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 34677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 36555f386cSMike Frysinger help 375fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 3906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 42763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 43763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 44763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 4502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 4602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 4702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 4802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 4902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 5002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 5102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and 5202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel_stack_pointer(). 5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 548da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 558da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 56555f386cSMike Frysinger help 575fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 588da3821bSSteven Rostedt 5966700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 60ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 61555f386cSMike Frysinger help 625fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 63ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 64a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 65a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 66a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 67a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 68a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 692f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 702f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 712f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 722f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 732f4df001SVasily Gorbik 7422c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 7522c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 7622c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 7722c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 7822c8542dSSami Tolvanen 79cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 8072441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 8172441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 8272441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 8372441cb1SSteven Rostedt 844ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 854ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 864ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 874ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 884ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 894ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 906b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 916b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 926b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 934ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 946b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 956b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 966b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 97352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 98352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 99352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 100ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 101ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 102ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1037a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1047a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 105ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 10622287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1077a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1085f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 109b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 11060f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 111b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 112b11c53e1SZhaolei 113b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1145f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1155f77a88bSTom Zanussi 11685bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 11785bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 11885bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 11985bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 12085bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 12185bac32cSSteven Rostedt 122c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 123c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 124c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 125c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 126c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 127c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 128c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 129c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 130c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1315e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1325e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1335e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1345e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1355e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 13640892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1375e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 138bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 139bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1407a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 141c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1425f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 143f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 144769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1455f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 146ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 147835f14edSPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 148bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1495e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1525e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 15340ada30fSIngo Molnar# 15440ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 15540ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 15640ada30fSIngo Molnar# 15740ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 15840ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1590ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 16040ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 161422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 16240ada30fSIngo Molnar 1634ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1644ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 165de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 16665b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1674ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1684ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1694ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1704ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 17117d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 174d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 175d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 181606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1821b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 183606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1844d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 1855e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 18635e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 18760f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 18801b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 189e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 1901b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 1911b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 1921b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 19340892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 1941b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 1951b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 1961b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 1970a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 1980a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 19935e8e302SSteven Rostedt 200fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 201fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 202fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 20315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 204eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 205764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 20615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 207fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 208fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 209692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 210692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 211692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 212692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 21315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 21461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 21561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 21661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 21761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 21861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 21961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 22061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 22161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 22261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 22361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 22461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 22561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 22661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 22861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: 23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 24449a962c0SNaveen N. Rao depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24712f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 24812f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 24912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 25012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 25112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 252cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 253cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 254cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 255cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2565b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 2575b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 258cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 259cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2605b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 2615b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 2625b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 2635b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 264cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 265cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 266cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 27161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 27861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 27961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 28161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 305c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 306c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 307c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 308c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 309c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 310bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 31181d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 31281d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 31381d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 31481d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 31581d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3165e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 31781d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 31885bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 31922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3200b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 32181d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 32281d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 32381d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 32481d68a96SSteven Rostedt 32581d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 32681d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 32781d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 32881d68a96SSteven Rostedt 329156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 33081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 33140892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3326cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3336cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3346cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3356cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3366cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3376cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 33830c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3395e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3406cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 34185bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 34222cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3430b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 344c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3456cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 34640892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3476cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3486cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3496cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3506cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3516cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3526cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 353156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3546cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 35540892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3566cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3576cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3586cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 359352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 360352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3615e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 362352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 363352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 36422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 365352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 366352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 367352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 368352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 369e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 370e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 371e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 372e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 373e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 374c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 375e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 376e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 377e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 378e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 379e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 380e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 381e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 382e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 383e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 384e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 385e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 386e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 387e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 388e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 389c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 390e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 391e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 392e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 393e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 394e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 395e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 396e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 397e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 398e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 399e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 400e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 401e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 402e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 403e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 404bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 405bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 406bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 407bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 408bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 409bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 410bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 411bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 412bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 413bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 414bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 415bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 416bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 417bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 418bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 419bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 420bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 421bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 422bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 423bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 424bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 425bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 426bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 427bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 428bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 429bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 430bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 431bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 432bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 433bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 434bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 435bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 436bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 437bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 438a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 439a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 440a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 441a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 442a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 443a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 444a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 445a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 446a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 447a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 448a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 449a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 450a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 451a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 452a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 453a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 454a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 455a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 456a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 457a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 458a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 459a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 460a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 461a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 462a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 463a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 464a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 465a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 46621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 46721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 46821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 46921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 47021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 47121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 47221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 47321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 47421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 47521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 47621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 47721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 47821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 479897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 480897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 4815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 482b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 483b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 48440892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 485b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 486897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 487a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 488ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 489ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 49066700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 4915e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4920ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 493ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 494ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 495ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 496debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 497debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 498debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 499debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 500debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 501debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 502debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 503debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot 504debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 505debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5060b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5070b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5080b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5090b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5100b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5110b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5120b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5130b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5140b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5150b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5160b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5170b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5180b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5190b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5200b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5210b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5230b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5240b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5250b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5260b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5272ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5295e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5309ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5319ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5329ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5339ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5349ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5359ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5369ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5379ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5389ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5399ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5409ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 54140892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5429ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 54340892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5449ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 54540892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 54640892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5479ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5489ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5499ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5519ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5539ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5559ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5569ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5581f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 55959bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5601f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5611f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 56213e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5631f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 56440892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5651f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5661f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5672bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 56868e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5702bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5712bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5722bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5732bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5742bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 57513e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5762bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5779ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 5789ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5792bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 5802bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 58140892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 5829ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 5832bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5842ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 58552f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 58652f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 58752f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 58852f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 58952f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 59052f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 59152f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5922ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 59352f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 5942ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5952ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 59652f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 59752f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 59852f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 59952f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 60052f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 60152f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 60252f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 60352f232cbSSteven Rostedt 60452f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 60552f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6062db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 60740892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6082db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6091dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6102db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6112db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6122db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6135e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6142db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6152db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6162db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6172db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6182db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6192db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6202db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6212db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6222db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6232db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6242db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6252db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6262db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer 6272db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe 6282db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6292db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 63036994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 6316b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 632413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 633f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 63477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 635413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6368ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6376212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 63877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 639413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 64040892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 64140892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6425fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 64377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 64477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 64577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 64677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 64740892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 64840892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 649413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 65045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 65145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 65245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6537bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 65445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 65545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 65645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 65745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 65845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 65945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 66028cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 66145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 66245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 66345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 66445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 66545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 66645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 66745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 66845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 66945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6706b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 671f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 672f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 673f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 67409294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 675f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 676f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6770597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 678f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 67961f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 680f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 681f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 682f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 683f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 684f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 685f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 686f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 687f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 688e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 689e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 6906b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 691e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 692e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 693e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 6945cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 6955cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 696e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 6975448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 6985448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 6995448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7008ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7018ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7028ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7039802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7049802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7059802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 706540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7079802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7089802d865SJosef Bacik help 7099802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7109802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7119802d865SJosef Bacik 7128da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7138da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7148da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 7158da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7168da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7173b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7183b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 7193b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7203b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 7213b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 7223b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7233b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 7243b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7253b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7263b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 72722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 72822c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 72922c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 73022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 73122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 73222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 73303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 73422c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7353b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7363b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7373b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7383b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 73922c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7403b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 74208d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 74308d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 74408d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 74508d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 74608d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 74708d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 74808d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 74908d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 75008d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 75108d43a5fSTom Zanussi 752726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 753726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 754726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 755726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 756726721a5STom Zanussi default n 757726721a5STom Zanussi help 758726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 759726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 760726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 761726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 762726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 763726721a5STom Zanussi 764726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 765726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 766726721a5STom Zanussi 767726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 768726721a5STom Zanussi 7697f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 7707f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 7717f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 7727f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7731cd927adSSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out 7747f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 7757f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 7767f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 7777f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 7787f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 7797f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave generated by memory mapping a tracefs file and checking for 7807f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave an associated byte being non-zero. 7817f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7827f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 7837f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7847ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 7857ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 7867ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 7877ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 7887ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 7897bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 790726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 7917ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 7927ef224d1STom Zanussi help 7937ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 7947ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 7957ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 7967ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 7977ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 7987ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 7997ef224d1STom Zanussi 80089e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 80189e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 80289e270c1STom Zanussi 803ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8047ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8057ef224d1STom Zanussi 8066c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8076c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8086c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8096c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8106c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8116c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8126c3edaf9SCong Wang 8136c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8146c3edaf9SCong Wang 81581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 81681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 81781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 81881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 81981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 82069268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 82181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 82281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 82381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 82481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 82581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 82681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 82781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 82881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 82981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 83081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 83181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 83281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 83381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 83481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 83581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 83681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 83781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 83881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 83981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 84081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 84181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 84281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 84381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 84481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8455092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 8465092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 8475092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 8485092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 8495092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 85040892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8515092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8525092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8535092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8545092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8555092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8565092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8575092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8585092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 85940892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8605092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 8781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 8791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 8801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 8811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 8831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 889773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 890773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 891773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 892773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 893773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 894773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 895773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 896773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 897773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 898773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 899773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 900773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 901773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 902773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 903773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 904773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 905773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 906773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 907773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 908773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 909773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 910773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 911773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 912773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 913773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 91428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 91528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 91628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 91728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 91828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 91928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 92028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 92128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection, 92228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 92328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 92428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 92528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 92628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 92728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 9291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 9381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 9391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 9411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 9421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9758147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9768147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 9778147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 9786b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 9798147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9808147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 9818147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 9828147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 9838147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 9848147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 9858147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 9868147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9878147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 9888147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9896c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 9906c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 9916c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 9926c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 9936c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 9946c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 9956c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 9966c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 9976c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 9986c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 9996c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10006c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10016c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10026c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 10036c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 10046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. 10066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What 10076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 10086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 10096c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10106c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 10116c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10125b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 10135b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 10145b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 10155b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10165b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 10175b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 10185b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 10195b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 10205b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 10215b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 10225b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 10235b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 10245b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 10265b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 10275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 10285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10295b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10305b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10315b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1032a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1033a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1034a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1035a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1036a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1037a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1038a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1039a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1040a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1041a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1042f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1043a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1044f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1045f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1046f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1047f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1048f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1049f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1050f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 105179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 105279393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 105379393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1054f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10554b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10564b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10574b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10584b9091e1SSong Chen 1059f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1060f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10619fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10629fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1063726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10649fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10659fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10669fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10679fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10689fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10699fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10709fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10719fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10729fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10739fe41efaSTom Zanussi 107464836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 107564836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 107664836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 107764836248STom Zanussi help 107864836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 107964836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 108064836248STom Zanussi 108164836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 108264836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 108364836248STom Zanussi 108464836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 108564836248STom Zanussi 10862d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 10872d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 10882d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 10892d19bd79STom Zanussi help 10902d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 10912d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 10922d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 10932d19bd79STom Zanussi 10942d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 10952d19bd79STom Zanussi 10962d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 10972d19bd79STom Zanussi 10982d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 10992d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11002d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11012d19bd79STom Zanussi 11022d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 11032d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 11042d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 11052d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 11062d19bd79STom Zanussi 11072d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11082d19bd79STom Zanussi 1109*102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1110*102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 11114ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1112