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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 Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050013config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
14 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 Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050017
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -040018config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +020019 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
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +020022
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +010023config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010024 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
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010027
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040028config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
29 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040030 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030031 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040032
Masami Hiramatsu06aeaae2012-09-28 17:15:17 +090033config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
34 bool
35
Steven Rostedt (VMware)763e34e2019-11-08 13:07:06 -050036config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
37 bool
38
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040039config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
40 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040041 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030042 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040043
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -070044config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010045 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040046 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030047 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010048
Steven Rostedta2546fa2011-02-09 13:15:59 -050049config HAVE_FENTRY
50 bool
51 help
52 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
53
Vasily Gorbik2f4df002018-08-06 15:17:46 +020054config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
55 bool
56 help
57 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
58
Steven Rostedtcf4db252010-10-14 23:32:44 -040059config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
Steven Rostedt72441cb2010-10-13 17:12:30 -040060 bool
61 help
62 C version of recordmcount available?
63
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +020064config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
65 bool
66
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070067config TRACE_CLOCK
68 bool
69
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040070config RING_BUFFER
71 bool
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070072 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22287682013-05-03 11:16:18 -040073 select IRQ_WORK
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040074
Steven Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050075config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
76 bool
77 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
78 default y
79
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050080config EVENT_TRACING
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080081 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +080082 select GLOB
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080083 bool
84
85config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050086 bool
87
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -040088config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
89 bool
90 help
91 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
92 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
93
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -070094config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
95 bool
96 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
97 select TRACING
98 default y
99 help
100 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
101 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
102
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400103# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
104# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
105# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
106# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
107# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800108# hiding of the automatic options.
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400109
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200110config TRACING
111 bool
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400112 select RING_BUFFER
Al Viroc2c80522008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000113 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200114 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedtf3384b22008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400115 select NOP_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker769b0442009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100116 select BINARY_PRINTF
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500117 select EVENT_TRACING
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700118 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200119
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400120config GENERIC_TRACER
121 bool
122 select TRACING
123
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100124#
125# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
126# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
127#
128config TRACING_SUPPORT
129 bool
Michael Ellerman0ea5ee02018-05-02 21:29:48 +1000130 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100131 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
KOSAKI Motohiro422d3c72009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900132 default y
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100133
134if TRACING_SUPPORT
135
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400136menuconfig FTRACE
137 bool "Tracers"
Steven Rostedt65b77242009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400138 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400139 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800140 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400141
142if FTRACE
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200143
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500144config BOOTTIME_TRACING
145 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
Masami Hiramatsud8a953d2020-02-20 21:18:33 +0900146 depends on TRACING
147 select BOOT_CONFIG
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500148 help
149 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
150 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
151 initialization and boot process.
152
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400153config FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200154 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400155 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500156 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400157 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200158 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt (VMware)0598e4f2017-04-06 10:28:12 -0400159 select GLOB
Thomas Gleixner01b1d882019-07-26 23:19:38 +0200160 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
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
214 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
215 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
Joel Fernandesd5915812017-10-10 15:51:37 -0700261config PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS
262 bool "Enable trace events for preempt and irq disable/enable"
263 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Thomas Gleixner30c93702019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200264 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE if PREEMPTION
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700265 select GENERIC_TRACER
Joel Fernandesd5915812017-10-10 15:51:37 -0700266 default n
267 help
268 Enable tracing of disable and enable events for preemption and irqs.
Joel Fernandesd5915812017-10-10 15:51:37 -0700269
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200270config IRQSOFF_TRACER
271 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
272 default n
273 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700274 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200275 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400276 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200277 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400278 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500279 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500280 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200281 help
282 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
283 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
284
285 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
286 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
287 via:
288
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900289 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200290
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800291 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200292 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
293 used together or separately.)
294
295config PREEMPT_TRACER
296 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
297 default n
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700298 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
Thomas Gleixner30c93702019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200299 depends on PREEMPTION
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400300 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200301 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400302 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500303 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500304 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700305 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200306 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800307 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200308 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
309
310 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
311 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
312 via:
313
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900314 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200315
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800316 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200317 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
318 used together or separately.)
319
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200320config SCHED_TRACER
321 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400322 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200323 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
324 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500325 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200326 help
327 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
328 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
329
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400330config HWLAT_TRACER
331 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
332 select GENERIC_TRACER
333 help
334 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200335 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400336 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
337 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
338 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
339 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
340 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
341
342 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
343 is enabled:
344
345 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
346 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
347 iteration
348
349 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200350 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400351 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
352 continue to operate.
353
354 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
355
356 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
357 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
358 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
359 production system.
360
361 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
362 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
363 be recorded into the ring buffer.
364
Steven Rostedt (VMware)21b3ce32020-01-29 16:26:45 -0500365config MMIOTRACE
366 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
367 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
368 select GENERIC_TRACER
369 help
370 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
371 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
372 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
373 default and can be enabled at run-time.
374
375 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
376 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
377
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400378config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
379 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400380 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500381 select TRACING
382 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800383 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500384 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400385 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
Steven Rostedta7abe972009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400386
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100387config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
388 bool "Trace syscalls"
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700389 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400390 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker0ea1c412009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100391 select KALLSYMS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100392 help
393 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
394
Hiraku Toyookadebdd572012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900395config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
396 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
397 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
398 help
399 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
400 ftrace interface, e.g.:
401
402 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
403 cat snapshot
404
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500405config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800406 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500407 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
408 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
409 help
410 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
411 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
412 allowed:
413
414 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
415
416 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
417 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
418
419 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
420 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
421 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
422 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
423 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
424 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
425
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500426config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400427 bool
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400428 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400429
430choice
431 prompt "Branch Profiling"
432 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
433 help
434 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
435 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
436
437 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
438 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
439
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800440 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400441 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800442 profiler.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400443
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800444 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
445 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400446
447config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
448 bool "No branch profiling"
449 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800450 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
451 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
452 Otherwise keep it disabled.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400453
454config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
455 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
456 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500457 help
Masanari Iida59bf8962012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900458 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500459 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
460
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700461 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500462
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800463 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500464 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
465
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500466config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Randy Dunlap68e76e02018-01-15 11:07:27 -0800467 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400468 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500469 help
470 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
471 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
472 The results will be displayed in:
473
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700474 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500475
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400476 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
477
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500478 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
479 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800480 is to be analyzed in much detail.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400481endchoice
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500482
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500483config TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500484 bool
485 help
486 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
487 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
488 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
489 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
490
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500491config BRANCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500492 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500493 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
494 select TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500495 help
496 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
497 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
498 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
499 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
500 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
501 events happened, as well as their results.
502
503 Say N if unsure.
504
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100505config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800506 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100507 depends on SYSFS
Ingo Molnar1dfba052009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100508 depends on BLOCK
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100509 select RELAY
510 select DEBUG_FS
511 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400512 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100513 select STACKTRACE
514 help
515 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
516 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
517 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
518 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
519
520 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
521
522 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
523
524 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
525 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
526 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
527
528 If unsure, say N.
Frederic Weisbecker36994e52008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800529
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100530config KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400531 depends on KPROBES
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100532 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500533 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400534 select TRACING
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530535 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu6212dd22018-11-05 18:02:36 +0900536 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500537 default y
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400538 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800539 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
540 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300541 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500542
543 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
544 various register and memory values.
545
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800546 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
547 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400548
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900549config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
550 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
551 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
552 depends on KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
553 default n
554 help
555 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
556 using kprobe events.
557
558 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
559 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinit
560 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
561 crash.
562
563 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
564 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
565 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
566
567 If unsure, say N.
568
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100569config UPROBE_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530570 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
571 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
572 depends on MMU
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500573 depends on PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530574 select UPROBES
575 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu0597c492018-11-05 18:03:04 +0900576 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530577 select TRACING
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo61f35d72017-03-16 12:42:02 -0300578 default y
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530579 help
580 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
581 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
582 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
583 can probe, and record various registers.
584 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
585 of perf tools on user space applications.
586
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200587config BPF_EVENTS
588 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100589 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200590 bool
591 default y
592 help
Peter Wu5cbd22c2019-08-21 00:08:57 +0100593 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
594 tracepoint events.
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200595
Masami Hiramatsu5448d442018-11-05 18:02:08 +0900596config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
597 def_bool n
598
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530599config PROBE_EVENTS
600 def_bool n
601
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500602config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
603 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
604 depends on BPF_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu540adea2018-01-13 02:55:03 +0900605 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500606 default n
607 help
608 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
609 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
610
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400611config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
612 def_bool y
613 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
614 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
615
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600616config TRACING_MAP
617 bool
618 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600619 help
620 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
621 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
622 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
623 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
624 selected by tracers that use it.
625
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500626config SYNTH_EVENTS
627 bool "Synthetic trace events"
628 select TRACING
629 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
630 default n
631 help
632 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
633 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
634 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
635 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
636 by way of an in-kernel API.
637
638 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
639 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
640
641 If in doubt, say N.
642
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600643config HIST_TRIGGERS
644 bool "Histogram triggers"
645 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
646 select TRACING_MAP
Tom Zanussi7ad8fb62016-07-03 08:51:34 -0500647 select TRACING
Masami Hiramatsu7bbab382018-11-05 18:03:33 +0900648 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500649 select SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600650 default n
651 help
652 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
653 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
654 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
655 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
656 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
657 using more advanced tools.
658
Tom Zanussi89e270c2018-01-15 20:52:10 -0600659 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
660 supported using hist triggers under this option.
661
Mauro Carvalho Chehabea272252018-06-26 06:49:11 -0300662 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600663 If in doubt, say N.
664
Cong Wang6c3edaf2019-11-29 20:52:18 -0800665config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
666 bool "Trace event injection"
667 depends on TRACING
668 help
669 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
670 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
671
672 If unsure, say N.
673
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400674config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800675 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400676 help
677 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
678 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
679 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
680 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
681 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
682 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
683 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
684 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
685 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
686 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
687 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
688
689 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
690 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
691
692 An example of the output:
693
694 START
695 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
696 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
697 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
698 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
699 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
700 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
701 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
702
703
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400704config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
705 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
706 depends on RING_BUFFER
707 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800708 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
709 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400710 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
711 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
712 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
713 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
714
715 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
716 affected by processes that are running.
717
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800718 If unsure, say N.
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400719
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500720config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
721 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
722 depends on TRACING
723 help
724 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
725 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
726 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
727 how to convert the string to its value.
728
729 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
730 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
731 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
732
733 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
734 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
735
736 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
737 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
738 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
739 belong too.
740
741 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
742 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
743 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
744 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
745
746 If unsure, say N.
747
748config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
749 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
750 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
751 help
752 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
753 which functions/lines are tested.
754
755 If unsure, say N.
756
757 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
758 run significantly slower.
759
760config FTRACE_SELFTEST
761 bool
762
763config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
764 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
765 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
766 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
767 help
768 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
769 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
770 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
771 tracers of ftrace.
772
773config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
774 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
775 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
776 default y
777 help
778 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
779 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
780 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
781 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
782
783config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
784 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
785 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
786 help
787 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
788 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
789 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
790 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
791
792 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
793 events
794
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400795config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
796 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
797 depends on RING_BUFFER
798 help
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800799 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 -0400800 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
801 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
802 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
803 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
804 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
805 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
806 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
807
808 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
809 by at least 10 more seconds.
810
811 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
812 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
813 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
814 other similar details.
815
816 If unsure, say N
817
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500818config MMIOTRACE_TEST
819 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
820 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
821 help
822 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
823 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
824 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
825
826 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
827
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700828config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500829 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700830 depends on m
831 help
832 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
833 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
834 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
835 critical section.
836
Viktor Rosendahl (BMW)79393722019-10-09 00:08:22 +0200837 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
838 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
839 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700840
841 If unsure, say N
842
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600843config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
844 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500845 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600846 help
847 This option creates a test module to check the base
848 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
849 generation.
850
851 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
852 for the generated sample events.
853
854 If unsure, say N.
855
Tom Zanussi64836242020-01-29 12:59:31 -0600856config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
857 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
858 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
859 help
860 This option creates a test module to check the base
861 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
862
863 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
864 for the generated kprobe events.
865
866 If unsure, say N.
867
Tom Zanussi2d19bd72020-04-03 14:31:21 -0500868config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
869 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
870 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
871 help
872 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
873 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
874 defined on that event.
875
876 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
877
878 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
879
880 - Provides educational information to support the details
881 of the hist trigger internals as described by
882 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
883
884 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
885 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
886 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
887 running histograms.
888
889 If unsure, say N.
890
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400891endif # FTRACE
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100892
893endif # TRACING_SUPPORT
894