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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4606576ceSSteven Rostedt#  select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
88d26487fSTörök Edwin	bool
98d26487fSTörök Edwin
102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER
112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker	bool
122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK
1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK
1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  features like fprobe and kprobes.
2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	bool
26555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	bool
31555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool
36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
37677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt	bool
39555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
405fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
41677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt
4206aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
4306aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
4406aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu
45763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
46763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
47763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
48cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
49cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	bool
50cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
5102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
5202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
5402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
5594d095ffSMark Rutland	 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
5794d095ffSMark Rutland	 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
5894d095ffSMark Rutland	 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
5902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)
60*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS
61*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool
62*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
63*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to
64*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 pt_regs without allocating memory.
65*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
669440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
679440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	bool
689440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	help
699440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
709440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
719440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
728da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
738da3821bSSteven Rostedt	bool
74555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
755fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
768da3821bSSteven Rostedt
7766700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
78ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
79555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
805fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
81ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
82a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY
83a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	bool
84a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	help
85a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
86a2546faeSSteven Rostedt
872f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
882f4df001SVasily Gorbik	bool
892f4df001SVasily Gorbik	help
902f4df001SVasily Gorbik	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
912f4df001SVasily Gorbik
9222c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
9322c8542dSSami Tolvanen	bool
9422c8542dSSami Tolvanen	help
9522c8542dSSami Tolvanen	  Arch supports objtool --mcount
9622c8542dSSami Tolvanen
97280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
98280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	bool
99280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	help
100280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
101280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
102280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  of ftrace locations.
103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy
104cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
10572441cb1SSteven Rostedt	bool
10672441cb1SSteven Rostedt	help
10772441cb1SSteven Rostedt	  C version of recordmcount available?
10872441cb1SSteven Rostedt
1094ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1104ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1114ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1124ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)         An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
1134ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)	 at build time.
1144ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)
1156b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1166b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1176b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       default y
1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
1196b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1206b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)         Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)
122352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE
123352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool
124352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
125ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK
126ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	bool
127ea632e9fSJosh Triplett
1287a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER
1297a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	bool
130ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
13122287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select IRQ_WORK
1327a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt
1335f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING
134b11c53e1SZhaolei	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
13560f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
136b11c53e1SZhaolei	bool
137b11c53e1SZhaolei
138b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
1395f77a88bSTom Zanussi	bool
1405f77a88bSTom Zanussi
14185bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
14285bac32cSSteven Rostedt	bool
14385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	help
14485bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
14585bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
14685bac32cSSteven Rostedt
147c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
148c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
149c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
150c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACING
151c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	default y
152c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)
1565e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
1575e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
1585e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
1595e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
1605e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
16140892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options.
1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
163bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING
164bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt	bool
1657a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER
166c2c80529SAl Viro	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1675f87f112SIngo Molnar	select TRACEPOINTS
168f3384b28SSteven Rostedt	select NOP_TRACER
169769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker	select BINARY_PRINTF
1705f77a88bSTom Zanussi	select EVENT_TRACING
171ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
17202b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
173bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
1745e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER
1755e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	bool
1765e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
1775e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
17840ada30fSIngo Molnar#
17940ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
18040ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
18140ada30fSIngo Molnar#
18240ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT
18340ada30fSIngo Molnar	bool
1840ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
18540ada30fSIngo Molnar	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
186422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro	default y
18740ada30fSIngo Molnar
1884ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE
1894ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	bool "Tracers"
190de32951bSMasahiro Yamada	depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
19165b77242SSteven Rostedt	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
1924ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	help
1934ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedt
1954ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE
19617d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra
1971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING
1981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
199d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on TRACING
200d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	select BOOT_CONFIG
2011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
2021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
2031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
2041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  initialization and boot process.
2051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
206606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER
2071b29b018SSteven Rostedt	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
208606576ceSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2094d7a077cSSteven Rostedt	select KALLSYMS
2105e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
21135e8e302SSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
21260f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
21302b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
214e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
2151b29b018SSteven Rostedt	help
2161b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
2171b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
21840892367SRandy Dunlap	  instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
2191b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
2201b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
2211b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
2220a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
2230a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
22435e8e302SSteven Rostedt
225fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
226fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
227fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
22815e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
229eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt	depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
230764f3b95SIngo Molnar	default y
23115e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	help
232fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
233fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  and its entry.
234692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
235692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
236692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  the return value. This is done by setting the current return
237692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
23815e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
239a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
240a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value"
241a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
242a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
243a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	default n
244a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	help
245a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return value when
246a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions
247a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can
248a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval.
249a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
250a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
25121e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR
25221e92806SDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address"
25321e92806SDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
25421e92806SDonglin Peng	default n
25521e92806SDonglin Peng	help
25621e92806SDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return address when
25721e92806SDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that
25821e92806SDonglin Peng	  the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can
25921e92806SDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr.
26021e92806SDonglin Peng
26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
26361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
26461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
26561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
26661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
27161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  performance of the system.
27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
2762455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    available_filter_functions
27861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_filter
27961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_notrace
28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
28161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
29160c89718SFlorent Revest	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
294cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
295cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	def_bool y
296cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
297cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
29812f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
29912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	def_bool y
30012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
30112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
30212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn
303cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE
304cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
305cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
30646bc0823SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
307*762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS || !HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
3085b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
3095b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	select RETHOOK
310cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
311cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
3125b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
3135b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
3145b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
3155b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  fprobe.
316cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
317cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
318cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER
32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Kernel function profiler"
32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default n
32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
32461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
32561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
32661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
32761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
32861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
32961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  have been hit and their counters.
33061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
33161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If in doubt, say N.
33261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
33361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER
33461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Trace max stack"
33561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
33661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FUNCTION_TRACER
33761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select STACKTRACE
33861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select KALLSYMS
33961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
34061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
3412455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
34261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
34361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
34461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
34561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  stack-trace saved.  If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
34661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is disabled.
34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
35061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  on the kernel command line.
35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N if unsure.
35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
357c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
358c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
359c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
360c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
361c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  and last enabled.
362bac429f0SSteven Rostedt
36381d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER
36481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
36581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	default n
36681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
36781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
3685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
36981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
37085bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
37122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
37381d68a96SSteven Rostedt	help
37481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
37581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
37681d68a96SSteven Rostedt
37781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
37881d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
37981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  via:
38081d68a96SSteven Rostedt
3812455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
38281d68a96SSteven Rostedt
38340892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
3846cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
3856cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
3866cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
3876cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER
3886cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
3896cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	default n
39030c93704SThomas Gleixner	depends on PREEMPTION
3915e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
3926cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
39385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
39422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3950b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
396c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
3976cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	help
39840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
3996cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
4006cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4016cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
4026cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
4036cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  via:
4046cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4052455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
4066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
40740892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
4086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
4096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
4106cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
411352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER
412352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
4135e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
414352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
415352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
41622cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
417352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	help
418352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
419352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
420352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
421e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER
422e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
423e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select GENERIC_TRACER
424e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
425e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
426e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
427c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
428e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
429e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
430e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
431e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
432e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
433e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
434e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
435e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 is enabled:
436e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
437e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/width   - time in usecs for how long to spin for
438e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/window  - time in usecs between the start of each
439e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)				     iteration
440e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
441e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
442c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
443e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
444e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 continue to operate.
445e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
446e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
447e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
448e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
451e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 production system.
452e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
454e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
455e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 be recorded into the ring buffer.
456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
457bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER
458bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "OS Noise tracer"
459bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
460e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
461bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
462bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
463bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
464bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
465bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
466bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
467bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
468bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
469bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
470bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
471bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
472bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
473bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
474bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
475bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
476bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
477bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  without any interference from the operating system level, the
478bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
479bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
480bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
481bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
482bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
483bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
484bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
487bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
488bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira          file.
491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
492a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER
493a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "Timerlat tracer"
494a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select OSNOISE_TRACER
495a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
496a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
497a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
498a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
499a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
500a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
501a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
502a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
503a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
504a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
505a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to expire.
506a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
507a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
508a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
509a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
510a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
511a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
512a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  respective thread execution.
513a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
514a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
515a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
516a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
517a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
518a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  path that can cause thread delay.
519a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
52021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE
52121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
52221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
52321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select GENERIC_TRACER
52421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
52521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
52621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
52721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
52821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  default and can be enabled at run-time.
52921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
53021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
53121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
53221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
533897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
534897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace process context switches and events"
5355e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
536b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
537b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	help
53840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
539b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	  allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
540897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	  want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
541a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt
542ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS
543ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Trace syscalls"
54466700001SJosh Stone	depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
5455e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5460ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker	select KALLSYMS
547ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	help
548ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
549ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
550debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT
551debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
552debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
553debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	help
554debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
555debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
556debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5572455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
558debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      cat snapshot
559debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5600b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
5610b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
5620b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
5630b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
5640b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
5650b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
5660b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
5670b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  allowed:
5680b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5692455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
5700b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5710b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
5720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
5730b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5740b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
5750b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
5760b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
5770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
5780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
5790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
5800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5812ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5829ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool
5835e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5849ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5859ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice
5869ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	prompt "Branch Profiling"
5879ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
5889ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
5899ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
5909ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5929ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
5939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
5949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
59540892367SRandy Dunlap	 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
5969ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
59740892367SRandy Dunlap	 profiler.
5989ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
59940892367SRandy Dunlap	 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
60040892367SRandy Dunlap	 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
6019ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6029ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
6039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "No branch profiling"
6049ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
6059ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
6069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
6079ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Otherwise keep it disabled.
6089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6099ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
6109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
6119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6121f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	help
61359bf8964SMasanari Iida	  This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
6141f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  in the kernel. It will display the results in:
6151f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6162455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
6171f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
61840892367SRandy Dunlap	  Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
6191f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
6201f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6212bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
62268e76e03SRandy Dunlap	bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
6239ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6242bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	help
6252bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
6262bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
6272bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  The results will be displayed in:
6282bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6292455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
6302bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6319ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
6329ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6332bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
6342bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
63540892367SRandy Dunlap	  is to be analyzed in much detail.
6369ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice
6372bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6382ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES
63952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool
64052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
64152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
64252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
64352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
64452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
64552f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6462ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER
64752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
6482ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6492ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING_BRANCHES
65052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
65152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
65252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  calls in the kernel.  The difference between this and the
65352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
65452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
65552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
65652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events happened, as well as their results.
65752f232cbSSteven Rostedt
65852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Say N if unsure.
65952f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6602db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
66140892367SRandy Dunlap	bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
6622db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on SYSFS
6631dfba05dSIngo Molnar	depends on BLOCK
6642db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select RELAY
6652db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select DEBUG_FS
6662db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
6675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
6682db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select STACKTRACE
6692db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6702db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
6712db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
6722db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
6732db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
6742db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6752db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
6762db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6772db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
6782db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6792db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
6802455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
6812455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
6822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
68436994e58SFrederic Weisbecker
685334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS
686334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE
687334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
688334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
689334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACING
690334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select PROBE_EVENTS
691334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
69246bc0823SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
693334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
694334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
695334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
696334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
697334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
698334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  transparently converted to this fprobe events.
699334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
700b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
701b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
702b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
703b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
704b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
705b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
706b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
707b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
708b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
709b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
710b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
711b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
7126b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS
713413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBES
714f850c30cSHeiko Carstens	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
71577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
716413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	select TRACING
7178ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7186212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
71977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	default y
720413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	help
72140892367SRandy Dunlap	  This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
72240892367SRandy Dunlap	  on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
7235fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
72477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
72577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
72677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  various register and memory values.
72777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
72840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
72940892367SRandy Dunlap	  If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
730413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu
73145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
73245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
73345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
7347bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
73545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
73645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
73745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
73845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  using kprobe events.
73945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
74045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
74128cc65a1SColin Ian King	  functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
74245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
74345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  crash.
74445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
74545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
74645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
74745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
74845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
74945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
75045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
7516b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS
752f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
753f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
754f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on MMU
75509294e31SDavid A. Long	depends on PERF_EVENTS
756f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select UPROBES
757f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7580597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
759f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select TRACING
76061f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	default y
761f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	help
762f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
763f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
764f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
765f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  can probe, and record various registers.
766f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
767f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  of perf tools on user space applications.
768f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju
769e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS
770e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
7716b0b7551SAnton Blanchard	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
772e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool
773e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	default y
774e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	help
7755cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
7765cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  tracepoint events.
777e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar
7785448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS
7795448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu	def_bool n
7805448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu
7818ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS
7828ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	def_bool n
7838ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju
7849802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
7859802d865SJosef Bacik	bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
7869802d865SJosef Bacik	depends on BPF_EVENTS
787540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
7889802d865SJosef Bacik	default n
7899802d865SJosef Bacik	help
7909802d865SJosef Bacik	 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
7919802d865SJosef Bacik	 set a different return value.  This is used for error injection.
7929802d865SJosef Bacik
7938da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7948da3821bSSteven Rostedt	def_bool y
7958da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
7968da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7978da3821bSSteven Rostedt
7983b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
7993b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	bool
8003b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8013b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
8023b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
8033b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8043b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
8053b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8063b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8073b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
80822c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
80922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
81022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
81122c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
81222c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
81322c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
81403f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf	select OBJTOOL
81522c8542dSSami Tolvanen
8163b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
8173b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8183b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8193b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
82022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
8213b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8223b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
82308d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP
82408d43a5fSTom Zanussi	bool
82508d43a5fSTom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
82608d43a5fSTom Zanussi	help
82708d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
82808d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
82908d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  to be shared between multiple tracers.  It isn't meant to be
83008d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  generally used outside of that context, and is normally
83108d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  selected by tracers that use it.
83208d43a5fSTom Zanussi
833726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS
834726721a5STom Zanussi	bool "Synthetic trace events"
835726721a5STom Zanussi	select TRACING
836726721a5STom Zanussi	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
837726721a5STom Zanussi	default n
838726721a5STom Zanussi	help
839726721a5STom Zanussi	  Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
840726721a5STom Zanussi	  used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
841726721a5STom Zanussi	  data source.  Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
842726721a5STom Zanussi	  via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
843726721a5STom Zanussi	  by way of an in-kernel API.
844726721a5STom Zanussi
845726721a5STom Zanussi	  See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
846726721a5STom Zanussi	  Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
847726721a5STom Zanussi
848726721a5STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
849726721a5STom Zanussi
8507f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS
8517f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	bool "User trace events"
8527f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select TRACING
8537f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
8547f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	help
8557f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  User trace events are user-defined trace events that
8567f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  can be used like an existing kernel trace event.  User trace
8577f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  events are generated by writing to a tracefs file.  User
8587f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  processes can determine if their tracing events should be
85972357590SBeau Belgrave	  generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
86072357590SBeau Belgrave	  that reflects when it is enabled or not.
8617f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
86272357590SBeau Belgrave	  See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
8637f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  If in doubt, say N.
8647f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
8657ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS
8667ef224d1STom Zanussi	bool "Histogram triggers"
8677ef224d1STom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
8687ef224d1STom Zanussi	select TRACING_MAP
8697ad8fb61STom Zanussi	select TRACING
8707bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
871726721a5STom Zanussi	select SYNTH_EVENTS
8727ef224d1STom Zanussi	default n
8737ef224d1STom Zanussi	help
8747ef224d1STom Zanussi	  Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
8757ef224d1STom Zanussi	  to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
8767ef224d1STom Zanussi	  reading a debugfs/tracefs file.  They're useful for
8777ef224d1STom Zanussi	  gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
8787ef224d1STom Zanussi	  event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
8797ef224d1STom Zanussi	  using more advanced tools.
8807ef224d1STom Zanussi
88189e270c1STom Zanussi	  Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
88289e270c1STom Zanussi	  supported using hist triggers under this option.
88389e270c1STom Zanussi
884ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
8857ef224d1STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
8867ef224d1STom Zanussi
8876c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
8886c3edaf9SCong Wang	bool "Trace event injection"
8896c3edaf9SCong Wang	depends on TRACING
8906c3edaf9SCong Wang	help
8916c3edaf9SCong Wang	  Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
8926c3edaf9SCong Wang	  buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
8936c3edaf9SCong Wang
8946c3edaf9SCong Wang	  If unsure, say N.
8956c3edaf9SCong Wang
89681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
89781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
89881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
89981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
90081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
90169268094SRolf Eike Beer	 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
90281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
90381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
90481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
90581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
90681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
90781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
90881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
90981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
91081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
91181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
91281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
91381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
91481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 An example of the output:
91581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
91681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      START
91781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
91881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
91981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
92081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
92181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
92281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
92381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
92481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
92581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9265092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
9275092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
9285092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	depends on RING_BUFFER
9295092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	help
9305092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
93140892367SRandy Dunlap	  It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
9325092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
9335092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
9345092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
9355092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
9365092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9375092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
9385092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  affected by processes that are running.
9395092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
94040892367SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N.
9415092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on TRACING
9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	how to convert the string to its value.
9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	names matched with their values and what trace event system they
9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	belong too.
9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If unsure, say N.
9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
970773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
971773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
972773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
973773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
974773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
975773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
976773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
977773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
978773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that triggered a recursion.
979773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
980773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
981773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
982773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N
983773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
984773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
985773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
986773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default 128
987773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
988773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
989773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
990773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
991773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
992773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
993773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  size at runtime.
994773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
995b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING
996b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution"
997b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
998b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
999b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	help
1000b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of
1001b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that
1002b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not
1003b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it
1004b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  also has a noticeable overhead when enabled.
1005b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
1006b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  If unsure, say N
1007b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
100828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
100928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
101028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
101128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	# default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
101228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
101328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
101428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
1015ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
1016ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
101728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
101828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file.
101928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
102028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
102128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
10231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
10241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GCOV_KERNEL
10251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  which functions/lines are tested.
10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N.
10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  run significantly slower.
10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST
10351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
10361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
10391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GENERIC_TRACER
10401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FTRACE_SELFTEST
10411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
10431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
10441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
10451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  tracers of ftrace.
10461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on trace events"
10491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
10511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
10531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
10541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
10551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
10561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
10581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
10591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
10621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
10631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
10641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
10651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
10671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	       events
10681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10698147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
10708147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
10718147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
10726b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
10738147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
10748147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
10758147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
10768147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
10778147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
10788147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
10798147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
10808147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10818147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If unsure, say N
10828147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10836c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
10846c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
10856c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       depends on RING_BUFFER
10866c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       help
10876c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
10886c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
10896c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
10906c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
10916c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
10926c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
10936c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
10946c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
10956c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10966c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
10976c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 by at least 10 more seconds.
10986c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1099ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1100ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
11016c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
11026c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 other similar details.
11036c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If unsure, say N
11056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11065b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
11075b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
11085b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on RING_BUFFER
11095b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11105b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
11115b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
11125b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
11135b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This audit is performed for every event that is not
11145b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
11155b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
11165b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
11175b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
11185b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11195b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
11205b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
11215b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Do not use it on production systems.
11225b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11235b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
11245b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
11255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1126a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1127a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1128a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1129a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1130a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1131a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1132a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1133a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1134a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1135a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1136f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1137a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1138f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on m
1139f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
1140f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1141f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1142f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1143f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  critical section.
1144f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
114579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
114679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
114779393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1148f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11494b9091e1SSong Chen	  What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
11504b9091e1SSong Chen	  tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
11514b9091e1SSong Chen	  command.
11524b9091e1SSong Chen
1153f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  If unsure, say N
1154f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11559fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
11569fe41efaSTom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
11573572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m
11589fe41efaSTom Zanussi	help
11599fe41efaSTom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
11609fe41efaSTom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
11619fe41efaSTom Zanussi          generation.
11629fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11639fe41efaSTom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
11649fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  for the generated sample events.
11659fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11669fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
11679fe41efaSTom Zanussi
116864836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
116964836248STom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
11703572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m
117164836248STom Zanussi	help
117264836248STom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
117364836248STom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
117464836248STom Zanussi
117564836248STom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
117664836248STom Zanussi	  for the generated kprobe events.
117764836248STom Zanussi
117864836248STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
117964836248STom Zanussi
11802d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
11812d19bd79STom Zanussi	bool "Hist trigger debug support"
11822d19bd79STom Zanussi	depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
11832d19bd79STom Zanussi	help
11842d19bd79STom Zanussi          Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
11852d19bd79STom Zanussi          dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
11862d19bd79STom Zanussi          defined on that event.
11872d19bd79STom Zanussi
11882d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
11892d19bd79STom Zanussi
11902d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
11912d19bd79STom Zanussi
11922d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Provides educational information to support the details
11932d19bd79STom Zanussi              of the hist trigger internals as described by
11942d19bd79STom Zanussi              Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
11952d19bd79STom Zanussi
11962d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
11972d19bd79STom Zanussi          related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
11982d19bd79STom Zanussi          display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
11992d19bd79STom Zanussi          running histograms.
12002d19bd79STom Zanussi
12012d19bd79STom Zanussi          If unsure, say N.
12022d19bd79STom Zanussi
1203102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1204102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
12054ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE
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