2 # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
3 # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
6 config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
12 config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
15 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
17 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
20 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
22 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
25 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
27 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
30 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
32 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
35 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
37 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
40 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
42 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
45 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
48 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
50 config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
53 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
58 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
60 config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
63 C version of recordmcount available?
65 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
75 config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
77 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
81 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
84 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
87 config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
90 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
91 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
93 # All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
94 # enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
95 # This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
96 # options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
97 # GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
98 # hiding of the automatic options.
104 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
112 config GENERIC_TRACER
117 # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
118 # be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
120 config TRACING_SUPPORT
122 # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
123 # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
124 # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
125 # irqflags tracing for your architecture.
126 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
127 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
134 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
136 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
140 config FUNCTION_TRACER
141 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
142 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
144 select GENERIC_TRACER
145 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
147 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
148 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
149 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
150 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
151 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
152 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
153 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
155 config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
156 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
157 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
158 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
159 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
162 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
164 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
165 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
166 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
167 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
170 config IRQSOFF_TRACER
171 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
173 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
174 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
175 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
176 select GENERIC_TRACER
177 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
178 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
179 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
180 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
182 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
183 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
185 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
186 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
189 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
191 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
192 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
193 used together or separately.)
195 config PREEMPT_TRACER
196 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
198 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
200 select GENERIC_TRACER
201 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
202 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
203 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
204 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
206 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
207 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
209 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
210 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
213 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
215 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
216 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
217 used together or separately.)
220 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
221 select GENERIC_TRACER
222 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
223 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
224 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
226 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
227 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
229 config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
230 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
231 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
234 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
235 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
236 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
238 config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
239 bool "Trace syscalls"
240 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
241 select GENERIC_TRACER
244 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
246 config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
247 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
248 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
250 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
251 ftrace interface, e.g.:
253 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
256 config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
257 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
258 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
259 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
261 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
262 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
265 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
267 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
268 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
270 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
271 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
272 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
273 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
274 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
275 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
277 config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
279 select GENERIC_TRACER
282 prompt "Branch Profiling"
283 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
285 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
286 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
288 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
289 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
291 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
292 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
295 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
296 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
298 config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
299 bool "No branch profiling"
301 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
302 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
303 Otherwise keep it disabled.
305 config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
306 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
307 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
309 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
310 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
312 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
314 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
315 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
317 config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
318 bool "Profile all if conditionals"
319 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
321 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
322 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
323 The results will be displayed in:
325 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
327 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
329 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
330 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
331 is to be analyzed in much detail.
334 config TRACING_BRANCHES
337 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
338 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
339 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
340 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
343 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
344 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
345 select TRACING_BRANCHES
347 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
348 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
349 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
350 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
351 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
352 events happened, as well as their results.
357 bool "Trace max stack"
358 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
359 select FUNCTION_TRACER
363 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
364 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
366 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
367 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
368 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
369 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
372 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
373 on the kernel command line.
375 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
376 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
380 config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
381 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
387 select GENERIC_TRACER
390 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
391 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
392 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
393 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
395 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
397 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
399 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
400 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
401 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
407 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
408 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
413 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
414 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
415 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt for more details.
417 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
418 various register and memory values.
420 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
421 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
424 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
425 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
432 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
433 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
434 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
435 can probe, and record various registers.
436 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
437 of perf tools on user space applications.
442 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
443 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
444 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
445 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
448 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
449 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
450 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
451 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
452 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
453 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
454 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
455 performance of the system.
457 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
458 available_filter_functions
462 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
463 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
465 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
467 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
468 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
470 config FUNCTION_PROFILER
471 bool "Kernel function profiler"
472 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
475 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
476 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
477 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
478 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
479 the trace_stats directory; this file shows the list of functions that
480 have been hit and their counters.
484 config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
486 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
487 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
489 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
492 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
493 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
494 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
495 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
497 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
498 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
499 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
502 config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
503 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
504 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
506 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
507 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
508 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
509 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
511 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
515 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
516 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
517 select GENERIC_TRACER
519 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
520 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
521 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
522 default and can be enabled at run-time.
524 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt.
525 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
527 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
528 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
529 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
531 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
532 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
533 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
535 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
537 config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
538 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
539 depends on RING_BUFFER
541 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
542 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
543 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
544 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
545 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
546 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
548 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
549 affected by processes that are running.
553 config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
554 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
555 depends on RING_BUFFER
557 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
558 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
559 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
560 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
561 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
562 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
563 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
564 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
566 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
567 by at least 10 more seconds.
569 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done.
570 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What
571 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
572 other similar details.
578 endif # TRACING_SUPPORT