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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 109 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 9c5d40a50930..2a9a8759752b 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ config DEBUG_FS write to these files. For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see - Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. + Documentation/filesystems/. If unsure, say N. @@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ config STACK_VALIDATION pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure that runtime stack traces are more reliable. + This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which + is needed for CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER. + For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. @@ -778,34 +781,52 @@ config DEBUG_SHIRQ menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs" config LOCKUP_DETECTOR - bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups" + bool + +config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR + bool "Detect Soft Lockups" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 + select LOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect - hard and soft lockups. + soft lockups. Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF + bool + select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR + +# +# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based +# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. +# +config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP + bool + +# +# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard +# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. +# +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR + bool "Detect Hard Lockups" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 + depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH + select LOCKUP_DETECTOR + select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF + select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH + help + Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect + hard lockups. + Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. - The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to - generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds. - An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups. - - The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup - thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh. - -config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR - def_bool y - depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG - depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI - config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR @@ -826,7 +847,7 @@ config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" - depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR + depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel @@ -843,7 +864,7 @@ config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE int - depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR + depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR range 0 1 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC @@ -851,7 +872,7 @@ config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE config DETECT_HUNG_TASK bool "Detect Hung Tasks" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - default LOCKUP_DETECTOR + default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR help Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in @@ -1110,7 +1131,7 @@ config LOCKDEP bool depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86 select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL @@ -1212,6 +1233,34 @@ config STACKTRACE It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require stack trace generation. +config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM + bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" + default n + help + Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of + cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible + to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these + flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever + occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things + are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing + it. + + Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting + a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can + result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long + time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and + so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can + to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. + However, since users can not do anything actionble to + address this, by default the kernel will issue only a single + warning for the first use of unseeded randomness. + + Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of + unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for + those developers interersted in improving the security of + Linux kernels running on their architecture (or + subarchitecture). + config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL @@ -1501,7 +1550,7 @@ config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on !X86_64 select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !SCORE && !X86 help Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities @@ -1510,7 +1559,7 @@ config LATENCYTOP depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT depends on PROC_FS - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND && !ARC && !X86 select KALLSYMS select KALLSYMS_ALL select STACKTRACE @@ -1594,7 +1643,7 @@ config RBTREE_TEST config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST tristate "Interval tree test" - depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select INTERVAL_TREE help A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library @@ -1785,6 +1834,17 @@ config TEST_FIRMWARE If unsure, say N. +config TEST_SYSCTL + tristate "sysctl test driver" + default n + depends on PROC_SYSCTL + help + This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the + proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting + production knobs which might alter system functionality. + + If unsure, say N. + config TEST_UDELAY tristate "udelay test driver" default n @@ -1825,6 +1885,33 @@ config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION If unsure, say N. +config TEST_KMOD + tristate "kmod stress tester" + default n + depends on m + depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF) # for XFS, BTRFS + depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN + select TEST_LKM + select XFS_FS + select TUN + select BTRFS_FS + help + Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements + support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. + This test provides a series of tests against kmod. + + Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or + into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since + it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause + some issues by taking over precious threads available from other + module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. + + To run tests run: + + tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help + + If unsure, say N. + source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" |