1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
5 Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
6 could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
7 field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
8 by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
11 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
12 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
13 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
14 depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
15 select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
17 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
18 Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
19 slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
21 Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as
22 pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes
23 often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free,
24 use-after-free). The error reports for these checks can be augmented
25 with stack traces of last allocation and freeing of the page, when
26 PAGE_OWNER is also selected and enabled on boot.
28 For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
29 fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
30 the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally, this option cannot
31 be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in
32 incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free
33 pages are not saved to the suspend image.
35 By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
36 allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
37 architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
38 enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
39 command line parameter.
41 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
42 bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
43 depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
45 Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
46 can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
49 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
52 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
53 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
54 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
58 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
59 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
60 select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
62 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
63 result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
64 SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
65 no support for cache validation etc.
68 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
69 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
70 select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
73 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
74 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
75 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
76 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
77 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
78 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
82 bool "Track page owner"
83 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
89 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
90 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
91 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
92 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
93 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
94 for user-space helper.
98 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
99 bool "Check for invalid mappings in user page tables"
100 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
101 select PAGE_EXTENSION
103 Check that anonymous page is not being mapped twice with read write
104 permissions. Check that anonymous and file pages are not being
105 erroneously shared. Since the checking is performed at the time
106 entries are added and removed to user page tables, leaking, corruption
107 and double mapping problems are detected synchronously.
111 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED
112 bool "Enforce the page table checking by default"
113 depends on PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
115 Always enable page table checking. By default the page table checking
116 is disabled, and can be optionally enabled via page_table_check=on
117 kernel parameter. This config enforces that page table check is always
122 config PAGE_POISONING
123 bool "Poison pages after freeing"
125 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
126 the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
127 reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
128 have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
129 "page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
131 Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
132 for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
134 If you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without
135 checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with
136 "init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this.
140 config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
141 bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
143 depends on TRACEPOINTS
145 This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
146 manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
147 due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
148 careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
149 kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
150 nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
152 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
153 bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
154 depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
156 This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
158 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
162 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
163 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
167 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
169 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving W+X
170 mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
172 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
174 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
176 or like this, if the check failed:
178 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: failed, <N> W+X pages found.
180 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
181 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
182 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
183 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
185 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
186 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
188 If in doubt, say "Y".
190 config GENERIC_PTDUMP
196 config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
197 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
198 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
200 depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
203 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
204 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
205 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
206 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production