Thomas Gleixner | ec8f24b | 2019-05-19 13:07:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 16444a8 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | # |
Steven Rostedt | 606576c | 2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should |
| 4 | # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 16444a8 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | # |
Frédéric Weisbecker | 2a3a4f6 | 2008-09-21 20:12:14 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | |
Török Edwin | 8d26487 | 2008-11-23 12:39:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
| 8 | bool |
| 9 | |
Frédéric Weisbecker | 2a3a4f6 | 2008-09-21 20:12:14 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | config NOP_TRACER |
| 11 | bool |
| 12 | |
Steven Rostedt | 606576c | 2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 16444a8 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 555f386 | 2009-09-14 20:10:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | help |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst |
Steven Rostedt | bc0c38d | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
Frederic Weisbecker | fb52607 | 2008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER |
Frederic Weisbecker | 15e6cb3 | 2008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 555f386 | 2009-09-14 20:10:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | help |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst |
Frederic Weisbecker | 15e6cb3 | 2008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
Steven Rostedt | 677aa9f | 2008-05-17 00:01:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
| 24 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 555f386 | 2009-09-14 20:10:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | help |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst |
Steven Rostedt | 677aa9f | 2008-05-17 00:01:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
Masami Hiramatsu | 06aeaae | 2012-09-28 17:15:17 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS |
| 29 | bool |
| 30 | |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 763e34e | 2019-11-08 13:07:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS |
| 32 | bool |
| 33 | |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 02a474c | 2020-10-27 10:55:55 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | config 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 Rostedt | 8da3821 | 2008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |
| 44 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 555f386 | 2009-09-14 20:10:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | help |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst |
Steven Rostedt | 8da3821 | 2008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
Josh Stone | 6670000 | 2009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS |
Frederic Weisbecker | ee08c6e | 2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | bool |
Mike Frysinger | 555f386 | 2009-09-14 20:10:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | help |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst |
Frederic Weisbecker | ee08c6e | 2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Steven Rostedt | a2546fa | 2011-02-09 13:15:59 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | config HAVE_FENTRY |
| 54 | bool |
| 55 | help |
| 56 | Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry |
| 57 | |
Vasily Gorbik | 2f4df00 | 2018-08-06 15:17:46 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT |
| 59 | bool |
| 60 | help |
| 61 | Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount |
| 62 | |
Sami Tolvanen | 22c8542 | 2020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | config HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT |
| 64 | bool |
| 65 | help |
| 66 | Arch supports objtool --mcount |
| 67 | |
Steven Rostedt | cf4db25 | 2010-10-14 23:32:44 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT |
Steven Rostedt | 72441cb | 2010-10-13 17:12:30 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | bool |
| 70 | help |
| 71 | C version of recordmcount available? |
| 72 | |
Steven Rostedt (Google) | 4ed308c | 2022-01-25 09:19:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | config 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) | 6b9b641 | 2022-01-22 09:17:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT |
| 80 | bool |
| 81 | default y |
Steven Rostedt (Google) | 4ed308c | 2022-01-25 09:19:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
Steven Rostedt (Google) | 6b9b641 | 2022-01-22 09:17:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | help |
| 84 | Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. |
| 85 | |
Steven Rostedt | 352ad25 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | config TRACER_MAX_TRACE |
| 87 | bool |
| 88 | |
Josh Triplett | ea632e9 | 2012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | config TRACE_CLOCK |
| 90 | bool |
| 91 | |
Steven Rostedt | 7a8e76a | 2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | config RING_BUFFER |
| 93 | bool |
Josh Triplett | ea632e9 | 2012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | select TRACE_CLOCK |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 2228768 | 2013-05-03 11:16:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | select IRQ_WORK |
Steven Rostedt | 7a8e76a | 2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | |
Tom Zanussi | 5f77a88 | 2009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | config EVENT_TRACING |
Zhaolei | b11c53e | 2009-05-25 18:11:59 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER |
Krzysztof Kozlowski | fc809bc | 2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | select GLOB |
Zhaolei | b11c53e | 2009-05-25 18:11:59 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | bool |
| 101 | |
| 102 | config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER |
Tom Zanussi | 5f77a88 | 2009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | bool |
| 104 | |
Steven Rostedt | 85bac32 | 2009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | config 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) | c3bc8fd | 2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | config 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 Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | # 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 Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | # hiding of the automatic options. |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | |
Steven Rostedt | bc0c38d | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | config TRACING |
| 128 | bool |
Steven Rostedt | 7a8e76a | 2008-09-29 23:02:38 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | select RING_BUFFER |
Al Viro | c2c8052 | 2008-10-31 19:50:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
Ingo Molnar | 5f87f11 | 2008-07-23 14:15:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | select TRACEPOINTS |
Steven Rostedt | f3384b2 | 2008-10-29 11:15:57 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | select NOP_TRACER |
Frederic Weisbecker | 769b044 | 2009-03-06 17:21:49 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | select BINARY_PRINTF |
Tom Zanussi | 5f77a88 | 2009-04-08 03:14:01 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | select EVENT_TRACING |
Josh Triplett | ea632e9 | 2012-09-02 19:45:14 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | select TRACE_CLOCK |
Steven Rostedt | bc0c38d | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | config GENERIC_TRACER |
| 138 | bool |
| 139 | select TRACING |
| 140 | |
Ingo Molnar | 40ada30 | 2009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | # |
| 142 | # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to |
| 143 | # be able to offer generic tracing facilities: |
| 144 | # |
| 145 | config TRACING_SUPPORT |
| 146 | bool |
Michael Ellerman | 0ea5ee0 | 2018-05-02 21:29:48 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT |
Ingo Molnar | 40ada30 | 2009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT |
KOSAKI Motohiro | 422d3c7 | 2009-03-06 10:40:53 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | default y |
Ingo Molnar | 40ada30 | 2009-03-05 21:19:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | |
Steven Rostedt | 4ed9f07 | 2009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | menuconfig FTRACE |
| 152 | bool "Tracers" |
Masahiro Yamada | de32951 | 2021-07-31 14:22:31 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | depends on TRACING_SUPPORT |
Steven Rostedt | 65b7724 | 2009-05-07 12:49:27 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | default y if DEBUG_KERNEL |
Steven Rostedt | 4ed9f07 | 2009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. |
Steven Rostedt | 4ed9f07 | 2009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | |
| 158 | if FTRACE |
Peter Zijlstra | 17d80fd | 2008-10-21 16:31:18 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 1e83794 | 2020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | config BOOTTIME_TRACING |
| 161 | bool "Boot-time Tracing support" |
Masami Hiramatsu | d8a953d | 2020-02-20 21:18:33 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | depends on TRACING |
| 163 | select BOOT_CONFIG |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 1e83794 | 2020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | 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 Rostedt | 606576c | 2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | config FUNCTION_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 1b29b01 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | bool "Kernel Function Tracer" |
Steven Rostedt | 606576c | 2008-10-06 19:06:12 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 4d7a077 | 2009-02-18 22:06:18 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | select KALLSYMS |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 35e8e30 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 0598e4f | 2017-04-06 10:28:12 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | select GLOB |
Thomas Gleixner | 01b1d88 | 2019-07-26 23:19:38 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION |
Paul E. McKenney | e5a971d | 2020-04-03 12:10:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | select TASKS_RUDE_RCU |
Steven Rostedt | 1b29b01 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | 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 Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP |
Steven Rostedt | 1b29b01 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | 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 Rostedt | 35e8e30 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | |
Frederic Weisbecker | fb52607 | 2008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER |
| 188 | bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" |
| 189 | depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER |
Frederic Weisbecker | 15e6cb3 | 2008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | depends on FUNCTION_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | eb4a037 | 2009-06-18 12:53:21 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE |
Ingo Molnar | 764f3b9 | 2008-12-03 10:33:58 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | default y |
Frederic Weisbecker | 15e6cb3 | 2008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | help |
Frederic Weisbecker | fb52607 | 2008-11-25 21:07:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return |
| 195 | and its entry. |
Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and |
| 197 | draw a call graph for each thread with some information like |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | the return value. This is done by setting the current return |
Matt LaPlante | 692105b | 2009-01-26 11:12:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. |
Frederic Weisbecker | 15e6cb3 | 2008-11-11 07:14:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 61778cd7 | 2020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | config 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 | |
| 224 | config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS |
| 225 | def_bool y |
| 226 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
| 227 | depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS |
| 228 | |
| 229 | config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS |
| 230 | def_bool y |
Naveen N. Rao | 49a962c | 2020-11-26 23:38:39 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 61778cd7 | 2020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS |
| 233 | |
Lukas Bulwahn | 12f9951 | 2021-08-06 21:50:27 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | config 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) | 61778cd7 | 2020-01-29 16:19:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | config 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 | |
| 253 | config 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) | c3bc8fd | 2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE |
| 278 | bool |
| 279 | help |
| 280 | Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, |
| 281 | and last enabled. |
Steven Rostedt | bac429f | 2009-03-20 12:50:56 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | |
Steven Rostedt | 81d68a9 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | config IRQSOFF_TRACER |
| 284 | bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" |
| 285 | default n |
| 286 | depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT |
Steven Rostedt | 81d68a9 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | select TRACE_IRQFLAGS |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 288 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 81d68a9 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | select TRACER_MAX_TRACE |
Steven Rostedt | 85bac32 | 2009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 290 | select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 22cffc2 | 2013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | select TRACER_SNAPSHOT |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 0b85ffc | 2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP |
Steven Rostedt | 81d68a9 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | 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 Lim | 156f5a7 | 2009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency |
Steven Rostedt | 81d68a9 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be |
| 305 | used together or separately.) |
| 306 | |
| 307 | config PREEMPT_TRACER |
| 308 | bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" |
| 309 | default n |
Thomas Gleixner | 30c9370 | 2019-07-26 23:19:40 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | depends on PREEMPTION |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | select TRACER_MAX_TRACE |
Steven Rostedt | 85bac32 | 2009-09-04 14:24:40 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 22cffc2 | 2013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | select TRACER_SNAPSHOT |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 0b85ffc | 2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP |
Joel Fernandes (Google) | c3bc8fd | 2018-07-30 15:24:23 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | 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 Lim | 156f5a7 | 2009-06-02 15:01:37 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option |
Steven Rostedt | 6cd8a4b | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be |
| 329 | used together or separately.) |
| 330 | |
Steven Rostedt | 352ad25 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | config SCHED_TRACER |
| 332 | bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 352ad25 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER |
| 335 | select TRACER_MAX_TRACE |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 22cffc2 | 2013-03-05 07:30:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | select TRACER_SNAPSHOT |
Steven Rostedt | 352ad25 | 2008-05-12 21:20:42 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | 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) | e7c15cd | 2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | config 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 Brouer | c5c1ea7 | 2017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | e7c15cd | 2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | 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 Brouer | c5c1ea7 | 2017-06-13 13:06:59 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | e7c15cd | 2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | 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 Oliveira | bce29ac | 2021-06-22 16:42:27 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | config 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 Oliveira | a955d7e | 2021-06-22 16:42:28 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | config 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) | 21b3ce3 | 2020-01-29 16:26:45 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | config 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 Rostedt | 897f17a | 2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS |
| 452 | bool "Trace process context switches and events" |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | depends on !GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | b77e38a | 2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 454 | select TRACING |
| 455 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, |
Steven Rostedt | b77e38a | 2009-02-24 10:21:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 457 | allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they |
Steven Rostedt | 897f17a | 2009-05-28 16:31:21 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. |
Steven Rostedt | a7abe97 | 2009-04-20 10:59:34 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | |
Frederic Weisbecker | ee08c6e | 2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 460 | config FTRACE_SYSCALLS |
| 461 | bool "Trace syscalls" |
Josh Stone | 6670000 | 2009-08-24 14:43:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Frederic Weisbecker | 0ea1c41 | 2009-03-15 22:10:38 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 464 | select KALLSYMS |
Frederic Weisbecker | ee08c6e | 2009-03-07 05:52:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | help |
| 466 | Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. |
| 467 | |
Hiraku Toyooka | debdd57 | 2012-12-26 11:53:00 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | config 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) | 0b85ffc | 2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP |
Krzysztof Kozlowski | fc809bc | 2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 0b85ffc | 2013-03-05 14:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | 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 Rostedt | 2ed84ee | 2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 500 | bool |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | |
| 503 | choice |
| 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 Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 514 | kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | profiler. |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. |
| 518 | If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 519 | |
| 520 | config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE |
| 521 | bool "No branch profiling" |
| 522 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | 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 Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | |
| 527 | config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES |
| 528 | bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" |
| 529 | select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING |
Steven Rostedt | 1f0d69a | 2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | help |
Masanari Iida | 59bf896 | 2012-04-18 00:01:21 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros |
Steven Rostedt | 1f0d69a | 2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | in the kernel. It will display the results in: |
| 533 | |
David Rientjes | 13e5bef | 2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated |
Steven Rostedt | 1f0d69a | 2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 535 | |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this |
Steven Rostedt | 1f0d69a | 2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 537 | on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. |
| 538 | |
Steven Rostedt | 2bcd521 | 2008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES |
Randy Dunlap | 68e76e0 | 2018-01-15 11:07:27 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING |
Steven Rostedt | 2bcd521 | 2008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | 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 Rientjes | 13e5bef | 2011-03-16 17:17:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all |
Steven Rostedt | 2bcd521 | 2008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. |
| 550 | |
Steven Rostedt | 2bcd521 | 2008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead |
| 552 | on the system. This should only be enabled when the system |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | is to be analyzed in much detail. |
Steven Rostedt | 9ae5b87 | 2009-04-20 10:27:58 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | endchoice |
Steven Rostedt | 2bcd521 | 2008-11-21 01:30:54 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | |
Steven Rostedt | 2ed84ee | 2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | config TRACING_BRANCHES |
Steven Rostedt | 52f232c | 2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | 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 Rostedt | 2ed84ee | 2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | config BRANCH_TRACER |
Steven Rostedt | 52f232c | 2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" |
Steven Rostedt | 2ed84ee | 2008-11-12 15:24:24 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING |
| 567 | select TRACING_BRANCHES |
Steven Rostedt | 52f232c | 2008-11-12 00:14:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | 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 Weisbecker | 2db270a | 2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 578 | config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" |
Frederic Weisbecker | 2db270a | 2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 580 | depends on SYSFS |
Ingo Molnar | 1dfba05 | 2009-02-09 12:06:54 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | depends on BLOCK |
Frederic Weisbecker | 2db270a | 2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | select RELAY |
| 583 | select DEBUG_FS |
| 584 | select TRACEPOINTS |
Steven Rostedt | 5e0a093 | 2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | select GENERIC_TRACER |
Frederic Weisbecker | 2db270a | 2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | 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 Weisbecker | 36994e5 | 2008-12-29 13:42:23 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | |
Anton Blanchard | 6b0b755 | 2017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | config KPROBE_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 413d37d | 2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 604 | depends on KPROBES |
Heiko Carstens | f850c30c | 2010-02-10 17:25:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API |
Masami Hiramatsu | 77b44d1 | 2009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" |
Masami Hiramatsu | 413d37d | 2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | select TRACING |
Srikar Dronamraju | 8ab83f5 | 2012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | select PROBE_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 6212dd2 | 2018-11-05 18:02:36 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | select DYNAMIC_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 77b44d1 | 2009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | default y |
Masami Hiramatsu | 413d37d | 2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) |
| 613 | on the fly via the ftrace interface. See |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5fb94e9 | 2018-05-08 15:14:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. |
Masami Hiramatsu | 77b44d1 | 2009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | |
| 616 | Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record |
| 617 | various register and memory values. |
| 618 | |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | 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 Hiramatsu | 413d37d | 2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 621 | |
Masami Hiramatsu | 45408c4 | 2018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE |
| 623 | bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" |
| 624 | depends on KPROBE_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 7bb83f6f | 2021-01-08 13:19:38 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 625 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
Masami Hiramatsu | 45408c4 | 2018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | 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 King | 28cc65a | 2020-12-16 11:40:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 632 | functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite |
Masami Hiramatsu | 45408c4 | 2018-07-30 19:20:14 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | 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 Blanchard | 6b0b755 | 2017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | config UPROBE_EVENTS |
Srikar Dronamraju | f3f096c | 2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 643 | bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" |
| 644 | depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES |
| 645 | depends on MMU |
David A. Long | 09294e3 | 2014-03-07 10:32:22 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | depends on PERF_EVENTS |
Srikar Dronamraju | f3f096c | 2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 647 | select UPROBES |
| 648 | select PROBE_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 0597c49 | 2018-11-05 18:03:04 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 649 | select DYNAMIC_EVENTS |
Srikar Dronamraju | f3f096c | 2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 650 | select TRACING |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 61f35d7 | 2017-03-16 12:42:02 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 651 | default y |
Srikar Dronamraju | f3f096c | 2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 652 | 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 Molnar | e1abf2c | 2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 660 | config BPF_EVENTS |
| 661 | depends on BPF_SYSCALL |
Anton Blanchard | 6b0b755 | 2017-02-16 17:00:50 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 662 | depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS |
Ingo Molnar | e1abf2c | 2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | bool |
| 664 | default y |
| 665 | help |
Peter Wu | 5cbd22c | 2019-08-21 00:08:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and |
| 667 | tracepoint events. |
Ingo Molnar | e1abf2c | 2015-04-02 15:51:39 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 668 | |
Masami Hiramatsu | 5448d44 | 2018-11-05 18:02:08 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 669 | config DYNAMIC_EVENTS |
| 670 | def_bool n |
| 671 | |
Srikar Dronamraju | 8ab83f5 | 2012-04-09 14:41:44 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 672 | config PROBE_EVENTS |
| 673 | def_bool n |
| 674 | |
Josef Bacik | 9802d86 | 2017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE |
| 676 | bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" |
| 677 | depends on BPF_EVENTS |
Masami Hiramatsu | 540adea | 2018-01-13 02:55:03 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 678 | depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION |
Josef Bacik | 9802d86 | 2017-12-11 11:36:48 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 679 | 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 Rostedt | 8da3821 | 2008-08-14 15:45:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 684 | config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |
| 685 | def_bool y |
| 686 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
| 687 | depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |
| 688 | |
Sami Tolvanen | 3b15cdc1 | 2020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 689 | config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY |
| 690 | bool |
| 691 | depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |
| 692 | |
| 693 | config 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 Tolvanen | 22c8542 | 2020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 699 | config 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 Tolvanen | 3b15cdc1 | 2020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 706 | config 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 Tolvanen | 22c8542 | 2020-09-25 16:43:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 710 | depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL |
Sami Tolvanen | 3b15cdc1 | 2020-12-11 10:46:18 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 711 | depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |
| 712 | |
Tom Zanussi | 08d43a5 | 2015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 713 | config TRACING_MAP |
| 714 | bool |
| 715 | depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG |
Tom Zanussi | 08d43a5 | 2015-12-10 12:50:50 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 716 | 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 Zanussi | 726721a | 2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 723 | config 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 Zanussi | 7ef224d | 2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 740 | config HIST_TRIGGERS |
| 741 | bool "Histogram triggers" |
| 742 | depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG |
| 743 | select TRACING_MAP |
Tom Zanussi | 7ad8fb6 | 2016-07-03 08:51:34 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 744 | select TRACING |
Masami Hiramatsu | 7bbab38 | 2018-11-05 18:03:33 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 745 | select DYNAMIC_EVENTS |
Tom Zanussi | 726721a | 2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 746 | select SYNTH_EVENTS |
Tom Zanussi | 7ef224d | 2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 747 | 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 Zanussi | 89e270c | 2018-01-15 20:52:10 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also |
| 757 | supported using hist triggers under this option. |
| 758 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | ea27225 | 2018-06-26 06:49:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 759 | See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. |
Tom Zanussi | 7ef224d | 2016-03-03 12:54:42 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 760 | If in doubt, say N. |
| 761 | |
Cong Wang | 6c3edaf | 2019-11-29 20:52:18 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | config 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) | 81dc9f0 | 2014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK |
Krzysztof Kozlowski | fc809bc | 2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 81dc9f0 | 2014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 773 | 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 Beer | 6926809 | 2021-03-02 09:49:28 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 776 | goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 81dc9f0 | 2014-05-29 22:49:07 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 777 | 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 Rostedt | 5092dbc | 2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 801 | config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK |
| 802 | tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" |
| 803 | depends on RING_BUFFER |
| 804 | help |
Randy Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | 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 Rostedt | 5092dbc | 2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 807 | 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 Dunlap | 4089236 | 2009-12-21 12:01:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 815 | If unsure, say N. |
Steven Rostedt | 5092dbc | 2009-05-05 22:47:18 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 816 | |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 1e83794 | 2020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | config 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) | 773c167 | 2020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 845 | config 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 | |
| 859 | config 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) | 28575c6 | 2020-11-02 14:43:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 870 | config 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) | 1e83794 | 2020-01-29 16:30:30 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 884 | config 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 | |
| 896 | config FTRACE_SELFTEST |
| 897 | bool |
| 898 | |
| 899 | config 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 | |
| 909 | config 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 | |
| 919 | config 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) | 8147dc78 | 2021-12-06 15:18:58 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST |
| 932 | bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" |
| 933 | depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE |
Steven Rostedt (Google) | 6b9b641 | 2022-01-22 09:17:10 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 934 | depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 8147dc78 | 2021-12-06 15:18:58 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 935 | 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) | 6c43e55 | 2013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST |
| 946 | bool "Ring buffer startup self test" |
| 947 | depends on RING_BUFFER |
| 948 | help |
Krzysztof Kozlowski | fc809bc | 2019-11-20 21:38:07 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 949 | Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 6c43e55 | 2013-03-15 11:32:53 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 950 | 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) | 5b7be9c | 2020-11-30 23:37:33 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 968 | config 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) | a48fc4f | 2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 988 | config 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) | f96e857 | 2018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 998 | config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) | a48fc4f | 2020-01-29 16:23:04 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 999 | tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" |
Joel Fernandes (Google) | f96e857 | 2018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1000 | 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) | 7939372 | 2019-10-09 00:08:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1007 | 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) | f96e857 | 2018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1010 | |
Song Chen | 4b9091e | 2021-01-28 09:35:13 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1011 | 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) | f96e857 | 2018-07-12 14:36:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1015 | If unsure, say N |
| 1016 | |
Tom Zanussi | 9fe41ef | 2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST |
| 1018 | tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" |
Tom Zanussi | 726721a | 2020-05-28 14:32:37 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1019 | depends on SYNTH_EVENTS |
Tom Zanussi | 9fe41ef | 2020-01-29 12:59:28 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | 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 Zanussi | 6483624 | 2020-01-29 12:59:31 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1030 | config 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 Zanussi | 2d19bd7 | 2020-04-03 14:31:21 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | config 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 Rostedt | 4ed9f07 | 2009-04-20 10:47:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1065 | endif # FTRACE |