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 4994d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 5002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 5194d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 5294d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 549440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 559440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 569440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 579440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 589440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 599440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 608da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 618da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 62555f386cSMike Frysinger help 635fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 648da3821bSSteven Rostedt 6566700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 66ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 67555f386cSMike Frysinger help 685fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 69ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 70a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 71a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 72a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 73a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 74a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 752f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 762f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 772f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 782f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 792f4df001SVasily Gorbik 8022c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 8122c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 8222c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 8322c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 8422c8542dSSami Tolvanen 85280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 86280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 87280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 88280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 89280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 90280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 91280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 92cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 9372441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 9472441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 9572441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 9672441cb1SSteven Rostedt 974ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 984ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 994ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1004ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1014ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1024ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1036b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1046b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1056b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1064ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1076b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1086b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1096b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 110352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 111352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 112352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 113ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 114ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 115ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1167a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1177a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 118ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 11922287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1207a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1215f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 122b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 12360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 124b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 125b11c53e1SZhaolei 126b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1275f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1285f77a88bSTom Zanussi 12985bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 13085bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 13185bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 13285bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 13385bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 13485bac32cSSteven Rostedt 135c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 136c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 137c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 138c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 139c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 140c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 141c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 142c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 143c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1445e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1455e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1465e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1475e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1485e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 14940892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 151bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 152bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1537a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 154c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1555f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 156f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 157769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1585f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 159ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 160835f14edSPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 161bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1645e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 16640ada30fSIngo Molnar# 16740ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 16840ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 16940ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17040ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 17140ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1720ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 17340ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 174422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 17540ada30fSIngo Molnar 1764ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1774ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 178de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 17965b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1804ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1814ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1824ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1834ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 18417d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 187d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 188d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 194606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1951b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 196606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1974d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 1985e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 19935e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 20060f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 20101b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 202e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2031b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2041b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2051b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 20640892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2071b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2081b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2091b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2100a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2110a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 21235e8e302SSteven Rostedt 213fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 214fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 215fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 21615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 217eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 218764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 21915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 220fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 221fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 222692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 223692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 224692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 225692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 22615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 22861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 22961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 242*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 25749a962c0SNaveen N. Rao depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26012f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 26112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 26212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 26312f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 26412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 265cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 266cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 267cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 268cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2695b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 2705b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 271cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 272cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2735b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 2745b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 2755b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 2765b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 277cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 278cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 279cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 28161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 302*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 318c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 319c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 320c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 321c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 322c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 323bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 32481d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 32581d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 32681d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 32781d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 32881d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3295e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 33081d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 33185bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 33222cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 33481d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 33581d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 33681d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 33781d68a96SSteven Rostedt 33881d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 33981d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 34081d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 34181d68a96SSteven Rostedt 342*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 34381d68a96SSteven Rostedt 34440892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3456cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3466cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3476cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3486cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3496cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3506cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 35130c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3525e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3536cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 35485bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 35522cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3560b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 357c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3586cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 35940892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3606cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3616cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3626cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3636cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3646cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3656cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 366*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3676cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 36840892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3696cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3706cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3716cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 372352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 373352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3745e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 375352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 376352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 37722cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 378352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 379352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 380352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 381352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 382e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 383e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 384e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 385e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 386e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 387e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 388c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 389e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 390e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 391e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 392e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 393e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 394e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 395e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 396e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 397e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 398e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 399e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 400e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 401e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 402e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 403c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 404e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 405e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 406e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 407e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 408e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 409e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 410e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 411e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 412e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 413e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 414e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 415e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 416e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 417e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 418bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 419bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 420bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 421e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 422bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 423bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 424bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 425bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 426bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 427bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 428bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 429bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 430bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 431bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 432bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 433bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 434bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 435bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 436bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 437bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 438bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 439bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 440bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 441bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 442bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 443bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 444bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 445bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 446bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 447bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 448bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 449bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 450bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 451bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 452bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 453a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 454a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 455a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 456a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 457a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 458a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 459a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 460a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 461a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 462a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 463a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 464a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 465a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 466a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 467a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 468a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 469a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 470a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 471a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 472a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 473a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 474a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 475a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 476a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 477a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 478a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 479a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 480a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 48121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 48221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 48321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 48421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 48521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 48621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 48721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 48821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 48921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 49021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 49121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 49221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 49321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 494897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 495897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 4965e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 497b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 498b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 49940892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 500b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 501897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 502a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 503ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 504ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 50566700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5065e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5070ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 508ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 509ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 510ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 511debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 512debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 513debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 514debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 515debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 516debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 517debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 518*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 519debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 520debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5210b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5230b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5240b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5250b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5260b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5270b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5280b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 530*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5340b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5350b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5360b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5370b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5380b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5390b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5400b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5410b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5422ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5445e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5459ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5469ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5479ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5489ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5499ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5519ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5539ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5559ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 55640892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 55840892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 56040892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 56140892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5639ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5649ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5659ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5669ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5679ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5689ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5709ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5719ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5729ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5731f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 57459bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5751f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5761f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 577*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5781f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 57940892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5801f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5811f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5822bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 58368e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5849ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5852bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5862bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5872bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5882bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5892bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 590*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5912bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5929ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 5939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5942bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 5952bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 59640892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 5979ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 5982bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5992ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 60052f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 60152f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 60252f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 60352f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 60452f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 60552f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 60652f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6072ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 60852f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6092ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6102ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 61152f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 61252f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 61352f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 61452f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 61552f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 61652f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 61752f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 61852f232cbSSteven Rostedt 61952f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 62052f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6212db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 62240892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6232db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6241dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6252db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6262db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6272db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6285e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6292db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6302db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6312db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6322db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6342db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6352db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6362db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6372db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6382db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6392db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6402db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 641*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 642*2455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 6432db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6442db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 64536994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 6466b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 647413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 648f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 64977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 650413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6518ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6526212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 65377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 654413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 65540892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 65640892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6575fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 65877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 65977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 66077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 66177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 66240892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 66340892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 664413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 66545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 66645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 66745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6687bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 66945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 67045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 67145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 67245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 67345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 67445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 67528cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 67645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 67745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 67845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 67945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 68045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 68145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 68245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 68345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 68445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6856b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 686f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 687f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 688f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 68909294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 690f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 691f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6920597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 693f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 69461f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 695f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 696f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 697f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 698f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 699f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 700f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 701f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 702f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 703e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 704e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 7056b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 706e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 707e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 708e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7095cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7105cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 711e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7125448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7135448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7145448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7158ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7168ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7178ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7189802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7199802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7209802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 721540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7229802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7239802d865SJosef Bacik help 7249802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7259802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7269802d865SJosef Bacik 7278da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7288da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7298da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 7308da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7318da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7323b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7333b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 7343b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7353b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 7363b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 7373b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7383b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 7393b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7403b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 74222c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 74322c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 74422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 74522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 74622c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 74722c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 74803f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 74922c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7503b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7513b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7523b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7533b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 75422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7553b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7563b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 75708d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 75808d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 75908d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 76008d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 76108d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 76208d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 76308d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 76408d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 76508d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 76608d43a5fSTom Zanussi 767726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 768726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 769726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 770726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 771726721a5STom Zanussi default n 772726721a5STom Zanussi help 773726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 774726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 775726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 776726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 777726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 778726721a5STom Zanussi 779726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 780726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 781726721a5STom Zanussi 782726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 783726721a5STom Zanussi 7847f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 7857f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 7867f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 7877f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7881cd927adSSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out 7897f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 7907f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 7917f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 7927f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 7937f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 7947f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave generated by memory mapping a tracefs file and checking for 7957f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave an associated byte being non-zero. 7967f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7977f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 7987f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7997ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 8007ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 8017ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 8027ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 8037ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 8047bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 805726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 8067ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 8077ef224d1STom Zanussi help 8087ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8097ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8107ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8117ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8127ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8137ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8147ef224d1STom Zanussi 81589e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 81689e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 81789e270c1STom Zanussi 818ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8197ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8207ef224d1STom Zanussi 8216c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8226c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8236c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8246c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8256c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8266c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8276c3edaf9SCong Wang 8286c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8296c3edaf9SCong Wang 83081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 83181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 83281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 83381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 83481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 83569268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 83681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 83781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 83881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 83981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 84081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 84181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 84281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 84381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 84481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 84581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 84681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 84781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 84881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 84981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 85181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 85281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 85381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 85481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 85581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 85681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 85781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 85881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8605092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 8615092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 8625092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 8635092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 8645092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 86540892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8665092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8675092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8685092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8695092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8705092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8715092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8725092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8735092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 87440892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8755092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 8931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 8941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 8951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 8961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 8981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 8991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 9001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 9011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 904773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 905773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 906773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 907773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 908773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 909773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 910773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 911773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 912773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 913773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 914773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 915773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 916773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 917773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 918773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 919773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 920773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 921773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 922773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 923773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 924773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 925773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 926773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 927773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 928773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 92928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 93028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 93128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 93228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 93328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 93428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 93528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 936ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 937ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 93828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 93928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 94028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 94128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 94228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9908147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9918147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 9928147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 9936b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 9948147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9958147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 9968147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 9978147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 9988147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 9998147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 10008147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 10018147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10028147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 10038147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 10056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 10066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 10076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 10086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10096c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10106c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10116c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10126c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10136c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10146c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10156c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10166c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10176c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 10186c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 10196c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1020ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1021ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 10226c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 10236c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 10246c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10256c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 10266c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 10285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 10295b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 10305b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10315b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 10325b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 10335b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 10345b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 10355b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 10365b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 10375b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 10385b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 10395b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10405b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 10415b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 10425b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 10435b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10445b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10455b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10465b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1047a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1048a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1049a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1050a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1051a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1052a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1053a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1054a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1055a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1056a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1057f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1058a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1059f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1060f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1061f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1062f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1063f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1064f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1065f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 106679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 106779393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 106879393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1069f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10704b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10714b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10724b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10734b9091e1SSong Chen 1074f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1075f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10769fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10779fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1078726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10799fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10809fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10819fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10829fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10839fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10849fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10859fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10869fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10879fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10889fe41efaSTom Zanussi 108964836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 109064836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 109164836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 109264836248STom Zanussi help 109364836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 109464836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 109564836248STom Zanussi 109664836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 109764836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 109864836248STom Zanussi 109964836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 110064836248STom Zanussi 11012d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 11022d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 11032d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 11042d19bd79STom Zanussi help 11052d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 11062d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 11072d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 11082d19bd79STom Zanussi 11092d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11102d19bd79STom Zanussi 11112d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11122d19bd79STom Zanussi 11132d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11142d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11152d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11162d19bd79STom Zanussi 11172d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 11182d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 11192d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 11202d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 11212d19bd79STom Zanussi 11222d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11232d19bd79STom Zanussi 1124102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1125102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 11264ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1127