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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
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
50f4d9bd 29 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk()
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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
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133 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
134 information.
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136endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
137
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138menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
139
140config DEBUG_INFO
141 bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
12b13835 142 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
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143 help
144 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
145 debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
146 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
147 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
148 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
149 Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
150
151 If unsure, say N.
152
153config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
154 bool "Reduce debugging information"
155 depends on DEBUG_INFO
156 help
157 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
158 information for structure types. This means that tools that
159 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
160 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
161 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
162 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
163 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
164 Only works with newer gcc versions.
165
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166config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
167 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
da0510c4 168 depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
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169 help
170 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
171 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
172 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
173 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
174 In addition the debug information is also compressed.
175
176 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
177 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
178 to know about the .dwo files and include them.
179 Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
180
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181config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
182 bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
183 depends on DEBUG_INFO
184 help
185 Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
186 of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
187 But it significantly improves the success of resolving
188 variables in gdb on optimized code.
189
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190config GDB_SCRIPTS
191 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
192 depends on DEBUG_INFO
193 help
194 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
195 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
196 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
197 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
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198 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
199 for further details.
3ee7b3fa 200
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201config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
202 bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
203 default y
204 help
205 Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
206 Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
207 (declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
208
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209config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
210 bool "Enable __must_check logic"
211 default y
212 help
213 Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
214 suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
215 attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
1da177e4 216
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217config FRAME_WARN
218 int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
219 range 0 8192
3f181b4d 220 default 0 if KASAN
0e07f663 221 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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222 default 1024 if !64BIT
223 default 2048 if 64BIT
224 help
225 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
226 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
227 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
228 Requires gcc 4.4
229
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230config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
231 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
232 default n
233 help
234 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
235 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
236 get_wchan() and suchlike.
237
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238config READABLE_ASM
239 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
240 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
241 help
242 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
243 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
244 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
245 sane.
246
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247config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
248 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
249 default y if X86
250 help
251 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
252 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
253 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
254 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
255 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
256 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
257 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
258 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
259 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
260 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
261 your module is.
262
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263config PAGE_OWNER
264 bool "Track page owner"
265 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
266 select DEBUG_FS
267 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 268 select STACKDEPOT
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269 select PAGE_EXTENSION
270 help
271 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
272 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
273 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
274 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
275 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
276 for user-space helper.
277
278 If unsure, say N.
279
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280config DEBUG_FS
281 bool "Debug Filesystem"
9fd4dcec 282 select SRCU
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283 help
284 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
285 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
286 write to these files.
287
ff543332 288 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 289 Documentation/filesystems/.
ff543332 290
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291 If unsure, say N.
292
293config HEADERS_CHECK
294 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
295 depends on !UML
296 help
297 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
298 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
299 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
300 were not exported, etc.
301
302 If you're making modifications to header files which are
303 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
304 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
305 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
306
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307config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
308 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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309 help
310 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
311 references from one section to another section.
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312 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
313 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 314 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 315 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 316 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 317 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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318 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
319 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
320 additional steps to occur:
321 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
322 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
323 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 324 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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325 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
326 a larger kernel).
327 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
328 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 329 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
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330 introduced.
331 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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332 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
333 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
334 reported at least twice.
335 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
336 the section mismatches that are reported.
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338config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
339 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
340 default y
341 help
342 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
343 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
344
345 If unsure, say Y.
346
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347#
348# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
349# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
350# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
351#
352config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
353 bool
f346f4b3 354 help
f346f4b3 355
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356config FRAME_POINTER
357 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
358 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
359 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
695c1208 360 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
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361 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
362 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 363 help
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364 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
365 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
366 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 367
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368config STACK_VALIDATION
369 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
370 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
371 default n
372 help
373 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
374 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
375 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
376
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377 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
378 is needed for CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER.
379
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380 For more information, see
381 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
382
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383config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
384 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
385 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 386 help
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387 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
388 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
389 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
390 definitions.
8446f1d3 391
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392 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
393 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 394
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395 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
396 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
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6dfc0665 398endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 399
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400config MAGIC_SYSRQ
401 bool "Magic SysRq key"
402 depends on !UML
403 help
404 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
405 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
406 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
407 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
408 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
409 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
410 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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411 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
412 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 413
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414config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
415 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
416 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
417 default 0x1
418 help
419 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
420 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 421 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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423config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
424 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
425 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
426 default y
427 help
428 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
429 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
430 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
431 magic SysRq key.
432
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433config DEBUG_KERNEL
434 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 435 help
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436 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
437 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 438
0610c8a8 439menu "Memory Debugging"
fef2c9bc 440
0610c8a8 441source mm/Kconfig.debug
fef2c9bc 442
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443config DEBUG_OBJECTS
444 bool "Debug object operations"
445 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 446 help
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447 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
448 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
449 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 450
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451config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
452 bool "Debug objects selftest"
453 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
454 help
455 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 456
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457config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
458 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
459 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
460 help
461 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
462 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
463 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
464 much slower.
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466config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
467 bool "Debug timer objects"
468 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
469 help
470 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
471 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
472 validate the timer operations.
473
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474config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
475 bool "Debug work objects"
476 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
477 help
478 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
479 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
480 validate the work operations.
481
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482config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
483 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 484 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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485 help
486 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
487
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488config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
489 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
490 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
491 help
492 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
493 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
494 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
495
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496config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
497 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
498 range 0 1
499 default "1"
500 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
501 help
502 Debug objects boot parameter default value
503
1da177e4 504config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 505 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 506 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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507 help
508 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
509 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
510 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
511
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512config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
513 bool "Memory leak debugging"
514 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
515
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516config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
517 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 518 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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519 default n
520 help
521 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
522 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
523 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
524 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
525 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
526 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
527 "slub_debug=-".
528
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529config SLUB_STATS
530 default n
531 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 532 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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533 help
534 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
535 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
536 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
537 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
538 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
539 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
540 Try running: slabinfo -DA
541
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542config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
543 bool
544
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545config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
546 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 547 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 548 select DEBUG_FS
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549 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
550 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 551 select CRC32
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552 help
553 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
554 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
555 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
556 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
557 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
558 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 559 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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560 details.
561
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562 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
563 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
564
565 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
566 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
567
568config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
569 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
570 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
571 range 200 40000
572 default 400
573 help
574 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
575 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
576 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
577 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
578 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
579
580config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
581 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
582 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
583 help
584 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
585
586 If unsure, say N.
587
588config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
589 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
590 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
591 help
592 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
593 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
594
595config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
596 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 597 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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598 help
599 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
600 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
601
602 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
603
604config DEBUG_VM
605 bool "Debug VM"
606 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
607 help
608 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
609 that may impact performance.
610
611 If unsure, say N.
612
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613config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
614 bool "Debug VMA caching"
615 depends on DEBUG_VM
616 help
617 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
618 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
619 environments.
620
621 If unsure, say N.
622
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623config DEBUG_VM_RB
624 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
625 depends on DEBUG_VM
626 help
a663dad6 627 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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629 If unsure, say N.
630
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631config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
632 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
633 depends on DEBUG_VM
634 help
635 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
636
637 If unsure, say N.
638
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639config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
640 bool
641
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642config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
643 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 644 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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645 help
646 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
647 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
648
649 If unsure, say N.
650
651config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
652 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
653 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
654 help
655 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
656 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
657
658config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
659 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
660 default !EXPERT
661 help
662 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
663 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
664 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
665 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
666 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
667
668 If unsure, say Y
669
670config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
671 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
672 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
673 help
674 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
675 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
676 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
677
678 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
679 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
680
681 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
682
683 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
684 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
685 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
686 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
687
688 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
689 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
690
691 If unsure, say N.
692
693config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
694 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
695 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
696 depends on SMP
697 help
698 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
699 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
700 and decreases performance.
701
702 Say N if unsure.
703
704config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
705 bool "Highmem debugging"
706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
707 help
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708 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
709 systems. Disable for production systems.
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711config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
712 bool
713
714config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
715 bool "Check for stack overflows"
716 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
717 ---help---
718 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 719 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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720 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
721 below a certain limit.
722
723 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
724 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
725 involved.
726
727 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
728 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
729
730 If in doubt, say "N".
731
732source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
733
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734source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
735
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736endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
737
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738config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
739 bool
740 help
741 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
742 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
743 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
744
745config KCOV
746 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
747 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
748 select DEBUG_FS
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749 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
750 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
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751 help
752 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
753 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
754
755 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
756 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
757 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
758
700199b0 759 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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761config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
762 bool "Instrument all code by default"
763 depends on KCOV
764 default y if KCOV
765 help
766 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
767 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
768 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
769 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
770 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
771
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772config DEBUG_SHIRQ
773 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 774 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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775 help
776 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
777 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
778 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
779 points; some don't and need to be caught.
780
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781menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
782
58687acb 783config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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784 bool
785
786config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
787 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 788 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 789 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 790 help
58687acb 791 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 792 soft lockups.
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794 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 795 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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796 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
797 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 798
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799config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
800 bool
801 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
802
803#
804# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
805# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
806#
807config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
808 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
809 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
810 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
811 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
812 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
813 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
814 help
815 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
816 hard lockups.
817
58687acb 818 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 819 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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820 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
821 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 822
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823config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
824 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 825 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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826 help
827 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
828 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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829 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
830 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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832 Say N if unsure.
833
834config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
835 int
8f1f66ed 836 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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837 range 0 1
838 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
839 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
840
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841config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
842 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
05a4a952 843 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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844 help
845 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
846 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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847 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
848 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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850 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
851 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
852 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
853 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
854 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
855
856 Say N if unsure.
857
858config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
859 int
05a4a952 860 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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861 range 0 1
862 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
863 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
864
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865config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
866 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
867 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 868 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 869 help
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870 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
871 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 872 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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874 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
875 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
876 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
877 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
878 feature has negligible overhead.
871751e2 879
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880config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
881 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
882 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
883 default 120
f0630fff 884 help
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885 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
886 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
887 be considered hung.
f0630fff 888
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889 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
890 sysctl or by writing a value to
891 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
8ff12cfc 892
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893 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
894 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
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896config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
897 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
898 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 899 help
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900 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
901 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
902 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 903
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904 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
905 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
906 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
907 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
908 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
bf96d1e3 909
0610c8a8 910 Say N if unsure.
bf96d1e3 911
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912config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
913 int
914 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
915 range 0 1
916 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
917 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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919config WQ_WATCHDOG
920 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
921 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
922 help
923 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
924 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
925 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
926 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
927 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
928 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
929
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930endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
931
932config PANIC_ON_OOPS
933 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 934 help
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935 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
936 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
937 line.
a9d9058a 938
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939 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
940 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
941 corruption or other issues.
942
943 Say N if unsure.
944
945config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
946 int
947 range 0 1
948 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
949 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
950
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951config PANIC_TIMEOUT
952 int "panic timeout"
953 default 0
954 help
955 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
956 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
957 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
958 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
959
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960config SCHED_DEBUG
961 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
962 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
963 default y
0822ee4a 964 help
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965 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
966 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
967 option is minimal.
0822ee4a 968
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969config SCHED_INFO
970 bool
971 default n
972
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973config SCHEDSTATS
974 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
975 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 976 select SCHED_INFO
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977 help
978 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
979 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
980 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
981 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
982 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
983 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
984 this adds.
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986config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
987 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
988 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
989 default n
990 help
991 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
992 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
993 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
994 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
995 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
996 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
997
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998config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
999 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1000 help
1001 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1002 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1003 problems are suspected.
1004
1005 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1006 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1007 workloads.
1008
1009 If unsure, say N.
1010
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1011config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1012 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1013 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1014 default y
1015 help
1016 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1017 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1018 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1019 will detect preemption count underflows.
1020
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1021menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1022
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1023config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1024 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1025 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1026 help
1027 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1028 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1029
1da177e4 1030config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1031 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1032 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1033 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1034 help
1035 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1036 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1037 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1038 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1039
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1040config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1041 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1042 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1043 help
1044 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1045 reported.
1046
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1047config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1048 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1049 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1050 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1051 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1052 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1053 help
1054 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1055 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1056 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1057 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1058 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1059 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1060 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1061 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1062 you are a distro, do not.
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1064config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1065 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 1066 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1067 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1068 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1069 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1070 select LOCKDEP
1071 help
1072 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1073 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1074 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1075 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1076 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1077 held during task exit.
1078
1079config PROVE_LOCKING
1080 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 1081 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1082 select LOCKDEP
1083 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1084 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1085 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 1086 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
46b93b74 1087 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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1088 default n
1089 help
1090 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1091 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1092 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1093 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1094 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1095 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1096 deadlock.
1097
1098 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1099 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1100
1101 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1102 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1103 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1104 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1105 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1106 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1107 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1108 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1109 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1110
1111 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1112 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1113 kernel reports nothing.
1114
1115 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1116 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1117 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1118 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1119 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1120
214e0aed 1121 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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1123config LOCKDEP
1124 bool
517e7aa5 1125 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1126 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1127 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
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1128 select KALLSYMS
1129 select KALLSYMS_ALL
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1131config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1132 bool
1133
f20786ff 1134config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 1135 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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1136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1137 select LOCKDEP
1138 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1139 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1140 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1141 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1142 default n
1143 help
1144 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1145
214e0aed 1146 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
a560aa48 1147
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1148 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
1149 subcommand of perf.
1150 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1151 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1153 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1154 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1155
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1156config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1157 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1158 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1159 help
1160 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1161 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1162 of more runtime overhead.
1163
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1164config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1165 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1166 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1168 help
1169 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1170 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1171 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1172 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1174config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1175 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1176 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1177 help
1178 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1179 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1180 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1181 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1182 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1183 mutexes and rwsems.
1184
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1185config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1186 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1187 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1188 select TORTURE_TEST
1189 default n
1190 help
1191 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1192 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1193 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1194
1195 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1196 to be built into the kernel.
1197 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1198 Say N if you are unsure.
1199
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1200config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1201 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1202 help
1203 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1204 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1205
1206 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1207 with this test harness.
1208
1209 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1210 Say N if you are unsure.
1211
9eade16b 1212endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1213
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1214config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1215 bool
5ca43f6c 1216 help
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1217 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1218 either tracing or lock debugging.
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8637c099 1220config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1221 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1222 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1223 help
1224 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1225 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1226 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1227 stack trace generation.
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1229config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1230 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1231 default n
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1232 help
1233 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1234 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1235 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1236 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1237 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1238 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1239 it.
1240
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1241 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1242 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1243 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1244 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1245 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1246 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1247 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1248 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1249 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1250
1251 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1252 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1253 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1254 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1255 subarchitecture).
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1257config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1258 bool "kobject debugging"
1259 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1260 help
1261 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1262 to the syslog.
1263
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1264config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1265 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1266 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1267 help
1268 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1269 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1270 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1271 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1272 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1273 unregistered.
1274
1275 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1276 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1277 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1278
1279 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1280 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1281 kind of kobject release bug.
1282
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1283config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1284 bool
1285
1da177e4 1286config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1287 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1288 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1289 default y
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1290 help
1291 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1292 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1293 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1294
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1295config DEBUG_LIST
1296 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1297 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1298 help
1299 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1300 walking routines.
1301
1302 If unsure, say N.
1303
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1304config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1305 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1306 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1307 help
1308 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1309 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1310 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1311
1312 If unsure, say N.
1313
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1314config DEBUG_SG
1315 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1316 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1317 help
1318 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1319 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1320 their sg tables.
1321
1322 If unsure, say N.
1323
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1324config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1325 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1326 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1327 help
1328 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1329 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1330 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1331 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1332 performance, say N.
1333
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1334config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1335 bool "Debug credential management"
1336 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1337 help
1338 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1339 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1340 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1341 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1342 struct.
1343
1344 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1345 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1346
1347 If unsure, say N.
1348
43a0a2a7 1349source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
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1351config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1352 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1353 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1354 default n
1355 help
1356 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1357 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1358 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1359 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1360 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1361 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1362 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1363 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1364 be impacted.
1365
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1366config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1367 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1368 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1369 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1370 default n
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1372 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1373 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1374 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1375 is broken.
1376
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1377 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1378 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1379 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1380 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1381 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1382 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1383 device number allocation.
1384
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1385 Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
1386 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1387 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1388 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1389 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1390
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1392
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1393config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1394 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1395 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1396 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1397 default n
1398 help
1399 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1400 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1401 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1402 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1403
1404 Say N if your are unsure.
1405
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1406config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1407 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1408 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1409 select DEBUG_FS
1410 help
e41e85cc 1411 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1413 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1414
1415 Say N if unsure.
1416
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1417config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1418 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1419 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1420 default m if PM_DEBUG
1421 help
e41e85cc 1422 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1423 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1424 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1425
1426 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1427 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1428
1429 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1430
1431 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1432 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1433 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1434 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1435
1436 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1437 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1438
1439 If unsure, say N.
1440
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1441config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1442 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1443 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1444 help
e41e85cc 1445 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1446 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1447 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1448 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1450 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1451 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1452
1453 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1454 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1456 If unsure, say N.
1457
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1458config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1459 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1460 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1461 help
1462 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1463 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1464 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1465
1466 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1467 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1468
1469 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1470
1471 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1472 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1473 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1474 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1475
1476 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1477 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1478
1479 If unsure, say N.
1480
6ff1cb35 1481config FAULT_INJECTION
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1482 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1484 help
1485 Provide fault-injection framework.
1486 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
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8a8b6502 1488config FAILSLAB
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1489 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1490 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1491 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1492 help
1ab8509a 1493 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
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1495config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1496 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1497 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1498 help
1ab8509a 1499 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
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c17bb495 1501config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1502 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1503 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1504 help
1ab8509a 1505 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1506
581d4e28 1507config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1508 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1509 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1510 help
1511 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1512 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1513 thus exercising the error handling.
1514
1515 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1516 for others it wont do anything.
1517
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1518config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1519 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1520 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1521 help
1522 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1523 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1524 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1525 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1526 the block device.
1527
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1528config FAIL_FUTEX
1529 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1530 select DEBUG_FS
1531 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1532 help
1533 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1534
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1535config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1536 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1537 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1538 help
1ab8509a 1539 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1541config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1542 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1543 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1544 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1545 select STACKTRACE
df2e1ef6 1546 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE
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1548 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
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1550config LATENCYTOP
1551 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1552 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1553 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1554 depends on PROC_FS
cc80ae38 1555 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC
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1557 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1558 select STACKTRACE
1559 select SCHEDSTATS
1560 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1562 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1563 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1564
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1566
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1567menu "Runtime Testing"
1568
1569config LKDTM
1570 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1571 depends on DEBUG_FS
1572 depends on BLOCK
1573 default n
1574 help
1575 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1576 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1577 If you don't need it: say N
1578 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1579 called lkdtm.
1580
1581 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1582 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1583
1584config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1585 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1586 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1588 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1589 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1590 or at module load time.
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1591
1592 If unsure, say N.
1593
c5adae95 1594config TEST_SORT
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1595 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1596 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1597 help
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1598 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1599 or at module load time.
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1600
1601 If unsure, say N.
1602
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1603config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1604 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1605 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1606 depends on KPROBES
1607 default n
1608 help
1609 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1610 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1611 verified for functionality.
1612
1613 Say N if you are unsure.
1614
1615config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1616 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1617 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1618 default n
1619 help
1620 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1621 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1622 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1623 developers working on architecture code.
1624
1625 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1626 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1627
1628 Say N if you are unsure.
1629
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1630config RBTREE_TEST
1631 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1632 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1633 help
1634 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1635 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1636
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1637config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
1638 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1639 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1640 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1641 help
1642 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1643
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1644config PERCPU_TEST
1645 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1646 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1647 help
1648 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1649 operations.
1650
1651 If unsure, say N.
1652
881c5149 1653config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1654 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1655 help
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1656 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1657 at module load time.
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1658
1659 If unsure, say N.
1660
1661config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1662 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1663 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1664 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1665 ---help---
1666 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1667 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1668 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1669 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1670 engine if one is available.
1671
1672 If unsure, say N.
1673
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1674config TEST_HEXDUMP
1675 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1676
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1677config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
1678 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1679
1680config TEST_KSTRTOX
1681 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1682
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1684 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1685
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1686config TEST_BITMAP
1687 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1688 default n
1689 help
1690 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1691
1692 If unsure, say N.
1693
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1694config TEST_UUID
1695 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1696
7e1e7763 1697config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1698 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1699 default n
1700 help
1701 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1702
1703 If unsure, say N.
1704
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1705config TEST_HASH
1706 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1707 default n
1708 help
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1709 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1710 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1711 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1713 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1714 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1715
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1717 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1718 default n
1719 depends on PARMAN
1720 help
1721 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1722 (or module load).
1723
1724 If unsure, say N.
1725
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1727
f212ec4b 1728config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
080de8c2 1729 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
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1730 depends on PCI && X86
1731 help
1732 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1733 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1734 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1735 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1736 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1737
1738 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1739 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1740 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1741
1742 Usage:
1743
1744 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1745 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1746
1747 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1748 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1749 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1750 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1751
1752 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1753 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1754
1755 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
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1757config DMA_API_DEBUG
1758 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1759 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1760 help
1761 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1762 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1763 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1764 were never allocated.
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1766 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1767 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1768 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1769 not undergoing DMA.
1770
1771 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1772 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1773
1774 If unsure, say N.
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8a6f0b47 1776config TEST_LKM
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1777 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1778 default n
1779 depends on m
1780 help
1781 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1782 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1783 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1784 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1785 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1786 requested by name.
1787
1788 If unsure, say N.
1789
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1790config TEST_USER_COPY
1791 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1792 default n
1793 depends on m
1794 help
1795 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1796 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1797 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1798 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1799 protections.
1800
1801 If unsure, say N.
1802
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1804 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1805 default n
98920ba6 1806 depends on m && NET
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1808 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1809 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1810 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1811 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1813 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1815 If unsure, say N.
1816
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1817config TEST_FIRMWARE
1818 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1819 default n
1820 depends on FW_LOADER
1821 help
1822 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1823 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1824 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1825 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1826 userspace.
1827
1828 If unsure, say N.
1829
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1830config TEST_SYSCTL
1831 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1832 default n
1833 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1834 help
1835 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1836 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1837 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1838
1839 If unsure, say N.
1840
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1842 tristate "udelay test driver"
1843 default n
1844 help
1845 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1846 that udelay() is working properly.
1847
1848 If unsure, say N.
1849
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1850config MEMTEST
1851 bool "Memtest"
1852 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1853 ---help---
1854 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1855 to be set.
1856 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1857 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1858 ...
8d8cfb47 1859 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
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1860 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1861
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1862config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1863 tristate "Test static keys"
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1864 default n
1865 depends on m
1866 help
2bf9e0ab 1867 Test the static key interfaces.
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1868
1869 If unsure, say N.
1870
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1871config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1872 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
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1874 help
1875 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1876 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1877 for validity.
1878
1879 If unsure, say N.
1880
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1881config TEST_KMOD
1882 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1883 default n
1884 depends on m
1885 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1886 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1887 select TEST_LKM
1888 select XFS_FS
1889 select TUN
1890 select BTRFS_FS
1891 help
1892 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1893 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1894 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1895
1896 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1897 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1898 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1899 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1900 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1901
1902 To run tests run:
1903
1904 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1905
1906 If unsure, say N.
1907
267c4025 1908source "samples/Kconfig"
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1910source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1912source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
1913
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1914config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1915 bool
1916
1917config STRICT_DEVMEM
1918 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
6b2a65c7 1919 depends on MMU && DEVMEM
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1920 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1921 default y if TILE || PPC
1922 ---help---
1923 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1924 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1925 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1926 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1927 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1928 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1929
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1930 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1931 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1932 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1933 users of /dev/mem.
1934
1935 If in doubt, say Y.
1936
1937config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1938 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1939 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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1940 ---help---
1941 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1942 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1943 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1944 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1945
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1947 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1948 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
1949 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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1950
1951 If in doubt, say Y.