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 "slab_debug" parameter on boot.
68 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like
69 possible with slab_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched
70 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying
74 bool "Enable UAF detection in TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches (for KASAN)"
76 # SLUB_RCU_DEBUG should build fine without KASAN, but is currently useless
77 # without KASAN, so mark it as a dependency of KASAN for now.
79 default KASAN_GENERIC || KASAN_SW_TAGS
81 Make SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches behave approximately as if the cache
82 was not marked as SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and every caller used
85 This is intended for use in combination with KASAN, to enable KASAN to
86 detect use-after-free accesses in such caches.
87 (KFENCE is able to do that independent of this flag.)
89 This might degrade performance.
90 Unfortunately this also prevents a very specific bug pattern from
91 triggering (insufficient checks against an object being recycled
92 within the RCU grace period); so this option can be turned off even on
93 KASAN builds, in case you want to test for such a bug.
95 If you're using this for testing bugs / fuzzing and care about
96 catching all the bugs WAY more than performance, you might want to
97 also turn on CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD.
100 This is designed as a debugging feature, not a security feature.
101 Objects are sometimes recycled without RCU delay under memory pressure.
106 bool "Track page owner"
107 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
111 select PAGE_EXTENSION
113 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
114 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
115 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
116 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
117 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
118 for user-space helper.
122 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
123 bool "Check for invalid mappings in user page tables"
124 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
125 depends on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM
126 select PAGE_EXTENSION
128 Check that anonymous page is not being mapped twice with read write
129 permissions. Check that anonymous and file pages are not being
130 erroneously shared. Since the checking is performed at the time
131 entries are added and removed to user page tables, leaking, corruption
132 and double mapping problems are detected synchronously.
136 config PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED
137 bool "Enforce the page table checking by default"
138 depends on PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
140 Always enable page table checking. By default the page table checking
141 is disabled, and can be optionally enabled via page_table_check=on
142 kernel parameter. This config enforces that page table check is always
147 config PAGE_POISONING
148 bool "Poison pages after freeing"
150 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
151 the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
152 reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
153 have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
154 "page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
156 Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
157 for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
159 If you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without
160 checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with
161 "init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this.
165 config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
166 bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
167 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
168 depends on TRACEPOINTS
170 This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
171 manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
172 due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
173 careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
174 kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
175 nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
177 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
178 bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
179 depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
181 This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
183 config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
187 bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
188 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
192 Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
194 This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving W+X
195 mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
197 Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
199 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
201 or like this, if the check failed:
203 <arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: failed, <N> W+X pages found.
205 Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
206 still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
207 themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
208 of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
210 There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
211 once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
213 If in doubt, say "Y".
215 config GENERIC_PTDUMP
221 config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
222 bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
223 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
225 depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
228 Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
229 debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
230 who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
231 It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
236 config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
239 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
240 bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
241 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
243 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
247 select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
249 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
250 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
251 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
252 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
253 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
254 feature will introduce an overhead to memory
255 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
258 Enabling SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances of finding leaks
259 due to the slab objects poisoning.
261 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
262 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
264 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
265 int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
266 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
270 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
271 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
272 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
273 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
274 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
275 if slab allocations fail.
277 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
278 bool "Default kmemleak to off"
279 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
281 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
282 on the command line via kmemleak=on.
284 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
285 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
287 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
289 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
290 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
291 kmemleak scan at boot up.
293 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
294 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
299 config PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS
300 bool "Statistics for per-vma locks"
301 depends on PER_VMA_LOCK
303 Say Y here to enable success, retry and failure counters of page
304 faults handled under protection of per-vma locks. When enabled, the
305 counters are exposed in /proc/vmstat. This information is useful for
306 kernel developers to evaluate effectiveness of per-vma locks and to
307 identify pathological cases. Counting these events introduces a small
308 overhead in the page fault path.