1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
4 menu "printk and dmesg options"
7 bool "Show timing information on printks"
10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
12 call and at the console.
14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
22 bool "Show caller information on printks"
25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if
26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context)
29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads
30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to
31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual
32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from.
34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is
35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or
38 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
39 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
43 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
45 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
46 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
47 value is specified here as well.
49 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
50 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
53 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
54 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
58 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
60 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
61 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
62 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
64 config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
65 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
69 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
71 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
72 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
75 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
76 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
77 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
79 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
80 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
81 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
83 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
84 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
85 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
88 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
89 the "loops per jiffie" value.
90 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
91 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
92 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
93 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
94 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
95 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
98 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
101 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS)
102 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
105 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
106 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
107 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
108 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
109 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
110 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
112 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
113 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
114 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
115 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
119 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
120 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs.
121 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before
122 making use of this feature.
123 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
124 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
125 format for each line of the file is:
127 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
129 filename : source file of the debug statement
130 lineno : line number of the debug statement
131 module : module that contains the debug statement
132 function : function that contains the debug statement
133 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
134 format : the format used for the debug statement
138 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
139 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
140 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
141 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
142 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
146 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
147 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
148 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
150 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
151 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
152 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
154 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
155 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
156 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
158 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
159 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
160 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
162 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
163 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
164 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
166 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
169 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
170 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support"
172 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS)
174 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful
175 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with
176 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for
177 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is
178 sensitive for people.
180 config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME
181 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf"
184 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will
185 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead
186 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger
187 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read.
189 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
190 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
191 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
194 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
195 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
196 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
198 endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
200 menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
203 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
204 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
206 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
207 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
208 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
209 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
210 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
211 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
215 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
216 bool "Reduce debugging information"
217 depends on DEBUG_INFO
219 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
220 information for structure types. This means that tools that
221 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
222 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
223 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
224 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
225 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
226 Only works with newer gcc versions.
228 config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
229 bool "Compressed debugging information"
230 depends on DEBUG_INFO
231 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
232 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
234 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang
235 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib.
237 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in
238 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the
239 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being
240 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still
241 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even
244 config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
245 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
246 depends on DEBUG_INFO
247 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
249 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
250 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
251 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
252 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
253 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
255 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
256 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
257 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
258 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
260 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
261 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
262 depends on DEBUG_INFO
263 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
265 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
266 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
267 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
268 variables in gdb on optimized code.
270 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
271 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
272 depends on DEBUG_INFO
273 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
274 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
276 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
277 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
278 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
281 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
282 depends on DEBUG_INFO
284 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
285 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
286 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
287 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
288 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
291 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
292 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
295 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
296 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
297 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
300 int "Warn for stack frames larger than"
302 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
303 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
304 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
305 default 2048 if 64BIT
307 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
308 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
309 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
311 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
312 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
315 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
316 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
317 get_wchan() and suchlike.
320 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
321 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
323 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
324 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
325 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
328 config HEADERS_INSTALL
329 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
332 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
333 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
334 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
335 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
336 as uapi header sanity checks.
338 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
339 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
341 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
342 references from one section to another section.
343 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
344 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
345 most likely result in an oops.
346 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
347 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
348 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
349 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
350 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
351 additional step to occur:
352 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
353 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
354 function, we would lose the section information and thus
355 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
356 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
359 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
360 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
363 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
364 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
368 config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B
369 bool "Force all function address 32B aligned" if EXPERT
371 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function
372 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance
373 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to
374 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while
375 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage.
377 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use.
380 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
381 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
382 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
384 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
388 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
389 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
390 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
392 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
393 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
394 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
396 config STACK_VALIDATION
397 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
398 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
401 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
402 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
403 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
405 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
406 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
408 For more information, see
409 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
411 config VMLINUX_VALIDATION
413 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT
416 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
417 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
418 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
420 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
421 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
422 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
425 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
426 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
428 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
429 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
431 endmenu # "Compiler options"
433 menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments"
436 bool "Magic SysRq key"
439 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
440 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
441 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
442 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
443 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
444 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
445 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
446 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
447 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
449 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
450 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
451 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
454 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
455 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
456 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
458 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
459 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
460 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
463 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
464 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
465 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
468 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE
469 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial"
470 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
473 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable
474 SysRq on a serial console.
476 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled.
479 bool "Debug Filesystem"
481 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
482 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
483 write to these files.
485 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
486 Documentation/filesystems/.
491 prompt "Debugfs default access"
493 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
495 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs.
496 It can be overridden with kernel command line option
497 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access
498 and filesystem registration.
500 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
503 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration
504 is on. This is the normal default operation.
506 config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT
507 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem"
509 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do
510 their work and read with debug tools that do not need
513 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE
516 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in
517 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem.
518 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access.
522 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
524 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
529 bool "Kernel debugging"
531 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
532 identify kernel problems.
535 bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
537 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
539 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
540 be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
543 menu "Memory Debugging"
545 source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
548 bool "Debug object operations"
549 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
551 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
552 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
553 the operations on those objects.
555 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
556 bool "Debug objects selftest"
557 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
559 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
561 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
562 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
563 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
565 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
566 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
567 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
570 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
571 bool "Debug timer objects"
572 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
574 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
575 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
576 validate the timer operations.
578 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
579 bool "Debug work objects"
580 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
582 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
583 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
584 validate the work operations.
586 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
587 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
588 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
590 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
592 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
593 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
594 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
596 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
597 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
598 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
600 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
601 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
604 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
606 Debug objects boot parameter default value
609 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
610 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
612 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
613 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
614 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
617 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
618 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
621 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
622 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
623 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
624 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
625 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
626 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
631 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
632 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
634 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
635 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
636 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
637 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
638 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
639 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
640 Try running: slabinfo -DA
642 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
645 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
646 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
647 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
649 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
653 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
654 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
655 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
656 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
657 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
658 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
659 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
662 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
663 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
665 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
666 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
668 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
669 int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
670 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
674 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
675 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
676 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
677 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
678 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
679 if slab allocations fail.
681 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
682 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
683 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
685 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
689 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
690 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
691 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
693 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
694 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
696 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
697 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
699 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
701 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
702 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
703 kmemleak scan at boot up.
705 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
706 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
711 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
712 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
715 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
716 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
718 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
720 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
721 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
722 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
725 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
726 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
727 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
728 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
729 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
730 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
732 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
735 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
736 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
740 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
742 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
743 that may impact performance.
747 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
748 bool "Debug VMA caching"
751 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
752 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
758 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
761 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
765 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
766 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
769 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
773 config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
774 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
776 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
777 default y if DEBUG_VM
779 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
780 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
781 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
782 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
783 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
784 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for
785 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
789 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
793 bool "Debug VM translations"
794 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
796 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
797 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
801 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
802 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
803 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
805 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
806 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
808 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
809 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
812 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
813 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
814 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
815 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
816 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
820 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
821 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
822 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
824 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
825 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
826 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
828 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
829 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
831 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
833 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
834 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
835 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
836 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
838 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
839 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
843 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
844 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
845 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
848 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
849 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
850 and decreases performance.
855 bool "Highmem debugging"
856 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
858 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
859 systems. Disable for production systems.
861 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
864 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
865 bool "Check for stack overflows"
866 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
868 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
869 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
870 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
871 below a certain limit.
873 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
874 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
877 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
878 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
880 If in doubt, say "N".
882 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
884 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
887 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
888 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
890 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared
891 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering
892 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some
893 don't and need to be caught.
895 menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs"
900 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
901 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
904 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
905 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
906 corruption or other issues.
910 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
913 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
914 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
920 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
921 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
922 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
923 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
925 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
928 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
929 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
931 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
933 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
936 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
937 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
938 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
939 detection and the system will stay locked up.
941 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
942 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
943 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
945 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
946 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
947 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
948 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
950 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
951 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
952 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
953 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
954 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
958 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
960 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
962 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
963 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
965 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
967 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
970 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
971 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
973 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
977 # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
978 # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
980 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
981 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
982 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
983 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
984 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
985 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
986 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
988 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
991 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
992 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
993 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
994 and the system will stay locked up.
996 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
997 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
998 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1000 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
1001 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
1002 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
1003 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
1007 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
1009 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1011 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
1012 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
1014 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1015 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
1016 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1017 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1019 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
1020 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
1021 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
1023 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
1024 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
1025 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
1026 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
1027 feature has negligible overhead.
1029 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
1030 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
1031 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1034 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
1035 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
1038 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
1039 sysctl or by writing a value to
1040 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
1042 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
1043 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
1045 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1046 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
1047 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1049 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
1050 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
1051 in uninterruptible "D" state.
1053 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
1054 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
1055 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
1056 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
1057 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
1061 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
1063 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1065 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1066 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1069 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
1070 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1072 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
1073 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
1074 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
1075 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
1076 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
1077 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
1080 tristate "Test module to generate lockups"
1082 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure
1083 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly.
1085 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard
1086 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time.
1087 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods.
1091 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
1093 menu "Scheduler Debugging"
1096 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1097 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1100 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1101 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1109 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1110 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1113 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1114 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1115 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1116 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1117 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1118 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1123 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1124 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1126 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1127 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1128 problems are suspected.
1130 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1131 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1136 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1137 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1138 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1141 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1142 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1143 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1144 will detect preemption count underflows.
1146 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1148 config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1150 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1153 config PROVE_LOCKING
1154 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1157 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1158 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1159 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1161 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1162 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1163 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1164 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1167 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1168 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1169 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1170 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1171 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1172 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1175 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1176 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1178 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1179 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1180 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1181 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1182 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1183 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1184 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1185 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1186 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1188 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1189 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1190 kernel reports nothing.
1192 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1193 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1194 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1195 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1196 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1198 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
1200 config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING
1201 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks"
1202 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1205 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure
1206 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are
1209 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this
1210 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully
1211 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to
1212 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the
1213 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed.
1215 If unsure, select N.
1218 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1219 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1221 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1222 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1223 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1224 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1227 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1229 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
1231 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1233 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1234 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1236 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1237 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1239 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1240 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1243 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1244 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1246 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1247 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1248 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1249 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1251 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1252 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1253 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1254 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1256 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1257 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1258 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1260 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1263 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1264 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1266 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1267 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1268 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1270 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1271 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1272 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1273 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1274 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1275 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1276 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1277 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1278 you are a distro, do not.
1281 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1282 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1284 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
1285 and unlocks to be detected and reported.
1287 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1288 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1289 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1290 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1291 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1292 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1295 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1296 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1297 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1298 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1299 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1300 held during task exit.
1304 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1306 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
1310 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1313 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1314 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1315 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1317 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1318 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1319 of more runtime overhead.
1321 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1322 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1323 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1324 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1325 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1327 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1328 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1329 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1330 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1332 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1333 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1336 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1337 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1338 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1339 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1340 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1343 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1344 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1345 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1348 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1349 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1350 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1352 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1353 to be built into the kernel.
1354 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1355 Say N if you are unsure.
1357 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1358 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1360 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1361 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1363 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1364 with this test harness.
1366 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1367 Say N if you are unsure.
1369 endmenu # lock debugging
1371 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1372 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1375 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1376 either tracing or lock debugging.
1378 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI
1380 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1381 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
1384 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1385 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1387 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1388 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1389 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1390 stack trace generation.
1392 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1393 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1396 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1397 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1398 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1399 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1400 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1401 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1404 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1405 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1406 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1407 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1408 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1409 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1410 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
1411 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1412 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1414 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1415 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1416 those developers interested in improving the security of
1417 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1420 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1421 bool "kobject debugging"
1422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1424 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1427 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1428 bool "kobject release debugging"
1429 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1431 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1432 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1433 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1434 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1435 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1438 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1439 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1440 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1442 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1443 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1444 kind of kobject release bug.
1446 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1449 menu "Debug kernel data structures"
1452 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1453 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1455 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1461 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1462 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1464 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1465 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1466 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1471 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1472 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1474 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1475 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1480 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1481 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1484 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1485 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1486 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1487 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1490 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1491 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1494 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1495 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1502 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1503 bool "Debug credential management"
1504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1506 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1507 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1508 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1509 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1512 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1513 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1517 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1519 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1520 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1521 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1524 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1525 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1526 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1527 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1528 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1529 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1530 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1531 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1534 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1535 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1536 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1540 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1541 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1542 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1545 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1546 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1547 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1548 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1549 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1550 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1551 device number allocation.
1553 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1554 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1555 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1556 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1557 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1559 Say N if you are unsure.
1561 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1562 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1563 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1564 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1567 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1568 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1569 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1570 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1572 Say N if your are unsure.
1575 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1576 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1577 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1579 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1586 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1587 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1589 source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
1591 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1592 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1593 depends on PCI && X86
1595 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1596 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1597 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1598 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1599 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1601 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1602 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1603 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1607 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1608 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1610 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1611 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1612 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1613 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1615 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1616 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1618 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information.
1620 source "samples/Kconfig"
1622 source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan"
1624 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1627 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1628 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1629 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1630 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1631 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
1633 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1634 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1635 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1636 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1637 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1638 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1640 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1641 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1642 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1647 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1648 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1649 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1651 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1652 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1653 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1654 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1656 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1657 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1658 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1659 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
1663 menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging"
1665 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
1669 menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
1671 source "lib/kunit/Kconfig"
1673 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1674 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1675 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1678 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1679 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1680 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1684 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1685 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1686 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1687 default m if PM_DEBUG
1689 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1690 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1691 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1693 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1694 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1696 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1698 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1699 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1700 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1701 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1703 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1704 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1708 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1709 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1710 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1712 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1713 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1714 through debugfs interface under
1715 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1717 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1718 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1720 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1721 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1725 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1726 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1727 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1729 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1730 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1731 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1733 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1734 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1736 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1738 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1739 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1740 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1741 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1743 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1744 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1748 config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1750 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1752 config FAULT_INJECTION
1753 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1754 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1756 Provide fault-injection framework.
1757 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1760 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1761 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1762 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1764 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1766 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1767 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()"
1768 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1770 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1772 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1773 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1774 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1776 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1778 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1779 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1780 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1782 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1783 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1784 thus exercising the error handling.
1786 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1787 for others it wont do anything.
1790 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1792 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1794 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1796 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1797 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1798 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1800 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1802 config FAIL_FUNCTION
1803 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1804 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1806 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1807 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1808 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1809 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1810 error handling in various subsystems.
1812 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1813 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1814 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1816 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1817 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1818 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1819 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1822 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1823 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1824 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1827 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1829 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1831 config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1834 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
1835 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
1836 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
1838 config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
1839 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
1843 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
1844 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1845 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
1847 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
1849 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
1850 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
1852 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
1853 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
1854 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
1856 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
1858 config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
1859 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
1861 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
1863 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
1864 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
1865 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
1866 of fuzzing coverage.
1868 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
1869 bool "Instrument all code by default"
1873 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
1874 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
1875 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
1876 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
1877 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
1879 config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
1880 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
1884 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
1885 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
1886 number of unsigned long words.
1888 menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1889 bool "Runtime Testing"
1892 if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1895 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1898 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1899 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1900 If you don't need it: say N
1901 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1904 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1905 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
1907 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1908 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1909 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1911 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1912 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1913 or at module load time.
1917 config TEST_MIN_HEAP
1918 tristate "Min heap test"
1919 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1921 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is
1922 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1923 or at module load time.
1928 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1929 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1931 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1932 or at module load time.
1936 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1937 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1938 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1941 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1942 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1943 verified for functionality.
1945 Say N if you are unsure.
1947 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1948 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1949 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1951 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1952 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1953 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1954 developers working on architecture code.
1956 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1957 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1959 Say N if you are unsure.
1962 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1963 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1965 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1966 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1968 config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
1969 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
1970 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1972 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
1973 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
1975 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
1976 or at module load time.
1980 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1981 tristate "Interval tree test"
1982 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1983 select INTERVAL_TREE
1985 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1988 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1989 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1991 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1996 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1997 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
1999 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
2000 at module load time.
2004 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
2005 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
2006 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
2009 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
2010 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
2011 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
2012 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
2013 engine if one is available.
2018 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
2020 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
2021 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
2024 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
2027 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
2030 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
2033 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
2035 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
2039 config TEST_BITFIELD
2040 tristate "Test bitfield functions at runtime"
2042 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
2047 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
2050 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
2052 config TEST_OVERFLOW
2053 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
2055 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
2056 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
2058 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
2063 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
2065 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
2066 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
2067 hash functions on boot (or module load).
2069 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
2070 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
2073 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
2076 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
2079 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
2084 config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
2085 bool "IRQ timings selftest"
2086 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
2088 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
2093 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
2096 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
2097 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
2098 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
2099 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
2100 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
2106 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations"
2109 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the
2110 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the
2111 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are
2112 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra
2113 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless
2114 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops.
2119 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
2124 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
2125 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
2126 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
2131 config TEST_USER_COPY
2132 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
2135 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
2136 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
2137 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
2138 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
2144 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
2147 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
2148 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
2149 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
2150 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
2151 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
2152 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
2156 config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
2157 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
2160 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
2161 data path through this blackhole netdev.
2165 config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
2166 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
2168 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
2169 functions performance.
2173 config TEST_FIRMWARE
2174 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
2175 depends on FW_LOADER
2177 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
2178 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
2179 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
2180 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
2186 tristate "sysctl test driver"
2187 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
2189 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
2190 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
2191 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
2195 config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST
2196 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2198 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2200 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot.
2201 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl.
2202 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2203 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2207 config LIST_KUNIT_TEST
2208 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2210 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2212 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite.
2213 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type
2214 and associated macros.
2216 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2217 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2218 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2221 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2222 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2226 config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST
2227 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges"
2229 select LINEAR_RANGES
2231 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot.
2232 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness.
2233 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2234 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2239 tristate "udelay test driver"
2241 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
2242 that udelay() is working properly.
2246 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
2247 tristate "Test static keys"
2250 Test the static key interfaces.
2255 tristate "kmod stress tester"
2257 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
2264 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
2265 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
2266 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
2268 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
2269 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
2270 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
2271 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
2272 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
2276 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
2280 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2281 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
2282 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2284 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
2285 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
2286 kernel's virtual address map.
2290 config TEST_MEMCAT_P
2291 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
2293 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
2294 pointer arrays together.
2298 config TEST_LIVEPATCH
2299 tristate "Test livepatching"
2301 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
2302 depends on LIVEPATCH
2305 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
2306 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
2308 To run all the livepatching tests:
2310 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
2312 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
2314 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
2315 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
2316 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
2321 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2325 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2329 config TEST_STACKINIT
2330 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2332 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2333 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2334 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2335 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2340 tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
2342 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
2343 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
2348 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)"
2349 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
2350 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE
2354 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM.
2355 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module.
2356 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests.
2361 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space"
2362 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
2364 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu
2365 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used
2366 for self-testing floating point control register setting in
2371 endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
2376 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2378 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2379 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2381 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2382 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2386 config HYPERV_TESTING
2387 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing"
2389 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS
2391 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing.
2393 endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
2395 endmenu # Kernel hacking