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Thomas Gleixnerec8f24b2019-05-19 13:07:45 +01001# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02002#
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -04003# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02005#
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +02006
Török Edwin8d264872008-11-23 12:39:08 +02007config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
8 bool
9
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +020010config NOP_TRACER
11 bool
12
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -040013config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +020014 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040015 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030016 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +020017
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +010018config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010019 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040020 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030021 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010022
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040023config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
24 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040025 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030026 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040027
Masami Hiramatsu06aeaae2012-09-28 17:15:17 +090028config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
29 bool
30
Steven Rostedt (VMware)763e34e2019-11-08 13:07:06 -050031config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
32 bool
33
Steven Rostedt (VMware)02a474c2020-10-27 10:55:55 -040034config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
35 bool
36 help
37 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
38 the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
39 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
40 This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and
41 kernel_stack_pointer().
42
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040043config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
44 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040045 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030046 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040047
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -070048config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010049 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040050 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030051 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010052
Steven Rostedta2546fa2011-02-09 13:15:59 -050053config HAVE_FENTRY
54 bool
55 help
56 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
57
Vasily Gorbik2f4df002018-08-06 15:17:46 +020058config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
59 bool
60 help
61 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
62
Steven Rostedtcf4db252010-10-14 23:32:44 -040063config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
Steven Rostedt72441cb2010-10-13 17:12:30 -040064 bool
65 help
66 C version of recordmcount available?
67
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +020068config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
69 bool
70
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070071config TRACE_CLOCK
72 bool
73
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040074config RING_BUFFER
75 bool
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070076 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22287682013-05-03 11:16:18 -040077 select IRQ_WORK
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040078
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050079config EVENT_TRACING
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080080 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +080081 select GLOB
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080082 bool
83
84config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050085 bool
86
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -040087config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
88 bool
89 help
90 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
91 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
92
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -070093config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
94 bool
95 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
96 select TRACING
97 default y
98 help
99 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
100 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
101
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400102# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
103# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
104# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
105# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
106# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800107# hiding of the automatic options.
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400108
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200109config TRACING
110 bool
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400111 select RING_BUFFER
Al Viroc2c80522008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000112 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200113 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedtf3384b22008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400114 select NOP_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker769b0442009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100115 select BINARY_PRINTF
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500116 select EVENT_TRACING
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700117 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200118
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400119config GENERIC_TRACER
120 bool
121 select TRACING
122
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100123#
124# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
125# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
126#
127config TRACING_SUPPORT
128 bool
Michael Ellerman0ea5ee02018-05-02 21:29:48 +1000129 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100130 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
KOSAKI Motohiro422d3c72009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900131 default y
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100132
133if TRACING_SUPPORT
134
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400135menuconfig FTRACE
136 bool "Tracers"
Steven Rostedt65b77242009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400137 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400138 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800139 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400140
141if FTRACE
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200142
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500143config BOOTTIME_TRACING
144 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
Masami Hiramatsud8a953d2020-02-20 21:18:33 +0900145 depends on TRACING
146 select BOOT_CONFIG
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500147 help
148 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
149 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
150 initialization and boot process.
151
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400152config FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200153 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400154 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500155 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400156 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200157 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt (VMware)0598e4f2017-04-06 10:28:12 -0400158 select GLOB
Thomas Gleixner01b1d882019-07-26 23:19:38 +0200159 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
Paul E. McKenneye5a971d2020-04-03 12:10:28 -0700160 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200161 help
162 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
163 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800164 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200165 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
166 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
167 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
168 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200169
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100170config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
171 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
172 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100173 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedteb4a0372009-06-18 12:53:21 -0400174 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar764f3b92008-12-03 10:33:58 +0100175 default y
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100176 help
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100177 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
178 and its entry.
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100179 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
180 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800181 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100182 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100183
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500184config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
185 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
186 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
187 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
188 default y
189 help
190 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
191 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
192 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
193 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
194 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
195 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
196 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
197 performance of the system.
198
199 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
200 available_filter_functions
201 set_ftrace_filter
202 set_ftrace_notrace
203
204 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
205 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
206
207config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
208 def_bool y
209 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
210 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
211
212config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
213 def_bool y
Naveen N. Rao49a962c2020-11-26 23:38:39 +0530214 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500215 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
216
217config FUNCTION_PROFILER
218 bool "Kernel function profiler"
219 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
220 default n
221 help
222 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
223 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
224 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
225 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
226 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
227 have been hit and their counters.
228
229 If in doubt, say N.
230
231config STACK_TRACER
232 bool "Trace max stack"
233 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
234 select FUNCTION_TRACER
235 select STACKTRACE
236 select KALLSYMS
237 help
238 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
239 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
240
241 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
242 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
243 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
244 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
245 is disabled.
246
247 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
248 on the kernel command line.
249
250 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
251 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
252
253 Say N if unsure.
254
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700255config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
256 bool
257 help
258 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
259 and last enabled.
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400260
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200261config IRQSOFF_TRACER
262 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
263 default n
264 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200265 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400266 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200267 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400268 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500269 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500270 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200271 help
272 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
273 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
274
275 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
276 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
277 via:
278
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900279 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200280
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800281 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200282 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
283 used together or separately.)
284
285config PREEMPT_TRACER
286 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
287 default n
Thomas Gleixner30c93702019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200288 depends on PREEMPTION
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400289 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200290 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400291 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500292 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500293 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700294 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200295 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800296 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200297 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
298
299 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
300 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
301 via:
302
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900303 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200304
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800305 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200306 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
307 used together or separately.)
308
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200309config SCHED_TRACER
310 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400311 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200312 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
313 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500314 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200315 help
316 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
317 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
318
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400319config HWLAT_TRACER
320 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
321 select GENERIC_TRACER
322 help
323 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200324 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400325 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
326 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
327 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
328 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
329 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
330
331 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
332 is enabled:
333
334 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
335 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
336 iteration
337
338 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200339 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400340 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
341 continue to operate.
342
343 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
344
345 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
346 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
347 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
348 production system.
349
350 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
351 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
352 be recorded into the ring buffer.
353
Steven Rostedt (VMware)21b3ce32020-01-29 16:26:45 -0500354config MMIOTRACE
355 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
356 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
357 select GENERIC_TRACER
358 help
359 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
360 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
361 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
362 default and can be enabled at run-time.
363
364 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
365 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
366
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400367config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
368 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400369 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500370 select TRACING
371 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800372 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500373 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400374 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
Steven Rostedta7abe972009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400375
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100376config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
377 bool "Trace syscalls"
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700378 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400379 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker0ea1c412009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100380 select KALLSYMS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100381 help
382 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
383
Hiraku Toyookadebdd572012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900384config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
385 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
386 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
387 help
388 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
389 ftrace interface, e.g.:
390
391 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
392 cat snapshot
393
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500394config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800395 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500396 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
397 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
398 help
399 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
400 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
401 allowed:
402
403 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
404
405 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
406 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
407
408 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
409 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
410 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
411 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
412 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
413 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
414
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500415config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400416 bool
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400417 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400418
419choice
420 prompt "Branch Profiling"
421 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
422 help
423 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
424 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
425
426 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
427 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
428
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800429 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400430 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800431 profiler.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400432
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800433 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
434 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400435
436config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
437 bool "No branch profiling"
438 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800439 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
440 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
441 Otherwise keep it disabled.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400442
443config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
444 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
445 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500446 help
Masanari Iida59bf8962012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900447 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500448 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
449
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700450 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500451
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800452 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500453 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
454
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500455config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Randy Dunlap68e76e02018-01-15 11:07:27 -0800456 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400457 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500458 help
459 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
460 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
461 The results will be displayed in:
462
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700463 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500464
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400465 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
466
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500467 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
468 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800469 is to be analyzed in much detail.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400470endchoice
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500471
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500472config TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500473 bool
474 help
475 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
476 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
477 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
478 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
479
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500480config BRANCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500481 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500482 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
483 select TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500484 help
485 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
486 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
487 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
488 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
489 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
490 events happened, as well as their results.
491
492 Say N if unsure.
493
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100494config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800495 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100496 depends on SYSFS
Ingo Molnar1dfba052009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100497 depends on BLOCK
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100498 select RELAY
499 select DEBUG_FS
500 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400501 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100502 select STACKTRACE
503 help
504 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
505 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
506 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
507 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
508
509 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
510
511 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
512
513 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
514 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
515 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
516
517 If unsure, say N.
Frederic Weisbecker36994e52008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800518
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100519config KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400520 depends on KPROBES
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100521 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500522 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400523 select TRACING
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530524 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu6212dd22018-11-05 18:02:36 +0900525 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500526 default y
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400527 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800528 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
529 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300530 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500531
532 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
533 various register and memory values.
534
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800535 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
536 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400537
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900538config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
539 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
540 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu7bb83f6f2021-01-08 13:19:38 +0900541 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900542 default n
543 help
544 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
545 using kprobe events.
546
547 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
Colin Ian King28cc65a2020-12-16 11:40:51 +0000548 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900549 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
550 crash.
551
552 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
553 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
554 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
555
556 If unsure, say N.
557
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100558config UPROBE_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530559 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
560 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
561 depends on MMU
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500562 depends on PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530563 select UPROBES
564 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu0597c492018-11-05 18:03:04 +0900565 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530566 select TRACING
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo61f35d72017-03-16 12:42:02 -0300567 default y
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530568 help
569 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
570 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
571 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
572 can probe, and record various registers.
573 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
574 of perf tools on user space applications.
575
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200576config BPF_EVENTS
577 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100578 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200579 bool
580 default y
581 help
Peter Wu5cbd22c2019-08-21 00:08:57 +0100582 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
583 tracepoint events.
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200584
Masami Hiramatsu5448d442018-11-05 18:02:08 +0900585config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
586 def_bool n
587
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530588config PROBE_EVENTS
589 def_bool n
590
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500591config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
592 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
593 depends on BPF_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu540adea2018-01-13 02:55:03 +0900594 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500595 default n
596 help
597 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
598 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
599
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400600config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
601 def_bool y
602 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
603 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
604
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600605config TRACING_MAP
606 bool
607 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600608 help
609 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
610 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
611 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
612 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
613 selected by tracers that use it.
614
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500615config SYNTH_EVENTS
616 bool "Synthetic trace events"
617 select TRACING
618 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
619 default n
620 help
621 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
622 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
623 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
624 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
625 by way of an in-kernel API.
626
627 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
628 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
629
630 If in doubt, say N.
631
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600632config HIST_TRIGGERS
633 bool "Histogram triggers"
634 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
635 select TRACING_MAP
Tom Zanussi7ad8fb62016-07-03 08:51:34 -0500636 select TRACING
Masami Hiramatsu7bbab382018-11-05 18:03:33 +0900637 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500638 select SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600639 default n
640 help
641 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
642 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
643 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
644 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
645 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
646 using more advanced tools.
647
Tom Zanussi89e270c2018-01-15 20:52:10 -0600648 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
649 supported using hist triggers under this option.
650
Mauro Carvalho Chehabea272252018-06-26 06:49:11 -0300651 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600652 If in doubt, say N.
653
Cong Wang6c3edaf2019-11-29 20:52:18 -0800654config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
655 bool "Trace event injection"
656 depends on TRACING
657 help
658 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
659 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
660
661 If unsure, say N.
662
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400663config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800664 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400665 help
666 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
667 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
668 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
669 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
670 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
671 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
672 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
673 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
674 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
675 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
676 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
677
678 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
679 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
680
681 An example of the output:
682
683 START
684 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
685 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
686 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
687 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
688 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
689 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
690 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
691
692
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400693config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
694 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
695 depends on RING_BUFFER
696 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800697 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
698 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400699 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
700 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
701 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
702 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
703
704 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
705 affected by processes that are running.
706
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800707 If unsure, say N.
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400708
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500709config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
710 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
711 depends on TRACING
712 help
713 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
714 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
715 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
716 how to convert the string to its value.
717
718 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
719 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
720 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
721
722 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
723 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
724
725 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
726 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
727 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
728 belong too.
729
730 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
731 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
732 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
733 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
734
735 If unsure, say N.
736
Steven Rostedt (VMware)773c1672020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500737config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
738 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
739 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
740 help
741 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
742 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
743 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
744 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
745 that triggered a recursion.
746
747 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
748
749 If unsure, say N
750
751config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
752 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
753 default 128
754 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
755 help
756 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
757 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
758 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
759 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
760 size at runtime.
761
Steven Rostedt (VMware)28575c62020-11-02 14:43:10 -0500762config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
763 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
764 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
765 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
766 default y
767 help
768 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
769 recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection,
770 but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
771 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
772 file.
773
774 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
775
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500776config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
777 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
778 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
779 help
780 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
781 which functions/lines are tested.
782
783 If unsure, say N.
784
785 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
786 run significantly slower.
787
788config FTRACE_SELFTEST
789 bool
790
791config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
792 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
793 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
794 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
795 help
796 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
797 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
798 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
799 tracers of ftrace.
800
801config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
802 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
803 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
804 default y
805 help
806 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
807 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
808 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
809 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
810
811config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
812 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
813 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
814 help
815 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
816 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
817 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
818 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
819
820 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
821 events
822
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400823config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
824 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
825 depends on RING_BUFFER
826 help
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800827 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400828 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
829 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
830 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
831 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
832 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
833 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
834 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
835
836 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
837 by at least 10 more seconds.
838
839 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
840 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
841 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
842 other similar details.
843
844 If unsure, say N
845
Steven Rostedt (VMware)5b7be9c2020-11-30 23:37:33 -0500846config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
847 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
848 depends on RING_BUFFER
849 help
850 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
851 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
852 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
853 This audit is performed for every event that is not
854 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
855 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
856 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
857 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
858
859 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
860 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
861 Do not use it on production systems.
862
863 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
864 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
865
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500866config MMIOTRACE_TEST
867 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
868 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
869 help
870 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
871 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
872 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
873
874 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
875
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700876config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500877 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700878 depends on m
879 help
880 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
881 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
882 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
883 critical section.
884
Viktor Rosendahl (BMW)79393722019-10-09 00:08:22 +0200885 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
886 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
887 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700888
889 If unsure, say N
890
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600891config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
892 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500893 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600894 help
895 This option creates a test module to check the base
896 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
897 generation.
898
899 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
900 for the generated sample events.
901
902 If unsure, say N.
903
Tom Zanussi64836242020-01-29 12:59:31 -0600904config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
905 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
906 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
907 help
908 This option creates a test module to check the base
909 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
910
911 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
912 for the generated kprobe events.
913
914 If unsure, say N.
915
Tom Zanussi2d19bd72020-04-03 14:31:21 -0500916config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
917 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
918 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
919 help
920 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
921 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
922 defined on that event.
923
924 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
925
926 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
927
928 - Provides educational information to support the details
929 of the hist trigger internals as described by
930 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
931
932 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
933 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
934 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
935 running histograms.
936
937 If unsure, say N.
938
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400939endif # FTRACE
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100940
941endif # TRACING_SUPPORT
942