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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4606576ceSSteven Rostedt#  select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
88d26487fSTörök Edwin	bool
98d26487fSTörök Edwin
102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER
112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker	bool
122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK
1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK
1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  features like fprobe and kprobes.
2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	bool
26555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	bool
31555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
34677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
35677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt	bool
36555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
375fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
38677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt
3906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
4006aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
4106aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu
42763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
43763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
44763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
45cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
46cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	bool
47cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
4802a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
4902a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
5002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
5102a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
5294d095ffSMark Rutland	 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
5302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
5494d095ffSMark Rutland	 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
5594d095ffSMark Rutland	 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
5602a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)
579440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
589440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	bool
599440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	help
609440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
619440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
629440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
638da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
648da3821bSSteven Rostedt	bool
65555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
665fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
678da3821bSSteven Rostedt
6866700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
69ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
70555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
715fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
72ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
73a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY
74a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	bool
75a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	help
76a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
77a2546faeSSteven Rostedt
782f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
792f4df001SVasily Gorbik	bool
802f4df001SVasily Gorbik	help
812f4df001SVasily Gorbik	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
822f4df001SVasily Gorbik
8322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
8422c8542dSSami Tolvanen	bool
8522c8542dSSami Tolvanen	help
8622c8542dSSami Tolvanen	  Arch supports objtool --mcount
8722c8542dSSami Tolvanen
88280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
89280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	bool
90280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	help
91280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
92280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
93280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  of ftrace locations.
94280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy
95cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
9672441cb1SSteven Rostedt	bool
9772441cb1SSteven Rostedt	help
9872441cb1SSteven Rostedt	  C version of recordmcount available?
9972441cb1SSteven Rostedt
1004ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1014ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1024ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1034ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)         An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
1044ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)	 at build time.
1054ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)
1066b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1076b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1086b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       default y
1094ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
1106b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1116b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)         Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
1126b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)
113352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE
114352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool
115352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
116ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK
117ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	bool
118ea632e9fSJosh Triplett
1197a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER
1207a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	bool
121ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
12222287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select IRQ_WORK
1237a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt
1245f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING
125b11c53e1SZhaolei	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
12660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
127b11c53e1SZhaolei	bool
128b11c53e1SZhaolei
129b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
1305f77a88bSTom Zanussi	bool
1315f77a88bSTom Zanussi
13285bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
13385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	bool
13485bac32cSSteven Rostedt	help
13585bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
13685bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
13785bac32cSSteven Rostedt
138c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
139c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
140c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
141c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACING
142c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	default y
143c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
144c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
145c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
146c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)
1475e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
1485e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
1495e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
1505e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
1515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
15240892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options.
1535e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
154bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING
155bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt	bool
1567a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER
157c2c80529SAl Viro	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1585f87f112SIngo Molnar	select TRACEPOINTS
159f3384b28SSteven Rostedt	select NOP_TRACER
160769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker	select BINARY_PRINTF
1615f77a88bSTom Zanussi	select EVENT_TRACING
162ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
163835f14edSPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
164bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
1655e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER
1665e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	bool
1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
16940ada30fSIngo Molnar#
17040ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
17140ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
17240ada30fSIngo Molnar#
17340ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT
17440ada30fSIngo Molnar	bool
1750ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
17640ada30fSIngo Molnar	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
177422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro	default y
17840ada30fSIngo Molnar
1794ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE
1804ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	bool "Tracers"
181de32951bSMasahiro Yamada	depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
18265b77242SSteven Rostedt	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
1834ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	help
1844ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
1854ed9f071SSteven Rostedt
1864ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE
18717d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra
1881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING
1891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
190d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on TRACING
191d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	select BOOT_CONFIG
1921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
1941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
1951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  initialization and boot process.
1961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
197606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER
1981b29b018SSteven Rostedt	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
199606576ceSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2004d7a077cSSteven Rostedt	select KALLSYMS
2015e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
20235e8e302SSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
20360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
20401b1d88bSThomas Gleixner	select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
205e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
2061b29b018SSteven Rostedt	help
2071b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
2081b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
20940892367SRandy Dunlap	  instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
2101b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
2111b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
2121b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
2130a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
2140a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
21535e8e302SSteven Rostedt
216fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
217fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
218fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
21915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
220eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt	depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
221764f3b95SIngo Molnar	default y
22215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	help
223fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
224fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  and its entry.
225692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
226692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
227692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  the return value. This is done by setting the current return
228692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
22915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
23061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
23161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
23261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
23361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
23461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
23561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
23661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
23761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
23861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
23961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
24061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
24161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
24261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
24361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  performance of the system.
24461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
2452455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
24661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    available_filter_functions
24761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_filter
24861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_notrace
24961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
25161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
25261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
25461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
25561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
25661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
25761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
25861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
25961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
26060c89718SFlorent Revest	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
26161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
26261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
263cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
264cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	def_bool y
265cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
266cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
26712f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
26812f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	def_bool y
26912f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
27012f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
27112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn
272cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE
273cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
274cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
275cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
2765b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
2775b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	select RETHOOK
278cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
279cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2805b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
2815b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
2825b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
2835b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  fprobe.
284cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
285cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
286cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER
28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Kernel function profiler"
28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default n
29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  have been hit and their counters.
29861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If in doubt, say N.
30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER
30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Trace max stack"
30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FUNCTION_TRACER
30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select STACKTRACE
30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select KALLSYMS
30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
3092455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
31361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  stack-trace saved.  If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is disabled.
31661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
31861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  on the kernel command line.
31961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
32061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
32161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
32261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
32361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N if unsure.
32461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
325c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
326c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
327c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
328c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
329c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  and last enabled.
330bac429f0SSteven Rostedt
33181d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER
33281d68a96SSteven Rostedt	bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
33381d68a96SSteven Rostedt	default n
33481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
33581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
3365e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
33781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
33885bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
33922cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3400b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
34181d68a96SSteven Rostedt	help
34281d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
34381d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
34481d68a96SSteven Rostedt
34581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
34681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
34781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  via:
34881d68a96SSteven Rostedt
3492455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
35081d68a96SSteven Rostedt
35140892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
3526cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
3536cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
3546cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
3556cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER
3566cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
3576cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	default n
35830c93704SThomas Gleixner	depends on PREEMPTION
3595e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
3606cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
36185bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
36222cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3630b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
364c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
3656cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	help
36640892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
3676cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
3686cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
3696cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
3706cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
3716cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  via:
3726cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
3732455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
3746cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
37540892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
3766cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
3776cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
3786cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
379352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER
380352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
3815e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
382352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
383352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
38422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
385352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	help
386352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
387352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
388352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
389e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER
390e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
391e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select GENERIC_TRACER
392e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
393e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
394e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
395c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
396e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
397e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
398e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
399e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
400e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
401e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
402e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
403e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 is enabled:
404e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
405e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/width   - time in usecs for how long to spin for
406e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/window  - time in usecs between the start of each
407e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)				     iteration
408e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
409e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
410c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
411e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
412e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 continue to operate.
413e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
414e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
415e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
416e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
417e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
418e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
419e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 production system.
420e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
421e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
422e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
423e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 be recorded into the ring buffer.
424e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
425bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER
426bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "OS Noise tracer"
427bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
428e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
429bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
430bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
431bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
432bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
433bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
434bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
435bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
436bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
437bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
438bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
439bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
440bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
441bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
442bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
443bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
444bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
445bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  without any interference from the operating system level, the
446bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
447bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
448bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
449bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
450bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
451bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
452bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
453bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
454bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
455bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
456bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
457bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
458bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira          file.
459bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
460a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER
461a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "Timerlat tracer"
462a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select OSNOISE_TRACER
463a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
464a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
465a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
466a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
467a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
468a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
469a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
470a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
471a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
472a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
473a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to expire.
474a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
475a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
476a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
477a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
478a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
479a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
480a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  respective thread execution.
481a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
482a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
483a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
484a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
485a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
486a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  path that can cause thread delay.
487a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
48821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE
48921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
49021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
49121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select GENERIC_TRACER
49221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
49321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
49421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
49521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
49621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  default and can be enabled at run-time.
49721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
49821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
49921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
50021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
501897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
502897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace process context switches and events"
5035e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
504b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
505b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	help
50640892367SRandy Dunlap	  This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
507b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	  allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
508897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	  want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
509a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt
510ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS
511ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Trace syscalls"
51266700001SJosh Stone	depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
5135e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5140ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker	select KALLSYMS
515ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	help
516ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
517ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
518debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT
519debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
520debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
521debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	help
522debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
523debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
524debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
526debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      cat snapshot
527debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5280b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
5290b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
5300b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
5310b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
5320b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
5330b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
5340b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
5350b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  allowed:
5360b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5372455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
5380b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5390b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
5400b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
5410b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5420b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
5430b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
5440b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
5450b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
5460b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
5470b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
5480b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5492ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5509ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool
5515e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5539ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice
5549ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	prompt "Branch Profiling"
5559ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
5569ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
5579ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
5589ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
5599ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5609ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
5619ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
5629ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
56340892367SRandy Dunlap	 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
5649ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
56540892367SRandy Dunlap	 profiler.
5669ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
56740892367SRandy Dunlap	 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
56840892367SRandy Dunlap	 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
5699ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5709ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
5719ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "No branch profiling"
5729ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
5739ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
5749ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
5759ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Otherwise keep it disabled.
5769ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
5779ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
5789ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
5799ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5801f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	help
58159bf8964SMasanari Iida	  This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
5821f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  in the kernel. It will display the results in:
5831f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
5842455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
5851f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
58640892367SRandy Dunlap	  Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
5871f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
5881f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
5892bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
59068e76e03SRandy Dunlap	bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
5919ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
5922bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	help
5932bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
5942bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
5952bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  The results will be displayed in:
5962bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
5972455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
5982bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
5999ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
6009ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6012bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
6022bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
60340892367SRandy Dunlap	  is to be analyzed in much detail.
6049ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice
6052bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6062ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES
60752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool
60852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
60952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
61052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
61152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
61252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
61352f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6142ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER
61552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
6162ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6172ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING_BRANCHES
61852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
61952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
62052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  calls in the kernel.  The difference between this and the
62152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
62252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
62352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
62452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events happened, as well as their results.
62552f232cbSSteven Rostedt
62652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Say N if unsure.
62752f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6282db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
62940892367SRandy Dunlap	bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
6302db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on SYSFS
6311dfba05dSIngo Molnar	depends on BLOCK
6322db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select RELAY
6332db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select DEBUG_FS
6342db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
6355e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
6362db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select STACKTRACE
6372db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6382db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
6392db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
6402db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
6412db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
6422db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6432db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
6442db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6452db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
6462db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6472db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
6482455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
6492455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
6502db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6512db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
65236994e58SFrederic Weisbecker
653334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS
654334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE
655334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
656334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
657334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACING
658334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select PROBE_EVENTS
659334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
660334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
661334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
662334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
663334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
664334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
665334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  transparently converted to this fprobe events.
666334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
667*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
668*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
669*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
670*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
671*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
672*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
673*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
674*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
675*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
676*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
677*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
678*b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
6796b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS
680413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBES
681f850c30cSHeiko Carstens	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
68277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
683413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	select TRACING
6848ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
6856212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
68677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	default y
687413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	help
68840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
68940892367SRandy Dunlap	  on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
6905fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
69177b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
69277b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
69377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  various register and memory values.
69477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
69540892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
69640892367SRandy Dunlap	  If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
697413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu
69845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
69945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
70045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
7017bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
70245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
70345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
70445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
70545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  using kprobe events.
70645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
70745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
70828cc65a1SColin Ian King	  functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
70945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
71045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  crash.
71145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
71245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
71345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
71445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
71545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
71645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
71745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
7186b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS
719f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
720f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
721f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on MMU
72209294e31SDavid A. Long	depends on PERF_EVENTS
723f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select UPROBES
724f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7250597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
726f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select TRACING
72761f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	default y
728f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	help
729f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
730f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
731f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
732f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  can probe, and record various registers.
733f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
734f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  of perf tools on user space applications.
735f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju
736e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS
737e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
7386b0b7551SAnton Blanchard	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
739e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool
740e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	default y
741e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	help
7425cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
7435cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  tracepoint events.
744e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar
7455448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS
7465448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu	def_bool n
7475448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu
7488ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS
7498ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	def_bool n
7508ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju
7519802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
7529802d865SJosef Bacik	bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
7539802d865SJosef Bacik	depends on BPF_EVENTS
754540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
7559802d865SJosef Bacik	default n
7569802d865SJosef Bacik	help
7579802d865SJosef Bacik	 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
7589802d865SJosef Bacik	 set a different return value.  This is used for error injection.
7599802d865SJosef Bacik
7608da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7618da3821bSSteven Rostedt	def_bool y
7628da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
7638da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7648da3821bSSteven Rostedt
7653b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
7663b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	bool
7673b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7683b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
7693b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
7703b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
7713b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
7723b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
7733b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7743b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
77522c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
77622c8542dSSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
77722c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
77822c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
77922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
78022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
78103f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf	select OBJTOOL
78222c8542dSSami Tolvanen
7833b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
7843b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
7853b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
7863b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
78722c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
7883b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
7893b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
79008d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP
79108d43a5fSTom Zanussi	bool
79208d43a5fSTom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
79308d43a5fSTom Zanussi	help
79408d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
79508d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
79608d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  to be shared between multiple tracers.  It isn't meant to be
79708d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  generally used outside of that context, and is normally
79808d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  selected by tracers that use it.
79908d43a5fSTom Zanussi
800726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS
801726721a5STom Zanussi	bool "Synthetic trace events"
802726721a5STom Zanussi	select TRACING
803726721a5STom Zanussi	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
804726721a5STom Zanussi	default n
805726721a5STom Zanussi	help
806726721a5STom Zanussi	  Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
807726721a5STom Zanussi	  used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
808726721a5STom Zanussi	  data source.  Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
809726721a5STom Zanussi	  via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
810726721a5STom Zanussi	  by way of an in-kernel API.
811726721a5STom Zanussi
812726721a5STom Zanussi	  See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
813726721a5STom Zanussi	  Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
814726721a5STom Zanussi
815726721a5STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
816726721a5STom Zanussi
8177f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS
8187f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	bool "User trace events"
8197f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select TRACING
8207f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
8217f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	help
8227f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  User trace events are user-defined trace events that
8237f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  can be used like an existing kernel trace event.  User trace
8247f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  events are generated by writing to a tracefs file.  User
8257f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  processes can determine if their tracing events should be
82672357590SBeau Belgrave	  generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
82772357590SBeau Belgrave	  that reflects when it is enabled or not.
8287f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
82972357590SBeau Belgrave	  See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
8307f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  If in doubt, say N.
8317f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
8327ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS
8337ef224d1STom Zanussi	bool "Histogram triggers"
8347ef224d1STom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
8357ef224d1STom Zanussi	select TRACING_MAP
8367ad8fb61STom Zanussi	select TRACING
8377bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
838726721a5STom Zanussi	select SYNTH_EVENTS
8397ef224d1STom Zanussi	default n
8407ef224d1STom Zanussi	help
8417ef224d1STom Zanussi	  Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
8427ef224d1STom Zanussi	  to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
8437ef224d1STom Zanussi	  reading a debugfs/tracefs file.  They're useful for
8447ef224d1STom Zanussi	  gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
8457ef224d1STom Zanussi	  event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
8467ef224d1STom Zanussi	  using more advanced tools.
8477ef224d1STom Zanussi
84889e270c1STom Zanussi	  Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
84989e270c1STom Zanussi	  supported using hist triggers under this option.
85089e270c1STom Zanussi
851ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
8527ef224d1STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
8537ef224d1STom Zanussi
8546c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
8556c3edaf9SCong Wang	bool "Trace event injection"
8566c3edaf9SCong Wang	depends on TRACING
8576c3edaf9SCong Wang	help
8586c3edaf9SCong Wang	  Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
8596c3edaf9SCong Wang	  buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
8606c3edaf9SCong Wang
8616c3edaf9SCong Wang	  If unsure, say N.
8626c3edaf9SCong Wang
86381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
86481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
86581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
86681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
86781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
86869268094SRolf Eike Beer	 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
86981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
87081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
87181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
87281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
87381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
87481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
87581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
87681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
87781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
87881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
87981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
88081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
88181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 An example of the output:
88281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
88381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      START
88481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
88581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
88681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
88781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
88881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
88981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
89081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
89181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
89281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
8935092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
8945092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
8955092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	depends on RING_BUFFER
8965092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	help
8975092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
89840892367SRandy Dunlap	  It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
8995092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
9005092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
9015092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
9025092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
9035092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9045092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
9055092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  affected by processes that are running.
9065092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
90740892367SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N.
9085092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
9101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
9111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on TRACING
9121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
9131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
9141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
9151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
9161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	how to convert the string to its value.
9171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
9191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
9201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
9211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
9231e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
9241e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9251e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
9261e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
9271e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	names matched with their values and what trace event system they
9281e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	belong too.
9291e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9301e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
9311e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
9321e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
9331e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
9341e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9351e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If unsure, say N.
9361e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
937773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
938773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
939773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
940773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
941773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
942773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
943773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
944773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
945773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that triggered a recursion.
946773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
947773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
948773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
949773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N
950773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
951773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
952773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
953773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default	128
954773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
955773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
956773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
957773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
958773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
959773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
960773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  size at runtime.
961773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
96228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
96328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
96428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
96528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	# default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
96628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
96728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
96828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
969ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
970ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
97128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
97228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file.
97328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
97428575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
97528575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
9771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
9781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GCOV_KERNEL
9791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
9801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
9811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  which functions/lines are tested.
9821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N.
9841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
9861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  run significantly slower.
9871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST
9891e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
9901e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9911e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
9921e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
9931e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GENERIC_TRACER
9941e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FTRACE_SELFTEST
9951e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
9961e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
9971e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
9981e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
9991e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  tracers of ftrace.
10001e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10011e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10021e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on trace events"
10031e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10041e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
10051e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10061e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
10071e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
10081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
10091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
10101e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10111e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
10121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
10131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
10161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
10171e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
10181e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
10191e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10201e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
10211e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	       events
10221e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10238147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
10248147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
10258147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
10266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
10278147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
10288147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
10298147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
10308147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
10318147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
10328147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
10338147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
10348147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10358147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If unsure, say N
10368147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10376c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
10386c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
10396c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       depends on RING_BUFFER
10406c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       help
10416c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
10426c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
10436c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
10446c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
10456c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
10466c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
10476c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
10486c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
10496c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10506c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
10516c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 by at least 10 more seconds.
10526c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1053ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1054ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
10556c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
10566c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 other similar details.
10576c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10586c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If unsure, say N
10596c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10605b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
10615b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
10625b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on RING_BUFFER
10635b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10645b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
10655b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
10665b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
10675b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This audit is performed for every event that is not
10685b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
10695b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
10705b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
10715b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
10725b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10735b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
10745b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
10755b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Do not use it on production systems.
10765b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10775b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
10785b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
10795b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1080a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1081a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1082a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1083a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1084a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1085a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1086a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1087a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1088a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1089a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1090f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1091a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1092f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on m
1093f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
1094f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1095f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1096f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1097f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  critical section.
1098f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
109979393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
110079393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
110179393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1102f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11034b9091e1SSong Chen	  What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
11044b9091e1SSong Chen	  tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
11054b9091e1SSong Chen	  command.
11064b9091e1SSong Chen
1107f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  If unsure, say N
1108f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11099fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
11109fe41efaSTom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
1111726721a5STom Zanussi	depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
11129fe41efaSTom Zanussi	help
11139fe41efaSTom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
11149fe41efaSTom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
11159fe41efaSTom Zanussi          generation.
11169fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11179fe41efaSTom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
11189fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  for the generated sample events.
11199fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11209fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
11219fe41efaSTom Zanussi
112264836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
112364836248STom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
112464836248STom Zanussi	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
112564836248STom Zanussi	help
112664836248STom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
112764836248STom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
112864836248STom Zanussi
112964836248STom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
113064836248STom Zanussi	  for the generated kprobe events.
113164836248STom Zanussi
113264836248STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
113364836248STom Zanussi
11342d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
11352d19bd79STom Zanussi	bool "Hist trigger debug support"
11362d19bd79STom Zanussi	depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
11372d19bd79STom Zanussi	help
11382d19bd79STom Zanussi          Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
11392d19bd79STom Zanussi          dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
11402d19bd79STom Zanussi          defined on that event.
11412d19bd79STom Zanussi
11422d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
11432d19bd79STom Zanussi
11442d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
11452d19bd79STom Zanussi
11462d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Provides educational information to support the details
11472d19bd79STom Zanussi              of the hist trigger internals as described by
11482d19bd79STom Zanussi              Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
11492d19bd79STom Zanussi
11502d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
11512d19bd79STom Zanussi          related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
11522d19bd79STom Zanussi          display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
11532d19bd79STom Zanussi          running histograms.
11542d19bd79STom Zanussi
11552d19bd79STom Zanussi          If unsure, say N.
11562d19bd79STom Zanussi
1157102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1158102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
11594ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE
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