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 STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID
39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces"
42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in
43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'.
45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily
46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or
47 kernel module where the function is located.
49 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
58 value is specified here as well.
60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
64 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET
65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)"
69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline.
71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel
72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the
73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>"
75 config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
76 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
90 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
100 the "loops per jiffy" value.
101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
106 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS)
113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs.
132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before
133 making use of this feature.
134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
136 format for each line of the file is:
138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
140 filename : source file of the debug statement
141 lineno : line number of the debug statement
142 module : module that contains the debug statement
143 function : function that contains the debug statement
144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
145 format : the format used for the debug statement
149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
180 config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support"
183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS)
185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful
186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with
187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for
188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is
189 sensitive for people.
191 config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME
192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf"
195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will
196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead
197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger
198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read.
200 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
209 endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
212 bool "Kernel debugging"
214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
215 identify kernel problems.
218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
225 menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected
231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug
232 information will be generated for build targets.
234 # Clang generates .uleb128 with label differences for DWARF v5, a feature that
235 # older binutils ports do not support when utilizing RISC-V style linker
236 # relaxation: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215
237 config AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128
238 def_bool $(as-instr,.uleb128 .Lexpr_end4 - .Lexpr_start3\n.Lexpr_start3:\n.Lexpr_end4:)
241 prompt "Debug information"
242 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
244 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image
245 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
246 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
247 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
248 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
250 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure,
251 select "Toolchain default".
253 config DEBUG_INFO_NONE
254 bool "Disable debug information"
256 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will
257 result in a faster and smaller build.
259 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
260 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version"
262 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || CLANG_VERSION < 140000 || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128)
264 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a
265 toolchain changes over time.
267 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to
268 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but
269 those should be less common scenarios.
271 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
272 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo"
274 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502)
276 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+, binutils 2.35.2
277 if using clang without clang's integrated assembler, and gdb 7.0+.
279 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for
280 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your
283 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5
284 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo"
286 depends on !ARCH_HAS_BROKEN_DWARF5
287 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502 && AS_HAS_NON_CONST_ULEB128)
289 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc
290 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some
291 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+.
293 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around
294 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as
295 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous
296 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format
297 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this
298 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to
299 support DWARF Version 5.
301 endchoice # "Debug information"
305 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
306 bool "Reduce debugging information"
308 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
309 information for structure types. This means that tools that
310 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
311 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
312 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
313 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
314 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
315 Only works with newer gcc versions.
318 prompt "Compressed Debug information"
320 Compress the resulting debug info. Results in smaller debug info sections,
321 but requires that consumers are able to decompress the results.
323 If unsure, choose DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE.
325 config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE
326 bool "Don't compress debug information"
328 Don't compress debug info sections.
330 config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB
331 bool "Compress debugging information with zlib"
332 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
333 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
335 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang
336 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib.
338 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in
339 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the
340 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being
341 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still
342 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even
345 config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD
346 bool "Compress debugging information with zstd"
347 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zstd)
348 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zstd)
350 Compress the debug information using zstd. This may provide better
351 compression than zlib, for about the same time costs, but requires newer
352 toolchain support. Requires GCC 13.0+ or Clang 16.0+, binutils 2.40+, and
355 endchoice # "Compressed Debug information"
357 config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
358 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
359 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
360 # RISC-V linker relaxation + -gsplit-dwarf has issues with LLVM and GCC
362 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/56642
363 # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99090
364 depends on !RISCV || GCC_VERSION >= 120000
366 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
367 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
368 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
369 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
370 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
372 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
373 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
374 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
375 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
377 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
378 bool "Generate BTF type information"
379 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
380 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
381 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
382 depends on PAHOLE_VERSION >= 116
383 depends on DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121
384 # pahole uses elfutils, which does not have support for Hexagon relocations
387 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
388 Turning this on requires pahole v1.16 or later (v1.21 or later to
389 support DWARF 5), which will convert DWARF type info into equivalent
390 deduplicated BTF type info.
392 config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
393 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119
395 config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG
396 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123
397 depends on CC_IS_CLANG
399 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and
400 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements
401 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG.
403 config PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE
404 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 124
406 Support for the --lang_exclude flag which makes pahole exclude
407 compilation units from the supplied language. Used in Kbuild to
408 omit Rust CUs which are not supported in version 1.24 of pahole,
409 otherwise it would emit malformed kernel and module binaries when
410 using DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES.
412 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
413 bool "Generate BTF type information for kernel modules"
415 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
417 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules.
419 config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH
420 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info"
421 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
423 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without
424 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with
425 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches;
426 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore
427 it when a mismatch is found.
430 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
432 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
433 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
434 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
435 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
436 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
442 int "Warn for stack frames larger than"
445 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
446 default 2048 if PARISC
447 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA)
448 default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT
449 default 1024 if !64BIT
450 default 2048 if 64BIT
452 Tell the compiler to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
453 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
454 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
456 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
457 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
460 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
461 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
462 get_wchan() and suchlike.
465 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
469 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
470 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
471 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
474 config HEADERS_INSTALL
475 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
478 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
479 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
480 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
481 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
482 as uapi header sanity checks.
484 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
485 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
488 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
489 references from one section to another section.
490 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
491 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
492 most likely result in an oops.
493 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
494 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
495 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
496 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
497 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
498 additional step to occur:
499 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
500 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
501 function, we would lose the section information and thus
502 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
503 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
506 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
507 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
510 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
511 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
515 config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B
516 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned"
517 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC || RISCV || S390)
518 select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_64B
520 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function
521 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance
522 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to
523 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while
524 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage.
526 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use.
529 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
530 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
531 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
533 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
537 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
538 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
539 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
541 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
542 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
543 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
548 config STACK_VALIDATION
549 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
550 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
554 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that
555 runtime stack traces are more reliable.
557 For more information, see
558 tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt.
560 config NOINSTR_VALIDATION
562 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY
567 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking"
570 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld
571 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying
572 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which
573 pieces of code get eliminated with
574 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION.
576 config BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES
577 bool "Generate address range information for builtin modules"
579 depends on VMLINUX_MAP
581 When modules are built into the kernel, there will be no module name
582 associated with its symbols in /proc/kallsyms. Tracers may want to
583 identify symbols by module name and symbol name regardless of whether
584 the module is configured as loadable or not.
586 This option generates modules.builtin.ranges in the build tree with
587 offset ranges (per ELF section) for the module(s) they belong to.
588 It also records an anchor symbol to determine the load address of the
591 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
592 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
595 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
596 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
597 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
600 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
601 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
603 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
604 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
606 endmenu # "Compiler options"
608 menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments"
611 bool "Magic SysRq key"
614 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
615 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
616 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
617 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
618 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
619 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
620 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
621 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
622 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
624 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
625 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
626 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
629 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
630 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
631 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
633 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
634 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
635 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
638 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
639 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
640 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
643 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE
644 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial"
645 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
648 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable
649 SysRq on a serial console.
651 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled.
654 bool "Debug Filesystem"
656 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
657 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
658 write to these files.
660 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
661 Documentation/filesystems/.
666 prompt "Debugfs default access"
668 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
670 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs.
671 It can be overridden with kernel command line option
672 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access
673 and filesystem registration.
675 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
678 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration
679 is on. This is the normal default operation.
681 config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT
682 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem"
684 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do
685 their work and read with debug tools that do not need
688 config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE
691 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in
692 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem.
693 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access.
697 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
698 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
699 source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan"
703 menu "Networking Debugging"
705 source "net/Kconfig.debug"
707 endmenu # "Networking Debugging"
709 menu "Memory Debugging"
711 source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
714 bool "Debug object operations"
715 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
717 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
718 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
719 the operations on those objects.
721 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
722 bool "Debug objects selftest"
723 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
725 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
727 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
728 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
729 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
731 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
732 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
733 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
736 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
737 bool "Debug timer objects"
738 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
740 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
741 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
742 validate the timer operations.
744 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
745 bool "Debug work objects"
746 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
748 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
749 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
750 validate the work operations.
752 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
753 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
754 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
756 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
758 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
759 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
760 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
762 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
763 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
764 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
766 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
767 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
770 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
772 Debug objects boot parameter default value
774 config SHRINKER_DEBUG
775 bool "Enable shrinker debugging support"
778 Say Y to enable the shrinker debugfs interface which provides
779 visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem.
780 Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint.
782 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
783 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
786 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
787 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
788 Also emits a message to dmesg when a process exits if that process
789 used more stack space than previously exiting processes.
791 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
793 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
794 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
795 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
798 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
799 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
800 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
801 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
802 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
803 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
805 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
808 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
809 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
811 config DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF
812 def_bool DEBUG_VM && !PREEMPT_RT
816 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
818 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
819 that may impact performance.
823 config DEBUG_VM_SHOOT_LAZIES
824 bool "Debug MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN implementation"
826 depends on MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN
828 Enable additional IPIs that ensure lazy tlb mm references are removed
829 before the mm is freed.
833 config DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE
834 bool "Debug VM maple trees"
836 select DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE
838 Enable VM maple tree debugging information and extra validations.
843 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
846 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
850 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
851 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
854 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
858 config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
859 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
861 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
862 default y if DEBUG_VM
864 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
865 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
866 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
867 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
868 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
869 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for
870 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
874 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
878 bool "Debug VM translations"
879 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
881 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
882 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
886 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
887 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
888 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
890 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
891 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
893 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
894 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
897 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
898 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
899 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
900 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
901 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
905 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
906 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
907 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
909 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
910 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
911 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
913 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
914 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
916 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
918 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
919 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
920 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
921 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
923 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
924 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
928 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
929 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
930 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
933 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
934 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
935 and decreases performance.
939 config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
940 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings"
941 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL
943 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local
944 infrastructure. Disable for production use.
946 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
949 config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
950 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings"
951 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
953 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
955 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local
956 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems.
957 Disable this for production systems!
960 bool "Highmem debugging"
961 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
962 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
963 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
965 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
966 systems. Disable for production systems.
968 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
971 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
972 bool "Check for stack overflows"
973 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
975 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
976 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
977 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
978 below a certain limit.
980 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
981 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
984 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
985 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
987 If in doubt, say "N".
993 config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
994 bool "Enable memory allocation profiling"
998 depends on !DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
1000 select PAGE_EXTENSION
1003 Track allocation source code and record total allocation size
1004 initiated at that code location. The mechanism can be used to track
1005 memory leaks with a low performance and memory impact.
1007 config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
1008 bool "Enable memory allocation profiling by default"
1010 depends on MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
1012 config MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG
1013 bool "Memory allocation profiler debugging"
1015 depends on MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
1016 select MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
1018 Adds warnings with helpful error messages for memory allocation
1021 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
1022 source "lib/Kconfig.kfence"
1023 source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan"
1025 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
1028 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
1029 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1031 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared
1032 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering
1033 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some
1034 don't and need to be caught.
1036 menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs"
1038 config PANIC_ON_OOPS
1039 bool "Panic on Oops"
1041 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
1042 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
1045 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
1046 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
1047 corruption or other issues.
1051 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
1054 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
1055 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
1057 config PANIC_TIMEOUT
1061 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when
1062 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
1063 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
1064 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. This setting can be overridden
1065 with the kernel command line option panic=, and from userspace via
1066 /proc/sys/kernel/panic.
1068 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
1071 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1072 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
1073 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
1074 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
1076 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
1079 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
1080 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
1081 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
1082 detection and the system will stay locked up.
1084 config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR_INTR_STORM
1085 bool "Detect Interrupt Storm in Soft Lockups"
1086 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR && IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
1087 select GENERIC_IRQ_STAT_SNAPSHOT
1088 default y if NR_CPUS <= 128
1090 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect interrupt storm
1091 during "soft lockups".
1093 "soft lockups" can be caused by a variety of reasons. If one is
1094 caused by an interrupt storm, then the storming interrupts will not
1095 be on the callstack. To detect this case, it is necessary to report
1096 the CPU stats and the interrupt counts during the "soft lockups".
1098 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
1099 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
1100 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1102 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
1103 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
1104 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
1105 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
1107 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
1108 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
1109 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
1110 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
1111 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
1115 config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
1121 # Global switch whether to build a hardlockup detector at all. It is available
1122 # only when the architecture supports at least one implementation. There are
1123 # two exceptions. The hardlockup detector is never enabled on:
1125 # s390: it reported many false positives there
1127 # sparc64: has a custom implementation which is not using the common
1128 # hardlockup command line options and sysctl interface.
1130 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1131 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
1132 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 && !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
1133 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1134 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
1135 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
1136 imply HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1137 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
1140 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
1143 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
1144 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
1145 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
1146 and the system will stay locked up.
1149 # Note that arch-specific variants are always preferred.
1151 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
1152 bool "Prefer the buddy CPU hardlockup detector"
1153 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1154 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF && HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
1155 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1157 Say Y here to prefer the buddy hardlockup detector over the perf one.
1159 With the buddy detector, each CPU uses its softlockup hrtimer
1160 to check that the next CPU is processing hrtimer interrupts by
1161 verifying that a counter is increasing.
1163 This hardlockup detector is useful on systems that don't have
1164 an arch-specific hardlockup detector or if resources needed
1165 for the hardlockup detector are better used for other things.
1167 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
1169 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1170 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF && !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
1171 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1172 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER
1174 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
1176 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1177 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
1178 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
1179 depends on !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1180 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER
1182 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1184 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1185 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
1187 The arch-specific implementation of the hardlockup detector will
1191 # Both the "perf" and "buddy" hardlockup detectors count hrtimer
1192 # interrupts. This config enables functions managing this common code.
1194 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER
1196 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1199 # Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
1200 # hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
1202 config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
1205 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
1206 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
1207 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1209 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
1210 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
1211 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
1212 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
1216 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1217 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
1218 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1219 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
1221 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
1222 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
1223 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
1225 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
1226 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
1227 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
1228 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
1229 feature has negligible overhead.
1231 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
1232 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
1233 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1236 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
1237 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
1240 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
1241 sysctl or by writing a value to
1242 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
1244 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
1245 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
1247 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
1248 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
1249 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
1251 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
1252 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
1253 in uninterruptible "D" state.
1255 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
1256 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
1257 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
1258 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
1259 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
1264 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
1265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1267 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
1268 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
1269 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
1270 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
1271 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
1272 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
1274 config WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT
1275 bool "Report per-cpu work items which hog CPU for too long"
1276 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1278 Say Y here to enable reporting of concurrency-managed per-cpu work
1279 items that hog CPUs for longer than
1280 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us. Workqueue automatically
1281 detects and excludes them from concurrency management to prevent
1282 them from stalling other per-cpu work items. Occassional
1283 triggering may not necessarily indicate a problem. Repeated
1284 triggering likely indicates that the work item should be switched
1285 to use an unbound workqueue.
1288 tristate "Test module to generate lockups"
1291 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure
1292 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly.
1294 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard
1295 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time.
1296 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods.
1300 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
1302 menu "Scheduler Debugging"
1305 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
1306 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && DEBUG_FS
1309 If you say Y here, the /sys/kernel/debug/sched file will be provided
1310 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
1318 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
1322 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
1323 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
1324 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
1325 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
1326 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
1327 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
1332 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1333 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1334 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1336 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1337 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1338 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1339 will detect preemption count underflows.
1341 This option has potential to introduce high runtime overhead,
1342 depending on workload as it triggers debugging routines for each
1343 this_cpu operation. It should only be used for debugging purposes.
1345 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1347 config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1349 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1352 config PROVE_LOCKING
1353 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1354 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1356 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1357 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT
1358 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1359 select DEBUG_RWSEMS if !PREEMPT_RT
1360 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1361 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1362 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1363 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1366 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1367 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1368 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1369 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1370 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1371 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1374 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1375 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1377 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1378 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1379 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1380 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1381 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1382 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1383 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1384 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1385 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1387 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1388 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1389 kernel reports nothing.
1391 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1392 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1393 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1394 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1395 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1397 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
1399 config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING
1401 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
1404 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure
1405 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are
1409 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1412 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1413 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT
1414 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1415 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1418 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1420 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
1422 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1424 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1425 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1427 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1428 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1430 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1431 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1432 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1434 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1435 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1437 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1438 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1439 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1440 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1442 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1443 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1444 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1445 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1447 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1448 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT
1451 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1454 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1455 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1456 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1457 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1458 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1459 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT
1460 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT
1462 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1463 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1464 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1465 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1466 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1467 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1468 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1469 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1470 you are a distro, do not.
1473 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
1474 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT
1476 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
1477 and unlocks to be detected and reported.
1479 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1480 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1482 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1483 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT
1484 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
1487 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1488 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1489 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1490 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1491 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1492 held during task exit.
1496 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
1501 config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1505 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES"
1506 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL
1510 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message.
1512 config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS
1513 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS"
1514 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL
1518 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message.
1520 config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS
1521 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES"
1522 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL
1526 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message.
1528 config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS
1529 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE"
1530 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL
1534 Try increasing this value if you need large STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE.
1536 config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS
1537 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct"
1542 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure.
1544 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1545 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1546 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1547 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
1549 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1550 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1551 of more runtime overhead.
1553 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1554 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1555 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1556 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1557 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
1559 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1560 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1561 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1562 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1564 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1565 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1566 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1568 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1569 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1570 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1571 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.)
1572 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1575 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1576 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1577 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1580 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1581 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1582 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1584 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1585 to be built into the kernel.
1586 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1587 Say N if you are unsure.
1589 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1590 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1592 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1593 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1595 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1596 with this test harness.
1598 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1599 Say N if you are unsure.
1601 config SCF_TORTURE_TEST
1602 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()"
1603 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1606 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1607 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel
1608 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to
1609 be tested, if desired.
1611 config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG
1612 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()"
1613 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1618 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond
1619 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints
1620 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any)
1621 and relevant stack traces.
1623 config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1624 bool "Default csd_lock_wait() debugging on at boot time"
1625 depends on CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG
1629 This option causes the csdlock_debug= kernel boot parameter to
1630 default to 1 (basic debugging) instead of 0 (no debugging).
1632 endmenu # lock debugging
1634 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1635 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1638 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1639 either tracing or lock debugging.
1641 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI
1643 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1644 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT
1646 config NMI_CHECK_CPU
1647 bool "Debugging for CPUs failing to respond to backtrace requests"
1648 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1652 Enables debug prints when a CPU fails to respond to a given
1653 backtrace NMI. These prints provide some reasons why a CPU
1654 might legitimately be failing to respond, for example, if it
1655 is offline of if ignore_nmis is set.
1657 config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS
1658 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation"
1660 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of
1661 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts
1665 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1666 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1668 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1669 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1670 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1671 stack trace generation.
1673 config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1674 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1677 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1678 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1679 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1680 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1681 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1682 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1685 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1686 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1687 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1688 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1689 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1690 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1691 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to
1692 address this, by default this option is disabled.
1694 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1695 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1696 those developers interested in improving the security of
1697 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1700 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1701 bool "kobject debugging"
1702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1704 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1707 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1708 bool "kobject release debugging"
1709 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1711 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1712 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1713 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop its
1714 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1715 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1718 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1719 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1720 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1722 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1723 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1724 kind of kobject release bug.
1726 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1729 menu "Debug kernel data structures"
1732 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1733 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1734 select LIST_HARDENED
1736 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list walking
1739 This option trades better quality error reports for performance, and
1740 is more suitable for kernel debugging. If you care about performance,
1741 you should only enable CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED instead.
1746 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1747 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1749 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1750 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1751 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1756 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1757 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1759 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1760 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1765 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1766 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1767 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1769 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1770 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1771 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1772 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1775 config DEBUG_CLOSURES
1776 bool "Debug closures (bcache async widgits)"
1780 Keeps all active closures in a linked list and provides a debugfs
1781 interface to list them, which makes it possible to see asynchronous
1782 operations that get stuck.
1784 config DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE
1785 bool "Debug maple trees"
1786 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1788 Enable maple tree debugging information and extra validations.
1794 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
1796 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1797 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1798 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1801 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1802 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1803 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1804 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1805 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1806 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1807 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1808 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1811 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1812 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1813 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1814 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1817 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1818 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1819 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1820 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1822 Say N if your are unsure.
1825 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1826 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1827 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1829 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86
1835 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1836 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1838 config DEBUG_CGROUP_REF
1839 bool "Disable inlining of cgroup css reference count functions"
1840 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1845 Force cgroup css reference count functions to not be inlined so
1846 that they can be kprobed for debugging.
1848 source "kernel/trace/Kconfig"
1850 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1851 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1852 depends on PCI && X86
1854 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1855 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1856 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1857 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1858 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1860 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1861 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1862 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1866 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1867 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1869 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1870 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1871 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1872 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1874 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1875 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1877 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information.
1879 source "samples/Kconfig"
1881 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1884 config STRICT_DEVMEM
1885 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
1886 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
1887 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1888 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 || S390
1890 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1891 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1892 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1893 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1894 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1895 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1897 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1898 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1899 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1904 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1905 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1906 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
1908 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1909 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1910 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1911 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1913 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
1914 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1915 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1916 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
1920 menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging"
1922 source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
1926 menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
1928 source "lib/kunit/Kconfig"
1930 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1931 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1932 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1935 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1936 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1937 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1941 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1942 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1943 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1944 default m if PM_DEBUG
1946 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1947 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1948 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1950 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1951 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1953 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1955 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1956 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1957 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1958 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1960 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1961 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1965 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1966 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1967 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1969 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1970 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1971 through debugfs interface under
1972 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1974 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1975 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1977 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1978 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1982 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1983 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1984 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1986 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1987 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1988 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1990 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1991 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1993 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1995 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1996 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1997 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1998 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
2000 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
2001 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
2005 config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
2006 bool "Fault-injections of functions"
2007 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES
2009 Add fault injections into various functions that are annotated with
2010 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() in the kernel. BPF may also modify the return
2011 value of these functions. This is useful to test error paths of code.
2015 config FAULT_INJECTION
2016 bool "Fault-injection framework"
2017 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2019 Provide fault-injection framework.
2020 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
2023 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
2024 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
2026 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
2028 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
2029 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()"
2030 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
2032 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
2034 config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY
2035 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions"
2036 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
2038 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures
2039 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...).
2041 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
2042 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
2043 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
2045 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
2047 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
2048 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
2049 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
2051 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
2052 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
2053 thus exercising the error handling.
2055 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
2056 for others it won't do anything.
2059 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
2061 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
2063 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
2065 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
2066 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
2067 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
2069 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
2071 config FAIL_FUNCTION
2072 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions"
2073 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
2075 Provide function-based fault-injection capability.
2076 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return
2077 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see
2078 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the
2079 error handling in various subsystems.
2081 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
2082 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
2083 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
2085 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
2086 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
2087 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
2088 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
2092 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC"
2093 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG
2095 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and
2098 config FAIL_SKB_REALLOC
2099 bool "Fault-injection capability forcing skb to reallocate"
2100 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
2102 Provide fault-injection capability that forces the skb to be
2103 reallocated, catching possible invalid pointers to the skb.
2105 For more information, check
2106 Documentation/dev-tools/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
2108 config FAULT_INJECTION_CONFIGFS
2109 bool "Configfs interface for fault-injection capabilities"
2110 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
2113 This option allows configfs-based drivers to dynamically configure
2114 fault-injection via configfs. Each parameter for driver-specific
2115 fault-injection can be made visible as a configfs attribute in a
2119 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
2120 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
2121 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
2122 depends on (FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS || FAULT_INJECTION_CONFIGFS) && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
2124 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86
2126 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
2128 config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
2131 An architecture should select this when it can successfully
2132 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
2133 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
2135 config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
2136 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
2140 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
2141 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
2142 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS
2143 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \
2144 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CC_IS_CLANG
2146 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
2147 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK
2149 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
2150 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
2152 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
2154 config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS
2155 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV"
2157 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp)
2159 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented
2160 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions.
2161 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality
2162 of fuzzing coverage.
2164 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
2165 bool "Instrument all code by default"
2169 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
2170 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
2171 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
2172 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
2173 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
2175 config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
2176 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
2180 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
2181 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
2182 number of unsigned long words.
2184 config KCOV_SELFTEST
2185 bool "Perform short selftests on boot"
2188 Run short KCOV coverage collection selftests on boot.
2189 On test failure, causes the kernel to panic. Recommended to be
2190 enabled, ensuring critical functionality works as intended.
2192 menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
2193 bool "Runtime Testing"
2196 if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
2199 tristate "Dhrystone benchmark test"
2201 Enable this to include the Dhrystone 2.1 benchmark. This test
2202 calculates the number of Dhrystones per second, and the number of
2203 DMIPS (Dhrystone MIPS) obtained when the Dhrystone score is divided
2204 by 1757 (the number of Dhrystones per second obtained on the VAX
2205 11/780, nominally a 1 MIPS machine).
2207 To run the benchmark, it needs to be enabled explicitly, either from
2208 the kernel command line (when built-in), or from userspace (when
2209 built-in or modular).
2211 Run once during kernel boot:
2215 Set number of iterations from kernel command line:
2217 test_dhry.iterations=<n>
2219 Set number of iterations from userspace:
2221 echo <n> > /sys/module/test_dhry/parameters/iterations
2223 Trigger manual run from userspace:
2225 echo y > /sys/module/test_dhry/parameters/run
2227 If the number of iterations is <= 0, the test will devise a suitable
2228 number of iterations (test runs for at least 2s) automatically.
2229 This process takes ca. 4s.
2234 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
2237 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
2238 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
2239 If you don't need it: say N
2240 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
2243 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
2244 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
2246 config CPUMASK_KUNIT_TEST
2247 tristate "KUnit test for cpumask" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2249 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2251 Enable to turn on cpumask tests, running at boot or module load time.
2253 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
2254 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2258 config TEST_LIST_SORT
2259 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2261 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2263 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
2264 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
2265 or at module load time.
2269 config TEST_MIN_HEAP
2270 tristate "Min heap test"
2271 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
2274 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is
2275 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
2276 or at module load time.
2281 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2283 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2285 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
2286 or at module load time.
2291 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test"
2292 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
2294 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is
2295 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
2296 or at module load time.
2300 config TEST_MULDIV64
2301 tristate "mul_u64_u64_div_u64() test"
2302 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
2304 Enable this to turn on 'mul_u64_u64_div_u64()' function test.
2305 This test is executed only once during system boot (so affects
2306 only boot time), or at module load time.
2310 config TEST_IOV_ITER
2311 tristate "Test iov_iter operation" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2314 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2316 Enable this to turn on testing of the operation of the I/O iterator
2317 (iov_iter). This test is executed only once during system boot (so
2318 affects only boot time), or at module load time.
2322 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
2323 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2324 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2327 select STACKTRACE if ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE
2328 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2330 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
2331 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
2332 verified for functionality.
2334 Say N if you are unsure.
2336 config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST
2337 bool "Self test for fprobe"
2338 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2342 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot.
2343 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning
2346 Say N if you are unsure.
2348 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
2349 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
2350 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2352 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
2353 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
2354 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
2355 developers working on architecture code.
2357 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
2358 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
2360 Say N if you are unsure.
2362 config TEST_REF_TRACKER
2363 tristate "Self test for reference tracker"
2364 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
2367 This option provides a kernel module performing tests
2368 using reference tracker infrastructure.
2370 Say N if you are unsure.
2373 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
2374 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2376 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
2377 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
2379 config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
2380 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
2381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
2383 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
2384 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
2386 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
2387 or at module load time.
2391 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
2392 tristate "Interval tree test"
2393 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
2394 select INTERVAL_TREE
2396 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
2399 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
2400 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
2402 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
2407 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
2408 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
2410 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
2411 at module load time.
2415 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
2416 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
2417 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
2420 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
2421 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
2422 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
2423 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
2424 engine if one is available.
2429 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
2431 config STRING_KUNIT_TEST
2432 tristate "KUnit test string functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2434 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2436 config STRING_HELPERS_KUNIT_TEST
2437 tristate "KUnit test string helpers at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2439 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2442 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
2445 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
2448 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime"
2451 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
2453 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
2458 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
2461 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime"
2463 config TEST_MAPLE_TREE
2464 tristate "Test the Maple Tree code at runtime or module load"
2466 Enable this option to test the maple tree code functions at boot, or
2467 when the module is loaded. Enable "Debug Maple Trees" will enable
2468 more verbose output on failures.
2472 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
2473 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
2475 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
2480 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions"
2483 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
2486 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
2491 config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
2492 bool "IRQ timings selftest"
2493 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
2495 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
2500 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
2503 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
2504 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
2505 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
2506 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
2507 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
2513 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations"
2515 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the
2516 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the
2517 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are
2518 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra
2519 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless
2520 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops.
2525 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator"
2530 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for
2531 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc
2532 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point
2538 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
2541 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
2542 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
2543 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
2544 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
2545 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
2546 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
2550 config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
2551 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
2554 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
2555 data path through this blackhole netdev.
2559 config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
2560 tristate "Test find_bit functions"
2562 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit()
2563 functions performance.
2567 config TEST_FIRMWARE
2568 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
2569 depends on FW_LOADER
2571 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
2572 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
2573 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
2574 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
2580 tristate "sysctl test driver"
2581 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
2583 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
2584 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
2585 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
2589 config BITFIELD_KUNIT
2590 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2592 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2594 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot.
2596 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2597 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2598 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2601 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2602 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2606 config CHECKSUM_KUNIT
2607 tristate "KUnit test checksum functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2609 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2611 Enable this option to test the checksum functions at boot.
2613 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2614 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2615 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2618 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2619 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2623 config UTIL_MACROS_KUNIT
2624 tristate "KUnit test util_macros.h functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2626 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2628 Enable this option to test the util_macros.h function at boot.
2630 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2631 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2632 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2635 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2636 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2640 config HASH_KUNIT_TEST
2641 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2643 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2645 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and
2646 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot.
2648 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2649 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2650 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2653 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2654 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2656 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
2657 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
2659 config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST
2660 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2662 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2663 select GET_FREE_REGION
2665 This builds the resource API unit test.
2666 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h.
2667 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2668 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2672 config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST
2673 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2675 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2677 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot.
2678 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl.
2679 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2680 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2684 config LIST_KUNIT_TEST
2685 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2687 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2689 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite.
2690 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type
2691 and associated macros.
2693 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
2694 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
2695 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
2698 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2699 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2703 config HASHTABLE_KUNIT_TEST
2704 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Hashtable structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2706 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2708 This builds the hashtable KUnit test suite.
2709 It tests the basic functionality of the API defined in
2710 include/linux/hashtable.h. For more information on KUnit and
2711 unit tests in general please refer to the KUnit documentation
2712 in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2716 config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST
2717 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges"
2719 select LINEAR_RANGES
2721 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot.
2722 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness.
2723 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2724 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2728 config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST
2729 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2731 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2733 This builds the cmdline API unit test.
2734 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c.
2735 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2736 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2741 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2743 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2745 This builds the bits unit test.
2746 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h.
2747 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2748 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2752 config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST
2753 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2754 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT
2755 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2757 This builds SLUB allocator unit test.
2758 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality.
2759 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2760 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2764 config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST
2765 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2766 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL
2767 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2769 This builds the rational math unit test.
2770 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2771 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2775 config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST
2776 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2778 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2780 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions.
2781 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2782 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2786 config IS_SIGNED_TYPE_KUNIT_TEST
2787 tristate "Test is_signed_type() macro" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2789 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2791 Builds unit tests for the is_signed_type() macro.
2793 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2794 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2798 config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST
2799 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2801 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2803 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and
2806 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
2807 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
2811 config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST
2812 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2814 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2816 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and
2817 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags,
2818 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO,
2819 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF,
2820 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
2822 config FORTIFY_KUNIT_TEST
2823 tristate "Test fortified str*() and mem*() function internals at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2825 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2827 Builds unit tests for checking internals of FORTIFY_SOURCE as used
2828 by the str*() and mem*() family of functions. For testing runtime
2829 traps of FORTIFY_SOURCE, see LKDTM's "FORTIFY_*" tests.
2831 config HW_BREAKPOINT_KUNIT_TEST
2832 bool "Test hw_breakpoint constraints accounting" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2833 depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
2835 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2837 Tests for hw_breakpoint constraints accounting.
2841 config SIPHASH_KUNIT_TEST
2842 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2844 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2846 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash
2847 functions on boot (or module load).
2849 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
2850 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
2852 config USERCOPY_KUNIT_TEST
2853 tristate "KUnit Test for user/kernel boundary protections"
2855 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2857 This builds the "usercopy_kunit" module that runs sanity checks
2858 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
2859 user/kernel boundary testing is working.
2861 config CRC16_KUNIT_TEST
2862 tristate "KUnit tests for CRC16"
2864 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
2867 Enable this option to run unit tests for the kernel's CRC16
2868 implementation (<linux/crc16.h>).
2871 tristate "udelay test driver"
2873 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
2874 that udelay() is working properly.
2878 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
2879 tristate "Test static keys"
2882 Test the static key interfaces.
2886 config TEST_DYNAMIC_DEBUG
2887 tristate "Test DYNAMIC_DEBUG"
2888 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
2890 This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled
2891 pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their
2892 enablements, calls the function, and compares counts.
2897 tristate "kmod stress tester"
2899 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
2901 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS
2907 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
2908 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
2909 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
2911 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
2912 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
2913 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
2914 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
2915 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
2919 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
2926 config TEST_RUNTIME_MODULE
2929 config TEST_KALLSYMS
2930 tristate "module kallsyms find_symbol() test"
2933 select TEST_RUNTIME_MODULE
2934 select TEST_KALLSYMS_A
2935 select TEST_KALLSYMS_B
2936 select TEST_KALLSYMS_C
2937 select TEST_KALLSYMS_D
2939 This allows us to stress test find_symbol() through the kallsyms
2940 used to place symbols on the kernel ELF kallsyms and modules kallsyms
2941 where we place kernel symbols such as exported symbols.
2943 We have four test modules:
2945 A: has KALLSYSMS_NUMSYMS exported symbols
2946 B: uses one of A's symbols
2947 C: adds KALLSYMS_SCALE_FACTOR * KALLSYSMS_NUMSYMS exported
2948 D: adds 2 * the symbols than C
2950 We stress test find_symbol() through two means:
2952 1) Upon load of B it will trigger simplify_symbols() to look for the
2953 one symbol it uses from the module A with tons of symbols. This is an
2954 indirect way for us to have B call resolve_symbol_wait() upon module
2955 load. This will eventually call find_symbol() which will eventually
2956 try to find the symbols used with find_exported_symbol_in_section().
2957 find_exported_symbol_in_section() uses bsearch() so a binary search
2958 for each symbol. Binary search will at worst be O(log(n)) so the
2959 larger TEST_MODULE_KALLSYSMS the worse the search.
2961 2) The selftests should load C first, before B. Upon B's load towards
2962 the end right before we call module B's init routine we get
2963 complete_formation() called on the module. That will first check
2964 for duplicate symbols with the call to verify_exported_symbols().
2965 That is when we'll force iteration on module C's insane symbol list.
2966 Since it has 10 * KALLSYMS_NUMSYMS it means we can first test
2967 just loading B without C. The amount of time it takes to load C Vs
2968 B can give us an idea of the impact growth of the symbol space and
2969 give us projection. Module A only uses one symbol from B so to allow
2970 this scaling in module C to be proportional, if it used more symbols
2971 then the first test would be doing more and increasing just the
2972 search space would be slightly different. The last module, module D
2973 will just increase the search space by twice the number of symbols in
2974 C so to allow for full projects.
2976 tools/testing/selftests/module/find_symbol.sh
2978 The current defaults will incur a build delay of about 7 minutes
2979 on an x86_64 with only 8 cores. Enable this only if you want to
2980 stress test find_symbol() with thousands of symbols. At the same
2981 time this is also useful to test building modules with thousands of
2982 symbols, and if BTF is enabled this also stress tests adding BTF
2983 information for each module. Currently enabling many more symbols
2984 will segfault the build system.
2990 config TEST_KALLSYMS_A
2994 config TEST_KALLSYMS_B
2998 config TEST_KALLSYMS_C
3002 config TEST_KALLSYMS_D
3007 prompt "Kallsym test range"
3008 default TEST_KALLSYMS_LARGE
3010 Selecting something other than "Fast" will enable tests which slow
3011 down the build and may crash your build.
3013 config TEST_KALLSYMS_FAST
3016 You won't really be testing kallsysms, so this just helps fast builds
3017 when allmodconfig is used..
3019 config TEST_KALLSYMS_LARGE
3020 bool "Enable testing kallsyms with large exports"
3022 This will enable larger number of symbols. This will slow down
3023 your build considerably.
3025 config TEST_KALLSYMS_MAX
3026 bool "Known kallsysms limits"
3028 This will enable exports to the point we know we'll start crashing
3033 config TEST_KALLSYMS_NUMSYMS
3034 int "test kallsyms number of symbols"
3036 default 2 if TEST_KALLSYMS_FAST
3037 default 100 if TEST_KALLSYMS_LARGE
3038 default 10000 if TEST_KALLSYMS_MAX
3040 The number of symbols to create on TEST_KALLSYMS_A, only one of which
3041 module TEST_KALLSYMS_B will use. This also will be used
3042 for how many symbols TEST_KALLSYMS_C will have, scaled up by
3043 TEST_KALLSYMS_SCALE_FACTOR. Note that setting this to 10,000 will
3044 trigger a segfault today, don't use anything close to it unless
3045 you are aware that this should not be used for automated build tests.
3047 config TEST_KALLSYMS_SCALE_FACTOR
3048 int "test kallsyms scale factor"
3051 How many more unusued symbols will TEST_KALLSYSMS_C have than
3052 TEST_KALLSYMS_A. If 8, then module C will have 8 * syms
3053 than module A. Then TEST_KALLSYMS_D will have double the amount
3054 of symbols than C so to allow projections.
3056 endif # TEST_KALLSYMS
3058 config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
3059 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
3060 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
3062 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
3063 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
3064 kernel's virtual address map.
3068 config TEST_MEMCAT_P
3069 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
3071 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
3072 pointer arrays together.
3077 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager"
3081 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot
3085 tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
3087 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
3088 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
3093 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)"
3094 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
3095 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE
3099 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM.
3100 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module.
3101 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests.
3105 config TEST_FREE_PAGES
3106 tristate "Test freeing pages"
3108 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between
3109 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference.
3110 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed.
3111 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and
3112 probably OOM your system.
3115 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space"
3116 depends on ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
3118 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu
3119 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used
3120 for self-testing floating point control register setting in
3125 config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
3126 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space"
3127 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
3129 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger
3130 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded
3131 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being
3132 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run
3138 tristate "Test module for correctness and stress of objpool"
3140 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
3142 This builds the "test_objpool" module that should be used for
3143 correctness verification and concurrent testings of objects
3144 allocation and reclamation.
3149 tristate "Integer exponentiation (int_pow) test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
3151 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
3153 This option enables the KUnit test suite for the int_pow function,
3154 which performs integer exponentiation. The test suite is designed to
3155 verify that the implementation of int_pow correctly computes the power
3156 of a given base raised to a given exponent.
3158 Enabling this option will include tests that check various scenarios
3159 and edge cases to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the exponentiation
3164 endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
3166 config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
3169 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest()
3170 during boot process.
3174 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
3176 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
3177 to be set and executed.
3178 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
3179 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
3181 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
3182 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
3186 config HYPERV_TESTING
3187 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing"
3189 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS
3191 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing.
3193 endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage"
3197 config RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS
3198 bool "Debug assertions"
3201 Enables rustc's `-Cdebug-assertions` codegen option.
3203 This flag lets you turn `cfg(debug_assertions)` conditional
3204 compilation on or off. This can be used to enable extra debugging
3205 code in development but not in production. For example, it controls
3206 the behavior of the standard library's `debug_assert!` macro.
3208 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`.
3212 config RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS
3213 bool "Overflow checks"
3217 Enables rustc's `-Coverflow-checks` codegen option.
3219 This flag allows you to control the behavior of runtime integer
3220 overflow. When overflow-checks are enabled, a Rust panic will occur
3223 Note that this will apply to all Rust code, including `core`.
3227 config RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW
3228 bool "Allow unoptimized build-time assertions"
3231 Controls how `build_error!` and `build_assert!` are handled during the build.
3233 If calls to them exist in the binary, it may indicate a violated invariant
3234 or that the optimizer failed to verify the invariant during compilation.
3236 This should not happen, thus by default the build is aborted. However,
3237 as an escape hatch, you can choose Y here to ignore them during build
3238 and let the check be carried at runtime (with `panic!` being called if
3243 config RUST_KERNEL_DOCTESTS
3244 bool "Doctests for the `kernel` crate" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
3245 depends on RUST && KUNIT=y
3246 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
3248 This builds the documentation tests of the `kernel` crate
3251 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general,
3252 please refer to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
3258 endmenu # Kernel hacking