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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
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Alex Elder42a9dc02014-08-06 16:09:01 -070018config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
Mandeep Singh Baines5af5bcb2011-03-22 16:34:23 -070019 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
20 range 1 7
21 default "4"
22 help
23 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
24
25 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
26 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
27 priority.
28
Dave Hansen604ff0d2013-07-01 13:04:49 -070029config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
30 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
31 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
32 help
33 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
34 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
35 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
36 using "boot_delay=N".
37
38 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
39 the "loops per jiffie" value.
40 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
41 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
42 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
43 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
44 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
45 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
46
47config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
48 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
49 default n
50 depends on PRINTK
51 depends on DEBUG_FS
52 help
53
54 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
55 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
56 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
57 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
58 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
59 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
60
61 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
62 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
63 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
64 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
65
66 Usage:
67
68 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
69 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
70 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
71 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
72 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
73 format for each line of the file is:
74
75 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
76
77 filename : source file of the debug statement
78 lineno : line number of the debug statement
79 module : module that contains the debug statement
80 function : function that contains the debug statement
81 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
82 format : the format used for the debug statement
83
84 From a live system:
85
86 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
87 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
88 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
89 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
90 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
91
92 Example usage:
93
94 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
95 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
96 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
97
98 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
99 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
100 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
101
102 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
103 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
104 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
105
106 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
107 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
108 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
109
110 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
111 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
112 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
113
114 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
115
116endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
117
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700118menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
119
120config DEBUG_INFO
121 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
Linus Torvalds12b13832014-02-04 12:20:01 -0800122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700123 help
124 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
125 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
126 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
127 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
128 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
129 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
130
131 If unsure, say N.
132
133config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
134 bool "Reduce debugging information"
135 depends on DEBUG_INFO
136 help
137 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
138 information for structure types. This means that tools that
139 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
140 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
141 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
142 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
143 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
144 Only works with newer gcc versions.
145
Andi Kleen866ced92014-07-30 20:50:18 +0200146config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
147 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
148 depends on DEBUG_INFO
149 help
150 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
151 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
152 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
153 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
154 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
155
156 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
157 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
158 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
159 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
160
Andi Kleenbfaf2dd2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200161config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
162 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
163 depends on DEBUG_INFO
164 help
165 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
166 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
167 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
168 variables in gdb on optimized code.
169
Jan Kiszka3ee7b3f2015-02-17 13:46:36 -0800170config GDB_SCRIPTS
171 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
172 depends on DEBUG_INFO
173 help
174 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
175 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
176 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
177 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
178 instance. See Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further
179 details.
180
Jeff Garzikde488442007-10-25 04:06:13 -0400181config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
182 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
183 default y
184 help
185 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
186 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
187 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
188
Andrew Mortoncebc04b2006-08-14 22:43:18 -0700189config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
190 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
191 default y
192 help
193 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
194 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
195 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700196
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100197config FRAME_WARN
198 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
199 range 0 8192
Andrey Ryabinin3f181b42015-10-22 13:32:24 -0700200 default 0 if KASAN
Andi Kleen35bb5b12008-02-22 15:15:03 +0100201 default 1024 if !64BIT
202 default 2048 if 64BIT
203 help
204 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
205 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
206 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
207 Requires gcc 4.4
208
Randy Dunlap99657c72009-09-18 12:49:22 -0700209config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
210 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
211 default n
212 help
213 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
214 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
215 get_wchan() and suchlike.
216
Andi Kleen1873e872012-03-28 11:51:18 -0700217config READABLE_ASM
218 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
219 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
220 help
221 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
222 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
223 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
224 sane.
225
Arjan van de Venf71d20e2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700226config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
227 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
228 default y if X86
229 help
230 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
231 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
232 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
233 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
234 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
235 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
236 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
237 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
238 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
239 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
240 your module is.
241
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -0800242config PAGE_OWNER
243 bool "Track page owner"
244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
245 select DEBUG_FS
246 select STACKTRACE
247 select PAGE_EXTENSION
248 help
249 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
250 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
251 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
252 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
253 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
254 for user-space helper.
255
256 If unsure, say N.
257
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800258config DEBUG_FS
259 bool "Debug Filesystem"
Nicolai Stange9fd4dce2016-03-22 14:11:13 +0100260 select SRCU
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800261 help
262 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
263 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
264 write to these files.
265
Robert P. J. Dayff543332008-05-20 00:06:00 +0200266 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
267 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
268
Don Mullisbf4735a2006-12-10 02:18:37 -0800269 If unsure, say N.
270
271config HEADERS_CHECK
272 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
273 depends on !UML
274 help
275 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
276 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
277 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
278 were not exported, etc.
279
280 If you're making modifications to header files which are
281 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
282 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
283 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
284
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100285config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
286 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100287 help
288 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
289 references from one section to another section.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000290 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
291 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100292 most likely result in an oops.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000293 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
Paul Gortmaker0db06282013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400294 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100295 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000296 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
297 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
298 additional steps to occur:
299 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
300 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
301 function, we would lose the section information and thus
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100302 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000303 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
304 a larger kernel).
305 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
306 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
Geert Uytterhoevend6fbfa42008-01-30 11:13:23 +0100307 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100308 introduced.
309 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
Michael Wittene809ab02011-04-17 04:08:48 +0000310 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
311 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
312 reported at least twice.
313 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
314 the section mismatches that are reported.
Sam Ravnborg91341d42008-01-21 21:31:44 +0100315
Nicolas Boichat47490ec2015-10-06 09:44:42 +1030316config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
317 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
318 default y
319 help
320 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
321 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
322
323 If unsure, say Y.
324
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700325#
326# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
327# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
328# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
329#
330config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
331 bool
332 help
333
334config FRAME_POINTER
335 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
337 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
338 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
339 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
340 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
341 help
342 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
343 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
344 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
345
Josh Poimboeufb9ab5eb2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600346config STACK_VALIDATION
347 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
348 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
349 default n
350 help
351 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
352 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
353 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
354
355 For more information, see
356 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
357
Dave Hansen6dfc0662013-07-01 13:04:46 -0700358config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
359 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
361 help
362 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
363 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
364 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
365 definitions.
366
367 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
368 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
369
370 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
371 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
372
373endmenu # "Compiler options"
374
375config MAGIC_SYSRQ
376 bool "Magic SysRq key"
377 depends on !UML
378 help
379 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
380 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
381 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
382 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
383 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
384 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
385 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
386 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
387 unless you really know what this hack does.
388
Ben Hutchings8eaede42013-10-07 01:05:46 +0100389config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
390 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
391 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
392 default 0x1
393 help
394 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
395 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
396 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
397
Adrian Bunkf346f4b2006-01-09 20:54:51 -0800398config DEBUG_KERNEL
399 bool "Kernel debugging"
400 help
401 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
402 identify kernel problems.
403
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700404menu "Memory Debugging"
David Woodhousea304e1b2007-02-12 00:52:00 -0800405
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700406source mm/Kconfig.debug
Ingo Molnar82f67cd2007-02-16 01:28:13 -0800407
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700408config DEBUG_OBJECTS
409 bool "Debug object operations"
410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
411 help
412 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
413 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
414 the operations on those objects.
415
416config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
417 bool "Debug objects selftest"
418 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
419 help
420 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
421
422config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
423 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
424 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
425 help
426 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
427 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
428 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
429 much slower.
430
Thomas Gleixnerc6f3a972008-04-30 00:55:03 -0700431config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
432 bool "Debug timer objects"
433 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
434 help
435 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
436 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
437 validate the timer operations.
438
Thomas Gleixnerdc186ad2009-11-16 01:09:48 +0900439config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
440 bool "Debug work objects"
441 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
442 help
443 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
444 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
445 validate the work operations.
446
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400447config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
448 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
Mathieu Desnoyersfc2ecf72011-02-23 09:42:14 -0800449 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
Mathieu Desnoyers551d55a2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400450 help
451 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
452
Tejun Heoe2852ae2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700453config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
454 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
455 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
456 help
457 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
458 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
459 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
460
Ingo Molnar3ae70202008-11-26 10:02:00 +0100461config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
462 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
463 range 0 1
464 default "1"
465 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
466 help
467 Debug objects boot parameter default value
468
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700469config DEBUG_SLAB
Andrew Morton4a2f0ac2006-03-25 03:07:22 -0800470 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700472 help
473 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
474 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
475 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
476
Al Viro871751e2006-03-25 03:06:39 -0800477config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
478 bool "Memory leak debugging"
479 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
480
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700481config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
482 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
Vegard Nossum7d46d9e2008-04-04 00:51:41 +0200483 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -0700484 default n
485 help
486 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
487 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
488 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
489 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
490 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
491 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
492 "slub_debug=-".
493
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800494config SLUB_STATS
495 default n
496 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
Christoph Lameterab4d5ed2010-10-05 13:57:26 -0500497 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
Christoph Lameter8ff12cf2008-02-07 17:47:41 -0800498 help
499 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
500 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
501 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
502 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
503 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
504 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
505 Try running: slabinfo -DA
506
Catalin Marinasb69ec422012-10-08 16:28:11 -0700507config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
508 bool
509
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100510config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
511 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
Kees Cook525c1f92013-01-16 18:54:16 -0800512 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Catalin Marinas79e0d9b2011-04-27 17:06:19 +0100513 select DEBUG_FS
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100514 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
515 select KALLSYMS
Randy Dunlapb60e26a2009-11-06 15:33:45 -0800516 select CRC32
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100517 help
518 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
519 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
520 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
521 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
522 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
523 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
524 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
525 details.
526
Catalin Marinasbf96d1e2009-06-23 14:40:27 +0100527 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
528 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
529
Catalin Marinas3bba00d2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100530 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
531 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
532
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100533config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
534 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
535 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
Heiko Carstensdfcc3e62009-10-06 10:33:57 +0200536 range 200 40000
Catalin Marinasa9d90582009-06-25 10:16:11 +0100537 default 400
538 help
539 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
540 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
541 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
542 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
543 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
544
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100545config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
546 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700547 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100548 help
Daniel Baluta97182692011-04-04 15:06:44 -0700549 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
Catalin Marinas0822ee42009-06-11 13:24:14 +0100550
551 If unsure, say N.
552
Jason Baronab0155a2010-07-19 11:54:17 +0100553config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
554 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
555 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
556 help
557 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
558 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
559
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700560config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
561 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
Helge Deller6c31da32016-03-19 17:54:10 +0100562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700563 help
564 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
565 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
566
567 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
568
569config DEBUG_VM
570 bool "Debug VM"
571 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
572 help
573 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
574 that may impact performance.
575
576 If unsure, say N.
577
Davidlohr Bueso4f115142014-06-04 16:06:46 -0700578config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
579 bool "Debug VMA caching"
580 depends on DEBUG_VM
581 help
582 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
583 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
584 environments.
585
586 If unsure, say N.
587
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700588config DEBUG_VM_RB
589 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
590 depends on DEBUG_VM
591 help
Davidlohr Buesoa663dad2014-04-18 15:07:22 -0700592 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700593
594 If unsure, say N.
595
Kirill A. Shutemov95ad9752016-01-15 16:51:21 -0800596config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
597 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
598 depends on DEBUG_VM
599 help
600 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
601
602 If unsure, say N.
603
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700604config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
605 bool "Debug VM translations"
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
607 help
608 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
609 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
610
611 If unsure, say N.
612
613config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
614 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
616 help
617 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
618 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
619
620config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
621 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
622 default !EXPERT
623 help
624 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
625 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
626 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
627 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
628 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
629
630 If unsure, say Y
631
632config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
633 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
634 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
635 help
636 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
637 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
638 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
639
640 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
641 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
642
643 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
644
645 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
646 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
647 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
648 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
649
650 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
651 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
652
653 If unsure, say N.
654
655config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
656 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
657 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
658 depends on SMP
659 help
660 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
661 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
662 and decreases performance.
663
664 Say N if unsure.
665
666config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
667 bool "Highmem debugging"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
669 help
Geert Uytterhoevenb1357c92014-04-14 18:55:50 +0200670 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
671 systems. Disable for production systems.
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700672
673config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
674 bool
675
676config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
677 bool "Check for stack overflows"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
679 ---help---
680 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
Borislav Petkovedb0ec02015-01-25 19:50:34 +0100681 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700682 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
683 below a certain limit.
684
685 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
686 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
687 involved.
688
689 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
690 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
691
692 If in doubt, say "N".
693
694source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
695
Andrey Ryabinin0b24bec2015-02-13 14:39:17 -0800696source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
697
Dave Hansen0610c8a2013-07-01 13:04:43 -0700698endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
699
Dmitry Vyukov5c9a8752016-03-22 14:27:30 -0700700config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
701 bool
702 help
703 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
704 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
705 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
706
707config KCOV
708 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
709 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
710 select DEBUG_FS
711 help
712 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
713 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
714
715 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
716 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
717 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
718
719 For more details, see Documentation/kcov.txt.
720
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700721config DEBUG_SHIRQ
722 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
Martin Schwidefsky0244ad02013-08-30 09:39:53 +0200723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700724 help
725 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
726 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
727 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
728 points; some don't and need to be caught.
729
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700730menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700732config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
733 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
735 help
736 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
737 hard and soft lockups.
738
739 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
740 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
741 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
742 detection and the system will stay locked up.
743
744 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
745 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
746 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
747 and the system will stay locked up.
748
749 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
750 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
751 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
752
753 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
754 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
755
756config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
757 def_bool y
758 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
759 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
760
761config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
762 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
763 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
764 help
765 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
766 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
767 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
768 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
769
770 Say N if unsure.
771
772config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
773 int
774 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
775 range 0 1
776 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
777 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
778
779config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
780 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
781 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
782 help
783 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
784 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
785 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
786 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
787
788 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
789 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
790 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
791 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
792 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
793
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -0700794 Say N if unsure.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700795
796config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
797 int
798 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
799 range 0 1
800 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
801 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700802
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700803config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
804 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
805 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
806 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
807 help
808 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
809 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
810 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
811
812 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
813 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
814 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
815 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
816 feature has negligible overhead.
817
818config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
819 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
820 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
821 default 120
822 help
823 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
824 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
825 be considered hung.
826
827 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
828 sysctl or by writing a value to
829 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
830
Ingo Molnar408894e2006-01-09 15:59:20 -0800831 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
832 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
833
834config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
835 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
836 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
Tim Chencca57c52006-04-18 22:21:47 -0700837 help
Ingo Molnar408894e2006-01-09 15:59:20 -0800838 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
839 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
840 in uninterruptible "D" state.
841
842 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700843 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
844 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700845 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
846 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
847
848 Say N if unsure.
849
850config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
851 int
852 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
853 range 0 1
Hugh Dickins048c8bc2006-11-01 05:44:54 +1100854 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700855 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
856
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -0500857config WQ_WATCHDOG
858 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
859 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
860 help
861 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
862 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
863 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
864 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
865 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
866 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
867
Dave Hansen92aef8fb2013-07-01 13:04:50 -0700868endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
869
870config PANIC_ON_OOPS
871 bool "Panic on Oops"
872 help
873 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
874 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
875 line.
876
877 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
878 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
879 corruption or other issues.
880
881 Say N if unsure.
882
883config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
884 int
885 range 0 1
886 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
887 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
888
Jason Baron5800dc32013-11-25 23:23:04 +0000889config PANIC_TIMEOUT
890 int "panic timeout"
891 default 0
892 help
893 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
894 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
895 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
896 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
897
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700898config SCHED_DEBUG
899 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
900 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
901 default y
902 help
903 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
904 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
905 option is minimal.
906
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +0530907config SCHED_INFO
908 bool
909 default n
910
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700911config SCHEDSTATS
912 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
913 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
Naveen N. Raof6db8342015-06-25 23:53:37 +0530914 select SCHED_INFO
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915 help
916 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
917 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
918 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
919 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
920 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
921 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
922 this adds.
923
Aaron Tomlin0d9e2632014-09-12 14:16:19 +0100924config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
925 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
926 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
927 default n
928 help
929 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
930 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
931 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
932 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
933 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
934 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
935
John Stultz3c17ad12015-03-11 21:16:32 -0700936config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
937 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
938 help
939 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
940 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
941 problems are suspected.
942
943 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
944 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
945 workloads.
946
947 If unsure, say N.
948
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700949config TIMER_STATS
950 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
951 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
952 help
953 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
954 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
955 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
956 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
957 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
958 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
959 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
960 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
961 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
962
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700963config DEBUG_PREEMPT
964 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
Kumar Gala01deab92009-10-16 07:21:39 +0000965 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700966 default y
967 help
968 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
969 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
970 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
971 will detect preemption count underflows.
972
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -0700973menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
974
Ingo Molnare7eebaf2006-06-27 02:54:55 -0700975config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
976 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
977 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
978 help
979 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
980 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
981
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700982config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700983 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700984 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Raghavendra K Te335e3e2012-03-22 15:25:08 +0530985 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700986 help
987 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
988 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
989 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
990 deadlocks are also debuggable.
991
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -0700992config DEBUG_MUTEXES
993 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
994 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
995 help
996 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
997 reported.
998
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +0200999config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1000 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1001 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1002 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1003 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1004 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1005 help
1006 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1007 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1008 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1009 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1010 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Rob Clark4d692372014-08-27 11:19:26 -04001011 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1012 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1013 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1014 you are a distro, do not.
Daniel Vetter23010022013-06-20 13:31:17 +02001015
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001016config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1017 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001019 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1020 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001021 select LOCKDEP
1022 help
1023 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1024 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1025 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1026 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1027 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1028 held during task exit.
1029
1030config PROVE_LOCKING
1031 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001033 select LOCKDEP
1034 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1035 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001036 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
Steven Rostedt46b93b72010-08-31 16:35:20 -04001037 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001038 default n
1039 help
1040 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1041 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1042 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1043 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1044 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1045 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1046 deadlock.
1047
1048 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1049 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1050
1051 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1052 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1053 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1054 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1055 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1056 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1057 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1058 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1059 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1060
1061 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1062 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1063 kernel reports nothing.
1064
1065 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1066 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1067 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1068 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1069 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1070
Davidlohr Bueso214e0ae2014-07-30 13:41:55 -07001071 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001072
1073config LOCKDEP
1074 bool
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001075 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001076 select STACKTRACE
Chen Gangdf2e1ef2014-06-23 13:22:04 -07001077 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001078 select KALLSYMS
1079 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1080
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -07001081config LOCK_STAT
Danny ter Haarfdfb8702007-09-24 21:24:43 -07001082 bool "Lock usage statistics"
Peter Zijlstraf20786f2007-07-19 01:48:56 -07001083 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1084 select LOCKDEP
1085 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1086 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1087 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1088 default n
1089 help
1090 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1091
Davidlohr Bueso214e0ae2014-07-30 13:41:55 -07001092 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
Peter Zijlstraa560aa42007-10-07 00:24:33 -07001093
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01001094 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1095 subcommand of perf.
1096 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1097 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +09001098
1099 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
Frederic Weisbeckerdd8b1cf2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01001100 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
Hitoshi Mitake84c6f882010-02-04 16:08:15 +09001101
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001102config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1103 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
Adrian Bunk517e7aa2006-07-14 00:24:32 -07001104 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
Ingo Molnar4d9f34a2006-07-03 00:24:55 -07001105 help
1106 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1107 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1108 of more runtime overhead.
1109
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001110config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1111 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
Frederic Weisbeckere8f7c702011-06-08 01:51:02 +02001112 select PREEMPT_COUNT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001113 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1114 help
1115 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
Frederic Weisbeckerd902db12011-06-08 19:31:56 +02001116 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1117 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1118 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001119
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -07001120config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1121 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1123 help
1124 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1125 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1126 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1127 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1128 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1129 mutexes and rwsems.
1130
Paul E. McKenney0af3fe12014-02-04 15:51:41 -08001131config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1132 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1134 select TORTURE_TEST
1135 default n
1136 help
1137 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1138 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1139 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1140
1141 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1142 to be built into the kernel.
1143 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1144 Say N if you are unsure.
1145
Dave Hansen9eade162013-07-01 13:04:47 -07001146endmenu # lock debugging
1147
1148config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1149 bool
1150 help
1151 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1152 either tracing or lock debugging.
1153
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001154config STACKTRACE
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001155 bool "Stack backtrace support"
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001156 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Dave Jones0c38e1f2014-08-29 15:18:35 -07001157 help
1158 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1159 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1160 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1161 stack trace generation.
Ingo Molnar8637c092006-07-03 00:24:38 -07001162
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001163config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1164 bool "kobject debugging"
1165 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1166 help
1167 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1168 to the syslog.
1169
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001170config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1171 bool "kobject release debugging"
Linus Torvalds2a999aa2013-10-29 08:33:36 -07001172 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
Russell Kingc817a672013-06-27 15:06:14 +01001173 help
1174 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1175 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1176 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1177 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1178 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1179 unregistered.
1180
1181 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1182 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1183 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1184
1185 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1186 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1187 kind of kobject release bug.
1188
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001189config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1190 bool
1191
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001192config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
David Rientjes6a108a12011-01-20 14:44:16 -08001193 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
Catalin Marinas9b2a60c2012-10-08 16:28:13 -07001194 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
Alexey Dobriyan8420e7e2009-12-14 18:00:25 -08001195 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001196 help
1197 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1198 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1199 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1200
Dave Jones199a9af2006-09-29 01:59:00 -07001201config DEBUG_LIST
1202 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1203 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1204 help
1205 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1206 walking routines.
1207
1208 If unsure, say N.
1209
Dan Streetmanb8cfff62014-06-04 16:11:54 -07001210config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1211 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1212 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1213 help
1214 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1215 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1216 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1217
1218 If unsure, say N.
1219
Jens Axboed6ec0842007-10-22 20:01:06 +02001220config DEBUG_SG
1221 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1222 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1223 help
1224 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1225 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1226 their sg tables.
1227
1228 If unsure, say N.
1229
Arjan van de Ven1b2439d2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07001230config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1231 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1232 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1233 help
1234 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1235 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1236 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1237 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1238 performance, say N.
1239
David Howellse0e81732009-09-02 09:13:40 +01001240config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1241 bool "Debug credential management"
1242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1243 help
1244 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1245 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1246 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1247 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1248 struct.
1249
1250 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1251 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1252
1253 If unsure, say N.
1254
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001255menu "RCU Debugging"
1256
1257config PROVE_RCU
Paul E. McKenney9bae6592015-01-18 18:01:21 -08001258 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001259
1260config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1261 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1262 depends on PROVE_RCU
1263 default n
1264 help
1265 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1266 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1267 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1268 on a single reboot.
1269
1270 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1271
1272 Say N if you are unsure.
1273
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001274config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1275 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1276 default n
1277 help
1278 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1279 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1280 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1281 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1282 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1283 a debugging aid.
1284
1285 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1286
1287 Say N if you are unsure.
1288
Paul E. McKenney51b11302014-01-27 11:49:39 -08001289config TORTURE_TEST
1290 tristate
1291 default n
1292
Paul E. McKenney8704baa2015-12-31 18:33:22 -08001293config RCU_PERF_TEST
1294 tristate "performance tests for RCU"
1295 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1296 select TORTURE_TEST
1297 select SRCU
1298 select TASKS_RCU
1299 default n
1300 help
1301 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
1302 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1303 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1304
1305 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
1306 the kernel.
1307 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
1308 Say N if you are unsure.
1309
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -08001310config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1311 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1312 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Paul E. McKenney51b11302014-01-27 11:49:39 -08001313 select TORTURE_TEST
Pranith Kumar83fe27e2014-12-05 11:24:45 -05001314 select SRCU
Paul E. McKenney82d0f4c2015-04-20 05:42:50 -07001315 select TASKS_RCU
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -08001316 default n
1317 help
1318 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1319 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1320 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1321
Paul E. McKenney31a72bc2008-06-18 09:26:49 -07001322 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1323 the kernel.
Paul E. McKenneya241ec62005-10-30 15:03:12 -08001324 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1325 Say N if you are unsure.
Ankita Garg8bb31b92006-10-02 02:17:36 -07001326
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07001327config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1328 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
1329 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1330 help
1331 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
1332 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
1333 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
1334 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races
1335 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
1336 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase
1337 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
1338 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
1339 almost no other circumstance.
1340
1341 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1342 Say N if you want a sane system.
1343
1344config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
1345 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
1346 range 0 5
1347 default 3
1348 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1349 help
1350 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1351 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
1352
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08001353config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1354 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
1355 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1356 help
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07001357 This option delays grace-period initialization for a few
1358 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08001359 rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving
1360 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
1361 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
1362 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
1363 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
1364 other circumstance.
1365
1366 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1367 Say N if you want a sane system.
1368
1369config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
1370 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
1371 range 0 5
Paul E. McKenney186bea52015-01-29 16:37:19 -08001372 default 3
Paul E. McKenney8d7dc922015-04-14 19:33:59 -07001373 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08001374 help
1375 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1376 each rcu_node structure initialization.
1377
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07001378config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1379 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
1380 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1381 help
1382 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
1383 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
1384 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period
1385 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
1386 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
1387 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when
1388 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
1389
1390 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1391 Say N if you want a sane system.
1392
1393config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
1394 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
1395 range 0 5
1396 default 3
1397 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1398 help
1399 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1400 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
1401
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -07001402config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1403 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
Paul E. McKenney6bfc09e2012-10-19 12:49:17 -07001404 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -07001405 range 3 300
Paul E. McKenneyc8960542012-10-25 17:59:23 -07001406 default 21
Paul E. McKenneyb1637602010-06-02 16:21:38 -07001407 help
1408 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1409 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1410 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1411 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1412
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -08001413config RCU_TRACE
1414 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1415 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Paul E. McKenney52494532012-11-14 16:26:40 -08001416 select TRACE_CLOCK
Paul E. McKenney5c8806a2012-01-06 15:10:44 -08001417 help
1418 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1419 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
1420
1421 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1422 Say N if you are unsure.
1423
Paul E. McKenney1ce46ee2015-05-05 23:04:22 -07001424config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
Paul E. McKenneyeb6d5b02015-06-30 09:56:31 -07001425 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
Paul E. McKenney1ce46ee2015-05-05 23:04:22 -07001426 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1427 help
1428 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
1429 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
1430 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
1431
1432 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
1433 Say Y if you are unsure
1434
Dave Hansen2f03e3c2013-01-07 08:19:23 -08001435endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1436
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05001437config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1438 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1440 default n
1441 help
1442 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1443 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1444 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1445 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1446 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1447 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1448 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1449 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1450 be impacted.
1451
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001452config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1453 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1454 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1455 depends on BLOCK
Jens Axboe759f8ca2008-08-29 09:06:29 +02001456 default n
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001457 help
Tejun Heo0e11e342008-10-13 10:46:01 +02001458 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1459 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1460 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1461 is broken.
1462
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001463 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1464 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1465 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1466 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1467 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1468 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1469 device number allocation.
1470
Tejun Heo55dc7db2008-09-01 13:44:35 +02001471 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1472 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1473 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1474 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1475 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1476
Tejun Heo870d6652008-08-25 19:47:25 +09001477 Say N if you are unsure.
1478
Thomas Gleixner757c9892016-02-26 18:43:32 +00001479config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1480 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1482 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1483 default n
1484 help
1485 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1486 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1487 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1488 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1489
1490 Say N if your are unsure.
1491
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001492config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1493 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1494 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1495 select DEBUG_FS
1496 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001497 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita8d438282012-07-30 14:43:02 -07001498 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1499 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1500
1501 Say N if unsure.
1502
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001503config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1504 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
Akinobu Mitaf5a9f522012-07-30 14:43:03 -07001505 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001506 help
1507 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001508 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
Akinobu Mitaf5a9f522012-07-30 14:43:03 -07001509 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1510 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1511
1512 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1513 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1514
1515 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1516
1517 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1518 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1519 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1520 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
Akinobu Mitac9d221f2010-05-26 14:43:36 -07001521
1522 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1523 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1524
1525 If unsure, say N.
1526
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001527config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1528 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1529 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1530 default m if PM_DEBUG
1531 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001532 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Akinobu Mita048b9c32012-07-30 14:43:07 -07001533 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1534 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1535
1536 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1537 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1538
1539 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1540
1541 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1542 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1543 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1544 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1545
1546 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1547 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1548
1549 If unsure, say N.
1550
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001551config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1552 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1553 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001554 help
Masanari Iidae41e85c2012-11-30 16:44:39 +09001555 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001556 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001557 through debugfs interface under
Benjamin Herrenschmidtd526e852012-12-14 10:32:52 +11001558 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001559
1560 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1561 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1562
1563 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
Akinobu Mitae12a95f2013-04-30 15:28:49 -07001564 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
Akinobu Mita08dfb4d2012-07-30 14:43:13 -07001565
1566 If unsure, say N.
1567
Nikolay Aleksandrov02fff962015-11-28 13:45:28 +01001568config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1569 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1570 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1571 help
1572 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1573 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1574 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1575
1576 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1577 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1578
1579 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1580
1581 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1582 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1583 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1584 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1585
1586 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1587 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1588
1589 If unsure, say N.
1590
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001591config FAULT_INJECTION
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001592 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Akinobu Mita329409a2006-12-08 02:39:48 -08001594 help
1595 Provide fault-injection framework.
1596 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001597
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001598config FAILSLAB
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001599 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1600 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita773ff602008-12-23 19:37:01 +09001601 depends on SLAB || SLUB
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001602 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001603 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
Akinobu Mita8a8b6502006-12-08 02:39:44 -08001604
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001605config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1606 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001607 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001608 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001609 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
Akinobu Mita933e3122006-12-08 02:39:45 -08001610
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001611config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
Dave Jones86327d12006-12-12 20:16:36 +01001612 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001613 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001614 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001615 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Akinobu Mitac17bb492006-12-08 02:39:46 -08001616
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001617config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
Takuya Yoshikawaf4d014392010-07-21 16:05:53 +09001618 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
Jens Axboe581d4e22008-09-14 05:56:33 -07001619 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1620 help
1621 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1622 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1623 thus exercising the error handling.
1624
1625 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1626 for others it wont do anything.
1627
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001628config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1629 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
Adrien Schildknecht28ff4fd2015-11-10 20:12:19 +01001630 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
Per Forlin1b676f72011-08-19 14:52:37 +02001631 help
1632 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1633 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1634 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1635 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1636 the block device.
1637
Davidlohr Buesoab51fba2015-06-29 23:26:02 -07001638config FAIL_FUTEX
1639 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1640 select DEBUG_FS
1641 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1642 help
1643 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1644
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001645config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1646 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001647 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
Akinobu Mita6ff1cb32006-12-08 02:39:43 -08001648 help
Andrew Morton1ab8509a2006-12-08 02:39:49 -08001649 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001650
1651config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1652 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1653 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Akinobu Mita6d690dc2007-05-12 10:36:53 -07001654 depends on !X86_64
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001655 select STACKTRACE
Chen Gangdf2e1ef2014-06-23 13:22:04 -07001656 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
Akinobu Mita1df49002007-02-20 13:57:56 -08001657 help
1658 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001659
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001660config LATENCYTOP
1661 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
Randy Dunlap625fdca2010-08-12 12:31:21 -07001662 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1663 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1664 depends on PROC_FS
Vineet Guptacc80ae32013-08-27 13:52:51 +05301665 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001666 select KALLSYMS
1667 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1668 select STACKTRACE
1669 select SCHEDSTATS
1670 select SCHED_DEBUG
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001671 help
1672 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1673 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1674
Stephen Boyd446f24d2013-04-30 15:28:42 -07001675config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1676 bool
1677
1678config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1679 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1680 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1681 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1682 help
1683 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1684 copy operations into compile time failures.
1685
1686 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1687 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1688 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1689 within bounds.
1690
1691 If unsure, say N.
1692
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001693source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1694
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001695menu "Runtime Testing"
1696
1697config LKDTM
1698 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1699 depends on DEBUG_FS
1700 depends on BLOCK
1701 default n
1702 help
1703 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1704 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1705 If you don't need it: say N
1706 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1707 called lkdtm.
1708
1709 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1710 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1711
1712config TEST_LIST_SORT
1713 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1714 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1715 help
1716 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1717 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1718
1719 If unsure, say N.
1720
1721config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1722 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1723 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1724 depends on KPROBES
1725 default n
1726 help
1727 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1728 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1729 verified for functionality.
1730
1731 Say N if you are unsure.
1732
1733config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1734 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1735 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1736 default n
1737 help
1738 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1739 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1740 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1741 developers working on architecture code.
1742
1743 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1744 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1745
1746 Say N if you are unsure.
1747
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001748config RBTREE_TEST
1749 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
Cody P Schafer7c993e12013-09-11 14:25:19 -07001750 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Michel Lespinasse910a7422012-10-08 16:30:39 -07001751 help
1752 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1753 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1754
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001755config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1756 tristate "Interval tree test"
1757 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
Chris Wilsona88cc102014-03-17 12:21:54 +00001758 select INTERVAL_TREE
Michel Lespinassefff3fd82012-10-08 16:31:23 -07001759 help
1760 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1761
Greg Thelen623fd802013-11-12 15:08:34 -08001762config PERCPU_TEST
1763 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1764 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1765 help
1766 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1767 operations.
1768
1769 If unsure, say N.
1770
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001771config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1772 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1773 help
1774 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1775
1776 If unsure, say N.
1777
1778config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1779 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1780 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1781 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1782 ---help---
1783 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1784 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1785 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1786 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1787 engine if one is available.
1788
1789 If unsure, say N.
1790
Andy Shevchenko64d1d772015-02-12 15:02:21 -08001791config TEST_HEXDUMP
1792 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1793
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001794config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1795 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1796
1797config TEST_KSTRTOX
1798 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1799
Rasmus Villemoes707cc722015-11-06 16:30:29 -08001800config TEST_PRINTF
1801 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1802
David Decotigny5fd003f2016-02-19 09:24:00 -05001803config TEST_BITMAP
1804 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1805 default n
1806 help
1807 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1808
1809 If unsure, say N.
1810
Andy Shevchenkocfaff0e2016-05-30 17:40:41 +03001811config TEST_UUID
1812 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1813
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001814config TEST_RHASHTABLE
Geert Uytterhoeven9d6dbe12015-01-29 15:40:25 +01001815 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
Thomas Graf7e1e7762014-08-02 11:47:44 +02001816 default n
1817 help
1818 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1819
1820 If unsure, say N.
1821
George Spelvin468a9422016-05-26 22:11:51 -04001822config TEST_HASH
1823 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1824 default n
1825 help
1826 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash,h>)
1827 and string (<linux/stringhash.h>) hash functions on boot
1828 (or module load).
1829
1830 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1831 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1832
Dave Hansen881c5142013-07-01 13:04:44 -07001833endmenu # runtime tests
1834
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001835config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
Stefan Richter080de8c2008-02-28 20:54:43 +01001836 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
Bernhard Kaindlf212ec42008-01-30 13:34:11 +01001837 depends on PCI && X86
1838 help
1839 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1840 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1841 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1842 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1843 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1844
1845 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1846 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1847 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1848
1849 Usage:
1850
1851 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1852 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1853
1854 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1855 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1856 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1857 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1858
1859 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1860 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1861
1862 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
Arjan van de Ven97455122008-01-25 21:08:34 +01001863
Randy Dunlap152de302009-02-20 15:38:47 -08001864config BUILD_DOCSRC
Randy Dunlap3794f3e2008-08-12 15:09:06 -07001865 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1866 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1867 help
1868 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1869 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1870
1871 Say N if you are unsure.
1872
Joerg Roedel5ee00bd2009-01-09 12:14:24 +01001873config DMA_API_DEBUG
1874 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1875 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1876 help
1877 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1878 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1879 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1880 were never allocated.
Dan Williams0abdd7a2014-01-21 15:48:12 -08001881
1882 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1883 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1884 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1885 not undergoing DMA.
1886
1887 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1888 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1889
1890 If unsure, say N.
Jason Baron346e15b2008-08-12 16:46:19 -04001891
Valentin Rothberg8a6f0b42014-10-13 15:51:38 -07001892config TEST_LKM
Kees Cook93e9ef82014-01-23 15:54:37 -08001893 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1894 default n
1895 depends on m
1896 help
1897 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1898 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1899 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1900 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1901 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1902 requested by name.
1903
1904 If unsure, say N.
1905
Kees Cook3e2a4c12014-01-23 15:54:38 -08001906config TEST_USER_COPY
1907 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1908 default n
1909 depends on m
1910 help
1911 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1912 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1913 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1914 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1915 protections.
1916
1917 If unsure, say N.
1918
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001919config TEST_BPF
1920 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1921 default n
Randy Dunlap98920ba2014-05-13 09:58:44 -07001922 depends on m && NET
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001923 help
1924 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1925 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1926 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1927 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
Alexei Starovoitov3c731eb2014-09-26 00:17:07 -07001928 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1929 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
Alexei Starovoitov64a89462014-05-08 14:10:52 -07001930
1931 If unsure, say N.
1932
Kees Cook0a8adf52014-07-14 14:38:12 -07001933config TEST_FIRMWARE
1934 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1935 default n
1936 depends on FW_LOADER
1937 help
1938 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1939 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1940 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1941 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1942 userspace.
1943
1944 If unsure, say N.
1945
David Rileye704f932014-06-16 14:58:32 -07001946config TEST_UDELAY
1947 tristate "udelay test driver"
1948 default n
1949 help
1950 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1951 that udelay() is working properly.
1952
1953 If unsure, say N.
1954
Vladimir Murzin4a207992015-04-14 15:48:27 -07001955config MEMTEST
1956 bool "Memtest"
1957 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1958 ---help---
1959 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1960 to be set.
1961 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1962 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1963 ...
Vladimir Murzin8d8cfb42015-04-14 15:48:40 -07001964 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
Vladimir Murzin4a207992015-04-14 15:48:27 -07001965 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1966
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001967config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1968 tristate "Test static keys"
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001969 default n
1970 depends on m
1971 help
Ingo Molnar2bf9e0a2015-08-03 11:42:57 +02001972 Test the static key interfaces.
Jason Baron579e1ac2015-07-30 03:59:44 +00001973
1974 If unsure, say N.
1975
Mathieu Desnoyers267c4022007-10-18 23:41:07 -07001976source "samples/Kconfig"
Jason Wesseldc7d5522008-04-17 20:05:37 +02001977
1978source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
Pekka Enberg0a4af3b2009-02-26 21:38:56 +02001979
Andrey Ryabininc6d30852016-01-20 15:00:55 -08001980source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1981
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08001982config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1983 bool
1984
1985config STRICT_DEVMEM
1986 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1987 depends on MMU
1988 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1989 default y if TILE || PPC
1990 ---help---
1991 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1992 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1993 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1994 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1995 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1996 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1997
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08001998 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1999 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2000 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2001 users of /dev/mem.
2002
2003 If in doubt, say Y.
2004
2005config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2006 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2007 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002008 ---help---
2009 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2010 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2011 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2012 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2013
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002014 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
Dan Williams90a545e2015-11-23 15:49:03 -08002015 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2016 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2017 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
Dan Williams21266be2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08002018
2019 If in doubt, say Y.