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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 0d9e81779e37..2f6fb96405af 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menu "Kernel hacking"
menu "printk and dmesg options"
@@ -163,6 +164,15 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional
information.
+config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME
+ bool "Support symbolic error names in printf"
+ default y if PRINTK
+ help
+ If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will
+ be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead
+ of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger
+ (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read.
+
endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
@@ -219,6 +229,14 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
But it significantly improves the success of resolving
variables in gdb on optimized code.
+config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
+ bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
+ help
+ Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info.
+ Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
+ DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
+
config GDB_SCRIPTS
bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
depends on DEBUG_INFO
@@ -268,22 +286,6 @@ config READABLE_ASM
to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
sane.
-config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
- bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
- default y if X86
- help
- Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For
- that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This
- option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case
- some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you
- encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually
- using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using
- this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the
- wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a
- mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why
- you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for
- your module is.
-
config DEBUG_FS
bool "Debug Filesystem"
help
@@ -296,19 +298,27 @@ config DEBUG_FS
If unsure, say N.
-config HEADERS_CHECK
- bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
+config HEADERS_INSTALL
+ bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include"
depends on !UML
help
- This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
- building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
- ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
- were not exported, etc.
+ This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space)
+ into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build.
+ This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some
+ user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such
+ as uapi header sanity checks.
- If you're making modifications to header files which are
- relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
- exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
- your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
+config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
+ def_bool y
+ help
+ This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
+ developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
+ do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
+ compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
+ enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
+ this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
+ decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
+ is there to test gcc for this.
config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
@@ -323,23 +333,13 @@ config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections.
The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full
kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following
- additional steps to occur:
+ additional step to occur:
- Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands.
When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init
function, we would lose the section information and thus
the analysis would not catch the illegal reference.
This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in
a larger kernel).
- - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.a file.
- When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o, we
- lose valuable information about where the mismatch was
- introduced.
- Running the analysis for each module/built-in.a file
- tells where the mismatch happens much closer to the
- source. The drawback is that the same mismatch is
- reported at least twice.
- - Enable verbose reporting from modpost in order to help resolve
- the section mismatches that are reported.
config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY
bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal"
@@ -438,6 +438,15 @@ config DEBUG_KERNEL
Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
identify kernel problems.
+config DEBUG_MISC
+ bool "Miscellaneous debug code"
+ default DEBUG_KERNEL
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should
+ be under a more specific debug option but isn't.
+
+
menu "Memory Debugging"
source "mm/Kconfig.debug"
@@ -511,10 +520,6 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB
allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
-config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
- bool "Memory leak debugging"
- depends on DEBUG_SLAB
-
config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG
@@ -567,17 +572,18 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
- int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
+ int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- range 200 40000
- default 400
+ range 200 1000000
+ default 16000
help
Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
- freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
- used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
- buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
+ freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
+ of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
+ fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
+ if slab allocations fail.
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
@@ -753,9 +759,9 @@ endmenu # "Memory Debugging"
config ARCH_HAS_KCOV
bool
help
- KCOV does not have any arch-specific code, but currently it is enabled
- only for x86_64. KCOV requires testing on other archs, and most likely
- disabling of instrumentation for some early boot code.
+ An architecture should select this when it can successfully
+ build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires
+ disabling instrumentation for some early boot code.
config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
@@ -1067,7 +1073,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
- select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
+ select DEBUG_RWSEMS
select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
@@ -1104,7 +1110,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
- For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
+ For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst.
config LOCK_STAT
bool "Lock usage statistics"
@@ -1118,7 +1124,7 @@ config LOCK_STAT
help
This feature enables tracking lock contention points
- For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
+ For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst
This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
subcommand of perf.
@@ -1171,10 +1177,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
config DEBUG_RWSEMS
bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
- This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
- to be detected and reported.
+ This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks
+ and unlocks to be detected and reported.
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
@@ -1350,7 +1356,7 @@ config DEBUG_LIST
If unsure, say N.
-config DEBUG_PI_LIST
+config DEBUG_PLIST
bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
@@ -1656,6 +1662,8 @@ config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
+source "lib/kunit/Kconfig"
+
menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
bool "Runtime Testing"
def_bool y
@@ -1673,7 +1681,7 @@ config LKDTM
called lkdtm.
Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
- Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
+ Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst
config TEST_LIST_SORT
tristate "Linked list sorting test"
@@ -1726,6 +1734,18 @@ config RBTREE_TEST
A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
+config REED_SOLOMON_TEST
+ tristate "Reed-Solomon library test"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m
+ select REED_SOLOMON
+ select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16
+ select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16
+ help
+ This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot,
+ or at module load time.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
tristate "Interval tree test"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
@@ -1769,6 +1789,9 @@ config TEST_HEXDUMP
config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
+config TEST_STRSCPY
+ tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime"
+
config TEST_KSTRTOX
tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
@@ -1827,6 +1850,14 @@ config TEST_PARMAN
If unsure, say N.
+config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS
+ bool "IRQ timings selftest"
+ depends on IRQ_TIMINGS
+ help
+ Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config TEST_LKM
tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
depends on m
@@ -1878,6 +1909,15 @@ config TEST_BPF
If unsure, say N.
+config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV
+ tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality"
+ depends on m && NET
+ help
+ This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the
+ data path through this blackhole netdev.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK
tristate "Test find_bit functions"
help
@@ -1908,6 +1948,35 @@ config TEST_SYSCTL
If unsure, say N.
+config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST
+ bool "KUnit test for sysctl"
+ depends on KUNIT
+ help
+ This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot.
+ Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl.
+ For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
+ to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config LIST_KUNIT_TEST
+ bool "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures"
+ depends on KUNIT
+ help
+ This builds the linked list KUnit test suite.
+ It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type
+ and associated macros.
+
+ KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log
+ in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs
+ running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a
+ production build.
+
+ For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer
+ to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config TEST_UDELAY
tristate "udelay test driver"
help
@@ -1927,8 +1996,8 @@ config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
config TEST_KMOD
tristate "kmod stress tester"
depends on m
- depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS
depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
+ depends on BLOCK
select TEST_LKM
select XFS_FS
select TUN
@@ -2009,6 +2078,14 @@ config TEST_STACKINIT
If unsure, say N.
+config TEST_MEMINIT
+ tristate "Test heap/page initialization"
+ help
+ Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations.
+ This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
config MEMTEST
@@ -2079,4 +2156,11 @@ config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug"
+config HYPERV_TESTING
+ bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing"
+ default n
+ depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing.
+
endmenu # Kernel hacking