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Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -07001menu "printk and dmesg options"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002
3config PRINTK_TIME
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
Randy Dunlapd3b8b6e2006-12-06 20:36:38 -08005 depends on PRINTK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07006 help
Kay Sievers649e6ee2012-05-10 04:30:45 +02007 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
10
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
14
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8c27ceff32016-10-18 10:12:27 -020016 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080018config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
20 range 1 15
21 default "7"
22 help
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
24
25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
27 value is specified here as well.
28
Borislav Petkov50f4d9b2016-12-19 16:23:15 -080029 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080030 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
31 option.
32
Alex Elder42a9dc02014-08-06 16:09:01 -070033config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070034 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
35 range 1 7
36 default "4"
37 help
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
39
40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
42 priority.
43
Olof Johanssona8cfdc62016-12-12 16:45:56 -080044 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
47
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -070048config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
51 help
52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
55 using "boot_delay=N".
56
57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
58 the "loops per jiffie" value.
59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
64 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
65
66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
68 default n
69 depends on PRINTK
70 depends on DEBUG_FS
71 help
72
73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
79
80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
84
85 Usage:
86
87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
92 format for each line of the file is:
93
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
95
96 filename : source file of the debug statement
97 lineno : line number of the debug statement
98 module : module that contains the debug statement
99 function : function that contains the debug statement
100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
101 format : the format used for the debug statement
102
103 From a live system:
104
105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
110
111 Example usage:
112
113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
116
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
120
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
124
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
128
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
132
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
134 information.
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -0700135
136endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
137
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700138menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
139
140config DEBUG_INFO
141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
Linus Torvalds12b13832014-02-04 12:20:01 -0800142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700143 help
144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
150
151 If unsure, say N.
152
153config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
154 bool "Reduce debugging information"
155 depends on DEBUG_INFO
156 help
157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
158 information for structure types. This means that tools that
159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
164 Only works with newer gcc versions.
165
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200166config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
Sudip Mukherjeeda0510c2017-01-10 16:57:45 -0800168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200169 help
170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
174 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
175
176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
178 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
180
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200181config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
183 depends on DEBUG_INFO
184 help
185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
188 variables in gdb on optimized code.
189
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800190config GDB_SCRIPTS
191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_INFO
193 help
194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
199 for further details.
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800200
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -0400201config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
203 default y
204 help
205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
208
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700209config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
210 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
211 default y
212 help
213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700216
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100217config FRAME_WARN
218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
219 range 0 8192
Andrey Ryabinin3f181b42015-10-22 13:32:24 -0700220 default 0 if KASAN
Kees Cook0e07f662016-10-27 17:46:41 -0700221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100222 default 1024 if !64BIT
223 default 2048 if 64BIT
224 help
225 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
226 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
227 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
228 Requires gcc 4.4
229
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700230config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
231 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
232 default n
233 help
234 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
235 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
236 get_wchan() and suchlike.
237
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -0700238config READABLE_ASM
239 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
241 help
242 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
243 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
244 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
245 sane.
246
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700247config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
248 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
249 default y if X86
250 help
251 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
252 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
253 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
254 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
255 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
256 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
257 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
258 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
259 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
260 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
261 your module is.
262
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -0800263config PAGE_OWNER
264 bool "Track page owner"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
266 select DEBUG_FS
267 select STACKTRACE
Joonsoo Kimf2ca0b52016-07-26 15:23:55 -0700268 select STACKDEPOT
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -0800269 select PAGE_EXTENSION
270 help
271 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
272 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
273 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
274 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
275 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
276 for user-space helper.
277
278 If unsure, say N.
279
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800280config DEBUG_FS
281 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Nicolai Stange9fd4dce2016-03-22 14:11:13 +0100282 select SRCU
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800283 help
284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
286 write to these files.
287
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe1b4fc72017-05-14 12:04:55 -0300289 Documentation/filesystems/.
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200290
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800291 If unsure, say N.
292
293config HEADERS_CHECK
294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
295 depends on !UML
296 help
297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
300 were not exported, etc.
301
302 If you're making modifications to header files which are
303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
306
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100307config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100309 help
310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
311 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100314 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
Paul Gortmaker0db06282013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000318 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
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
326 a larger kernel).
327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Uwe Kleine-König67797b92016-09-09 10:04:58 +0200329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100330 introduced.
331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000332 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.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100337
Nicolas Boichat47490ec2015-10-06 09:44:42 +1030338config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
340 default y
341 help
342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
344
345 If unsure, say Y.
346
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700347#
348# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
349# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
350# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
351#
352config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
353 bool
354 help
355
356config FRAME_POINTER
357 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
359 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt695c1202017-04-09 10:45:27 +0200360 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700361 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
362 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
363 help
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)
367
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600368config STACK_VALIDATION
369 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
370 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
371 default n
372 help
373 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
374 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
375 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
376
377 For more information, see
378 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
379
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700380config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
381 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
383 help
384 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
385 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
386 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
387 definitions.
388
389 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
390 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
391
392 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
393 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
394
395endmenu # "Compiler options"
396
397config MAGIC_SYSRQ
398 bool "Magic SysRq key"
399 depends on !UML
400 help
401 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
402 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
403 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
404 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
405 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
406 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
407 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100408 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
409 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700410
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100411config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
412 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
413 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
414 default 0x1
415 help
416 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
417 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
Hans Holmbergf8998c22017-03-16 09:37:32 +0100418 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100419
Felix Fietkau732dbf32016-12-22 08:31:34 +0100420config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
421 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
422 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
423 default y
424 help
425 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
426 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
427 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
428 magic SysRq key.
429
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800430config DEBUG_KERNEL
431 bool "Kernel debugging"
432 help
433 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
434 identify kernel problems.
435
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700436menu "Memory Debugging"
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800437
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700438source mm/Kconfig.debug
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800439
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700440config DEBUG_OBJECTS
441 bool "Debug object operations"
442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
443 help
444 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
445 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
446 the operations on those objects.
447
448config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
449 bool "Debug objects selftest"
450 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
451 help
452 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
453
454config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
455 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
456 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
457 help
458 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
459 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
460 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
461 much slower.
462
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700463config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
464 bool "Debug timer objects"
465 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
466 help
467 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
468 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
469 validate the timer operations.
470
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900471config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
472 bool "Debug work objects"
473 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
474 help
475 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
476 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
477 validate the work operations.
478
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400479config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
480 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800481 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400482 help
483 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
484
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700485config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
486 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
487 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
488 help
489 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
490 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
491 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
492
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100493config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
494 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
495 range 0 1
496 default "1"
497 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
498 help
499 Debug objects boot parameter default value
500
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700501config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800502 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200503 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 help
505 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
506 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
507 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
508
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800509config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
510 bool "Memory leak debugging"
511 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
512
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700513config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
514 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200515 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700516 default n
517 help
518 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
519 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
520 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
521 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
522 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
523 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
524 "slub_debug=-".
525
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800526config SLUB_STATS
527 default n
528 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500529 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800530 help
531 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
532 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
533 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
534 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
535 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
536 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
537 Try running: slabinfo -DA
538
Catalin Marinasb69ec422012-10-08 16:28:11 -0700539config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
540 bool
541
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100542config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
543 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Kees Cook525c1f92013-01-16 18:54:16 -0800544 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100545 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100546 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
547 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800548 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100549 help
550 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
551 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
552 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
553 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
554 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
555 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800556 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100557 details.
558
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100559 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
560 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
561
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100562 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
563 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
564
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100565config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
566 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
567 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200568 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100569 default 400
570 help
571 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
572 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
573 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
574 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
575 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
576
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100577config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
578 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700579 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100580 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700581 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100582
583 If unsure, say N.
584
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100585config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
586 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
587 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
588 help
589 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
590 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
591
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700592config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
593 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
Helge Deller6c31da32016-03-19 17:54:10 +0100594 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700595 help
596 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
597 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
598
599 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
600
601config DEBUG_VM
602 bool "Debug VM"
603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
604 help
605 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
606 that may impact performance.
607
608 If unsure, say N.
609
Davidlohr Bueso4f115142014-06-04 16:06:46 -0700610config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
611 bool "Debug VMA caching"
612 depends on DEBUG_VM
613 help
614 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
615 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
616 environments.
617
618 If unsure, say N.
619
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700620config DEBUG_VM_RB
621 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
622 depends on DEBUG_VM
623 help
Davidlohr Buesoa663dad2014-04-18 15:07:22 -0700624 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700625
626 If unsure, say N.
627
Kirill A. Shutemov95ad9752016-01-15 16:51:21 -0800628config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
629 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
630 depends on DEBUG_VM
631 help
632 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
633
634 If unsure, say N.
635
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800636config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
637 bool
638
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700639config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
640 bool "Debug VM translations"
Laura Abbottfa5b6ec2017-01-10 13:35:40 -0800641 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700642 help
643 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
644 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
645
646 If unsure, say N.
647
648config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
649 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
650 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
651 help
652 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
653 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
654
655config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
656 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
657 default !EXPERT
658 help
659 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
660 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
661 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
662 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
663 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
664
665 If unsure, say Y
666
667config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
668 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
669 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
670 help
671 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
672 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
673 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
674
675 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
676 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
677
678 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
679
680 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
681 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
682 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
683 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
684
685 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
686 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
687
688 If unsure, say N.
689
690config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
691 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
693 depends on SMP
694 help
695 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
696 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
697 and decreases performance.
698
699 Say N if unsure.
700
701config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
702 bool "Highmem debugging"
703 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
704 help
Geert Uytterhoevenb1357c92014-04-14 18:55:50 +0200705 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
706 systems. Disable for production systems.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700707
708config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
709 bool
710
711config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
712 bool "Check for stack overflows"
713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
714 ---help---
715 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
Borislav Petkovedb0ec02015-01-25 19:50:34 +0100716 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700717 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
718 below a certain limit.
719
720 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
721 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
722 involved.
723
724 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
725 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
726
727 If in doubt, say "N".
728
729source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
730
Andrey Ryabinin0b24bec2015-02-13 14:39:17 -0800731source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
732
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700733endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
734
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700735config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
736 bool
737 help
738 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
739 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
740 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
741
742config KCOV
743 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
744 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
745 select DEBUG_FS
Kees Cooka519167e2016-06-11 09:09:28 -0700746 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
747 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700748 help
749 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
750 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
751
752 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
753 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
754 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
755
Andreas Platschek700199b02016-12-14 15:05:40 -0800756 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700757
Vegard Nossuma4691de2016-08-02 14:07:30 -0700758config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
759 bool "Instrument all code by default"
760 depends on KCOV
761 default y if KCOV
762 help
763 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
764 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
765 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
766 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
767 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
768
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700769config DEBUG_SHIRQ
770 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
Martin Schwidefsky0244ad02013-08-30 09:39:53 +0200771 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700772 help
773 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
774 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
775 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
776 points; some don't and need to be caught.
777
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700778menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
779
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700780config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700781 bool
782
783config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
784 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700785 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700786 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700787 help
788 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700789 soft lockups.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700790
791 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
792 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
793 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
794 detection and the system will stay locked up.
795
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700796config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
797 bool
798 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
799
800#
Thomas Gleixner7edaeb62017-08-15 09:50:13 +0200801# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
802# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
803#
804config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
805 bool
806
807#
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700808# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
809# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
810#
811config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
812 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
814 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
815 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
816 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
817 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
818 help
819 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
820 hard lockups.
821
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700822 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
823 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
824 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
825 and the system will stay locked up.
826
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700827config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
828 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
829 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
830 help
831 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
832 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
833 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
834 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
835
836 Say N if unsure.
837
838config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
839 int
840 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
841 range 0 1
842 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
843 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
844
845config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
846 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700847 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700848 help
849 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
850 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
851 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
852 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
853
854 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
855 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
856 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
857 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
858 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
859
860 Say N if unsure.
861
862config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
863 int
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700864 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700865 range 0 1
866 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
867 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
868
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700869config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
870 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
871 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Nicholas Piggin05a4a952017-07-12 14:35:46 -0700872 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700873 help
874 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
875 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
Vivien Didelot96b03ab2016-09-22 16:55:13 -0400876 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700877
878 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
879 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
880 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
881 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
882 feature has negligible overhead.
883
884config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
885 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
886 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
887 default 120
888 help
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700889 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700890 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
891 be considered hung.
892
893 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
894 sysctl or by writing a value to
895 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
896
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700897 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
898 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700899
900config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
901 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
902 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
903 help
904 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
905 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
906 in uninterruptible "D" state.
907
908 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700909 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
910 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
Roman Zippela1583d32006-06-27 02:55:00 -0700911 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
Thomas Gleixner61a87122006-06-27 02:54:56 -0700912 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
913
914 Say N if unsure.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100916config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700917 int
918 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
919 range 0 1
920 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
921 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
922
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -0500923config WQ_WATCHDOG
924 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
925 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
926 help
927 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
928 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
929 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
930 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
931 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
932 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
933
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700934endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
935
936config PANIC_ON_OOPS
937 bool "Panic on Oops"
938 help
939 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
940 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
941 line.
942
943 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
944 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
945 corruption or other issues.
946
947 Say N if unsure.
948
949config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
950 int
951 range 0 1
952 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
953 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
954
Jason Baron5800dc32013-11-25 23:23:04 +0000955config PANIC_TIMEOUT
956 int "panic timeout"
957 default 0
958 help
959 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
960 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
961 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
962 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
963
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700964config SCHED_DEBUG
965 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
966 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
967 default y
968 help
969 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
970 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
971 option is minimal.
972
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +0530973config SCHED_INFO
974 bool
975 default n
976
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700977config SCHEDSTATS
978 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
979 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +0530980 select SCHED_INFO
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700981 help
982 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
983 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
984 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
985 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
986 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
987 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
988 this adds.
989
Aaron Tomlin0d9e2632014-09-12 14:16:19 +0100990config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
991 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
992 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
993 default n
994 help
995 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
996 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
997 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
998 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
999 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1000 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1001
John Stultz3c17ad12015-03-11 21:16:32 -07001002config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1003 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1004 help
1005 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1006 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1007 problems are suspected.
1008
1009 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1010 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1011 workloads.
1012
1013 If unsure, say N.
1014
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001015config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1016 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +00001017 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001018 default y
1019 help
1020 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1021 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1022 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1023 will detect preemption count underflows.
1024
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001025menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1026
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001027config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1028 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1030 help
1031 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1032 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1033
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001034config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001035 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001036 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +05301037 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001038 help
1039 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1040 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1041 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1042 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1043
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001044config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1045 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1047 help
1048 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1049 reported.
1050
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001051config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1052 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1053 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1054 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1055 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1056 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1057 help
1058 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1059 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1060 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1061 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1062 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Rob Clark4d692372014-08-27 11:19:26 -04001063 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1064 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1065 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1066 you are a distro, do not.
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001067
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001068config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1069 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001071 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1072 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001073 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001074 select LOCKDEP
1075 help
1076 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1077 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1078 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1079 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1080 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1081 held during task exit.
1082
1083config PROVE_LOCKING
1084 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001085 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001086 select LOCKDEP
1087 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1088 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001089 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001090 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -04001091 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001092 default n
1093 help
1094 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1095 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1096 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1097 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1098 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1099 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1100 deadlock.
1101
1102 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1103 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1104
1105 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1106 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1107 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1108 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1109 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1110 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1111 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1112 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1113 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1114
1115 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1116 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1117 kernel reports nothing.
1118
1119 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1120 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1121 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1122 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1123 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1124
Davidlohr Bueso214e0ae2014-07-30 13:41:55 -07001125 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001126
1127config LOCKDEP
1128 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001129 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001130 select STACKTRACE
Chen Gangdf2e1ef2014-06-23 13:22:04 -07001131 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001132 select KALLSYMS
1133 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1134
Daniel Jordan395102d2017-04-10 11:50:52 -04001135config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1136 bool
1137
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -07001138config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -07001139 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -07001140 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1141 select LOCKDEP
1142 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1143 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf5694782016-09-19 12:15:37 +02001144 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -07001145 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1146 default n
1147 help
1148 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1149
Davidlohr Bueso214e0ae2014-07-30 13:41:55 -07001150 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -07001151
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01001152 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1153 subcommand of perf.
1154 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1155 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +09001156
1157 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01001158 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +09001159
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001160config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1161 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001162 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001163 help
1164 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1165 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1166 of more runtime overhead.
1167
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001168config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1169 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +02001170 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1172 help
1173 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001174 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1175 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1176 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001177
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -07001178config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1179 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1180 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1181 help
1182 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1183 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1184 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1185 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1186 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1187 mutexes and rwsems.
1188
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001189config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1190 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1192 select TORTURE_TEST
1193 default n
1194 help
1195 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1196 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1197 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1198
1199 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1200 to be built into the kernel.
1201 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1202 Say N if you are unsure.
1203
Chris Wilsonf2a5fec2016-12-01 11:47:06 +00001204config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1205 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1206 help
1207 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1208 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1209
1210 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1211 with this test harness.
1212
1213 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1214 Say N if you are unsure.
1215
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001216endmenu # lock debugging
1217
1218config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1219 bool
1220 help
1221 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1222 either tracing or lock debugging.
1223
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001224config STACKTRACE
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001225 bool "Stack backtrace support"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001226 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001227 help
1228 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1229 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1230 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1231 stack trace generation.
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001232
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001233config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1234 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1235 default n
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001236 help
1237 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1238 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1239 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1240 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1241 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1242 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1243 it.
1244
Theodore Ts'oeecabf52017-06-08 04:16:59 -04001245 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1246 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1247 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1248 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1249 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1250 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1251 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1252 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1253 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1254
1255 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1256 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1257 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1258 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1259 subarchitecture).
Jason A. Donenfeldd06bfd12017-06-07 23:06:55 -04001260
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001261config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1262 bool "kobject debugging"
1263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1264 help
1265 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1266 to the syslog.
1267
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001268config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1269 bool "kobject release debugging"
Linus Torvalds2a999aa2013-10-29 08:33:36 -07001270 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001271 help
1272 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1273 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1274 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1275 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1276 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1277 unregistered.
1278
1279 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1280 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1281 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1282
1283 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1284 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1285 kind of kobject release bug.
1286
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001287config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1288 bool
1289
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001290config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001291 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001292 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -08001293 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001294 help
1295 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1296 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1297 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1298
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001299config DEBUG_LIST
1300 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
Arnd Bergmann4520bcb2016-08-26 17:42:00 +02001301 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001302 help
1303 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1304 walking routines.
1305
1306 If unsure, say N.
1307
Dan Streetmanb8cfff62014-06-04 16:11:54 -07001308config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1309 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1310 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1311 help
1312 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1313 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1314 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1315
1316 If unsure, say N.
1317
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +02001318config DEBUG_SG
1319 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1321 help
1322 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1323 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1324 their sg tables.
1325
1326 If unsure, say N.
1327
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07001328config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1329 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1331 help
1332 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1333 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1334 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1335 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1336 performance, say N.
1337
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +01001338config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1339 bool "Debug credential management"
1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1341 help
1342 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1343 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1344 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1345 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1346 struct.
1347
1348 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1349 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1350
1351 If unsure, say N.
1352
Paul E. McKenney43a0a2a2017-05-17 09:19:44 -07001353source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001354
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05001355config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1356 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1358 default n
1359 help
1360 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1361 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1362 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1363 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1364 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1365 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1366 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1367 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1368 be impacted.
1369
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001370config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1371 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1372 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1373 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +02001374 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001375 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001376 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1377 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1378 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1379 is broken.
1380
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001381 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1382 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1383 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1384 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1385 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1386 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1387 device number allocation.
1388
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001389 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1390 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1391 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1392 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1393 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1394
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001395 Say N if you are unsure.
1396
Thomas Gleixner757c9892016-02-26 18:43:32 +00001397config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1398 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1399 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1400 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1401 default n
1402 help
1403 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1404 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1405 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1406 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1407
1408 Say N if your are unsure.
1409
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001410config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1411 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1412 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1413 select DEBUG_FS
1414 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001415 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001416 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1417 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1418
1419 Say N if unsure.
1420
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001421config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1422 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1423 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1424 default m if PM_DEBUG
1425 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001426 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001427 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1428 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1429
1430 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1431 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1432
1433 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1434
1435 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1436 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1437 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1438 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1439
1440 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1441 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1442
1443 If unsure, say N.
1444
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001445config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1446 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1447 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001448 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001449 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001450 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001451 through debugfs interface under
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001452 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001453
1454 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1455 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1456
1457 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
Akinobu Mitae12a95f2013-04-30 15:28:49 -07001458 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001459
1460 If unsure, say N.
1461
Nikolay Aleksandrov02fff962015-11-28 13:45:28 +01001462config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1463 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1464 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1465 help
1466 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1467 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1468 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1469
1470 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1471 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1472
1473 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1474
1475 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1476 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1477 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1478 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1479
1480 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1481 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1482
1483 If unsure, say N.
1484
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001485config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001486 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1487 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001488 help
1489 Provide fault-injection framework.
1490 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001491
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001492config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001493 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1494 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001495 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001496 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001497 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001498
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001499config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1500 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001501 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001502 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001503 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001504
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001505config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001506 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001507 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001508 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001509 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001510
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001511config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d01432010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001512 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001513 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1514 help
1515 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1516 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1517 thus exercising the error handling.
1518
1519 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1520 for others it wont do anything.
1521
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001522config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1523 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
Adrien Schildknecht28ff4fd2015-11-10 20:12:19 +01001524 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001525 help
1526 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1527 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1528 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1529 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1530 the block device.
1531
Davidlohr Buesoab51fba2015-06-29 23:26:02 -07001532config FAIL_FUTEX
1533 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1534 select DEBUG_FS
1535 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1536 help
1537 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1538
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001539config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1540 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001541 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001542 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001543 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001544
1545config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1546 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1547 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001548 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001549 select STACKTRACE
Chen Gangdf2e1ef2014-06-23 13:22:04 -07001550 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001551 help
1552 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001553
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001554config LATENCYTOP
1555 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001556 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1557 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1558 depends on PROC_FS
Vineet Guptacc80ae32013-08-27 13:52:51 +05301559 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001560 select KALLSYMS
1561 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1562 select STACKTRACE
1563 select SCHEDSTATS
1564 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001565 help
1566 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1567 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1568
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001569source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1570
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001571menu "Runtime Testing"
1572
1573config LKDTM
1574 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1575 depends on DEBUG_FS
1576 depends on BLOCK
1577 default n
1578 help
1579 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1580 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1581 If you don't need it: say N
1582 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1583 called lkdtm.
1584
1585 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1586 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1587
1588config TEST_LIST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001589 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1590 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001591 help
1592 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
Geert Uytterhoevene327fd72017-05-08 15:55:26 -07001593 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1594 or at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001595
1596 If unsure, say N.
1597
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001598config TEST_SORT
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001599 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1600 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001601 help
Geert Uytterhoeven5c4e6792017-05-08 15:55:23 -07001602 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1603 or at module load time.
Kostenzer Felixc5adae92017-02-24 15:01:07 -08001604
1605 If unsure, say N.
1606
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001607config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1608 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1609 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1610 depends on KPROBES
1611 default n
1612 help
1613 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1614 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1615 verified for functionality.
1616
1617 Say N if you are unsure.
1618
1619config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1620 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1621 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1622 default n
1623 help
1624 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1625 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1626 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1627 developers working on architecture code.
1628
1629 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1630 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1631
1632 Say N if you are unsure.
1633
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001634config RBTREE_TEST
1635 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
Cody P Schafer7c993e12013-09-11 14:25:19 -07001636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001637 help
1638 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1639 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1640
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001641config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1642 tristate "Interval tree test"
Davidlohr Bueso0f789b62017-07-10 15:51:43 -07001643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Chris Wilsona88cc102014-03-17 12:21:54 +00001644 select INTERVAL_TREE
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001645 help
1646 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1647
Greg Thelen623fd802013-11-12 15:08:34 -08001648config PERCPU_TEST
1649 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1650 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1651 help
1652 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1653 operations.
1654
1655 If unsure, say N.
1656
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001657config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001658 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001659 help
Geert Uytterhoeven55ded952017-02-24 15:00:55 -08001660 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1661 at module load time.
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001662
1663 If unsure, say N.
1664
1665config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1666 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1667 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1668 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1669 ---help---
1670 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1671 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1672 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1673 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1674 engine if one is available.
1675
1676 If unsure, say N.
1677
Andy Shevchenko64d1d772015-02-12 15:02:21 -08001678config TEST_HEXDUMP
1679 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1680
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001681config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1682 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1683
1684config TEST_KSTRTOX
1685 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1686
Rasmus Villemoes707cc722015-11-06 16:30:29 -08001687config TEST_PRINTF
1688 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1689
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001690config TEST_BITMAP
1691 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1692 default n
1693 help
1694 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1695
1696 If unsure, say N.
1697
Andy Shevchenkocfaff0e2016-05-30 17:40:41 +03001698config TEST_UUID
1699 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1700
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001701config TEST_RHASHTABLE
Geert Uytterhoeven9d6dbe12015-01-29 15:40:25 +01001702 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001703 default n
1704 help
1705 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1706
1707 If unsure, say N.
1708
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001709config TEST_HASH
1710 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1711 default n
1712 help
Jason A. Donenfeld2c956a62017-01-08 13:54:00 +01001713 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1714 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1715 hash functions on boot (or module load).
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001716
1717 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1718 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1719
Jiri Pirko44091d22017-02-03 10:29:06 +01001720config TEST_PARMAN
1721 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1722 default n
1723 depends on PARMAN
1724 help
1725 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1726 (or module load).
1727
1728 If unsure, say N.
1729
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001730endmenu # runtime tests
1731
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001732config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001733 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001734 depends on PCI && X86
1735 help
1736 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1737 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1738 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1739 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1740 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1741
1742 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1743 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1744 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1745
1746 Usage:
1747
1748 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1749 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1750
1751 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1752 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1753 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1754 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1755
1756 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1757 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1758
1759 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001760
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001761config DMA_API_DEBUG
1762 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1763 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1764 help
1765 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1766 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1767 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1768 were never allocated.
Dan Williams0abdd7a2014-01-21 15:48:12 -08001769
1770 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1771 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1772 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1773 not undergoing DMA.
1774
1775 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1776 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1777
1778 If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001779
Valentin Rothberg8a6f0b42014-10-13 15:51:38 -07001780config TEST_LKM
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001781 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1782 default n
1783 depends on m
1784 help
1785 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1786 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1787 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1788 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1789 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1790 requested by name.
1791
1792 If unsure, say N.
1793
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001794config TEST_USER_COPY
1795 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1796 default n
1797 depends on m
1798 help
1799 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1800 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1801 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1802 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1803 protections.
1804
1805 If unsure, say N.
1806
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001807config TEST_BPF
1808 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1809 default n
Randy Dunlap98920ba2014-05-13 09:58:44 -07001810 depends on m && NET
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001811 help
1812 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1813 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1814 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1815 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
Alexei Starovoitov3c731eb2014-09-26 00:17:07 -07001816 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1817 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001818
1819 If unsure, say N.
1820
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001821config TEST_FIRMWARE
1822 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1823 default n
1824 depends on FW_LOADER
1825 help
1826 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1827 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1828 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1829 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1830 userspace.
1831
1832 If unsure, say N.
1833
Luis R. Rodriguez9308f2f2017-07-12 14:33:43 -07001834config TEST_SYSCTL
1835 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1836 default n
1837 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1838 help
1839 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1840 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1841 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1842
1843 If unsure, say N.
1844
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001845config TEST_UDELAY
1846 tristate "udelay test driver"
1847 default n
1848 help
1849 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1850 that udelay() is working properly.
1851
1852 If unsure, say N.
1853
Vladimir Murzin4a207992015-04-14 15:48:27 -07001854config MEMTEST
1855 bool "Memtest"
1856 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1857 ---help---
1858 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1859 to be set.
1860 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1861 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1862 ...
Vladimir Murzin8d8cfb42015-04-14 15:48:40 -07001863 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
Vladimir Murzin4a207992015-04-14 15:48:27 -07001864 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1865
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001866config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1867 tristate "Test static keys"
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001868 default n
1869 depends on m
1870 help
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001871 Test the static key interfaces.
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001872
1873 If unsure, say N.
1874
Kees Cookde54ebb2016-08-17 14:42:11 -07001875config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1876 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
Valentin Rothberg91a6cee2016-08-20 12:16:10 +02001877 select DEBUG_LIST
Kees Cookde54ebb2016-08-17 14:42:11 -07001878 help
1879 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1880 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1881 for validity.
1882
1883 If unsure, say N.
1884
Luis R. Rodriguezd9c6a722017-07-14 14:50:08 -07001885config TEST_KMOD
1886 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1887 default n
1888 depends on m
1889 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1890 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1891 select TEST_LKM
1892 select XFS_FS
1893 select TUN
1894 select BTRFS_FS
1895 help
1896 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1897 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1898 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1899
1900 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1901 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1902 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1903 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1904 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1905
1906 To run tests run:
1907
1908 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1909
1910 If unsure, say N.
1911
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001912source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001913
1914source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001915
Andrey Ryabininc6d30852016-01-20 15:00:55 -08001916source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1917
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08001918config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1919 bool
1920
1921config STRICT_DEVMEM
1922 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
Dave Young6b2a65c2016-12-12 16:46:14 -08001923 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08001924 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1925 default y if TILE || PPC
1926 ---help---
1927 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1928 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1929 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1930 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1931 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1932 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1933
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08001934 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1935 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1936 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1937 users of /dev/mem.
1938
1939 If in doubt, say Y.
1940
1941config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1942 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1943 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08001944 ---help---
1945 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1946 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1947 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1948 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1949
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08001950 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08001951 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1952 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1953 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08001954
1955 If in doubt, say Y.