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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4606576ceSSteven Rostedt#  select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
88d26487fSTörök Edwin	bool
98d26487fSTörök Edwin
102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER
112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker	bool
122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK
1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK
1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  features like fprobe and kprobes.
2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	bool
26555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	bool
31555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool
36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
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
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