1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
5 Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
6 could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
7 field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
8 by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
11 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
12 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
13 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
14 depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
15 select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
17 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
18 Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
19 slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
21 Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as
22 pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes
23 often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free,
24 use-after-free). The error reports for these checks can be augmented
25 with stack traces of last allocation and freeing of the page, when
26 PAGE_OWNER is also selected and enabled on boot.
28 For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
29 fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
30 the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally, this option cannot
31 be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in
32 incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free
33 pages are not saved to the suspend image.
35 By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
36 allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
37 architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
38 enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
39 command line parameter.
41 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
42 bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
43 depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
45 Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
46 can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
50 bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
51 depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY
52 select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
54 SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
55 result in significant savings in code size. While /sys/kernel/slab
56 will still exist (with SYSFS enabled), it will not provide e.g. cache
60 bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
62 select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
65 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with
66 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is
67 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot.
68 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
69 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
70 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
74 bool "Track page owner"
75 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
81 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
82 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
83 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
84 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
85 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
86 for user-space helper.
90 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
91 bool "Check for invalid mappings in user page tables"
92 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
93 depends on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM
96 Check that anonymous page is not being mapped twice with read write
97 permissions. Check that anonymous and file pages are not being
98 erroneously shared. Since the checking is performed at the time
99 entries are added and removed to user page tables, leaking, corruption
100 and double mapping problems are detected synchronously.
104 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED
105 bool "Enforce the page table checking by default"
106 depends on PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
108 Always enable page table checking. By default the page table checking
109 is disabled, and can be optionally enabled via page_table_check=on
110 kernel parameter. This config enforces that page table check is always
115 config PAGE_POISONING
116 bool "Poison pages after freeing"
118 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
119 the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
120 reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
121 have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
122 "page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
124 Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
125 for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
127 If you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without
128 checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with
129 "init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this.
133 config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
134 bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
135 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
136 depends on TRACEPOINTS
138 This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
139 manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
140 due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
141 careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
142 kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
143 nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
145 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
146 bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
147 depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
149 This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
151 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
155 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
156 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
160 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
162 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving W+X
163 mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
165 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
167 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
169 or like this, if the check failed:
171 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: failed, <N> W+X pages found.
173 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
174 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
175 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
176 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
178 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
179 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
181 If in doubt, say "Y".
183 config GENERIC_PTDUMP
189 config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
190 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
191 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
193 depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
196 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
197 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
198 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
199 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
204 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
207 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
208 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
209 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
211 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
215 select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
217 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
218 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
219 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
220 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
221 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
222 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
223 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
226 Enabling SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances of finding leaks
227 due to the slab objects poisoning.
229 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
230 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
232 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
233 int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
234 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
238 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
239 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
240 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
241 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
242 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
243 if slab allocations fail.
245 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
246 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
247 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
249 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
250 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
252 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
253 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
255 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
257 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
258 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
259 kmemleak scan at boot up.
261 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
262 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
267 config PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS
268 bool "Statistics for per-vma locks"
269 depends on PER_VMA_LOCK
271 Say Y here to enable success, retry and failure counters of page
272 faults handled under protection of per-vma locks. When enabled, the
273 counters are exposed in /proc/vmstat. This information is useful for
274 kernel developers to evaluate effectiveness of per-vma locks and to
275 identify pathological cases. Counting these events introduces a small
276 overhead in the page fault path.