1 menu "printk and dmesg options"
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
18 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
27 value is specified here as well.
29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
33 config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
34 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
48 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
58 the "loops per jiffie" value.
59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
64 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
92 format for each line of the file is:
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
96 filename : source file of the debug statement
97 lineno : line number of the debug statement
98 module : module that contains the debug statement
99 function : function that contains the debug statement
100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
101 format : the format used for the debug statement
105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
136 endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
138 menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
153 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
154 bool "Reduce debugging information"
155 depends on DEBUG_INFO
157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
158 information for structure types. This means that tools that
159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
164 Only works with newer gcc versions.
166 config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
174 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
178 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
181 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
183 depends on DEBUG_INFO
185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
188 variables in gdb on optimized code.
191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_INFO
194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
201 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
209 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
210 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
220 default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
222 default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
223 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
224 default 2048 if 64BIT
226 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
227 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
228 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
231 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
232 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
235 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
236 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
237 get_wchan() and suchlike.
240 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
243 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
244 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
245 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
248 config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
249 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
252 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
253 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
254 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
255 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
256 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
257 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
258 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
259 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
260 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
261 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
265 bool "Track page owner"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
270 select PAGE_EXTENSION
272 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
273 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
274 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
275 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
276 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
277 for user-space helper.
282 bool "Debug Filesystem"
284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
286 write to these files.
288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
289 Documentation/filesystems/.
294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
300 were not exported, etc.
302 If you're making modifications to header files which are
303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
307 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
311 references from one section to another section.
312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
314 most likely result in an oops.
315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
318 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
319 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
320 additional steps to occur:
321 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
322 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
323 function, we would lose the section information and thus
324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
332 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
333 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
334 reported at least twice.
335 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
336 the section mismatches that are reported.
338 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
348 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
349 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
350 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
352 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
356 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
358 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
359 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
360 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
361 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
363 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
364 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
365 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
367 config STACK_VALIDATION
368 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
369 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
372 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
373 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
374 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
376 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
377 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
379 For more information, see
380 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
382 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
383 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
384 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
386 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
387 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
388 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
391 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
392 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
394 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
395 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
397 endmenu # "Compiler options"
400 bool "Magic SysRq key"
403 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
404 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
405 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
406 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
407 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
408 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
409 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
410 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
411 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
413 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
414 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
415 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
418 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
419 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
420 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
422 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
423 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
424 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
427 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
428 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
429 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
433 bool "Kernel debugging"
435 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
436 identify kernel problems.
438 menu "Memory Debugging"
440 source mm/Kconfig.debug
443 bool "Debug object operations"
444 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
446 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
447 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
448 the operations on those objects.
450 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
451 bool "Debug objects selftest"
452 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
454 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
456 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
457 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
458 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
460 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
461 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
462 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
465 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
466 bool "Debug timer objects"
467 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
469 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
470 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
471 validate the timer operations.
473 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
474 bool "Debug work objects"
475 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
477 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
478 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
479 validate the work operations.
481 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
482 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
483 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
485 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
487 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
488 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
489 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
491 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
492 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
493 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
495 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
496 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
499 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
501 Debug objects boot parameter default value
504 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
505 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
507 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
508 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
509 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
511 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
512 bool "Memory leak debugging"
513 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
516 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
517 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
520 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
521 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
522 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
523 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
524 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
525 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
530 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
531 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
533 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
534 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
535 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
536 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
537 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
538 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
539 Try running: slabinfo -DA
541 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
544 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
545 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
546 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
548 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
552 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
553 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
554 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
555 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
556 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
557 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
558 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
561 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
562 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
564 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
565 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
567 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
568 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
569 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
573 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
574 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
575 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
576 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
577 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
579 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
580 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
581 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
583 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
587 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
588 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
589 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
591 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
592 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
594 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
595 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
598 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
599 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
601 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
607 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
608 that may impact performance.
612 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
613 bool "Debug VMA caching"
616 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
617 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
623 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
626 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
630 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
631 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
634 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
638 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
642 bool "Debug VM translations"
643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
645 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
646 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
650 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
651 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
652 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
654 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
655 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
657 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
658 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
661 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
662 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
663 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
664 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
665 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
669 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
670 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
671 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
673 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
674 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
675 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
677 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
678 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
680 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
682 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
683 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
684 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
685 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
687 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
688 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
692 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
693 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
697 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
698 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
699 and decreases performance.
704 bool "Highmem debugging"
705 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
707 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
708 systems. Disable for production systems.
710 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
713 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
714 bool "Check for stack overflows"
715 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
717 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
718 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
719 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
720 below a certain limit.
722 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
723 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
726 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
727 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
729 If in doubt, say "N".
731 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
733 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
738 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
739 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
740 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
743 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
744 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
746 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
747 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
749 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
750 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
752 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
753 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
754 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
756 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
758 config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
759 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
763 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
764 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
765 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
768 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
769 bool "Instrument all code by default"
773 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
774 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
775 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
776 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
777 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
780 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
781 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
783 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
784 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
785 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
786 points; some don't and need to be caught.
788 menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
790 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
793 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
794 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
795 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
796 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
798 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
801 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
802 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
803 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
804 detection and the system will stay locked up.
806 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
808 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
811 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
812 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
814 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
818 # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
819 # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
821 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
822 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
823 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
824 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
825 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
826 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
827 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
829 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
832 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
833 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
834 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
835 and the system will stay locked up.
837 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
838 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
839 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
841 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
842 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
843 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
844 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
848 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
850 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
852 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
853 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
855 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
856 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
857 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
859 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
860 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
861 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
862 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
864 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
865 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
866 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
867 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
868 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
872 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
874 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
876 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
877 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
879 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
880 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
881 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
882 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
884 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
885 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
886 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
888 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
889 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
890 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
891 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
892 feature has negligible overhead.
894 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
895 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
896 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
899 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
900 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
903 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
904 sysctl or by writing a value to
905 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
907 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
908 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
910 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
911 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
912 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
914 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
915 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
916 in uninterruptible "D" state.
918 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
919 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
920 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
921 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
922 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
926 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
928 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
930 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
931 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
934 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
935 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
937 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
938 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
939 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
940 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
941 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
942 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
944 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
949 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
950 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
953 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
954 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
955 corruption or other issues.
959 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
962 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
963 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
969 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
970 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
971 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
972 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
975 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
976 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
979 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
980 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
988 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
989 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
992 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
993 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
994 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
995 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
996 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
997 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1000 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
1001 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
1002 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1005 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1006 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1007 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1008 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1009 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1010 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1012 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1013 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1015 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1016 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1017 problems are suspected.
1019 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1020 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1025 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1026 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1027 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1030 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1031 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1032 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1033 will detect preemption count underflows.
1035 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1037 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1038 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1039 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1041 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1042 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1044 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1045 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1046 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1047 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1049 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1050 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1051 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1052 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1054 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1055 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1056 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1058 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1061 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1062 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1063 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1064 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1065 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1066 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1068 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1069 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1070 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1071 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1072 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1073 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1074 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1075 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1076 you are a distro, do not.
1078 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1079 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1080 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1081 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1082 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1083 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1086 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1087 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1088 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1089 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1090 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1091 held during task exit.
1093 config PROVE_LOCKING
1094 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1095 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1097 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1098 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1099 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1100 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1101 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1104 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1105 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1106 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1107 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1108 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1109 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1112 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1113 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1115 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1116 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1117 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1118 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1119 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1120 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1121 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1122 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1123 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1125 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1126 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1127 kernel reports nothing.
1129 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1130 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1131 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1132 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1133 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1135 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1139 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1141 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1145 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1149 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1152 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1153 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1154 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1155 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1158 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1160 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1162 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1164 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1165 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1167 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1168 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1170 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1171 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1174 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1175 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1176 of more runtime overhead.
1178 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1179 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1180 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1181 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1183 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1184 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1185 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1186 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1188 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1189 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1190 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1192 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1193 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1194 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1195 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1196 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1199 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1200 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1201 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1205 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1206 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1207 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1209 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1210 to be built into the kernel.
1211 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1212 Say N if you are unsure.
1214 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1215 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1217 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1218 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1220 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1221 with this test harness.
1223 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1224 Say N if you are unsure.
1226 endmenu # lock debugging
1228 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1231 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1232 either tracing or lock debugging.
1235 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1236 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1238 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1239 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1240 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1241 stack trace generation.
1243 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1244 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1247 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1248 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1249 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1250 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1251 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1252 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1255 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1256 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1257 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1258 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1259 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1260 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1261 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1262 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1263 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1265 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1266 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1267 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1268 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1271 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1272 bool "kobject debugging"
1273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1275 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1278 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1279 bool "kobject release debugging"
1280 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1282 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1283 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1284 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1285 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1286 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1289 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1290 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1291 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1293 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1294 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1295 kind of kobject release bug.
1297 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1300 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1301 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
1302 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
1305 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1306 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1307 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1310 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1311 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1313 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1318 config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1319 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1320 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1322 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1323 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1324 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1329 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1332 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1333 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1338 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1339 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1340 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1342 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1343 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1344 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1345 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1348 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1349 bool "Debug credential management"
1350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1352 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1353 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1354 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1355 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1358 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1359 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1363 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1365 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1366 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1367 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1370 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1371 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1372 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1373 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1374 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1375 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1376 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1377 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1380 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1381 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1382 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1386 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1387 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1388 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1391 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1392 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1393 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1394 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1395 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1396 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1397 device number allocation.
1399 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1400 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1401 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1402 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1403 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1405 Say N if you are unsure.
1407 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1408 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1409 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1410 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1413 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1414 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1415 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1416 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1418 Say N if your are unsure.
1420 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1421 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1422 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1425 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1426 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1427 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1431 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1432 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1433 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1434 default m if PM_DEBUG
1436 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1437 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1438 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1440 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1441 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1443 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1445 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1446 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1447 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1448 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1450 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1451 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1455 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1456 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1457 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1459 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1460 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1461 through debugfs interface under
1462 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1464 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1465 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1467 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1468 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1472 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1473 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1474 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1476 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1477 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1478 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1480 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1481 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1483 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1485 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1486 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1487 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1488 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1490 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1491 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1495 config FAULT_INJECTION
1496 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1497 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1499 Provide fault-injection framework.
1500 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1502 config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1504 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
1507 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1508 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1509 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1511 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1513 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1514 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1515 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1517 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1519 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1520 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1521 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1523 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1525 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1526 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1527 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1529 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1530 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1531 thus exercising the error handling.
1533 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1534 for others it wont do anything.
1536 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1537 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1538 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1540 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1541 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1542 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1543 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1547 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1549 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1551 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1553 config FAIL_FUNCTION
1554 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
1555 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
1557 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
1558 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
1559 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
1560 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
1561 error handling in various subsystems.
1563 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1564 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1565 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1567 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1569 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1570 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1571 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1574 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
1576 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1579 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1580 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1581 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1583 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
1590 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1591 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1593 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1595 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1596 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1597 depends on PCI && X86
1599 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1600 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1601 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1602 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1603 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1605 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1606 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1607 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1611 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1612 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1614 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1615 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1616 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1617 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1619 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1620 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1622 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1624 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1625 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1626 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1628 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1629 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1630 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1631 were never allocated.
1633 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1634 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1635 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1638 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1639 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1643 menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1644 bool "Runtime Testing"
1647 if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1650 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1655 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1656 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1657 If you don't need it: say N
1658 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1661 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1662 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1664 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1665 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1666 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1668 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1669 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1670 or at module load time.
1675 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1676 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
1678 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1679 or at module load time.
1683 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1684 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1689 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1690 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1691 verified for functionality.
1693 Say N if you are unsure.
1695 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1696 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1697 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1700 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1701 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1702 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1703 developers working on architecture code.
1705 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1706 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1708 Say N if you are unsure.
1711 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1712 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1714 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1715 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1717 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1718 tristate "Interval tree test"
1719 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1720 select INTERVAL_TREE
1722 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1725 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1726 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1728 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1733 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1734 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
1736 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1737 at module load time.
1741 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1742 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1743 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1746 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1747 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1748 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1749 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1750 engine if one is available.
1755 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1757 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1758 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1761 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1764 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1767 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1770 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1775 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1777 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
1778 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
1781 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1786 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1789 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1790 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1791 hash functions on boot (or module load).
1793 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1794 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1797 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1801 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1807 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1811 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1812 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1813 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1814 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1815 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1820 config TEST_USER_COPY
1821 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1825 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1826 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1827 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1828 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1834 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1838 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1839 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1840 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1841 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
1842 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1843 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
1847 config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
1848 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
1851 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
1852 functions performance.
1856 config TEST_FIRMWARE
1857 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1859 depends on FW_LOADER
1861 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1862 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1863 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1864 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1870 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1872 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1874 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1875 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1876 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1881 tristate "udelay test driver"
1884 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1885 that udelay() is working properly.
1889 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1890 tristate "Test static keys"
1894 Test the static key interfaces.
1899 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1902 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1903 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1909 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1910 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1911 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1913 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1914 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1915 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1916 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1917 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1921 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1925 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1926 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1927 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1929 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1930 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1931 kernel's virtual address map.
1935 endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
1939 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1941 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1943 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1944 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1946 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1947 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1949 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1950 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1953 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1954 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1959 source "samples/Kconfig"
1961 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
1963 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1965 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1968 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1969 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1970 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1971 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1972 default y if TILE || PPC || X86 || ARM64
1974 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1975 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1976 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1977 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1978 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1979 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1981 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1982 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1983 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1988 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1989 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1990 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1992 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1993 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1994 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1995 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1997 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1998 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1999 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2000 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.