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- #
- # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
- # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
- #
- config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- bool
- config NOP_TRACER
- bool
- config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
- bool
- help
- See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
- config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
- bool
- help
- C version of recordmcount available?
- config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- bool
- config RING_BUFFER
- bool
- config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
- bool
- depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
- default y
- config EVENT_TRACING
- select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- bool
- config EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED
- depends on EVENT_TRACING
- bool "Deprecated power event trace API, to be removed"
- default y
- help
- Provides old power event types:
- C-state/idle accounting events:
- power:power_start
- power:power_end
- and old cpufreq accounting event:
- power:power_frequency
- This is for userspace compatibility
- and will vanish after 5 kernel iterations,
- namely 2.6.41.
- config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- bool
- config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
- bool
- help
- Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
- Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
- # All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
- # enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
- # This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
- # options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
- # GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
- # hiding of the automatic options.
- config TRACING
- bool
- select DEBUG_FS
- select RING_BUFFER
- select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- select TRACEPOINTS
- select NOP_TRACER
- select BINARY_PRINTF
- select EVENT_TRACING
- config GENERIC_TRACER
- bool
- select TRACING
- #
- # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
- # be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
- #
- config TRACING_SUPPORT
- bool
- # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
- # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
- # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
- # irqflags tracing for your architecture.
- depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
- depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- default y
- if TRACING_SUPPORT
- menuconfig FTRACE
- bool "Tracers"
- default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
- help
- Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
- if FTRACE
- config FUNCTION_TRACER
- bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
- depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
- select FRAME_POINTER if !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
- select KALLSYMS
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- help
- Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
- by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
- instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
- sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
- tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
- (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
- small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
- config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
- bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
- depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
- depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
- depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
- default y
- help
- Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
- and its entry.
- Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
- draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
- the return value. This is done by setting the current return
- address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
- config IRQSOFF_TRACER
- bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
- default n
- depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
- depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
- select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
- help
- This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
- sections, with microsecond accuracy.
- The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
- disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
- via:
- echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
- (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
- enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
- used together or separately.)
- config PREEMPT_TRACER
- bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
- default n
- depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
- depends on PREEMPT
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
- help
- This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
- sections, with microsecond accuracy.
- The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
- disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
- via:
- echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
- (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
- enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
- used together or separately.)
- config SCHED_TRACER
- bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- help
- This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
- to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
- config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
- bool "Trace process context switches and events"
- depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
- select TRACING
- help
- This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
- allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
- want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
- config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
- bool "Trace syscalls"
- depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select KALLSYMS
- help
- Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
- config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
- bool
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- choice
- prompt "Branch Profiling"
- default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
- help
- The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
- into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
- The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
- are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
- The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
- kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
- profiler.
- Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
- If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
- config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
- bool "No branch profiling"
- help
- No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
- Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
- Otherwise keep it disabled.
- config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
- bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
- select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
- help
- This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros
- in the kernel. It will display the results in:
- /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
- Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
- on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
- config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
- bool "Profile all if conditionals"
- select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
- help
- This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
- taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
- The results will be displayed in:
- /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
- This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
- This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
- on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
- is to be analyzed in much detail.
- endchoice
- config TRACING_BRANCHES
- bool
- help
- Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
- conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
- profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
- when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
- config BRANCH_TRACER
- bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
- depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
- select TRACING_BRANCHES
- help
- This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
- calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
- "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
- histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
- events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
- events happened, as well as their results.
- Say N if unsure.
- config STACK_TRACER
- bool "Trace max stack"
- depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
- select FUNCTION_TRACER
- select STACKTRACE
- select KALLSYMS
- help
- This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
- kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
- This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
- kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
- stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
- is disabled.
- To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
- on the kernel command line.
- The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
- sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
- Say N if unsure.
- config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
- bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
- depends on SYSFS
- depends on BLOCK
- select RELAY
- select DEBUG_FS
- select TRACEPOINTS
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- select STACKTRACE
- help
- Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
- on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
- on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
- support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
- git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
- Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
- echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
- echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
- cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
- If unsure, say N.
- config KPROBE_EVENT
- depends on KPROBES
- depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
- bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
- select TRACING
- default y
- help
- This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
- on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt for more details.
- Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
- various register and memory values.
- This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
- If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
- config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
- depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
- depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- default y
- help
- This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
- (will patch them out of the binary image and replace them
- with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
- created to dynamically enable them again.
- This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
- otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
- The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
- wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
- were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
- and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
- config FUNCTION_PROFILER
- bool "Kernel function profiler"
- depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
- default n
- help
- This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
- in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
- When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
- zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
- the trace_stats directory; this file shows the list of functions that
- have been hit and their counters.
- If in doubt, say N.
- config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
- def_bool y
- depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
- depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
- config FTRACE_SELFTEST
- bool
- config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
- bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
- depends on GENERIC_TRACER
- select FTRACE_SELFTEST
- help
- This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
- a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
- functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
- tracers of ftrace.
- config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
- bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
- depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
- help
- This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
- It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
- with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
- up since it runs this on every system call defined.
- TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
- events
- config MMIOTRACE
- bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
- depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
- select GENERIC_TRACER
- help
- Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
- debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
- implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
- default and can be enabled at run-time.
- See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt.
- If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
- config MMIOTRACE_TEST
- tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
- depends on MMIOTRACE && m
- help
- This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
- as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
- However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
- Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
- config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
- tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
- depends on RING_BUFFER
- help
- This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
- It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
- any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
- a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
- 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
- it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
- It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
- affected by processes that are running.
- If unsure, say N.
- endif # FTRACE
- endif # TRACING_SUPPORT
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