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Thomas Gleixnerec8f24b2019-05-19 13:07:45 +01001# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02002#
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -04003# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +02005#
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +02006
Török Edwin8d264872008-11-23 12:39:08 +02007config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
8 bool
9
Frédéric Weisbecker2a3a4f62008-09-21 20:12:14 +020010config NOP_TRACER
11 bool
12
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -040013config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo16444a82008-05-12 21:20:42 +020014 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040015 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030016 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +020017
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +010018config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010019 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040020 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030021 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +010022
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040023config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
24 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040025 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030026 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt677aa9f2008-05-17 00:01:36 -040027
Masami Hiramatsu06aeaae2012-09-28 17:15:17 +090028config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
29 bool
30
Steven Rostedt (VMware)763e34e2019-11-08 13:07:06 -050031config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
32 bool
33
Steven Rostedt (VMware)02a474c2020-10-27 10:55:55 -040034config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
35 bool
36 help
37 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
38 the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
39 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
40 This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and
41 kernel_stack_pointer().
42
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040043config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
44 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040045 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030046 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -040047
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -070048config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010049 bool
Mike Frysinger555f3862009-09-14 20:10:15 -040050 help
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -030051 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +010052
Steven Rostedta2546fa2011-02-09 13:15:59 -050053config HAVE_FENTRY
54 bool
55 help
56 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
57
Vasily Gorbik2f4df002018-08-06 15:17:46 +020058config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
59 bool
60 help
61 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
62
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 Rostedt (Google)4ed308c2022-01-25 09:19:10 -050073config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
74 bool
75 help
76 An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
77 at build time.
78
Steven Rostedt (Google)6b9b6412022-01-22 09:17:10 -050079config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
80 bool
81 default y
Steven Rostedt (Google)4ed308c2022-01-25 09:19:10 -050082 depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Steven Rostedt (Google)6b9b6412022-01-22 09:17:10 -050083 help
84 Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
85
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +020086config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
87 bool
88
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070089config TRACE_CLOCK
90 bool
91
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040092config RING_BUFFER
93 bool
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -070094 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22287682013-05-03 11:16:18 -040095 select IRQ_WORK
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -040096
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -050097config EVENT_TRACING
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +080098 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +080099 select GLOB
Zhaoleib11c53e2009-05-25 18:11:59 +0800100 bool
101
102config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500103 bool
104
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400105config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
106 bool
107 help
108 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
109 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
110
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700111config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
112 bool
113 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
114 select TRACING
115 default y
116 help
117 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
118 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
119
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400120# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
121# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
122# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
123# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
124# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800125# hiding of the automatic options.
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400126
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200127config TRACING
128 bool
Steven Rostedt7a8e76a2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400129 select RING_BUFFER
Al Viroc2c80522008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000130 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar5f87f112008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200131 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedtf3384b22008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400132 select NOP_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker769b0442009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100133 select BINARY_PRINTF
Tom Zanussi5f77a882009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500134 select EVENT_TRACING
Josh Triplettea632e92012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700135 select TRACE_CLOCK
Steven Rostedtbc0c38d2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200136
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400137config GENERIC_TRACER
138 bool
139 select TRACING
140
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100141#
142# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
143# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
144#
145config TRACING_SUPPORT
146 bool
Michael Ellerman0ea5ee02018-05-02 21:29:48 +1000147 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100148 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
KOSAKI Motohiro422d3c72009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900149 default y
Ingo Molnar40ada302009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100150
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400151menuconfig FTRACE
152 bool "Tracers"
Masahiro Yamadade329512021-07-31 14:22:31 +0900153 depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
Steven Rostedt65b77242009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400154 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400155 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800156 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400157
158if FTRACE
Peter Zijlstra17d80fd2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200159
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500160config BOOTTIME_TRACING
161 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
Masami Hiramatsud8a953d2020-02-20 21:18:33 +0900162 depends on TRACING
163 select BOOT_CONFIG
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500164 help
165 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
166 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
167 initialization and boot process.
168
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400169config FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200170 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
Steven Rostedt606576c2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400171 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedt4d7a0772009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500172 select KALLSYMS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400173 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200174 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt (VMware)0598e4f2017-04-06 10:28:12 -0400175 select GLOB
Thomas Gleixner01b1d882019-07-26 23:19:38 +0200176 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
Paul E. McKenneye5a971d2020-04-03 12:10:28 -0700177 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200178 help
179 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
180 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800181 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
Steven Rostedt1b29b012008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200182 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
183 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
184 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
185 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
Steven Rostedt35e8e302008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200186
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100187config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
188 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
189 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100190 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
Steven Rostedteb4a0372009-06-18 12:53:21 -0400191 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
Ingo Molnar764f3b92008-12-03 10:33:58 +0100192 default y
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100193 help
Frederic Weisbeckerfb526072008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100194 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
195 and its entry.
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100196 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
197 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800198 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
Matt LaPlante692105b2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100199 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
Frederic Weisbecker15e6cb32008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100200
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500201config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
202 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
203 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
204 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
205 default y
206 help
207 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
208 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
209 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
210 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
211 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
212 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
213 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
214 performance of the system.
215
216 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
217 available_filter_functions
218 set_ftrace_filter
219 set_ftrace_notrace
220
221 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
222 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
223
224config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
225 def_bool y
226 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
227 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
228
229config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
230 def_bool y
Naveen N. Rao49a962c2020-11-26 23:38:39 +0530231 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500232 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
233
Lukas Bulwahn12f99512021-08-06 21:50:27 +0200234config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
235 def_bool y
236 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
237 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
238
Steven Rostedt (VMware)61778cd72020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500239config FUNCTION_PROFILER
240 bool "Kernel function profiler"
241 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
242 default n
243 help
244 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
245 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
246 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
247 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
248 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
249 have been hit and their counters.
250
251 If in doubt, say N.
252
253config STACK_TRACER
254 bool "Trace max stack"
255 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
256 select FUNCTION_TRACER
257 select STACKTRACE
258 select KALLSYMS
259 help
260 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
261 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
262
263 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
264 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
265 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
266 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
267 is disabled.
268
269 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
270 on the kernel command line.
271
272 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
273 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
274
275 Say N if unsure.
276
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700277config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
278 bool
279 help
280 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
281 and last enabled.
Steven Rostedtbac429f2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400282
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200283config IRQSOFF_TRACER
284 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
285 default n
286 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200287 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400288 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200289 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400290 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500291 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500292 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200293 help
294 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
295 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
296
297 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
298 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
299 via:
300
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900301 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt81d68a92008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200302
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800303 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200304 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
305 used together or separately.)
306
307config PREEMPT_TRACER
308 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
309 default n
Thomas Gleixner30c93702019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200310 depends on PREEMPTION
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400311 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200312 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt85bac322009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400313 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500314 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500315 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Joel Fernandes (Google)c3bc8fd2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700316 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200317 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800318 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200319 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
320
321 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
322 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
323 via:
324
GeunSik Lim156f5a72009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900325 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200326
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800327 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
Steven Rostedt6cd8a4b2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200328 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
329 used together or separately.)
330
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200331config SCHED_TRACER
332 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400333 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200334 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
335 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)22cffc22013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500336 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
Steven Rostedt352ad252008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200337 help
338 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
339 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
340
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400341config HWLAT_TRACER
342 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
343 select GENERIC_TRACER
344 help
345 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200346 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400347 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
348 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
349 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
350 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
351 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
352
353 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
354 is enabled:
355
356 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
357 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
358 iteration
359
360 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
Jesper Dangaard Brouerc5c1ea72017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200361 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)e7c15cd2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400362 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
363 continue to operate.
364
365 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
366
367 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
368 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
369 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
370 production system.
371
372 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
373 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
374 be recorded into the ring buffer.
375
Daniel Bristot de Oliveirabce29ac2021-06-22 16:42:27 +0200376config OSNOISE_TRACER
377 bool "OS Noise tracer"
378 select GENERIC_TRACER
379 help
380 In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
381 System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
382 application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
383 context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
384 can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
385 also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
386
387 The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
388 loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
389 the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
390 note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
391 increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
392 counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
393 NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
394 observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
395 without any interference from the operating system level, the
396 hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
397 noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
398 interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
399 the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
400 available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
401
402 In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
403 facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
404
405 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
406
407 To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
408 file.
409
Daniel Bristot de Oliveiraa955d7e2021-06-22 16:42:28 +0200410config TIMERLAT_TRACER
411 bool "Timerlat tracer"
412 select OSNOISE_TRACER
413 select GENERIC_TRACER
414 help
415 The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
416 to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
417
418 The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
419 The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
420 to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
421 then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
422 the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
423 to expire.
424
425 The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
426 timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
427 activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
428 by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
429 ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
430 respective thread execution.
431
432 The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
433 events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
434 IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
435 stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
436 path that can cause thread delay.
437
Steven Rostedt (VMware)21b3ce32020-01-29 16:26:45 -0500438config MMIOTRACE
439 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
440 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
441 select GENERIC_TRACER
442 help
443 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
444 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
445 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
446 default and can be enabled at run-time.
447
448 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
449 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
450
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400451config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
452 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400453 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500454 select TRACING
455 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800456 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
Steven Rostedtb77e38a2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500457 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
Steven Rostedt897f17a2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400458 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
Steven Rostedta7abe972009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400459
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100460config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
461 bool "Trace syscalls"
Josh Stone66700002009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700462 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400463 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker0ea1c412009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100464 select KALLSYMS
Frederic Weisbeckeree08c6e2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100465 help
466 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
467
Hiraku Toyookadebdd572012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900468config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
469 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
470 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
471 help
472 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
473 ftrace interface, e.g.:
474
475 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
476 cat snapshot
477
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500478config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800479 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0b85ffc2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500480 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
481 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
482 help
483 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
484 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
485 allowed:
486
487 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
488
489 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
490 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
491
492 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
493 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
494 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
495 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
496 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
497 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
498
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500499config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400500 bool
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400501 select GENERIC_TRACER
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400502
503choice
504 prompt "Branch Profiling"
505 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
506 help
507 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
508 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
509
510 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
511 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
512
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800513 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400514 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800515 profiler.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400516
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800517 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
518 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400519
520config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
521 bool "No branch profiling"
522 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800523 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
524 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
525 Otherwise keep it disabled.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400526
527config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
528 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
529 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500530 help
Masanari Iida59bf8962012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900531 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500532 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
533
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700534 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500535
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800536 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
Steven Rostedt1f0d69a2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500537 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
538
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500539config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Randy Dunlap68e76e02018-01-15 11:07:27 -0800540 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400541 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500542 help
543 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
544 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
545 The results will be displayed in:
546
David Rientjes13e5bef2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700547 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500548
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400549 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
550
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500551 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
552 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800553 is to be analyzed in much detail.
Steven Rostedt9ae5b872009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400554endchoice
Steven Rostedt2bcd5212008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500555
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500556config TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500557 bool
558 help
559 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
560 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
561 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
562 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
563
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500564config BRANCH_TRACER
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500565 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
Steven Rostedt2ed84ee2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500566 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
567 select TRACING_BRANCHES
Steven Rostedt52f232c2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500568 help
569 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
570 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
571 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
572 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
573 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
574 events happened, as well as their results.
575
576 Say N if unsure.
577
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100578config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800579 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100580 depends on SYSFS
Ingo Molnar1dfba052009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100581 depends on BLOCK
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100582 select RELAY
583 select DEBUG_FS
584 select TRACEPOINTS
Steven Rostedt5e0a0932009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400585 select GENERIC_TRACER
Frederic Weisbecker2db270a2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100586 select STACKTRACE
587 help
588 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
589 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
590 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
591 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
592
593 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
594
595 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
596
597 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
598 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
599 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
600
601 If unsure, say N.
Frederic Weisbecker36994e52008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800602
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100603config KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400604 depends on KPROBES
Heiko Carstensf850c30c2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100605 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500606 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400607 select TRACING
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530608 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu6212dd22018-11-05 18:02:36 +0900609 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500610 default y
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400611 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800612 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
613 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5fb94e92018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300614 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
Masami Hiramatsu77b44d12009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500615
616 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
617 various register and memory values.
618
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800619 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
620 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
Masami Hiramatsu413d37d2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400621
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900622config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
623 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
624 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu7bb83f6f2021-01-08 13:19:38 +0900625 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900626 default n
627 help
628 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
629 using kprobe events.
630
631 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
Colin Ian King28cc65a2020-12-16 11:40:51 +0000632 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
Masami Hiramatsu45408c42018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900633 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
634 crash.
635
636 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
637 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
638 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
639
640 If unsure, say N.
641
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100642config UPROBE_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530643 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
644 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
645 depends on MMU
David A. Long09294e32014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500646 depends on PERF_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530647 select UPROBES
648 select PROBE_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu0597c492018-11-05 18:03:04 +0900649 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530650 select TRACING
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo61f35d72017-03-16 12:42:02 -0300651 default y
Srikar Dronamrajuf3f096c2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530652 help
653 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
654 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
655 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
656 can probe, and record various registers.
657 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
658 of perf tools on user space applications.
659
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200660config BPF_EVENTS
661 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
Anton Blanchard6b0b7552017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100662 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200663 bool
664 default y
665 help
Peter Wu5cbd22c2019-08-21 00:08:57 +0100666 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
667 tracepoint events.
Ingo Molnare1abf2c2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200668
Masami Hiramatsu5448d442018-11-05 18:02:08 +0900669config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
670 def_bool n
671
Srikar Dronamraju8ab83f52012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530672config PROBE_EVENTS
673 def_bool n
674
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500675config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
676 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
677 depends on BPF_EVENTS
Masami Hiramatsu540adea2018-01-13 02:55:03 +0900678 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
Josef Bacik9802d862017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500679 default n
680 help
681 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
682 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
683
Steven Rostedt8da38212008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400684config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
685 def_bool y
686 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
687 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
688
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800689config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
690 bool
691 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
692
693config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
694 def_bool y
695 depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
696 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
697 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
698
Sami Tolvanen22c85422020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700699config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
700 def_bool y
701 depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
702 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
703 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
704 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
705
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800706config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
707 def_bool y
708 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
709 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
Sami Tolvanen22c85422020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700710 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
Sami Tolvanen3b15cdc12020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800711 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
712
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600713config TRACING_MAP
714 bool
715 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
Tom Zanussi08d43a52015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600716 help
717 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
718 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
719 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
720 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
721 selected by tracers that use it.
722
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500723config SYNTH_EVENTS
724 bool "Synthetic trace events"
725 select TRACING
726 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
727 default n
728 help
729 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
730 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
731 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
732 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
733 by way of an in-kernel API.
734
735 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
736 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
737
738 If in doubt, say N.
739
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600740config HIST_TRIGGERS
741 bool "Histogram triggers"
742 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
743 select TRACING_MAP
Tom Zanussi7ad8fb62016-07-03 08:51:34 -0500744 select TRACING
Masami Hiramatsu7bbab382018-11-05 18:03:33 +0900745 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500746 select SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600747 default n
748 help
749 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
750 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
751 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
752 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
753 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
754 using more advanced tools.
755
Tom Zanussi89e270c2018-01-15 20:52:10 -0600756 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
757 supported using hist triggers under this option.
758
Mauro Carvalho Chehabea272252018-06-26 06:49:11 -0300759 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
Tom Zanussi7ef224d2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600760 If in doubt, say N.
761
Cong Wang6c3edaf2019-11-29 20:52:18 -0800762config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
763 bool "Trace event injection"
764 depends on TRACING
765 help
766 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
767 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
768
769 If unsure, say N.
770
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400771config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800772 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400773 help
774 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
775 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
Rolf Eike Beer69268092021-03-02 09:49:28 +0100776 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)81dc9f02014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400777 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
778 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
779 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
780 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
781 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
782 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
783 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
784 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
785
786 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
787 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
788
789 An example of the output:
790
791 START
792 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
793 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
794 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
795 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
796 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
797 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
798 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
799
800
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400801config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
802 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
803 depends on RING_BUFFER
804 help
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800805 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
806 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400807 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
808 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
809 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
810 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
811
812 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
813 affected by processes that are running.
814
Randy Dunlap40892362009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800815 If unsure, say N.
Steven Rostedt5092dbc2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400816
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500817config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
818 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
819 depends on TRACING
820 help
821 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
822 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
823 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
824 how to convert the string to its value.
825
826 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
827 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
828 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
829
830 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
831 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
832
833 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
834 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
835 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
836 belong too.
837
838 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
839 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
840 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
841 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
842
843 If unsure, say N.
844
Steven Rostedt (VMware)773c1672020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500845config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
846 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
847 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
848 help
849 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
850 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
851 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
852 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
853 that triggered a recursion.
854
855 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
856
857 If unsure, say N
858
859config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
860 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
861 default 128
862 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
863 help
864 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
865 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
866 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
867 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
868 size at runtime.
869
Steven Rostedt (VMware)28575c62020-11-02 14:43:10 -0500870config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
871 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
872 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
873 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
874 default y
875 help
876 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
877 recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection,
878 but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
879 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
880 file.
881
882 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
883
Steven Rostedt (VMware)1e837942020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500884config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
885 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
886 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
887 help
888 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
889 which functions/lines are tested.
890
891 If unsure, say N.
892
893 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
894 run significantly slower.
895
896config FTRACE_SELFTEST
897 bool
898
899config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
900 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
901 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
902 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
903 help
904 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
905 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
906 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
907 tracers of ftrace.
908
909config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
910 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
911 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
912 default y
913 help
914 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
915 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
916 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
917 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
918
919config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
920 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
921 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
922 help
923 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
924 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
925 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
926 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
927
928 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
929 events
930
Steven Rostedt (VMware)8147dc782021-12-06 15:18:58 -0500931config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
932 bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
933 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Steven Rostedt (Google)6b9b6412022-01-22 09:17:10 -0500934 depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
Steven Rostedt (VMware)8147dc782021-12-06 15:18:58 -0500935 help
936 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
937 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
938 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
939 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
940 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
941 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
942
943 If unsure, say N
944
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)6c43e552013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400945config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
946 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
947 depends on RING_BUFFER
948 help
Krzysztof Kozlowskifc809bc2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800949 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 -0400950 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
951 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
952 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
953 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
954 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
955 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
956 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
957
958 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
959 by at least 10 more seconds.
960
961 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
962 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
963 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
964 other similar details.
965
966 If unsure, say N
967
Steven Rostedt (VMware)5b7be9c2020-11-30 23:37:33 -0500968config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
969 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
970 depends on RING_BUFFER
971 help
972 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
973 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
974 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
975 This audit is performed for every event that is not
976 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
977 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
978 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
979 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
980
981 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
982 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
983 Do not use it on production systems.
984
985 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
986 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
987
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500988config MMIOTRACE_TEST
989 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
990 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
991 help
992 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
993 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
994 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
995
996 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
997
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700998config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
Steven Rostedt (VMware)a48fc4f2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500999 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -07001000 depends on m
1001 help
1002 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1003 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1004 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1005 critical section.
1006
Viktor Rosendahl (BMW)79393722019-10-09 00:08:22 +02001007 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
1008 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
1009 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -07001010
Song Chen4b9091e2021-01-28 09:35:13 +08001011 What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
1012 tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
1013 command.
1014
Joel Fernandes (Google)f96e8572018-07-12 14:36:11 -07001015 If unsure, say N
1016
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -06001017config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1018 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
Tom Zanussi726721a2020-05-28 14:32:37 -05001019 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
Tom Zanussi9fe41ef2020-01-29 12:59:28 -06001020 help
1021 This option creates a test module to check the base
1022 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
1023 generation.
1024
1025 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1026 for the generated sample events.
1027
1028 If unsure, say N.
1029
Tom Zanussi64836242020-01-29 12:59:31 -06001030config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1031 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
1032 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
1033 help
1034 This option creates a test module to check the base
1035 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
1036
1037 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1038 for the generated kprobe events.
1039
1040 If unsure, say N.
1041
Tom Zanussi2d19bd72020-04-03 14:31:21 -05001042config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
1043 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
1044 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
1045 help
1046 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
1047 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
1048 defined on that event.
1049
1050 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
1051
1052 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
1053
1054 - Provides educational information to support the details
1055 of the hist trigger internals as described by
1056 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
1057
1058 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
1059 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
1060 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
1061 running histograms.
1062
1063 If unsure, say N.
1064
Steven Rostedt4ed9f072009-04-20 10:47:36 -04001065endif # FTRACE