| # | |
| # 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_DYNAMIC_FTRACE | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | |
| config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
| bool | |
| 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_FENTRY | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry | |
| config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT | |
| bool | |
| help | |
| C version of recordmcount available? | |
| config TRACER_MAX_TRACE | |
| bool | |
| config TRACE_CLOCK | |
| bool | |
| config RING_BUFFER | |
| bool | |
| select TRACE_CLOCK | |
| select IRQ_WORK | |
| config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER | |
| bool | |
| depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER | |
| default y | |
| config EVENT_TRACING | |
| select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER | |
| bool | |
| 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 | |
| select TRACE_CLOCK | |
| 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 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 | |
| select TRACER_SNAPSHOT | |
| select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_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 | |
| select TRACER_SNAPSHOT | |
| select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_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 | |
| select TRACER_SNAPSHOT | |
| 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 TRACER_SNAPSHOT | |
| bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" | |
| select TRACER_MAX_TRACE | |
| help | |
| Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the | |
| ftrace interface, e.g.: | |
| echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot | |
| cat snapshot | |
| config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP | |
| bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" | |
| depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT | |
| select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP | |
| help | |
| Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a | |
| full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is | |
| allowed: | |
| echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot | |
| After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with | |
| the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. | |
| When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the | |
| trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize | |
| recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance | |
| of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt | |
| or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well | |
| and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). | |
| 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 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 | |
| select PROBE_EVENTS | |
| 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 UPROBE_EVENT | |
| bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" | |
| depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES | |
| depends on MMU | |
| depends on PERF_EVENTS | |
| select UPROBES | |
| select PROBE_EVENTS | |
| select TRACING | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace | |
| dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace | |
| events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes | |
| can probe, and record various registers. | |
| This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand | |
| of perf tools on user space applications. | |
| config BPF_EVENTS | |
| depends on BPF_SYSCALL | |
| depends on KPROBE_EVENT | |
| bool | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe events. | |
| config PROBE_EVENTS | |
| def_bool n | |
| config DYNAMIC_FTRACE | |
| bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" | |
| depends on FUNCTION_TRACER | |
| depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE | |
| default y | |
| help | |
| This option will modify all the calls to function tracing | |
| dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and | |
| replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During | |
| compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace | |
| can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel | |
| image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually | |
| enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect | |
| performance of the system. | |
| See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: | |
| available_filter_functions | |
| set_ftrace_filter | |
| set_ftrace_notrace | |
| This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but | |
| otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. | |
| config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
| def_bool y | |
| depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE | |
| depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS | |
| 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 TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK | |
| bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" | |
| help | |
| This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". | |
| When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that | |
| goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks | |
| run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time | |
| it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that | |
| data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint | |
| will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. | |
| The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes | |
| to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of | |
| "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first | |
| write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. | |
| As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because | |
| we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. | |
| An example of the output: | |
| START | |
| first=3672 [COLD CACHED] | |
| last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 | |
| last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 | |
| last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 | |
| last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 | |
| last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 | |
| last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 | |
| 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. | |
| config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST | |
| bool "Ring buffer startup self test" | |
| depends on RING_BUFFER | |
| help | |
| Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the | |
| kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off | |
| a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events | |
| into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs | |
| to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write | |
| to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. | |
| If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed | |
| and all ring buffers will be disabled. | |
| The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time | |
| by at least 10 more seconds. | |
| At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. | |
| It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What | |
| was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and | |
| other similar details. | |
| If unsure, say N | |
| config TRACE_ENUM_MAP_FILE | |
| bool "Show enum mappings for trace events" | |
| depends on TRACING | |
| help | |
| The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum names instead | |
| of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools that | |
| use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know | |
| how to convert the string to its value. | |
| To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used | |
| to convert the enum into its value. If this macro is used, then the | |
| print fmt strings will have the enums converted to their values. | |
| If something does not get converted properly, this option can be | |
| used to show what enums the kernel tried to convert. | |
| This option is for debugging the enum conversions. A file is created | |
| in the tracing directory called "enum_map" that will show the enum | |
| names matched with their values and what trace event system they | |
| belong too. | |
| Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after | |
| boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as | |
| they are needed for the "enum_map" file. Enabling this option will | |
| increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. | |
| If unsure, say N | |
| endif # FTRACE | |
| endif # TRACING_SUPPORT | |