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604ff0dc 1menu "printk and dmesg options"
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3config PRINTK_TIME
4 bool "Show timing information on printks"
d3b8b6e5 5 depends on PRINTK
1da177e4 6 help
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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.
10
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.
14
15 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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42a9dc0b 18config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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19 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
20 range 1 7
21 default "4"
22 help
23 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
24
25 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
26 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
27 priority.
28
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29config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
30 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
31 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
32 help
33 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
34 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
35 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
36 using "boot_delay=N".
37
38 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
39 the "loops per jiffie" value.
40 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
41 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
42 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
43 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
44 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
45 what it believes to be lockup conditions.
46
47config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
48 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
49 default n
50 depends on PRINTK
51 depends on DEBUG_FS
52 help
53
54 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
55 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
56 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
57 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
58 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
59 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
60
61 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
62 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
63 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
64 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
65
66 Usage:
67
68 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
69 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
70 filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
71 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
72 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
73 format for each line of the file is:
74
75 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
76
77 filename : source file of the debug statement
78 lineno : line number of the debug statement
79 module : module that contains the debug statement
80 function : function that contains the debug statement
81 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
82 format : the format used for the debug statement
83
84 From a live system:
85
86 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
87 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format
88 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
89 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
90 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
91
92 Example usage:
93
94 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
95 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
96 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
97
98 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
99 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
100 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
101
102 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
103 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
104 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
105
106 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
107 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
108 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
109
110 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
111 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
112 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
113
114 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
115
116endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
117
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118menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
119
120config DEBUG_INFO
121 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 122 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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123 help
124 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
125 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
126 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
127 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
128 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
129 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
130
131 If unsure, say N.
132
133config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
134 bool "Reduce debugging information"
135 depends on DEBUG_INFO
136 help
137 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
138 information for structure types. This means that tools that
139 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
140 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
141 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
142 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
143 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
144 Only works with newer gcc versions.
145
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146config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
147 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
148 depends on DEBUG_INFO
149 help
150 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
151 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
152 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
153 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
154 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
155
156 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
157 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
158 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
159 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
160
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161config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
162 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
163 depends on DEBUG_INFO
164 help
165 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
166 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
167 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
168 variables in gdb on optimized code.
169
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170config GDB_SCRIPTS
171 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
172 depends on DEBUG_INFO
173 help
174 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
175 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
176 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
177 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
178 instance. See Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further
179 details.
180
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181config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
182 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
183 default y
184 help
185 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
186 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
187 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
188
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189config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
190 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
191 default y
192 help
193 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
194 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
195 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 196
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197config FRAME_WARN
198 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
199 range 0 8192
3f181b4d 200 default 0 if KASAN
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201 default 1024 if !64BIT
202 default 2048 if 64BIT
203 help
204 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
205 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
206 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
207 Requires gcc 4.4
208
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209config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
210 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
211 default n
212 help
213 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
214 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
215 get_wchan() and suchlike.
216
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217config READABLE_ASM
218 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
219 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
220 help
221 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
222 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
223 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
224 sane.
225
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226config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
227 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
228 default y if X86
229 help
230 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
231 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
232 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
233 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
234 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
235 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
236 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
237 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
238 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
239 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
240 your module is.
241
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242config PAGE_OWNER
243 bool "Track page owner"
244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
245 select DEBUG_FS
246 select STACKTRACE
247 select PAGE_EXTENSION
248 help
249 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
250 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
251 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
252 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
253 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
254 for user-space helper.
255
256 If unsure, say N.
257
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258config DEBUG_FS
259 bool "Debug Filesystem"
9fd4dcec 260 select SRCU
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261 help
262 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
263 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
264 write to these files.
265
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266 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
267 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
268
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269 If unsure, say N.
270
271config HEADERS_CHECK
272 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
273 depends on !UML
274 help
275 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
276 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
277 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
278 were not exported, etc.
279
280 If you're making modifications to header files which are
281 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
282 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
283 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
284
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285config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
286 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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287 help
288 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
289 references from one section to another section.
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290 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
291 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 292 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 293 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 294 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 295 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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296 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
297 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
298 additional steps to occur:
299 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
300 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
301 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 302 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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303 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
304 a larger kernel).
305 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
306 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
d6fbfa4f 307 lose valueble information about where the mismatch was
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308 introduced.
309 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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310 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
311 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
312 reported at least twice.
313 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
314 the section mismatches that are reported.
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316config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
317 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
318 default y
319 help
320 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
321 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
322
323 If unsure, say Y.
324
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325#
326# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
327# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
328# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
329#
330config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
331 bool
f346f4b3 332 help
f346f4b3 333
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334config FRAME_POINTER
335 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
337 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
338 AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
339 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
340 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 341 help
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342 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
343 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
344 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 345
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346config STACK_VALIDATION
347 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
348 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
349 default n
350 help
351 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
352 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
353 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
354
355 For more information, see
356 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
357
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358config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
359 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
360 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 361 help
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362 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
363 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
364 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
365 definitions.
8446f1d3 366
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367 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
368 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 369
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370 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
371 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 373endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 374
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375config MAGIC_SYSRQ
376 bool "Magic SysRq key"
377 depends on !UML
378 help
379 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
380 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
381 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
382 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
383 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
384 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
385 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
386 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
387 unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 388
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389config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
390 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
391 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
392 default 0x1
393 help
394 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
395 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
396 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
397
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398config DEBUG_KERNEL
399 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 400 help
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401 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
402 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 403
0610c8a8 404menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 406source mm/Kconfig.debug
fef2c9bc 407
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408config DEBUG_OBJECTS
409 bool "Debug object operations"
410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 411 help
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412 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
413 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
414 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 415
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416config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
417 bool "Debug objects selftest"
418 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
419 help
420 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 421
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422config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
423 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
424 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
425 help
426 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
427 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
428 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
429 much slower.
3ac7fe5a 430
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431config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
432 bool "Debug timer objects"
433 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
434 help
435 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
436 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
437 validate the timer operations.
438
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439config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
440 bool "Debug work objects"
441 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
442 help
443 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
444 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
445 validate the work operations.
446
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447config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
448 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 449 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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450 help
451 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
452
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453config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
454 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
455 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
456 help
457 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
458 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
459 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
460
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461config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
462 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
463 range 0 1
464 default "1"
465 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
466 help
467 Debug objects boot parameter default value
468
1da177e4 469config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 470 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 471 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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472 help
473 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
474 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
475 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
476
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477config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
478 bool "Memory leak debugging"
479 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
480
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481config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
482 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 483 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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484 default n
485 help
486 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
487 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
488 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
489 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
490 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
491 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
492 "slub_debug=-".
493
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494config SLUB_STATS
495 default n
496 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 497 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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498 help
499 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
500 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
501 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
502 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
503 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
504 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
505 Try running: slabinfo -DA
506
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507config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
508 bool
509
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510config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
511 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 512 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 513 select DEBUG_FS
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514 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
515 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 516 select CRC32
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517 help
518 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
519 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
520 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
521 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
522 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
523 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
524 allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
525 details.
526
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527 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
528 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
529
530 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
531 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
532
533config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
534 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
535 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
536 range 200 40000
537 default 400
538 help
539 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
540 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
541 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
542 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
543 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
544
545config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
546 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
547 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
548 help
549 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
550
551 If unsure, say N.
552
553config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
554 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
555 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
556 help
557 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
558 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
559
560config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
561 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 562 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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563 help
564 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
565 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
566
567 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
568
569config DEBUG_VM
570 bool "Debug VM"
571 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
572 help
573 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
574 that may impact performance.
575
576 If unsure, say N.
577
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578config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
579 bool "Debug VMA caching"
580 depends on DEBUG_VM
581 help
582 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
583 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
584 environments.
585
586 If unsure, say N.
587
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588config DEBUG_VM_RB
589 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
590 depends on DEBUG_VM
591 help
a663dad6 592 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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593
594 If unsure, say N.
595
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596config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
597 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
598 depends on DEBUG_VM
599 help
600 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
601
602 If unsure, say N.
603
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604config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
605 bool "Debug VM translations"
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
607 help
608 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
609 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
610
611 If unsure, say N.
612
613config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
614 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
615 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
616 help
617 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
618 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
619
620config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
621 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
622 default !EXPERT
623 help
624 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
625 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
626 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
627 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
628 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
629
630 If unsure, say Y
631
632config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
633 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
634 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
635 help
636 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
637 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
638 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
639
640 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
641 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
642
643 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
644
645 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
646 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
647 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
648 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
649
650 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
651 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
652
653 If unsure, say N.
654
655config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
656 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
657 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
658 depends on SMP
659 help
660 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
661 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
662 and decreases performance.
663
664 Say N if unsure.
665
666config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
667 bool "Highmem debugging"
668 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
669 help
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671 systems. Disable for production systems.
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673config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
674 bool
675
676config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
677 bool "Check for stack overflows"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
679 ---help---
680 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
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682 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
683 below a certain limit.
684
685 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
686 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
687 involved.
688
689 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
690 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
691
692 If in doubt, say "N".
693
694source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
695
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697
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698endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
699
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700config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
701 bool
702 help
703 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
704 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
705 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
706
707config KCOV
708 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
709 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
710 select DEBUG_FS
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711 select GCC_PLUGINS
712 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
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713 help
714 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
715 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
716
717 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
718 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
719 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
720
721 For more details, see Documentation/kcov.txt.
722
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723config DEBUG_SHIRQ
724 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 725 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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726 help
727 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
728 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
729 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
730 points; some don't and need to be caught.
731
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732menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
733
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734config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
735 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 736 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 737 help
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738 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
739 hard and soft lockups.
740
741 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 742 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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743 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
744 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 745
58687acb 746 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 747 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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748 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
749 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 750
58687acb 751 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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752 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
753 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
754
755 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
756 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
8446f1d3 757
23637d47 758config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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759 def_bool y
760 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
761 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
8446f1d3 762
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763config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
764 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 765 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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766 help
767 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
768 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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769 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
770 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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772 Say N if unsure.
773
774config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
775 int
8f1f66ed 776 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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777 range 0 1
778 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
779 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
780
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781config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
782 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 783 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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784 help
785 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
786 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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787 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
788 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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790 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
791 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
792 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
793 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
794 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
795
796 Say N if unsure.
797
798config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
799 int
e16bb1d7 800 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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801 range 0 1
802 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
803 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
804
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805config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
806 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
807 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 808 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 809 help
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810 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
811 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
812 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitiley.
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814 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
815 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
816 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
817 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
818 feature has negligible overhead.
871751e2 819
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820config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
821 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
822 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
823 default 120
f0630fff 824 help
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825 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
826 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
827 be considered hung.
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829 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
830 sysctl or by writing a value to
831 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
8ff12cfc 832
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833 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
834 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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836config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
837 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
838 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 839 help
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840 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
841 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
842 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 843
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844 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
845 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
846 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
847 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
848 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 850 Say N if unsure.
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852config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
853 int
854 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
855 range 0 1
856 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
857 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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859config WQ_WATCHDOG
860 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
861 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
862 help
863 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
864 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
865 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
866 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
867 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
868 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
869
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870endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
871
872config PANIC_ON_OOPS
873 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 874 help
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875 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
876 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
877 line.
a9d9058a 878
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879 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
880 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
881 corruption or other issues.
882
883 Say N if unsure.
884
885config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
886 int
887 range 0 1
888 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
889 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
890
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891config PANIC_TIMEOUT
892 int "panic timeout"
893 default 0
894 help
895 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
896 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
897 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
898 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
899
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900config SCHED_DEBUG
901 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
902 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
903 default y
0822ee4a 904 help
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905 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
906 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
907 option is minimal.
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909config SCHED_INFO
910 bool
911 default n
912
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913config SCHEDSTATS
914 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
915 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 916 select SCHED_INFO
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917 help
918 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
919 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
920 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
921 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
922 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
923 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
924 this adds.
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927 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
928 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
929 default n
930 help
931 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
932 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
933 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
934 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
935 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
936 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
937
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938config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
939 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
940 help
941 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
942 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
943 problems are suspected.
944
945 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
946 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
947 workloads.
948
949 If unsure, say N.
950
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951config TIMER_STATS
952 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
953 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
ab0155a2 954 help
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955 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
956 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
957 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
958 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
959 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
960 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
961 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
962 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
963 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
ab0155a2 964
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965config DEBUG_PREEMPT
966 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 967 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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968 default y
969 help
970 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
971 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
972 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
973 will detect preemption count underflows.
974
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975menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
976
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977config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
978 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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979 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
980 help
981 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
982 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
983
1da177e4 984config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 985 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 986 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 987 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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988 help
989 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
990 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
991 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
992 deadlocks are also debuggable.
993
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994config DEBUG_MUTEXES
995 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
996 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
997 help
998 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
999 reported.
1000
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1002 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1003 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1004 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1005 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1006 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1007 help
1008 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1009 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1010 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1011 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1012 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1013 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1014 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1015 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1016 you are a distro, do not.
23010027 1017
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1018config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1019 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 1020 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1021 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1022 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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1023 select LOCKDEP
1024 help
1025 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1026 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1027 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1028 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1029 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1030 held during task exit.
1031
1032config PROVE_LOCKING
1033 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 1034 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1035 select LOCKDEP
1036 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1037 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 1038 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 1039 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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1040 default n
1041 help
1042 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1043 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1044 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1045 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1046 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1047 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1048 deadlock.
1049
1050 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1051 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1052
1053 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1054 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1055 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1056 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1057 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1058 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1059 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1060 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1061 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1062
1063 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1064 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1065 kernel reports nothing.
1066
1067 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1068 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1069 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1070 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1071 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1072
214e0aed 1073 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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1075config LOCKDEP
1076 bool
517e7aa5 1077 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1078 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1079 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
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1080 select KALLSYMS
1081 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1082
f20786ff 1083config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 1084 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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1085 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1086 select LOCKDEP
1087 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1088 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1089 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1090 default n
1091 help
1092 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1093
214e0aed 1094 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
a560aa48 1095
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1097 subcommand of perf.
1098 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1099 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1101 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1102 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1103
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1105 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1106 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1108 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1109 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1110 of more runtime overhead.
1111
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1113 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1114 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1115 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1116 help
1117 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1118 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1119 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1120 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1122config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1123 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1124 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1125 help
1126 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1127 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1128 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1129 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1130 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1131 mutexes and rwsems.
1132
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1134 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1136 select TORTURE_TEST
1137 default n
1138 help
1139 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1140 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1141 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1142
1143 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1144 to be built into the kernel.
1145 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1146 Say N if you are unsure.
1147
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8637c099 1149
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1150config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1151 bool
5ca43f6c 1152 help
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1153 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1154 either tracing or lock debugging.
5ca43f6c 1155
8637c099 1156config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1157 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1158 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1159 help
1160 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1161 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1162 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1163 stack trace generation.
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1166 bool "kobject debugging"
1167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1168 help
1169 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1170 to the syslog.
1171
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1172config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1173 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1174 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1175 help
1176 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1177 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1178 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1179 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1180 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1181 unregistered.
1182
1183 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1184 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1185 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1186
1187 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1188 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1189 kind of kobject release bug.
1190
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1191config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1192 bool
1193
1da177e4 1194config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1195 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1196 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1197 default y
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1198 help
1199 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1200 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1201 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1202
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1203config DEBUG_LIST
1204 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
1205 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1206 help
1207 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1208 walking routines.
1209
1210 If unsure, say N.
1211
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1212config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1213 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1215 help
1216 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1217 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1218 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1219
1220 If unsure, say N.
1221
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1222config DEBUG_SG
1223 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1224 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1225 help
1226 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1227 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1228 their sg tables.
1229
1230 If unsure, say N.
1231
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1232config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1233 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1234 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1235 help
1236 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1237 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1238 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1239 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1240 performance, say N.
1241
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1242config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1243 bool "Debug credential management"
1244 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1245 help
1246 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1247 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1248 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1249 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1250 struct.
1251
1252 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1253 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1254
1255 If unsure, say N.
1256
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1257menu "RCU Debugging"
1258
1259config PROVE_RCU
9bae6592 1260 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
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1262config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1263 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1264 depends on PROVE_RCU
1265 default n
1266 help
1267 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1268 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1269 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1270 on a single reboot.
1271
1272 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1273
1274 Say N if you are unsure.
1275
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1276config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1277 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1278 default n
1279 help
1280 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1281 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1282 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1283 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1284 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1285 a debugging aid.
1286
1287 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1288
1289 Say N if you are unsure.
1290
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1291config TORTURE_TEST
1292 tristate
1293 default n
1294
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1295config RCU_PERF_TEST
1296 tristate "performance tests for RCU"
1297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1298 select TORTURE_TEST
1299 select SRCU
1300 select TASKS_RCU
1301 default n
1302 help
1303 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
1304 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1305 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1306
1307 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
1308 the kernel.
1309 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
1310 Say N if you are unsure.
1311
1312config RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE
1313 bool "performance tests for RCU runnable by default"
1314 depends on RCU_PERF_TEST = y
1315 default n
1316 help
1317 This option provides a way to build the RCU performance tests
1318 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot time.
1319 You can use /sys/module to manually override this setting.
1320 This /proc file is available only when the RCU performance
1321 tests have been built into the kernel.
1322
1323 Say Y here if you want the RCU performance tests to start during
1324 boot (you probably don't).
1325 Say N here if you want the RCU performance tests to start only
1326 after being manually enabled via /sys/module.
1327
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1328config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1329 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1330 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
51b1130e 1331 select TORTURE_TEST
83fe27ea 1332 select SRCU
82d0f4c0 1333 select TASKS_RCU
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1334 default n
1335 help
1336 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1337 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1338 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1339
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1340 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1341 the kernel.
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1342 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1343 Say N if you are unsure.
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1345config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
1346 bool "torture tests for RCU runnable by default"
1347 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST = y
1348 default n
1349 help
1350 This option provides a way to build the RCU torture tests
1351 directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot
1352 time. You can use /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
1353 to manually override this setting. This /proc file is
1354 available only when the RCU torture tests have been built
1355 into the kernel.
1356
1357 Say Y here if you want the RCU torture tests to start during
1358 boot (you probably don't).
1359 Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
1360 after being manually enabled via /proc.
1361
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1362config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1363 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
1364 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1365 help
1366 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
1367 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
1368 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
1369 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races
1370 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
1371 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase
1372 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
1373 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
1374 almost no other circumstance.
1375
1376 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1377 Say N if you want a sane system.
1378
1379config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
1380 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
1381 range 0 5
1382 default 3
1383 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1384 help
1385 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1386 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
1387
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1388config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
1389 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
1390 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1391 help
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1393 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
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1395 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
1396 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
1397 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
1398 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
1399 other circumstance.
1400
1401 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1402 Say N if you want a sane system.
1403
1404config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
1405 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
1406 range 0 5
186bea5d 1407 default 3
8d7dc928 1408 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
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1410 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1411 each rcu_node structure initialization.
1412
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1413config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1414 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
1415 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1416 help
1417 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
1418 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
1419 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period
1420 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
1421 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
1422 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when
1423 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
1424
1425 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1426 Say N if you want a sane system.
1427
1428config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
1429 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
1430 range 0 5
1431 default 3
1432 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1433 help
1434 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1435 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
1436
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1437config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1438 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
6bfc09e2 1439 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
b163760e 1440 range 3 300
c896054f 1441 default 21
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1442 help
1443 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1444 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1445 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1446 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1447
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1448config RCU_TRACE
1449 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6dab2778 1450 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52494535 1451 select TRACE_CLOCK
6dab2778 1452 help
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1453 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
1454 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
ad118c54 1455
5c8806a0 1456 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
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1458
1ce46ee5 1459config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
eb6d5b0a 1460 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
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1461 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1462 help
1463 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
1464 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
1465 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
1466
1467 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
1468 Say Y if you are unsure
1469
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1471
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1472config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1473 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1474 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1475 default n
1476 help
1477 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1478 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1479 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1480 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1481 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1482 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1483 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1484 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1485 be impacted.
1486
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1487config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1488 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1489 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1490 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1491 default n
870d6656 1492 help
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1493 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1494 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1495 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1496 is broken.
1497
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1498 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1499 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1500 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1501 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1502 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1503 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1504 device number allocation.
1505
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1507 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1508 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1509 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1510 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1511
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1513
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1514config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1515 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1516 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1517 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1518 default n
1519 help
1520 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1521 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1522 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1523 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1524
1525 Say N if your are unsure.
1526
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1527config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1528 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1529 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1530 select DEBUG_FS
1531 help
e41e85cc 1532 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1534 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1535
1536 Say N if unsure.
1537
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1538config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1539 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
f5a9f52e 1540 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
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1542 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
e41e85cc 1543 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
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1545 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1546
1547 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1548 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1549
1550 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1551
1552 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1553 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1554 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1555 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
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1557 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1558 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1559
1560 If unsure, say N.
1561
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1562config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1563 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1564 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1565 default m if PM_DEBUG
1566 help
e41e85cc 1567 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1568 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1569 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1570
1571 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1572 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1573
1574 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1575
1576 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1577 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1578 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1579 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1580
1581 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1582 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1583
1584 If unsure, say N.
1585
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1586config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1587 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1588 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1589 help
e41e85cc 1590 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1591 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1592 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1593 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1595 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1596 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1597
1598 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1599 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1601 If unsure, say N.
1602
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1603config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1604 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1605 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1606 help
1607 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1608 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1609 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1610
1611 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1612 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1613
1614 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1615
1616 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1617 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1618 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1619 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1620
1621 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1622 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1623
1624 If unsure, say N.
1625
6ff1cb35 1626config FAULT_INJECTION
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1627 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1628 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1630 Provide fault-injection framework.
1631 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1632
8a8b6502 1633config FAILSLAB
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1634 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1635 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1636 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1637 help
1ab8509a 1638 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1639
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1641 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1642 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1643 help
1ab8509a 1644 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 1646config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1647 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1648 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1649 help
1ab8509a 1650 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1651
581d4e28 1652config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1653 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1654 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1655 help
1656 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1657 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1658 thus exercising the error handling.
1659
1660 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1661 for others it wont do anything.
1662
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1664 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1665 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1667 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1668 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1669 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1670 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1671 the block device.
1672
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1674 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1675 select DEBUG_FS
1676 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1677 help
1678 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1679
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1681 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1682 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1683 help
1ab8509a 1684 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1686config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1687 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1688 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1689 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1690 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1691 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
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1693 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1694
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1696 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1698 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1699 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1700 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1702 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1703 select STACKTRACE
1704 select SCHEDSTATS
1705 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1707 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1708 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1709
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1710config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1711 bool
1712
1713config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1714 bool "Strict user copy size checks"
1715 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
1716 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1717 help
1718 Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
1719 copy operations into compile time failures.
1720
1721 The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
1722 are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
1723 the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
1724 within bounds.
1725
1726 If unsure, say N.
1727
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1729
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1731
1732config LKDTM
1733 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1734 depends on DEBUG_FS
1735 depends on BLOCK
1736 default n
1737 help
1738 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1739 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1740 If you don't need it: say N
1741 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1742 called lkdtm.
1743
1744 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1745 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1746
1747config TEST_LIST_SORT
1748 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1749 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1750 help
1751 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1752 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1753
1754 If unsure, say N.
1755
1756config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1757 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1759 depends on KPROBES
1760 default n
1761 help
1762 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1763 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1764 verified for functionality.
1765
1766 Say N if you are unsure.
1767
1768config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1769 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1771 default n
1772 help
1773 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1774 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1775 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1776 developers working on architecture code.
1777
1778 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1779 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1780
1781 Say N if you are unsure.
1782
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1783config RBTREE_TEST
1784 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1785 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1787 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1788 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1789
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1790config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1791 tristate "Interval tree test"
1792 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1793 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1795 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1796
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1798 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1799 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1800 help
1801 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1802 operations.
1803
1804 If unsure, say N.
1805
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1807 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1808 help
1809 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1810
1811 If unsure, say N.
1812
1813config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1814 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1815 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1816 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1817 ---help---
1818 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1819 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1820 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1821 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1822 engine if one is available.
1823
1824 If unsure, say N.
1825
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1826config TEST_HEXDUMP
1827 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1828
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1830 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1831
1832config TEST_KSTRTOX
1833 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1834
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1836 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1837
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1839 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1840 default n
1841 help
1842 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1843
1844 If unsure, say N.
1845
7e1e7763 1846config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1847 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1848 default n
1849 help
1850 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1851
1852 If unsure, say N.
1853
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1854config TEST_HASH
1855 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1856 default n
1857 help
1858 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash,h>)
1859 and string (<linux/stringhash.h>) hash functions on boot
1860 (or module load).
1861
1862 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1863 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1864
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1866
f212ec4b 1867config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 1868 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1869 depends on PCI && X86
1870 help
1871 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1872 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1873 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1874 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1875 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1876
1877 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1878 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1879 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1880
1881 Usage:
1882
1883 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1884 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1885
1886 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1887 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1888 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1889 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1890
1891 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1892 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1893
1894 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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152de30b 1896config BUILD_DOCSRC
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1897 bool "Build targets in Documentation/ tree"
1898 depends on HEADERS_CHECK
1899 help
1900 This option attempts to build objects from the source files in the
1901 kernel Documentation/ tree.
1902
1903 Say N if you are unsure.
1904
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1906 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1907 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1908 help
1909 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1910 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1911 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1912 were never allocated.
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1914 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1915 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1916 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1917 not undergoing DMA.
1918
1919 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1920 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1921
1922 If unsure, say N.
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8a6f0b47 1924config TEST_LKM
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1925 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1926 default n
1927 depends on m
1928 help
1929 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1930 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1931 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1932 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1933 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1934 requested by name.
1935
1936 If unsure, say N.
1937
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1938config TEST_USER_COPY
1939 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1940 default n
1941 depends on m
1942 help
1943 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1944 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1945 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1946 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1947 protections.
1948
1949 If unsure, say N.
1950
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1951config TEST_BPF
1952 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1953 default n
98920ba6 1954 depends on m && NET
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1955 help
1956 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1957 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1958 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1959 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1961 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1963 If unsure, say N.
1964
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1965config TEST_FIRMWARE
1966 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1967 default n
1968 depends on FW_LOADER
1969 help
1970 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1971 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1972 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1973 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1974 userspace.
1975
1976 If unsure, say N.
1977
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1979 tristate "udelay test driver"
1980 default n
1981 help
1982 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1983 that udelay() is working properly.
1984
1985 If unsure, say N.
1986
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1988 bool "Memtest"
1989 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1990 ---help---
1991 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1992 to be set.
1993 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1994 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1995 ...
8d8cfb47 1996 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
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1998
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2000 tristate "Test static keys"
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2001 default n
2002 depends on m
2003 help
2bf9e0ab 2004 Test the static key interfaces.
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2006 If unsure, say N.
2007
267c4025 2008source "samples/Kconfig"
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2010source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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2012source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
2013
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2014config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2015 bool
2016
2017config STRICT_DEVMEM
2018 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
2019 depends on MMU
2020 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2021 default y if TILE || PPC
2022 ---help---
2023 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2024 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2025 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2026 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2027 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2028 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2029
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2031 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2032 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2033 users of /dev/mem.
2034
2035 If in doubt, say Y.
2036
2037config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2038 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2039 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2041 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2042 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2043 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2044 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2045
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2048 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2049 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2051 If in doubt, say Y.