1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 36555f386cSMike Frysinger help 375fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 3906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 42763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 43763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 44763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 4502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 4602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 4702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 4802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 49*94d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 5002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 51*94d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 52*94d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 549440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 559440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 569440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 579440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 589440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 599440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 608da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 618da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 62555f386cSMike Frysinger help 635fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 648da3821bSSteven Rostedt 6566700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 66ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 67555f386cSMike Frysinger help 685fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 69ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 70a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 71a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 72a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 73a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 74a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 752f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 762f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 772f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 782f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 792f4df001SVasily Gorbik 8022c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 8122c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 8222c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 8322c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 8422c8542dSSami Tolvanen 85cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 8672441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 8772441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 8872441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 8972441cb1SSteven Rostedt 904ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 914ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 924ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 934ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 944ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 954ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 966b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 976b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 986b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 994ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1006b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1016b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1026b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 103352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 104352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 105352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 106ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 107ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 108ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1097a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1107a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 111ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 11222287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1137a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1145f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 115b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 11660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 117b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 118b11c53e1SZhaolei 119b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1205f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1215f77a88bSTom Zanussi 12285bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 12385bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 12485bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 12585bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 12685bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 12785bac32cSSteven Rostedt 128c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 129c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 130c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 131c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 132c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 133c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 134c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 135c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 136c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1375e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1385e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1395e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1405e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1415e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 14240892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1435e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 144bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 145bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1467a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 147c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1485f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 149f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 150769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1515f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 152ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 153835f14edSPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 154bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1555e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1565e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1575e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1585e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 15940ada30fSIngo Molnar# 16040ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 16140ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 16240ada30fSIngo Molnar# 16340ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 16440ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1650ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 16640ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 167422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 16840ada30fSIngo Molnar 1694ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1704ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 171de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 17265b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1734ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1744ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1754ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1764ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 17717d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 180d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 181d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 187606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 1881b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 189606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 1904d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 1915e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 19235e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 19360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 19401b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 195e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 1961b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 1971b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 1981b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 19940892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2001b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2011b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2021b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2030a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2040a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 20535e8e302SSteven Rostedt 206fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 207fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 208fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 20915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 210eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 211764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 21215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 213fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 214fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 215692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 216692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 217692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 218692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 21915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 22061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 22161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 22261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 22361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 22461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 22561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 22661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 22761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 22861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 22961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: 23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 25049a962c0SNaveen N. Rao depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 25312f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 25412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 25512f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 25612f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 25712f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 258cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 259cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 260cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 261cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2625b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 2635b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 264cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 265cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2665b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 2675b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 2685b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 2695b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 270cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 271cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 272cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 27861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 27961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 28161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. 29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 311c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 312c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 313c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 314c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 315c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 316bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 31781d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 31881d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 31981d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 32081d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 32181d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3225e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 32381d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 32485bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 32522cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3260b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 32781d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 32881d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 32981d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 33081d68a96SSteven Rostedt 33181d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 33281d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 33381d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 33481d68a96SSteven Rostedt 335156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 33681d68a96SSteven Rostedt 33740892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3386cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3396cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3406cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3416cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3426cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3436cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 34430c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3455e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3466cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 34785bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 34822cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3490b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 350c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3516cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 35240892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3536cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3546cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3556cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3566cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3576cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3586cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 359156f5a78SGeunSik Lim echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3606cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 36140892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3626cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3636cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3646cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 365352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 366352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 368352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 369352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 37022cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 371352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 372352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 373352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 374352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 375e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 376e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 377e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 378e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 379e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 380c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 381e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 382e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 383e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 384e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 385e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 386e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 387e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 388e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 389e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 390e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 391e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 392e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 393e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 394e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 395c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 396e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 397e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 398e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 399e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 400e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 401e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 402e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 403e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 404e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 405e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 406e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 407e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 408e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 409e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 410bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 411bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 412bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 413bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 414bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 415bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 416bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 417bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 418bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 419bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 420bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 421bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 422bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 423bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 424bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 425bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 426bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 427bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 428bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 429bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 430bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 431bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 432bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 433bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 434bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 435bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 436bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 437bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 438bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 439bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 440bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 441bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 442bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 443bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 444a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 445a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 446a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 447a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 448a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 449a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 450a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 451a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 452a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 453a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 454a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 455a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 456a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 457a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 458a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 459a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 460a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 461a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 462a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 463a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 464a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 465a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 466a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 467a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 468a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 469a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 470a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 471a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 47221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 47321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 47421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 47521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 47621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 47721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 47821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 47921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 48021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 48121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 48221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 48321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 48421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 485897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 486897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 4875e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 488b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 489b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 49040892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 491b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 492897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 493a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 494ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 495ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 49666700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 4975e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 4980ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 499ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 500ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 501ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 502debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 503debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 504debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 505debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 506debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 507debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 508debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 509debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot 510debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 511debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5120b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5130b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5140b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5150b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5160b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5170b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5180b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5190b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5200b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5210b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5230b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5240b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5250b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5260b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5270b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5280b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5300b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5332ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5349ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5355e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5369ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5379ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5389ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5399ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5409ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5419ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5429ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5449ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5459ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5469ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 54740892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5489ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 54940892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 55140892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 55240892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5539ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5559ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5569ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5589ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5609ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5619ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5639ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5641f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 56559bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5661f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5671f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 56813e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 5691f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 57040892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 5711f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 5721f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5732bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 57468e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 5759ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5762bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 5772bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 5782bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 5792bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 5802bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 58113e5befaSDavid Rientjes /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 5822bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5839ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 5849ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5852bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 5862bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 58740892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 5889ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 5892bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 5902ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 59152f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 59252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 59352f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 59452f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 59552f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 59652f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 59752f232cbSSteven Rostedt 5982ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 59952f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6002ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6012ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 60252f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 60352f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 60452f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 60552f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 60652f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 60752f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 60852f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 60952f232cbSSteven Rostedt 61052f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 61152f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6122db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 61340892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6142db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6151dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6162db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6172db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6182db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6195e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6202db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6212db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6222db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6232db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6242db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6252db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6262db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6272db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6282db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6292db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6302db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6312db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6322db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer 6332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe 6342db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6352db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 63636994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 6376b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 638413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 639f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 64077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 641413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6428ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6436212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 64477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 645413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 64640892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 64740892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 6485fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 64977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 65077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 65177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 65277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 65340892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 65440892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 655413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 65645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 65745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 65845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 6597bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 66045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 66145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 66245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 66345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 66445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 66545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 66628cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 66745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 66845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 66945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 67045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 67145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 67245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 67345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 67445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 67545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 6766b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 677f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 678f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 679f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 68009294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 681f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 682f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 6830597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 684f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 68561f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 686f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 687f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 688f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 689f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 690f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 691f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 692f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 693f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 694e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 695e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 6966b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 697e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 698e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 699e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7005cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7015cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 702e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7035448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7045448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7055448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7068ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7078ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7088ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7099802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7109802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7119802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 712540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7139802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7149802d865SJosef Bacik help 7159802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7169802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7179802d865SJosef Bacik 7188da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7198da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7208da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 7218da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7228da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7233b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7243b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 7253b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7263b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 7273b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 7283b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7293b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 7303b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7313b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7323b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 73322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 73422c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 73522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 73622c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 73722c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 73822c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 73903f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 74022c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7423b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7433b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7443b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 74522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 7463b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7473b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 74808d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 74908d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 75008d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 75108d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 75208d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 75308d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 75408d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 75508d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 75608d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 75708d43a5fSTom Zanussi 758726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 759726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 760726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 761726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 762726721a5STom Zanussi default n 763726721a5STom Zanussi help 764726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 765726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 766726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 767726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 768726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 769726721a5STom Zanussi 770726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 771726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 772726721a5STom Zanussi 773726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 774726721a5STom Zanussi 7757f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 7767f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 7777f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 7787f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7791cd927adSSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out 7807f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 7817f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 7827f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 7837f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 7847f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 7857f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave generated by memory mapping a tracefs file and checking for 7867f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave an associated byte being non-zero. 7877f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7887f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 7897f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 7907ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 7917ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 7927ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 7937ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 7947ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 7957bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 796726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 7977ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 7987ef224d1STom Zanussi help 7997ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8007ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8017ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8027ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8037ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8047ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8057ef224d1STom Zanussi 80689e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 80789e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 80889e270c1STom Zanussi 809ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8107ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8117ef224d1STom Zanussi 8126c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8136c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8146c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8156c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8166c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8176c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8186c3edaf9SCong Wang 8196c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8206c3edaf9SCong Wang 82181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 82281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 82381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 82481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 82581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 82669268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 82781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 82881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 82981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 83081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 83181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 83281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 83381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 83481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 83581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 83681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 83781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 83881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 83981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 84081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 84181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 84281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 84381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 84481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 84581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 84681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 84781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 84881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 84981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 85081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8515092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 8525092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 8535092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 8545092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 8555092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 85640892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 8575092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 8585092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 8595092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 8605092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 8615092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8625092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 8635092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 8645092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 86540892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 8665092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 8671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 8681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 8691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 8701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 8711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 8721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 8731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 8741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 8751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 8771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 8781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 8791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 8811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 8821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 8841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 8851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 8861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 8871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 8891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 8901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 8911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 8921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 8931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 8941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 895773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 896773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 897773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 898773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 899773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 900773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 901773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 902773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 903773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 904773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 905773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 906773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 907773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 908773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 909773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 910773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 911773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 912773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 913773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 914773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 915773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 916773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 917773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 918773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 919773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 92028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 92128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 92228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 92328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 92428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 92528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 92628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 92728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) recursion happens it wont cause harm because of the protection, 92828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) but it does cause an unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 92928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 93028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 93128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 93228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 93328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 9351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 9741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 9751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 9761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 9771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 9791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 9801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9818147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 9828147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 9838147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 9846b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 9858147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9868147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 9878147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 9888147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 9898147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 9908147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 9918147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 9928147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9938147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 9948147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9956c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 9966c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 9976c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 9986c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 9996c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10006c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10016c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10026c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10036c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 10096c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 10106c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10116c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. 10126c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What 10136c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 10146c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 10156c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10166c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 10176c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10185b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 10195b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 10205b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 10215b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10225b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 10235b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 10245b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 10255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 10265b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 10275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 10285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 10295b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 10305b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10315b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 10325b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 10335b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 10345b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10355b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10365b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10375b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1038a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1039a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1040a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1041a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1042a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1043a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1044a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1045a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1046a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1047a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1048f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1049a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1050f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1051f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1052f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1053f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1054f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1055f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1056f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 105779393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 105879393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 105979393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1060f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10614b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 10624b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 10634b9091e1SSong Chen command. 10644b9091e1SSong Chen 1065f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1066f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 10679fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 10689fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1069726721a5STom Zanussi depends on SYNTH_EVENTS 10709fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 10719fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 10729fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 10739fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 10749fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10759fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 10769fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 10779fe41efaSTom Zanussi 10789fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 10799fe41efaSTom Zanussi 108064836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 108164836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 108264836248STom Zanussi depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 108364836248STom Zanussi help 108464836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 108564836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 108664836248STom Zanussi 108764836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 108864836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 108964836248STom Zanussi 109064836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 109164836248STom Zanussi 10922d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 10932d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 10942d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 10952d19bd79STom Zanussi help 10962d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 10972d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 10982d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 10992d19bd79STom Zanussi 11002d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11012d19bd79STom Zanussi 11022d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11032d19bd79STom Zanussi 11042d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11052d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11062d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11072d19bd79STom Zanussi 11082d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 11092d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 11102d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 11112d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 11122d19bd79STom Zanussi 11132d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11142d19bd79STom Zanussi 1115102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1116102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 11174ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1118