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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
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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
8c27ceff 16 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
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18config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
19 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)"
20 range 1 15
21 default "7"
22 help
23 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console.
24
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.
28
29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed prink()
30 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
31 option.
32
42a9dc0b 33config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
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34 int "Default message log level (1-7)"
35 range 1 7
36 default "4"
37 help
38 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
39
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
42 priority.
43
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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.
47
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48config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
49 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
50 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
51 help
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,
55 using "boot_delay=N".
56
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.
65
66config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
67 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
68 default n
69 depends on PRINTK
70 depends on DEBUG_FS
71 help
72
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%.
79
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.
84
85 Usage:
86
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:
93
94 filename:lineno [module]function flags format
95
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
102
103 From a live system:
104
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"
110
111 Example usage:
112
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
116
117 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
118 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
119 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
120
121 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module
122 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
123 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
124
125 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
126 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
127 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
128
129 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
130 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
131 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
132
133 See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
134
135endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
136
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137menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
138
139config DEBUG_INFO
140 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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142 help
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.
149
150 If unsure, say N.
151
152config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
153 bool "Reduce debugging information"
154 depends on DEBUG_INFO
155 help
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.
164
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165config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
166 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
167 depends on DEBUG_INFO
168 help
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.
174
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.
179
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180config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
181 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
182 depends on DEBUG_INFO
183 help
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.
188
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189config GDB_SCRIPTS
190 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
191 depends on DEBUG_INFO
192 help
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/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further
198 details.
199
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200config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
201 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
202 default y
203 help
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.
207
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208config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
209 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
210 default y
211 help
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.
1da177e4 215
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216config FRAME_WARN
217 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
218 range 0 8192
3f181b4d 219 default 0 if KASAN
0e07f663 220 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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221 default 1024 if !64BIT
222 default 2048 if 64BIT
223 help
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.
227 Requires gcc 4.4
228
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229config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
230 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
231 default n
232 help
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.
236
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237config READABLE_ASM
238 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
240 help
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
244 sane.
245
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246config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
247 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
248 default y if X86
249 help
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
260 your module is.
261
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262config PAGE_OWNER
263 bool "Track page owner"
264 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
265 select DEBUG_FS
266 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 267 select STACKDEPOT
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268 select PAGE_EXTENSION
269 help
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.
276
277 If unsure, say N.
278
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279config DEBUG_FS
280 bool "Debug Filesystem"
9fd4dcec 281 select SRCU
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282 help
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.
286
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287 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
288 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
289
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290 If unsure, say N.
291
292config HEADERS_CHECK
293 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
294 depends on !UML
295 help
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.
300
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.
305
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306config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
307 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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308 help
309 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
310 references from one section to another section.
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311 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
312 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 313 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 314 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 315 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 316 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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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
91341d4b 323 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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324 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
325 a larger kernel).
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
67797b92 328 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
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329 introduced.
330 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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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.
91341d4b 336
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337config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
338 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
339 default y
340 help
341 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
342 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
343
344 If unsure, say Y.
345
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346#
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):
350#
351config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
352 bool
f346f4b3 353 help
f346f4b3 354
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355config FRAME_POINTER
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
a304e1b8 362 help
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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)
a304e1b8 366
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367config STACK_VALIDATION
368 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
369 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
370 default n
371 help
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.
375
376 For more information, see
377 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
378
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379config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
380 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
381 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 382 help
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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
386 definitions.
8446f1d3 387
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388 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
389 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 390
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391 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
392 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 394endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 395
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396config MAGIC_SYSRQ
397 bool "Magic SysRq key"
398 depends on !UML
399 help
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.
8446f1d3 409
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410config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
411 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
412 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
413 default 0x1
414 help
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.
418
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419config DEBUG_KERNEL
420 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 421 help
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422 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
423 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 424
0610c8a8 425menu "Memory Debugging"
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0610c8a8 427source mm/Kconfig.debug
fef2c9bc 428
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429config DEBUG_OBJECTS
430 bool "Debug object operations"
431 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 432 help
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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.
9c44bc03 436
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437config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
438 bool "Debug objects selftest"
439 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
440 help
441 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 442
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443config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
444 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
445 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
446 help
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
450 much slower.
3ac7fe5a 451
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452config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
453 bool "Debug timer objects"
454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
455 help
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.
459
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460config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
461 bool "Debug work objects"
462 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
463 help
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.
467
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468config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
469 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 470 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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471 help
472 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
473
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474config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
475 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
476 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
477 help
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.
481
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482config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
483 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
484 range 0 1
485 default "1"
486 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
487 help
488 Debug objects boot parameter default value
489
1da177e4 490config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 491 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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493 help
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.
497
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498config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
499 bool "Memory leak debugging"
500 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
501
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502config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
503 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 504 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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505 default n
506 help
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
513 "slub_debug=-".
514
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515config SLUB_STATS
516 default n
517 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 518 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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519 help
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
527
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528config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
529 bool
530
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531config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
532 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 533 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 534 select DEBUG_FS
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535 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
536 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 537 select CRC32
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538 help
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/kmemleak.txt for more
546 details.
547
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548 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
549 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
550
551 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
552 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
553
554config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
555 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
556 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
557 range 200 40000
558 default 400
559 help
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.
565
566config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
567 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
568 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
569 help
570 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
571
572 If unsure, say N.
573
574config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
575 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
576 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
577 help
578 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
579 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
580
581config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
582 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 583 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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584 help
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.
587
588 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
589
590config DEBUG_VM
591 bool "Debug VM"
592 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
593 help
594 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
595 that may impact performance.
596
597 If unsure, say N.
598
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599config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
600 bool "Debug VMA caching"
601 depends on DEBUG_VM
602 help
603 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
604 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
605 environments.
606
607 If unsure, say N.
608
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609config DEBUG_VM_RB
610 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
611 depends on DEBUG_VM
612 help
a663dad6 613 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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614
615 If unsure, say N.
616
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617config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
618 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
619 depends on DEBUG_VM
620 help
621 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
622
623 If unsure, say N.
624
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625config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
626 bool "Debug VM translations"
627 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
628 help
629 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
630 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
631
632 If unsure, say N.
633
634config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
635 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
636 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
637 help
638 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
639 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
640
641config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
642 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
643 default !EXPERT
644 help
645 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
646 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
647 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
648 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
649 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
650
651 If unsure, say Y
652
653config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
654 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
655 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
656 help
657 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
658 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
659 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
660
661 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
662 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
663
664 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
665
666 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
667 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
668 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
669 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
670
671 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
672 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
673
674 If unsure, say N.
675
676config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
677 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
678 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
679 depends on SMP
680 help
681 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
682 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
683 and decreases performance.
684
685 Say N if unsure.
686
687config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
688 bool "Highmem debugging"
689 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
690 help
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692 systems. Disable for production systems.
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694config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
695 bool
696
697config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
698 bool "Check for stack overflows"
699 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
700 ---help---
701 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 702 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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703 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
704 below a certain limit.
705
706 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
707 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
708 involved.
709
710 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
711 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
712
713 If in doubt, say "N".
714
715source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
716
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718
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719endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
720
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721config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
722 bool
723 help
724 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
725 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
726 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
727
728config KCOV
729 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
730 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
731 select DEBUG_FS
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732 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
733 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
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734 help
735 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
736 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
737
738 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
739 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
740 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
741
742 For more details, see Documentation/kcov.txt.
743
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744config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
745 bool "Instrument all code by default"
746 depends on KCOV
747 default y if KCOV
748 help
749 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
750 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
751 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
752 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
753 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
754
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755config DEBUG_SHIRQ
756 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 757 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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758 help
759 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
760 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
761 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
762 points; some don't and need to be caught.
763
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764menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
765
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766config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
767 bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 768 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
8446f1d3 769 help
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770 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
771 hard and soft lockups.
772
773 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 774 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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775 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
776 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 777
58687acb 778 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 779 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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780 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
781 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 782
58687acb 783 The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
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784 generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
785 An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
786
787 The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
788 thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
8446f1d3 789
23637d47 790config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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791 def_bool y
792 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
793 depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
8446f1d3 794
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795config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
796 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 797 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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798 help
799 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
800 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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801 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
802 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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804 Say N if unsure.
805
806config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
807 int
8f1f66ed 808 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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809 range 0 1
810 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
811 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
812
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813config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
814 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
89d7ce2a 815 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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816 help
817 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
818 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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819 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
820 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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822 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
823 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
824 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
825 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
826 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
827
828 Say N if unsure.
829
830config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
831 int
e16bb1d7 832 depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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833 range 0 1
834 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
835 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
836
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837config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
838 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
839 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8edbb83e 840 default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 841 help
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842 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
843 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 844 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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846 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
847 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
848 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
849 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
850 feature has negligible overhead.
871751e2 851
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852config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
853 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
854 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
855 default 120
f0630fff 856 help
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857 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
858 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
859 be considered hung.
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861 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
862 sysctl or by writing a value to
863 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
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865 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
866 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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868config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
869 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
870 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 871 help
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872 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
873 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
874 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 875
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876 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
877 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
878 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
879 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
880 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
bf96d1e3 881
0610c8a8 882 Say N if unsure.
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884config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
885 int
886 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
887 range 0 1
888 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
889 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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891config WQ_WATCHDOG
892 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
893 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
894 help
895 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
896 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
897 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
898 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
899 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
900 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
901
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902endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
903
904config PANIC_ON_OOPS
905 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 906 help
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907 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
908 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
909 line.
a9d9058a 910
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911 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
912 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
913 corruption or other issues.
914
915 Say N if unsure.
916
917config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
918 int
919 range 0 1
920 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
921 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
922
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924 int "panic timeout"
925 default 0
926 help
927 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
928 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
929 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
930 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
931
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932config SCHED_DEBUG
933 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
934 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
935 default y
0822ee4a 936 help
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937 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
938 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
939 option is minimal.
0822ee4a 940
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941config SCHED_INFO
942 bool
943 default n
944
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945config SCHEDSTATS
946 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
947 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 948 select SCHED_INFO
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949 help
950 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
951 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
952 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
953 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
954 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
955 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
956 this adds.
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958config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
959 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
960 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
961 default n
962 help
963 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
964 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
965 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
966 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
967 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
968 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
969
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970config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
971 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
972 help
973 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
974 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
975 problems are suspected.
976
977 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
978 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
979 workloads.
980
981 If unsure, say N.
982
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983config TIMER_STATS
984 bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
985 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
ab0155a2 986 help
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987 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
988 timer routines to collect statistics about kernel timers being
989 reprogrammed. The statistics can be read from /proc/timer_stats.
990 The statistics collection is started by writing 1 to /proc/timer_stats,
991 writing 0 stops it. This feature is useful to collect information
992 about timer usage patterns in kernel and userspace. This feature
993 is lightweight if enabled in the kernel config but not activated
994 (it defaults to deactivated on bootup and will only be activated
995 if some application like powertop activates it explicitly).
ab0155a2 996
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997config DEBUG_PREEMPT
998 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 999 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1000 default y
1001 help
1002 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1003 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1004 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1005 will detect preemption count underflows.
1006
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1007menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1008
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1009config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1010 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1011 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1012 help
1013 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1014 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1015
1da177e4 1016config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1017 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1018 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1019 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1020 help
1021 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1022 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1023 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1024 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1025
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1026config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1027 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1028 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1029 help
1030 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1031 reported.
1032
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1033config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1034 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1035 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1036 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1037 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1038 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1039 help
1040 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1041 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1042 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1043 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1044 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1045 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1046 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1047 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1048 you are a distro, do not.
23010027 1049
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1050config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1051 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 1052 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1053 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1054 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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1055 select LOCKDEP
1056 help
1057 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1058 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1059 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1060 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1061 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1062 held during task exit.
1063
1064config PROVE_LOCKING
1065 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 1066 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1067 select LOCKDEP
1068 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1069 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 1070 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
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1072 default n
1073 help
1074 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1075 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1076 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1077 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1078 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1079 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1080 deadlock.
1081
1082 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1083 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1084
1085 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1086 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1087 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1088 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1089 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1090 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1091 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1092 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1093 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1094
1095 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1096 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1097 kernel reports nothing.
1098
1099 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1100 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1101 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1102 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1103 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1104
214e0aed 1105 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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1107config PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL
1108 bool
1109
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1110config LOCKDEP
1111 bool
517e7aa5 1112 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1113 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1114 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
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1116 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1117
f20786ff 1118config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 1119 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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1120 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1121 select LOCKDEP
1122 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1123 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1124 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1125 default n
1126 help
1127 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1128
214e0aed 1129 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
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1132 subcommand of perf.
1133 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1134 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1136 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1137 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1138
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1139config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1140 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1141 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1142 help
1143 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1144 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1145 of more runtime overhead.
1146
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1147config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1148 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1149 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1150 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1151 help
1152 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1153 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1154 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1155 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1157config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1158 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1159 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1160 help
1161 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1162 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1163 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1164 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1165 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1166 mutexes and rwsems.
1167
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1168config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1169 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1170 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1171 select TORTURE_TEST
1172 default n
1173 help
1174 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1175 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1176 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1177
1178 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1179 to be built into the kernel.
1180 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1181 Say N if you are unsure.
1182
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8637c099 1184
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1185config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1186 bool
5ca43f6c 1187 help
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1188 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1189 either tracing or lock debugging.
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8637c099 1191config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1192 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1193 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1194 help
1195 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1196 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1197 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1198 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1199
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1200config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1201 bool "kobject debugging"
1202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1203 help
1204 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1205 to the syslog.
1206
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1207config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1208 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1209 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1210 help
1211 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1212 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1213 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1214 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1215 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1216 unregistered.
1217
1218 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1219 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1220 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1221
1222 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1223 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1224 kind of kobject release bug.
1225
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1226config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1227 bool
1228
1da177e4 1229config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1230 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1231 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1232 default y
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1233 help
1234 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1235 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1236 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1237
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1238config DEBUG_LIST
1239 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1242 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1243 walking routines.
1244
1245 If unsure, say N.
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1247config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1248 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1249 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1250 help
1251 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1252 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1253 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1254
1255 If unsure, say N.
1256
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1257config DEBUG_SG
1258 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1260 help
1261 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1262 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1263 their sg tables.
1264
1265 If unsure, say N.
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1268 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1269 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1270 help
1271 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1272 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1273 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1274 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1275 performance, say N.
1276
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1277config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1278 bool "Debug credential management"
1279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1280 help
1281 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1282 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1283 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1284 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1285 struct.
1286
1287 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1288 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1289
1290 If unsure, say N.
1291
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1292menu "RCU Debugging"
1293
1294config PROVE_RCU
9bae6592 1295 def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
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1297config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
1298 bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
1299 depends on PROVE_RCU
1300 default n
1301 help
1302 By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
1303 first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
1304 disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
1305 on a single reboot.
1306
1307 Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
1308
1309 Say N if you are unsure.
1310
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1311config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
1312 bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
1313 default n
1314 help
1315 This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
1316 RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
1317 to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
1318 helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
1319 is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
1320 a debugging aid.
1321
1322 Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
1323
1324 Say N if you are unsure.
1325
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1326config TORTURE_TEST
1327 tristate
1328 default n
1329
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1330config RCU_PERF_TEST
1331 tristate "performance tests for RCU"
1332 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1333 select TORTURE_TEST
1334 select SRCU
1335 select TASKS_RCU
1336 default n
1337 help
1338 This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
1339 tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1340 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1341
1342 Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
1343 the kernel.
1344 Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
1345 Say N if you are unsure.
1346
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1347config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1348 tristate "torture tests for RCU"
1349 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
51b1130e 1350 select TORTURE_TEST
83fe27ea 1351 select SRCU
82d0f4c0 1352 select TASKS_RCU
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1354 help
1355 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1356 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
1357 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1358
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1359 Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
1360 the kernel.
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1361 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
1362 Say N if you are unsure.
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1364config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1365 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
1366 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1367 help
1368 This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
1369 propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
1370 tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
1371 consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races
1372 involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
1373 makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase
1374 grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
1375 of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
1376 almost no other circumstance.
1377
1378 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1379 Say N if you want a sane system.
1380
1381config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
1382 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
1383 range 0 5
1384 default 3
1385 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
1386 help
1387 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1388 each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
1389
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1391 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
1392 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1393 help
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1395 jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
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1397 grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
1398 kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
1399 latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
1400 This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
1401 other circumstance.
1402
1403 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1404 Say N if you want a sane system.
1405
1406config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
1407 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
1408 range 0 5
186bea5d 1409 default 3
8d7dc928 1410 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
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1412 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1413 each rcu_node structure initialization.
1414
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1415config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1416 bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
1417 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
1418 help
1419 This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
1420 between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
1421 structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period
1422 cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
1423 It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
1424 on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when
1425 torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
1426
1427 Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
1428 Say N if you want a sane system.
1429
1430config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
1431 int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
1432 range 0 5
1433 default 3
1434 depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
1435 help
1436 This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
1437 each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
1438
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1439config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
1440 int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
6bfc09e2 1441 depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
b163760e 1442 range 3 300
c896054f 1443 default 21
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1444 help
1445 If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
1446 number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
1447 RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
1448 printed at more widely spaced intervals.
1449
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1450config RCU_TRACE
1451 bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
6dab2778 1452 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
52494535 1453 select TRACE_CLOCK
6dab2778 1454 help
5c8806a0 1455 This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
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1456 in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. It also enables
1457 additional tracepoints for ftrace-style event tracing.
ad118c54 1458
5c8806a0 1459 Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
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1461
1ce46ee5 1462config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
eb6d5b0a 1463 bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
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1464 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1465 help
1466 This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
1467 NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
1468 bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
1469
1470 Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
1471 Say Y if you are unsure
1472
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1475config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1476 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1477 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1478 default n
1479 help
1480 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1481 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1482 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1483 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1484 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1485 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1486 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1487 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1488 be impacted.
1489
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1490config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1491 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1492 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1493 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1494 default n
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1496 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1497 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1498 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1499 is broken.
1500
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1501 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1502 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1503 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1504 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1505 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1506 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1507 device number allocation.
1508
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1510 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1511 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1512 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1513 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1514
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1517config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1518 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1519 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1520 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1521 default n
1522 help
1523 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1524 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1525 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1526 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1527
1528 Say N if your are unsure.
1529
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1530config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1531 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1532 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1533 select DEBUG_FS
1534 help
e41e85cc 1535 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1537 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1538
1539 Say N if unsure.
1540
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1541config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1542 tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
f5a9f52e 1543 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
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1545 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
e41e85cc 1546 the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
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1547 errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
1548 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1549
1550 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1551 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1552
1553 Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
1554
1555 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
1556 # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
1557 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
1558 bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
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1560 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1561 be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
1562
1563 If unsure, say N.
1564
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1565config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1566 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1567 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1568 default m if PM_DEBUG
1569 help
e41e85cc 1570 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1571 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1572 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1573
1574 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1575 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1576
1577 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1578
1579 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1580 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1581 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1582 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1583
1584 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1585 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1586
1587 If unsure, say N.
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1589config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1590 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1591 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1592 help
e41e85cc 1593 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1594 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1595 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1596 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1598 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1599 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1600
1601 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1602 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1604 If unsure, say N.
1605
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1606config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1607 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1608 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1609 help
1610 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1611 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1612 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1613
1614 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1615 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1616
1617 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1618
1619 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1620 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1621 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1622 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1623
1624 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1625 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1626
1627 If unsure, say N.
1628
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1630 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1633 Provide fault-injection framework.
1634 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1635
8a8b6502 1636config FAILSLAB
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1637 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1638 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1639 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1640 help
1ab8509a 1641 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1642
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1644 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1645 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1646 help
1ab8509a 1647 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 1649config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1650 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1651 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1652 help
1ab8509a 1653 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1654
581d4e28 1655config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1656 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1658 help
1659 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1660 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1661 thus exercising the error handling.
1662
1663 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1664 for others it wont do anything.
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1667 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1668 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1670 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1671 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1672 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1673 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1674 the block device.
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1676config FAIL_FUTEX
1677 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1678 select DEBUG_FS
1679 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1680 help
1681 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1682
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1684 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1685 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1686 help
1ab8509a 1687 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1689config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1690 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1691 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1692 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1693 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1694 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
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1696 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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1699 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1701 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1702 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1703 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1705 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1706 select STACKTRACE
1707 select SCHEDSTATS
1708 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1710 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1711 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
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1714
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1716
1717config LKDTM
1718 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1719 depends on DEBUG_FS
1720 depends on BLOCK
1721 default n
1722 help
1723 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1724 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1725 If you don't need it: say N
1726 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1727 called lkdtm.
1728
1729 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1730 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1731
1732config TEST_LIST_SORT
1733 bool "Linked list sorting test"
1734 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1735 help
1736 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
1737 executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
1738
1739 If unsure, say N.
1740
1741config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1742 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1743 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1744 depends on KPROBES
1745 default n
1746 help
1747 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1748 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1749 verified for functionality.
1750
1751 Say N if you are unsure.
1752
1753config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1754 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1755 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1756 default n
1757 help
1758 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1759 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1760 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1761 developers working on architecture code.
1762
1763 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1764 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1765
1766 Say N if you are unsure.
1767
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1768config RBTREE_TEST
1769 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1770 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1771 help
1772 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1773 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1774
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1775config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1776 tristate "Interval tree test"
1777 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1778 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1779 help
1780 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1781
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1783 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1784 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1785 help
1786 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1787 operations.
1788
1789 If unsure, say N.
1790
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1792 bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
1793 help
1794 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
1795
1796 If unsure, say N.
1797
1798config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1799 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1800 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1801 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1802 ---help---
1803 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1804 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1805 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1806 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1807 engine if one is available.
1808
1809 If unsure, say N.
1810
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1812 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1813
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1815 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1816
1817config TEST_KSTRTOX
1818 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1819
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1821 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1822
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1824 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1825 default n
1826 help
1827 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1828
1829 If unsure, say N.
1830
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1832 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1833
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9d6dbe1b 1835 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1837 help
1838 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1839
1840 If unsure, say N.
1841
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1843 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1844 default n
1845 help
1846 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash,h>)
1847 and string (<linux/stringhash.h>) hash functions on boot
1848 (or module load).
1849
1850 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1851 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1852
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1854
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080de8c2 1856 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1857 depends on PCI && X86
1858 help
1859 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1860 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1861 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1862 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1863 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1864
1865 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1866 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1867 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1868
1869 Usage:
1870
1871 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1872 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1873
1874 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1875 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1876 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1877 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1878
1879 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1880 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1881
1882 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1884config DMA_API_DEBUG
1885 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1886 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1887 help
1888 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1889 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1890 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1891 were never allocated.
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1893 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1894 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1895 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1896 not undergoing DMA.
1897
1898 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1899 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1900
1901 If unsure, say N.
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8a6f0b47 1903config TEST_LKM
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1904 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1905 default n
1906 depends on m
1907 help
1908 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1909 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1910 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1911 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1912 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1913 requested by name.
1914
1915 If unsure, say N.
1916
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1918 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1919 default n
1920 depends on m
1921 help
1922 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1923 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1924 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1925 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1926 protections.
1927
1928 If unsure, say N.
1929
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1930config TEST_BPF
1931 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1932 default n
98920ba6 1933 depends on m && NET
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1935 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1936 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1937 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1938 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1940 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1942 If unsure, say N.
1943
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1944config TEST_FIRMWARE
1945 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1946 default n
1947 depends on FW_LOADER
1948 help
1949 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1950 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1951 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1952 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1953 userspace.
1954
1955 If unsure, say N.
1956
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1958 tristate "udelay test driver"
1959 default n
1960 help
1961 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1962 that udelay() is working properly.
1963
1964 If unsure, say N.
1965
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1967 bool "Memtest"
1968 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1969 ---help---
1970 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1971 to be set.
1972 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1973 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1974 ...
8d8cfb47 1975 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
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1976 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1977
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1979 tristate "Test static keys"
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1981 depends on m
1982 help
2bf9e0ab 1983 Test the static key interfaces.
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1985 If unsure, say N.
1986
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1987config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1988 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
91a6cee6 1989 select DEBUG_LIST
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1991 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1992 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1993 for validity.
1994
1995 If unsure, say N.
1996
267c4025 1997source "samples/Kconfig"
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1999source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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2002
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2003config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
2004 bool
2005
2006config STRICT_DEVMEM
2007 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
6b2a65c7 2008 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
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2010 default y if TILE || PPC
2011 ---help---
2012 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2013 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
2014 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
2015 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
2016 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
2017 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
2018
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2020 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
2021 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
2022 users of /dev/mem.
2023
2024 If in doubt, say Y.
2025
2026config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
2027 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
2028 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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2030 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
2031 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
2032 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
2033 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
2034
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2037 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2038 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2040 If in doubt, say Y.