1232 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1233 of more runtime overhead.
1234
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1235config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1236 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1237 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1da177e4 1238 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
87a4c375 1239 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
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1240 help
1241 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1242 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1243 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1244 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1246config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1247 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1248 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1249 help
1250 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1251 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1252 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1253 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1254 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1255 mutexes and rwsems.
1256
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1257config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1258 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1260 select TORTURE_TEST
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1261 help
1262 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1263 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1264 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1265
1266 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1267 to be built into the kernel.
1268 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1269 Say N if you are unsure.
1270
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1271config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1272 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1273 help
1274 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1275 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1276
1277 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1278 with this test harness.
1279
1280 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1281 Say N if you are unsure.
1282
9eade16b 1283endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1284
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1285config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1286 bool
5ca43f6c 1287 help
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1288 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1289 either tracing or lock debugging.
5ca43f6c 1290
8637c099 1291config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1292 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1293 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1294 help
1295 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1296 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1297 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1298 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1299
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1300config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1301 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1302 default n
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1303 help
1304 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1305 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1306 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1307 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1308 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1309 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1310 it.
1311
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1312 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1313 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1314 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1315 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1316 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1317 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
4c5d114e 1318 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
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1319 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1320 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1321
1322 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1323 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
4c5d114e 1324 those developers interested in improving the security of
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1325 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1326 subarchitecture).
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1328config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1329 bool "kobject debugging"
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1331 help
1332 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
aca52c39 1333 to the syslog.
1da177e4 1334
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1335config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1336 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1337 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1338 help
1339 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1340 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1341 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1342 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1343 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1344 unregistered.
1345
1346 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1347 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1348 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1349
1350 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1351 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1352 kind of kobject release bug.
1353
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1354config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1355 bool
1356
1da177e4 1357config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1358 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1359 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1360 default y
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1361 help
1362 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1363 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1364 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1365
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1366config DEBUG_LIST
1367 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1369 help
1370 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1371 walking routines.
1372
1373 If unsure, say N.
1374
8e18faea 1375config DEBUG_PLIST
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1376 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1378 help
1379 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1380 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1381 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1382
1383 If unsure, say N.
1384
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1385config DEBUG_SG
1386 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1388 help
1389 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1390 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1391 their sg tables.
1392
1393 If unsure, say N.
1394
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1395config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1396 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1397 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1398 help
1399 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1400 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1401 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1402 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1403 performance, say N.
1404
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1405config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1406 bool "Debug credential management"
1407 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1408 help
1409 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1410 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1411 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1412 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1413 struct.
1414
1415 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1416 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1417
1418 If unsure, say N.
1419
43a0a2a7 1420source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
2f03e3ca 1421
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1422config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1423 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1424 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1425 default n
1426 help
1427 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1428 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1429 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1430 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1431 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1432 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1433 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1434 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1435 be impacted.
1436
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1437config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1438 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1440 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1441 default n
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1443 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1444 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1445 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1446 is broken.
1447
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1448 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1449 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1450 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1451 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1452 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1453 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1454 device number allocation.
1455
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1456 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1457 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1458 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1459 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1460 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1461
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1462 Say N if you are unsure.
1463
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1464config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1465 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1467 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1468 default n
1469 help
1470 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1471 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1472 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1473 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1474
1475 Say N if your are unsure.
1476
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1477config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1478 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1479 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1480 select DEBUG_FS
1481 help
e41e85cc 1482 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1483 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1484 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1485
1486 Say N if unsure.
1487
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1488config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1489 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1490 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1491 default m if PM_DEBUG
1492 help
e41e85cc 1493 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1494 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1495 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1496
1497 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1498 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1499
1500 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1501
1502 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1503 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1504 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1505 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1506
1507 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1508 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1509
1510 If unsure, say N.
1511
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1512config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1513 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1514 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1515 help
e41e85cc 1516 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1517 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1518 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1519 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1521 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1522 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1523
1524 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1525 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1527 If unsure, say N.
1528
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1529config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1530 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1531 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1532 help
1533 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1534 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1535 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1536
1537 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1538 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1539
1540 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1541
1542 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1543 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1544 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1545 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1546
1547 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1548 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1549
1550 If unsure, say N.
1551
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1552config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1553 def_bool y
1554 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1555
6ff1cb35 1556config FAULT_INJECTION
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1557 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1558 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1559 help
1560 Provide fault-injection framework.
1561 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1562
8a8b6502 1563config FAILSLAB
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1564 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1565 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1566 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1567 help
1ab8509a 1568 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1569
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1570config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1571 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1572 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1573 help
1ab8509a 1574 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1575
c17bb495 1576config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1577 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1578 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1579 help
1ab8509a 1580 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1581
581d4e28 1582config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1583 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1584 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1585 help
1586 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1587 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1588 thus exercising the error handling.
1589
1590 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1591 for others it wont do anything.
1592
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1593config FAIL_FUTEX
1594 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1595 select DEBUG_FS
1596 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1597 help
1598 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1599
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1600config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1601 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1602 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1603 help
1604 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1605
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1606config FAIL_FUNCTION
1607 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1608 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1609 help
1610 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1611 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1612 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1613 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1614 error handling in various subsystems.
1615
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1616config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1617 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1618 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
6ff1cb35 1619 help
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1620 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1621 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1622 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1623 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1624 the block device.
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1626config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1627 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1628 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1629 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1630 select STACKTRACE
f9b58e8c 1631 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
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1632 help
1633 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1634
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1635config LATENCYTOP
1636 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1637 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1638 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1639 depends on PROC_FS
f9b58e8c 1640 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
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1642 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1643 select STACKTRACE
1644 select SCHEDSTATS
1645 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1646 help
1647 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1648 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1649
8636a1f9 1650source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
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1652config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1653 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1654 depends on PCI && X86
1655 help
1656 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1657 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1658 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1659 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1660 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1661
1662 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1663 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1664 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1665
1666 Usage:
1667
1668 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1669 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1670
1671 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1672 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1673 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1674 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1675
1676 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1677 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1678
1679 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1680
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1681menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1682 bool "Runtime Testing"
908009e8 1683 def_bool y
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1684
1685if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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1687config LKDTM
1688 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1689 depends on DEBUG_FS
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1690 help
1691 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1692 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1693 If you don't need it: say N
1694 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1695 called lkdtm.
1696
1697 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1698 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1699
1700config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1701 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1704 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1705 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1706 or at module load time.
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1707
1708 If unsure, say N.
1709
c5adae95 1710config TEST_SORT
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1711 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1713 help
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1714 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1715 or at module load time.
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1716
1717 If unsure, say N.
1718
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1719config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1720 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1721 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1722 depends on KPROBES
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1723 help
1724 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
5a6cf77f 1725 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
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1726 verified for functionality.
1727
1728 Say N if you are unsure.
1729
1730config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1731 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1732 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1733 help
1734 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1735 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1736 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1737 developers working on architecture code.
1738
1739 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1740 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1741
1742 Say N if you are unsure.
1743
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1744config RBTREE_TEST
1745 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1746 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1747 help
1748 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1749 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1750
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1751config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1752 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1753 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1754 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1755 help
1756 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1757
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1758config PERCPU_TEST
1759 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1760 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1761 help
1762 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1763 operations.
1764
1765 If unsure, say N.
1766
881c5149 1767config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1768 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1769 help
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1770 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1771 at module load time.
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1772
1773 If unsure, say N.
1774
1775config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1776 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1777 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1778 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1779 ---help---
1780 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1781 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1782 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1783 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1784 engine if one is available.
1785
1786 If unsure, say N.
1787
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1788config TEST_HEXDUMP
1789 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1790
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1792 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1793
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1794config TEST_STRSCPY
1795 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
1796
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1797config TEST_KSTRTOX
1798 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1799
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1800config TEST_PRINTF
1801 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1802
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1803config TEST_BITMAP
1804 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
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1805 help
1806 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1807
1808 If unsure, say N.
1809
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1810config TEST_BITFIELD
1811 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
1812 help
1813 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
1814
1815 If unsure, say N.
1816
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1817config TEST_UUID
1818 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1819
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1820config TEST_XARRAY
1821 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
1822
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1823config TEST_OVERFLOW
1824 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
1825
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9d6dbe1b 1827 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1828 help
1829 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1830
1831 If unsure, say N.
1832
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1833config TEST_HASH
1834 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
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1836 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1837 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1838 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1840 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1841 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1842
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1843config TEST_IDA
1844 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
1845
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1846config TEST_PARMAN
1847 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
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1848 depends on PARMAN
1849 help
1850 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1851 (or module load).
1852
1853 If unsure, say N.
1854
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93e9ef83 1856 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
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1857 depends on m
1858 help
1859 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1860 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1861 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1862 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1863 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1864 requested by name.
1865
1866 If unsure, say N.
1867
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1868config TEST_VMALLOC
1869 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
1870 default n
1871 depends on MMU
1872 depends on m
1873 help
1874 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
1875 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
1876 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
1877 of view.
1878
1879 If unsure, say N.
1880
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1881config TEST_USER_COPY
1882 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
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1883 depends on m
1884 help
1885 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1886 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1887 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1888 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1889 protections.
1890
1891 If unsure, say N.
1892
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1893config TEST_BPF
1894 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
98920ba6 1895 depends on m && NET
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1896 help
1897 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1898 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1899 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1900 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1901 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1902 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1903
1904 If unsure, say N.
1905
dceeb3e7 1906config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
4441fca0 1907 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
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1908 help
1909 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1910 functions performance.
1911
1912 If unsure, say N.
1913
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1914config TEST_FIRMWARE
1915 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
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1916 depends on FW_LOADER
1917 help
1918 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1919 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1920 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1921 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1922 userspace.
1923
1924 If unsure, say N.
1925
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1926config TEST_SYSCTL
1927 tristate "sysctl test driver"
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1928 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1929 help
1930 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1931 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1932 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1933
1934 If unsure, say N.
1935
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1936config TEST_UDELAY
1937 tristate "udelay test driver"
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1938 help
1939 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1940 that udelay() is working properly.
1941
1942 If unsure, say N.
1943
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1944config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1945 tristate "Test static keys"
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1946 depends on m
1947 help
2bf9e0ab 1948 Test the static key interfaces.
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1949
1950 If unsure, say N.
1951
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1952config TEST_KMOD
1953 tristate "kmod stress tester"
d9c6a72d 1954 depends on m
d9c6a72d 1955 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
ae3d6a32 1956 depends on BLOCK
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1957 select TEST_LKM
1958 select XFS_FS
1959 select TUN
1960 select BTRFS_FS
1961 help
1962 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1963 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1964 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1965
1966 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1967 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1968 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1969 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1970 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1971
1972 To run tests run:
1973
1974 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1975
1976 If unsure, say N.
1977
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1978config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1979 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1980 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1981 help
1982 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1983 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1984 kernel's virtual address map.
1985
1986 If unsure, say N.
1987
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1988config TEST_MEMCAT_P
1989 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
1990 help
1991 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
1992 pointer arrays together.
1993
1994 If unsure, say N.
1995
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1996config TEST_LIVEPATCH
1997 tristate "Test livepatching"
1998 default n
bae05437 1999 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
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2000 depends on LIVEPATCH
2001 depends on m
2002 help
2003 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
2004 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
2005
2006 To run all the livepatching tests:
2007
2008 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
2009
2010 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
2011
2012 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
2013 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
2014 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
2015
2016 If unsure, say N.
2017
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2018config TEST_OBJAGG
2019 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2020 default n
2021 depends on OBJAGG
2022 help
2023 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2024 (or module load).
2025
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2027config TEST_STACKINIT
2028 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2029 help
2030 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2031 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2032 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2033 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2034
2035 If unsure, say N.
2036
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2039config MEMTEST
2040 bool "Memtest"
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2041 ---help---
2042 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2043 to be set.
2044 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2045 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2046 ...
2047 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2048 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2049
2050config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
2051 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
2052 select DEBUG_LIST
2053 help
2054 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
2055 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
2056 for validity.
2057
2058 If unsure, say N.
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267c4025 2060source "samples/Kconfig"
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2062source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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2064source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
2065
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2066config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2067 bool
2068
2069config STRICT_DEVMEM
2070 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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a687a533 2073 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
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2074 ---help---
2075 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2076 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2077 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2078 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2079 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2080 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2081
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2082 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2083 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2084 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2085 users of /dev/mem.
2086
2087 If in doubt, say Y.
2088
2089config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2090 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2091 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2092 ---help---
2093 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2094 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2095 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2096 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2097
21266be9 2098 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
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2099 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2100 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2101 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2103 If in doubt, say Y.
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2105source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
2106
2107endmenu # Kernel hacking