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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4606576ceSSteven Rostedt#  select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
88d26487fSTörök Edwin	bool
98d26487fSTörök Edwin
102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER
112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker	bool
122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK
1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK
1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  features like fprobe and kprobes.
2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	bool
26555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	bool
31555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
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
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