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.
217 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
218 bool "Reduce debugging information"
220 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
221 information for structure types. This means that tools that
222 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
223 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
224 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
225 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
226 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
227 Only works with newer gcc versions.
229 config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
230 bool "Compressed debugging information"
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 $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
248 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
249 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
250 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
251 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
252 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
254 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
255 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
256 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
257 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
259 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
260 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
261 depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
263 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
264 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
265 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
266 variables in gdb on optimized code.
268 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
269 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
270 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
271 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
273 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
274 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
275 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
278 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
280 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
281 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
282 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
283 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
284 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
289 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
290 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
293 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
294 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
295 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
298 int "Warn for stack frames larger than"
300 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
301 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
302 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
303 default 2048 if 64BIT
305 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
306 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
307 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
309 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
310 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
313 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
314 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
315 get_wchan() and suchlike.
318 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
319 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
321 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
322 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
323 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
326 config HEADERS_INSTALL
327 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
330 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
331 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
332 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
333 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
334 as uapi header sanity checks.
336 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
337 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
339 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
340 references from one section to another section.
341 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
342 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
343 most likely result in an oops.
344 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
345 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
346 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
347 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
348 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
349 additional step to occur:
350 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
351 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
352 function, we would lose the section information and thus
353 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
354 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
357 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
358 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
361 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
362 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
366 config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B
367 bool "Force all function address 32B aligned" if EXPERT
369 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function
370 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance
371 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to
372 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while
373 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage.
375 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use.
378 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
379 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
380 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
382 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
386 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
387 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
388 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
390 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
391 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
392 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
394 config STACK_VALIDATION
395 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
396 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
399 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
400 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
401 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
403 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
404 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
406 For more information, see
407 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
409 config VMLINUX_VALIDATION
411 depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT
414 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
415 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
416 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
418 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
419 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
420 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
423 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
424 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
426 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
427 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
429 endmenu # "Compiler options"
431 menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments"
434 bool "Magic SysRq key"
437 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
438 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
439 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
440 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
441 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
442 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
443 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
444 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
445 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
447 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
448 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
449 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
452 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
453 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
454 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
456 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
457 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
458 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
461 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
462 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
463 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
466 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE
467 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial"
468 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
471 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable
472 SysRq on a serial console.
474 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled.
477 bool "Debug Filesystem"
479 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
480 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
481 write to these files.
483 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
484 Documentation/filesystems/.
489 prompt "Debugfs default access"
491 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
493 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs.
494 It can be overridden with kernel command line option
495 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access
496 and filesystem registration.
498 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
501 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration
502 is on. This is the normal default operation.
504 config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT
505 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem"
507 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do
508 their work and read with debug tools that do not need
511 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE
514 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in
515 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem.
516 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access.
520 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
521 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
522 source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan"
527 bool "Kernel debugging"
529 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
530 identify kernel problems.
533 bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
535 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
537 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
538 be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
541 menu "Memory Debugging"
543 source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
546 bool "Debug object operations"
547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
549 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
550 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
551 the operations on those objects.
553 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
554 bool "Debug objects selftest"
555 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
557 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
559 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
560 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
561 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
563 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
564 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
565 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
568 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
569 bool "Debug timer objects"
570 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
572 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
573 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
574 validate the timer operations.
576 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
577 bool "Debug work objects"
578 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
580 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
581 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
582 validate the work operations.
584 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
585 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
586 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
588 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
590 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
591 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
592 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
594 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
595 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
596 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
598 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
599 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
602 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
604 Debug objects boot parameter default value
607 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
608 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
610 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
611 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
612 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
615 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
616 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
619 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
620 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
621 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
622 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
623 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
624 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
629 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
630 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
632 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
633 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
634 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
635 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
636 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
637 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
638 Try running: slabinfo -DA
640 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
643 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
644 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
647 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
651 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
652 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
653 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
654 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
655 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
656 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
657 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
660 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
661 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
663 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
664 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
666 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
667 int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
668 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
672 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
673 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
674 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
675 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
676 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
677 if slab allocations fail.
679 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
680 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
681 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
683 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
687 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
688 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
689 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
691 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
692 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
694 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
695 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
697 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
699 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
700 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
701 kmemleak scan at boot up.
703 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
704 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
709 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
710 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
711 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
713 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
714 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
716 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
718 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
719 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
720 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
723 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
724 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
725 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
726 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
727 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
728 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
730 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
733 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
734 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
738 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
740 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
741 that may impact performance.
745 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
746 bool "Debug VMA caching"
749 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
750 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
756 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
759 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
763 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
764 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
767 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
771 config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
772 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
774 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
775 default y if DEBUG_VM
777 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
778 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
779 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
780 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
781 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
782 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for
783 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
787 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
791 bool "Debug VM translations"
792 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
794 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
795 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
799 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
800 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
801 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
803 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
804 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
806 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
807 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
810 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
811 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
812 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
813 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
814 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
818 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
819 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
820 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
822 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
823 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
824 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
826 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
827 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
829 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
831 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
832 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
833 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
834 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
836 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
837 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
841 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
842 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
843 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
846 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
847 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
848 and decreases performance.
853 bool "Highmem debugging"
854 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
856 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
857 systems. Disable for production systems.
859 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
862 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
863 bool "Check for stack overflows"
864 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
866 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
867 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
868 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
869 below a certain limit.
871 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
872 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
875 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
876 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
878 If in doubt, say "N".
880 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
882 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
885 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
886 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
888 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared
889 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering
890 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some
891 don't and need to be caught.
893 menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs"
898 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
899 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
902 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
903 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
904 corruption or other issues.
908 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
911 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
912 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
918 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when
919 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
920 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
921 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
923 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
926 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
927 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
928 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
929 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
931 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
934 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
935 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
936 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
937 detection and the system will stay locked up.
939 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
940 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
941 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
943 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
944 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
945 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
946 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
948 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
949 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
950 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
951 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
952 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
956 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
958 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
960 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
961 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
963 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
965 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
968 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
969 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
971 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
975 # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
976 # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
978 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
979 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
980 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
981 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
982 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
983 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
984 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
986 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
989 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
990 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
991 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
992 and the system will stay locked up.
994 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
995 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
996 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
998 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
999 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
1000 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
1001 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
1005 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
1007 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1009 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
1010 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
1012 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1013 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
1014 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1015 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1017 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
1018 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
1019 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
1021 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
1022 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
1023 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
1024 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
1025 feature has negligible overhead.
1027 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
1028 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
1029 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1032 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
1033 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
1036 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
1037 sysctl or by writing a value to
1038 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
1040 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
1041 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
1043 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1044 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
1045 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1047 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
1048 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
1049 in uninterruptible "D" state.
1051 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
1052 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
1053 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
1054 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
1055 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
1059 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
1061 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1063 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1064 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1067 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
1068 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1070 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
1071 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
1072 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
1073 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
1074 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
1075 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
1078 tristate "Test module to generate lockups"
1081 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure
1082 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly.
1084 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard
1085 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time.
1086 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods.
1090 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
1092 menu "Scheduler Debugging"
1095 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1096 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1099 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
1100 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1108 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
1112 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1113 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1114 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1115 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1116 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1117 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1122 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1123 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1125 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1126 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1127 problems are suspected.
1129 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1130 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1135 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1136 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1137 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1140 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1141 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1142 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1143 will detect preemption count underflows.
1145 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1147 config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1149 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1152 config PROVE_LOCKING
1153 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1154 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1156 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1157 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1158 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1160 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1161 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1162 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1163 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1166 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1167 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1168 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1169 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1170 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1171 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1174 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1175 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1177 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1178 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1179 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1180 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1181 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1182 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1183 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1184 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1185 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1187 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1188 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1189 kernel reports nothing.
1191 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1192 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1193 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1194 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1195 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1197 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
1199 config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING
1200 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks"
1201 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1204 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure
1205 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are
1208 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this
1209 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully
1210 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to
1211 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the
1212 check permanentely enabled once the main issues have been fixed.
1214 If unsure, select N.
1217 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1218 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1220 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1221 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1222 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1223 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1226 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1228 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
1230 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1232 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1233 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1235 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1236 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1238 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1239 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1242 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1243 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1245 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1246 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1247 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1248 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1250 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1251 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1252 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1253 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1255 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1256 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1257 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1259 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1262 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1263 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1265 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1266 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1267 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1269 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1270 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1271 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1272 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1273 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1274 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1275 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1276 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1277 you are a distro, do not.
1280 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1281 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1283 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
1284 and unlocks to be detected and reported.
1286 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1287 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1288 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1289 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1290 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1291 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1294 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1295 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1296 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1297 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1298 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1299 held during task exit.
1303 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1305 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !X86
1309 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1312 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1313 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1314 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1316 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1317 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1318 of more runtime overhead.
1320 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1321 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1322 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1323 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1324 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1326 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1327 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1328 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1329 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1331 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1332 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1333 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1335 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1336 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1337 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1338 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1339 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1342 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1343 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1344 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1347 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1348 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1349 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1351 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1352 to be built into the kernel.
1353 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1354 Say N if you are unsure.
1356 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1357 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1359 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1360 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1362 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1363 with this test harness.
1365 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1366 Say N if you are unsure.
1368 config SCF_TORTURE_TEST
1369 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()"
1370 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1373 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1374 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel
1375 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to
1376 be tested, if desired.
1378 config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG
1379 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()"
1380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1384 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond
1385 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints
1386 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any)
1387 and relevant stack traces.
1389 endmenu # lock debugging
1391 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1392 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1395 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1396 either tracing or lock debugging.
1398 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI
1400 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1401 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
1404 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1405 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1407 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1408 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1409 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1410 stack trace generation.
1412 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1413 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1416 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1417 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1418 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1419 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1420 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1421 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1424 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1425 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1426 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1427 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1428 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1429 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1430 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
1431 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1432 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1434 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1435 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1436 those developers interested in improving the security of
1437 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1440 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1441 bool "kobject debugging"
1442 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1444 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1447 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1448 bool "kobject release debugging"
1449 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1451 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1452 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1453 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1454 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1455 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1458 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1459 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1460 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1462 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1463 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1464 kind of kobject release bug.
1466 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1469 menu "Debug kernel data structures"
1472 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1475 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1481 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1482 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1484 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1485 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1486 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1491 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1494 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1495 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1500 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1501 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1502 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1504 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1505 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1506 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1507 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1510 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1511 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1514 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1515 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1522 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1523 bool "Debug credential management"
1524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1526 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1527 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1528 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1529 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1532 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1533 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1537 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1539 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1540 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1541 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1544 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1545 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1546 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1547 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1548 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1549 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1550 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1551 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1554 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1555 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1556 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1560 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1561 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1562 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1565 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1566 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1567 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1568 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1569 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1570 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1571 device number allocation.
1573 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1574 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1575 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1576 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1577 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1579 Say N if you are unsure.
1581 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1582 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1584 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1587 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1588 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1589 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1590 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1592 Say N if your are unsure.
1595 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1597 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1599 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1606 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1607 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1609 source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
1611 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1612 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1613 depends on PCI && X86
1615 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1616 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1617 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1618 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1619 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1621 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1622 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1623 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1627 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1628 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1630 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1631 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1632 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1633 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1635 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1636 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1638 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information.
1640 source "samples/Kconfig"
1642 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1645 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1646 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1647 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1648 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1649 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64
1651 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1652 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1653 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1654 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1655 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1656 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1658 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1659 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1660 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1665 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1666 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1667 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1669 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1670 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1671 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1672 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1674 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1675 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1676 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1677 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
1681 menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging"
1683 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
1687 menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
1689 source "lib/kunit/Kconfig"
1691 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1692 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1693 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1696 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1697 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1698 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1702 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1703 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1704 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1705 default m if PM_DEBUG
1707 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1708 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1709 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1711 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1712 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1714 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1716 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1717 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1718 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1719 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1721 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1722 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1726 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1727 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1728 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1730 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1731 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1732 through debugfs interface under
1733 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1735 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1736 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1738 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1739 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1743 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1744 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1745 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1747 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1748 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1749 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1751 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1752 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1754 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1756 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1757 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1758 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1759 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1761 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1762 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1766 config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1768 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1770 config FAULT_INJECTION
1771 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1772 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1774 Provide fault-injection framework.
1775 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1778 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1779 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1780 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1782 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1784 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1785 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()"
1786 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1788 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1790 config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY
1791 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions"
1792 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1794 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures
1795 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...).
1797 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1798 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1799 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1801 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1803 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1804 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1805 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1807 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1808 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1809 thus exercising the error handling.
1811 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1812 for others it wont do anything.
1815 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1817 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1819 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1821 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1822 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1823 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1825 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1827 config FAIL_FUNCTION
1828 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1829 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1831 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1832 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1833 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1834 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1835 error handling in various subsystems.
1837 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1838 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1839 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1841 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1842 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1843 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1844 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1847 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1848 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1849 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1852 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
1854 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1856 config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1859 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
1860 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
1861 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
1863 config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
1864 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
1868 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
1869 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
1870 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
1872 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
1874 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
1875 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
1877 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
1878 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
1879 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
1881 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
1883 config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
1884 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
1886 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
1888 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
1889 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
1890 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
1891 of fuzzing coverage.
1893 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
1894 bool "Instrument all code by default"
1898 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
1899 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
1900 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
1901 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
1902 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
1904 config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
1905 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
1909 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
1910 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
1911 number of unsigned long words.
1913 menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1914 bool "Runtime Testing"
1917 if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1920 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1923 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1924 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1925 If you don't need it: say N
1926 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1929 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1930 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
1932 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1933 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1936 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1937 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1938 or at module load time.
1942 config TEST_MIN_HEAP
1943 tristate "Min heap test"
1944 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1946 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is
1947 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1948 or at module load time.
1953 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1954 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1956 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1957 or at module load time.
1961 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1962 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1963 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1966 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1967 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1968 verified for functionality.
1970 Say N if you are unsure.
1972 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1973 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1974 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1976 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1977 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1978 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1979 developers working on architecture code.
1981 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1982 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1984 Say N if you are unsure.
1987 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1988 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1990 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1991 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1993 config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
1994 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
1995 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1997 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
1998 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
2000 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
2001 or at module load time.
2005 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
2006 tristate "Interval tree test"
2007 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2008 select INTERVAL_TREE
2010 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
2013 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
2014 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
2016 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
2021 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
2022 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
2024 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
2025 at module load time.
2029 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
2030 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
2031 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
2034 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
2035 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
2036 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
2037 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
2038 engine if one is available.
2043 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
2045 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
2046 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
2049 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
2052 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
2055 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
2058 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
2060 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
2065 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
2068 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
2070 config TEST_OVERFLOW
2071 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime"
2073 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
2074 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
2076 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
2081 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
2083 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
2084 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
2085 hash functions on boot (or module load).
2087 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
2088 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
2091 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
2094 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
2097 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
2102 config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
2103 bool "IRQ timings selftest"
2104 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
2106 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
2111 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
2114 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
2115 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
2116 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
2117 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
2118 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
2124 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations"
2127 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the
2128 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the
2129 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are
2130 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra
2131 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless
2132 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops.
2137 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
2142 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
2143 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
2144 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
2149 config TEST_USER_COPY
2150 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
2153 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
2154 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
2155 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
2156 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
2162 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
2165 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
2166 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
2167 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
2168 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
2169 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
2170 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
2174 config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
2175 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
2178 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
2179 data path through this blackhole netdev.
2183 config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
2184 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
2186 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
2187 functions performance.
2191 config TEST_FIRMWARE
2192 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
2193 depends on FW_LOADER
2195 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
2196 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
2197 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
2198 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
2204 tristate "sysctl test driver"
2205 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
2207 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
2208 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
2209 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
2213 config BITFIELD_KUNIT
2214 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime"
2217 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
2219 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2220 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2221 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2224 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2225 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2229 config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST
2230 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2232 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2234 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot.
2235 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl.
2236 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2237 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2241 config LIST_KUNIT_TEST
2242 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2244 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2246 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite.
2247 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type
2248 and associated macros.
2250 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2251 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2252 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2255 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2256 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2260 config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST
2261 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges"
2263 select LINEAR_RANGES
2265 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot.
2266 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness.
2267 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2268 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2273 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h"
2276 This builds the bits unit test.
2277 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h.
2278 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2279 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2284 tristate "udelay test driver"
2286 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
2287 that udelay() is working properly.
2291 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
2292 tristate "Test static keys"
2295 Test the static key interfaces.
2300 tristate "kmod stress tester"
2302 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
2309 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
2310 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
2311 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
2313 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
2314 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
2315 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
2316 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
2317 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
2321 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
2325 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2326 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
2327 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
2329 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
2330 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
2331 kernel's virtual address map.
2335 config TEST_MEMCAT_P
2336 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
2338 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
2339 pointer arrays together.
2343 config TEST_LIVEPATCH
2344 tristate "Test livepatching"
2346 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
2347 depends on LIVEPATCH
2350 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will
2351 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios.
2353 To run all the livepatching tests:
2355 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
2357 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked:
2359 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh
2360 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh
2361 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
2366 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
2370 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
2374 config TEST_STACKINIT
2375 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization"
2377 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2378 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2379 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2380 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2385 tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
2387 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
2388 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
2393 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)"
2394 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
2395 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE
2399 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM.
2400 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module.
2401 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests.
2405 config TEST_FREE_PAGES
2406 tristate "Test freeing pages"
2408 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between
2409 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference.
2410 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed.
2411 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and
2412 probably OOM your system.
2415 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space"
2416 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
2418 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu
2419 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used
2420 for self-testing floating point control register setting in
2425 endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
2430 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
2432 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
2433 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
2435 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
2436 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
2440 config HYPERV_TESTING
2441 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing"
2443 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS
2445 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing.
2447 endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
2449 source "Documentation/Kconfig"
2451 endmenu # Kernel hacking