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 34a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool 36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 37677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt bool 39555f386cSMike Frysinger help 405fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 41677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt 4206aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 4306aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu bool 4406aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu 45763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 46763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 47763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 48cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 49cbad0fb2SMark Rutland bool 50cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 5102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 5202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 5402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from 5594d095ffSMark Rutland the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter 5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops. 5794d095ffSMark Rutland This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and 5894d095ffSMark Rutland ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(). 5902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware) 609440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE 619440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) bool 629440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) help 639440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections 649440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) but does not want them included in the ftrace locations. 659440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel) 668da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 678da3821bSSteven Rostedt bool 68555f386cSMike Frysinger help 695fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 708da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7166700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 72ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool 73555f386cSMike Frysinger help 745fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 75ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 76a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY 77a2546faeSSteven Rostedt bool 78a2546faeSSteven Rostedt help 79a2546faeSSteven Rostedt Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 80a2546faeSSteven Rostedt 812f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 822f4df001SVasily Gorbik bool 832f4df001SVasily Gorbik help 842f4df001SVasily Gorbik Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 852f4df001SVasily Gorbik 8622c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 8722c8542dSSami Tolvanen bool 8822c8542dSSami Tolvanen help 8922c8542dSSami Tolvanen Arch supports objtool --mcount 9022c8542dSSami Tolvanen 91280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT 92280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy bool 93280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy help 94280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop. 95280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing 96280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy of ftrace locations. 97280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy 98cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 9972441cb1SSteven Rostedt bool 10072441cb1SSteven Rostedt help 10172441cb1SSteven Rostedt C version of recordmcount available? 10272441cb1SSteven Rostedt 1034ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1044ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1054ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1064ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section 1074ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) at build time. 1084ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) 1096b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 1106b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) bool 1116b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) default y 1124ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE 1136b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) help 1146b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) Sort the mcount_loc section at build time. 1156b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) 116352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE 117352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool 118352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 119ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK 120ea632e9fSJosh Triplett bool 121ea632e9fSJosh Triplett 1227a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER 1237a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt bool 124ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 12522287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select IRQ_WORK 1267a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt 1275f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING 128b11c53e1SZhaolei select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 12960f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 130b11c53e1SZhaolei bool 131b11c53e1SZhaolei 132b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 1335f77a88bSTom Zanussi bool 1345f77a88bSTom Zanussi 13585bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 13685bac32cSSteven Rostedt bool 13785bac32cSSteven Rostedt help 13885bac32cSSteven Rostedt Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 13985bac32cSSteven Rostedt Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 14085bac32cSSteven Rostedt 141c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 142c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 143c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 144c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACING 145c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) default y 146c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 147c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 148c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 149c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) 1505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 1515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 1525e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 1535e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 1545e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 15540892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options. 1565e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 157bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING 158bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt bool 1597a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER 160c2c80529SAl Viro select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1615f87f112SIngo Molnar select TRACEPOINTS 162f3384b28SSteven Rostedt select NOP_TRACER 163769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker select BINARY_PRINTF 1645f77a88bSTom Zanussi select EVENT_TRACING 165ea632e9fSJosh Triplett select TRACE_CLOCK 166835f14edSPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 167bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt 1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER 1695e0a0939SSteven Rostedt bool 1705e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select TRACING 1715e0a0939SSteven Rostedt 17240ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17340ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 17440ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 17540ada30fSIngo Molnar# 17640ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT 17740ada30fSIngo Molnar bool 1780ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 17940ada30fSIngo Molnar depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 180422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro default y 18140ada30fSIngo Molnar 1824ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE 1834ed9f071SSteven Rostedt bool "Tracers" 184de32951bSMasahiro Yamada depends on TRACING_SUPPORT 18565b77242SSteven Rostedt default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 1864ed9f071SSteven Rostedt help 1874ed9f071SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 1884ed9f071SSteven Rostedt 1894ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE 19017d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra 1911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING 1921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Boot-time Tracing support" 193d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu depends on TRACING 194d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu select BOOT_CONFIG 1951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental 1971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver 1981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) initialization and boot process. 1991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 200606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER 2011b29b018SSteven Rostedt bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 202606576ceSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 2034d7a077cSSteven Rostedt select KALLSYMS 2045e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 20535e8e302SSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 20660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu select GLOB 20701b1d88bSThomas Gleixner select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION 208e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney select TASKS_RUDE_RCU 2091b29b018SSteven Rostedt help 2101b29b018SSteven Rostedt Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 2111b29b018SSteven Rostedt by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 21240892367SRandy Dunlap instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 2131b29b018SSteven Rostedt sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 2141b29b018SSteven Rostedt tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 2151b29b018SSteven Rostedt (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 2160a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on 2170a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google) x86, but may have impact on other architectures). 21835e8e302SSteven Rostedt 219fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 220fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 221fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 22215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 223eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 224764f3b95SIngo Molnar default y 22515e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker help 226fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 227fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker and its entry. 228692105b8SMatt LaPlante Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 229692105b8SMatt LaPlante draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 230692105b8SMatt LaPlante the return value. This is done by setting the current return 231692105b8SMatt LaPlante address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 23215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker 233a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 234a1be9cccSDonglin Peng bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value" 235a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL 236a1be9cccSDonglin Peng depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 237a1be9cccSDonglin Peng default n 238a1be9cccSDonglin Peng help 239a1be9cccSDonglin Peng Support recording and printing the function return value when 240a1be9cccSDonglin Peng using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions 241a1be9cccSDonglin Peng that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can 242a1be9cccSDonglin Peng enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval. 243a1be9cccSDonglin Peng See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst 244a1be9cccSDonglin Peng 24561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) performance of the system. 25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 2602455f0e1SRoss Zwisler See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing: 26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) available_filter_functions 26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_filter 26361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) set_ftrace_notrace 26461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 26661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 26761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 26861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 26961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 27061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 27161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 27261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 27361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 27461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) def_bool y 27560c89718SFlorent Revest depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 27661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS 27761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 278cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 279cbad0fb2SMark Rutland def_bool y 280cbad0fb2SMark Rutland depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS 281cbad0fb2SMark Rutland 28212f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 28312f9951dSLukas Bulwahn def_bool y 28412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 28512f9951dSLukas Bulwahn depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS 28612f9951dSLukas Bulwahn 287cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE 288cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)" 289cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 290cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 2915b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu depends on HAVE_RETHOOK 2925b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu select RETHOOK 293cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 294cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu help 2955b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace. 2965b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function 2975b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one 2985b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu fprobe. 299cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 300cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 301cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu 30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER 30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Kernel function profiler" 30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default n 30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) have been hit and their counters. 31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If in doubt, say N. 31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER 31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Trace max stack" 31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FUNCTION_TRACER 32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select STACKTRACE 32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select KALLSYMS 32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 3242455f0e1SRoss Zwisler kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace. 32561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 32661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 32761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 32861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 32961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 33061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is disabled. 33161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 33261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 33361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) on the kernel command line. 33461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 33561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 33661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 33761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 33861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N if unsure. 33961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 340c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 341c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) bool 342c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 343c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 344c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) and last enabled. 345bac429f0SSteven Rostedt 34681d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER 34781d68a96SSteven Rostedt bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 34881d68a96SSteven Rostedt default n 34981d68a96SSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 35081d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 3515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 35281d68a96SSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 35385bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 35422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3550b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 35681d68a96SSteven Rostedt help 35781d68a96SSteven Rostedt This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 35881d68a96SSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 35981d68a96SSteven Rostedt 36081d68a96SSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 36181d68a96SSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 36281d68a96SSteven Rostedt via: 36381d68a96SSteven Rostedt 3642455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 36581d68a96SSteven Rostedt 36640892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3676cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 3686cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3696cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3706cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER 3716cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 3726cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt default n 37330c93704SThomas Gleixner depends on PREEMPTION 3745e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 3756cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 37685bac32cSSteven Rostedt select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 37722cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 3780b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 379c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google) select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 3806cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt help 38140892367SRandy Dunlap This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 3826cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt sections, with microsecond accuracy. 3836cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3846cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 3856cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 3866cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt via: 3876cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 3882455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency 3896cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 39040892367SRandy Dunlap (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 3916cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 3926cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt used together or separately.) 3936cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt 394352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER 395352ad25aSSteven Rostedt bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 3965e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 397352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 398352ad25aSSteven Rostedt select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 39922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 400352ad25aSSteven Rostedt help 401352ad25aSSteven Rostedt This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 402352ad25aSSteven Rostedt to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 403352ad25aSSteven Rostedt 404e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER 405e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 406e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select GENERIC_TRACER 407e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 408e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 409e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 410c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 411e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 412e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) something other than the kernel. For example, if a 413e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 414e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 415e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 416e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 417e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 418e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) is enabled: 419e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 420e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 421e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 422e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) iteration 423e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 424e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 425c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 426e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 427e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) continue to operate. 428e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 429e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 430e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 431e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 432e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 433e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 434e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) production system. 435e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 436e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 437e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 438e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) be recorded into the ring buffer. 439e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 440bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER 441bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "OS Noise tracer" 442bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 443e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 444bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 445bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating 446bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an 447bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira application due to activities inside the operating system. In the 448bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread 449bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can 450bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. 451bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 452bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar 453bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all 454bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes 455bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, 456bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference 457bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for 458bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool 459bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens 460bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira without any interference from the operating system level, the 461bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related 462bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of 463bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints 464bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU 465bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. 466bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 467bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to 468bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. 469bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 470bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 471bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 472bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer 473bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira file. 474bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 475a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER 476a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira bool "Timerlat tracer" 477a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select OSNOISE_TRACER 478a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira select GENERIC_TRACER 479a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira help 480a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers 481a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. 482a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 483a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority. 484a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes 485a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread 486a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between 487a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set 488a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira to expire. 489a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 490a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the 491a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the 492a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed 493a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The 494a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its 495a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira respective thread execution. 496a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 497a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise: 498a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI, 499a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the 500a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code 501a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira path that can cause thread delay. 502a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 50321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE 50421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 50521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 50621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select GENERIC_TRACER 50721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 50821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 50921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 51021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 51121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default and can be enabled at run-time. 51221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 51321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 51421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 51521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 516897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 517897f17a6SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace process context switches and events" 5185e0a0939SSteven Rostedt depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 519b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt select TRACING 520b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt help 52140892367SRandy Dunlap This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 522b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 523897f17a6SSteven Rostedt want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 524a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt 525ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS 526ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker bool "Trace syscalls" 52766700001SJosh Stone depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 5285e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5290ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker select KALLSYMS 530ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker help 531ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 532ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker 533debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT 534debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 535debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 536debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka help 537debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 538debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka ftrace interface, e.g.: 539debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5402455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot 541debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka cat snapshot 542debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka 5430b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 5440b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 5450b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 5460b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 5470b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 5480b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 5490b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 5500b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) allowed: 5510b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5522455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 5530b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5540b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 5550b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 5560b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5570b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 5580b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 5590b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 5600b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 5610b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 5620b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 5630b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5642ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5659ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool 5665e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 5679ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5689ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice 5699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt prompt "Branch Profiling" 5709ae5b879SSteven Rostedt default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5719ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5729ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 5739ae5b879SSteven Rostedt into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 5749ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5759ae5b879SSteven Rostedt The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 5769ae5b879SSteven Rostedt are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 5779ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 57840892367SRandy Dunlap The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 5799ae5b879SSteven Rostedt kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 58040892367SRandy Dunlap profiler. 5819ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 58240892367SRandy Dunlap Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 58340892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 5849ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5859ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 5869ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "No branch profiling" 5879ae5b879SSteven Rostedt help 5889ae5b879SSteven Rostedt No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 5899ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 5909ae5b879SSteven Rostedt Otherwise keep it disabled. 5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 5929ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 5939ae5b879SSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 5949ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 5951f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt help 59659bf8964SMasanari Iida This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 5971f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt in the kernel. It will display the results in: 5981f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 5992455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 6001f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 60140892367SRandy Dunlap Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 6021f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 6031f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt 6042bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 60568e76e03SRandy Dunlap bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 6069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6072bcd521aSSteven Rostedt help 6082bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 6092bcd521aSSteven Rostedt taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 6102bcd521aSSteven Rostedt The results will be displayed in: 6112bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6122455f0e1SRoss Zwisler /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 6132bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6149ae5b879SSteven Rostedt This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 6159ae5b879SSteven Rostedt 6162bcd521aSSteven Rostedt This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 6172bcd521aSSteven Rostedt on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 61840892367SRandy Dunlap is to be analyzed in much detail. 6199ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice 6202bcd521aSSteven Rostedt 6212ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES 62252f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool 62352f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 62452f232cbSSteven Rostedt Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 62552f232cbSSteven Rostedt conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 62652f232cbSSteven Rostedt profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 62752f232cbSSteven Rostedt when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 62852f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6292ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER 63052f232cbSSteven Rostedt bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 6312ed84eebSSteven Rostedt depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 6322ed84eebSSteven Rostedt select TRACING_BRANCHES 63352f232cbSSteven Rostedt help 63452f232cbSSteven Rostedt This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 63552f232cbSSteven Rostedt calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 63652f232cbSSteven Rostedt "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 63752f232cbSSteven Rostedt histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 63852f232cbSSteven Rostedt events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 63952f232cbSSteven Rostedt events happened, as well as their results. 64052f232cbSSteven Rostedt 64152f232cbSSteven Rostedt Say N if unsure. 64252f232cbSSteven Rostedt 6432db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 64440892367SRandy Dunlap bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 6452db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker depends on SYSFS 6461dfba05dSIngo Molnar depends on BLOCK 6472db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select RELAY 6482db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select DEBUG_FS 6492db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select TRACEPOINTS 6505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt select GENERIC_TRACER 6512db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker select STACKTRACE 6522db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker help 6532db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 6542db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 6552db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 6562db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 6572db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6582db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 6592db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6602db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 6612db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6622db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 6632455f0e1SRoss Zwisler echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer 6642455f0e1SRoss Zwisler cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe 6652db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker 6662db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker If unsure, say N. 66736994e58SFrederic Weisbecker 668334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS 669334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE 670334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 671334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events" 672334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select TRACING 673334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select PROBE_EVENTS 674334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 675334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 676334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 677334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and 678334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events 679334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be 680334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) transparently converted to this fprobe events. 681334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 682b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS 683b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API 684b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS 685b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL 686b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events" 687b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) default y 688b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) help 689b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names 690b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a 691b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) kernel function entry or a tracepoint. 692b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled. 693b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) 6946b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS 695413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBES 696f850c30cSHeiko Carstens depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 69777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 698413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu select TRACING 6998ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7006212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 70177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu default y 702413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu help 70340892367SRandy Dunlap This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 70440892367SRandy Dunlap on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 7055fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 70677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 70777b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 70877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu various register and memory values. 70977b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu 71040892367SRandy Dunlap This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 71140892367SRandy Dunlap If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 712413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu 71345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 71445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 71545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 7167bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 71745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu default n 71845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu help 71945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 72045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu using kprobe events. 72145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 72245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 72328cc65a1SColin Ian King functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite 72445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 72545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu crash. 72645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 72745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 72845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 72945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 73045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 73145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu If unsure, say N. 73245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu 7336b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS 734f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 735f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 736f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju depends on MMU 73709294e31SDavid A. Long depends on PERF_EVENTS 738f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select UPROBES 739f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select PROBE_EVENTS 7400597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 741f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju select TRACING 74261f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo default y 743f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju help 744f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 745f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 746f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 747f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju can probe, and record various registers. 748f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 749f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju of perf tools on user space applications. 750f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju 751e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS 752e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar depends on BPF_SYSCALL 7536b0b7551SAnton Blanchard depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 754e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar bool 755e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar default y 756e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar help 7575cbd22c1SPeter Wu This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and 7585cbd22c1SPeter Wu tracepoint events. 759e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar 7605448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS 7615448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu def_bool n 7625448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu 7638ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS 7648ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju def_bool n 7658ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju 7669802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 7679802d865SJosef Bacik bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 7689802d865SJosef Bacik depends on BPF_EVENTS 769540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 7709802d865SJosef Bacik default n 7719802d865SJosef Bacik help 7729802d865SJosef Bacik Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 7739802d865SJosef Bacik set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 7749802d865SJosef Bacik 7758da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7768da3821bSSteven Rostedt def_bool y 7778da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 7788da3821bSSteven Rostedt depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7798da3821bSSteven Rostedt 7803b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7813b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen bool 7823b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 7843b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 7853b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 7863b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount) 7873b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 7883b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 7893b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 79022c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 79122c8542dSSami Tolvanen def_bool y 79222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT 79322c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 79422c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 79522c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 79603f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf select OBJTOOL 79722c8542dSSami Tolvanen 7983b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT 7993b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen def_bool y 8003b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY 8013b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC 80222c8542dSSami Tolvanen depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL 8033b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 8043b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen 80508d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP 80608d43a5fSTom Zanussi bool 80708d43a5fSTom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 80808d43a5fSTom Zanussi help 80908d43a5fSTom Zanussi tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 81008d43a5fSTom Zanussi separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 81108d43a5fSTom Zanussi to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 81208d43a5fSTom Zanussi generally used outside of that context, and is normally 81308d43a5fSTom Zanussi selected by tracers that use it. 81408d43a5fSTom Zanussi 815726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS 816726721a5STom Zanussi bool "Synthetic trace events" 817726721a5STom Zanussi select TRACING 818726721a5STom Zanussi select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 819726721a5STom Zanussi default n 820726721a5STom Zanussi help 821726721a5STom Zanussi Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be 822726721a5STom Zanussi used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any 823726721a5STom Zanussi data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly 824726721a5STom Zanussi via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly 825726721a5STom Zanussi by way of an in-kernel API. 826726721a5STom Zanussi 827726721a5STom Zanussi See Documentation/trace/events.rst or 828726721a5STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. 829726721a5STom Zanussi 830726721a5STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 831726721a5STom Zanussi 8327f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS 8337f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave bool "User trace events" 8347f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select TRACING 8357f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 8367f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave help 8377f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave User trace events are user-defined trace events that 8387f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace 8397f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User 8407f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave processes can determine if their tracing events should be 84172357590SBeau Belgrave generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel 84272357590SBeau Belgrave that reflects when it is enabled or not. 8437f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 84472357590SBeau Belgrave See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst. 8457f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave If in doubt, say N. 8467f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave 8477ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS 8487ef224d1STom Zanussi bool "Histogram triggers" 8497ef224d1STom Zanussi depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 8507ef224d1STom Zanussi select TRACING_MAP 8517ad8fb61STom Zanussi select TRACING 8527bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 853726721a5STom Zanussi select SYNTH_EVENTS 8547ef224d1STom Zanussi default n 8557ef224d1STom Zanussi help 8567ef224d1STom Zanussi Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 8577ef224d1STom Zanussi to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 8587ef224d1STom Zanussi reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 8597ef224d1STom Zanussi gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 8607ef224d1STom Zanussi event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 8617ef224d1STom Zanussi using more advanced tools. 8627ef224d1STom Zanussi 86389e270c1STom Zanussi Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 86489e270c1STom Zanussi supported using hist triggers under this option. 86589e270c1STom Zanussi 866ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 8677ef224d1STom Zanussi If in doubt, say N. 8687ef224d1STom Zanussi 8696c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT 8706c3edaf9SCong Wang bool "Trace event injection" 8716c3edaf9SCong Wang depends on TRACING 8726c3edaf9SCong Wang help 8736c3edaf9SCong Wang Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring 8746c3edaf9SCong Wang buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. 8756c3edaf9SCong Wang 8766c3edaf9SCong Wang If unsure, say N. 8776c3edaf9SCong Wang 87881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 87981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 88081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 88181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 88281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 88369268094SRolf Eike Beer goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks 88481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 88581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 88681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 88781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 88881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 88981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 89081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 89181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 89281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 89381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 89481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 89581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 89681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) An example of the output: 89781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 89881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) START 89981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 90081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 90181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 90281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 90381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 90481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 90581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 90681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 90781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9085092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 9095092dbc9SSteven Rostedt tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 9105092dbc9SSteven Rostedt depends on RING_BUFFER 9115092dbc9SSteven Rostedt help 9125092dbc9SSteven Rostedt This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 91340892367SRandy Dunlap It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 9145092dbc9SSteven Rostedt any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 9155092dbc9SSteven Rostedt a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 9165092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 9175092dbc9SSteven Rostedt it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 9185092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9195092dbc9SSteven Rostedt It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 9205092dbc9SSteven Rostedt affected by processes that are running. 9215092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 92240892367SRandy Dunlap If unsure, say N. 9235092dbc9SSteven Rostedt 9241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 9251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 9261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on TRACING 9271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 9291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 9301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 9311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) how to convert the string to its value. 9321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 9341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 9351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 9361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 9381e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 9391e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9401e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 9411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 9421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) names matched with their values and what trace event system they 9431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) belong too. 9441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 9461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 9471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 9481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 9491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 952773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 953773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" 954773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 955773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 956773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort 957773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, 958773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs 959773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions 960773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that triggered a recursion. 961773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 962773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 963773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 964773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 965773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 966773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE 967773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) int "Max number of recursed functions to record" 968773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default 128 969773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 970773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 971773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This defines the limit of number of functions that can be 972773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all 973773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) the functions that caused a recursion to happen. 974773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in 975773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) size at runtime. 976773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 97728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION 97828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer" 97928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 98028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION 98128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 98228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 98328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when 984ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection, 985ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will 98628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions" 98728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) file. 98828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 98928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. 99028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 9921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 9931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GCOV_KERNEL 9941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 9951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 9961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) which functions/lines are tested. 9971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 9981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N. 9991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 10011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) run significantly slower. 10021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST 10041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool 10051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 10081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on GENERIC_TRACER 10091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) select FTRACE_SELFTEST 10101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 10121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 10131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 10141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tracers of ftrace. 10151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on trace events" 10181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) default y 10201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. 10221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It basically just enables each event and runs some code that 10231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) 10241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. 10251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 10271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 10281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST 10291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 10311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 10321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 10331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) up since it runs this on every system call defined. 10341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 10361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events 10371e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10388147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST 10398147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions" 10408147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 10416b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google) depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT 10428147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10438147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the 10448147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing 10458147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort 10468147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures. 10478147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they 10488147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not. 10498147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10508147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) If unsure, say N 10518147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 10536c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 10546c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) depends on RING_BUFFER 10556c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) help 10566c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 10576c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 10586c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 10596c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 10606c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 10616c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 10626c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 10636c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) and all ring buffers will be disabled. 10646c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10656c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 10666c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) by at least 10 more seconds. 10676c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 1068ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done. 1069ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What 10706c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 10716c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) other similar details. 10726c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10736c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) If unsure, say N 10746c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) 10755b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS 10765b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas" 10775b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on RING_BUFFER 10785b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 10795b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub 10805b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the 10815b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp. 10825b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This audit is performed for every event that is not 10835b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check 10845b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure 10855b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not 10865b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) add up to be greater than the current time stamp. 10875b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10885b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events, 10895b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer. 10905b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Do not use it on production systems. 10915b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 10925b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you 10935b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) still want it enabled. Otherwise say N 10945b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1095a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST 1096a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 1097a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) depends on MMIOTRACE && m 1098a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) help 1099a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 1100a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 1101a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 1102a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1103a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 1104a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) 1105f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 1106a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware) tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 1107f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) depends on m 1108f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) help 1109f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 1110f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 1111f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 1112f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) critical section. 1113f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 111479393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three 111579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: 111679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW) modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 1117f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11184b9091e1SSong Chen What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency 11194b9091e1SSong Chen tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the 11204b9091e1SSong Chen command. 11214b9091e1SSong Chen 1122f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) If unsure, say N 1123f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google) 11249fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST 11259fe41efaSTom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" 1126*55d5d081SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m 11279fe41efaSTom Zanussi help 11289fe41efaSTom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 11299fe41efaSTom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and 11309fe41efaSTom Zanussi generation. 11319fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11329fe41efaSTom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 11339fe41efaSTom Zanussi for the generated sample events. 11349fe41efaSTom Zanussi 11359fe41efaSTom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11369fe41efaSTom Zanussi 113764836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST 113864836248STom Zanussi tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" 1139*55d5d081SMasami Hiramatsu (Google) depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m 114064836248STom Zanussi help 114164836248STom Zanussi This option creates a test module to check the base 114264836248STom Zanussi functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. 114364836248STom Zanussi 114464836248STom Zanussi To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer 114564836248STom Zanussi for the generated kprobe events. 114664836248STom Zanussi 114764836248STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 114864836248STom Zanussi 11492d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG 11502d19bd79STom Zanussi bool "Hist trigger debug support" 11512d19bd79STom Zanussi depends on HIST_TRIGGERS 11522d19bd79STom Zanussi help 11532d19bd79STom Zanussi Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will 11542d19bd79STom Zanussi dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers 11552d19bd79STom Zanussi defined on that event. 11562d19bd79STom Zanussi 11572d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: 11582d19bd79STom Zanussi 11592d19bd79STom Zanussi - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. 11602d19bd79STom Zanussi 11612d19bd79STom Zanussi - Provides educational information to support the details 11622d19bd79STom Zanussi of the hist trigger internals as described by 11632d19bd79STom Zanussi Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. 11642d19bd79STom Zanussi 11652d19bd79STom Zanussi The hist_debug output only covers the data structures 11662d19bd79STom Zanussi related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't 11672d19bd79STom Zanussi display the internals of map buckets or variable values of 11682d19bd79STom Zanussi running histograms. 11692d19bd79STom Zanussi 11702d19bd79STom Zanussi If unsure, say N. 11712d19bd79STom Zanussi 1172102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig" 1173102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira 11744ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE 1175