1 menu "printk and dmesg options"
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
18 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
27 value is specified here as well.
29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
33 config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
34 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
48 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
58 the "loops per jiffie" value.
59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
64 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
92 format for each line of the file is:
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
96 filename : source file of the debug statement
97 lineno : line number of the debug statement
98 module : module that contains the debug statement
99 function : function that contains the debug statement
100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
101 format : the format used for the debug statement
105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
136 endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
138 menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
153 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
154 bool "Reduce debugging information"
155 depends on DEBUG_INFO
157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
158 information for structure types. This means that tools that
159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
164 Only works with newer gcc versions.
166 config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
174 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
178 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
181 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
183 depends on DEBUG_INFO
185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
188 variables in gdb on optimized code.
191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_INFO
194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
201 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
209 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
210 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
222 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
223 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
224 default 2048 if 64BIT
226 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
227 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
228 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
231 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
232 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
235 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
236 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
237 get_wchan() and suchlike.
240 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
243 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
244 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
245 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
248 config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
249 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
252 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
253 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
254 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
255 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
256 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
257 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
258 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
259 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
260 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
261 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
265 bool "Track page owner"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
270 select PAGE_EXTENSION
272 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
273 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
274 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
275 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
276 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
277 for user-space helper.
282 bool "Debug Filesystem"
284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
286 write to these files.
288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
289 Documentation/filesystems/.
294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
300 were not exported, etc.
302 If you're making modifications to header files which are
303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
307 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
311 references from one section to another section.
312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
314 most likely result in an oops.
315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
318 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
319 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
320 additional steps to occur:
321 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
322 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
323 function, we would lose the section information and thus
324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
332 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
333 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
334 reported at least twice.
335 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
336 the section mismatches that are reported.
338 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
348 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
349 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
350 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
352 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
357 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
359 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
360 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
361 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
362 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
364 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
365 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
366 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
368 config STACK_VALIDATION
369 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
370 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
373 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
374 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
375 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
377 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
378 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
380 For more information, see
381 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
383 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
384 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
387 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
388 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
389 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
392 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
393 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
395 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
396 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
398 endmenu # "Compiler options"
401 bool "Magic SysRq key"
404 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
405 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
406 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
407 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
408 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
409 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
410 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
411 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
412 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
414 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
415 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
416 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
419 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
420 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
421 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
423 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
424 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
425 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
428 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
429 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
430 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
434 bool "Kernel debugging"
436 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
437 identify kernel problems.
439 menu "Memory Debugging"
441 source mm/Kconfig.debug
444 bool "Debug object operations"
445 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
447 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
448 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
449 the operations on those objects.
451 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
452 bool "Debug objects selftest"
453 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
455 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
457 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
458 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
459 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
461 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
462 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
463 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
466 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
467 bool "Debug timer objects"
468 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
470 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
471 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
472 validate the timer operations.
474 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
475 bool "Debug work objects"
476 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
478 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
479 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
480 validate the work operations.
482 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
483 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
484 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
486 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
488 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
489 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
490 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
492 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
493 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
494 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
496 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
497 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
502 Debug objects boot parameter default value
505 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
508 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
509 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
510 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
512 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
513 bool "Memory leak debugging"
514 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
517 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
518 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
521 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
522 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
523 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
524 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
525 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
526 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
531 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
532 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
534 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
535 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
536 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
537 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
538 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
539 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
540 Try running: slabinfo -DA
542 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
545 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
546 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
549 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
553 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
554 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
555 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
556 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
557 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
558 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
559 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
562 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
563 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
565 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
566 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
568 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
569 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
570 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
574 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
575 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
576 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
577 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
578 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
580 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
581 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
582 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
584 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
588 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
589 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
590 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
592 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
593 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
595 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
596 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
599 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
600 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
602 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
608 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
609 that may impact performance.
613 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
614 bool "Debug VMA caching"
617 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
618 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
624 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
627 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
631 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
632 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
635 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
639 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
643 bool "Debug VM translations"
644 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
646 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
647 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
651 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
652 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
653 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
655 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
656 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
658 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
659 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
662 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
663 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
664 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
665 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
666 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
670 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
671 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
672 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
674 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
675 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
676 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
678 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
679 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
681 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
683 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
684 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
685 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
686 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
688 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
689 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
693 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
694 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
695 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
698 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
699 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
700 and decreases performance.
705 bool "Highmem debugging"
706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
708 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
709 systems. Disable for production systems.
711 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
714 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
715 bool "Check for stack overflows"
716 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
718 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
719 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
720 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
721 below a certain limit.
723 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
724 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
727 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
728 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
730 If in doubt, say "N".
732 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
734 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
739 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
740 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
741 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
744 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
745 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
747 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
748 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
750 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
751 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
753 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
754 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
755 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
757 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
759 config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
760 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
764 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
765 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
766 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
769 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
770 bool "Instrument all code by default"
774 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
775 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
776 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
777 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
778 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
781 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
782 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
784 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
785 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
786 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
787 points; some don't and need to be caught.
789 menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
791 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
794 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
795 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
796 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
797 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
799 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
802 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
803 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
804 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
805 detection and the system will stay locked up.
807 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
809 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
812 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
813 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
815 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
819 # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
820 # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
822 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
823 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
824 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
825 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
826 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
827 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
828 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
830 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
833 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
834 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
835 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
836 and the system will stay locked up.
838 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
839 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
840 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
842 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
843 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
844 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
845 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
849 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
851 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
853 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
854 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
856 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
857 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
858 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
860 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
861 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
862 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
863 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
865 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
866 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
867 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
868 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
869 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
873 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
875 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
877 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
878 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
880 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
881 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
882 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
883 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
885 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
886 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
887 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
889 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
890 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
891 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
892 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
893 feature has negligible overhead.
895 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
896 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
897 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
900 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
901 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
904 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
905 sysctl or by writing a value to
906 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
908 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
909 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
911 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
912 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
913 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
915 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
916 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
917 in uninterruptible "D" state.
919 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
920 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
921 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
922 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
923 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
927 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
929 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
931 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
932 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
935 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
936 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
938 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
939 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
940 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
941 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
942 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
943 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
945 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
950 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
951 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
954 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
955 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
956 corruption or other issues.
960 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
963 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
964 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
970 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
971 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
972 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
973 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
976 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
977 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
980 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
981 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
989 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
990 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
993 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
994 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
995 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
996 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
997 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
998 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1001 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1002 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1003 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1006 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1007 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1008 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1009 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1010 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1011 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1013 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1014 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1016 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1017 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1018 problems are suspected.
1020 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1021 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1026 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1027 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1028 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1031 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1032 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1033 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1034 will detect preemption count underflows.
1036 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1038 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1039 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1040 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1042 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1043 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1045 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1046 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1047 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1048 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1050 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1051 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1052 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1053 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1055 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1056 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1057 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1059 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1062 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1063 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1064 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1065 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1066 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1067 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1069 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1070 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1071 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1072 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1073 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1074 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1075 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1076 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1077 you are a distro, do not.
1079 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1080 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1081 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1082 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1083 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1084 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1087 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1088 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1089 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1090 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1091 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1092 held during task exit.
1094 config PROVE_LOCKING
1095 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1096 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1098 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1099 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1100 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1101 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1102 select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1103 select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
1104 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1107 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1108 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1109 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1110 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1111 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1112 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1115 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1116 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1118 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1119 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1120 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1121 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1122 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1123 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1124 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1125 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1126 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1128 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1129 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1130 kernel reports nothing.
1132 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1133 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1134 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1135 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1136 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1138 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1144 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1148 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1152 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1153 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1155 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1156 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1157 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1158 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1161 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1163 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1165 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1167 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1168 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1170 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1171 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1173 config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1176 This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to
1177 be released in a different context from the acquisition context.
1178 Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock.
1179 However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives
1180 such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness
1183 config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
1186 A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
1187 detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.
1189 config BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
1190 bool "Enable the boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack"
1191 depends on LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1194 The lockdep "cross-release" feature needs to record stack traces
1195 (of calling functions) for all acquisitions, for eventual later
1196 use during analysis. By default only a single caller is recorded,
1197 because the unwind operation can be very expensive with deeper
1200 However a boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack, was
1201 introduced since sometimes deeper traces are required for full
1202 analysis. This option turns on the boot parameter.
1204 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1205 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1206 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1208 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1209 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1210 of more runtime overhead.
1212 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1213 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1214 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1217 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1218 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1219 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1220 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1222 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1223 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1226 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1227 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1228 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1229 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1230 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1233 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1234 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1235 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1239 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1240 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1241 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1243 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1244 to be built into the kernel.
1245 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1246 Say N if you are unsure.
1248 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1249 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1251 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1252 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1254 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1255 with this test harness.
1257 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1258 Say N if you are unsure.
1260 endmenu # lock debugging
1262 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1265 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1266 either tracing or lock debugging.
1269 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1270 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1272 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1273 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1274 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1275 stack trace generation.
1277 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1278 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1281 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1282 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1283 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1284 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1285 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1286 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1289 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1290 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1291 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1292 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1293 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1294 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1295 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1296 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1297 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1299 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1300 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1301 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1302 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1305 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1306 bool "kobject debugging"
1307 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1309 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1312 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1313 bool "kobject release debugging"
1314 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1316 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1317 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1318 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1319 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1320 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1323 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1324 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1325 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1327 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1328 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1329 kind of kobject release bug.
1331 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1334 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1335 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
1336 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
1339 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1340 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1341 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1344 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1345 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1347 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1352 config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1353 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1356 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1357 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1358 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1363 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1366 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1367 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1372 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1373 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1376 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1377 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1378 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1379 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1382 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1383 bool "Debug credential management"
1384 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1386 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1387 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1388 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1389 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1392 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1393 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1397 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1399 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1400 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1401 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1404 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1405 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1406 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1407 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1408 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1409 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1410 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1411 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1414 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1415 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1420 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1421 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1422 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1425 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1426 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1427 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1428 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1429 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1430 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1431 device number allocation.
1433 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1434 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1435 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1436 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1437 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1439 Say N if you are unsure.
1441 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1442 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1443 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1444 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1447 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1448 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1449 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1450 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1452 Say N if your are unsure.
1454 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1455 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1456 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1459 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1460 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1461 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1465 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1466 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1467 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1468 default m if PM_DEBUG
1470 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1471 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1472 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1474 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1475 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1477 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1479 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1480 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1481 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1482 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1484 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1485 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1489 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1490 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1491 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1493 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1494 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1495 through debugfs interface under
1496 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1498 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1499 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1501 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1502 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1506 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1507 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1508 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1510 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1511 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1512 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1514 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1515 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1517 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1519 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1520 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1521 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1522 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1524 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1525 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1529 config FAULT_INJECTION
1530 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1531 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1533 Provide fault-injection framework.
1534 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1537 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1538 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1539 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1541 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1543 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1544 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1545 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1547 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1549 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1550 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1551 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1553 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1555 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1556 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1557 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1559 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1560 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1561 thus exercising the error handling.
1563 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1564 for others it wont do anything.
1566 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1567 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1568 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1570 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1571 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1572 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1573 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1577 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1579 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1581 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1583 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1584 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1585 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1587 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1589 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1590 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1591 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1594 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1596 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1599 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1601 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1603 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
1610 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1611 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1613 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1615 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1616 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1617 depends on PCI && X86
1619 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1620 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1621 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1622 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1623 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1625 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1626 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1627 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1631 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1632 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1634 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1635 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1636 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1637 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1639 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1640 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1642 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1644 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1645 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1646 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1648 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1649 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1650 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1651 were never allocated.
1653 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1654 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1655 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1658 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1659 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1663 menu "Runtime Testing"
1666 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1671 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1672 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1673 If you don't need it: say N
1674 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1677 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1678 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1680 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1681 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1682 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1684 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1685 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1686 or at module load time.
1691 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1694 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1695 or at module load time.
1699 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1700 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1701 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1705 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1706 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1707 verified for functionality.
1709 Say N if you are unsure.
1711 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1712 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1716 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1717 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1718 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1719 developers working on architecture code.
1721 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1722 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1724 Say N if you are unsure.
1727 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1728 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1730 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1731 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1733 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1734 tristate "Interval tree test"
1735 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1736 select INTERVAL_TREE
1738 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1741 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1742 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1744 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1749 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1750 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
1752 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1753 at module load time.
1757 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1758 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1759 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1762 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1763 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1764 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1765 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1766 engine if one is available.
1771 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1773 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1774 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1777 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1780 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1783 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1786 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1791 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1793 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
1794 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
1797 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1802 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1805 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1806 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1807 hash functions on boot (or module load).
1809 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1810 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1813 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1817 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1823 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1827 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1828 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1829 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1830 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1831 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1836 config TEST_USER_COPY
1837 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1841 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1842 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1843 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1844 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1850 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1854 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1855 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1856 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1857 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
1858 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1859 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
1863 config TEST_FIND_BIT
1864 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
1867 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1868 functions performance.
1872 config TEST_FIRMWARE
1873 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1875 depends on FW_LOADER
1877 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1878 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1879 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1880 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1886 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1888 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1890 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1891 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1892 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1897 tristate "udelay test driver"
1900 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1901 that udelay() is working properly.
1905 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1906 tristate "Test static keys"
1910 Test the static key interfaces.
1915 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1918 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1919 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1925 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1926 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1927 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1929 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1930 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1931 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1932 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1933 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1937 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1941 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1942 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1943 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1945 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1946 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1947 kernel's virtual address map.
1951 endmenu # runtime tests
1955 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1957 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1959 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1960 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1962 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1963 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1965 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1966 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1969 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1970 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1975 source "samples/Kconfig"
1977 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1979 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1981 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1984 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1985 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1986 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1987 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1988 default y if TILE || PPC
1990 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1991 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1992 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1993 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1994 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1995 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1997 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1998 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1999 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2004 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2005 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2006 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
2008 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2009 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2010 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2011 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2013 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
2014 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2015 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2016 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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