1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 4606576ceSSteven Rostedt# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo# 62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 88d26487fSTörök Edwin bool 98d26487fSTörök Edwin 102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER 112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker bool 122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker 1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK 1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK 1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu bool 1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal 2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking 2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu features like fprobe and kprobes. 2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu 24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo bool 26555f386cSMike Frysinger help 275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker bool 31555f386cSMike Frysinger help 325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool 36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 37*a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC 38*a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 39*a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 40*a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined. 41*a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 42677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 43677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 44555f386cSMike Frysinger help 455fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 4706aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 50763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 51763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 52763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 54cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 55cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 5702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 5802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 5902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 6094d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 6102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 6294d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 6394d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 65762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS 66762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool 67762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 68762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to 69762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) pt_regs without allocating memory. 70762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 719440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 729440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 739440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 749440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 759440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 769440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 778da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 788da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 79555f386cSMike Frysinger help 805fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 818da3821bSSteven Rostedt 8266700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 83ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 84555f386cSMike Frysinger help 855fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 86ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 87a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 88a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 89a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 90a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 91a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 922f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 932f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 942f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 952f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 962f4df001SVasily Gorbik 9722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 9822c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 9922c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 10022c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 10122c8542dSSami Tolvanen 102280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 104280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 105280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 106280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 107280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 108280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 109cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 11072441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 11172441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 11272441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 11372441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1144ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1154ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1164ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1174ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1194ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1206b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1226b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1234ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1246b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1256b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 127352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 128352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 129352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 130ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 131ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 132ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1337a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1347a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 135ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 13622287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1377a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1385f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 139b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 14060f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 141b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 142b11c53e1SZhaolei 143b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1445f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1455f77a88bSTom Zanussi 14685bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 14785bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 14885bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 14985bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 15085bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 15185bac32cSSteven Rostedt 152c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 156c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 157c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 158c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 159c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 160c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1615e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1645e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 16640892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 168bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 169bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1707a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 171c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1725f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 173f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 174769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1755f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 176ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 17702b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 178bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1795e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1805e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1825e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 18340ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18440ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 18540ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 18640ada30fSIngo Molnar# 18740ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 18840ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1890ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 19040ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 191422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 19240ada30fSIngo Molnar 1934ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 195de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 19665b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1974ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1984ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1994ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 2004ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 20117d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 2021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 2031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 204d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 205d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 2061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 2071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 2081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 2091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 2101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 211606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2121b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 213606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2144d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2155e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 21635e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 21760f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 21802b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney select NEED_TASKS_RCU 219e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2201b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2211b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2221b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 22340892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2241b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2251b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2261b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2270a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2280a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 22935e8e302SSteven Rostedt 230fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 231fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 232fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 23315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 234eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 235764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 23615e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 237fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 238fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 239692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 240692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 241692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 242692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 24315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 244a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 245a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 246a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS 247a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 248a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 249a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 250a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 251a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 252a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 253a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 254a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 255a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 25621e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR 25721e92806SDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address" 25821e92806SDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 25921e92806SDonglin Peng default n 26021e92806SDonglin Peng help 26121e92806SDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return address when 26221e92806SDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that 26321e92806SDonglin Peng the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can 26421e92806SDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr. 26521e92806SDonglin Peng 26661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 27161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 27561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 27861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 27961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 28061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 2812455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 28261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 29660c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 299cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 300cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 301cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 302cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 30312f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 30412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 30512f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 30612f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 30712f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 308cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 309cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 310cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 31146bc0823SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 312762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS || !HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 3135b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 3145b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 315cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 316cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 3175b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 3185b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 3195b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 3205b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 321cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 322cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 323cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 32461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 32561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 32661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 32761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 32861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 32961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 33061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 33161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 33261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 33361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 33461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 33561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 33661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 33761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 33861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 33961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 34061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 34161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 34261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 34361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 34461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 34561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3462455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 35061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 35761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 35861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 35961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 36061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 36161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 362c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 363c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 364c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 365c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 366c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 367bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 36881d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 36981d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 37081d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 37181d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 37281d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3735e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 37481d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 37585bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 37622cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 37881d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 37981d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 38081d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 38181d68a96SSteven Rostedt 38281d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 38381d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 38481d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 38581d68a96SSteven Rostedt 3862455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 38781d68a96SSteven Rostedt 38840892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3896cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3906cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3916cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3926cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3936cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3946cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 39530c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3965e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3976cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 39885bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 39922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 4000b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 401c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 4026cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 40340892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 4046cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 4056cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 4076cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 4086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 4096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 4102455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 4116cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 41240892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 4136cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 4146cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 4156cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 416352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 417352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 4185e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 419352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 420352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 42122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 422352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 423352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 424352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 425352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 426e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 427e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 428e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 429e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 430e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 431e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 432c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 433e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 434e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 435e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 436e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 437e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 438e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 439e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 440e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 441e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 442e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 443e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 444e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 445e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 446e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 447c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 448e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 451e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 452e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 454e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 455e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 457e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 458e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 459e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 460e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 461e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 462bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 463bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 464bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 465e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 466bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 467bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 468bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 469bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 470bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 471bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 472bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 473bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 474bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 475bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 476bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 477bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 478bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 479bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 480bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 481bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 482bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 483bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 484bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 487bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 488bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 492bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 493bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 494bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 495bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 496bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 497a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 498a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 499a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 500a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 501a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 502a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 503a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 504a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 505a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 506a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 507a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 508a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 509a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 510a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 511a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 512a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 513a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 514a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 515a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 516a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 517a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 518a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 519a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 520a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 521a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 522a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 523a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 524a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 52521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 52621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 52721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 52821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 52921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 53021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 53121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 53221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 53321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 53421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 53521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 53621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 53721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 538897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 539897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5405e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 541b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 542b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 54340892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 544b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 545897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 546a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 547ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 548ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 54966700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5510ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 552ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 553ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 554ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 555debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 556debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 557debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 558debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 559debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 560debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 561debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5622455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 563debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 564debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5650b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5660b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5670b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5680b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5690b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5700b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5710b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5720b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5730b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5742455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5750b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5760b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5770b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5790b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5862ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5879ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5885e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5899ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5909ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5929ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5959ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5969ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5979ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5989ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 60040892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 6019ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 60240892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 6039ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 60440892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 60540892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 6069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6079ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 6089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 6099ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 6109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 6119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 6129ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 6139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6149ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 6159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 6169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6171f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 61859bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 6191f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 6201f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6212455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6221f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 62340892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6241f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6251f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6262bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 62768e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6292bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6302bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6312bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6322bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6332bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6342455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 6352bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6369ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6379ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6382bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6392bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 64040892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6419ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6422bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6432ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 64452f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 64552f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 64652f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 64752f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 64852f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 64952f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 65052f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6512ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 65252f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6532ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6542ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 65552f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 65652f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 65752f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 65852f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 65952f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 66052f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 66152f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 66252f232cbSSteven Rostedt 66352f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 66452f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6652db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 66640892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6672db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6681dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6692db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6702db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6712db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6725e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6732db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6742db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6752db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6762db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6772db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6782db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6792db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6802db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6812db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6832db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6852455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 6862455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 6872db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 68936994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 690334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 691334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 692334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 693334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 694334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 695334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 696334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 697334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 698334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 699334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 700334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 701334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 702334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 703334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 704b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 705b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 706b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 707b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 708b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 709b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 710b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 711b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 712b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 713b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 714b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 715b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 7166b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 717413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 718f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 71977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 720413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 7218ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7226212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 72377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 724413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 72540892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 72640892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 72877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 72977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 73077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 73177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 73240892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 73340892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 734413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 73545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 73645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 73745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 7387bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 73945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 74045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 74145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 74245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 74345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 74445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 74528cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 74645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 74745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 74845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 74945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 75045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 75145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 75245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 75345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 75445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 7556b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 756f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 757f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 758f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 75909294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 760f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 761f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7620597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 763f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 76461f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 765f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 766f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 767f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 768f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 769f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 770f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 771f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 772f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 773e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 774e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 7756b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 776e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 777e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 778e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7795cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7805cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 781e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7825448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7835448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7845448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7858ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7868ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7878ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7889802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7899802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7909802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 791540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7929802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7939802d865SJosef Bacik help 7949802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7959802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7969802d865SJosef Bacik 7978da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7988da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7998da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 8008da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8018da3821bSSteven Rostedt 8023b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8033b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 8043b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8053b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 8063b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 8073b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8083b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 8093b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8103b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8113b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 81222c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 81322c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 81422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 81522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 81622c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 81722c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 81803f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 81922c8542dSSami Tolvanen 8203b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 8213b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8223b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8233b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 82422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 8253b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8263b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 82708d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 82808d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 82908d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 83008d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 83108d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 83208d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 83308d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 83408d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 83508d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 83608d43a5fSTom Zanussi 837726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 838726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 839726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 840726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 841726721a5STom Zanussi default n 842726721a5STom Zanussi help 843726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 844726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 845726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 846726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 847726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 848726721a5STom Zanussi 849726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 850726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 851726721a5STom Zanussi 852726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 853726721a5STom Zanussi 8547f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 8557f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 8567f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 8577f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8587f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 8597f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 8607f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 8617f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 8627f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 86372357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 86472357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 8657f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 86672357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 8677f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 8687f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 8697ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 8707ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 8717ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 8727ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 8737ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 8747bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 875726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 8767ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 8777ef224d1STom Zanussi help 8787ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8797ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8807ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8817ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8827ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8837ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8847ef224d1STom Zanussi 88589e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 88689e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 88789e270c1STom Zanussi 888ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8897ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8907ef224d1STom Zanussi 8916c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8926c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8936c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8946c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8956c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8966c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8976c3edaf9SCong Wang 8986c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8996c3edaf9SCong Wang 90081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 90181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 90281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 90381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 90481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 90569268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 90681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 90781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 90881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 90981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 91081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 91181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 91281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 91381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 91481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 91581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 91681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 91781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 91881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 91981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 92081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 92181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 92281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 92381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 92481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 92581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 92681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 92781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 92881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 92981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9305092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 9315092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 9325092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 9335092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 9345092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 93540892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 9365092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 9375092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 9385092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 9395092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 9405092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9415092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 9425092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 9435092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 94440892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 9455092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 9521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 9531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 9541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 9561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 9571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 9581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 9601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 974773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 975773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 976773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 977773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 978773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 979773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 980773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 981773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 982773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 983773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 984773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 985773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 986773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 987773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 988773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 989773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 990773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 991773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 992773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 993773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 994773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 995773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 996773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 997773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 998773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 999b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING 1000b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution" 1001b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 1002b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR 1003b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko help 1004b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of 1005b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that 1006b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not 1007b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it 1008b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko also has a noticeable overhead when enabled. 1009b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 1010b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko If unsure, say N 1011b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko 101228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 101328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 101428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 101528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 101628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 101728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 101828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 1019ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 1020ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 102128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 102228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 102328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 102428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 102528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 10341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 10361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 10371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 10391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 10401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 10431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 10441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 10451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 10471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 10481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 10491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 10501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 10531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 10551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 10571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 10581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 10591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 10601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 10621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 10631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 10661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 10671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 10681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 10691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 10711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 10721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10738147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 10748147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 10758147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 10766b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 10778147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10788147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 10798147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 10808147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 10818147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 10828147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 10838147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 10848147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10858147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 10868147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10876c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 10886c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 10896c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 10906c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 10916c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10926c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10936c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10946c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10956c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10966c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10976c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10986c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10996c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11006c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 11016c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 11026c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1103ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1104ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 11056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 11066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 11076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 11096c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11105b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 11115b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 11125b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 11135b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 11145b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 11155b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 11165b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 11175b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 11185b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 11195b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 11205b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 11215b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 11225b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11235b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 11245b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 11255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 11265b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 11275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 11285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 11295b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1130a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1131a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1132a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1133a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1134a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1135a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1136a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1137a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1138a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1139a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1140f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1141a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1142f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1143f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1144f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1145f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1146f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1147f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1148f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 114979393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 115079393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 115179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1152f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11534b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 11544b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 11554b9091e1SSong Chen command. 11564b9091e1SSong Chen 1157f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1158f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11599fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 11609fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 11613572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 11629fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 11639fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 11649fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 11659fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 11669fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11679fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 11689fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 11699fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11709fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11719fe41efaSTom Zanussi 117264836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 117364836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 11743572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 117564836248STom Zanussi help 117664836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 117764836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 117864836248STom Zanussi 117964836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 118064836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 118164836248STom Zanussi 118264836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 118364836248STom Zanussi 11842d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 11852d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 11862d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 11872d19bd79STom Zanussi help 11882d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 11892d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 11902d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 11912d19bd79STom Zanussi 11922d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11932d19bd79STom Zanussi 11942d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11952d19bd79STom Zanussi 11962d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11972d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11982d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11992d19bd79STom Zanussi 12002d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 12012d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 12022d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 12032d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 12042d19bd79STom Zanussi 12052d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 12062d19bd79STom Zanussi 1207102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1208102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 12094ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1210