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) 53cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 54cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 55cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 5702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 5802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 5902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 6094d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 6102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 6294d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 6394d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 65762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS 66762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 67762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 68762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to 69762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) pt_regs without allocating memory. 70762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 719440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 729440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 739440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 749440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 759440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 769440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 778da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 788da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 79555f386cSMike Frysinger help 805fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 818da3821bSSteven Rostedt 8266700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 83ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 84555f386cSMike Frysinger help 855fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 86ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 87a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 88a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 89a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 90a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 91a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 922f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 932f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 942f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 952f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 962f4df001SVasily Gorbik 9722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 9822c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 9922c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 10022c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 10122c8542dSSami Tolvanen 102280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 104280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 105280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 106280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 107280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 108280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 109cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 11072441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 11172441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 11272441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 11372441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1144ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1154ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1164ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1174ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1194ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1206b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1226b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1234ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1246b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1256b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 127352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 128352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 129352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 130ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 131ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 132ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1337a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1347a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 135ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 13622287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1377a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1385f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 139b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 14060f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 141b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 142b11c53e1SZhaolei 143b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1445f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1455f77a88bSTom Zanussi 14685bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 14785bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 14885bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 14985bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 15085bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 15185bac32cSSteven Rostedt 152c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 156c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 157c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 158c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 159c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 160c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1615e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1645e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 16640892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 168bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 169bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1707a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 171c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1725f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 173f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 174769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1755f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 176ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 17702b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 178bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1795e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1805e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1825e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 18340ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18440ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 18540ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 18640ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18740ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 18840ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1890ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 19040ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 191422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 19240ada30fSIngo Molnar 1934ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 195de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 19665b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1974ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1984ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1994ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 2004ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 20117d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 2029ba817fbSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED 2039ba817fbSSteven Rostedt bool "Automount tracefs on debugfs [DEPRECATED]" 2049ba817fbSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 2059ba817fbSSteven Rostedt default y 2069ba817fbSSteven Rostedt help 2079ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The tracing interface was moved from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing 2089ba817fbSSteven Rostedt to /sys/kernel/tracing in 2015, but the tracing file system 2099ba817fbSSteven Rostedt was still automounted in /sys/kernel/debug for backward 2109ba817fbSSteven Rostedt compatibility with tooling. 2119ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2129ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The new interface has been around for more than 10 years and 2139ba817fbSSteven Rostedt the old debug mount will soon be removed. 2149ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 2161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 217d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 218d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 2191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 2201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 2211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 2221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 2231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 224606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2251b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 226606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2274d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2285e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 22935e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 23060f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 23102b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 232e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2331b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2341b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2351b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 23640892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2371b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2381b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2391b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2400a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2410a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 24235e8e302SSteven Rostedt 243fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 244fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 245fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 24615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 247eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 248764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 24915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 250fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 251fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 252692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 253692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 254692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 255692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 25615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 257a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 258a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 259a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 260a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 261a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 262a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 263a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 264a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 265a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 266a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 267a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 268a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 26921e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR 27021e92806SDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address" 27121e92806SDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 27221e92806SDonglin Peng default n 27321e92806SDonglin Peng help 27421e92806SDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return address when 27521e92806SDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that 27621e92806SDonglin Peng the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can 27721e92806SDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr. 27821e92806SDonglin Peng 279533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS 280533c20b0SSven Schnelle bool 281b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 282533c20b0SSven Schnelle default y 283ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle help 284ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then 285ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing 286ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be 287ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and 288ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer) 289533c20b0SSven Schnelle 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 3052455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 32060c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 323cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 324cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 325cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 326cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 32712f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 32812f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 32912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 33012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 33112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 332cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 333cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 3344346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 3354346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3364346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 337cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 338cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 3395b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 3405b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 3415b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 3425b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 343cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 344cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 345cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 34661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 35061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 35761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 35961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 36061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 36161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 36261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 36361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 36461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 36561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 36661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 36761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3682455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 36961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 37061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 37161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 37261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 37361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 37461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 37561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 37661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 37761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 37861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 37961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 38061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 38161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 38261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 38361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 384c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 385c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 386c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 387c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 388c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 389bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 39081d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 39181d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 39281d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 39381d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 39481d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3955e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 39681d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 39785bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 39822cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3990b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 40081d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 40181d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 40281d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 40381d68a96SSteven Rostedt 40481d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 40581d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 40681d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 40781d68a96SSteven Rostedt 4082455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 40981d68a96SSteven Rostedt 41040892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4116cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 4126cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4146cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 4156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 4166cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 41730c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 4185e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4196cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 42085bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 42122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 423c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 4246cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 42540892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 4266cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 4276cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4286cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 4296cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 4306cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 4316cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4322455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 4336cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 43440892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4356cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 4366cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4376cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 438352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 439352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 4405e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 441352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 442352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 44322cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 444352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 445352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 446352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 447352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 448e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 451e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 452e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 454c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 455e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 457e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 458e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 459e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 460e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 461e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 462e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 463e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 464e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 465e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 466e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 467e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 468e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 469c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 470e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 471e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 472e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 473e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 474e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 475e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 476e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 477e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 478e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 479e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 480e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 481e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 482e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 483e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 484bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 487e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 488bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 492bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 493bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 494bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 495bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 496bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 497bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 498bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 499bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 500bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 501bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 502bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 503bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 504bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 505bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 506bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 507bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 508bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 509bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 510bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 511bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 512bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 513bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 514bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 515bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 516bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 517bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 518bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 519a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 520a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 521a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 522a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 523a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 524a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 525a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 526a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 527a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 528a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 529a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 530a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 531a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 532a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 533a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 534a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 535a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 536a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 537a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 538a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 539a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 540a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 541a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 542a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 543a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 544a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 545a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 546a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 54721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 54821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 54921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 55021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 55121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 55221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 55321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 55421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 55521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 55621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 55721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 55821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 55921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 560897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 561897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 563b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 564b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 56540892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 566b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 567897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 568a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 569ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 570ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 57166700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5725e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5730ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 574ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 575ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 576ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 577debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 578debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 579debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 580debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 581debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 582debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 583debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5842455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 585debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 586debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5870b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5880b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5890b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5900b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5910b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5930b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5940b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5950b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5962455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5970b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5980b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5990b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 6000b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6010b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 6020b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 6030b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 6040b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 6050b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 6060b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 6070b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6082ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6099ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 6105e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6129ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 6139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 6149ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 6179ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 6189ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6199ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 6209ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 6219ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 62240892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 6239ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 62440892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 6259ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 62640892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 62740892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 6289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6299ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6309ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 6319ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6329ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 6339ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 6349ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 6359ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6369ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 6379ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 6389ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6391f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 64059bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 6411f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 6421f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6432455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6441f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 64540892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6461f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6471f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6482bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 64968e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6512bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6522bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6532bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6542bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6552bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6562455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 6572bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6589ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6602bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6612bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 66240892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6639ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6642bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6652ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 66652f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 66752f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 66852f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 66952f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 67052f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 67152f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 67252f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6732ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 67452f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6752ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6762ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 67752f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 67852f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 67952f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 68052f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 68152f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 68252f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 68352f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 68452f232cbSSteven Rostedt 68552f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 68652f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6872db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 68840892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6892db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6901dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6912db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6922db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6932db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6945e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6952db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6962db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6972db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6982db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6992db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 7002db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 7012db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7022db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 7032db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7042db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 7052db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7062db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 7072455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 7082455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 7092db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7102db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 71136994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 712334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 713334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 714334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 715334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 716334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 717334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 718334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 719334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 720334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 721334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 722334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 723334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 724334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 725334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 726b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 727b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 728b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 729b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 730b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 731b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 732b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 733b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 734b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 735b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 736b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 737b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 7386b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 739413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 740f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 74177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 742413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 7438ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7446212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 74577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 746413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 74740892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 74840892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7495fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 75077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 75177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 75277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 75377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 75440892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 75540892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 756413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 75745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 75845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 75945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 7607bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 76145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 76245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 76345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 76445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 76545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 76645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 76728cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 76845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 76945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 77045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 77145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 77245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 77345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 77445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 77545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 77645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 7776b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 778f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 779f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 780f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 78109294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 782f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 783f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7840597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 785f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 78661f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 787f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 788f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 789f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 790f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 791f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 792f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 793f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 794f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 795*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedtconfig EPROBE_EVENTS 796*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt bool "Enable event-based dynamic events" 797*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 798*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 799*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select PROBE_EVENTS 800*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 801*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt default y 802*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt help 803*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt Eprobes are dynamic events that can be placed on other existing 804*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt events. It can be used to limit what fields are recorded in 805*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt an event or even dereference a field of an event. It can 806*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt convert the type of an event field. For example, turn an 807*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt address into a string. 808*0dd1274aSSteven Rostedt 809e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 810e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 8116b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 812e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 813e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 814e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 8155cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 8165cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 817e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 8185448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8195448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 8205448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 8218ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 8228ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 8238ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 8249802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 8259802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 8269802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 827540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 8289802d865SJosef Bacik default n 8299802d865SJosef Bacik help 8309802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 8319802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 8329802d865SJosef Bacik 8338da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8348da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 8358da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8368da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8378da3821bSSteven Rostedt 8383b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8393b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 8403b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 8423b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8433b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8443b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 8453b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8463b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8473b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 84822c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 84922c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 85022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 85122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 85222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 85322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 85403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 85522c8542dSSami Tolvanen 8563b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 8573b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8583b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8593b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 86022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 8613b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8623b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 86308d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 86408d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 86508d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 86608d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 86708d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 86808d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 86908d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 87008d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 87108d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 87208d43a5fSTom Zanussi 873726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 874726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 875726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 876726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 877726721a5STom Zanussi default n 878726721a5STom Zanussi help 879726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 880726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 881726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 882726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 883726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 884726721a5STom Zanussi 885726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 886726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 887726721a5STom Zanussi 888726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 889726721a5STom Zanussi 8907f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 8917f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 8927f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 8937f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8947f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 8957f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 8967f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 8977f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 8987f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 89972357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 90072357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 9017f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 90272357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 9037f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 9047f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 9057ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 9067ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 9077ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 9087ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 9097ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 9107bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 911726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 9127ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 9137ef224d1STom Zanussi help 9147ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 9157ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 9167ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 9177ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 9187ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 9197ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 9207ef224d1STom Zanussi 92189e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 92289e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 92389e270c1STom Zanussi 924ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 9257ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 9267ef224d1STom Zanussi 9276c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 9286c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 9296c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 9306c3edaf9SCong Wang help 9316c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 9326c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 9336c3edaf9SCong Wang 9346c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 9356c3edaf9SCong Wang 93681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 93781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 93881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 93981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 94081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 94169268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 94281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 94381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 94481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 94581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 94681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 94781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 94881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 94981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 95081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 95181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 95281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 95381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 95481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 95581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 95681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 95781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 95881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 95981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 96081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 96181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 96281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 96381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 96481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 96581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9665092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 9675092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 9685092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 9695092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 9705092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 97140892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 9725092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 9735092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 9745092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 9755092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 9765092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9775092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 9785092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 9795092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 98040892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 9815092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 9831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 9841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 9851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 9871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 9881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 9891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 9901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 9921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 9931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 9941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 9961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 9971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 9991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 10001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 10011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 10021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 10041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 10051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 10061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 10071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1010773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1011773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 1012773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1013773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1014773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 1015773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 1016773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 1017773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 1018773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 1019773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1020773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 1021773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1022773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 1023773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1024773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 1025773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 1026773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 1027773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1028773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1029773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 1030773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 1031773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 1032773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 1033773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 1034773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1035b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING 1036b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution" 1037b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1038b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 1039b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko help 1040b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of 1041b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that 1042b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not 1043b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it 1044b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko also has a noticeable overhead when enabled. 1045b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 1046b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko If unsure, say N 1047b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 104828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 104928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 105028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 105128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 105228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 105328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 105428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 1055ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 1056ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 105728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 105828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 105928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 106028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 106128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 10631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 10641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 10651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 10671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 10681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 10721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 10731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 10751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 10761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 10791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 10801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 10811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 10831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 10841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 10851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 10861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 10891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 10911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 10931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 10941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 10951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 10961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 10981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 10991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 11021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 11031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 11041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 11051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 11071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 11081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11098147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 11108147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 11118147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 11126b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 11138147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11148147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 11158147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 11168147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 11178147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 11188147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 11198147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 11208147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11218147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 11228147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11236c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 11246c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 11256c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 11266c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 11276c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 11286c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 11296c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 11306c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 11316c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 11326c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 11336c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 11346c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 11356c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11366c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 11376c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 11386c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1139ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1140ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 11416c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 11426c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 11436c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11446c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 11456c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11465b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 11475b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 11485b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 11495b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11505b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 11515b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 11525b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 11535b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 11545b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 11555b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 11565b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 11575b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 11585b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11595b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 11605b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 11615b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 11625b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11635b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 11645b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 11655b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1166a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1167a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1168a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1169a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1170a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1171a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1172a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1173a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1174a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1175a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1176f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1177a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1178f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1179f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1180f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1181f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1182f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1183f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1184f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 118579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 118679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 118779393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1188f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11894b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 11904b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 11914b9091e1SSong Chen command. 11924b9091e1SSong Chen 1193f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1194f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11959fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 11969fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 11973572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 11989fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 11999fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 12009fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 12019fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 12029fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12039fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 12049fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 12059fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12069fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12079fe41efaSTom Zanussi 120864836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 120964836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 12103572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 121164836248STom Zanussi help 121264836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 121364836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 121464836248STom Zanussi 121564836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 121664836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 121764836248STom Zanussi 121864836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 121964836248STom Zanussi 12202d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 12212d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 12222d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 12232d19bd79STom Zanussi help 12242d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 12252d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 12262d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 12272d19bd79STom Zanussi 12282d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 12292d19bd79STom Zanussi 12302d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 12312d19bd79STom Zanussi 12322d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 12332d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 12342d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 12352d19bd79STom Zanussi 12362d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 12372d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 12382d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 12392d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 12402d19bd79STom Zanussi 12412d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12422d19bd79STom Zanussi 1243102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1244102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 12454ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1246