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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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135
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 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
223 default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
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224 default 2048 if 64BIT
225 help
226 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
227 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
228 Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
229 Requires gcc 4.4
230
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231config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
232 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
233 default n
234 help
235 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
236 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
237 get_wchan() and suchlike.
238
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239config READABLE_ASM
240 bool "Generate readable assembler code"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
242 help
243 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
244 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
245 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
246 sane.
247
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248config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
249 bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
250 default y if X86
251 help
252 Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
253 that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
254 option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
255 some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
256 encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
257 using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
258 this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
259 wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
260 mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
261 you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
262 your module is.
263
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264config PAGE_OWNER
265 bool "Track page owner"
266 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
267 select DEBUG_FS
268 select STACKTRACE
f2ca0b55 269 select STACKDEPOT
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270 select PAGE_EXTENSION
271 help
272 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
273 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
274 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
275 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
276 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
277 for user-space helper.
278
279 If unsure, say N.
280
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281config DEBUG_FS
282 bool "Debug Filesystem"
9fd4dcec 283 select SRCU
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284 help
285 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
286 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
287 write to these files.
288
ff543332 289 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
e1b4fc7a 290 Documentation/filesystems/.
ff543332 291
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292 If unsure, say N.
293
294config HEADERS_CHECK
295 bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
296 depends on !UML
297 help
298 This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
299 building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
300 ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
301 were not exported, etc.
302
303 If you're making modifications to header files which are
304 relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
305 exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
306 your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
307
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308config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
309 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
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310 help
311 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
312 references from one section to another section.
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313 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
314 any use of code/data previously in these sections would
91341d4b 315 most likely result in an oops.
e809ab01 316 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
0db0628d 317 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
d6fbfa4f 318 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
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319 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
320 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
321 additional steps to occur:
322 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
323 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
324 function, we would lose the section information and thus
91341d4b 325 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
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326 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
327 a larger kernel).
328 - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o file.
329 When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
67797b92 330 lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
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331 introduced.
332 Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file
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333 tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
334 source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
335 reported at least twice.
336 - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
337 the section mismatches that are reported.
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339config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
340 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
341 default y
342 help
343 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
344 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
345
346 If unsure, say Y.
347
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348#
349# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
350# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
351# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
352#
353config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
354 bool
f346f4b3 355 help
f346f4b3 356
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357config FRAME_POINTER
358 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
360 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
695c1208 361 SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
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362 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
363 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
a304e1b8 364 help
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365 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
366 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
367 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
a304e1b8 368
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369config STACK_VALIDATION
370 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
371 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
372 default n
373 help
374 Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
375 pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
376 that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
377
ee9f8fce 378 This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
11af8474 379 is needed for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC.
ee9f8fce 380
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381 For more information, see
382 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
383
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384config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
385 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
386 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
8446f1d3 387 help
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388 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
389 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
390 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
391 definitions.
8446f1d3 392
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393 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
394 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
8446f1d3 395
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396 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
397 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
5f329089 398
6dfc0665 399endmenu # "Compiler options"
8446f1d3 400
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401config MAGIC_SYSRQ
402 bool "Magic SysRq key"
403 depends on !UML
404 help
405 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
406 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
407 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
408 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
409 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
410 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
411 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
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412 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>.
413 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.
8446f1d3 414
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415config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
416 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
417 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
418 default 0x1
419 help
420 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
421 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
f8998c22 422 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.
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424config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL
425 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial"
426 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
427 default y
428 help
429 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can
430 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects.
431 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the
432 magic SysRq key.
433
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434config DEBUG_KERNEL
435 bool "Kernel debugging"
fef2c9bc 436 help
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437 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
438 identify kernel problems.
fef2c9bc 439
0610c8a8 440menu "Memory Debugging"
fef2c9bc 441
0610c8a8 442source mm/Kconfig.debug
fef2c9bc 443
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444config DEBUG_OBJECTS
445 bool "Debug object operations"
446 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
9c44bc03 447 help
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448 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
449 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
450 the operations on those objects.
9c44bc03 451
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452config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
453 bool "Debug objects selftest"
454 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
455 help
456 This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
9c44bc03 457
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458config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
459 bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
460 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
461 help
462 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
463 which contains an object which has not been deactivated
464 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
465 much slower.
3ac7fe5a 466
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467config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
468 bool "Debug timer objects"
469 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
470 help
471 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
472 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
473 validate the timer operations.
474
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475config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
476 bool "Debug work objects"
477 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
478 help
479 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
480 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
481 validate the work operations.
482
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483config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
484 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
fc2ecf7e 485 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
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486 help
487 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
488
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489config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
490 bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
491 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
492 help
493 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
494 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
495 objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
496
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497config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
498 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
499 range 0 1
500 default "1"
501 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
502 help
503 Debug objects boot parameter default value
504
1da177e4 505config DEBUG_SLAB
4a2f0acf 506 bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
7d46d9e6 507 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
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508 help
509 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
510 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
511 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
512
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513config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
514 bool "Memory leak debugging"
515 depends on DEBUG_SLAB
516
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517config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
518 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
7d46d9e6 519 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK
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520 default n
521 help
522 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
523 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
524 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
525 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
526 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
527 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
528 "slub_debug=-".
529
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530config SLUB_STATS
531 default n
532 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
ab4d5ed5 533 depends on SLUB && SYSFS
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534 help
535 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
536 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
537 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
538 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
539 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
540 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
541 Try running: slabinfo -DA
542
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543config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
544 bool
545
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546config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
547 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
525c1f92 548 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
79e0d9bd 549 select DEBUG_FS
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550 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
551 select KALLSYMS
b60e26a2 552 select CRC32
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553 help
554 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
555 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
556 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
557 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
558 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
559 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
700199b0 560 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
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561 details.
562
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563 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
564 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
565
566 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
567 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
568
569config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
570 int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
571 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
572 range 200 40000
573 default 400
574 help
575 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
576 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
577 freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
578 used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
579 buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
580
581config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
582 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
583 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
584 help
585 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
586
587 If unsure, say N.
588
589config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
590 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
591 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
592 help
593 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
594 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
595
596config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
597 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
6c31da34 598 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
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599 help
600 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
601 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
602
603 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
604
605config DEBUG_VM
606 bool "Debug VM"
607 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
608 help
609 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
610 that may impact performance.
611
612 If unsure, say N.
613
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614config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
615 bool "Debug VMA caching"
616 depends on DEBUG_VM
617 help
618 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
619 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
620 environments.
621
622 If unsure, say N.
623
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624config DEBUG_VM_RB
625 bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
626 depends on DEBUG_VM
627 help
a663dad6 628 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
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630 If unsure, say N.
631
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632config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
633 bool "Debug page-flags operations"
634 depends on DEBUG_VM
635 help
636 Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
637
638 If unsure, say N.
639
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640config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
641 bool
642
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643config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
644 bool "Debug VM translations"
fa5b6ec9 645 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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646 help
647 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
648 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
649
650 If unsure, say N.
651
652config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
653 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
654 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
655 help
656 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
657 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
658
659config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
660 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
661 default !EXPERT
662 help
663 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
664 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
665 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
666 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
667 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
668
669 If unsure, say Y
670
671config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
672 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
673 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
674 help
675 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
676 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
677 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
678
679 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
680 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
681
682 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
683
684 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
685 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
686 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
687 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
688
689 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
690 be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
691
692 If unsure, say N.
693
694config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
695 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
696 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
697 depends on SMP
698 help
699 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
700 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
701 and decreases performance.
702
703 Say N if unsure.
704
705config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
706 bool "Highmem debugging"
707 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
708 help
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709 This option enables additional error checking for high memory
710 systems. Disable for production systems.
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712config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
713 bool
714
715config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
716 bool "Check for stack overflows"
717 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
718 ---help---
719 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
edb0ec07 720 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
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721 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
722 below a certain limit.
723
724 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
725 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
726 involved.
727
728 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
729 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
730
731 If in doubt, say "N".
732
733source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
734
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735source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
736
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737endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
738
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739config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
740 bool
741 help
742 KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
743 only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
744 disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
745
746config KCOV
747 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
748 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
749 select DEBUG_FS
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750 select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
751 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
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752 help
753 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
754 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
755
756 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
757 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
758 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
759
700199b0 760 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst.
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762config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
763 bool "Instrument all code by default"
764 depends on KCOV
765 default y if KCOV
766 help
767 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
768 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
769 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
770 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
771 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
772
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773config DEBUG_SHIRQ
774 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
0244ad00 775 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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776 help
777 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
778 interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
779 Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
780 points; some don't and need to be caught.
781
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782menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
783
58687acb 784config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
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785 bool
786
787config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
788 bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
dea20a3f 789 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
05a4a952 790 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
8446f1d3 791 help
58687acb 792 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
05a4a952 793 soft lockups.
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795 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
5f329089 796 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
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797 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
798 detection and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 799
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800config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
801 bool
802 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
803
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804#
805# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based
806# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes.
807#
808config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
809 bool
810
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812# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
813# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
814#
815config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
816 bool "Detect Hard Lockups"
817 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
818 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
819 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
820 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
821 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
822 help
823 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
824 hard lockups.
825
58687acb 826 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
5f329089 827 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
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828 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
829 and the system will stay locked up.
8446f1d3 830
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831config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
832 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
8f1f66ed 833 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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834 help
835 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
836 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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837 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
838 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
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840 Say N if unsure.
841
842config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
843 int
8f1f66ed 844 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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845 range 0 1
846 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
847 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
848
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849config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
850 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
05a4a952 851 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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852 help
853 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
854 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
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855 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
856 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
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858 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
859 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
860 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
861 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
862 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
863
864 Say N if unsure.
865
866config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
867 int
05a4a952 868 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
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869 range 0 1
870 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
871 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
872
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873config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
874 bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
875 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
05a4a952 876 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
e162b39a 877 help
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878 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
879 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
96b03ab8 880 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
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882 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
883 current stack trace (which you should report), but the
884 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
885 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
886 feature has negligible overhead.
871751e2 887
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888config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
889 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
890 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
891 default 120
f0630fff 892 help
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893 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
894 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
895 be considered hung.
f0630fff 896
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897 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
898 sysctl or by writing a value to
899 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
8ff12cfc 900
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901 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
902 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
b69ec42b 903
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904config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
905 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
906 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
3bba00d7 907 help
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908 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
909 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
910 in uninterruptible "D" state.
3bba00d7 911
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912 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
913 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
914 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
915 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
916 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
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0610c8a8 918 Say N if unsure.
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920config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
921 int
922 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
923 range 0 1
924 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
925 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
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927config WQ_WATCHDOG
928 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
929 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
930 help
931 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
932 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
933 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
934 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
935 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
936 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
937
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938endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
939
940config PANIC_ON_OOPS
941 bool "Panic on Oops"
a9d9058a 942 help
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943 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
944 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
945 line.
a9d9058a 946
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947 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
948 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
949 corruption or other issues.
950
951 Say N if unsure.
952
953config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
954 int
955 range 0 1
956 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
957 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
958
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959config PANIC_TIMEOUT
960 int "panic timeout"
961 default 0
962 help
963 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
964 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
965 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
966 value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
967
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968config SCHED_DEBUG
969 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
970 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
971 default y
0822ee4a 972 help
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973 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
974 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
975 option is minimal.
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977config SCHED_INFO
978 bool
979 default n
980
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981config SCHEDSTATS
982 bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
983 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
f6db8347 984 select SCHED_INFO
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985 help
986 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
987 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
988 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
989 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
990 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
991 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
992 this adds.
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994config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
995 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
996 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
997 default n
998 help
999 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
1000 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
1001 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
1002 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
1003 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
1004 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
1005
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1006config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
1007 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
1008 help
1009 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
1010 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
1011 problems are suspected.
1012
1013 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
1014 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
1015 workloads.
1016
1017 If unsure, say N.
1018
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1019config DEBUG_PREEMPT
1020 bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
01deab98 1021 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
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1022 default y
1023 help
1024 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
1025 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
1026 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
1027 will detect preemption count underflows.
1028
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1029menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
1030
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1031config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
1032 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
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1033 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
1034 help
1035 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
1036 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
1037
1da177e4 1038config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
4d9f34ad 1039 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
1da177e4 1040 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
e335e3eb 1041 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
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1042 help
1043 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
1044 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
1045 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
1046 deadlocks are also debuggable.
1047
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1048config DEBUG_MUTEXES
1049 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
1050 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1051 help
1052 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
1053 reported.
1054
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1055config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
1056 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
1057 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1058 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1059 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1060 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
1061 help
1062 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
1063 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
1064 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
1065 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
1066 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
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1067 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
1068 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
1069 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
1070 you are a distro, do not.
23010027 1071
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1072config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1073 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
517e7aa5 1074 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1075 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1076 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1077 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1078 select LOCKDEP
1079 help
1080 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
1081 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
1082 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
1083 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
1084 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
1085 held during task exit.
1086
1087config PROVE_LOCKING
1088 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
517e7aa5 1089 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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1090 select LOCKDEP
1091 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1092 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1093 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
4d9f34ad 1094 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
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1095 select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1096 select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
46b93b74 1097 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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1098 default n
1099 help
1100 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
1101 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
1102 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
1103 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
1104 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
1105 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
1106 deadlock.
1107
1108 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
1109 related deadlocks before they actually occur.
1110
1111 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
1112 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
1113 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
1114 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
1115 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
1116 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
1117 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
1118 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
1119 makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
1120
1121 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
1122 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
1123 kernel reports nothing.
1124
1125 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
1126 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
1127 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
1128 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
1129 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
1130
214e0aed 1131 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
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1133config LOCKDEP
1134 bool
517e7aa5 1135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
4d9f34ad 1136 select STACKTRACE
a34a766f 1137 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
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1139 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1140
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1141config LOCKDEP_SMALL
1142 bool
1143
f20786ff 1144config LOCK_STAT
fdfb870f 1145 bool "Lock usage statistics"
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1146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
1147 select LOCKDEP
1148 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
1149 select DEBUG_MUTEXES
f5694788 1150 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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1151 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
1152 default n
1153 help
1154 This feature enables tracking lock contention points
1155
214e0aed 1156 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
a560aa48 1157
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1159 subcommand of perf.
1160 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
1161 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
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1163 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
dd8b1cf6 1164 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
84c6f88f 1165
b09be676 1166config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
e26f34a4 1167 bool
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1168 help
1169 This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to
1170 be released in a different context from the acquisition context.
1171 Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock.
1172 However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives
1173 such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness
1174 detector, lockdep.
1175
ea3f2c0f 1176config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
e26f34a4 1177 bool
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1178 help
1179 A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
1180 detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.
1181
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1182config BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
1183 bool "Enable the boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack"
1184 depends on LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
1185 default n
1186 help
1187 The lockdep "cross-release" feature needs to record stack traces
1188 (of calling functions) for all acquisitions, for eventual later
1189 use during analysis. By default only a single caller is recorded,
1190 because the unwind operation can be very expensive with deeper
1191 stack chains.
1192
1193 However a boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack, was
1194 introduced since sometimes deeper traces are required for full
1195 analysis. This option turns on the boot parameter.
1196
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1197config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
1198 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
517e7aa5 1199 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
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1200 help
1201 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
1202 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
1203 of more runtime overhead.
1204
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1205config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
1206 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
e8f7c70f 1207 select PREEMPT_COUNT
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1208 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1209 help
1210 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
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1211 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
1212 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
1213 sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
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1215config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
1216 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
1217 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1218 help
1219 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
1220 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
1221 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
1222 lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
1223 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
1224 mutexes and rwsems.
1225
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1226config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
1227 tristate "torture tests for locking"
1228 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1229 select TORTURE_TEST
1230 default n
1231 help
1232 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
1233 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
1234 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
1235
1236 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
1237 to be built into the kernel.
1238 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
1239 Say N if you are unsure.
1240
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1241config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST
1242 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests"
1243 help
1244 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the
1245 on the struct ww_mutex locking API.
1246
1247 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction
1248 with this test harness.
1249
1250 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module.
1251 Say N if you are unsure.
1252
9eade16b 1253endmenu # lock debugging
8637c099 1254
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1255config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
1256 bool
5ca43f6c 1257 help
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1258 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
1259 either tracing or lock debugging.
5ca43f6c 1260
8637c099 1261config STACKTRACE
0c38e1fe 1262 bool "Stack backtrace support"
8637c099 1263 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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1264 help
1265 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
1266 every process, showing its current stack trace.
1267 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require
1268 stack trace generation.
5ca43f6c 1269
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1270config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
1271 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness"
1272 default n
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1273 help
1274 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of
1275 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible
1276 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these
1277 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever
1278 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things
1279 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing
1280 it.
1281
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1282 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting
1283 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can
1284 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long
1285 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and
1286 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can
1287 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted.
1288 However, since users can not do anything actionble to
1289 address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single
1290 warning for the first use of unseeded randomness.
1291
1292 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of
1293 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for
1294 those developers interersted in improving the security of
1295 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or
1296 subarchitecture).
d06bfd19 1297
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1298config DEBUG_KOBJECT
1299 bool "kobject debugging"
1300 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1301 help
1302 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
1303 to the syslog.
1304
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1305config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
1306 bool "kobject release debugging"
2a999aa0 1307 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
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1308 help
1309 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
1310 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
1311 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
1312 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
1313 example of this would be a struct device which has just been
1314 unregistered.
1315
1316 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
1317 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
1318 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
1319
1320 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
1321 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
1322 kind of kobject release bug.
1323
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1324config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
1325 bool
1326
1da177e4 1327config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
6a108a14 1328 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
9b2a60c4 1329 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
8420e7ef 1330 default y
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1331 help
1332 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
1333 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
1334 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
1335
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1336config DEBUG_LIST
1337 bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
4520bcb2 1338 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
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1339 help
1340 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
1341 walking routines.
1342
1343 If unsure, say N.
1344
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1345config DEBUG_PI_LIST
1346 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
1347 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1348 help
1349 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
1350 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
1351 list multiple times during each manipulation.
1352
1353 If unsure, say N.
1354
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1355config DEBUG_SG
1356 bool "Debug SG table operations"
1357 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1358 help
1359 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
1360 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
1361 their sg tables.
1362
1363 If unsure, say N.
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1365config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
1366 bool "Debug notifier call chains"
1367 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1368 help
1369 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
1370 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
1371 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
1372 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
1373 performance, say N.
1374
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1375config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
1376 bool "Debug credential management"
1377 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1378 help
1379 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
1380 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
1381 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
1382 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
1383 struct.
1384
1385 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
1386 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
1387
1388 If unsure, say N.
1389
43a0a2a7 1390source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug"
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1392config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
1393 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
1394 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1395 default n
1396 help
1397 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
1398 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
1399 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
1400 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
1401 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
1402 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
1403 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
1404 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
1405 be impacted.
1406
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1407config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
1408 bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
1409 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1410 depends on BLOCK
759f8ca3 1411 default n
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1413 BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
1414 SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
1415 YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
1416 is broken.
1417
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1418 Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
1419 predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
1420 may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
1421 option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
1422 the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
1423 userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
1424 device number allocation.
1425
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1427 device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
1428 ones, so root partition specified using device number
1429 directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
1430 Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
1431
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1432 Say N if you are unsure.
1433
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1434config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
1435 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
1436 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1437 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
1438 default n
1439 help
1440 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
1441 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
1442 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
1443 restarted at arbitrary points yet.
1444
1445 Say N if your are unsure.
1446
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1447config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1448 tristate "Notifier error injection"
1449 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1450 select DEBUG_FS
1451 help
e41e85cc 1452 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1453 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
1454 handling of notifier call chain failures.
1455
1456 Say N if unsure.
1457
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1458config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1459 tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
1460 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1461 default m if PM_DEBUG
1462 help
e41e85cc 1463 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
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1464 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1465 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
1466
1467 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1468 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1469
1470 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
1471
1472 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
1473 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
1474 # echo mem > /sys/power/state
1475 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
1476
1477 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1478 be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
1479
1480 If unsure, say N.
1481
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1482config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1483 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
1484 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
08dfb4dd 1485 help
e41e85cc 1486 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
d526e85f 1487 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
08dfb4dd 1488 through debugfs interface under
d526e85f 1489 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
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1490
1491 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1492 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1493
1494 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
e12a95f4 1495 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
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1497 If unsure, say N.
1498
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1499config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
1500 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
1501 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
1502 help
1503 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
1504 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
1505 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1506
1507 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
1508 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
1509
1510 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
1511
1512 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
1513 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
1514 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
1515 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
1516
1517 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
1518 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
1519
1520 If unsure, say N.
1521
6ff1cb35 1522config FAULT_INJECTION
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1523 bool "Fault-injection framework"
1524 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1525 help
1526 Provide fault-injection framework.
1527 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
6ff1cb35 1528
8a8b6502 1529config FAILSLAB
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1530 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
1531 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
773ff60e 1532 depends on SLAB || SLUB
8a8b6502 1533 help
1ab8509a 1534 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
8a8b6502 1535
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1536config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
1537 bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
1ab8509a 1538 depends on FAULT_INJECTION
933e312e 1539 help
1ab8509a 1540 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
933e312e 1541
c17bb495 1542config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
86327d19 1543 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
581d4e28 1544 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
c17bb495 1545 help
1ab8509a 1546 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
c17bb495 1547
581d4e28 1548config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
f4d01439 1549 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
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1550 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
1551 help
1552 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
1553 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
1554 thus exercising the error handling.
1555
1556 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
1557 for others it wont do anything.
1558
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1559config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
1560 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
28ff4fda 1561 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
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1562 help
1563 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
1564 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
1565 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
1566 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
1567 the block device.
1568
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1569config FAIL_FUTEX
1570 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
1571 select DEBUG_FS
1572 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
1573 help
1574 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
1575
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1576config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
1577 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
1ab8509a 1578 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
6ff1cb35 1579 help
1ab8509a 1580 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
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1582config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
1583 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
1584 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
6d690dca 1585 depends on !X86_64
1df49008 1586 select STACKTRACE
a34a766f 1587 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86
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1589 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
267c4025 1590
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1591config LATENCYTOP
1592 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
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1593 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1594 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1595 depends on PROC_FS
a34a766f 1596 select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86
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1598 select KALLSYMS_ALL
1599 select STACKTRACE
1600 select SCHEDSTATS
1601 select SCHED_DEBUG
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1603 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
1604 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
1605
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1607
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1608config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
1609 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
1610 depends on PCI && X86
1611 help
1612 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
1613 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
1614 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
1615 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
1616 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
1617
1618 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
1619 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
1620 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
1621
1622 Usage:
1623
1624 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
1625 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
1626
1627 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
1628 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
1629 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
1630 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
1631
1632 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
1633 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
1634
1635 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
1636
1637config DMA_API_DEBUG
1638 bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
1639 depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
1640 help
1641 Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
1642 With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
1643 drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
1644 were never allocated.
1645
1646 This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
1647 accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
1648 example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
1649 not undergoing DMA.
1650
1651 This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
1652 debug device drivers and dma interactions.
1653
1654 If unsure, say N.
1655
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1656menu "Runtime Testing"
1657
1658config LKDTM
1659 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
1660 depends on DEBUG_FS
1661 depends on BLOCK
1662 default n
1663 help
1664 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
1665 inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
1666 If you don't need it: say N
1667 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
1668 called lkdtm.
1669
1670 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
1671 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
1672
1673config TEST_LIST_SORT
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1674 tristate "Linked list sorting test"
1675 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
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1676 help
1677 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
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1678 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time),
1679 or at module load time.
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1680
1681 If unsure, say N.
1682
c5adae95 1683config TEST_SORT
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1684 tristate "Array-based sort test"
1685 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
c5adae95 1686 help
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1687 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot,
1688 or at module load time.
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1690 If unsure, say N.
1691
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1692config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
1693 bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
1694 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1695 depends on KPROBES
1696 default n
1697 help
1698 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
1699 boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
1700 verified for functionality.
1701
1702 Say N if you are unsure.
1703
1704config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
1705 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
1706 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
1707 default n
1708 help
1709 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
1710 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
1711 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
1712 developers working on architecture code.
1713
1714 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
1715 have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
1716
1717 Say N if you are unsure.
1718
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1719config RBTREE_TEST
1720 tristate "Red-Black tree test"
7c993e11 1721 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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1722 help
1723 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
1724 Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
1725
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1727 tristate "Interval tree test"
0f789b67 1728 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
a88cc108 1729 select INTERVAL_TREE
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1730 help
1731 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
1732
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1734 tristate "Per cpu operations test"
1735 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
1736 help
1737 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
1738 operations.
1739
1740 If unsure, say N.
1741
881c5149 1742config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
55ded955 1743 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test"
881c5149 1744 help
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1745 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or
1746 at module load time.
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1747
1748 If unsure, say N.
1749
1750config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
1751 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
1752 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
1753 select ASYNC_MEMCPY
1754 ---help---
1755 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
1756 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
1757 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
1758 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
1759 engine if one is available.
1760
1761 If unsure, say N.
1762
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1763config TEST_HEXDUMP
1764 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
1765
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1767 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
1768
1769config TEST_KSTRTOX
1770 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
1771
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1773 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
1774
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1776 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
1777 default n
1778 help
1779 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
1780
1781 If unsure, say N.
1782
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1784 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
1785
7e1e7763 1786config TEST_RHASHTABLE
9d6dbe1b 1787 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
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1788 default n
1789 help
1790 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
1791
1792 If unsure, say N.
1793
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1794config TEST_HASH
1795 tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
1796 default n
1797 help
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1798 Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
1799 string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
1800 hash functions on boot (or module load).
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1802 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
1803 optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
1804
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1805config TEST_PARMAN
1806 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager"
1807 default n
1808 depends on PARMAN
1809 help
1810 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot
1811 (or module load).
1812
1813 If unsure, say N.
1814
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1816 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
1817 default n
1818 depends on m
1819 help
1820 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
1821 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
1822 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
1823 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
1824 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
1825 requested by name.
1826
1827 If unsure, say N.
1828
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1829config TEST_USER_COPY
1830 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
1831 default n
1832 depends on m
1833 help
1834 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
1835 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
1836 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
1837 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
1838 protections.
1839
1840 If unsure, say N.
1841
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1842config TEST_BPF
1843 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
1844 default n
98920ba6 1845 depends on m && NET
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1846 help
1847 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
1848 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
1849 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
1850 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
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1852 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
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1853
1854 If unsure, say N.
1855
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1856config TEST_FIRMWARE
1857 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
1858 default n
1859 depends on FW_LOADER
1860 help
1861 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
1862 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
1863 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
1864 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
1865 userspace.
1866
1867 If unsure, say N.
1868
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1869config TEST_SYSCTL
1870 tristate "sysctl test driver"
1871 default n
1872 depends on PROC_SYSCTL
1873 help
1874 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the
1875 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting
1876 production knobs which might alter system functionality.
1877
1878 If unsure, say N.
1879
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1880config TEST_UDELAY
1881 tristate "udelay test driver"
1882 default n
1883 help
1884 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
1885 that udelay() is working properly.
1886
1887 If unsure, say N.
1888
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1889config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
1890 tristate "Test static keys"
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1891 default n
1892 depends on m
1893 help
2bf9e0ab 1894 Test the static key interfaces.
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1895
1896 If unsure, say N.
1897
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1898config TEST_KMOD
1899 tristate "kmod stress tester"
1900 default n
1901 depends on m
1902 depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
1903 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
1904 select TEST_LKM
1905 select XFS_FS
1906 select TUN
1907 select BTRFS_FS
1908 help
1909 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
1910 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
1911 This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
1912
1913 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
1914 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
1915 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
1916 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
1917 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
1918
1919 To run tests run:
1920
1921 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
1922
1923 If unsure, say N.
1924
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1925config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1926 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature"
1927 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL
1928 help
1929 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to
1930 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the
1931 kernel's virtual address map.
1932
1933 If unsure, say N.
1934
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1936
1937config MEMTEST
1938 bool "Memtest"
1939 depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
1940 ---help---
1941 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
1942 to be set.
1943 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
1944 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
1945 ...
1946 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
1947 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
1948
1949config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
1950 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
1951 select DEBUG_LIST
1952 help
1953 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
1954 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
1955 for validity.
1956
1957 If unsure, say N.
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267c4025 1959source "samples/Kconfig"
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1961source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
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1963source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
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1965config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1966 bool
1967
1968config STRICT_DEVMEM
1969 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
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1971 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
1972 default y if TILE || PPC
1973 ---help---
1974 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1975 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
1976 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
1977 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
1978 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
1979 use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
1980
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1981 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
1982 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
1983 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
1984 users of /dev/mem.
1985
1986 If in doubt, say Y.
1987
1988config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
1989 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
1990 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
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1991 ---help---
1992 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
1993 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
1994 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
1995 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
1996
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1998 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
1999 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
2000 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
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2002 If in doubt, say Y.