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  1. #
  2. # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
  3. # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
  4. #
  5. config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  6. bool
  7. config NOP_TRACER
  8. bool
  9. config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
  10. bool
  11. help
  12. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  13. config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
  14. bool
  15. help
  16. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  17. config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
  18. bool
  19. help
  20. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  21. config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
  22. bool
  23. help
  24. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  25. config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
  26. bool
  27. help
  28. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  29. config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  30. bool
  31. help
  32. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  33. config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  34. bool
  35. config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
  36. bool
  37. help
  38. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  39. config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
  40. bool
  41. help
  42. See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
  43. config HAVE_FENTRY
  44. bool
  45. help
  46. Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
  47. config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
  48. bool
  49. help
  50. C version of recordmcount available?
  51. config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
  52. bool
  53. config TRACE_CLOCK
  54. bool
  55. config RING_BUFFER
  56. bool
  57. select TRACE_CLOCK
  58. config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
  59. bool
  60. depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
  61. default y
  62. config EVENT_TRACING
  63. select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
  64. bool
  65. config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
  66. bool
  67. config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
  68. bool
  69. help
  70. Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
  71. Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
  72. # All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
  73. # enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
  74. # This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
  75. # options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
  76. # GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
  77. # hiding of the automatic options.
  78. config TRACING
  79. bool
  80. select DEBUG_FS
  81. select RING_BUFFER
  82. select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  83. select TRACEPOINTS
  84. select NOP_TRACER
  85. select BINARY_PRINTF
  86. select EVENT_TRACING
  87. select TRACE_CLOCK
  88. select IRQ_WORK
  89. config GENERIC_TRACER
  90. bool
  91. select TRACING
  92. #
  93. # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
  94. # be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
  95. #
  96. config TRACING_SUPPORT
  97. bool
  98. # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
  99. # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
  100. # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
  101. # irqflags tracing for your architecture.
  102. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
  103. depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  104. default y
  105. if TRACING_SUPPORT
  106. menuconfig FTRACE
  107. bool "Tracers"
  108. default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
  109. help
  110. Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
  111. if FTRACE
  112. config FUNCTION_TRACER
  113. bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
  114. depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
  115. select KALLSYMS
  116. select GENERIC_TRACER
  117. select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
  118. help
  119. Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
  120. by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
  121. instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
  122. sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
  123. tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
  124. (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
  125. small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
  126. config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
  127. bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
  128. depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
  129. depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
  130. depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  131. default y
  132. help
  133. Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
  134. and its entry.
  135. Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
  136. draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
  137. the return value. This is done by setting the current return
  138. address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
  139. config IRQSOFF_TRACER
  140. bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
  141. default n
  142. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
  143. depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
  144. select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
  145. select GENERIC_TRACER
  146. select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
  147. select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
  148. help
  149. This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
  150. sections, with microsecond accuracy.
  151. The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
  152. disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
  153. via:
  154. echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
  155. (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
  156. enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
  157. used together or separately.)
  158. config PREEMPT_TRACER
  159. bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
  160. default n
  161. depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
  162. depends on PREEMPT
  163. select GENERIC_TRACER
  164. select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
  165. select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
  166. help
  167. This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
  168. sections, with microsecond accuracy.
  169. The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
  170. disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
  171. via:
  172. echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
  173. (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
  174. enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
  175. used together or separately.)
  176. config SCHED_TRACER
  177. bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
  178. select GENERIC_TRACER
  179. select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
  180. select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
  181. help
  182. This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
  183. to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
  184. config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
  185. bool "Trace process context switches and events"
  186. depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
  187. select TRACING
  188. help
  189. This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
  190. allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
  191. want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
  192. config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
  193. bool "Trace syscalls"
  194. depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
  195. select GENERIC_TRACER
  196. select KALLSYMS
  197. help
  198. Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
  199. config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
  200. bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
  201. select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
  202. help
  203. Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
  204. ftrace interface, e.g.:
  205. echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
  206. cat snapshot
  207. config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
  208. bool
  209. select GENERIC_TRACER
  210. choice
  211. prompt "Branch Profiling"
  212. default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
  213. help
  214. The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
  215. into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
  216. The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
  217. are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
  218. The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
  219. kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
  220. profiler.
  221. Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
  222. If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
  223. config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
  224. bool "No branch profiling"
  225. help
  226. No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
  227. Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
  228. Otherwise keep it disabled.
  229. config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
  230. bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
  231. select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
  232. help
  233. This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
  234. in the kernel. It will display the results in:
  235. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
  236. Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
  237. on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
  238. config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
  239. bool "Profile all if conditionals"
  240. select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
  241. help
  242. This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
  243. taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
  244. The results will be displayed in:
  245. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
  246. This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
  247. This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
  248. on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
  249. is to be analyzed in much detail.
  250. endchoice
  251. config TRACING_BRANCHES
  252. bool
  253. help
  254. Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
  255. conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
  256. profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
  257. when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
  258. config BRANCH_TRACER
  259. bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
  260. depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
  261. select TRACING_BRANCHES
  262. help
  263. This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
  264. calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
  265. "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
  266. histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
  267. events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
  268. events happened, as well as their results.
  269. Say N if unsure.
  270. config STACK_TRACER
  271. bool "Trace max stack"
  272. depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
  273. select FUNCTION_TRACER
  274. select STACKTRACE
  275. select KALLSYMS
  276. help
  277. This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
  278. kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
  279. This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
  280. kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
  281. stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  282. then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
  283. is disabled.
  284. To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
  285. on the kernel command line.
  286. The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
  287. sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
  288. Say N if unsure.
  289. config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
  290. bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
  291. depends on SYSFS
  292. depends on BLOCK
  293. select RELAY
  294. select DEBUG_FS
  295. select TRACEPOINTS
  296. select GENERIC_TRACER
  297. select STACKTRACE
  298. help
  299. Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
  300. on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
  301. on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
  302. support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
  303. git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
  304. Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
  305. echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
  306. echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  307. cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
  308. If unsure, say N.
  309. config KPROBE_EVENT
  310. depends on KPROBES
  311. depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
  312. bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
  313. select TRACING
  314. select PROBE_EVENTS
  315. default y
  316. help
  317. This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
  318. on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
  319. Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt for more details.
  320. Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
  321. various register and memory values.
  322. This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
  323. If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
  324. config UPROBE_EVENT
  325. bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
  326. depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
  327. depends on MMU
  328. select UPROBES
  329. select PROBE_EVENTS
  330. select TRACING
  331. default n
  332. help
  333. This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
  334. dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
  335. events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
  336. can probe, and record various registers.
  337. This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
  338. of perf tools on user space applications.
  339. config PROBE_EVENTS
  340. def_bool n
  341. config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  342. bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
  343. depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
  344. depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  345. default y
  346. help
  347. This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
  348. dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
  349. replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
  350. compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
  351. can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
  352. image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
  353. enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
  354. performance of the system.
  355. See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
  356. available_filter_functions
  357. set_ftrace_filter
  358. set_ftrace_notrace
  359. This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
  360. otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
  361. config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  362. def_bool y
  363. depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  364. depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  365. config FUNCTION_PROFILER
  366. bool "Kernel function profiler"
  367. depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
  368. default n
  369. help
  370. This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
  371. in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
  372. When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
  373. zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
  374. the trace_stats directory; this file shows the list of functions that
  375. have been hit and their counters.
  376. If in doubt, say N.
  377. config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
  378. def_bool y
  379. depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  380. depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
  381. config FTRACE_SELFTEST
  382. bool
  383. config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
  384. bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
  385. depends on GENERIC_TRACER
  386. select FTRACE_SELFTEST
  387. help
  388. This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
  389. a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
  390. functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
  391. tracers of ftrace.
  392. config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
  393. bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
  394. depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
  395. help
  396. This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
  397. It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
  398. with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
  399. up since it runs this on every system call defined.
  400. TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
  401. events
  402. config MMIOTRACE
  403. bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
  404. depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
  405. select GENERIC_TRACER
  406. help
  407. Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
  408. debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
  409. implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
  410. default and can be enabled at run-time.
  411. See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt.
  412. If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
  413. config MMIOTRACE_TEST
  414. tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
  415. depends on MMIOTRACE && m
  416. help
  417. This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
  418. as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
  419. However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
  420. Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
  421. config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
  422. tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
  423. depends on RING_BUFFER
  424. help
  425. This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
  426. It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
  427. any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
  428. a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
  429. 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
  430. it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
  431. It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
  432. affected by processes that are running.
  433. If unsure, say N.
  434. endif # FTRACE
  435. endif # TRACING_SUPPORT