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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
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
73352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE
74352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool
75352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
76ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK
77ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	bool
78ea632e9fSJosh Triplett
797a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER
807a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	bool
81ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
8222287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select IRQ_WORK
837a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt
845f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING
85b11c53e1SZhaolei	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
8660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
87b11c53e1SZhaolei	bool
88b11c53e1SZhaolei
89b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
905f77a88bSTom Zanussi	bool
915f77a88bSTom Zanussi
9285bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
9385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	bool
9485bac32cSSteven Rostedt	help
9585bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
9685bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
9785bac32cSSteven Rostedt
98c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
99c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
100c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
101c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACING
102c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	default y
103c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
104c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
105c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
106c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)
1075e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
1085e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
1095e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
1105e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
1115e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
11240892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options.
1135e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
114bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING
115bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt	bool
1167a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER
117c2c80529SAl Viro	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1185f87f112SIngo Molnar	select TRACEPOINTS
119f3384b28SSteven Rostedt	select NOP_TRACER
120769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker	select BINARY_PRINTF
1215f77a88bSTom Zanussi	select EVENT_TRACING
122ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
123bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
1245e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER
1255e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	bool
1265e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
1275e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
12840ada30fSIngo Molnar#
12940ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
13040ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
13140ada30fSIngo Molnar#
13240ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT
13340ada30fSIngo Molnar	bool
1340ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
13540ada30fSIngo Molnar	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
136422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro	default y
13740ada30fSIngo Molnar
1384ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE
1394ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	bool "Tracers"
140de32951bSMasahiro Yamada	depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
14165b77242SSteven Rostedt	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
1424ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	help
1434ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
1444ed9f071SSteven Rostedt
1454ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE
14617d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra
1471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING
1481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
149d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on TRACING
150d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	select BOOT_CONFIG
1511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
1531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
1541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  initialization and boot process.
1551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
156606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER
1571b29b018SSteven Rostedt	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
158606576ceSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
1594d7a077cSSteven Rostedt	select KALLSYMS
1605e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
16135e8e302SSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
16260f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
16301b1d88bSThomas Gleixner	select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
164e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
1651b29b018SSteven Rostedt	help
1661b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
1671b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
16840892367SRandy Dunlap	  instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
1691b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
1701b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
1711b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
1721b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
17335e8e302SSteven Rostedt
174fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
175fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
176fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
17715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
178eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt	depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
179764f3b95SIngo Molnar	default y
18015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	help
181fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
182fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  and its entry.
183692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
184692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
185692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  the return value. This is done by setting the current return
186692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
18715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
18861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
18961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
19061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
19161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
19261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
19361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
19461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
19561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
19661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
19761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
19861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
19961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
20061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
20161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  performance of the system.
20261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
20361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
20461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    available_filter_functions
20561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_filter
20661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_notrace
20761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
20861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
20961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
21061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
21161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
21261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
21361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
21461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
21561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
21661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
21761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
21849a962c0SNaveen N. Rao	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
21961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
22061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
22112f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
22212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	def_bool y
22312f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
22412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
22512f9951dSLukas Bulwahn
22661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER
22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Kernel function profiler"
22861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
22961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default n
23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  have been hit and their counters.
23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If in doubt, say N.
23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER
24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Trace max stack"
24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FUNCTION_TRACER
24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select STACKTRACE
24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select KALLSYMS
24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  stack-trace saved.  If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is disabled.
25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  on the kernel command line.
25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
26061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N if unsure.
26361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
264c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
265c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
266c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
267c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
268c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  and last enabled.
269bac429f0SSteven Rostedt
27081d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER
27181d68a96SSteven Rostedt	bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
27281d68a96SSteven Rostedt	default n
27381d68a96SSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
27481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
2755e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
27681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
27785bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
27822cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
2790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
28081d68a96SSteven Rostedt	help
28181d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
28281d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
28381d68a96SSteven Rostedt
28481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
28581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
28681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  via:
28781d68a96SSteven Rostedt
288156f5a78SGeunSik Lim	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
28981d68a96SSteven Rostedt
29040892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
2916cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
2926cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
2936cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
2946cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER
2956cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
2966cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	default n
29730c93704SThomas Gleixner	depends on PREEMPTION
2985e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
2996cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
30085bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
30122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3020b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
303c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
3046cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	help
30540892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
3066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
3076cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
3086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
3096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
3106cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  via:
3116cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
312156f5a78SGeunSik Lim	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
3136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
31440892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
3156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
3166cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
3176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
318352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER
319352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
3205e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
321352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
322352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
32322cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
324352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	help
325352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
326352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
327352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
328e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER
329e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
330e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select GENERIC_TRACER
331e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
332e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
333c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
334e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
335e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
336e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
337e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
338e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
339e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
340e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
341e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 is enabled:
342e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
343e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/width   - time in usecs for how long to spin for
344e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/window  - time in usecs between the start of each
345e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)				     iteration
346e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
347e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
348c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
349e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
350e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 continue to operate.
351e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
352e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
353e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
354e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
355e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
356e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
357e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 production system.
358e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
359e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
360e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
361e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 be recorded into the ring buffer.
362e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
363bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER
364bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "OS Noise tracer"
365bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
366bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
367bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
368bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
369bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
370bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
371bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
372bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
373bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
374bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
375bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
376bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
377bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
378bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
379bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
380bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
381bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
382bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  without any interference from the operating system level, the
383bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
384bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
385bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
386bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
387bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
388bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
389bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
390bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
391bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
392bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
393bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
394bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
395bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira          file.
396bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
397a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER
398a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "Timerlat tracer"
399a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select OSNOISE_TRACER
400a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
401a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
402a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
403a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
404a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
405a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
406a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
407a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
408a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
409a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
410a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to expire.
411a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
412a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
413a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
414a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
415a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
416a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
417a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  respective thread execution.
418a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
419a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
420a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
421a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
422a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
423a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  path that can cause thread delay.
424a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
42521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE
42621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
42721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
42821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select GENERIC_TRACER
42921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
43021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
43121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
43221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
43321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  default and can be enabled at run-time.
43421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
43521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
43621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
43721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
438897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
439897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace process context switches and events"
4405e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
441b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
442b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	help
44340892367SRandy Dunlap	  This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
444b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	  allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
445897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	  want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
446a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt
447ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS
448ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Trace syscalls"
44966700001SJosh Stone	depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
4505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
4510ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker	select KALLSYMS
452ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	help
453ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
454ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
455debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT
456debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
457debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
458debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	help
459debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
460debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
461debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
462debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
463debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      cat snapshot
464debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
4650b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
4660b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
4670b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
4680b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
4690b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
4700b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
4710b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
4720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  allowed:
4730b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4740b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
4750b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4760b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
4770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
4780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
4800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
4810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
4820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
4830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
4840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
4850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4862ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
4879ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool
4885e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
4899ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
4909ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice
4919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	prompt "Branch Profiling"
4929ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
4939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
4949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
4959ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
4969ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
4979ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
4989ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
4999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
50040892367SRandy Dunlap	 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
5019ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
50240892367SRandy Dunlap	 profiler.
5039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
50440892367SRandy Dunlap	 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
50540892367SRandy Dunlap	 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
5069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5079ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
5089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "No branch profiling"
5099ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
5109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
5119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
5129ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Otherwise keep it disabled.
5139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5149ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
5159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
5169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5171f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	help
51859bf8964SMasanari Iida	  This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
5191f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  in the kernel. It will display the results in:
5201f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
52113e5befaSDavid Rientjes	  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
5221f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
52340892367SRandy Dunlap	  Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
5241f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
5251f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
5262bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
52768e76e03SRandy Dunlap	bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
5289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5292bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	help
5302bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
5312bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
5322bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  The results will be displayed in:
5332bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
53413e5befaSDavid Rientjes	  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
5352bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
5369ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
5379ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5382bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
5392bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
54040892367SRandy Dunlap	  is to be analyzed in much detail.
5419ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice
5422bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
5432ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES
54452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool
54552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
54652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
54752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
54852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
54952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
55052f232cbSSteven Rostedt
5512ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER
55252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
5532ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5542ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING_BRANCHES
55552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
55652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
55752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  calls in the kernel.  The difference between this and the
55852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
55952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
56052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
56152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events happened, as well as their results.
56252f232cbSSteven Rostedt
56352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Say N if unsure.
56452f232cbSSteven Rostedt
5652db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
56640892367SRandy Dunlap	bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
5672db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on SYSFS
5681dfba05dSIngo Molnar	depends on BLOCK
5692db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select RELAY
5702db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select DEBUG_FS
5712db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
5725e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5732db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select STACKTRACE
5742db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	help
5752db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
5762db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
5772db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
5782db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
5792db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
5802db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
5812db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
5822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
5832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
5842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
5852db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
5862db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
5872db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
5882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
58936994e58SFrederic Weisbecker
5906b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS
591413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBES
592f850c30cSHeiko Carstens	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
59377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
594413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	select TRACING
5958ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
5966212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
59777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	default y
598413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	help
59940892367SRandy Dunlap	  This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
60040892367SRandy Dunlap	  on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
6015fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
60277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
60377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
60477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  various register and memory values.
60577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
60640892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
60740892367SRandy Dunlap	  If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
608413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu
60945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
61045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
61145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
6127bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
61345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
61445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
61545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
61645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  using kprobe events.
61745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
61845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
61928cc65a1SColin Ian King	  functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
62045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
62145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  crash.
62245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
62345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
62445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
62545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
62645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
62745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
62845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
6296b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS
630f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
631f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
632f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on MMU
63309294e31SDavid A. Long	depends on PERF_EVENTS
634f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select UPROBES
635f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
6360597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
637f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select TRACING
63861f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	default y
639f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	help
640f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
641f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
642f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
643f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  can probe, and record various registers.
644f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
645f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  of perf tools on user space applications.
646f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju
647e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS
648e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
6496b0b7551SAnton Blanchard	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
650e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool
651e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	default y
652e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	help
6535cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
6545cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  tracepoint events.
655e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar
6565448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS
6575448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu	def_bool n
6585448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu
6598ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS
6608ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	def_bool n
6618ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju
6629802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
6639802d865SJosef Bacik	bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
6649802d865SJosef Bacik	depends on BPF_EVENTS
665540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
6669802d865SJosef Bacik	default n
6679802d865SJosef Bacik	help
6689802d865SJosef Bacik	 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
6699802d865SJosef Bacik	 set a different return value.  This is used for error injection.
6709802d865SJosef Bacik
6718da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
6728da3821bSSteven Rostedt	def_bool y
6738da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
6748da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
6758da3821bSSteven Rostedt
6763b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
6773b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	bool
6783b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
6793b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
6803b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
6813b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
6823b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
6833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
6843b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
6853b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
68622c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
68722c8542dSSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
68822c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
68922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
69022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
69122c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
69222c8542dSSami Tolvanen
6933b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
6943b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
6953b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
6963b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
69722c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
6983b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
6993b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
70008d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP
70108d43a5fSTom Zanussi	bool
70208d43a5fSTom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
70308d43a5fSTom Zanussi	help
70408d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
70508d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
70608d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  to be shared between multiple tracers.  It isn't meant to be
70708d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  generally used outside of that context, and is normally
70808d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  selected by tracers that use it.
70908d43a5fSTom Zanussi
710726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS
711726721a5STom Zanussi	bool "Synthetic trace events"
712726721a5STom Zanussi	select TRACING
713726721a5STom Zanussi	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
714726721a5STom Zanussi	default n
715726721a5STom Zanussi	help
716726721a5STom Zanussi	  Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
717726721a5STom Zanussi	  used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
718726721a5STom Zanussi	  data source.  Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
719726721a5STom Zanussi	  via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
720726721a5STom Zanussi	  by way of an in-kernel API.
721726721a5STom Zanussi
722726721a5STom Zanussi	  See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
723726721a5STom Zanussi	  Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
724726721a5STom Zanussi
725726721a5STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
726726721a5STom Zanussi
7277ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS
7287ef224d1STom Zanussi	bool "Histogram triggers"
7297ef224d1STom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
7307ef224d1STom Zanussi	select TRACING_MAP
7317ad8fb61STom Zanussi	select TRACING
7327bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
733726721a5STom Zanussi	select SYNTH_EVENTS
7347ef224d1STom Zanussi	default n
7357ef224d1STom Zanussi	help
7367ef224d1STom Zanussi	  Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
7377ef224d1STom Zanussi	  to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
7387ef224d1STom Zanussi	  reading a debugfs/tracefs file.  They're useful for
7397ef224d1STom Zanussi	  gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
7407ef224d1STom Zanussi	  event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
7417ef224d1STom Zanussi	  using more advanced tools.
7427ef224d1STom Zanussi
74389e270c1STom Zanussi	  Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
74489e270c1STom Zanussi	  supported using hist triggers under this option.
74589e270c1STom Zanussi
746ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
7477ef224d1STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
7487ef224d1STom Zanussi
7496c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
7506c3edaf9SCong Wang	bool "Trace event injection"
7516c3edaf9SCong Wang	depends on TRACING
7526c3edaf9SCong Wang	help
7536c3edaf9SCong Wang	  Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
7546c3edaf9SCong Wang	  buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
7556c3edaf9SCong Wang
7566c3edaf9SCong Wang	  If unsure, say N.
7576c3edaf9SCong Wang
75881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
75981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
76081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
76181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
76281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
76369268094SRolf Eike Beer	 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
76481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
76581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
76681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
76781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
76881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
76981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
77081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
77181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
77281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
77381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
77481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
77581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
77681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 An example of the output:
77781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
77881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      START
77981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
78081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
78181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
78281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
78381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
78481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
78581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
78681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
78781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
7885092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
7895092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
7905092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	depends on RING_BUFFER
7915092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	help
7925092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
79340892367SRandy Dunlap	  It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
7945092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
7955092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
7965092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
7975092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
7985092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
7995092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
8005092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  affected by processes that are running.
8015092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
80240892367SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N.
8035092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
8041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
8051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
8061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on TRACING
8071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
8081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
8091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
8101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
8111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	how to convert the string to its value.
8121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
8141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
8151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
8161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
8181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
8191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
8211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
8221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	names matched with their values and what trace event system they
8231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	belong too.
8241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
8261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
8271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
8281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
8291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If unsure, say N.
8311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
832773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
833773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
834773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
835773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
836773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
837773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
838773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
839773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
840773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that triggered a recursion.
841773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
842773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
843773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
844773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N
845773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
846773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
847773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
848773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default	128
849773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
850773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
851773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
852773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
853773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
854773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
855773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  size at runtime.
856773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
85728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
85828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
85928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
86028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	# default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
86128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
86228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
86328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
86428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection,
86528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
86628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
86728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file.
86828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
86928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
87028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
8721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
8731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GCOV_KERNEL
8741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
8751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
8761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  which functions/lines are tested.
8771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N.
8791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
8811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  run significantly slower.
8821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST
8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GENERIC_TRACER
8891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FTRACE_SELFTEST
8901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
8911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
8921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
8931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
8941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  tracers of ftrace.
8951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
8961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
8971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on trace events"
8981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
8991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
9001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
9011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
9021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
9031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
9041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
9051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
9071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
9081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
9091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
9101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
9111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
9121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
9131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
9141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
9161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	       events
9171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
918*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
919*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
920*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
921*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
922*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
923*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
924*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
925*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
926*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
927*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
928*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
929*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
930*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If unsure, say N
931*8147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9326c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
9336c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
9346c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       depends on RING_BUFFER
9356c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       help
9366c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
9376c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
9386c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
9396c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
9406c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
9416c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
9426c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
9436c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
9446c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9456c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
9466c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 by at least 10 more seconds.
9476c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9486c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
9496c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
9506c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
9516c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 other similar details.
9526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9536c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If unsure, say N
9546c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9555b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
9565b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
9575b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on RING_BUFFER
9585b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
9595b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
9605b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
9615b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
9625b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This audit is performed for every event that is not
9635b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
9645b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
9655b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
9665b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
9675b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9685b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
9695b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
9705b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Do not use it on production systems.
9715b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9725b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
9735b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
9745b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
975a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST
976a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
977a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on MMIOTRACE && m
978a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
979a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
980a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
981a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
982a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
983a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
984a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
985f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
986a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
987f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on m
988f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
989f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
990f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
991f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
992f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  critical section.
993f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
99479393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
99579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
99679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
997f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
9984b9091e1SSong Chen	  What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
9994b9091e1SSong Chen	  tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
10004b9091e1SSong Chen	  command.
10014b9091e1SSong Chen
1002f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  If unsure, say N
1003f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
10049fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
10059fe41efaSTom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
1006726721a5STom Zanussi	depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
10079fe41efaSTom Zanussi	help
10089fe41efaSTom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
10099fe41efaSTom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
10109fe41efaSTom Zanussi          generation.
10119fe41efaSTom Zanussi
10129fe41efaSTom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
10139fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  for the generated sample events.
10149fe41efaSTom Zanussi
10159fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
10169fe41efaSTom Zanussi
101764836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
101864836248STom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
101964836248STom Zanussi	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
102064836248STom Zanussi	help
102164836248STom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
102264836248STom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
102364836248STom Zanussi
102464836248STom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
102564836248STom Zanussi	  for the generated kprobe events.
102664836248STom Zanussi
102764836248STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
102864836248STom Zanussi
10292d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
10302d19bd79STom Zanussi	bool "Hist trigger debug support"
10312d19bd79STom Zanussi	depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
10322d19bd79STom Zanussi	help
10332d19bd79STom Zanussi          Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
10342d19bd79STom Zanussi          dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
10352d19bd79STom Zanussi          defined on that event.
10362d19bd79STom Zanussi
10372d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
10382d19bd79STom Zanussi
10392d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
10402d19bd79STom Zanussi
10412d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Provides educational information to support the details
10422d19bd79STom Zanussi              of the hist trigger internals as described by
10432d19bd79STom Zanussi              Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
10442d19bd79STom Zanussi
10452d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
10462d19bd79STom Zanussi          related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
10472d19bd79STom Zanussi          display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
10482d19bd79STom Zanussi          running histograms.
10492d19bd79STom Zanussi
10502d19bd79STom Zanussi          If unsure, say N.
10512d19bd79STom Zanussi
10524ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE
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