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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
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