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 13606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1416444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 15555f386cSMike Frysinger help 165fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 17bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 18fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 1915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 20555f386cSMike Frysinger help 215fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 2215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 23677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 25555f386cSMike Frysinger help 265fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 27677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 2806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 3006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 31763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 32763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 33763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 3402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 3602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 3702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 3802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 3902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 4002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and 4102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel_stack_pointer(). 4202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 438da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 448da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 45555f386cSMike Frysinger help 465fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 478da3821bSSteven Rostedt 4866700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 49ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 50555f386cSMike Frysinger help 515fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 52ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 53a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 54a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 55a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 56a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 57a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 582f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 592f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 602f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 612f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 622f4df001SVasily Gorbik 6322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 6422c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 6522c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 6622c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 6722c8542dSSami Tolvanen 68cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 6972441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 7072441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 7172441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 7272441cb1SSteven Rostedt 73*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 74*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 75*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 76*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT && !S390 77*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 78*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 79*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 80352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 81352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 82352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 83ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 84ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 85ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 867a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 877a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 88ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 8922287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 907a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 915f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 92b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 9360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 94b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 95b11c53e1SZhaolei 96b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 975f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 985f77a88bSTom Zanussi 9985bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 10085bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 10185bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 10285bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 10385bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 10485bac32cSSteven Rostedt 105c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 106c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 107c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 108c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 109c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 110c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 111c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 112c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 113c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1145e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1155e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1165e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1175e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1185e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 11940892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1205e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 121bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 122bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1237a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 124c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1255f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 126f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 127769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1285f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 129ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 130bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1315e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1325e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1335e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1345e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 13540ada30fSIngo Molnar# 13640ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 13740ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 13840ada30fSIngo Molnar# 13940ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 14040ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1410ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 14240ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 143422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 14440ada30fSIngo Molnar 1454ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1464ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 147de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 14865b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1494ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1504ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1514ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1524ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 15317d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 156d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 157d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 163606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1641b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 165606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1664d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 16835e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 16960f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 17001b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 171e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 1721b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 1731b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 1741b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 17540892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 1761b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 1771b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 1781b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 1791b29b018SSteven Rostedt small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks. 18035e8e302SSteven Rostedt 181fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 182fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 183fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 18415e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 185eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 186764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 18715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 188fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 189fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 190692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 191692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 192692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 193692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 19415e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 19561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 19661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 19761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 19861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 19961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 20061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 20161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 20261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 20361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 20461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 20561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 20661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 20761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 20861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 20961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 21061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: 21161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 21261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 21361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 21461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 21561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 21661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 21761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 21861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 21961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 22061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 22161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 22261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 22461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 22549a962c0SNaveen N. Rao depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 22661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22812f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 22912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 23012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 23212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. 25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 26061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 26461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 26561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 271c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 272c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 273c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 274c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 275c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 276bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 27781d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 27881d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 27981d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 28081d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 28181d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 2825e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 28381d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 28485bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 28522cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 2860b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 28781d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 28881d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 28981d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 29081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 29181d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 29281d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 29381d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 29481d68a96SSteven Rostedt 295156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 29681d68a96SSteven Rostedt 29740892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 2986cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 2996cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3006cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3016cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3026cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3036cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 30430c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3055e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 30785bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 30822cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3090b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 310c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3116cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 31240892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3146cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3166cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3186cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 319156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3206cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 32140892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3226cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3236cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3246cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 325352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 326352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3275e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 328352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 329352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 33022cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 331352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 332352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 333352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 334352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 335e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 336e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 337e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 338e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 339e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 340c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 341e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 342e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 343e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 344e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 345e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 346e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 347e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 348e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 349e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 350e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 351e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 352e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 353e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 354e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 355c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 356e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 357e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 358e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 359e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 360e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 361e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 362e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 363e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 364e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 365e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 366e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 367e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 368e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 369e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 370bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 371bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 372bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 373bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 374bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 375bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 376bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 377bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 378bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 379bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 380bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 381bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 382bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 383bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 384bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 385bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 386bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 387bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 388bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 389bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 390bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 391bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 392bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 393bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 394bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 395bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 396bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 397bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 398bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 399bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 400bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 401bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 402bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 403bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 404a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 405a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 406a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 407a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 408a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 409a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 410a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 411a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 412a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 413a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 414a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 415a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 416a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 417a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 418a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 419a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 420a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 421a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 422a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 423a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 424a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 425a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 426a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 427a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 428a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 429a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 430a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 431a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 43221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 43321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 43421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 43521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 43621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 43721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 43821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 43921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 44021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 44121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 44221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 44321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 44421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 445897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 446897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 4475e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 448b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 449b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 45040892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 451b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 452897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 453a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 454ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 455ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 45666700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 4575e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4580ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 459ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 460ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 461ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 462debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 463debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 464debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 465debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 466debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 467debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 468debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 469debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot 470debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 471debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 4720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 4730b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 4740b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4750b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 4760b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 4770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 4780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 4790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 4800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 4820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 4840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 4850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4860b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 4870b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 4880b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 4890b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 4900b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 4910b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 4920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4932ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 4949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 4955e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4969ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 4979ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 4989ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 4999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5009ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5019ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5029ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5049ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5059ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 50740892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 50940892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 51140892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 51240892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5149ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5179ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5189ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5199ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5209ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5219ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5229ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5239ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5241f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 52559bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5261f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5271f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 52813e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5291f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 53040892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5311f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5321f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5332bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 53468e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5359ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5362bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5372bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5382bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5392bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5402bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 54113e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5422bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 5449ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5452bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 5462bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 54740892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 5489ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 5492bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5502ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 55152f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 55252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 55352f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 55452f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 55552f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 55652f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 55752f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5582ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 55952f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 5602ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5612ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 56252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 56352f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 56452f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 56552f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 56652f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 56752f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 56852f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 56952f232cbSSteven Rostedt 57052f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 57152f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5722db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 57340892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 5742db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 5751dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 5762db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 5772db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 5782db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 5795e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5802db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 5812db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 5822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 5832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 5842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 5852db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 5862db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5872db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 5882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5892db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 5902db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5912db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 5922db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer 5932db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe 5942db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5952db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 59636994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 5976b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 598413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 599f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 60077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 601413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6028ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6036212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 60477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 605413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 60640892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 60740892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6085fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 60977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 61077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 61177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 61277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 61340892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 61440892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 615413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 61645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 61745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 61845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6197bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 62045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 62145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 62245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 62345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 62445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 62545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 62628cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 62745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 62845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 62945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 63045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 63145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 63245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 63345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 63445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 63545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6366b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 637f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 638f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 639f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 64009294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 641f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 642f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6430597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 644f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 64561f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 646f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 647f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 648f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 649f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 650f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 651f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 652f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 653f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 654e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 655e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 6566b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 657e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 658e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 659e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 6605cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 6615cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 662e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 6635448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 6645448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 6655448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 6668ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 6678ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 6688ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 6699802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 6709802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 6719802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 672540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 6739802d865SJosef Bacik default n 6749802d865SJosef Bacik help 6759802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 6769802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 6779802d865SJosef Bacik 6788da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6798da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 6808da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 6818da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6828da3821bSSteven Rostedt 6833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 6843b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 6853b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6863b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 6873b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 6883b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 6893b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 6903b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 6913b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6923b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 69322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 69422c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 69522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 69622c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 69722c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 69822c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 69922c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7003b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7013b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7023b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7033b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 70422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7053b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7063b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 70708d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 70808d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 70908d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 71008d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 71108d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 71208d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 71308d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 71408d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 71508d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 71608d43a5fSTom Zanussi 717726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 718726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 719726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 720726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 721726721a5STom Zanussi default n 722726721a5STom Zanussi help 723726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 724726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 725726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 726726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 727726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 728726721a5STom Zanussi 729726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 730726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 731726721a5STom Zanussi 732726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 733726721a5STom Zanussi 7347ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 7357ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 7367ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 7377ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 7387ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 7397bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 740726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 7417ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 7427ef224d1STom Zanussi help 7437ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 7447ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 7457ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 7467ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 7477ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 7487ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 7497ef224d1STom Zanussi 75089e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 75189e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 75289e270c1STom Zanussi 753ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 7547ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 7557ef224d1STom Zanussi 7566c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 7576c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 7586c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 7596c3edaf9SCong Wang help 7606c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 7616c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 7626c3edaf9SCong Wang 7636c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 7646c3edaf9SCong Wang 76581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 76681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 76781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 76881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 76981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 77069268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 77181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 77281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 77381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 77481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 77581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 77681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 77781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 77881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 77981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 78081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 78181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 78281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 78381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 78481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 78581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 78681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 78781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 78881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 78981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 79081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 79181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 79281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 79381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 79481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 7955092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 7965092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 7975092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 7985092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 7995092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 80040892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8015092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8025092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8035092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8045092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8055092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8065092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8075092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8085092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 80940892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8105092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 8281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 8291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 8301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 8311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 8331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 8341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 8351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 8361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 8381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 839773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 840773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 841773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 842773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 843773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 844773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 845773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 846773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 847773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 848773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 849773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 850773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 851773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 852773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 853773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 854773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 855773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 856773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 857773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 858773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 859773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 860773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 861773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 862773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 863773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 86428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 86528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 86628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 86728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 86828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 86928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 87028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 87128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection, 87228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 87328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 87428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 87528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 87628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 87728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 8791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 8801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 8811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 8831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 8891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 8911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 8921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 8941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 8951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 8961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 8971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 8991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9258147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9268147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 9278147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 928*6b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 9298147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9308147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 9318147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 9328147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 9338147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 9348147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 9358147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 9368147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9378147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 9388147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9396c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 9406c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 9416c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 9426c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 9436c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 9446c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 9456c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 9466c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 9476c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 9486c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 9496c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 9506c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 9516c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 9536c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 9546c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9556c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. 9566c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What 9576c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 9586c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 9596c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9606c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 9616c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9625b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 9635b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 9645b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 9655b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9665b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 9675b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 9685b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 9695b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 9705b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 9715b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 9725b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 9735b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 9745b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9755b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 9765b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 9775b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 9785b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9795b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 9805b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 9815b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 982a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 983a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 984a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 985a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 986a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 987a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 988a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 989a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 990a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 991a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 992f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 993a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 994f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 995f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 996f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 997f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 998f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 999f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1000f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 100179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 100279393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 100379393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1004f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10054b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10064b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10074b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10084b9091e1SSong Chen 1009f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1010f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10119fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10129fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1013726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10149fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10159fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10169fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10179fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10189fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10199fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10209fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10219fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10229fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10239fe41efaSTom Zanussi 102464836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 102564836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 102664836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 102764836248STom Zanussi help 102864836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 102964836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 103064836248STom Zanussi 103164836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 103264836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 103364836248STom Zanussi 103464836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 103564836248STom Zanussi 10362d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 10372d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 10382d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 10392d19bd79STom Zanussi help 10402d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 10412d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 10422d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 10432d19bd79STom Zanussi 10442d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 10452d19bd79STom Zanussi 10462d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 10472d19bd79STom Zanussi 10482d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 10492d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 10502d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 10512d19bd79STom Zanussi 10522d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 10532d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 10542d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 10552d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 10562d19bd79STom Zanussi 10572d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10582d19bd79STom Zanussi 10594ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1060