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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
37a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
38a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool
39a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
40a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined.
41a762e926SMasami 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
569f0cb917SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_EXTRA_IPI_TRACEPOINTS
579f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	bool
589f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	help
599f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	 For architectures that use ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit
609f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	 tracepoints.
619f0cb917SSteven Rostedt
6202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
6302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
6502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
6694d095ffSMark Rutland	 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
6702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
6894d095ffSMark Rutland	 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
6994d095ffSMark Rutland	 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
7002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)
71762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS
72762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool
73762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
74762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to
75762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 pt_regs without allocating memory.
76762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
779440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
789440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	bool
799440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	help
809440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
819440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
829440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
8366700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
84ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
85555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
865fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
87ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
88a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY
89a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	bool
90a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	help
91a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
92a2546faeSSteven Rostedt
932f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
942f4df001SVasily Gorbik	bool
952f4df001SVasily Gorbik	help
962f4df001SVasily Gorbik	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
972f4df001SVasily Gorbik
9822c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
9922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	bool
10022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	help
10122c8542dSSami Tolvanen	  Arch supports objtool --mcount
10222c8542dSSami Tolvanen
103280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
104280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	bool
105280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	help
106280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
107280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
108280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  of ftrace locations.
109280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy
110cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
11172441cb1SSteven Rostedt	bool
11272441cb1SSteven Rostedt	help
11372441cb1SSteven Rostedt	  C version of recordmcount available?
11472441cb1SSteven Rostedt
1154ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1164ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1174ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1184ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)         An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
1194ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)	 at build time.
1204ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)
1216b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1226b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1236b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       default y
1244ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
1256b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)         Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
1276b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)
128352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE
129352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool
130352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
131ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK
132ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	bool
133ea632e9fSJosh Triplett
1347a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER
1357a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	bool
136ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
13722287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select IRQ_WORK
1387a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt
1395f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING
140b11c53e1SZhaolei	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
14160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
142b11c53e1SZhaolei	bool
143b11c53e1SZhaolei
144b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
1455f77a88bSTom Zanussi	bool
1465f77a88bSTom Zanussi
14785bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
14885bac32cSSteven Rostedt	bool
14985bac32cSSteven Rostedt	help
15085bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
15185bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
15285bac32cSSteven Rostedt
153c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
154c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
155c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
156c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACING
157c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	default y
158c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
159c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
160c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
161c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)
1625e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
1635e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
1645e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
1665e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
16740892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options.
1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
169bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING
170bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt	bool
1717a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER
172c2c80529SAl Viro	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1735f87f112SIngo Molnar	select TRACEPOINTS
174f3384b28SSteven Rostedt	select NOP_TRACER
175769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker	select BINARY_PRINTF
1765f77a88bSTom Zanussi	select EVENT_TRACING
177ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
17802b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
179bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
1805e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER
1815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	bool
1825e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
1835e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
18440ada30fSIngo Molnar#
18540ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
18640ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
18740ada30fSIngo Molnar#
18840ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT
18940ada30fSIngo Molnar	bool
1900ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
19140ada30fSIngo Molnar	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
192422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro	default y
19340ada30fSIngo Molnar
1944ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE
1954ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	bool "Tracers"
196de32951bSMasahiro Yamada	depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
19765b77242SSteven Rostedt	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
1984ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	help
1994ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
2004ed9f071SSteven Rostedt
2014ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE
20217d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra
2039ba817fbSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED
2049ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Automount tracefs on debugfs [DEPRECATED]"
2059ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACING
2069ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	default y
2079ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	help
2089ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  The tracing interface was moved from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
2099ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  to /sys/kernel/tracing in 2015, but the tracing file system
2109ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  was still automounted in /sys/kernel/debug for backward
2119ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  compatibility with tooling.
2129ba817fbSSteven Rostedt
2139ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  The new interface has been around for more than 10 years and
2149ba817fbSSteven Rostedt	  the old debug mount will soon be removed.
2159ba817fbSSteven Rostedt
2161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING
2171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
218d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on TRACING
219d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	select BOOT_CONFIG
2201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
2211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
2221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
2231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  initialization and boot process.
2241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
225606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER
2261b29b018SSteven Rostedt	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
227606576ceSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2284d7a077cSSteven Rostedt	select KALLSYMS
2295e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
23035e8e302SSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
23160f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
23202b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
233e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
2341b29b018SSteven Rostedt	help
2351b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
2361b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
23740892367SRandy Dunlap	  instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
2381b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
2391b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
2401b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
2410a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
2420a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
24335e8e302SSteven Rostedt
244fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
245fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
246fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
24715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
248eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt	depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
249764f3b95SIngo Molnar	default y
25015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	help
251fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
252fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  and its entry.
253692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
254692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
255692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  the return value. This is done by setting the current return
256692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
25715e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
258a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
259a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value"
260a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
261a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
262a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	default n
263a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	help
264a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return value when
265a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions
266a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can
267a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval.
268a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
269a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
27021e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR
27121e92806SDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address"
27221e92806SDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
27321e92806SDonglin Peng	default n
27421e92806SDonglin Peng	help
27521e92806SDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return address when
27621e92806SDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that
27721e92806SDonglin Peng	  the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can
27821e92806SDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr.
27921e92806SDonglin Peng
280533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS
281533c20b0SSven Schnelle       bool
282b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt	depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
283533c20b0SSven Schnelle	default y
284ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	help
285ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then
286ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing
287ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be
288ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and
289ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer)
290533c20b0SSven Schnelle
29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
2929b4d5d33SSteven Rostedt	bool
29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  performance of the system.
30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
3062455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    available_filter_functions
30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_filter
30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_notrace
31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
32160c89718SFlorent Revest	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
324cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
325cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	def_bool y
326cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
327cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
32812f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
32912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	def_bool y
33012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
33112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
33212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn
333*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING
334*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	bool "Function trace tracing code"
335*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
336*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	help
337*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  Normally all the tracing code is set to notrace, where the function
338*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  tracer will ignore all the tracing functions. Sometimes it is useful
339*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  for debugging to trace some of the tracing infratructure itself.
340*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  Enable this to allow some of the tracing infrastructure to be traced
341*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  by the function tracer. Note, this will likely add noise to function
342*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  tracing if events and other tracing features are enabled along with
343*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  function tracing.
344*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt
345*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt	  If unsure, say N.
346*f93a7d0cSSteven Rostedt
347cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE
348cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
3494346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
3504346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
3514346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
352cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
353cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
3545b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
3555b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
3565b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
3575b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  fprobe.
358cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
359cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
360cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
36161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER
36261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Kernel function profiler"
36361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
36461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default n
36561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
36661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
36761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
36861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
36961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
37061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
37161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  have been hit and their counters.
37261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
37361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If in doubt, say N.
37461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
37561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER
37661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Trace max stack"
37761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
37861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FUNCTION_TRACER
37961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select STACKTRACE
38061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select KALLSYMS
38161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
38261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
3832455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
38461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
38561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
38661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
38761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  stack-trace saved.  If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
38961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is disabled.
39061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
39161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
39261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  on the kernel command line.
39361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
39461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
39561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
39661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
39761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N if unsure.
39861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
399c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
400c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
401c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
402c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
403c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  and last enabled.
404bac429f0SSteven Rostedt
40581d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER
40681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
40781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	default n
40881d68a96SSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
40981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
4105e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
41181d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
41285bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
41322cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
4140b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
41581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	help
41681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
41781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
41881d68a96SSteven Rostedt
41981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
42081d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
42181d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  via:
42281d68a96SSteven Rostedt
4232455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
42481d68a96SSteven Rostedt
42540892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
4266cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
4276cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
4286cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4296cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER
4306cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
4316cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	default n
43230c93704SThomas Gleixner	depends on PREEMPTION
4335e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
4346cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
43585bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
43622cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
4370b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
438c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
4396cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	help
44040892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
4416cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
4426cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4436cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
4446cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
4456cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  via:
4466cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4472455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
4486cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
44940892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
4506cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
4516cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
4526cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
453352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER
454352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
4555e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
456352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
457352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
45822cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
459352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	help
460352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
461352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
462352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
463e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER
464e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
465e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select GENERIC_TRACER
466e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
467e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
468e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
469c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
470e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
471e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
472e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
473e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
474e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
475e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
476e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
477e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 is enabled:
478e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
479e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/width   - time in usecs for how long to spin for
480e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/window  - time in usecs between the start of each
481e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)				     iteration
482e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
483e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
484c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
485e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
486e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 continue to operate.
487e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
488e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
489e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
490e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
491e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
492e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
493e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 production system.
494e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
495e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
496e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
497e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 be recorded into the ring buffer.
498e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
499bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER
500bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "OS Noise tracer"
501bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
502e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
503bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
504bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
505bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
506bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
507bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
508bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
509bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
510bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
511bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
512bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
513bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
514bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
515bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
516bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
517bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
518bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
519bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  without any interference from the operating system level, the
520bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
521bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
522bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
523bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
524bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
525bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
526bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
527bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
528bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
529bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
530bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
531bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
532bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira          file.
533bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
534a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER
535a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "Timerlat tracer"
536a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select OSNOISE_TRACER
537a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
538a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
539a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
540a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
541a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
542a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
543a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
544a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
545a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
546a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
547a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to expire.
548a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
549a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
550a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
551a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
552a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
553a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
554a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  respective thread execution.
555a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
556a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
557a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
558a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
559a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
560a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  path that can cause thread delay.
561a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
56221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE
56321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
56421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
56521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select GENERIC_TRACER
56621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
56721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
56821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
56921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
57021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  default and can be enabled at run-time.
57121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
57221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
57321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
57421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
575897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
576897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace process context switches and events"
5775e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
578b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
579b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	help
58040892367SRandy Dunlap	  This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
581b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	  allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
582897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	  want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
583a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt
584ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS
585ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Trace syscalls"
58666700001SJosh Stone	depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
5875e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5880ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker	select KALLSYMS
589ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	help
590ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
591ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
592299ea67eSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT
593299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	int "System call user read max size"
594299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	range 0 165
595299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	default 63
596299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	depends on FTRACE_SYSCALLS
597299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	help
598299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 Some system call trace events will record the data from a user
599299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 space address that one of the parameters point to. The amount of
600299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 data per event is limited. That limit is set by this config and
601299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 this config also affects how much user space data perf can read.
602299ea67eSSteven Rostedt
603299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 For a tracing instance, this size may be changed by writing into
604299ea67eSSteven Rostedt	 its syscall_user_buf_size file.
605299ea67eSSteven Rostedt
606debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT
607debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
608debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
609debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	help
610debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
611debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
612debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
6132455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
614debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      cat snapshot
615debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
6160b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
6170b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
6180b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
6190b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
6200b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
6210b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
6220b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
6230b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  allowed:
6240b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
6260b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6270b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
6280b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
6290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6300b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
6310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
6320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
6330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
6340b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
6350b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
6360b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6372ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6389ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool
6395e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
6409ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6419ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice
6429ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	prompt "Branch Profiling"
6439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
6449ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
6459ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
6469ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
6479ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6489ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
6499ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
6509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
65140892367SRandy Dunlap	 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
6529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
65340892367SRandy Dunlap	 profiler.
6549ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
65540892367SRandy Dunlap	 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
65640892367SRandy Dunlap	 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
6579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6589ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
6599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "No branch profiling"
6609ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
6619ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
6629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
6639ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Otherwise keep it disabled.
6649ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6659ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
6669ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
6679ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6681f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	help
66959bf8964SMasanari Iida	  This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
6701f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  in the kernel. It will display the results in:
6711f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6722455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
6731f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
67440892367SRandy Dunlap	  Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
6751f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
6761f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6772bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
67868e76e03SRandy Dunlap	bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
6799ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6802bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	help
6812bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
6822bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
6832bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  The results will be displayed in:
6842bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6852455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
6862bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6879ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
6889ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6892bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
6902bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
69140892367SRandy Dunlap	  is to be analyzed in much detail.
6929ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice
6932bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6942ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES
69552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool
69652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
69752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
69852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
69952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
70052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
70152f232cbSSteven Rostedt
7022ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER
70352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
7042ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
7052ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING_BRANCHES
70652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
70752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
70852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  calls in the kernel.  The difference between this and the
70952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
71052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
71152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
71252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events happened, as well as their results.
71352f232cbSSteven Rostedt
71452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Say N if unsure.
71552f232cbSSteven Rostedt
7162db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
71740892367SRandy Dunlap	bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
7182db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on SYSFS
7191dfba05dSIngo Molnar	depends on BLOCK
7202db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select RELAY
7212db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select DEBUG_FS
7222db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
7235e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
7242db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select STACKTRACE
7252db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	help
7262db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
7272db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
7282db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
7292db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
7302db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
7312db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
7322db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
7332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
7342db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
7352db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
7362455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
7372455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
7382db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
7392db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
74036994e58SFrederic Weisbecker
741334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS
742334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE
743334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
744334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
745334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACING
746334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select PROBE_EVENTS
747334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
748334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
749334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
750334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
751334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
752334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
753334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  transparently converted to this fprobe events.
754334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
755b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
756b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
757b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
758b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
759b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
760b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
761b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
762b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
763b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
764b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
765b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
766b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
7676b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS
768413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBES
769f850c30cSHeiko Carstens	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
77077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
771413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	select TRACING
7728ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7736212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
77477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	default y
775413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	help
77640892367SRandy Dunlap	  This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
77740892367SRandy Dunlap	  on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
7785fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
77977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
78077b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
78177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  various register and memory values.
78277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
78340892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
78440892367SRandy Dunlap	  If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
785413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu
78645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
78745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
78845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
7897bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
79045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
79145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
79245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
79345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  using kprobe events.
79445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
79545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
79628cc65a1SColin Ian King	  functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
79745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
79845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  crash.
79945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
80045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
80145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
80245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
80345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
80445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
80545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
8066b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS
807f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
808f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
809f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on MMU
81009294e31SDavid A. Long	depends on PERF_EVENTS
811f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select UPROBES
812f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
8130597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
814f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select TRACING
81561f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	default y
816f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	help
817f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
818f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
819f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
820f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  can probe, and record various registers.
821f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
822f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  of perf tools on user space applications.
823f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju
8240dd1274aSSteven Rostedtconfig EPROBE_EVENTS
8250dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Enable event-based dynamic events"
8260dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACING
8270dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
8280dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	select PROBE_EVENTS
8290dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
8300dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	default y
8310dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	help
8320dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	  Eprobes are dynamic events that can be placed on other existing
8330dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	  events. It can be used to limit what fields are recorded in
8340dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	  an event or even dereference a field of an event. It can
8350dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	  convert the type of an event field. For example, turn an
8360dd1274aSSteven Rostedt	  address into a string.
8370dd1274aSSteven Rostedt
838e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS
839e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
8406b0b7551SAnton Blanchard	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
841e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool
842e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	default y
843e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	help
8445cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
8455cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  tracepoint events.
846e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar
8475448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS
8485448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu	def_bool n
8495448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu
8508ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS
8518ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	def_bool n
8528ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju
8539802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
8549802d865SJosef Bacik	bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
8559802d865SJosef Bacik	depends on BPF_EVENTS
856540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
8579802d865SJosef Bacik	default n
8589802d865SJosef Bacik	help
8599802d865SJosef Bacik	 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
8609802d865SJosef Bacik	 set a different return value.  This is used for error injection.
8619802d865SJosef Bacik
8623b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8633b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	bool
8644d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
8653b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
8663b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
8673b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8683b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
8693b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8704d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
8713b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
87222c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
87322c8542dSSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
87422c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
87522c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
87622c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
8774d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
87803f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf	select OBJTOOL
87922c8542dSSami Tolvanen
8803b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
8813b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8823b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
88422c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
8854d6d0a62SSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
8863b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
88708d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP
88808d43a5fSTom Zanussi	bool
88908d43a5fSTom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
89008d43a5fSTom Zanussi	help
89108d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
89208d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
89308d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  to be shared between multiple tracers.  It isn't meant to be
89408d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  generally used outside of that context, and is normally
89508d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  selected by tracers that use it.
89608d43a5fSTom Zanussi
897726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS
898726721a5STom Zanussi	bool "Synthetic trace events"
899726721a5STom Zanussi	select TRACING
900726721a5STom Zanussi	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
901726721a5STom Zanussi	default n
902726721a5STom Zanussi	help
903726721a5STom Zanussi	  Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
904726721a5STom Zanussi	  used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
905726721a5STom Zanussi	  data source.  Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
906726721a5STom Zanussi	  via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
907726721a5STom Zanussi	  by way of an in-kernel API.
908726721a5STom Zanussi
909726721a5STom Zanussi	  See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
910726721a5STom Zanussi	  Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
911726721a5STom Zanussi
912726721a5STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
913726721a5STom Zanussi
9147f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS
9157f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	bool "User trace events"
9167f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select TRACING
9177f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
9187f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	help
9197f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  User trace events are user-defined trace events that
9207f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  can be used like an existing kernel trace event.  User trace
9217f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  events are generated by writing to a tracefs file.  User
9227f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  processes can determine if their tracing events should be
92372357590SBeau Belgrave	  generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
92472357590SBeau Belgrave	  that reflects when it is enabled or not.
9257f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
92672357590SBeau Belgrave	  See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
9277f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  If in doubt, say N.
9287f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
9297ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS
9307ef224d1STom Zanussi	bool "Histogram triggers"
9317ef224d1STom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
9327ef224d1STom Zanussi	select TRACING_MAP
9337ad8fb61STom Zanussi	select TRACING
9347bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
935726721a5STom Zanussi	select SYNTH_EVENTS
9367ef224d1STom Zanussi	default n
9377ef224d1STom Zanussi	help
9387ef224d1STom Zanussi	  Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
9397ef224d1STom Zanussi	  to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
9407ef224d1STom Zanussi	  reading a debugfs/tracefs file.  They're useful for
9417ef224d1STom Zanussi	  gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
9427ef224d1STom Zanussi	  event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
9437ef224d1STom Zanussi	  using more advanced tools.
9447ef224d1STom Zanussi
94589e270c1STom Zanussi	  Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
94689e270c1STom Zanussi	  supported using hist triggers under this option.
94789e270c1STom Zanussi
948ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
9497ef224d1STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
9507ef224d1STom Zanussi
9516c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
9526c3edaf9SCong Wang	bool "Trace event injection"
9536c3edaf9SCong Wang	depends on TRACING
9546c3edaf9SCong Wang	help
9556c3edaf9SCong Wang	  Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
9566c3edaf9SCong Wang	  buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
9576c3edaf9SCong Wang
9586c3edaf9SCong Wang	  If unsure, say N.
9596c3edaf9SCong Wang
96081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
96181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
96281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
96381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
96481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
96569268094SRolf Eike Beer	 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
96681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
96781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
96881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
96981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
97081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
97181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
97281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
97381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
97481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
97581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
97681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
97781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
97881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 An example of the output:
97981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
98081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      START
98181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
98281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
98381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
98481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
98581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
98681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
98781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
98881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
98981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9905092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
9915092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
9925092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	depends on RING_BUFFER
9935092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	help
9945092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
99540892367SRandy Dunlap	  It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
9965092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
9975092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
9985092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
9995092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
10005092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
10015092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
10025092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  affected by processes that are running.
10035092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
100440892367SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N.
10055092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
10061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
10071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
10081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on TRACING
10091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
10101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
10111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
10121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
10131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	how to convert the string to its value.
10141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
10161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
10171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
10181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
10201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
10211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
10231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
10241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	names matched with their values and what trace event system they
10251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	belong too.
10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If unsure, say N.
10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1034773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
1035773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
1036773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
1037773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1038773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
1039773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
1040773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
1041773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
1042773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that triggered a recursion.
1043773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1044773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
1045773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1046773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N
1047773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1048773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
1049773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
1050773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default 128
1051773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
1052773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1053773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
1054773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
1055773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
1056773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
1057773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  size at runtime.
1058773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1059b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING
1060b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution"
1061b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
1062b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
1063b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	help
1064b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of
1065b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that
1066b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not
1067b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it
1068b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  also has a noticeable overhead when enabled.
1069b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
1070b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  If unsure, say N
1071b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
107228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
107328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
107428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
107528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	# default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
107628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
107728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
107828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
1079ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
1080ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
108128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
108228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file.
108328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
108428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
108528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
10871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
10881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GCOV_KERNEL
10891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
10911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  which functions/lines are tested.
10921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N.
10941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
10961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  run significantly slower.
10971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST
10991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
11001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
11021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
11031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GENERIC_TRACER
11041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FTRACE_SELFTEST
11051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
11071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
11081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
11091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  tracers of ftrace.
11101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
11121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on trace events"
11131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
11141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
11151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
11171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
11181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
11191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
11201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
11221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
11231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
11241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
11261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
11271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
11281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
11291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
11311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	       events
11321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11338147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
11348147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
11358147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
11366b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
11378147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
11388147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
11398147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
11408147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
11418147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
11428147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
11438147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
11448147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11458147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If unsure, say N
11468147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11476c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
11486c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
11496c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       depends on RING_BUFFER
11506c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       help
11516c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
11526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
11536c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
11546c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
11556c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
11566c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
11576c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
11586c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
11596c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11606c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
11616c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 by at least 10 more seconds.
11626c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1163ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1164ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
11656c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
11666c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 other similar details.
11676c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11686c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If unsure, say N
11696c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11705b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
11715b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
11725b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on RING_BUFFER
11735b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11745b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
11755b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
11765b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
11775b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This audit is performed for every event that is not
11785b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
11795b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
11805b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
11815b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
11825b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11835b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
11845b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
11855b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Do not use it on production systems.
11865b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11875b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
11885b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
11895b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1190a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1191a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1192a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1193a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1194a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1195a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1196a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1197a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1198a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1199a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1200f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1201a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1202f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on m
1203f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
1204f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1205f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1206f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1207f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  critical section.
1208f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
120979393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
121079393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
121179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1212f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
12134b9091e1SSong Chen	  What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
12144b9091e1SSong Chen	  tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
12154b9091e1SSong Chen	  command.
12164b9091e1SSong Chen
1217f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  If unsure, say N
1218f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
12199fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
12209fe41efaSTom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
12213572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m
12229fe41efaSTom Zanussi	help
12239fe41efaSTom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
12249fe41efaSTom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
12259fe41efaSTom Zanussi          generation.
12269fe41efaSTom Zanussi
12279fe41efaSTom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
12289fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  for the generated sample events.
12299fe41efaSTom Zanussi
12309fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
12319fe41efaSTom Zanussi
123264836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
123364836248STom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
12343572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m
123564836248STom Zanussi	help
123664836248STom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
123764836248STom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
123864836248STom Zanussi
123964836248STom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
124064836248STom Zanussi	  for the generated kprobe events.
124164836248STom Zanussi
124264836248STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
124364836248STom Zanussi
12442d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
12452d19bd79STom Zanussi	bool "Hist trigger debug support"
12462d19bd79STom Zanussi	depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
12472d19bd79STom Zanussi	help
12482d19bd79STom Zanussi          Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
12492d19bd79STom Zanussi          dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
12502d19bd79STom Zanussi          defined on that event.
12512d19bd79STom Zanussi
12522d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
12532d19bd79STom Zanussi
12542d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
12552d19bd79STom Zanussi
12562d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Provides educational information to support the details
12572d19bd79STom Zanussi              of the hist trigger internals as described by
12582d19bd79STom Zanussi              Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
12592d19bd79STom Zanussi
12602d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
12612d19bd79STom Zanussi          related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
12622d19bd79STom Zanussi          display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
12632d19bd79STom Zanussi          running histograms.
12642d19bd79STom Zanussi
12652d19bd79STom Zanussi          If unsure, say N.
12662d19bd79STom Zanussi
1267102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1268102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
12694ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE
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