1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool 36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 37a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 38a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 39a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 40a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined. 41a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 42677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 43677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 44555f386cSMike Frysinger help 455fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 4706aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 50763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 51763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 52763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 54cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 55cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 5702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 5802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 5902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 6094d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 6102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 6294d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 6394d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 65762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS 66762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 67762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 68762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to 69762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) pt_regs without allocating memory. 70762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 719440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 729440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 739440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 749440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 759440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 769440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 7766700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 78ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 79555f386cSMike Frysinger help 805fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 81ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 82a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 83a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 84a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 85a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 86a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 872f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 882f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 892f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 902f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 912f4df001SVasily Gorbik 9222c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 9322c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 9422c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 9522c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 9622c8542dSSami Tolvanen 97280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 98280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 99280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 100280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 101280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 102280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 104cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 10572441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 10672441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 10772441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 10872441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1094ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1104ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1114ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1124ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1134ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1144ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1156b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1166b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1176b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1196b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1206b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 122352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 123352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 124352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 125ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 126ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 127ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1287a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1297a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 130ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 13122287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1327a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1335f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 134b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 13560f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 136b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 137b11c53e1SZhaolei 138b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1395f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1405f77a88bSTom Zanussi 14185bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 14285bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 14385bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 14485bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 14585bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 14685bac32cSSteven Rostedt 147c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 148c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 149c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 150c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 151c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 152c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1565e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1575e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1585e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1595e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1605e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 16140892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 163bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 164bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1657a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 166c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1675f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 168f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 169769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1705f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 171ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 17202b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 173bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1745e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1755e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1765e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1775e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 17840ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17940ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 18040ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 18140ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18240ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 18340ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1840ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 18540ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 186422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 18740ada30fSIngo Molnar 1884ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1894ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 190de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 19165b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1924ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1934ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1954ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 19617d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 199d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 200d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 2011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 2021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 2031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 2041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 2051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 206606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2071b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 208606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2094d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2105e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 21135e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 21260f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 21302b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 214e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2151b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2161b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2171b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 21840892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2191b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2201b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2211b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2220a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2230a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 22435e8e302SSteven Rostedt 225fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 226fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 227fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 22815e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 229eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 230764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 23115e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 232fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 233fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 234692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 235692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 236692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 237692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 23815e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 239a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 240a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 241a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 242a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 243a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 244a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 245a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 246a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 247a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 248a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 249a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 250a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 25121e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR 25221e92806SDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address" 25321e92806SDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 25421e92806SDonglin Peng default n 25521e92806SDonglin Peng help 25621e92806SDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return address when 25721e92806SDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that 25821e92806SDonglin Peng the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can 25921e92806SDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr. 26021e92806SDonglin Peng 261533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS 262533c20b0SSven Schnelle bool 263b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 264533c20b0SSven Schnelle default y 265ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle help 266ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then 267ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing 268ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be 269ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and 270ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer) 271533c20b0SSven Schnelle 27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 2739b4d5d33SSteven Rostedt bool 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 27861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 27961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 28161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 2872455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 30260c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 305cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 306cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 307cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 308cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 30912f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 31012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 31112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 31212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 31312f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 314cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 315cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 3164346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 3174346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3184346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 319cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 320cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 3215b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 3225b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 3235b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 3245b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 325cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 326cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 327cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 32861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 32961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 33061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 33161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 33261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 33361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 33461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 33561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 33661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 33761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 33861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 33961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 34061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 34161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 34261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 34361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 34461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 34561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 34661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3502455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 35761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 35961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 36061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 36161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 36261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 36361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 36461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 36561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 366c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 367c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 368c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 369c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 370c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 371bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 37281d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 37381d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 37481d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 37581d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 37681d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3775e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 37881d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 37985bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 38022cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 38281d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 38381d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 38481d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 38581d68a96SSteven Rostedt 38681d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 38781d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 38881d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 38981d68a96SSteven Rostedt 3902455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 39181d68a96SSteven Rostedt 39240892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3936cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3946cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3956cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3966cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3976cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3986cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 39930c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 4005e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4016cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 40285bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 40322cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4040b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 405c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 4066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 40740892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 4086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 4096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4106cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 4116cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 4126cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 4136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4142455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 4156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 41640892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 4186cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4196cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 420352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 421352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 4225e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 423352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 424352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 42522cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 426352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 427352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 428352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 429352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 430e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 431e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 432e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 433e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 434e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 435e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 436c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 437e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 438e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 439e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 440e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 441e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 442e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 443e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 444e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 445e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 446e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 447e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 448e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 451c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 452e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 454e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 455e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 457e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 458e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 459e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 460e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 461e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 462e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 463e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 464e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 465e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 466bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 467bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 468bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 469e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 470bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 471bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 472bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 473bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 474bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 475bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 476bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 477bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 478bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 479bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 480bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 481bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 482bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 483bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 484bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 487bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 488bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 492bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 493bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 494bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 495bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 496bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 497bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 498bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 499bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 500bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 501a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 502a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 503a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 504a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 505a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 506a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 507a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 508a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 509a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 510a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 511a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 512a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 513a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 514a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 515a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 516a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 517a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 518a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 519a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 520a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 521a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 522a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 523a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 524a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 525a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 526a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 527a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 528a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 52921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 53021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 53121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 53221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 53321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 53421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 53521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 53621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 53721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 53821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 54021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 54121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 542897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 543897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5445e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 545b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 546b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 54740892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 548b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 549897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 550a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 551ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 552ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 55366700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5545e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5550ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 556ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 557ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 558ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 559debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 560debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 561debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 562debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 563debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 564debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 565debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5662455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 567debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 568debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5690b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5700b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5710b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5730b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5740b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5750b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5760b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5782455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5860b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5870b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5880b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5890b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5902ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5925e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5949ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5959ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5969ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5979ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5989ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 6009ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6019ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 6029ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 6039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 60440892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 6059ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 60640892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 6079ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 60840892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 60940892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 6109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6119ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6129ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 6139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6149ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 6159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 6169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 6179ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6189ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 6199ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 6209ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6211f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 62259bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 6231f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 6241f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6261f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 62740892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6281f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6291f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6302bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 63168e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6329ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6332bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6342bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6352bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6362bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6372bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6382455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 6392bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6409ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6419ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6422bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6432bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 64440892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6459ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6462bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6472ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 64852f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 64952f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 65052f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 65152f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 65252f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 65352f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 65452f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6552ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 65652f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6572ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6582ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 65952f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 66052f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 66152f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 66252f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 66352f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 66452f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 66552f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 66652f232cbSSteven Rostedt 66752f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 66852f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6692db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 67040892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6712db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6721dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6732db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6742db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6752db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6765e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6772db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6782db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6792db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6802db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6812db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6852db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6862db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6872db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6892455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 6902455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 6912db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6922db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 69336994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 694334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 695334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 696334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 697334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 698334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 699334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 700334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 701334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 702334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 703334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 704334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 705334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 706334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 707334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 708b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 709b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 710b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 711b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 712b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 713b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 714b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 715b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 716b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 717b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 718b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 719b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 7206b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 721413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 722f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 72377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 724413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 7258ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7266212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 72777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 728413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 72940892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 73040892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7315fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 73277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 73377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 73477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 73577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 73640892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 73740892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 738413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 73945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 74045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 74145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 7427bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 74345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 74445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 74545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 74645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 74745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 74845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 74928cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 75045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 75145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 75245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 75345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 75445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 75545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 75645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 75745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 75845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 7596b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 760f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 761f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 762f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 76309294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 764f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 765f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7660597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 767f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 76861f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 769f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 770f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 771f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 772f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 773f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 774f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 775f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 776f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 777e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 778e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 7796b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 780e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 781e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 782e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7835cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7845cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 785e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7865448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7875448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7885448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7898ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7908ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7918ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7929802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7939802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7949802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 795540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7969802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7979802d865SJosef Bacik help 7989802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7999802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 8009802d865SJosef Bacik 8013b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8023b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 803*4d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8043b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 8053b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8063b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8073b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 8083b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 809*4d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8103b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 81122c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 81222c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 81322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 81422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 81522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 816*4d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 81703f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 81822c8542dSSami Tolvanen 8193b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 8203b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8213b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8223b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 82322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 824*4d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8253b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 82608d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 82708d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 82808d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 82908d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 83008d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 83108d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 83208d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 83308d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 83408d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 83508d43a5fSTom Zanussi 836726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 837726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 838726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 839726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 840726721a5STom Zanussi default n 841726721a5STom Zanussi help 842726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 843726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 844726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 845726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 846726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 847726721a5STom Zanussi 848726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 849726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 850726721a5STom Zanussi 851726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 852726721a5STom Zanussi 8537f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 8547f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 8557f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 8567f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8577f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 8587f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 8597f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 8607f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 8617f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 86272357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 86372357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 8647f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 86572357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 8667f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 8677f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 8687ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 8697ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 8707ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 8717ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 8727ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 8737bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 874726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 8757ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 8767ef224d1STom Zanussi help 8777ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8787ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8797ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8807ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8817ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8827ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8837ef224d1STom Zanussi 88489e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 88589e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 88689e270c1STom Zanussi 887ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8887ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8897ef224d1STom Zanussi 8906c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8916c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8926c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8936c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8946c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8956c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8966c3edaf9SCong Wang 8976c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8986c3edaf9SCong Wang 89981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 90081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 90181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 90281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 90381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 90469268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 90581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 90681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 90781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 90881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 90981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 91081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 91181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 91281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 91381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 91481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 91581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 91681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 91781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 91881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 91981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 92081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 92181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 92281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 92381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 92481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 92581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 92681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 92781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 92881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9295092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 9305092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 9315092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 9325092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 9335092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 93440892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 9355092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 9365092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 9375092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 9385092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 9395092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9405092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 9415092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 9425092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 94340892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 9445092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 973773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 974773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 975773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 976773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 977773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 978773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 979773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 980773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 981773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 982773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 983773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 984773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 985773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 986773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 987773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 988773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 989773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 990773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 991773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 992773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 993773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 994773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 995773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 996773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 997773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 998b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING 999b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution" 1000b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1001b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 1002b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko help 1003b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of 1004b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that 1005b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not 1006b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it 1007b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko also has a noticeable overhead when enabled. 1008b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 1009b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko If unsure, say N 1010b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 101128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 101228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 101328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 101428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 101528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 101628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 101728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 1018ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 1019ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 102028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 102128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 102228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 102328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 102428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 10351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 10361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 10381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 10391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 10421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 10431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 10441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 10461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 10471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 10481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 10491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 10521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 10541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 10561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 10571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 10581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 10591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 10611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 10621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 10651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 10661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 10671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 10681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 10701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 10711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10728147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 10738147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 10748147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 10756b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 10768147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10778147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 10788147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 10798147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 10808147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 10818147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 10828147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 10838147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10848147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 10858147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10866c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 10876c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 10886c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 10896c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 10906c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10916c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10926c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10936c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10946c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10956c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10966c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10976c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10986c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10996c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 11006c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 11016c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1102ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1103ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 11046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 11056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 11066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 11086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11095b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 11105b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 11115b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 11125b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11135b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 11145b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 11155b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 11165b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 11175b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 11185b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 11195b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 11205b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 11215b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11225b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 11235b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 11245b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 11255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11265b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 11275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 11285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1129a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1130a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1131a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1132a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1133a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1134a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1135a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1136a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1137a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1138a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1139f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1140a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1141f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1142f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1143f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1144f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1145f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1146f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1147f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 114879393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 114979393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 115079393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1151f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11524b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 11534b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 11544b9091e1SSong Chen command. 11554b9091e1SSong Chen 1156f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1157f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11589fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 11599fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 11603572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 11619fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 11629fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 11639fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 11649fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 11659fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11669fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 11679fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 11689fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11699fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11709fe41efaSTom Zanussi 117164836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 117264836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 11733572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 117464836248STom Zanussi help 117564836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 117664836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 117764836248STom Zanussi 117864836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 117964836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 118064836248STom Zanussi 118164836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 118264836248STom Zanussi 11832d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 11842d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 11852d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 11862d19bd79STom Zanussi help 11872d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 11882d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 11892d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 11902d19bd79STom Zanussi 11912d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11922d19bd79STom Zanussi 11932d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11942d19bd79STom Zanussi 11952d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11962d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11972d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11982d19bd79STom Zanussi 11992d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 12002d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 12012d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 12022d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 12032d19bd79STom Zanussi 12042d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12052d19bd79STom Zanussi 1206102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1207102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 12084ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1209