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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02001#
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -04002# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
3# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02004#
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +02005
Török Edwin8d264872008-11-23 12:39:08 +02006config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
7 bool
8
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +02009config NOP_TRACER
10 bool
11
Steven Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050012config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
13 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040014 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080015 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050016
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -040017config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +020018 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040019 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080020 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +020021
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +010022config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010023 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040024 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080025 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010026
Steven Rostedt71e308a2009-06-18 12:45:08 -040027config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
28 bool
29 help
Mike Frysinger03688972010-01-22 08:12:47 -050030 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedt71e308a2009-06-18 12:45:08 -040031
Steven Rostedt60a7ecf2008-11-05 16:05:44 -050032config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
33 bool
34 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080035 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedt60a7ecf2008-11-05 16:05:44 -050036
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040037config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040039 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080040 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040041
Masami Hiramatsu06aeaae2012-09-28 17:15:17 +090042config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
43 bool
44
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040045config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
46 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040047 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080048 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040049
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -070050config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010051 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040052 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080053 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010054
Steven Rostedta2546fa2011-02-09 13:15:59 -050055config HAVE_FENTRY
56 bool
57 help
58 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
59
Steven Rostedtcf4db252010-10-14 23:32:44 -040060config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
Steven Rostedt72441cb2010-10-13 17:12:30 -040061 bool
62 help
63 C version of recordmcount available?
64
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +020065config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
66 bool
67
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070068config TRACE_CLOCK
69 bool
70
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040071config RING_BUFFER
72 bool
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070073 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22287682013-05-03 11:16:18 -040074 select IRQ_WORK
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040075
Steven Rostedt78d904b2009-02-05 18:43:07 -050076config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
77 bool
78 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
79 default y
80
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050081config EVENT_TRACING
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080082 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
83 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
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -040094# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
95# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
96# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
97# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
98# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -080099# hiding of the automatic options.
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400100
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200101config TRACING
102 bool
103 select DEBUG_FS
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400104 select RING_BUFFER
Al Viroc2c80522008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000105 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200106 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedtf3384b22008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400107 select NOP_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker769b0442009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100108 select BINARY_PRINTF
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500109 select EVENT_TRACING
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700110 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200111
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400112config GENERIC_TRACER
113 bool
114 select TRACING
115
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100116#
117# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
118# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
119#
120config TRACING_SUPPORT
121 bool
Anton Vorontsov45b95602009-03-24 01:07:24 +0300122 # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
123 # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
124 # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
125 # irqflags tracing for your architecture.
126 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100127 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
KOSAKI Motohiro422d3c72009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900128 default y
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100129
130if TRACING_SUPPORT
131
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400132menuconfig FTRACE
133 bool "Tracers"
Steven Rostedt65b77242009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400134 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400135 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800136 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400137
138if FTRACE
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200139
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400140config FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200141 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400142 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500143 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400144 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200145 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200146 help
147 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
148 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800149 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200150 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
151 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
152 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
153 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200154
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100155config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
156 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
157 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100158 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedteb4a0372009-06-18 12:53:21 -0400159 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar764f3b92008-12-03 10:33:58 +0100160 default y
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100161 help
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100162 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
163 and its entry.
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100164 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
165 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800166 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100167 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100168
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400169
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200170config IRQSOFF_TRACER
171 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
172 default n
173 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700174 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200175 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400176 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200177 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400178 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500179 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500180 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200181 help
182 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
183 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
184
185 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
186 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
187 via:
188
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900189 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200190
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800191 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200192 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
193 used together or separately.)
194
195config PREEMPT_TRACER
196 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
197 default n
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700198 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200199 depends on PREEMPT
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400200 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200201 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400202 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500203 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500204 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200205 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800206 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200207 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
208
209 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
210 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
211 via:
212
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900213 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200214
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800215 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200216 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
217 used together or separately.)
218
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200219config SCHED_TRACER
220 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400221 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200222 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
223 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500224 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200225 help
226 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
227 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
228
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400229config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
230 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400231 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500232 select TRACING
233 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800234 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500235 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400236 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
Steven Rostedta7abe972009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400237
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100238config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
239 bool "Trace syscalls"
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700240 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400241 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker0ea1c412009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100242 select KALLSYMS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100243 help
244 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
245
Hiraku Toyookadebdd572012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900246config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
247 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
248 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
249 help
250 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
251 ftrace interface, e.g.:
252
253 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
254 cat snapshot
255
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500256config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
257 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
258 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
259 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
260 help
261 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
262 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
263 allowed:
264
265 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
266
267 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
268 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
269
270 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
271 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
272 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
273 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
274 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
275 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
276
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500277config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400278 bool
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400279 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400280
281choice
282 prompt "Branch Profiling"
283 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
284 help
285 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
286 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
287
288 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
289 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
290
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800291 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400292 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800293 profiler.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400294
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800295 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
296 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400297
298config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
299 bool "No branch profiling"
300 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800301 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
302 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
303 Otherwise keep it disabled.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400304
305config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
306 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
307 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500308 help
Masanari Iida59bf8962012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900309 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500310 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
311
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700312 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500313
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800314 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500315 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
316
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500317config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
318 bool "Profile all if conditionals"
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400319 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500320 help
321 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
322 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
323 The results will be displayed in:
324
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700325 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500326
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400327 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
328
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500329 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
330 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800331 is to be analyzed in much detail.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400332endchoice
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500333
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500334config TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500335 bool
336 help
337 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
338 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
339 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
340 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
341
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500342config BRANCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500343 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500344 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
345 select TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500346 help
347 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
348 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
349 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
350 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
351 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
352 events happened, as well as their results.
353
354 Say N if unsure.
355
Steven Rostedte5a81b62008-08-27 23:31:01 -0400356config STACK_TRACER
357 bool "Trace max stack"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400358 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400359 select FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedte5a81b62008-08-27 23:31:01 -0400360 select STACKTRACE
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500361 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedte5a81b62008-08-27 23:31:01 -0400362 help
Ingo Molnar4519d9e2008-10-14 14:15:43 +0200363 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900364 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
Ingo Molnar4519d9e2008-10-14 14:15:43 +0200365
366 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
367 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -0500368 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
369 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
370 is disabled.
371
372 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
373 on the kernel command line.
374
375 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
376 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
Ingo Molnar4519d9e2008-10-14 14:15:43 +0200377
378 Say N if unsure.
Steven Rostedte5a81b62008-08-27 23:31:01 -0400379
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100380config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800381 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100382 depends on SYSFS
Ingo Molnar1dfba052009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100383 depends on BLOCK
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100384 select RELAY
385 select DEBUG_FS
386 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400387 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100388 select STACKTRACE
389 help
390 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
391 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
392 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
393 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
394
395 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
396
397 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
398
399 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
400 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
401 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
402
403 If unsure, say N.
Frederic Weisbecker36994e52008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800404
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500405config KPROBE_EVENT
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400406 depends on KPROBES
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100407 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500408 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400409 select TRACING
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530410 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500411 default y
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400412 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800413 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
414 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
415 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt for more details.
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500416
417 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
418 various register and memory values.
419
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800420 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
421 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400422
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530423config UPROBE_EVENT
424 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
425 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
426 depends on MMU
427 select UPROBES
428 select PROBE_EVENTS
429 select TRACING
430 default n
431 help
432 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
433 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
434 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
435 can probe, and record various registers.
436 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
437 of perf tools on user space applications.
438
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530439config PROBE_EVENTS
440 def_bool n
441
Steven Rostedt3d083392008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200442config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Steven Rostedtdb050212013-02-27 21:48:09 -0500443 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400444 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -0400445 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Steven Rostedt3d083392008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200446 default y
447 help
Steven Rostedtdb050212013-02-27 21:48:09 -0500448 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
449 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
450 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
451 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
452 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
453 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
454 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
455 performance of the system.
456
457 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
458 available_filter_functions
459 set_ftrace_filter
460 set_ftrace_notrace
Steven Rostedt3d083392008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200461
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800462 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
463 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
Steven Rostedt3d083392008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200464
Masami Hiramatsu06aeaae2012-09-28 17:15:17 +0900465config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
466 def_bool y
467 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
468 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
469
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400470config FUNCTION_PROFILER
471 bool "Kernel function profiler"
Steven Rostedt493762f2009-03-23 17:12:36 -0400472 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400473 default n
474 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800475 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
476 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
477 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
478 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
479 the trace_stats directory; this file shows the list of functions that
480 have been hit and their counters.
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400481
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800482 If in doubt, say N.
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400483
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400484config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
485 def_bool y
486 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
487 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
488
Steven Rostedt60a11772008-05-12 21:20:44 +0200489config FTRACE_SELFTEST
490 bool
491
492config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
493 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400494 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt60a11772008-05-12 21:20:44 +0200495 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
496 help
497 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
498 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
499 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
500 tracers of ftrace.
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200501
Steven Rostedt1f5a6b42009-09-14 11:58:24 -0400502config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
503 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
504 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
505 help
506 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
507 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
508 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
509 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
510
511 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
512 events
513
Pekka Paalanenfe6f90e2009-01-03 21:23:51 +0200514config MMIOTRACE
515 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100516 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400517 select GENERIC_TRACER
Pekka Paalanenfe6f90e2009-01-03 21:23:51 +0200518 help
519 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
520 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
521 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
522 default and can be enabled at run-time.
523
Li Zefan4d1f4372009-04-10 08:48:36 +0800524 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt.
Pekka Paalanenfe6f90e2009-01-03 21:23:51 +0200525 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
526
527config MMIOTRACE_TEST
528 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
529 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
530 help
531 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
532 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
533 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
534
535 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
536
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400537config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
538 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
539 depends on RING_BUFFER
540 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800541 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
542 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400543 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
544 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
545 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
546 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
547
548 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
549 affected by processes that are running.
550
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800551 If unsure, say N.
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400552
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400553config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
554 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
555 depends on RING_BUFFER
556 help
557 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
558 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
559 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
560 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
561 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
562 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
563 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
564 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
565
566 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
567 by at least 10 more seconds.
568
569 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
570 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
571 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
572 other similar details.
573
574 If unsure, say N
575
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400576endif # FTRACE
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100577
578endif # TRACING_SUPPORT
579