1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 13606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1416444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 15555f386cSMike Frysinger help 165fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 17bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 18fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 1915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 20555f386cSMike Frysinger help 215fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 2215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 23677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 25555f386cSMike Frysinger help 265fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 27677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 2806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 3006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 31763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 32763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 33763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 3402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 3602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 3702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 3802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) the pt_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 3902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 4002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) This allows for use of regs_get_kernel_argument() and 4102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel_stack_pointer(). 4202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 438da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 448da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 45555f386cSMike Frysinger help 465fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 478da3821bSSteven Rostedt 4866700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 49ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 50555f386cSMike Frysinger help 515fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 52ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 53a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 54a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 55a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 56a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 57a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 582f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 592f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 602f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 612f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 622f4df001SVasily Gorbik 6322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 6422c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 6522c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 6622c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 6722c8542dSSami Tolvanen 68cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 6972441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 7072441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 7172441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 7272441cb1SSteven Rostedt 734ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 744ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 754ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 764ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 774ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 784ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 796b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 806b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 816b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 824ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 836b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 846b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 856b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 86352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 87352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 88352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 89ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 90ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 91ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 927a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 937a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 94ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 9522287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 967a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 975f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 98b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 9960f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 100b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 101b11c53e1SZhaolei 102b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1035f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1045f77a88bSTom Zanussi 10585bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 10685bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 10785bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 10885bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 10985bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 11085bac32cSSteven Rostedt 111c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 112c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 113c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 114c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 115c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 116c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 117c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 118c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 119c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1205e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1215e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1225e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1235e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1245e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 12540892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1265e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 127bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 128bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1297a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 130c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1315f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 132f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 133769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1345f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 135ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 136bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1375e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1385e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1395e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1405e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 14140ada30fSIngo Molnar# 14240ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 14340ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 14440ada30fSIngo Molnar# 14540ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 14640ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1470ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 14840ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 149422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 15040ada30fSIngo Molnar 1514ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1524ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 153de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 15465b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1554ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1564ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1574ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1584ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 15917d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 162d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 163d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 169606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1701b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 171606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1724d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 1735e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 17435e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 17560f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 17601b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 177e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 1781b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 1791b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 1801b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 18140892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 1821b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 1831b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 1841b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 1851b29b018SSteven Rostedt small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks. 18635e8e302SSteven Rostedt 187fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 188fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 189fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 19015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 191eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 192764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 19315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 194fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 195fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 196692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 197692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 198692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 199692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 20015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 20161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 20261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 20361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 20461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 20561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 20661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 20761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 20861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 20961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 21061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 21161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 21261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 21361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 21461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 21561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 21661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: 21761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 21861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 21961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 22061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 22261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 22361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 22561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 22661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 22861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 22961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 23149a962c0SNaveen N. Rao depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 23412f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 23512f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 23612f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 23712f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 23812f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 26061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. 26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 26461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 26561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 26661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 27161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 277c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 278c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 279c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 280c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 281c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 282bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 28381d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 28481d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 28581d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 28681d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 28781d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 2885e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 28981d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 29085bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 29122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 2920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 29381d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 29481d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 29581d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 29681d68a96SSteven Rostedt 29781d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 29881d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 29981d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 30081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 301156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 30281d68a96SSteven Rostedt 30340892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3046cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3056cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3076cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 31030c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3115e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3126cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 31385bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 31422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3150b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 316c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 31840892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3196cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3206cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3216cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3226cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3236cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3246cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 325156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3266cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 32740892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3286cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3296cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3306cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 331352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 332352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3335e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 334352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 335352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 33622cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 337352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 338352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 339352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 340352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 341e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 342e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 343e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 344e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 345e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 346c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 347e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 348e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 349e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 350e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 351e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 352e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 353e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 354e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 355e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 356e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 357e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 358e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 359e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 360e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 361c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 362e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 363e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 364e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 365e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 366e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 367e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 368e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 369e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 370e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 371e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 372e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 373e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 374e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 375e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 376bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 377bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 378bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 379bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 380bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 381bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 382bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 383bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 384bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 385bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 386bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 387bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 388bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 389bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 390bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 391bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 392bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 393bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 394bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 395bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 396bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 397bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 398bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 399bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 400bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 401bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 402bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 403bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 404bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 405bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 406bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 407bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 408bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 409bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 410a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 411a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 412a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 413a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 414a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 415a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 416a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 417a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 418a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 419a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 420a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 421a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 422a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 423a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 424a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 425a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 426a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 427a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 428a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 429a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 430a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 431a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 432a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 433a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 434a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 435a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 436a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 437a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 43821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 43921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 44021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 44121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 44221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 44321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 44421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 44521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 44621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 44721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 44821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 44921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 45021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 451897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 452897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 4535e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 454b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 455b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 45640892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 457b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 458897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 459a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 460ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 461ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 46266700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 4635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4640ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 465ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 466ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 467ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 468debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 469debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 470debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 471debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 472debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 473debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 474debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 475debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot 476debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 477debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 4780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 4790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 4800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 4820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 4830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 4840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 4850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 4860b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4870b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 4880b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4890b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 4900b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 4910b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 4930b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 4940b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 4950b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 4960b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 4970b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 4980b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4992ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5009ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5015e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5029ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5039ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5049ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5059ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5079ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5099ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5129ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 51340892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5149ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 51540892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 51740892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 51840892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5199ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5209ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5219ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5229ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5239ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5249ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5259ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5269ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5279ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5299ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5301f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 53159bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5321f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5331f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 53413e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5351f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 53640892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5371f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5381f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5392bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 54068e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5419ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5422bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5432bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5442bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5452bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5462bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 54713e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5482bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5499ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5512bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 5522bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 55340892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 5552bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5562ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 55752f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 55852f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 55952f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 56052f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 56152f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 56252f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 56352f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5642ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 56552f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 5662ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5672ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 56852f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 56952f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 57052f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 57152f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 57252f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 57352f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 57452f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 57552f232cbSSteven Rostedt 57652f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 57752f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5782db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 57940892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 5802db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 5811dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 5822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 5832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 5842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 5855e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5862db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 5872db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 5882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 5892db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 5902db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 5912db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 5922db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5932db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 5942db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5952db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 5962db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 5972db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 5982db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer 5992db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe 6002db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6012db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 60236994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 6036b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 604413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 605f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 60677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 607413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6088ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6096212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 61077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 611413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 61240892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 61340892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6145fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 61577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 61677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 61777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 61877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 61940892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 62040892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 621413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 62245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 62345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 62445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6257bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 62645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 62745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 62845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 62945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 63045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 63145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 63228cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 63345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 63445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 63545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 63645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 63745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 63845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 63945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 64045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 64145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6426b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 643f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 644f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 645f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 64609294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 647f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 648f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6490597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 650f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 65161f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 652f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 653f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 654f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 655f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 656f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 657f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 658f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 659f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 660e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 661e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 6626b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 663e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 664e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 665e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 6665cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 6675cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 668e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 6695448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 6705448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 6715448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 6728ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 6738ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 6748ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 6759802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 6769802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 6779802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 678540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 6799802d865SJosef Bacik default n 6809802d865SJosef Bacik help 6819802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 6829802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 6839802d865SJosef Bacik 6848da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6858da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 6868da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 6878da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6888da3821bSSteven Rostedt 6893b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 6903b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 6913b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6923b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 6933b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 6943b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 6953b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 6963b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 6973b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 6983b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 69922c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 70022c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 70122c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 70222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 70322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 70422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 70522c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7063b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7073b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7083b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7093b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 71022c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7113b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7123b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 71308d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 71408d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 71508d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 71608d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 71708d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 71808d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 71908d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 72008d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 72108d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 72208d43a5fSTom Zanussi 723726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 724726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 725726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 726726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 727726721a5STom Zanussi default n 728726721a5STom Zanussi help 729726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 730726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 731726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 732726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 733726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 734726721a5STom Zanussi 735726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 736726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 737726721a5STom Zanussi 738726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 739726721a5STom Zanussi 740*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 741*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 742*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 743*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 744*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 745*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 746*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 747*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 748*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 749*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave generated by memory mapping a tracefs file and checking for 750*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave an associated byte being non-zero. 751*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 752*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 753*7f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7547ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 7557ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 7567ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 7577ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 7587ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 7597bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 760726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 7617ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 7627ef224d1STom Zanussi help 7637ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 7647ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 7657ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 7667ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 7677ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 7687ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 7697ef224d1STom Zanussi 77089e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 77189e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 77289e270c1STom Zanussi 773ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 7747ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 7757ef224d1STom Zanussi 7766c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 7776c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 7786c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 7796c3edaf9SCong Wang help 7806c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 7816c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 7826c3edaf9SCong Wang 7836c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 7846c3edaf9SCong Wang 78581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 78681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 78781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 78881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 78981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 79069268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 79181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 79281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 79381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 79481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 79581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 79681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 79781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 79881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 79981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 80081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 80181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 80281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 80381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 80481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 80581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 80681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 80781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 80881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 80981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 81081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 81181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 81281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 81381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 81481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8155092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 8165092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 8175092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 8185092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 8195092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 82040892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8215092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8225092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8235092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8245092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8255092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8265092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8275092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8285092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 82940892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8305092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 8481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 8491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 8501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 8511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 8531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 8541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 8551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 8561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 8581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 859773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 860773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 861773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 862773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 863773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 864773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 865773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 866773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 867773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 868773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 869773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 870773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 871773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 872773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 873773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 874773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 875773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 876773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 877773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 878773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 879773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 880773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 881773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 882773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 883773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 88428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 88528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 88628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 88728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 88828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 88928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 89028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 89128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection, 89228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 89328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 89428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 89528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 89628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 89728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 8991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 9081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 9091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 9111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 9121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 9151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 9161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 9171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 9191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9458147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9468147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 9478147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 9486b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 9498147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9508147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 9518147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 9528147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 9538147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 9548147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 9558147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 9568147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9578147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 9588147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9596c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 9606c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 9616c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 9626c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 9636c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 9646c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 9656c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 9666c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 9676c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 9686c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 9696c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 9706c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 9716c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9726c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 9736c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 9746c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9756c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. 9766c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What 9776c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 9786c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 9796c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9806c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 9816c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9825b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 9835b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 9845b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 9855b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9865b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 9875b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 9885b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 9895b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 9905b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 9915b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 9925b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 9935b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 9945b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9955b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 9965b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 9975b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 9985b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9995b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10005b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10015b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1002a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1003a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1004a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1005a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1006a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1007a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1008a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1009a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1010a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1011a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1012f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1013a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1014f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1015f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1016f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1017f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1018f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1019f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1020f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 102179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 102279393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 102379393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1024f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10254b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10264b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10274b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10284b9091e1SSong Chen 1029f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1030f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10319fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10329fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1033726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10349fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10359fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10369fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10379fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10389fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10399fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10409fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10419fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10429fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10439fe41efaSTom Zanussi 104464836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 104564836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 104664836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 104764836248STom Zanussi help 104864836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 104964836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 105064836248STom Zanussi 105164836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 105264836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 105364836248STom Zanussi 105464836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 105564836248STom Zanussi 10562d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 10572d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 10582d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 10592d19bd79STom Zanussi help 10602d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 10612d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 10622d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 10632d19bd79STom Zanussi 10642d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 10652d19bd79STom Zanussi 10662d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 10672d19bd79STom Zanussi 10682d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 10692d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 10702d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 10712d19bd79STom Zanussi 10722d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 10732d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 10742d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 10752d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 10762d19bd79STom Zanussi 10772d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10782d19bd79STom Zanussi 10794ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1080