1 menu "printk and dmesg options"
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
7 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
8 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
9 call and at the console.
11 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
12 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
13 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
18 config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
25 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in
26 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever
27 value is specified here as well.
29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
33 config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
34 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
40 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
41 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
44 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console
45 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs,
46 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value.
48 config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
52 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
53 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
54 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
57 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
58 the "loops per jiffie" value.
59 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
60 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
61 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
62 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
63 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
64 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
73 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
74 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
75 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
76 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
77 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
78 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
80 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
81 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
82 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
83 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
87 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
88 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
89 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
90 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
91 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
92 format for each line of the file is:
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
96 filename : source file of the debug statement
97 lineno : line number of the debug statement
98 module : module that contains the debug statement
99 function : function that contains the debug statement
100 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
101 format : the format used for the debug statement
105 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
106 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
107 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
108 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
109 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
113 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
114 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
115 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
133 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
135 endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
137 menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
140 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
143 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
144 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
145 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
146 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
147 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
148 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
152 config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
153 bool "Reduce debugging information"
154 depends on DEBUG_INFO
156 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
157 information for structure types. This means that tools that
158 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
159 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
160 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
161 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
162 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
163 Only works with newer gcc versions.
165 config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
166 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
167 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
169 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
170 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
171 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
172 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
173 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
175 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
176 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
177 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
178 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
180 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
181 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
182 depends on DEBUG_INFO
184 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
185 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
186 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
187 variables in gdb on optimized code.
190 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
191 depends on DEBUG_INFO
193 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
194 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
195 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
196 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
197 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
200 config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
201 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
204 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
205 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
206 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
208 config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
209 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
212 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
213 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
214 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
217 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
220 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
221 default 1024 if !64BIT
222 default 2048 if 64BIT
224 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
225 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
226 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
229 config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
230 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
233 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
234 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
235 get_wchan() and suchlike.
238 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
241 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
242 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
243 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
246 config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
247 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
250 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
251 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
252 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
253 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
254 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
255 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
256 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
257 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
258 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
259 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
263 bool "Track page owner"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
268 select PAGE_EXTENSION
270 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
271 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
272 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
273 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
274 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
275 for user-space helper.
280 bool "Debug Filesystem"
283 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
284 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
285 write to these files.
287 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
288 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
293 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
296 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
297 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
298 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
299 were not exported, etc.
301 If you're making modifications to header files which are
302 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
303 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
304 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
306 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
307 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
309 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
310 references from one section to another section.
311 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
312 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
313 most likely result in an oops.
314 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
315 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
316 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
317 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
318 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
319 additional steps to occur:
320 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
321 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
322 function, we would lose the section information and thus
323 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
324 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
326 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
327 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
328 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
330 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
331 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
332 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
333 reported at least twice.
334 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
335 the section mismatches that are reported.
337 config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
338 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
341 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
342 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
347 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
348 # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
349 # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
351 config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
356 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
358 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
359 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
360 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
361 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
363 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
364 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
365 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
367 config STACK_VALIDATION
368 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
369 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
372 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
373 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
374 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
376 For more information, see
377 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
379 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
380 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
383 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
384 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
385 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
388 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
389 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
391 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
392 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
394 endmenu # "Compiler options"
397 bool "Magic SysRq key"
400 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
401 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
402 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
403 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
404 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
405 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
406 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
407 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
408 unless you really know what this hack does.
410 config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
411 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
412 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
415 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
416 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
417 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
420 bool "Kernel debugging"
422 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
423 identify kernel problems.
425 menu "Memory Debugging"
427 source mm/Kconfig.debug
430 bool "Debug object operations"
431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
433 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
434 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
435 the operations on those objects.
437 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
438 bool "Debug objects selftest"
439 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
441 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
443 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
444 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
445 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
447 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
448 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
449 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
452 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
453 bool "Debug timer objects"
454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
456 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
457 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
458 validate the timer operations.
460 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
461 bool "Debug work objects"
462 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
464 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
465 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
466 validate the work operations.
468 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
469 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
470 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
472 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
474 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
475 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
476 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
478 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
479 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
480 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
482 config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
483 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
488 Debug objects boot parameter default value
491 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
494 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
495 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
496 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
498 config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
499 bool "Memory leak debugging"
500 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
503 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
504 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
507 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
508 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
509 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
510 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
511 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
512 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
517 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
518 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
520 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
521 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
522 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
523 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
524 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
525 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
526 Try running: slabinfo -DA
528 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
531 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
532 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
533 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
535 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
539 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
540 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
541 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
542 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
543 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
544 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
545 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
548 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
549 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
551 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
552 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
554 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
555 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
556 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
560 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
561 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
562 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
563 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
564 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
566 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
567 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
568 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
570 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
574 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
575 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
576 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
578 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
579 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
581 config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
582 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
585 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
586 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
588 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
592 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
594 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
595 that may impact performance.
599 config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
600 bool "Debug VMA caching"
603 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
604 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
610 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
613 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
617 config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
618 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
621 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
625 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
629 bool "Debug VM translations"
630 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
632 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
633 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
637 config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
638 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
639 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
641 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
642 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
644 config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
645 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
648 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
649 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
650 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
651 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
652 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
656 config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
657 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
658 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
660 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
661 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
662 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
664 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
665 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
667 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
669 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
670 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
671 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
672 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
674 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
675 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
679 config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
680 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
681 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
684 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
685 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
686 and decreases performance.
691 bool "Highmem debugging"
692 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
694 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
695 systems. Disable for production systems.
697 config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
700 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
701 bool "Check for stack overflows"
702 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
704 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
705 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
706 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
707 below a certain limit.
709 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
710 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
713 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
714 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
716 If in doubt, say "N".
718 source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
720 source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
722 config DEBUG_REFCOUNT
723 bool "Verbose refcount checks"
725 Say Y here if you want reference counters (refcount_t and kref) to
726 generate WARNs on dubious usage. Without this refcount_t will still
727 be a saturating counter and avoid Use-After-Free by turning it into
728 a resource leak Denial-Of-Service.
730 Use of this option will increase kernel text size but will alert the
731 admin of potential abuse.
733 If in doubt, say "N".
735 endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
740 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
741 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
742 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
745 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
746 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
748 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
749 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
751 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
752 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
754 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
755 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
756 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
758 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
760 config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
761 bool "Instrument all code by default"
765 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
766 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
767 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
768 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
769 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
772 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
773 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
775 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
776 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
777 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
778 points; some don't and need to be caught.
780 menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
782 config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
783 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
784 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
786 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
787 hard and soft lockups.
789 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
790 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
791 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
792 detection and the system will stay locked up.
794 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
795 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
796 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
797 and the system will stay locked up.
799 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
800 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
801 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
803 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
804 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
806 config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
808 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
809 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
811 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
812 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
813 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
815 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
816 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
817 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
818 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
822 config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
824 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
826 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
827 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
829 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
830 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
831 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
833 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
834 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
835 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
836 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
838 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
839 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
840 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
841 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
842 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
846 config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
848 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
850 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
851 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
853 config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
854 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
855 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
856 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
858 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
859 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
860 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
862 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
863 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
864 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
865 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
866 feature has negligible overhead.
868 config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
869 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
870 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
873 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
874 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
877 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
878 sysctl or by writing a value to
879 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
881 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
882 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
884 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
885 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
886 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
888 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
889 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
890 in uninterruptible "D" state.
892 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
893 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
894 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
895 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
896 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
900 config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
902 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
904 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
905 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
908 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
909 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
911 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
912 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
913 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
914 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
915 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
916 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
918 endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
923 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
924 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
927 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
928 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
929 corruption or other issues.
933 config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
936 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
937 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
943 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
944 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
945 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
946 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
949 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
950 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
953 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
954 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
962 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
963 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
966 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
967 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
968 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
969 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
970 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
971 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
974 config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
975 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
976 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
979 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
980 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
981 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
982 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
983 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
984 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
986 config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
987 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
989 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
990 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
991 problems are suspected.
993 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
994 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1000 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
1001 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
1004 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1005 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1006 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1007 will detect preemption count underflows.
1009 menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1011 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1012 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
1013 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1015 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1016 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1018 config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1019 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1020 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1021 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
1023 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1024 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1025 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1026 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1028 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1029 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1030 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1032 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1035 config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1036 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1037 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1038 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1039 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1040 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1042 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1043 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1044 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1045 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1046 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
1047 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1048 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1049 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1050 you are a distro, do not.
1052 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1053 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
1054 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1055 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1056 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1059 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1060 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1061 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1062 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1063 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1064 held during task exit.
1066 config PROVE_LOCKING
1067 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
1068 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1070 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1071 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1072 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1073 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1076 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1077 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1078 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1079 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1080 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1081 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1084 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1085 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1087 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1088 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1089 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1090 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1091 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1092 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1093 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1094 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1095 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1097 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1098 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1099 kernel reports nothing.
1101 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1102 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1103 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1104 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1105 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1107 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
1109 config PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL
1114 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1116 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
1121 bool "Lock usage statistics"
1122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1124 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1125 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1126 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1129 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1131 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
1133 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1135 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1136 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
1138 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
1139 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
1141 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1142 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
1143 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
1145 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1146 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1147 of more runtime overhead.
1149 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1150 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
1151 select PREEMPT_COUNT
1152 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1154 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
1155 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1156 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1157 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
1159 config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1160 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1161 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1163 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1164 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1165 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1166 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1167 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1170 config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1171 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1172 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1176 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1177 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1178 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1180 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1181 to be built into the kernel.
1182 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1183 Say N if you are unsure.
1185 config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1186 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1188 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1189 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1191 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1192 with this test harness.
1194 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1195 Say N if you are unsure.
1197 endmenu # lock debugging
1199 config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1202 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1203 either tracing or lock debugging.
1206 bool "Stack backtrace support"
1207 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1209 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1210 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1211 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1212 stack trace generation.
1214 config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1215 bool "kobject debugging"
1216 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1218 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1221 config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1222 bool "kobject release debugging"
1223 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
1225 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1226 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1227 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1228 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1229 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1232 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1233 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1234 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1236 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1237 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1238 kind of kobject release bug.
1240 config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1243 config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1244 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
1245 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
1248 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1249 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1250 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1253 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1254 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1256 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1261 config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1262 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1263 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1265 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1266 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1267 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1272 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1275 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1276 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1281 config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1282 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1283 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1285 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1286 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1287 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1288 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1291 config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1292 bool "Debug credential management"
1293 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1295 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1296 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1297 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1298 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1301 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1302 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1306 menu "RCU Debugging"
1309 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
1311 config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1312 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1313 depends on PROVE_RCU
1316 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1317 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1318 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1321 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1323 Say N if you are unsure.
1325 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1326 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1329 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1330 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1331 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1332 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1333 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1336 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1338 Say N if you are unsure.
1344 config RCU_PERF_TEST
1345 tristate "performance tests for RCU"
1346 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1352 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
1353 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1354 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1356 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
1358 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
1359 Say N if you are unsure.
1361 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1362 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1363 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1369 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1370 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1371 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1373 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1375 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1376 Say N if you are unsure.
1378 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1379 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
1380 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1382 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
1383 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
1384 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
1385 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races
1386 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
1387 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase
1388 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
1389 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
1390 almost no other circumstance.
1392 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1393 Say N if you want a sane system.
1395 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
1396 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
1399 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1401 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1402 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
1404 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1405 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
1406 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1408 This option delays grace-period initialization for a few
1409 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
1410 rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving
1411 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
1412 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
1413 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
1414 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
1417 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1418 Say N if you want a sane system.
1420 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
1421 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
1424 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1426 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1427 each rcu_node structure initialization.
1429 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1430 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
1431 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1433 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
1434 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
1435 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period
1436 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
1437 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
1438 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when
1439 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
1441 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1442 Say N if you want a sane system.
1444 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
1445 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
1448 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1450 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1451 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
1453 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1454 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
1455 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
1459 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1460 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1461 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1462 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1465 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
1466 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1467 default y if TREE_RCU
1470 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1471 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. It also enables
1472 additional tracepoints for ftrace-style event tracing.
1474 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
1475 Say N if you are unsure.
1477 config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
1478 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
1479 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1481 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
1482 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
1483 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
1485 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
1486 Say Y if you are unsure
1488 endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
1490 config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1491 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1495 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1496 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1497 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1498 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1499 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1500 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1501 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1502 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1505 config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1506 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1511 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1512 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1513 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1516 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1517 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1518 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1519 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1520 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1521 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1522 device number allocation.
1524 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1525 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1526 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1527 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1528 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1530 Say N if you are unsure.
1532 config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1533 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1534 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1535 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1538 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1539 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1540 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1541 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1543 Say N if your are unsure.
1545 config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1546 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1550 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1551 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1552 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1556 config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1557 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1558 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1559 default m if PM_DEBUG
1561 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1562 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1563 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1565 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1566 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1568 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1570 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1571 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1572 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1573 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1575 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1576 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1580 config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1581 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1582 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1584 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1585 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
1586 through debugfs interface under
1587 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
1589 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1590 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1592 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1593 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
1597 config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1598 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1599 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1601 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1602 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1603 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1605 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1606 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1608 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1610 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1611 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1612 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1613 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1615 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1616 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1620 config FAULT_INJECTION
1621 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1622 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1624 Provide fault-injection framework.
1625 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
1628 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1629 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1630 depends on SLAB || SLUB
1632 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
1634 config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1635 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1636 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
1638 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
1640 config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
1641 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
1642 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1644 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
1646 config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
1647 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
1648 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1650 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1651 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1652 thus exercising the error handling.
1654 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1655 for others it wont do anything.
1657 config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1658 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
1659 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
1661 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1662 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1663 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1664 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1668 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1670 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1672 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1674 config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1675 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1676 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
1678 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
1680 config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1681 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1682 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1685 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
1687 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
1690 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
1691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1692 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1694 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
1701 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1702 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1704 source kernel/trace/Kconfig
1706 menu "Runtime Testing"
1709 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1714 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1715 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1716 If you don't need it: say N
1717 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1720 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1721 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1723 config TEST_LIST_SORT
1724 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1725 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1727 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1728 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1732 config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1733 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1738 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1739 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1740 verified for functionality.
1742 Say N if you are unsure.
1744 config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1745 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1746 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1749 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1750 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1751 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1752 developers working on architecture code.
1754 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1755 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1757 Say N if you are unsure.
1760 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
1761 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1763 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1764 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1766 config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1767 tristate "Interval tree test"
1768 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1769 select INTERVAL_TREE
1771 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1774 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1775 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1777 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1782 config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
1783 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1785 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1789 config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1790 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1791 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1794 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1795 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1796 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1797 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1798 engine if one is available.
1803 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1805 config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1806 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1809 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1812 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1815 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1818 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1823 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1825 config TEST_RHASHTABLE
1826 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
1829 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1834 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1837 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1838 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1839 hash functions on boot (or module load).
1841 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1842 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1845 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1849 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1854 endmenu # runtime tests
1856 config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1857 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1858 depends on PCI && X86
1860 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1861 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1862 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1863 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1864 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1866 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1867 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1868 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1872 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1873 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1875 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1876 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1877 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1878 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1880 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1881 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1883 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1885 config DMA_API_DEBUG
1886 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1887 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1889 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1890 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1891 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1892 were never allocated.
1894 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1895 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1896 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1899 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1900 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1905 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1909 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1910 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1911 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1912 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1913 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1918 config TEST_USER_COPY
1919 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1923 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1924 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1925 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1926 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1932 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1936 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1937 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1938 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1939 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
1940 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
1941 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
1945 config TEST_FIRMWARE
1946 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1948 depends on FW_LOADER
1950 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1951 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1952 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1953 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1959 tristate "udelay test driver"
1962 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1963 that udelay() is working properly.
1969 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1971 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1973 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1974 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1976 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1977 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1979 config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1980 tristate "Test static keys"
1984 Test the static key interfaces.
1988 config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1989 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1992 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1993 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1998 source "samples/Kconfig"
2000 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
2002 source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
2004 config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2007 config STRICT_DEVMEM
2008 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
2009 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
2010 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2011 default y if TILE || PPC
2013 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2014 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2015 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2016 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2017 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2018 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2020 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
2021 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2022 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2027 config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2028 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2029 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
2031 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2032 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2033 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2034 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2036 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
2037 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
2038 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2039 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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