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)"
220 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
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"
285 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
286 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
287 write to these files.
289 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
290 Documentation/filesystems/.
295 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
298 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
299 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
300 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
301 were not exported, etc.
303 If you're making modifications to header files which are
304 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
305 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
306 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
308 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
309 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
311 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
312 references from one section to another section.
313 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
314 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
315 most likely result in an oops.
316 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
317 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
318 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
319 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
320 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
321 additional steps to occur:
322 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
323 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
324 function, we would lose the section information and thus
325 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
326 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
328 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
329 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
330 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
332 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
333 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
334 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
335 reported at least twice.
336 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
337 the section mismatches that are reported.
339 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
340 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
343 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
344 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
349 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
350 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
351 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
353 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
360 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
361 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
362 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
363 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
365 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
366 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
367 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
369 config STACK_VALIDATION
370 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
371 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
374 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
375 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
376 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
378 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
379 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
381 For more information, see
382 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
384 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
385 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
388 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
389 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
390 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
393 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
394 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
396 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
397 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
399 endmenu # "Compiler options"
402 bool "Magic SysRq key"
405 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
406 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
407 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
408 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
409 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
410 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
411 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
412 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
413 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
415 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
416 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
417 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
420 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
421 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
422 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
424 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
425 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
429 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
430 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
431 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
435 bool "Kernel debugging"
437 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
438 identify kernel problems.
440 menu "Memory Debugging"
442 source mm/Kconfig.debug
445 bool "Debug object operations"
446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
448 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
449 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
450 the operations on those objects.
452 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
453 bool "Debug objects selftest"
454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
456 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
458 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
459 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
460 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
462 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
463 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
464 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
467 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
468 bool "Debug timer objects"
469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
472 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
473 validate the timer operations.
475 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
476 bool "Debug work objects"
477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
479 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
480 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
481 validate the work operations.
483 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
484 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
485 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
487 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
489 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
490 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
491 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
493 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
494 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
495 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
497 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
498 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
501 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
503 Debug objects boot parameter default value
506 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
509 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
510 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
511 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
513 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
514 bool "Memory leak debugging"
515 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
518 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
519 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
522 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
523 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
524 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
525 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
526 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
527 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
532 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
533 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
535 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
536 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
537 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
538 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
539 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
540 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
541 Try running: slabinfo -DA
543 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
546 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
547 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
548 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
550 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
554 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
555 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
556 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
557 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
558 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
559 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
560 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
563 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
564 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
566 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
567 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
569 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
570 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
571 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
575 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
576 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
577 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
578 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
579 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
581 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
582 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
583 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
585 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
589 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
590 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
591 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
593 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
594 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
596 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
597 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
600 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
601 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
603 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
609 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
610 that may impact performance.
614 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
615 bool "Debug VMA caching"
618 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
619 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
625 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
628 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
632 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
633 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
636 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
640 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
644 bool "Debug VM translations"
645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
647 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
648 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
652 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
653 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
656 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
657 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
659 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
660 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
663 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
664 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
665 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
666 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
667 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
671 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
672 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
673 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
675 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
676 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
677 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
679 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
680 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
682 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
684 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
685 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
686 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
687 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
689 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
690 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
694 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
695 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
699 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
700 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
701 and decreases performance.
706 bool "Highmem debugging"
707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
709 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
710 systems. Disable for production systems.
712 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
715 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
716 bool "Check for stack overflows"
717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
719 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
720 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
721 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
722 below a certain limit.
724 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
725 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
728 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
729 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
731 If in doubt, say "N".
733 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
735 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
740 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
741 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
742 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
745 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
746 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
748 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
749 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
751 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
752 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
754 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
755 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
756 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
758 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
760 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
761 bool "Instrument all code by default"
765 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
766 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
767 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
768 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
769 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
772 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
775 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
776 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
777 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
778 points; some don't and need to be caught.
780 menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
782 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
785 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
786 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
787 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
788 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
790 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
793 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
794 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
795 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
796 detection and the system will stay locked up.
798 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
800 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
803 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
804 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
806 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
810 # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
811 # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
813 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
814 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
815 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
816 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
817 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
818 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
820 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
823 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
824 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
825 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
826 and the system will stay locked up.
828 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
829 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
830 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
832 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
833 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
834 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
835 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
839 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
841 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
843 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
844 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
846 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
847 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
848 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
850 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
851 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
852 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
853 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
855 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
856 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
857 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
858 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
859 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
863 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
865 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
867 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
868 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
870 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
871 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
872 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
873 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
875 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
876 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
877 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
879 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
880 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
881 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
882 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
883 feature has negligible overhead.
885 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
886 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
887 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
890 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
891 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
894 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
895 sysctl or by writing a value to
896 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
898 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
899 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
901 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
902 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
903 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
905 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
906 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
907 in uninterruptible "D" state.
909 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
910 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
911 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
912 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
913 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
917 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
919 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
921 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
922 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
925 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
926 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
928 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
929 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
930 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
931 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
932 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
933 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
935 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
940 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
941 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
944 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
945 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
946 corruption or other issues.
950 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
953 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
954 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
960 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
961 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
962 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
963 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
966 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
967 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
970 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
971 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
979 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
980 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
983 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
984 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
985 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
986 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
987 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
988 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
991 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
992 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
993 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
996 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
997 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
998 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
999 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1000 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1001 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1003 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1004 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1006 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1007 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1008 problems are suspected.
1010 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1011 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1016 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1017 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1021 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1022 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1023 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1024 will detect preemption count underflows.
1026 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1028 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1029 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1030 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1032 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1033 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1035 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1036 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1037 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1038 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1040 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1041 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1042 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1043 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1045 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1046 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1047 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1049 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1052 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1053 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1054 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1055 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1056 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1057 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1059 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1060 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1061 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1062 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1063 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1064 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1065 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1066 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1067 you are a distro, do not.
1069 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1070 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1071 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1072 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1073 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1074 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1077 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1078 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1079 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1080 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1081 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1082 held during task exit.
1084 config PROVE_LOCKING
1085 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1086 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1088 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1089 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1090 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1091 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1092 select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE if BROKEN
1093 select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS if BROKEN
1094 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1097 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1098 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1099 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1100 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1101 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1102 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1105 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1106 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1108 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1109 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1110 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1111 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1112 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1113 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1114 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1115 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1116 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1118 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1119 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1120 kernel reports nothing.
1122 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1123 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1124 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1125 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1126 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1128 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1134 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1138 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1142 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1143 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1145 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1146 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1147 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1148 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1151 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1153 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1155 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1157 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1158 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1160 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1161 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1163 config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1166 This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to
1167 be released in a different context from the acquisition context.
1168 Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock.
1169 However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives
1170 such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness
1173 config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
1176 A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
1177 detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.
1179 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1180 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1183 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1184 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1185 of more runtime overhead.
1187 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1188 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1189 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1190 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1192 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1193 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1194 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1195 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1197 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1198 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1201 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1202 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1203 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1204 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1205 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1208 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1209 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1210 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1214 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1215 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1216 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1218 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1219 to be built into the kernel.
1220 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1221 Say N if you are unsure.
1223 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1224 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1226 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1227 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1229 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1230 with this test harness.
1232 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1233 Say N if you are unsure.
1235 endmenu # lock debugging
1237 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1240 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1241 either tracing or lock debugging.
1244 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1245 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1247 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1248 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1249 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1250 stack trace generation.
1252 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1253 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1256 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1257 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1258 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1259 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1260 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1261 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1264 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1265 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1266 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1267 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1268 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1269 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1270 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1271 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1272 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1274 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1275 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1276 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1277 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1280 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1281 bool "kobject debugging"
1282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1284 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1287 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1288 bool "kobject release debugging"
1289 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1291 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1292 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1293 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1294 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1295 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1298 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1299 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1300 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1302 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1303 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1304 kind of kobject release bug.
1306 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1309 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1310 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
1311 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
1314 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1315 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1316 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1319 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1322 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1327 config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1328 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1329 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1331 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1332 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1333 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1338 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1339 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1341 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1342 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1347 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1348 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1351 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1352 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1353 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1354 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1357 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1358 bool "Debug credential management"
1359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1361 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1362 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1363 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1364 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1367 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1368 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1372 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1374 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1375 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1379 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1380 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1381 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1382 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1383 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1384 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1385 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1386 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1389 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1390 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1391 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1395 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1396 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1397 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1400 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1401 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1402 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1403 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1404 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1405 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1406 device number allocation.
1408 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1409 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1410 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1411 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1412 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1414 Say N if you are unsure.
1416 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1417 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1418 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1419 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1422 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1423 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1424 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1425 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1427 Say N if your are unsure.
1429 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1430 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1434 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1435 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1436 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1440 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1441 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1442 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1443 default m if PM_DEBUG
1445 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1446 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1447 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1449 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1450 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1452 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1454 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1455 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1456 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1457 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1459 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1460 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1464 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1465 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1466 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1468 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1469 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1470 through debugfs interface under
1471 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1473 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1474 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1476 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1477 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1481 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1482 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1483 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1485 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1486 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1487 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1489 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1490 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1492 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1494 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1495 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1496 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1497 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1499 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1500 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1504 config FAULT_INJECTION
1505 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1508 Provide fault-injection framework.
1509 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1512 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1513 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1514 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1516 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1518 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1519 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1520 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1522 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1524 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1525 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1526 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1528 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1530 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1531 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1532 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1534 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1535 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1536 thus exercising the error handling.
1538 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1539 for others it wont do anything.
1541 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1542 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1543 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1545 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1546 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1547 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1548 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1552 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1554 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1556 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1558 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1559 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1560 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1562 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1564 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1565 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1566 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1569 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1571 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1574 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1575 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1576 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1578 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1585 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1586 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1588 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1590 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1591 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1592 depends on PCI && X86
1594 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1595 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1596 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1597 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1598 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1600 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1601 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1602 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1606 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1607 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1609 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1610 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1611 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1612 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1614 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1615 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1617 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1619 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1620 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1621 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1623 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1624 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1625 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1626 were never allocated.
1628 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1629 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1630 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1633 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1634 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1638 menu "Runtime Testing"
1641 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1646 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1647 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1648 If you don't need it: say N
1649 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1652 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1653 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1655 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1656 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1657 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1659 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1660 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1661 or at module load time.
1666 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1667 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1669 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1670 or at module load time.
1674 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1675 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1676 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1680 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1681 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1682 verified for functionality.
1684 Say N if you are unsure.
1686 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1687 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1688 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1691 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1692 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1693 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1694 developers working on architecture code.
1696 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1697 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1699 Say N if you are unsure.
1702 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1705 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1706 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1708 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1709 tristate "Interval tree test"
1710 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1711 select INTERVAL_TREE
1713 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1716 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1717 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1719 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1724 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1725 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
1727 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1728 at module load time.
1732 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1733 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1734 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1737 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1738 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1739 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1740 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1741 engine if one is available.
1746 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1748 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1749 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1752 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1755 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1758 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1761 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1766 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1768 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
1769 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
1772 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1777 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1780 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1781 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1782 hash functions on boot (or module load).
1784 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1785 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1788 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1792 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1798 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1802 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1803 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1804 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1805 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1806 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1811 config TEST_USER_COPY
1812 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1816 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1817 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1818 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1819 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1825 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1829 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1830 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1831 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1832 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
1833 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1834 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
1838 config TEST_FIRMWARE
1839 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1841 depends on FW_LOADER
1843 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1844 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1845 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1846 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1852 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1854 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1856 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1857 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1858 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1863 tristate "udelay test driver"
1866 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1867 that udelay() is working properly.
1871 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1872 tristate "Test static keys"
1876 Test the static key interfaces.
1881 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1884 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1885 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1892 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1893 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1894 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1896 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1897 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1898 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1899 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1900 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1904 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1908 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1909 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1910 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1912 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1913 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1914 kernel's virtual address map.
1918 endmenu # runtime tests
1922 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1924 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1926 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1927 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1929 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1930 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1932 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1933 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1936 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1937 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1942 source "samples/Kconfig"
1944 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1946 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1948 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1951 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1952 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1953 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1954 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1955 default y if TILE || PPC
1957 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1958 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1959 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1960 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1961 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1962 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1964 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1965 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1966 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1971 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1972 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1973 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1975 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1976 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1977 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1978 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1980 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1981 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1982 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1983 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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