1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 36555f386cSMike Frysinger help 375fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 3906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 42763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 43763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 44763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 45cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 46cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 47cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 4802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 4902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 5002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 5102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 5294d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 5494d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 5594d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 579440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 589440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 599440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 609440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 619440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 629440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 638da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 648da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 65555f386cSMike Frysinger help 665fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 678da3821bSSteven Rostedt 6866700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 69ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 70555f386cSMike Frysinger help 715fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 72ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 73a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 74a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 75a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 76a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 77a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 782f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 792f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 802f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 812f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 822f4df001SVasily Gorbik 8322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 8422c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 8522c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 8622c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 8722c8542dSSami Tolvanen 88280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 89280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 90280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 91280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 92280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 93280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 94280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 95cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 9672441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 9772441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 9872441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 9972441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1004ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1014ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1024ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1034ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1044ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1054ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1066b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1076b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1086b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1094ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1106b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1116b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1126b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 113352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 114352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 115352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 116ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 117ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 118ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1197a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1207a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 121ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 12222287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1237a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1245f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 125b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 12660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 127b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 128b11c53e1SZhaolei 129b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1305f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1315f77a88bSTom Zanussi 13285bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 13385bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 13485bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 13585bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 13685bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 13785bac32cSSteven Rostedt 138c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 139c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 140c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 141c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 142c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 143c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 144c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 145c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 146c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1475e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1485e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1495e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 15240892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1535e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 154bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 155bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1567a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 157c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1585f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 159f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 160769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1615f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 162ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 163835f14edSPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 164bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1665e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 16940ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17040ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 17140ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 17240ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17340ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 17440ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1750ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 17640ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 177422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 17840ada30fSIngo Molnar 1794ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1804ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 181de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 18265b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1834ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1844ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1854ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1864ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 18717d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 190d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 191d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 197606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1981b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 199606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2004d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2015e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 20235e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 20360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 20401b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 205e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2061b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2071b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2081b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 20940892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2101b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2111b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2121b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2130a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2140a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 21535e8e302SSteven Rostedt 216fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 217fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 218fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 21915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 220eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 221764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 22215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 223fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 224fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 225692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 226692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 227692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 228692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 22915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 2452455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 26060c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 263cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 264cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 265cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 266cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 26712f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 26812f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 26912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 27012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 27112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 272cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 273cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 274cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 275cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2765b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 2775b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 278cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 279cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2805b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 2815b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 2825b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 2835b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 284cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 285cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 286cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3092455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 32461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 325c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 326c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 327c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 328c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 329c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 330bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 33181d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 33281d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 33381d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 33481d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 33581d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3365e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 33781d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 33885bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 33922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3400b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 34181d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 34281d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 34381d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 34481d68a96SSteven Rostedt 34581d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 34681d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 34781d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 34881d68a96SSteven Rostedt 3492455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 35081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 35140892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3526cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3536cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3546cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3556cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3566cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3576cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 35830c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3595e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3606cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 36185bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 36222cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3630b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 364c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3656cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 36640892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3676cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3686cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3696cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3706cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3716cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3726cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3732455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3746cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 37540892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3766cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3776cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3786cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 379352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 380352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 382352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 383352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 38422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 385352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 386352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 387352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 388352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 389e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 390e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 391e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 392e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 393e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 394e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 395c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 396e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 397e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 398e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 399e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 400e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 401e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 402e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 403e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 404e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 405e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 406e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 407e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 408e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 409e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 410c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 411e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 412e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 413e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 414e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 415e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 416e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 417e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 418e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 419e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 420e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 421e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 422e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 423e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 424e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 425bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 426bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 427bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 428e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 429bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 430bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 431bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 432bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 433bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 434bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 435bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 436bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 437bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 438bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 439bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 440bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 441bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 442bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 443bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 444bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 445bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 446bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 447bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 448bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 449bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 450bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 451bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 452bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 453bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 454bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 455bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 456bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 457bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 458bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 459bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 460a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 461a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 462a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 463a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 464a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 465a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 466a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 467a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 468a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 469a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 470a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 471a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 472a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 473a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 474a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 475a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 476a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 477a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 478a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 479a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 480a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 481a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 482a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 483a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 484a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 485a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 486a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 487a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 48821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 48921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 49021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 49121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 49221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 49321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 49421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 49521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 49621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 49721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 49821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 49921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 50021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 501897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 502897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5035e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 504b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 505b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 50640892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 507b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 508897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 509a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 510ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 511ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 51266700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5135e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5140ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 515ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 516ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 517ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 518debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 519debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 520debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 521debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 522debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 523debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 524debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 526debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 527debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5280b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5300b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5340b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5350b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5360b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5372455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5380b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5390b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5400b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5410b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5420b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5430b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5440b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5450b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5460b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5470b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5480b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5492ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5539ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5559ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5569ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5589ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5609ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5619ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 56340892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5649ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 56540892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5669ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 56740892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 56840892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5709ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5719ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5729ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5739ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5749ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5759ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5769ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5779ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5789ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5799ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5801f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 58159bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5821f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5831f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5842455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5851f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 58640892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5871f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5881f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5892bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 59068e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5922bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5932bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5942bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5952bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5962bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5972455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5982bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6009ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6012bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6022bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 60340892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6049ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6052bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6062ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 60752f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 60852f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 60952f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 61052f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 61152f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 61252f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 61352f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6142ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 61552f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6162ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6172ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 61852f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 61952f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 62052f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 62152f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 62252f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 62352f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 62452f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 62552f232cbSSteven Rostedt 62652f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 62752f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6282db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 62940892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6302db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6311dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6322db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6342db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6355e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6362db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6372db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6382db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6392db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6402db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6412db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6422db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6432db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6442db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6452db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6462db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6472db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6482455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 6492455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 6502db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6512db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 65236994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 6536b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 654413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 655f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 65677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 657413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6588ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6596212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 66077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 661413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 66240892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 66340892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6645fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 66577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 66677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 66777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 66877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 66940892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 67040892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 671413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 67245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 67345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 67445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6757bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 67645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 67745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 67845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 67945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 68045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 68145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 68228cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 68345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 68445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 68545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 68645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 68745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 68845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 68945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 69045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 69145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6926b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 693f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 694f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 695f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 69609294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 697f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 698f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6990597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 700f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 70161f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 702f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 703f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 704f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 705f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 706f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 707f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 708f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 709f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 710e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 711e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 7126b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 713e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 714e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 715e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7165cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7175cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 718e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7195448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7205448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7215448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7228ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7238ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7248ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7259802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7269802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7279802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 728540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7299802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7309802d865SJosef Bacik help 7319802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7329802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7339802d865SJosef Bacik 7348da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7358da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7368da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 7378da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7388da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7393b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7403b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 7413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7423b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 7433b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 7443b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7453b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 7463b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7473b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7483b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 74922c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 75022c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 75122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 75222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 75322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 75422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 75503f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 75622c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7573b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7583b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7593b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7603b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 76122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7623b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7633b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 76408d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 76508d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 76608d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 76708d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 76808d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 76908d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 77008d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 77108d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 77208d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 77308d43a5fSTom Zanussi 774726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 775726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 776726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 777726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 778726721a5STom Zanussi default n 779726721a5STom Zanussi help 780726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 781726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 782726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 783726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 784726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 785726721a5STom Zanussi 786726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 787726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 788726721a5STom Zanussi 789726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 790726721a5STom Zanussi 7917f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 7927f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 7937f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 7947f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7951cd927adSSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out 7967f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 7977f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 7987f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 7997f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 8007f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 801*72357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 802*72357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 8037f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 804*72357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 8057f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 8067f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 8077ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 8087ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 8097ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 8107ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 8117ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 8127bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 813726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 8147ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 8157ef224d1STom Zanussi help 8167ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8177ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8187ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8197ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8207ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8217ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8227ef224d1STom Zanussi 82389e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 82489e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 82589e270c1STom Zanussi 826ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8277ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8287ef224d1STom Zanussi 8296c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8306c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8316c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8326c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8336c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8346c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8356c3edaf9SCong Wang 8366c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8376c3edaf9SCong Wang 83881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 83981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 84081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 84181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 84281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 84369268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 84481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 84581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 84681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 84781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 84881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 84981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 85081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 85181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 85281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 85481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 85581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 85781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 85981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 86081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 86181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 86281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 86381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 86481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 86581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 86681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 86781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8685092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 8695092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 8705092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 8715092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 8725092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 87340892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8745092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8755092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8765092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8775092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8785092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8795092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8805092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8815092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 88240892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8835092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 9011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 9021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 9031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 9041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 9061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 9071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 9081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 9091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 912773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 913773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 914773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 915773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 916773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 917773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 918773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 919773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 920773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 921773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 922773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 923773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 924773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 925773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 926773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 927773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 928773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 929773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 930773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 931773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 932773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 933773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 934773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 935773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 936773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 93728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 93828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 93928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 94028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 94128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 94228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 94328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 944ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 945ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 94628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 94728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 94828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 94928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 95028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9988147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9998147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 10008147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 10016b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 10028147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10038147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 10048147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 10058147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 10068147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 10078147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 10088147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 10098147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10108147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 10118147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10126c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 10136c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 10146c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 10156c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 10166c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10176c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10186c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10196c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10206c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10216c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10226c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10236c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10246c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10256c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 10266c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 10276c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1028ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1029ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 10306c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 10316c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 10326c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10336c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 10346c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10355b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 10365b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 10375b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 10385b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10395b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 10405b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 10415b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 10425b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 10435b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 10445b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 10455b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 10465b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 10475b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10485b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 10495b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 10505b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 10515b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10525b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10535b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10545b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1055a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1056a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1057a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1058a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1059a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1060a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1061a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1062a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1063a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1064a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1065f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1066a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1067f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1068f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1069f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1070f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1071f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1072f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1073f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 107479393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 107579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 107679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1077f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10784b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10794b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10804b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10814b9091e1SSong Chen 1082f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1083f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10849fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10859fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1086726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10879fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10889fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10899fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10909fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10919fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10929fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10939fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10949fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10959fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10969fe41efaSTom Zanussi 109764836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 109864836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 109964836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 110064836248STom Zanussi help 110164836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 110264836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 110364836248STom Zanussi 110464836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 110564836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 110664836248STom Zanussi 110764836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 110864836248STom Zanussi 11092d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 11102d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 11112d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 11122d19bd79STom Zanussi help 11132d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 11142d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 11152d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 11162d19bd79STom Zanussi 11172d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11182d19bd79STom Zanussi 11192d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11202d19bd79STom Zanussi 11212d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11222d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11232d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11242d19bd79STom Zanussi 11252d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 11262d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 11272d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 11282d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 11292d19bd79STom Zanussi 11302d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11312d19bd79STom Zanussi 1132102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1133102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 11344ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1135