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Michael Bestas 87cf1c2fc1 Merge remote-tracking branch 'common/android-4.9-q' into android-msm-pixel-4.9
* common/android-4.9-q:
  Linux 4.9.321
  swiotlb: skip swiotlb_bounce when orig_addr is zero
  kexec_file: drop weak attribute from arch_kexec_apply_relocations[_add]
  fdt: Update CRC check for rng-seed
  xen: unexport __init-annotated xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages()
  drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit
  powerpc/pseries: wire up rng during setup_arch()
  modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections
  ARM: cns3xxx: Fix refcount leak in cns3xxx_init
  ARM: Fix refcount leak in axxia_boot_secondary
  ARM: exynos: Fix refcount leak in exynos_map_pmu
  ARM: dts: imx6qdl: correct PU regulator ramp delay
  powerpc: Enable execve syscall exit tracepoint
  xtensa: Fix refcount leak bug in time.c
  xtensa: xtfpga: Fix refcount leak bug in setup
  iio: trigger: sysfs: fix use-after-free on remove
  iio: accel: mma8452: ignore the return value of reset operation
  iio:accel:bma180: rearrange iio trigger get and register
  usb: chipidea: udc: check request status before setting device address
  iio: adc: vf610: fix conversion mode sysfs node name
  igb: Make DMA faster when CPU is active on the PCIe link
  MIPS: Remove repetitive increase irq_err_count
  x86/xen: Remove undefined behavior in setup_features()
  bonding: ARP monitor spams NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS notifiers
  USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910Cx 0x1250 composition
  random: quiet urandom warning ratelimit suppression message
  dm era: commit metadata in postsuspend after worker stops
  ata: libata: add qc->flags in ata_qc_complete_template tracepoint
  random: schedule mix_interrupt_randomness() less often
  vt: drop old FONT ioctls
  BACKPORT: l2tp: fix race in pppol2tp_release with session object destroy
  BACKPORT: l2tp: don't use inet_shutdown on ppp session destroy
  Linux 4.9.320
  tcp: drop the hash_32() part from the index calculation
  tcp: increase source port perturb table to 2^16
  tcp: dynamically allocate the perturb table used by source ports
  tcp: add small random increments to the source port
  tcp: use different parts of the port_offset for index and offset
  secure_seq: use the 64 bits of the siphash for port offset calculation
  tcp: add some entropy in __inet_hash_connect()
  tcp: change source port randomizarion at connect() time
  fuse: fix pipe buffer lifetime for direct_io
  Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""
  swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE
  xprtrdma: fix incorrect header size calculations
  s390/mm: use non-quiescing sske for KVM switch to keyed guest
  l2tp: fix race in pppol2tp_release with session object destroy
  l2tp: don't use inet_shutdown on ppp session destroy
  ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check
  ext4: make variable "count" signed
  ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
  serial: 8250: Store to lsr_save_flags after lsr read
  usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: Fix refcount leak in lpc32xx_udc_probe
  USB: serial: io_ti: add Agilent E5805A support
  USB: serial: option: add support for Cinterion MV31 with new baseline
  comedi: vmk80xx: fix expression for tx buffer size
  irqchip/gic-v3: Iterate over possible CPUs by for_each_possible_cpu()
  irqchip/gic/realview: Fix refcount leak in realview_gic_of_init
  misc: atmel-ssc: Fix IRQ check in ssc_probe
  pNFS: Don't keep retrying if the server replied NFS4ERR_LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE
  random: credit cpu and bootloader seeds by default
  net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix misuse of mem alloc interface netdev[napi]_alloc_frag
  ipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in l2tp_ip6_sendmsg
  nfc: nfcmrvl: Fix memory leak in nfcmrvl_play_deferred
  virtio-mmio: fix missing put_device() when vm_cmdline_parent registration failed
  scsi: lpfc: Fix port stuck in bypassed state after LIP in PT2PT topology
  scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Expand vcpuHint to 16 bits
  ASoC: wm8962: Fix suspend while playing music
  ata: libata-core: fix NULL pointer deref in ata_host_alloc_pinfo()
  ASoC: cs42l56: Correct typo in minimum level for SX volume controls
  ASoC: cs42l52: Correct TLV for Bypass Volume
  ASoC: cs53l30: Correct number of volume levels on SX controls
  ASoC: cs42l52: Fix TLV scales for mixer controls
  random: account for arch randomness in bits
  random: mark bootloader randomness code as __init
  random: avoid checking crng_ready() twice in random_init()
  crypto: drbg - make reseeding from get_random_bytes() synchronous
  crypto: drbg - always try to free Jitter RNG instance
  crypto: drbg - move dynamic ->reseed_threshold adjustments to __drbg_seed()
  crypto: drbg - track whether DRBG was seeded with !rng_is_initialized()
  crypto: drbg - prepare for more fine-grained tracking of seeding state
  crypto: drbg - always seeded with SP800-90B compliant noise source
  crypto: drbg - add FIPS 140-2 CTRNG for noise source
  Revert "random: use static branch for crng_ready()"
  random: check for signals after page of pool writes
  random: wire up fops->splice_{read,write}_iter()
  random: convert to using fops->write_iter()
  random: move randomize_page() into mm where it belongs
  random: move initialization functions out of hot pages
  random: use proper return types on get_random_{int,long}_wait()
  random: remove extern from functions in header
  random: use static branch for crng_ready()
  random: credit architectural init the exact amount
  random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init()
  random: use proper jiffies comparison macro
  random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness
  random: avoid initializing twice in credit race
  random: use symbolic constants for crng_init states
  siphash: use one source of truth for siphash permutations
  random: help compiler out with fast_mix() by using simpler arguments
  random: do not use input pool from hard IRQs
  random: order timer entropy functions below interrupt functions
  random: do not pretend to handle premature next security model
  random: do not use batches when !crng_ready()
  random: insist on random_get_entropy() existing in order to simplify
  uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h
  xtensa: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  sparc: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  um: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  x86/tsc: Use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  nios2: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  arm: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  mips: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of just c0 random
  m68k: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
  timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy()
  powerpc: define get_cycles macro for arch-override
  alpha: define get_cycles macro for arch-override
  parisc: define get_cycles macro for arch-override
  s390: define get_cycles macro for arch-override
  ia64: define get_cycles macro for arch-override
  init: call time_init() before rand_initialize()
  random: fix sysctl documentation nits
  random: document crng_fast_key_erasure() destination possibility
  random: make random_get_entropy() return an unsigned long
  random: check for signals every PAGE_SIZE chunk of /dev/[u]random
  random: check for signal_pending() outside of need_resched() check
  random: do not allow user to keep crng key around on stack
  random: do not split fast init input in add_hwgenerator_randomness()
  random: mix build-time latent entropy into pool at init
  random: re-add removed comment about get_random_{u32,u64} reseeding
  random: treat bootloader trust toggle the same way as cpu trust toggle
  random: skip fast_init if hwrng provides large chunk of entropy
  random: check for signal and try earlier when generating entropy
  random: reseed more often immediately after booting
  random: make consistent usage of crng_ready()
  random: use SipHash as interrupt entropy accumulator
  random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one
  random: don't let 644 read-only sysctls be written to
  random: give sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed a more sensible value
  random: do crng pre-init loading in worker rather than irq
  random: unify cycles_t and jiffies usage and types
  random: cleanup UUID handling
  random: only wake up writers after zap if threshold was passed
  random: round-robin registers as ulong, not u32
  random: clear fast pool, crng, and batches in cpuhp bring up
  random: pull add_hwgenerator_randomness() declaration into random.h
  hwrng: remember rng chosen by user
  hwrng: use rng source with best quality
  hwrng: core - remove unused PFX macro
  hwrng: core - Move hwrng miscdev minor number to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  hwrng: core - Rewrite the header
  hwrng: core - rewrite better comparison to NULL
  hwrng: core - do not use multiple blank lines
  random: check for crng_init == 0 in add_device_randomness()
  random: unify early init crng load accounting
  random: do not take pool spinlock at boot
  random: defer fast pool mixing to worker
  workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
  random: rewrite header introductory comment
  random: group sysctl functions
  random: group userspace read/write functions
  random: group entropy collection functions
  random: group entropy extraction functions
  random: group initialization wait functions
  random: remove whitespace and reorder includes
  random: remove useless header comment
  random: introduce drain_entropy() helper to declutter crng_reseed()
  random: deobfuscate irq u32/u64 contributions
  random: add proper SPDX header
  random: remove unused tracepoints
  random: remove ifdef'd out interrupt bench
  random: tie batched entropy generation to base_crng generation
  random: zero buffer after reading entropy from userspace
  random: remove outdated INT_MAX >> 6 check in urandom_read()
  random: use hash function for crng_slow_load()
  random: absorb fast pool into input pool after fast load
  random: do not xor RDRAND when writing into /dev/random
  random: ensure early RDSEED goes through mixer on init
  random: inline leaves of rand_initialize()
  random: use RDSEED instead of RDRAND in entropy extraction
  random: fix locking in crng_fast_load()
  random: remove batched entropy locking
  random: remove use_input_pool parameter from crng_reseed()
  random: make credit_entropy_bits() always safe
  random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction
  random: use linear min-entropy accumulation crediting
  random: simplify entropy debiting
  random: use computational hash for entropy extraction
  random: only call crng_finalize_init() for primary_crng
  random: access primary_pool directly rather than through pointer
  random: continually use hwgenerator randomness
  random: simplify arithmetic function flow in account()
  random: access input_pool_data directly rather than through pointer
  random: cleanup fractional entropy shift constants
  random: prepend remaining pool constants with POOL_
  random: de-duplicate INPUT_POOL constants
  random: remove unused OUTPUT_POOL constants
  random: rather than entropy_store abstraction, use global
  random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
  random: remove unused extract_entropy() reserved argument
  random: remove incomplete last_data logic
  random: cleanup integer types
  crypto: chacha20 - Fix chacha20_block() keystream alignment (again)
  random: cleanup poolinfo abstraction
  random: fix typo in comments
  random: don't reset crng_init_cnt on urandom_read()
  random: avoid superfluous call to RDRAND in CRNG extraction
  random: early initialization of ChaCha constants
  random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness
  random: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead of ifdefs
  random: harmonize "crng init done" messages
  random: mix bootloader randomness into pool
  random: do not re-init if crng_reseed completes before primary init
  random: do not sign extend bytes for rotation when mixing
  random: use BLAKE2s instead of SHA1 in extraction
  random: remove unused irq_flags argument from add_interrupt_randomness()
  random: document add_hwgenerator_randomness() with other input functions
  crypto: blake2s - adjust include guard naming
  crypto: blake2s - include <linux/bug.h> instead of <asm/bug.h>
  MAINTAINERS: co-maintain random.c
  random: remove dead code left over from blocking pool
  random: avoid arch_get_random_seed_long() when collecting IRQ randomness
  random: add arch_get_random_*long_early()
  powerpc: Use bool in archrandom.h
  linux/random.h: Mark CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM functions __must_check
  linux/random.h: Use false with bool
  linux/random.h: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  powerpc: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  x86: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  random: avoid warnings for !CONFIG_NUMA builds
  random: split primary/secondary crng init paths
  random: remove some dead code of poolinfo
  random: fix typo in add_timer_randomness()
  random: Add and use pr_fmt()
  random: convert to ENTROPY_BITS for better code readability
  random: remove unnecessary unlikely()
  random: remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold
  random: delete code to pull data into pools
  random: remove the blocking pool
  random: fix crash on multiple early calls to add_bootloader_randomness()
  random: make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom
  random: ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2)
  random: add GRND_INSECURE to return best-effort non-cryptographic bytes
  random: Add a urandom_read_nowait() for random APIs that don't warn
  random: Don't wake crng_init_wait when crng_init == 1
  lib/crypto: sha1: re-roll loops to reduce code size
  lib/crypto: blake2s: move hmac construction into wireguard
  crypto: blake2s - generic C library implementation and selftest
  crypto: Deduplicate le32_to_cpu_array() and cpu_to_le32_array()
  Revert "hwrng: core - Freeze khwrng thread during suspend"
  char/random: Add a newline at the end of the file
  random: Use wait_event_freezable() in add_hwgenerator_randomness()
  fdt: add support for rng-seed
  random: Support freezable kthreads in add_hwgenerator_randomness()
  random: fix soft lockup when trying to read from an uninitialized blocking pool
  latent_entropy: avoid build error when plugin cflags are not set
  random: document get_random_int() family
  random: move rand_initialize() earlier
  random: only read from /dev/random after its pool has received 128 bits
  drivers/char/random.c: make primary_crng static
  drivers/char/random.c: remove unused stuct poolinfo::poolbits
  drivers/char/random.c: constify poolinfo_table
  random: make CPU trust a boot parameter
  random: Make crng state queryable
  random: remove preempt disabled region
  random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng
  random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG
  random: Fix whitespace pre random-bytes work
  drivers/char/random.c: remove unused dont_count_entropy
  random: optimize add_interrupt_randomness
  random: always fill buffer in get_random_bytes_wait
  crypto: chacha20 - Fix keystream alignment for chacha20_block()
  random: fix data race on crng_node_pool
  random: always use batched entropy for get_random_u{32,64}
  Revert "char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()"
  char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()
  random: add a spinlock_t to struct batched_entropy
  random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings
  random: fix possible sleeping allocation from irq context
  random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized
  random: use a different mixing algorithm for add_device_randomness()
  random: fix warning message on ia64 and parisc
  random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX
  random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness
  random: do not ignore early device randomness
  random: warn when kernel uses unseeded randomness
  random: add get_random_{bytes,u32,u64,int,long,once}_wait family
  random: add wait_for_random_bytes() API
  random: silence compiler warnings and fix race
  random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init
  random: move random_min_urandom_seed into CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdef block
  random: convert get_random_int/long into get_random_u32/u64
  random: fix comment for unused random_min_urandom_seed
  random: remove variable limit
  random: remove stale urandom_init_wait
  random: remove stale maybe_reseed_primary_crng
  9p: missing chunk of "fs/9p: Don't update file type when updating file attributes"
  Linux 4.9.319
  x86/speculation/mmio: Print SMT warning
  KVM: x86/speculation: Disable Fill buffer clear within guests
  x86/speculation/mmio: Reuse SRBDS mitigation for SBDS
  x86/speculation/srbds: Update SRBDS mitigation selection
  x86/speculation/mmio: Add sysfs reporting for Processor MMIO Stale Data
  x86/speculation/mmio: Enable CPU Fill buffer clearing on idle
  x86/bugs: Group MDS, TAA & Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigations
  x86/speculation/mmio: Add mitigation for Processor MMIO Stale Data
  x86/speculation: Add a common function for MD_CLEAR mitigation update
  x86/speculation/mmio: Enumerate Processor MMIO Stale Data bug
  Documentation: Add documentation for Processor MMIO Stale Data
  x86/cpu: Add another Alder Lake CPU to the Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Lakefield, Alder Lake and Rocket Lake models to the to Intel CPU family
  x86/cpu: Add Comet Lake to the Intel CPU models header
  x86/CPU: Add more Icelake model numbers
  x86/CPU: Add Icelake model number
  x86/cpu: Add Cannonlake to Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Jasper Lake to Intel family
  cpu/speculation: Add prototype for cpu_show_srbds()
  x86/cpu: Add Elkhart Lake to Intel family
  ANDROID: arch: fix backported syscall numbers
  Linux 4.9.318
  tcp: fix tcp_mtup_probe_success vs wrong snd_cwnd
  PCI: qcom: Fix unbalanced PHY init on probe errors
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Use chip_ready() for write on S29GL064N
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Move and rename chip_check/chip_ready/chip_good_for_write
  powerpc/32: Fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace
  Input: bcm5974 - set missing URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP urb flag
  nfc: st21nfca: fix memory leaks in EVT_TRANSACTION handling
  nfc: st21nfca: fix incorrect validating logic in EVT_TRANSACTION
  ata: libata-transport: fix {dma|pio|xfer}_mode sysfs files
  cifs: return errors during session setup during reconnects
  ALSA: hda/conexant - Fix loopback issue with CX20632
  vringh: Fix loop descriptors check in the indirect cases
  nodemask: Fix return values to be unsigned
  modpost: fix undefined behavior of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  drm/radeon: fix a possible null pointer dereference
  Revert "net: af_key: add check for pfkey_broadcast in function pfkey_process"
  md: protect md_unregister_thread from reentrancy
  serial: msm_serial: disable interrupts in __msm_console_write()
  staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in r871xu_drv_init()
  clocksource/drivers/sp804: Avoid error on multiple instances
  misc: rtsx: set NULL intfdata when probe fails
  usb: dwc2: gadget: don't reset gadget's driver->bus
  USB: hcd-pci: Fully suspend across freeze/thaw cycle
  drivers: usb: host: Fix deadlock in oxu_bus_suspend()
  drivers: tty: serial: Fix deadlock in sa1100_set_termios()
  USB: host: isp116x: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
  drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Fix deadlock in rtllib_beacons_stop()
  tty: Fix a possible resource leak in icom_probe
  tty: synclink_gt: Fix null-pointer-dereference in slgt_clean()
  lkdtm/usercopy: Expand size of "out of frame" object
  iio: dummy: iio_simple_dummy: check the return value of kstrdup()
  net: altera: Fix refcount leak in altera_tse_mdio_create
  net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
  SUNRPC: Fix the calculation of xdr->end in xdr_get_next_encode_buffer()
  net/mlx4_en: Fix wrong return value on ioctl EEPROM query failure
  ata: pata_octeon_cf: Fix refcount leak in octeon_cf_probe
  net: fix nla_strcmp to handle more then one trailing null character
  video: fbdev: pxa3xx-gcu: release the resources correctly in pxa3xx_gcu_probe/remove()
  m68knommu: fix undefined reference to `_init_sp'
  m68knommu: set ZERO_PAGE() to the allocated zeroed page
  i2c: cadence: Increase timeout per message if necessary
  tracing: Avoid adding tracer option before update_tracer_options
  tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context
  jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super
  modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes
  net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: out of bounds read in mtk_hwlro_get_fdir_entry()
  clocksource/drivers/oxnas-rps: Fix irq_of_parse_and_map() return value
  firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
  serial: st-asc: Sanitize CSIZE and correct PARENB for CS7
  serial: sh-sci: Don't allow CS5-6
  serial: txx9: Don't allow CS5-6
  serial: digicolor-usart: Don't allow CS5-6
  serial: meson: acquire port->lock in startup()
  rtc: mt6397: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
  rpmsg: qcom_smd: Fix irq_of_parse_and_map() return value
  pwm: lp3943: Fix duty calculation in case period was clamped
  USB: storage: karma: fix rio_karma_init return
  usb: usbip: add missing device lock on tweak configuration cmd
  usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe()
  staging: greybus: codecs: fix type confusion of list iterator variable
  pcmcia: db1xxx_ss: restrict to MIPS_DB1XXX boards
  netfilter: nf_tables: disallow non-stateful expression in sets earlier
  MIPS: IP27: Remove incorrect `cpu_has_fpu' override
  RDMA/rxe: Generate a completion for unsupported/invalid opcode
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: correct interrupt-cells
  docs/conf.py: Cope with removal of language=None in Sphinx 5.0.0
  gma500: fix an incorrect NULL check on list iterator
  carl9170: tx: fix an incorrect use of list iterator
  ASoC: rt5514: Fix event generation for "DSP Voice Wake Up" control
  rtl818x: Prevent using not initialized queues
  hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare address update
  nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
  iommu/msm: Fix an incorrect NULL check on list iterator
  um: Fix out-of-bounds read in LDT setup
  um: chan_user: Fix winch_tramp() return value
  mac80211: upgrade passive scan to active scan on DFS channels after beacon rx
  irqchip: irq-xtensa-mx: fix initial IRQ affinity
  irqchip/armada-370-xp: Do not touch Performance Counter Overflow on A375, A38x, A39x
  RDMA/hfi1: Fix potential integer multiplication overflow errors
  md: fix an incorrect NULL check in md_reload_sb
  md: fix an incorrect NULL check in does_sb_need_changing
  drm/bridge: analogix_dp: Grab runtime PM reference for DP-AUX
  drm/amdgpu/cs: make commands with 0 chunks illegal behaviour.
  scsi: ufs: qcom: Add a readl() to make sure ref_clk gets enabled
  scsi: dc395x: Fix a missing check on list iterator
  ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock
  dlm: fix missing lkb refcount handling
  dlm: fix plock invalid read
  ext4: verify dir block before splitting it
  ext4: fix bug_on in ext4_writepages
  ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_rename_dir_prepare
  fs-writeback: writeback_sb_inodes:Recalculate 'wrote' according skipped pages
  iwlwifi: mvm: fix assert 1F04 upon reconfig
  wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free in chanctx code
  iommu/amd: Increase timeout waiting for GA log enablement
  video: fbdev: clcdfb: Fix refcount leak in clcdfb_of_vram_setup
  Input: sparcspkr - fix refcount leak in bbc_beep_probe
  tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock
  powerpc/4xx/cpm: Fix return value of __setup() handler
  powerpc/idle: Fix return value of __setup() handler
  powerpc/8xx: export 'cpm_setbrg' for modules
  drivers/base/node.c: fix compaction sysfs file leak
  scsi: fcoe: Fix Wstringop-overflow warnings in fcoe_wwn_from_mac()
  mfd: ipaq-micro: Fix error check return value of platform_get_irq()
  soc: qcom: smsm: Fix missing of_node_put() in smsm_parse_ipc
  soc: qcom: smp2p: Fix missing of_node_put() in smp2p_parse_ipc
  rxrpc: Don't try to resend the request if we're receiving the reply
  rxrpc: Fix listen() setting the bar too high for the prealloc rings
  ASoC: wm2000: fix missing clk_disable_unprepare() on error in wm2000_anc_transition()
  sctp: read sk->sk_bound_dev_if once in sctp_rcv()
  m68k: math-emu: Fix dependencies of math emulation support
  Bluetooth: fix dangling sco_conn and use-after-free in sco_sock_timeout
  media: pvrusb2: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in pvr2_i2c_core_init
  media: exynos4-is: Change clk_disable to clk_disable_unprepare
  regulator: pfuze100: Fix refcount leak in pfuze_parse_regulators_dt
  ASoC: mxs-saif: Fix refcount leak in mxs_saif_probe
  media: uvcvideo: Fix missing check to determine if element is found in list
  drm/msm: return an error pointer in msm_gem_prime_get_sg_table()
  x86/mm: Cleanup the control_va_addr_alignment() __setup handler
  drm/rockchip: vop: fix possible null-ptr-deref in vop_bind()
  drm/msm/hdmi: check return value after calling platform_get_resource_byname()
  drm/msm/dsi: fix error checks and return values for DSI xmit functions
  x86/pm: Fix false positive kmemleak report in msr_build_context()
  inotify: show inotify mask flags in proc fdinfo
  ath9k_htc: fix potential out of bounds access with invalid rxstatus->rs_keyix
  spi: img-spfi: Fix pm_runtime_get_sync() error checking
  HID: hid-led: fix maximum brightness for Dream Cheeky
  NFC: NULL out the dev->rfkill to prevent UAF
  spi: spi-ti-qspi: Fix return value handling of wait_for_completion_timeout
  drm/mediatek: Fix mtk_cec_mask()
  x86/delay: Fix the wrong asm constraint in delay_loop()
  ASoC: mediatek: Fix error handling in mt8173_max98090_dev_probe
  drm: fix EDID struct for old ARM OABI format
  macintosh/via-pmu: Fix build failure when CONFIG_INPUT is disabled
  powerpc/xics: fix refcount leak in icp_opal_init()
  PCI: Avoid pci_dev_lock() AB/BA deadlock with sriov_numvfs_store()
  ARM: hisi: Add missing of_node_put after of_find_compatible_node
  ARM: dts: exynos: add atmel,24c128 fallback to Samsung EEPROM
  ARM: versatile: Add missing of_node_put in dcscb_init
  fat: add ratelimit to fat*_ent_bread()
  ARM: OMAP1: clock: Fix UART rate reporting algorithm
  fs: jfs: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in dbFree()
  eth: tg3: silence the GCC 12 array-bounds warning
  rxrpc: Return an error to sendmsg if call failed
  media: exynos4-is: Fix compile warning
  ASoC: rt5645: Fix errorenous cleanup order
  nvme-pci: fix a NULL pointer dereference in nvme_alloc_admin_tags
  openrisc: start CPU timer early in boot
  ipmi:ssif: Check for NULL msg when handling events and messages
  dma-debug: change allocation mode from GFP_NOWAIT to GFP_ATIOMIC
  ASoC: dapm: Don't fold register value changes into notifications
  ipv6: Don't send rs packets to the interface of ARPHRD_TUNNEL
  drm/amd/pm: fix the compile warning
  scsi: megaraid: Fix error check return value of register_chrdev()
  media: cx25821: Fix the warning when removing the module
  ath9k: fix QCA9561 PA bias level
  drm/amd/pm: fix double free in si_parse_power_table()
  ALSA: jack: Access input_dev under mutex
  ACPICA: Avoid cache flush inside virtual machines
  ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()
  b43: Fix assigning negative value to unsigned variable
  b43legacy: Fix assigning negative value to unsigned variable
  mwifiex: add mutex lock for call in mwifiex_dfs_chan_sw_work_queue
  drm/virtio: fix NULL pointer dereference in virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes
  btrfs: add "0x" prefix for unsupported optional features
  ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
  ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  USB: new quirk for Dell Gen 2 devices
  BACKPORT: psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled

 Conflicts:
	drivers/char/Kconfig
	drivers/char/random.c
	fs/fat/fatent.c
	include/linux/random.h
	init/main.c
	kernel/cpu.c
	lib/Makefile

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menu "printk and dmesg options"
config PRINTK_TIME
bool "Show timing information on printks"
depends on PRINTK
help
Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk()
messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system
call and at the console.
The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported
to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should
be included, not that the timestamp is recorded.
The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line
parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
config PRINTK_CPU_ID
bool "Show CPU number on printks"
default y
depends on PRINTK
help
Selecting this option adds CPU number to printk() messages.
It can be turned off by writing 0 to printk module parameter cpu.
config PRINTK_PID
bool "Show process ID on printks"
default y
depends on PRINTK
help
Selecting this option adds process ID to printk() messages.
It can be turned off by writing 0 to printk module parameter pid.
config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT
int "Default message log level (1-7)"
range 1 7
default "4"
help
Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.
This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks
that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower
priority.
config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
help
This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages
by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is
specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line,
using "boot_delay=N".
It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
the "loops per jiffie" value.
See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up.
BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect
what it believes to be lockup conditions.
config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
bool "Enable dynamic printk() support"
default n
depends on PRINTK
depends on DEBUG_FS
help
Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not
otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be
enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file,
function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism
implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which
enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%.
If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any
pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be
disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is
turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options.
Usage:
Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
format for each line of the file is:
filename:lineno [module]function flags format
filename : source file of the debug statement
lineno : line number of the debug statement
module : module that contains the debug statement
function : function that contains the debug statement
flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing
format : the format used for the debug statement
From a live system:
nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
# filename:lineno [module]function flags format
fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012"
Example usage:
// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
// enable all the messages in the NFS server module
nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.
endmenu # "printk and dmesg options"
menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options"
config DEBUG_INFO
bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
bool "Reduce debugging information"
depends on DEBUG_INFO
help
If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
information for structure types. This means that tools that
need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't
be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to
resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that
build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full
DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
Only works with newer gcc versions.
config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
depends on DEBUG_INFO && !FRV
help
Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO,
because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo
files instead of multiple times in object files and executables.
In addition the debug information is also compressed.
Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils.
Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need
to know about the .dwo files and include them.
Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
depends on DEBUG_INFO
help
Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
But it significantly improves the success of resolving
variables in gdb on optimized code.
config GDB_SCRIPTS
bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
depends on DEBUG_INFO
help
This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and
additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel
instance. See Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further
details.
config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
default y
help
Enable the __deprecated logic in the kernel build.
Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
(declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.
config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
bool "Enable __must_check logic"
default y
help
Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build. Disable this to
suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
config FRAME_WARN
int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
range 0 8192
default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
default 1024 if !64BIT
default 2048 if 64BIT
help
Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this.
Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings.
Setting it to 0 disables the warning.
Requires gcc 4.4
config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
default n
help
Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
get_wchan() and suchlike.
config READABLE_ASM
bool "Generate readable assembler code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
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 PAGE_OWNER
bool "Track page owner"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select DEBUG_FS
select STACKTRACE
select STACKDEPOT
select PAGE_EXTENSION
help
This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
"page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
for user-space helper.
If unsure, say N.
config PAGE_OWNER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
bool "Enable Track page owner by default"
depends on PAGE_OWNER
---help---
This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. If you include this
feature on your build, it is enabled by default. You should pass
"page_owner=off" to boot parameter in order to disable it. Eats
a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
for user-space helper.
config DEBUG_FS
bool "Debug Filesystem"
help
debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
write to these files.
For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see
Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.
If unsure, say N.
config HEADERS_CHECK
bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
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.
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 DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
help
The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
references from one section to another section.
During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped;
any use of code/data previously in these sections would
most likely result in an oops.
In the code, functions and variables are annotated with
__init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h),
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:
- 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.o 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.o 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"
default y
help
If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any
section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings.
If unsure, say Y.
#
# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
#
config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
bool
help
config FRAME_POINTER
bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
(CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
help
If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
config STACK_VALIDATION
bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
default n
help
Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
For more information, see
tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be
defined weak to work around addressing range issue which
puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable
definitions.
1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function
To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this
option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak.
endmenu # "Compiler options"
config MAGIC_SYSRQ
bool "Magic SysRq key"
depends on !UML
help
If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It
also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you
send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The
keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
unless you really know what this hack does.
config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
default 0x1
help
Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
config DEBUG_KERNEL
bool "Kernel debugging"
help
Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and
identify kernel problems.
menu "Memory Debugging"
source mm/Kconfig.debug
config DEBUG_OBJECTS
bool "Debug object operations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
the operations on those objects.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST
bool "Debug objects selftest"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
This enables the selftest of the object debug code.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE
bool "Debug objects in freed memory"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
which contains an object which has not been deactivated
properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads
much slower.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
bool "Debug timer objects"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and
validate the timer operations.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
bool "Debug work objects"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
validate the work operations.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
bool "Debug percpu counter objects"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter
objects and validate the percpu counter operations.
config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
range 0 1
default "1"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS
help
Debug objects boot parameter default value
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
help
Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
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 && !KMEMCHECK
default n
help
Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
"slub_debug=-".
config SLUB_STATS
default n
bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics"
depends on SLUB && SYSFS
help
SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in
order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be
enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down
the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command
supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure
out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
Try running: slabinfo -DA
config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select DEBUG_FS
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select KALLSYMS
select CRC32
help
Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
feature will introduce an overhead to memory
allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
details.
Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
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"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
range 200 40000
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.
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
help
This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
bool "Default kmemleak to off"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
help
Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
on the command line via kmemleak=on.
config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
help
Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
config DEBUG_VM
bool "Debug VM"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system
that may impact performance.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
bool "Debug VMA caching"
depends on DEBUG_VM
help
Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so
can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production
environments.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_VM_RB
bool "Debug VM red-black trees"
depends on DEBUG_VM
help
Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
bool "Debug page-flags operations"
depends on DEBUG_VM
help
Enables extra validation on page flags operations.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
bool "Debug VM translations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && X86
help
Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can
catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS
bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU
help
This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping
regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology.
config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT
default !EXPERT
help
Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation.
The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model
and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose
information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending
on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option.
If unsure, say Y
config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module"
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
help
This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
# echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called memory-notifier-error-inject.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on SMP
help
Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has
been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory
and decreases performance.
Say N if unsure.
config DEBUG_HIGHMEM
bool "Highmem debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM
help
This option enables additional error checking for high memory
systems. Disable for production systems.
config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
bool
config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
bool "Check for stack overflows"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
---help---
Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ
and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This
option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops
below a certain limit.
These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the
kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are
involved.
Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory
corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info'
If in doubt, say "N".
source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck"
source "lib/Kconfig.kasan"
config DEBUG_REFCOUNT
bool "Verbose refcount checks"
help
Say Y here if you want reference counters (refcount_t and kref) to
generate WARNs on dubious usage. Without this refcount_t will still
be a saturating counter and avoid Use-After-Free by turning it into
a resource leak Denial-Of-Service.
Use of this option will increase kernel text size but will alert the
admin of potential abuse.
If in doubt, say "N".
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.
config KCOV
bool "Code coverage for fuzzing"
depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV
select DEBUG_FS
select GCC_PLUGINS if !COMPILE_TEST
select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !COMPILE_TEST
help
KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable
for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing).
If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across
different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values,
disable RANDOMIZE_BASE.
For more details, see Documentation/kcov.txt.
config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
bool "Instrument all code by default"
depends on KCOV
default y if KCOV
help
If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
config DEBUG_SHIRQ
bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt as soon as a shared
interrupt handler is registered, and just before one is deregistered.
Drivers ought to be able to handle interrupts coming in at those
points; some don't and need to be caught.
menu "Debug Lockups and Hangs"
config LOCKUP_DETECTOR
bool "Detect Hard and Soft Lockups"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
hard and 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.
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_NMI
def_bool y
depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_OTHER_CPU
def_bool y
depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR && SMP
depends on !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_NMI && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
def_bool y
depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_NMI || HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_OTHER_CPU
config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
Say N if unsure.
config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
int
depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
range 0 1
default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
depends on LOCKUP_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
mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for
high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
where a lockup must be resolved ASAP.
Say N if unsure.
config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
int
depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
range 0 1
default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
config PANIC_ON_RECURSIVE_FAULT
bool "Panic on recursive faults during task exit"
help
Panic upon the detection of a recursive fault during task exit,
rather than putting the task into an uninterruptible sleep.
This is particularly useful for debugging system hangs in
scenarios where the task experiencing the fault is critical
for system operation, rendering the system inoperable.
Say N if unsure.
config DETECT_HUNG_TASK
bool "Detect Hung Tasks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default LOCKUP_DETECTOR
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks",
which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in
uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely.
When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the
current stack trace (which you should report), but the
task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is
enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This
feature has negligible overhead.
config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT
int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)"
depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
default 120
help
This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used
to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should
be considered hung.
It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs
sysctl or by writing a value to
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs.
A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes.
Keeping the default should be fine in most cases.
config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks"
depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks",
which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck
in uninterruptible "D" state.
The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for
high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and
where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP.
Say N if unsure.
config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE
int
depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK
range 0 1
default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC
config WQ_WATCHDOG
bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a
worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work
item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a
warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue
state. This can be configured through kernel parameter
"workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart.
endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs"
config PANIC_ON_OOPS
bool "Panic on Oops"
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This
has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command
line.
This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do
anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data
corruption or other issues.
Say N if unsure.
config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
int
range 0 1
default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS
default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS
config PANIC_ON_WARN_DEFAULT_ENABLE
bool "Panic on warn"
default n
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when detect warnings. This
has the same effect as setting panic_on_warn on the kernel command
line.
config PANIC_TIMEOUT
int "panic timeout"
default 0
help
Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when the
the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout
value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout
value n < 0 will reboot immediately.
config SCHED_DEBUG
bool "Collect scheduler debugging info"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
default y
help
If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided
that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this
option is minimal.
config SCHED_INFO
bool
default n
config PANIC_ON_SCHED_BUG
bool "Panic on all bugs encountered by the scheduler"
help
Say Y here to panic on all 'BUG:' conditions encountered by the
scheduler, even potentially-recoverable ones such as scheduling
while atomic, sleeping from invalid context, and detection of
broken arch topologies.
Say N if unsure.
config PANIC_ON_RT_THROTTLING
bool "Panic on RT throttling"
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when a realtime
runqueue is throttled. This may be useful for detecting
and debugging RT throttling issues.
Say N if unsure.
config SCHEDSTATS
bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
select SCHED_INFO
help
If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about
scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These
stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler
If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific
application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
this adds.
config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default n
help
This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking"
help
This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks
which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping
problems are suspected.
This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this
option may have a (very small) performance impact to some
workloads.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_TASK_STACK_SCAN_OFF
bool "Disable kmemleak task stack scan by default"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
help
Say Y here to disable kmemleak task stack scan by default
at compile time. It can be enabled later if required by
writing to the debugfs entry :
echo "stack=on" > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak.
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
default y
help
If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
will detect preemption count underflows.
menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
help
This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related
deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
help
Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
deadlocks are also debuggable.
choice
prompt "Perform Action on spinlock bug"
depends on DEBUG_SPINLOCK
default DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BITE_ON_BUG
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BITE_ON_BUG
bool "Cause a Watchdog Bite on Spinlock bug"
depends on QCOM_WATCHDOG_V2
help
On a spinlock bug, cause a watchdog bite so that we can get
the precise state of the system captured at the time of spin
dump. This is mutually exclusive with the below
DEBUG_SPINLOCK_PANIC_ON_BUG config.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_PANIC_ON_BUG
bool "Cause a Kernel Panic on Spinlock bug"
help
On a spinlock bug, cause a kernel panic so that we can get the complete
information about the system at the time of spin dump in the dmesg.
This is mutually exclusive with the above DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BITE_ON_BUG.
endchoice
config DEBUG_MUTEXES
bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
reported.
config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
help
This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by
injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with
the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
you are a distro, do not.
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select LOCKDEP
help
This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
held during task exit.
config PROVE_LOCKING
bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select LOCKDEP
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
default n
help
This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
deadlock.
In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
related deadlocks before they actually occur.
The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
kernel reports nothing.
NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
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.
config PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL
bool
config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARC && !SCORE
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
config LOCK_STAT
bool "Lock usage statistics"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select LOCKDEP
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
default n
help
This feature enables tracking lock contention points
For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
This also enables lock events required by "perf lock",
subcommand of perf.
If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
(CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
help
If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
of more runtime overhead.
config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
select PREEMPT_COUNT
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is
held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled
sections, inside an interrupt, etc...
config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
mutexes and rwsems.
config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for locking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TORTURE_TEST
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests
to be built into the kernel.
Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
endmenu # lock debugging
config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
bool
help
Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
either tracing or lock debugging.
config STACKTRACE
bool "Stack backtrace support"
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
help
This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for
every process, showing its current stack trace.
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 cannot do anything actionable to
address this, by default this option is disabled.
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
help
If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
to the syslog.
config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
bool "kobject release debugging"
depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS
help
kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
example of this would be a struct device which has just been
unregistered.
However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
kind of kobject release bug.
config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT
depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE)
default y
help
Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number
of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids
debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
config DEBUG_LIST
bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
walking routines.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_PI_LIST
bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered
linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire
list multiple times during each manipulation.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_SG
bool "Debug SG table operations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can
help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize
their sg tables.
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
bool "Debug notifier call chains"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
performance, say N.
config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
bool "Debug credential management"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
management. The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
struct.
Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
If unsure, say N.
menu "RCU Debugging"
config PROVE_RCU
def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
bool "RCU debugging: don't disable PROVE_RCU on first splat"
depends on PROVE_RCU
default n
help
By itself, PROVE_RCU will disable checking upon issuing the
first warning (or "splat"). This feature prevents such
disabling, allowing multiple RCU-lockdep warnings to be printed
on a single reboot.
Say Y to allow multiple RCU-lockdep warnings per boot.
Say N if you are unsure.
config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
default n
help
This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
a debugging aid.
Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
Say N if you are unsure.
config TORTURE_TEST
tristate
default n
config RCU_PERF_TEST
tristate "performance tests for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TORTURE_TEST
select SRCU
select TASKS_RCU
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
tests on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
the kernel.
Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TORTURE_TEST
select SRCU
select TASKS_RCU
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to be built into
the kernel.
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
help
This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
consecutive rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races
involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
makes your kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase
grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
of CPUs. This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
almost no other circumstance.
Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
Say N if you want a sane system.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
range 0 5
default 3
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
help
This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
help
This option delays grace-period initialization for a few
jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving
grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
other circumstance.
Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
Say N if you want a sane system.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
range 0 5
default 3
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
help
This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
each rcu_node structure initialization.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
help
This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
structures. This helps to expose races involving grace-period
cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This is useful when
torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
Say N if you want a sane system.
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
range 0 5
default 3
depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
help
This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
range 3 300
default 21
help
If a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
number of seconds, a CPU stall warning is printed. If the
RCU grace period persists, additional CPU stall warnings are
printed at more widely spaced intervals.
config RCU_PANIC_ON_STALL
int "Panic on RCU Stalls"
range 0 1
default 0
depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
help
Panic if a given RCU grace period extends more than the specified
number of seconds instead of just printing a CPU stall warning.
This helps to collect cpu context as part of ramdumps for post
mortem analysis.
config RCU_TRACE
bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select TRACE_CLOCK
help
This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
Say N if you are unsure.
config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
bool "Provide debugging asserts for adding NO_HZ support to an arch"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
This option provides consistency checks in RCU's handling of
NO_HZ. These checks have proven quite helpful in detecting
bugs in arch-specific NO_HZ code.
Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
Say Y if you are unsure
endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default n
help
Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued
without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This
guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still
preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel
parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force
round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the
now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug
feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will
be impacted.
config DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
bool "Force extended block device numbers and spread them"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on BLOCK
default n
help
BIG FAT WARNING: ENABLING THIS OPTION MIGHT BREAK BOOTING ON
SOME DISTRIBUTIONS. DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU ARE DOING. Distros, please enable this and fix whatever
is broken.
Conventionally, block device numbers are allocated from
predetermined contiguous area. However, extended block area
may introduce non-contiguous block device numbers. This
option forces most block device numbers to be allocated from
the extended space and spreads them to discover kernel or
userland code paths which assume predetermined contiguous
device number allocation.
Note that turning on this debug option shuffles all the
device numbers for all IDE and SCSI devices including libata
ones, so root partition specified using device number
directly (via rdev or root=MAJ:MIN) won't work anymore.
Textual device names (root=/dev/sdXn) will continue to work.
Say N if you are unsure.
config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL
bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
default n
help
Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs
sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug
option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and
restarted at arbitrary points yet.
Say N if your are unsure.
config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
tristate "Notifier error injection"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select DEBUG_FS
help
This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error
handling of notifier call chain failures.
Say N if unsure.
config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
help
This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artificial
errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through
debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
# echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
If unsure, say N.
config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
tristate "PM notifier error injection module"
depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
default m if PM_DEBUG
help
This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
# echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
# echo mem > /sys/power/state
bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called pm-notifier-error-inject.
If unsure, say N.
config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module"
depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
help
This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled
through debugfs interface under
/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.
If unsure, say N.
config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module"
depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
help
This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs
interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
# echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
# ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called netdev-notifier-error-inject.
If unsure, say N.
config FAULT_INJECTION
bool "Fault-injection framework"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Provide fault-injection framework.
For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/.
config FAILSLAB
bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION
depends on SLAB || SLUB
help
Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc.
config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for alloc_pages()"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION
help
Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages().
config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
help
Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
help
Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This
will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured,
thus exercising the error handling.
Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling,
for others it wont do anything.
config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC
help
Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO.
This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is
useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device
and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from
the block device.
config UFS_FAULT_INJECTION
bool "Fault-injection capability for UFS IO"
select DEBUG_FS
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SCSI_UFSHCD
help
Provide fault-injection capability for UFS IO.
This will make the UFS host controller driver to randomly
abort ongoing commands in the host controller, update OCS
field according to the injected fatal error and can also
forcefully hang the command indefinitely till upper layer
timeout occurs. This is useful to test error handling in
the UFS contoller driver and test how the driver handles
the retries from block/SCSI mid layer.
config FAIL_FUTEX
bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes"
select DEBUG_FS
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX
help
Provide fault-injection capability for futexes.
config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS
help
Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs.
config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
depends on !X86_64
select STACKTRACE
select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !SCORE
help
Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
config LATENCYTOP
bool "Latency measuring infrastructure"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
depends on PROC_FS
select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
select STACKTRACE
select SCHEDSTATS
select SCHED_DEBUG
help
Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
source kernel/trace/Kconfig
menu "Runtime Testing"
config LKDTM
tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
depends on DEBUG_FS
depends on BLOCK
default n
help
This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
If you don't need it: say N
Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
called lkdtm.
Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
config TEST_LIST_SORT
bool "Linked list sorting test"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is
executed only once during system boot, so affects only boot time.
If unsure, say N.
config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on KPROBES
default n
help
This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on
boot. A sample kprobe, jprobe and kretprobe are inserted and
verified for functionality.
Say N if you are unsure.
config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST
tristate "Self test for the backtrace code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
default n
help
This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful
for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel
developers working on architecture code.
Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will
have to enable STACKTRACE as well.
Say N if you are unsure.
config RBTREE_TEST
tristate "Red-Black tree test"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library.
Also includes rbtree invariant checks.
config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST
tristate "Interval tree test"
depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
select INTERVAL_TREE
help
A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library
config PERCPU_TEST
tristate "Per cpu operations test"
depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu
operations.
If unsure, say N.
config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST
bool "Perform an atomic64_t self-test at boot"
help
Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot.
If unsure, say N.
config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST
tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery"
depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV
select ASYNC_MEMCPY
---help---
This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the
recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a
N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous
raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload
engine if one is available.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_HEXDUMP
tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime"
config TEST_STRING_HELPERS
tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime"
config TEST_KSTRTOX
tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime"
config TEST_PRINTF
tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime"
config TEST_BITMAP
tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime"
default n
help
Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_UUID
tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime"
config TEST_RHASHTABLE
tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table"
default n
help
Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_HASH
tristate "Perform selftest on hash functions"
default n
help
Enable this option to test the kernel's integer (<linux/hash.h>),
string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and siphash (<linux/siphash.h>)
hash functions on boot (or module load).
This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific
optimized versions. If unsure, say N.
endmenu # runtime tests
config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot"
depends on PCI && X86
help
If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early
on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use
this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine
over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394
specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers.
With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using
firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb.
Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA.
Usage:
If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize
all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space.
As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling
devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all
devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on
the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging.
This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack
in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead.
See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more information.
config DMA_API_DEBUG
bool "Enable debugging of DMA-API usage"
depends on HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
help
Enable this option to debug the use of the DMA API by device drivers.
With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device
drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that
were never allocated.
This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is
accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For
example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is
not undergoing DMA.
This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to
debug device drivers and dma interactions.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_LKM
tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module"
default n
depends on m
help
This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world"
on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic
evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when
validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies,
and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly
requested by name.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_USER_COPY
tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections"
default n
depends on m
help
This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks
on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic
user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load,
a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary
protections.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_BPF
tristate "Test BPF filter functionality"
default n
depends on m && NET
help
This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors
against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the
current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler
development, but also to run regression tests against changes in
the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and
verifier used by user space verifier testsuite.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_FIRMWARE
tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface"
default n
depends on FW_LOADER
help
This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace
interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to
control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an
actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by
userspace.
If unsure, say N.
config TEST_UDELAY
tristate "udelay test driver"
default n
help
This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure
that udelay() is working properly.
If unsure, say N.
config MEMTEST
bool "Memtest"
depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
---help---
This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest
to be set.
memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default
memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern;
...
memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns.
If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
config MEMTEST_ENABLE_DEFAULT
int "Enable Memtest pattern test by default? (0-17)"
range 0 17
default "0"
depends on MEMTEST
help
This option helps to select Memtest to be enabled through
kernel defconfig options. Alternatively it can be enabled
using memtest=<patterns> kernel command line.
Default value is kept as "0" so that it is kept as disabled.
To enable enter any value between 1-17 range.
config TEST_STATIC_KEYS
tristate "Test static keys"
default n
depends on m
help
Test the static key interfaces.
If unsure, say N.
config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected"
select CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
help
Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters
data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked
for validity.
If unsure, say N.
config PANIC_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
bool "Cause a Kernel Panic When Data Corruption is detected"
help
Select this option to upgrade warnings for potentially
recoverable data corruption scenarios to system-halting panics,
for easier detection and debug.
config CC_WERROR
bool "Treat all compile warnings as errors"
default n
help
Select this option to set compiler warnings as errors,
to prevent easily-fixable problems from creeping into
the codebase.
If unsure, say N.
source "samples/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan"
config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
bool
config STRICT_DEVMEM
bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
depends on MMU
depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
default y if TILE || PPC
---help---
If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support
enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem
use due to the cache aliasing requirements.
If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem
file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and
data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common
users of /dev/mem.
If in doubt, say Y.
config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem"
depends on STRICT_DEVMEM
---help---
If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that
range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but
specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.
If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This
may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...)
if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled.
If in doubt, say Y.