1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool 36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 37a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 38a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 39a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 40a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined. 41a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 42677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 43677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 44555f386cSMike Frysinger help 455fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 4706aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 50763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 51763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 52763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 54cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 55cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 569f0cb917SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_EXTRA_IPI_TRACEPOINTS 579f0cb917SSteven Rostedt bool 589f0cb917SSteven Rostedt help 599f0cb917SSteven Rostedt For architectures that use ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit 609f0cb917SSteven Rostedt tracepoints. 619f0cb917SSteven Rostedt 6202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 6302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 6502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 6694d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 6702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 6894d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 6994d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 7002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 71762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS 72762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 73762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 74762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to 75762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) pt_regs without allocating memory. 76762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 779440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 789440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 799440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 809440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 819440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 829440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 8366700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 84ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 85555f386cSMike Frysinger help 865fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 87ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 88a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 89a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 90a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 91a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 92a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 932f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 942f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 952f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 962f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 972f4df001SVasily Gorbik 9822c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 9922c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 10022c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 10122c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 10222c8542dSSami Tolvanen 103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 104280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 105280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 106280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 107280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 108280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 109280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 110cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 11172441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 11272441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 11372441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 11472441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1154ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1164ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1174ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1194ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1204ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1226b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1236b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1244ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1256b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1276b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 128352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 129352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 130352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 131ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 132ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 133ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1347a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1357a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 136ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 13722287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1387a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1395f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 140b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 14160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 142b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 143b11c53e1SZhaolei 144b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1455f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1465f77a88bSTom Zanussi 14785bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 14885bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 14985bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 15085bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 15185bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 15285bac32cSSteven Rostedt 153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 156c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 157c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 158c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 159c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 160c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 161c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1645e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1665e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 16740892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 169bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 170bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1717a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 172c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1735f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 174f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 175769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1765f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 177ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 17802b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 179bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1805e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1825e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1835e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 18440ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18540ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 18640ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 18740ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18840ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 18940ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1900ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 19140ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 192422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 19340ada30fSIngo Molnar 1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1954ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 196de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 19765b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1984ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1994ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 2004ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 2014ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 20217d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 2039ba817fbSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED 2049ba817fbSSteven Rostedt bool "Automount tracefs on debugfs [DEPRECATED]" 2059ba817fbSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 2069ba817fbSSteven Rostedt default y 2079ba817fbSSteven Rostedt help 2089ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The tracing interface was moved from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing 2099ba817fbSSteven Rostedt to /sys/kernel/tracing in 2015, but the tracing file system 2109ba817fbSSteven Rostedt was still automounted in /sys/kernel/debug for backward 2119ba817fbSSteven Rostedt compatibility with tooling. 2129ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2139ba817fbSSteven Rostedt The new interface has been around for more than 10 years and 2149ba817fbSSteven Rostedt the old debug mount will soon be removed. 2159ba817fbSSteven Rostedt 2161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 2171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 218d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 219d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 2201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 2211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 2221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 2231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 2241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 225606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2261b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 227606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2284d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2295e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 23035e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 23160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 23202b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 233e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2341b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2351b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2361b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 23740892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2381b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2391b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2401b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2410a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2420a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 24335e8e302SSteven Rostedt 244fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 245fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 246fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 24715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 248eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 249764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 25015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 251fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 252fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 253692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 254692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 255692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 256692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 25715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 258a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 259a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 260a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 261a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 262a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 263a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 264a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 265a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 266a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 267a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 268a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 269a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 27021e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR 27121e92806SDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address" 27221e92806SDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 27321e92806SDonglin Peng default n 27421e92806SDonglin Peng help 27521e92806SDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return address when 27621e92806SDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that 27721e92806SDonglin Peng the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can 27821e92806SDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr. 27921e92806SDonglin Peng 280533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS 281533c20b0SSven Schnelle bool 282b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 283533c20b0SSven Schnelle default y 284ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle help 285ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then 286ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing 287ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be 288ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and 289ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer) 290533c20b0SSven Schnelle 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 2929b4d5d33SSteven Rostedt bool 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 3062455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 32160c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 324cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 325cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 326cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 327cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 32812f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 32912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 33012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 33112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 33212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 333cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 334cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 3354346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 3364346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3374346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 338cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 339cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 3405b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 3415b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 3425b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 3435b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 344cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 345cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 346cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 35061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 35761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 35861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 36061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 36161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 36261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 36361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 36461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 36561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 36661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 36761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 36861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3692455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 37061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 37161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 37261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 37361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 37461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 37561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 37661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 37761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 37861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 37961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 38061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 38161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 38261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 38361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 38461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 385c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 386c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 387c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 388c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 389c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 390bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 39181d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 39281d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 39381d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 39481d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 39581d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3965e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 39781d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 39885bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 39922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4000b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 40181d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 40281d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 40381d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 40481d68a96SSteven Rostedt 40581d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 40681d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 40781d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 40881d68a96SSteven Rostedt 4092455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 41081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 41140892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4126cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 4136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4146cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 4166cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 4176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 41830c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 4195e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4206cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 42185bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 42222cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4230b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 424c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 4256cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 42640892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 4276cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 4286cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4296cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 4306cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 4316cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 4326cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4332455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 4346cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 43540892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4366cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 4376cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4386cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 439352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 440352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 4415e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 442352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 443352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 44422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 445352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 446352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 447352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 448352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 451e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 452e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 454e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 455c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 457e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 458e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 459e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 460e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 461e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 462e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 463e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 464e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 465e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 466e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 467e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 468e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 469e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 470c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 471e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 472e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 473e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 474e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 475e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 476e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 477e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 478e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 479e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 480e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 481e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 482e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 483e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 484e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 487bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 488e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 492bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 493bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 494bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 495bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 496bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 497bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 498bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 499bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 500bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 501bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 502bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 503bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 504bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 505bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 506bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 507bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 508bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 509bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 510bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 511bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 512bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 513bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 514bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 515bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 516bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 517bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 518bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 519bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 520a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 521a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 522a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 523a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 524a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 525a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 526a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 527a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 528a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 529a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 530a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 531a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 532a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 533a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 534a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 535a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 536a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 537a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 538a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 539a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 540a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 541a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 542a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 543a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 544a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 545a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 546a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 547a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 54821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 54921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 55021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 55121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 55221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 55321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 55421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 55521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 55621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 55721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 55821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 55921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 56021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 561897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 562897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 564b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 565b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 56640892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 567b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 568897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 569a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 570ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 571ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 57266700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5735e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5740ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 575ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 576ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 577ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 578*299ea67eSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT 579*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt int "System call user read max size" 580*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt range 0 165 581*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt default 63 582*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt depends on FTRACE_SYSCALLS 583*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt help 584*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt Some system call trace events will record the data from a user 585*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt space address that one of the parameters point to. The amount of 586*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt data per event is limited. That limit is set by this config and 587*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt this config also affects how much user space data perf can read. 588*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt 589*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt For a tracing instance, this size may be changed by writing into 590*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt its syscall_user_buf_size file. 591*299ea67eSSteven Rostedt 592debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 593debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 594debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 595debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 596debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 597debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 598debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5992455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 600debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 601debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 6020b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 6030b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 6040b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 6050b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 6060b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 6070b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 6080b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 6090b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 6100b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6112455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 6120b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6130b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 6140b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 6150b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6160b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 6170b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 6180b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 6190b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 6200b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 6210b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 6220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6232ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6249ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 6255e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6269ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6279ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 6289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 6299ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6309ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6319ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 6329ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 6339ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6349ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 6359ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 6369ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 63740892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 6389ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 63940892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 6409ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 64140892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 64240892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 6439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6449ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6459ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 6469ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6479ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 6489ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 6499ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 6509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6519ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 6529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 6539ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6541f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 65559bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 6561f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 6571f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6582455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6591f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 66040892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6611f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6621f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6632bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 66468e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6659ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6662bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6672bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6682bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6692bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6702bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6712455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 6722bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6739ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6749ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6752bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6762bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 67740892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6789ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6792bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6802ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 68152f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 68252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 68352f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 68452f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 68552f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 68652f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 68752f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6882ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 68952f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6902ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6912ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 69252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 69352f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 69452f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 69552f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 69652f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 69752f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 69852f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 69952f232cbSSteven Rostedt 70052f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 70152f232cbSSteven Rostedt 7022db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 70340892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 7042db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 7051dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 7062db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 7072db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 7082db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 7095e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 7102db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 7112db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 7122db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 7132db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 7142db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 7152db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 7162db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7172db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 7182db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7192db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 7202db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7212db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 7222455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 7232455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 7242db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 7252db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 72636994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 727334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 728334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 729334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 730334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 731334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 732334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 733334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 734334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 735334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 736334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 737334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 738334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 739334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 740334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 741b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 742b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 743b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 744b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 745b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 746b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 747b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 748b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 749b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 750b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 751b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 752b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 7536b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 754413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 755f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 75677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 757413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 7588ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7596212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 76077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 761413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 76240892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 76340892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7645fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 76577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 76677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 76777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 76877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 76940892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 77040892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 771413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 77245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 77345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 77445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 7757bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 77645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 77745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 77845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 77945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 78045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 78145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 78228cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 78345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 78445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 78545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 78645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 78745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 78845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 78945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 79045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 79145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 7926b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 793f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 794f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 795f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 79609294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 797f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 798f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7990597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 800f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 80161f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 802f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 803f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 804f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 805f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 806f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 807f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 808f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 809f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 8100dd1274aSSteven Rostedtconfig EPROBE_EVENTS 8110dd1274aSSteven Rostedt bool "Enable event-based dynamic events" 8120dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACING 8130dd1274aSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 8140dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select PROBE_EVENTS 8150dd1274aSSteven Rostedt select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8160dd1274aSSteven Rostedt default y 8170dd1274aSSteven Rostedt help 8180dd1274aSSteven Rostedt Eprobes are dynamic events that can be placed on other existing 8190dd1274aSSteven Rostedt events. It can be used to limit what fields are recorded in 8200dd1274aSSteven Rostedt an event or even dereference a field of an event. It can 8210dd1274aSSteven Rostedt convert the type of an event field. For example, turn an 8220dd1274aSSteven Rostedt address into a string. 8230dd1274aSSteven Rostedt 824e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 825e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 8266b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 827e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 828e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 829e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 8305cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 8315cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 832e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 8335448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8345448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 8355448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 8368ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 8378ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 8388ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 8399802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 8409802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 8419802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 842540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 8439802d865SJosef Bacik default n 8449802d865SJosef Bacik help 8459802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 8469802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 8479802d865SJosef Bacik 8483b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8493b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 8504d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8513b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 8523b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8533b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8543b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 8553b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8564d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8573b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 85822c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 85922c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 86022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 86122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 86222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8634d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 86403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 86522c8542dSSami Tolvanen 8663b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 8673b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8683b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8693b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 87022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 8714d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8723b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 87308d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 87408d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 87508d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 87608d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 87708d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 87808d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 87908d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 88008d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 88108d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 88208d43a5fSTom Zanussi 883726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 884726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 885726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 886726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 887726721a5STom Zanussi default n 888726721a5STom Zanussi help 889726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 890726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 891726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 892726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 893726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 894726721a5STom Zanussi 895726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 896726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 897726721a5STom Zanussi 898726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 899726721a5STom Zanussi 9007f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 9017f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 9027f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 9037f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 9047f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 9057f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 9067f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 9077f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 9087f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 90972357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 91072357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 9117f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 91272357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 9137f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 9147f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 9157ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 9167ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 9177ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 9187ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 9197ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 9207bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 921726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 9227ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 9237ef224d1STom Zanussi help 9247ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 9257ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 9267ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 9277ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 9287ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 9297ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 9307ef224d1STom Zanussi 93189e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 93289e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 93389e270c1STom Zanussi 934ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 9357ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 9367ef224d1STom Zanussi 9376c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 9386c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 9396c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 9406c3edaf9SCong Wang help 9416c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 9426c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 9436c3edaf9SCong Wang 9446c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 9456c3edaf9SCong Wang 94681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 94781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 94881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 94981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 95081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 95169268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 95281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 95381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 95481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 95581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 95681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 95781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 95881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 95981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 96081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 96181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 96281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 96381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 96481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 96581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 96681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 96781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 96881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 96981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 97081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 97181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 97281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 97381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 97481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 97581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9765092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 9775092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 9785092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 9795092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 9805092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 98140892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 9825092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 9835092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 9845092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 9855092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 9865092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9875092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 9885092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 9895092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 99040892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 9915092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 9931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 9941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 9951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 9971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 9981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 9991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 10001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 10021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 10031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 10041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 10061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 10071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 10091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 10101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 10111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 10121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 10141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 10151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 10161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 10171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1020773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1021773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 1022773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1023773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1024773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 1025773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 1026773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 1027773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 1028773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 1029773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1030773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 1031773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1032773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 1033773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1034773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 1035773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 1036773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 1037773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 1038773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1039773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 1040773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 1041773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 1042773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 1043773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 1044773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1045b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING 1046b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution" 1047b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1048b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 1049b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko help 1050b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of 1051b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that 1052b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not 1053b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it 1054b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko also has a noticeable overhead when enabled. 1055b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 1056b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko If unsure, say N 1057b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 105828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 105928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 106028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 106128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 106228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 106328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 106428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 1065ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 1066ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 106728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 106828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 106928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 107028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 107128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 10731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 10741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 10751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 10771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 10781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 10821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 10831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 10851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 10861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 10891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 10901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 10911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 10931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 10941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 10951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 10961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 10991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 11011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 11031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 11041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 11051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 11061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 11081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 11091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 11101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 11121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 11131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 11141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 11151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 11171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 11181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11198147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 11208147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 11218147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 11226b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 11238147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11248147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 11258147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 11268147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 11278147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 11288147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 11298147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 11308147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11318147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 11328147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11336c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 11346c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 11356c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 11366c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 11376c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 11386c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 11396c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 11406c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 11416c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 11426c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 11436c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 11446c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 11456c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11466c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 11476c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 11486c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1149ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1150ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 11516c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 11526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 11536c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11546c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 11556c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11565b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 11575b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 11585b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 11595b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11605b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 11615b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 11625b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 11635b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 11645b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 11655b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 11665b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 11675b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 11685b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11695b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 11705b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 11715b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 11725b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11735b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 11745b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 11755b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1176a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1177a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1178a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1179a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1180a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1181a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1182a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1183a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1184a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1185a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1186f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1187a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1188f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1189f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1190f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1191f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1192f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1193f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1194f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 119579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 119679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 119779393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1198f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11994b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 12004b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 12014b9091e1SSong Chen command. 12024b9091e1SSong Chen 1203f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1204f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 12059fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 12069fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 12073572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 12089fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 12099fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 12109fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 12119fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 12129fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12139fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 12149fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 12159fe41efaSTom Zanussi 12169fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12179fe41efaSTom Zanussi 121864836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 121964836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 12203572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 122164836248STom Zanussi help 122264836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 122364836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 122464836248STom Zanussi 122564836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 122664836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 122764836248STom Zanussi 122864836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 122964836248STom Zanussi 12302d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 12312d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 12322d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 12332d19bd79STom Zanussi help 12342d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 12352d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 12362d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 12372d19bd79STom Zanussi 12382d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 12392d19bd79STom Zanussi 12402d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 12412d19bd79STom Zanussi 12422d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 12432d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 12442d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 12452d19bd79STom Zanussi 12462d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 12472d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 12482d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 12492d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 12502d19bd79STom Zanussi 12512d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12522d19bd79STom Zanussi 1253102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1254102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 12554ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1256