1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool 36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 37a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 38a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 39a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 40a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined. 41a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 42677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 43677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 44555f386cSMike Frysinger help 455fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 4706aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 50763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 51763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 52763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53424f6a36SJiri Olsaconfig HAVE_SINGLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_OPS 54424f6a36SJiri Olsa bool 55424f6a36SJiri Olsa 56cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 57cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 58cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 599f0cb917SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_EXTRA_IPI_TRACEPOINTS 609f0cb917SSteven Rostedt bool 619f0cb917SSteven Rostedt help 629f0cb917SSteven Rostedt For architectures that use ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit 639f0cb917SSteven Rostedt tracepoints. 649f0cb917SSteven Rostedt 6502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 6602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 6702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 6802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 6994d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 7002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 7194d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 7294d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 7302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 74762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS 75762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 76762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 77762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to 78762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) pt_regs without allocating memory. 79762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 809440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 819440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 829440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 839440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 849440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 859440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 8625e4e356SMenglong Dongconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP 8725e4e356SMenglong Dong bool 8825e4e356SMenglong Dong help 8925e4e356SMenglong Dong If the architecture supports to replace the __fentry__ with a 9025e4e356SMenglong Dong "jmp" instruction. 9125e4e356SMenglong Dong 9266700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 93ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 94555f386cSMike Frysinger help 955fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 96ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 97a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 98a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 99a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 100a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 101a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 1022f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 1032f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 1042f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 1052f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 1062f4df001SVasily Gorbik 10722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 10822c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 10922c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 11022c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 11122c8542dSSami Tolvanen 112280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 113280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 114280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 115280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 116280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 117280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 118280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 119cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 12072441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 12172441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 12272441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 12372441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1244ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1254ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1264ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1274ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1284ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1294ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1306b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1316b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1326b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1334ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1346b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1356b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1366b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 137352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 138352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 139*c4f1fe47SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 140352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 141ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 142ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 143ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1447a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1457a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 146ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 14722287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1487a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1495f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 150b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 15160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 152b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 153b11c53e1SZhaolei 154b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1555f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1565f77a88bSTom Zanussi 15785bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 15885bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 15985bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 16085bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 16185bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 16285bac32cSSteven Rostedt 163c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 164c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 165c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 166c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 167c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 168c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 169c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 170c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 171c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1725e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1735e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1745e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1755e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1765e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 17740892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1785e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 179bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 180bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1817a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 182c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1835f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 184f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 185769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1865f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 187ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 18802b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 189bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1905e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1915e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1925e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1935e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 19440ada30fSIngo Molnar# 19540ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 19640ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 19740ada30fSIngo Molnar# 19840ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 19940ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 2000ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 20140ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 202422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 20340ada30fSIngo Molnar 2044ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 2054ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 206de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 20765b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 2084ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 2094ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 2104ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 2114ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 21217d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 2139ba817fbSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED 2149ba817fbSSteven Rostedt bool "Automount tracefs on debugfs [DEPRECATED]" 2159ba817fbSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 2169ba817fbSSteven Rostedt default y 2179ba817fbSSteven Rostedt help 2189ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The tracing interface was moved from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing 2199ba817fbSSteven Rostedt to /sys/kernel/tracing in 2015, but the tracing file system 2209ba817fbSSteven Rostedt was still automounted in /sys/kernel/debug for backward 2219ba817fbSSteven Rostedt compatibility with tooling. 2229ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2239ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The new interface has been around for more than 10 years and 2249ba817fbSSteven Rostedt the old debug mount will soon be removed. 2259ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 2271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 228d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 229d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 2301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 2311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 2321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 2331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 2341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 235606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2361b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 237606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2384d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2395e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 24035e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 24160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 24202b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 243e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2441b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2451b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2461b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 24740892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2481b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2491b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2501b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2510a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2520a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 25335e8e302SSteven Rostedt 254fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 255fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 256fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 25715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 258eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 259764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 26015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 261fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 262fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 263692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 264692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 265692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 266692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 26715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 268a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 269a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 270a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 271a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 272a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 273a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 274a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 275a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 276a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 277a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 278a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 279a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 28021e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR 28121e92806SDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address" 28221e92806SDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 28321e92806SDonglin Peng default n 28421e92806SDonglin Peng help 28521e92806SDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return address when 28621e92806SDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that 28721e92806SDonglin Peng the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can 28821e92806SDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr. 28921e92806SDonglin Peng 290533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS 291533c20b0SSven Schnelle bool 292b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 293533c20b0SSven Schnelle default y 294ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle help 295ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then 296ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing 297ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be 298ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and 299ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer) 300533c20b0SSven Schnelle 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 3029b4d5d33SSteven Rostedt bool 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 3162455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 32561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 32661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 32761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 32861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 33061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 33160c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 33261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 33361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 334cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 335cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 336cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 337cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 33812f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 33912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 34012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 34212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 34325e4e356SMenglong Dongconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP 34425e4e356SMenglong Dong def_bool y 34525e4e356SMenglong Dong depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 34625e4e356SMenglong Dong depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 34725e4e356SMenglong Dong depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP 34825e4e356SMenglong Dong 349f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING 350f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt bool "Function trace tracing code" 351f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 352f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt help 353f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt Normally all the tracing code is set to notrace, where the function 354f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt tracer will ignore all the tracing functions. Sometimes it is useful 355f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt for debugging to trace some of the tracing infratructure itself. 356f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt Enable this to allow some of the tracing infrastructure to be traced 357f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt by the function tracer. Note, this will likely add noise to function 358f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt tracing if events and other tracing features are enabled along with 359f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt function tracing. 360f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt 361f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt If unsure, say N. 362f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt 363cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 364cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 3654346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 3664346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3674346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 368cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 369cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 3705b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 3715b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 3725b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 3735b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 374cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 375cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 376cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 37761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 37861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 37961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 38061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 38161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 38261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 38361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 38461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 38561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 38661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 38761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 38861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 38961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 39061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 39161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 39261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 39361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 39461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 39561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 39661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 39761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 39861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3992455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 40061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 40161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 40261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 40361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 40461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 40561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 40661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 40761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 40861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 40961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 41061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 41161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 41261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 41361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 41461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 415c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 416c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 417c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 418c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 419c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 420bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 42181d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 42281d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 42381d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 42481d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 42581d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 4265e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 42781d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 42885bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 4290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 43081d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 43181d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 43281d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 43381d68a96SSteven Rostedt 43481d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 43581d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 43681d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 43781d68a96SSteven Rostedt 4382455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 43981d68a96SSteven Rostedt 44040892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4416cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 4426cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4436cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4446cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 4456cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 4466cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 44730c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 4485e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4496cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 45085bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 4510b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 452c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 4536cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 45440892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 4556cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 4566cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4576cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 4586cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 4596cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 4606cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4612455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 4626cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 46340892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4646cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 4656cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4666cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 467352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 468352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 4695e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 470352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 471352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 472352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 473352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 474352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 475352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 476e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 477e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 478e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 479e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 480e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 481e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 482c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 483e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 484e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 485e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 486e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 487e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 488e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 489e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 490e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 491e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 492e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 493e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 494e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 495e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 496e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 497c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 498e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 499e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 500e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 501e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 502e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 503e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 504e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 505e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 506e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 507e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 508e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 509e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 510e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 511e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 512bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 513bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 514bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 515e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 516bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 517bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 518bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 519bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 520bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 521bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 522bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 523bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 524bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 525bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 526bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 527bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 528bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 529bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 530bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 531bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 532bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 533bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 534bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 535bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 536bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 537bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 538bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 539bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 540bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 541bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 542bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 543bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 544bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 545bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 546bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 547a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 548a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 549a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 550a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 551a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 552a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 553a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 554a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 555a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 556a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 557a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 558a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 559a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 560a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 561a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 562a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 563a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 564a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 565a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 566a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 567a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 568a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 569a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 570a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 571a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 572a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 573a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 574a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 57521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 57621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 57721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 57821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 57921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 58021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 58121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 58221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 58321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 58421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 58521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 58621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 58721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 588897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 589897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5905e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 591b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 592b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 59340892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 594b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 595897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 596a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 597ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 598ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 59966700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 6005e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6010ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 602ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 603ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 604ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 605299ea67eSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT 606299ea67eSSteven Rostedt int "System call user read max size" 607299ea67eSSteven Rostedt range 0 165 608299ea67eSSteven Rostedt default 63 609299ea67eSSteven Rostedt depends on FTRACE_SYSCALLS 610299ea67eSSteven Rostedt help 611299ea67eSSteven Rostedt Some system call trace events will record the data from a user 612299ea67eSSteven Rostedt space address that one of the parameters point to. The amount of 613299ea67eSSteven Rostedt data per event is limited. That limit is set by this config and 614299ea67eSSteven Rostedt this config also affects how much user space data perf can read. 615299ea67eSSteven Rostedt 616299ea67eSSteven Rostedt For a tracing instance, this size may be changed by writing into 617299ea67eSSteven Rostedt its syscall_user_buf_size file. 618299ea67eSSteven Rostedt 619debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 620debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 621debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 622debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 623debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 624debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 6252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 626debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 627debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 628*c4f1fe47SSteven Rostedt Note, the latency tracers select this option. To disable it, 629*c4f1fe47SSteven Rostedt all the latency tracers need to be disabled. 630*c4f1fe47SSteven Rostedt 6310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 6320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 6330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 6340b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 6350b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 6360b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 6370b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 6380b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 6390b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6402455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 6410b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6420b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 6430b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 6440b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6450b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 6460b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 6470b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 6480b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 6490b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 6500b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 6510b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6522ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6539ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 6545e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6559ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6569ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 6579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 6589ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6609ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 6619ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 6629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6639ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 6649ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 6659ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 66640892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 6679ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 66840892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 6699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 67040892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 67140892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 6729ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6739ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6749ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 6759ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6769ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 6779ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 6789ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 6799ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6809ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 6819ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 6829ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6831f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 68459bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 6851f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 6861f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6872455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6881f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 68940892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6901f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6911f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6922bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 69368e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6952bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6962bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6972bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6982bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6992bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 7002455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 7012bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 7029ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 7039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 7042bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 7052bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 70640892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 7079ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 7082bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 7092ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 71052f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 71152f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 71252f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 71352f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 71452f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 71552f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 71652f232cbSSteven Rostedt 7172ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 71852f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 7192ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 7202ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 72152f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 72252f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 72352f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 72452f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 72552f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 72652f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 72752f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 72852f232cbSSteven Rostedt 72952f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 73052f232cbSSteven Rostedt 7312db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 73240892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 7332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 7341dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 7352db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 7362db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 7372db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 7385e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 7392db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 7402db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 7412db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 7422db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 7432db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 7442db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 7452db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7462db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 7472db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7482db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 7492db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7502db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 7512455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 7522455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 7532db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7542db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 75536994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 756334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 757334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 758334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 759334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 760334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 761334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 762334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 763334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 764334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 765334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 766334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 767334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 768334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 769334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 770b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 771b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 772b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 773b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 774b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 775b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 776b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 777b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 778b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 779b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 780b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 781b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 7826b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 783413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 784f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 78577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 786413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 7878ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7886212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 78977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 790413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 79140892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 79240892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7935fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 79477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 79577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 79677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 79777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 79840892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 79940892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 800413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 80145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 80245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 80345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 8047bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 80545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 80645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 80745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 80845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 80945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 81045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 81128cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 81245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 81345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 81445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 81545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 81645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 81745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 81845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 81945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 82045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 8216b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 822f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 823f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 824f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 82509294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 826f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 827f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 8280597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 829f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 83061f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 831f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 832f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 833f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 834f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 835f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 836f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 837f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 838f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 8390dd1274aSSteven Rostedtconfig EPROBE_EVENTS 8400dd1274aSSteven Rostedt bool "Enable event-based dynamic events" 8410dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 8420dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 8430dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select PROBE_EVENTS 8440dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8450dd1274aSSteven Rostedt default y 8460dd1274aSSteven Rostedt help 8470dd1274aSSteven Rostedt Eprobes are dynamic events that can be placed on other existing 8480dd1274aSSteven Rostedt events. It can be used to limit what fields are recorded in 8490dd1274aSSteven Rostedt an event or even dereference a field of an event. It can 8500dd1274aSSteven Rostedt convert the type of an event field. For example, turn an 8510dd1274aSSteven Rostedt address into a string. 8520dd1274aSSteven Rostedt 853e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 854e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 8556b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 856e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 857e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 858e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 8595cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 8605cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 861e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 8625448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8635448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 8645448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 8658ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 8668ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 8678ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 8689802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 8699802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 8709802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 871540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 8729802d865SJosef Bacik default n 8739802d865SJosef Bacik help 8749802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 8759802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 8769802d865SJosef Bacik 8773b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8783b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 8794d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8803b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 8813b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8823b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 8843b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8854d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8863b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 88722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 88822c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 88922c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 89022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 89122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8924d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 89303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 89422c8542dSSami Tolvanen 8953b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 8963b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8973b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8983b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 89922c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 9004d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 9013b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 90208d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 90308d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 90408d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 90508d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 90608d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 90708d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 90808d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 90908d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 91008d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 91108d43a5fSTom Zanussi 912726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 913726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 914726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 915726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 916726721a5STom Zanussi default n 917726721a5STom Zanussi help 918726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 919726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 920726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 921726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 922726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 923726721a5STom Zanussi 924726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 925726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 926726721a5STom Zanussi 927726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 928726721a5STom Zanussi 9297f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 9307f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 9317f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 9327f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 9337f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 9347f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 9357f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 9367f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 9377f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 93872357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 93972357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 9407f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 94172357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 9427f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 9437f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 9447ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 9457ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 9467ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 9477ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 9487ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 9497bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 950726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 9517ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 9527ef224d1STom Zanussi help 9537ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 9547ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 9557ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 9567ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 9577ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 9587ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 9597ef224d1STom Zanussi 96089e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 96189e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 96289e270c1STom Zanussi 963ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 9647ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 9657ef224d1STom Zanussi 9666c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 9676c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 9686c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 9696c3edaf9SCong Wang help 9706c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 9716c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 9726c3edaf9SCong Wang 9736c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 9746c3edaf9SCong Wang 97581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 97681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 97781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 97881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 97981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 98069268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 98181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 98281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 98381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 98481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 98581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 98681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 98781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 98881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 98981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 99081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 99181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 99281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 99381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 99481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 99581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 99681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 99781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 99881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 99981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 100081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 100181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 100281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 100381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 100481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10055092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 10065092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 10075092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 10085092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 10095092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 101040892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 10115092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 10125092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 10135092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 10145092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 10155092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10165092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 10175092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 10185092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 101940892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 10205092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 10221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 10231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 10241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 10351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 10361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 10381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 10391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 10401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 10411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 10431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 10441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 10451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 10461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1049773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1050773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 1051773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1052773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1053773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 1054773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 1055773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 1056773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 1057773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 1058773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1059773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 1060773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1061773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 1062773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1063773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 1064773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 1065773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 1066773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1067773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1068773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 1069773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 1070773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 1071773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 1072773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 1073773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1074b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING 1075b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution" 1076b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1077b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 1078b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko help 1079b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of 1080b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that 1081b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not 1082b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it 1083b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko also has a noticeable overhead when enabled. 1084b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 1085b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko If unsure, say N 1086b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 108728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 108828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 108928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 109028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 109128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 109228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 109328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 1094ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 1095ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 109628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 109728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 109828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 109928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 110028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 11021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 11031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 11041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 11061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 11071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 11091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 11111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 11121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 11141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 11151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 11181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 11191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 11201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 11221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 11231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 11241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 11251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 11281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 11301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 11321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 11331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 11341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 11351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 11371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 11381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 11411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 11421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 11431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 11441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 11461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 11471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11488147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 11498147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 11508147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 11516b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 11528147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11538147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 11548147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 11558147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 11568147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 11578147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 11588147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 11598147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11608147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 11618147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11626c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 11636c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 11646c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 11656c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 11666c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 11676c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 11686c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 11696c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 11706c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 11716c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 11726c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 11736c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 11746c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11756c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 11766c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 11776c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1178ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1179ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 11806c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 11816c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 11826c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11836c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 11846c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11855b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 11865b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 11875b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 11885b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11895b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 11905b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 11915b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 11925b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 11935b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 11945b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 11955b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 11965b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 11975b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11985b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 11995b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 12005b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 12015b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 12025b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 12035b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 12045b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1205a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1206a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1207a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1208a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1209a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1210a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1211a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1212a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1213a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1214a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1215f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1216a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1217f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1218f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1219f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1220f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1221f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1222f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1223f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 122479393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 122579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 122679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1227f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 12284b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 12294b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 12304b9091e1SSong Chen command. 12314b9091e1SSong Chen 1232f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1233f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 12349fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 12359fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 12363572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 12379fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 12389fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 12399fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 12409fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 12419fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12429fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 12439fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 12449fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12459fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12469fe41efaSTom Zanussi 124764836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 124864836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 12493572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 125064836248STom Zanussi help 125164836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 125264836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 125364836248STom Zanussi 125464836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 125564836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 125664836248STom Zanussi 125764836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 125864836248STom Zanussi 12592d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 12602d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 12612d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 12622d19bd79STom Zanussi help 12632d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 12642d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 12652d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 12662d19bd79STom Zanussi 12672d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 12682d19bd79STom Zanussi 12692d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 12702d19bd79STom Zanussi 12712d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 12722d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 12732d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 12742d19bd79STom Zanussi 12752d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 12762d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 12772d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 12782d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 12792d19bd79STom Zanussi 12802d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12812d19bd79STom Zanussi 1282102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1283102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 12844ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1285