1# 2# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should 3# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: 4# 5 6config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 7 bool 8 9config NOP_TRACER 10 bool 11 12config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER 13 bool 14 help 15 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 16 17config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 18 bool 19 help 20 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 21 22config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 23 bool 24 help 25 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 26 27config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 28 bool 29 help 30 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 31 32config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 33 bool 34 35config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 36 bool 37 help 38 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 39 40config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 41 bool 42 help 43 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst 44 45config HAVE_FENTRY 46 bool 47 help 48 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry 49 50config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT 51 bool 52 help 53 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount 54 55config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT 56 bool 57 help 58 C version of recordmcount available? 59 60config TRACER_MAX_TRACE 61 bool 62 63config TRACE_CLOCK 64 bool 65 66config RING_BUFFER 67 bool 68 select TRACE_CLOCK 69 select IRQ_WORK 70 71config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER 72 bool 73 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER 74 default y 75 76config EVENT_TRACING 77 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 78 select GLOB 79 bool 80 81config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 82 bool 83 84config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 85 bool 86 help 87 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. 88 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. 89 90config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS 91 bool 92 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS 93 select TRACING 94 default y 95 help 96 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts 97 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. 98 99# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are 100# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. 101# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the 102# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options 103# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the 104# hiding of the automatic options. 105 106config TRACING 107 bool 108 select DEBUG_FS 109 select RING_BUFFER 110 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 111 select TRACEPOINTS 112 select NOP_TRACER 113 select BINARY_PRINTF 114 select EVENT_TRACING 115 select TRACE_CLOCK 116 117config GENERIC_TRACER 118 bool 119 select TRACING 120 121# 122# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to 123# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: 124# 125config TRACING_SUPPORT 126 bool 127 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 128 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 129 default y 130 131if TRACING_SUPPORT 132 133menuconfig FTRACE 134 bool "Tracers" 135 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL 136 help 137 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. 138 139if FTRACE 140 141config FUNCTION_TRACER 142 bool "Kernel Function Tracer" 143 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 144 select KALLSYMS 145 select GENERIC_TRACER 146 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 147 select GLOB 148 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT 149 help 150 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done 151 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation 152 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP 153 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when 154 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled 155 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very 156 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks. 157 158config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 159 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" 160 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 161 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 162 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 163 default y 164 help 165 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return 166 and its entry. 167 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and 168 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 169 the return value. This is done by setting the current return 170 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. 171 172config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 173 bool 174 help 175 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, 176 and last enabled. 177 178config PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS 179 bool "Enable trace events for preempt and irq disable/enable" 180 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 181 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE if PREEMPT 182 select GENERIC_TRACER 183 default n 184 help 185 Enable tracing of disable and enable events for preemption and irqs. 186 187config IRQSOFF_TRACER 188 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" 189 default n 190 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 191 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET 192 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 193 select GENERIC_TRACER 194 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 195 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 196 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 197 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 198 help 199 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical 200 sections, with microsecond accuracy. 201 202 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 203 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 204 via: 205 206 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 207 208 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 209 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be 210 used together or separately.) 211 212config PREEMPT_TRACER 213 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" 214 default n 215 depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET 216 depends on PREEMPT 217 select GENERIC_TRACER 218 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 219 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 220 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 221 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 222 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE 223 help 224 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical 225 sections, with microsecond accuracy. 226 227 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is 228 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started 229 via: 230 231 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency 232 233 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option 234 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be 235 used together or separately.) 236 237config SCHED_TRACER 238 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" 239 select GENERIC_TRACER 240 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER 241 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 242 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT 243 help 244 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task 245 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. 246 247config HWLAT_TRACER 248 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" 249 select GENERIC_TRACER 250 help 251 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, 252 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread 253 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by 254 something other than the kernel. For example, if a 255 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of 256 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing 257 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. 258 259 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this 260 is enabled: 261 262 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for 263 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each 264 iteration 265 266 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled 267 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin 268 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can 269 continue to operate. 270 271 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. 272 273 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, 274 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be 275 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a 276 production system. 277 278 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer 279 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will 280 be recorded into the ring buffer. 281 282config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS 283 bool "Trace process context switches and events" 284 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER 285 select TRACING 286 help 287 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, 288 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they 289 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. 290 291config FTRACE_SYSCALLS 292 bool "Trace syscalls" 293 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS 294 select GENERIC_TRACER 295 select KALLSYMS 296 help 297 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. 298 299config TRACER_SNAPSHOT 300 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" 301 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE 302 help 303 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the 304 ftrace interface, e.g.: 305 306 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot 307 cat snapshot 308 309config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP 310 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" 311 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT 312 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP 313 help 314 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a 315 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is 316 allowed: 317 318 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot 319 320 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with 321 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. 322 323 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the 324 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize 325 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance 326 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt 327 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well 328 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). 329 330config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 331 bool 332 select GENERIC_TRACER 333 334choice 335 prompt "Branch Profiling" 336 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 337 help 338 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks 339 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. 340 341 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that 342 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. 343 344 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the 345 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely 346 profiler. 347 348 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system. 349 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling". 350 351config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE 352 bool "No branch profiling" 353 help 354 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. 355 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. 356 Otherwise keep it disabled. 357 358config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES 359 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" 360 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 361 help 362 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros 363 in the kernel. It will display the results in: 364 365 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated 366 367 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this 368 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. 369 370config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES 371 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE 372 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 373 help 374 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () 375 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. 376 The results will be displayed in: 377 378 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all 379 380 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. 381 382 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead 383 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system 384 is to be analyzed in much detail. 385endchoice 386 387config TRACING_BRANCHES 388 bool 389 help 390 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely 391 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being 392 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen 393 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. 394 395config BRANCH_TRACER 396 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" 397 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 398 select TRACING_BRANCHES 399 help 400 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition 401 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the 402 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a 403 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling 404 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the 405 events happened, as well as their results. 406 407 Say N if unsure. 408 409config STACK_TRACER 410 bool "Trace max stack" 411 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER 412 select FUNCTION_TRACER 413 select STACKTRACE 414 select KALLSYMS 415 help 416 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the 417 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. 418 419 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the 420 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and 421 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE 422 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer 423 is disabled. 424 425 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' 426 on the kernel command line. 427 428 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the 429 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled 430 431 Say N if unsure. 432 433config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE 434 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions" 435 depends on SYSFS 436 depends on BLOCK 437 select RELAY 438 select DEBUG_FS 439 select TRACEPOINTS 440 select GENERIC_TRACER 441 select STACKTRACE 442 help 443 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions 444 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening 445 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace 446 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: 447 448 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git 449 450 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: 451 452 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable 453 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer 454 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe 455 456 If unsure, say N. 457 458config KPROBE_EVENTS 459 depends on KPROBES 460 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API 461 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" 462 select TRACING 463 select PROBE_EVENTS 464 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 465 default y 466 help 467 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) 468 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See 469 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. 470 471 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record 472 various register and memory values. 473 474 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. 475 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. 476 477config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE 478 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" 479 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS 480 depends on KPROBES_ON_FTRACE 481 default n 482 help 483 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself 484 using kprobe events. 485 486 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related 487 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinit 488 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel 489 crash. 490 491 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe 492 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. 493 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. 494 495 If unsure, say N. 496 497config UPROBE_EVENTS 498 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" 499 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES 500 depends on MMU 501 depends on PERF_EVENTS 502 select UPROBES 503 select PROBE_EVENTS 504 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS 505 select TRACING 506 default y 507 help 508 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace 509 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace 510 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes 511 can probe, and record various registers. 512 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand 513 of perf tools on user space applications. 514 515config BPF_EVENTS 516 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 517 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS 518 bool 519 default y 520 help 521 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe events. 522 523config DYNAMIC_EVENTS 524 def_bool n 525 526config PROBE_EVENTS 527 def_bool n 528 529config DYNAMIC_FTRACE 530 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" 531 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 532 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 533 default y 534 help 535 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing 536 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and 537 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During 538 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace 539 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel 540 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually 541 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect 542 performance of the system. 543 544 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: 545 available_filter_functions 546 set_ftrace_filter 547 set_ftrace_notrace 548 549 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but 550 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. 551 552config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 553 def_bool y 554 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 555 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS 556 557config FUNCTION_PROFILER 558 bool "Kernel function profiler" 559 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER 560 default n 561 help 562 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created 563 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. 564 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a 565 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in 566 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that 567 have been hit and their counters. 568 569 If in doubt, say N. 570 571config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE 572 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" 573 depends on BPF_EVENTS 574 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 575 default n 576 help 577 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and 578 set a different return value. This is used for error injection. 579 580config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 581 def_bool y 582 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE 583 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 584 585config FTRACE_SELFTEST 586 bool 587 588config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 589 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" 590 depends on GENERIC_TRACER 591 select FTRACE_SELFTEST 592 help 593 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup 594 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is 595 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured 596 tracers of ftrace. 597 598config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS 599 bool "Run selftest on syscall events" 600 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 601 help 602 This option will also enable testing every syscall event. 603 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads 604 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot 605 up since it runs this on every system call defined. 606 607 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their 608 events 609 610config MMIOTRACE 611 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" 612 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI 613 select GENERIC_TRACER 614 help 615 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for 616 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap 617 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by 618 default and can be enabled at run-time. 619 620 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst. 621 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. 622 623config TRACING_MAP 624 bool 625 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 626 help 627 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, 628 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it 629 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be 630 generally used outside of that context, and is normally 631 selected by tracers that use it. 632 633config HIST_TRIGGERS 634 bool "Histogram triggers" 635 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 636 select TRACING_MAP 637 select TRACING 638 default n 639 help 640 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields 641 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by 642 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for 643 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of 644 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation 645 using more advanced tools. 646 647 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also 648 supported using hist triggers under this option. 649 650 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. 651 If in doubt, say N. 652 653config MMIOTRACE_TEST 654 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" 655 depends on MMIOTRACE && m 656 help 657 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous 658 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. 659 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. 660 661 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 662 663config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK 664 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" 665 help 666 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". 667 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that 668 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks 669 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time 670 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that 671 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint 672 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. 673 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes 674 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of 675 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first 676 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. 677 678 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because 679 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. 680 681 An example of the output: 682 683 START 684 first=3672 [COLD CACHED] 685 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 686 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 687 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 688 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 689 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 690 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 691 692 693config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK 694 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" 695 depends on RING_BUFFER 696 help 697 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it. 698 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with 699 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates 700 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for 701 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events 702 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. 703 704 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be 705 affected by processes that are running. 706 707 If unsure, say N. 708 709config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST 710 bool "Ring buffer startup self test" 711 depends on RING_BUFFER 712 help 713 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the 714 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off 715 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events 716 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs 717 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write 718 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. 719 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed 720 and all ring buffers will be disabled. 721 722 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time 723 by at least 10 more seconds. 724 725 At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. 726 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What 727 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and 728 other similar details. 729 730 If unsure, say N 731 732config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST 733 tristate "Preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" 734 depends on m 735 help 736 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency 737 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user 738 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the 739 critical section. 740 741 For example, the following invocation forces a one-time irq-disabled 742 critical section for 500us: 743 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500000 744 745 If unsure, say N 746 747config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE 748 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" 749 depends on TRACING 750 help 751 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names 752 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools 753 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know 754 how to convert the string to its value. 755 756 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used 757 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then 758 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. 759 760 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be 761 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. 762 763 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created 764 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the 765 names matched with their values and what trace event system they 766 belong too. 767 768 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after 769 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as 770 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will 771 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. 772 773 If unsure, say N 774 775config TRACING_EVENTS_GPIO 776 bool "Trace gpio events" 777 depends on GPIOLIB 778 default y 779 help 780 Enable tracing events for gpio subsystem 781 782config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE 783 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" 784 depends on GCOV_KERNEL 785 help 786 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking 787 which functions/lines are tested. 788 789 If unsure, say N. 790 791 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will 792 run significantly slower. 793 794endif # FTRACE 795 796endif # TRACING_SUPPORT 797 798