blob: d567b1717c4c85adaad9cda48dd6aa173816a51a [file] [log] [blame]
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
Sami Tolvanen22c85422020-09-25 16:43:53 -070063config HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
64 bool
65 help
66 Arch supports objtool --mcount
67
Steven Rostedtcf4db252010-10-14 23:32:44 -040068config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
Steven Rostedt72441cb2010-10-13 17:12:30 -040069 bool
70 help
71 C version of recordmcount available?
72
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +020073config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
74 bool
75
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070076config TRACE_CLOCK
77 bool
78
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040079config RING_BUFFER
80 bool
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070081 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22287682013-05-03 11:16:18 -040082 select IRQ_WORK
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040083
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050084config EVENT_TRACING
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080085 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +080086 select GLOB
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080087 bool
88
89config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050090 bool
91
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -040092config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
93 bool
94 help
95 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
96 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
97
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -070098config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
99 bool
100 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
101 select TRACING
102 default y
103 help
104 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
105 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
106
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400107# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
108# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
109# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
110# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
111# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800112# hiding of the automatic options.
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400113
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200114config TRACING
115 bool
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400116 select RING_BUFFER
Al Viroc2c80522008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000117 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200118 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedtf3384b22008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400119 select NOP_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker769b0442009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100120 select BINARY_PRINTF
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500121 select EVENT_TRACING
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700122 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200123
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400124config GENERIC_TRACER
125 bool
126 select TRACING
127
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100128#
129# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
130# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
131#
132config TRACING_SUPPORT
133 bool
Michael Ellerman0ea5ee02018-05-02 21:29:48 +1000134 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100135 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
KOSAKI Motohiro422d3c72009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900136 default y
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100137
138if TRACING_SUPPORT
139
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400140menuconfig FTRACE
141 bool "Tracers"
Steven Rostedt65b77242009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400142 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400143 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800144 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400145
146if FTRACE
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200147
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500148config BOOTTIME_TRACING
149 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
Masami Hiramatsud8a953d2020-02-20 21:18:33 +0900150 depends on TRACING
151 select BOOT_CONFIG
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500152 help
153 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
154 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
155 initialization and boot process.
156
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400157config FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200158 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400159 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500160 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400161 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200162 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt (VMware)0598e4f2017-04-06 10:28:12 -0400163 select GLOB
Thomas Gleixner01b1d882019-07-26 23:19:38 +0200164 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
Paul E. McKenneye5a971d2020-04-03 12:10:28 -0700165 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200166 help
167 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
168 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800169 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200170 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
171 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
172 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
173 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200174
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100175config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
176 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
177 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100178 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedteb4a0372009-06-18 12:53:21 -0400179 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar764f3b92008-12-03 10:33:58 +0100180 default y
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100181 help
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100182 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
183 and its entry.
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100184 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
185 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800186 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100187 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100188
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500189config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
190 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
191 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
192 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
193 default y
194 help
195 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
196 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
197 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
198 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
199 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
200 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
201 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
202 performance of the system.
203
204 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
205 available_filter_functions
206 set_ftrace_filter
207 set_ftrace_notrace
208
209 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
210 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
211
212config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
213 def_bool y
214 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
215 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
216
217config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
218 def_bool y
Naveen N. Rao49a962c2020-11-26 23:38:39 +0530219 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500220 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
221
222config FUNCTION_PROFILER
223 bool "Kernel function profiler"
224 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
225 default n
226 help
227 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
228 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
229 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
230 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
231 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
232 have been hit and their counters.
233
234 If in doubt, say N.
235
236config STACK_TRACER
237 bool "Trace max stack"
238 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
239 select FUNCTION_TRACER
240 select STACKTRACE
241 select KALLSYMS
242 help
243 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
244 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
245
246 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
247 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
248 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
249 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
250 is disabled.
251
252 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
253 on the kernel command line.
254
255 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
256 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
257
258 Say N if unsure.
259
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700260config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
261 bool
262 help
263 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
264 and last enabled.
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400265
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200266config IRQSOFF_TRACER
267 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
268 default n
269 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200270 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400271 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200272 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400273 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500274 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500275 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200276 help
277 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
278 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
279
280 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
281 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
282 via:
283
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900284 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200285
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800286 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200287 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
288 used together or separately.)
289
290config PREEMPT_TRACER
291 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
292 default n
Thomas Gleixner30c93702019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200293 depends on PREEMPTION
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400294 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200295 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400296 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500297 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500298 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700299 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200300 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800301 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200302 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
303
304 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
305 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
306 via:
307
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900308 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200309
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800310 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200311 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
312 used together or separately.)
313
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200314config SCHED_TRACER
315 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400316 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200317 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
318 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500319 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200320 help
321 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
322 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
323
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400324config HWLAT_TRACER
325 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
326 select GENERIC_TRACER
327 help
328 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200329 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400330 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
331 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
332 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
333 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
334 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
335
336 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
337 is enabled:
338
339 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
340 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
341 iteration
342
343 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200344 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400345 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
346 continue to operate.
347
348 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
349
350 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
351 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
352 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
353 production system.
354
355 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
356 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
357 be recorded into the ring buffer.
358
Daniel Bristot de Oliveirabce29ac2021-06-22 16:42:27 +0200359config OSNOISE_TRACER
360 bool "OS Noise tracer"
361 select GENERIC_TRACER
362 help
363 In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
364 System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
365 application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
366 context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
367 can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
368 also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
369
370 The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
371 loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
372 the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
373 note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
374 increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
375 counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
376 NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
377 observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
378 without any interference from the operating system level, the
379 hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
380 noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
381 interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
382 the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
383 available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
384
385 In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
386 facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
387
388 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
389
390 To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
391 file.
392
Daniel Bristot de Oliveiraa955d7e2021-06-22 16:42:28 +0200393config TIMERLAT_TRACER
394 bool "Timerlat tracer"
395 select OSNOISE_TRACER
396 select GENERIC_TRACER
397 help
398 The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
399 to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
400
401 The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
402 The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
403 to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
404 then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
405 the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
406 to expire.
407
408 The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
409 timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
410 activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
411 by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
412 ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
413 respective thread execution.
414
415 The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
416 events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
417 IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
418 stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
419 path that can cause thread delay.
420
Steven Rostedt (VMware)21b3ce32020-01-29 16:26:45 -0500421config MMIOTRACE
422 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
423 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
424 select GENERIC_TRACER
425 help
426 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
427 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
428 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
429 default and can be enabled at run-time.
430
431 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
432 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
433
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400434config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
435 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400436 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500437 select TRACING
438 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800439 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500440 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400441 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
Steven Rostedta7abe972009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400442
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100443config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
444 bool "Trace syscalls"
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700445 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400446 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker0ea1c412009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100447 select KALLSYMS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100448 help
449 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
450
Hiraku Toyookadebdd572012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900451config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
452 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
453 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
454 help
455 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
456 ftrace interface, e.g.:
457
458 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
459 cat snapshot
460
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500461config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800462 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500463 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
464 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
465 help
466 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
467 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
468 allowed:
469
470 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
471
472 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
473 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
474
475 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
476 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
477 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
478 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
479 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
480 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
481
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500482config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400483 bool
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400484 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400485
486choice
487 prompt "Branch Profiling"
488 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
489 help
490 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
491 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
492
493 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
494 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
495
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800496 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400497 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800498 profiler.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400499
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800500 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
501 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400502
503config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
504 bool "No branch profiling"
505 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800506 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
507 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
508 Otherwise keep it disabled.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400509
510config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
511 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
512 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500513 help
Masanari Iida59bf8962012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900514 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500515 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
516
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700517 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500518
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800519 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500520 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
521
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500522config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Randy Dunlap68e76e02018-01-15 11:07:27 -0800523 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400524 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500525 help
526 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
527 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
528 The results will be displayed in:
529
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700530 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500531
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400532 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
533
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500534 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
535 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800536 is to be analyzed in much detail.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400537endchoice
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500538
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500539config TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500540 bool
541 help
542 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
543 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
544 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
545 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
546
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500547config BRANCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500548 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500549 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
550 select TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500551 help
552 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
553 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
554 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
555 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
556 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
557 events happened, as well as their results.
558
559 Say N if unsure.
560
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100561config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800562 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100563 depends on SYSFS
Ingo Molnar1dfba052009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100564 depends on BLOCK
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100565 select RELAY
566 select DEBUG_FS
567 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400568 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100569 select STACKTRACE
570 help
571 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
572 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
573 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
574 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
575
576 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
577
578 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
579
580 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
581 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
582 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
583
584 If unsure, say N.
Frederic Weisbecker36994e52008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800585
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100586config KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400587 depends on KPROBES
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100588 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500589 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400590 select TRACING
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530591 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu6212dd22018-11-05 18:02:36 +0900592 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500593 default y
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400594 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800595 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
596 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300597 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500598
599 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
600 various register and memory values.
601
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800602 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
603 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400604
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900605config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
606 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
607 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu7bb83f6f2021-01-08 13:19:38 +0900608 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900609 default n
610 help
611 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
612 using kprobe events.
613
614 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
Colin Ian King28cc65a2020-12-16 11:40:51 +0000615 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900616 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
617 crash.
618
619 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
620 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
621 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
622
623 If unsure, say N.
624
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100625config UPROBE_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530626 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
627 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
628 depends on MMU
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500629 depends on PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530630 select UPROBES
631 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu0597c492018-11-05 18:03:04 +0900632 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530633 select TRACING
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo61f35d72017-03-16 12:42:02 -0300634 default y
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530635 help
636 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
637 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
638 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
639 can probe, and record various registers.
640 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
641 of perf tools on user space applications.
642
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200643config BPF_EVENTS
644 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100645 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200646 bool
647 default y
648 help
Peter Wu5cbd22c2019-08-21 00:08:57 +0100649 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
650 tracepoint events.
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200651
Masami Hiramatsu5448d442018-11-05 18:02:08 +0900652config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
653 def_bool n
654
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530655config PROBE_EVENTS
656 def_bool n
657
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500658config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
659 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
660 depends on BPF_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu540adea2018-01-13 02:55:03 +0900661 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500662 default n
663 help
664 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
665 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
666
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400667config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
668 def_bool y
669 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
670 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
671
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800672config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
673 bool
674 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
675
676config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
677 def_bool y
678 depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
679 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
680 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
681
Sami Tolvanen22c85422020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700682config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
683 def_bool y
684 depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
685 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
686 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
687 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
688
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800689config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
690 def_bool y
691 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
692 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
Sami Tolvanen22c85422020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700693 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800694 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
695
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600696config TRACING_MAP
697 bool
698 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600699 help
700 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
701 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
702 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
703 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
704 selected by tracers that use it.
705
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500706config SYNTH_EVENTS
707 bool "Synthetic trace events"
708 select TRACING
709 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
710 default n
711 help
712 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
713 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
714 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
715 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
716 by way of an in-kernel API.
717
718 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
719 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
720
721 If in doubt, say N.
722
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600723config HIST_TRIGGERS
724 bool "Histogram triggers"
725 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
726 select TRACING_MAP
Tom Zanussi7ad8fb62016-07-03 08:51:34 -0500727 select TRACING
Masami Hiramatsu7bbab382018-11-05 18:03:33 +0900728 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500729 select SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600730 default n
731 help
732 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
733 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
734 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
735 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
736 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
737 using more advanced tools.
738
Tom Zanussi89e270c2018-01-15 20:52:10 -0600739 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
740 supported using hist triggers under this option.
741
Mauro Carvalho Chehabea272252018-06-26 06:49:11 -0300742 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600743 If in doubt, say N.
744
Cong Wang6c3edaf2019-11-29 20:52:18 -0800745config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
746 bool "Trace event injection"
747 depends on TRACING
748 help
749 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
750 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
751
752 If unsure, say N.
753
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400754config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800755 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400756 help
757 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
758 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
Rolf Eike Beer69268092021-03-02 09:49:28 +0100759 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400760 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
761 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
762 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
763 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
764 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
765 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
766 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
767 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
768
769 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
770 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
771
772 An example of the output:
773
774 START
775 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
776 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
777 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
778 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
779 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
780 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
781 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
782
783
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400784config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
785 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
786 depends on RING_BUFFER
787 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800788 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
789 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400790 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
791 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
792 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
793 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
794
795 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
796 affected by processes that are running.
797
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800798 If unsure, say N.
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400799
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500800config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
801 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
802 depends on TRACING
803 help
804 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
805 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
806 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
807 how to convert the string to its value.
808
809 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
810 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
811 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
812
813 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
814 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
815
816 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
817 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
818 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
819 belong too.
820
821 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
822 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
823 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
824 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
825
826 If unsure, say N.
827
Steven Rostedt (VMware)773c1672020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500828config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
829 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
830 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
831 help
832 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
833 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
834 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
835 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
836 that triggered a recursion.
837
838 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
839
840 If unsure, say N
841
842config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
843 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
844 default 128
845 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
846 help
847 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
848 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
849 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
850 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
851 size at runtime.
852
Steven Rostedt (VMware)28575c62020-11-02 14:43:10 -0500853config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
854 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
855 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
856 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
857 default y
858 help
859 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
860 recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection,
861 but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
862 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
863 file.
864
865 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
866
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500867config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
868 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
869 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
870 help
871 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
872 which functions/lines are tested.
873
874 If unsure, say N.
875
876 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
877 run significantly slower.
878
879config FTRACE_SELFTEST
880 bool
881
882config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
883 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
884 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
885 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
886 help
887 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
888 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
889 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
890 tracers of ftrace.
891
892config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
893 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
894 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
895 default y
896 help
897 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
898 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
899 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
900 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
901
902config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
903 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
904 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
905 help
906 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
907 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
908 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
909 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
910
911 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
912 events
913
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400914config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
915 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
916 depends on RING_BUFFER
917 help
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800918 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 -0400919 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
920 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
921 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
922 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
923 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
924 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
925 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
926
927 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
928 by at least 10 more seconds.
929
930 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
931 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
932 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
933 other similar details.
934
935 If unsure, say N
936
Steven Rostedt (VMware)5b7be9c2020-11-30 23:37:33 -0500937config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
938 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
939 depends on RING_BUFFER
940 help
941 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
942 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
943 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
944 This audit is performed for every event that is not
945 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
946 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
947 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
948 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
949
950 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
951 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
952 Do not use it on production systems.
953
954 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
955 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
956
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500957config MMIOTRACE_TEST
958 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
959 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
960 help
961 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
962 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
963 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
964
965 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
966
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700967config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500968 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700969 depends on m
970 help
971 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
972 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
973 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
974 critical section.
975
Viktor Rosendahl (BMW)79393722019-10-09 00:08:22 +0200976 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
977 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
978 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700979
Song Chen4b9091e2021-01-28 09:35:13 +0800980 What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
981 tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
982 command.
983
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700984 If unsure, say N
985
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600986config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
987 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500988 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600989 help
990 This option creates a test module to check the base
991 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
992 generation.
993
994 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
995 for the generated sample events.
996
997 If unsure, say N.
998
Tom Zanussi64836242020-01-29 12:59:31 -0600999config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1000 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
1001 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
1002 help
1003 This option creates a test module to check the base
1004 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
1005
1006 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1007 for the generated kprobe events.
1008
1009 If unsure, say N.
1010
Tom Zanussi2d19bd72020-04-03 14:31:21 -05001011config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
1012 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
1013 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
1014 help
1015 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
1016 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
1017 defined on that event.
1018
1019 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
1020
1021 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
1022
1023 - Provides educational information to support the details
1024 of the hist trigger internals as described by
1025 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
1026
1027 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
1028 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
1029 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
1030 running histograms.
1031
1032 If unsure, say N.
1033
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -04001034endif # FTRACE
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +01001035
1036endif # TRACING_SUPPORT
1037