2 # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
3 # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
6 config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
12 config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
15 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
18 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
21 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
24 An arch may pass in a unique value (frame pointer) to both the
25 entering and exiting of a function. On exit, the value is compared
26 and if it does not match, then it will panic the kernel.
28 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
31 This gets selected when the arch tests the function_trace_stop
32 variable at the mcount call site. Otherwise, this variable
33 is tested by the called function.
35 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
41 config HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
44 config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
47 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
53 config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
55 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
59 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
62 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
65 config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
68 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
69 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
71 # All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
72 # enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
73 # This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
74 # options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
75 # GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
76 # hidding of the automatic options options.
82 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
93 # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
94 # be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
96 config TRACING_SUPPORT
98 # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
99 # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
100 # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
101 # irqflags tracing for your architecture.
102 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
103 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
110 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
112 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
116 config FUNCTION_TRACER
117 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
118 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
121 select GENERIC_TRACER
122 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
124 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
125 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
126 instruction to the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
127 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
128 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
129 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
130 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
132 config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
133 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
134 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
135 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
136 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
139 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
141 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
142 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
143 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
144 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
147 config IRQSOFF_TRACER
148 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
150 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
151 depends on GENERIC_TIME
152 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
153 select GENERIC_TRACER
154 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
155 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
157 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
158 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
160 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
161 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
164 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
166 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
167 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
168 used together or separately.)
170 config PREEMPT_TRACER
171 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
173 depends on GENERIC_TIME
175 select GENERIC_TRACER
176 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
177 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
179 This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
180 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
182 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
183 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
186 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
188 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
189 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
190 used together or separately.)
192 config SYSPROF_TRACER
193 bool "Sysprof Tracer"
195 select GENERIC_TRACER
196 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
198 This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace
202 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
203 select GENERIC_TRACER
204 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
205 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
207 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
208 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
210 config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
211 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
212 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
215 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel
216 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
217 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
219 config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
220 bool "Trace syscalls"
221 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
222 select GENERIC_TRACER
225 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
228 bool "Trace boot initcalls"
229 select GENERIC_TRACER
230 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
232 This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records
233 the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity
234 of tasks that can cause boot delays, such as context-switches.
236 Its aim is to be parsed by the scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to
237 produce pretty graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual
238 representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw
239 /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too.
241 You must pass in initcall_debug and ftrace=initcall to the kernel
242 command line to enable this on bootup.
244 config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
246 select GENERIC_TRACER
249 prompt "Branch Profiling"
250 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
252 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
253 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
255 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
256 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
258 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if statement in the
259 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
262 Either of the above profilers add a bit of overhead to the system.
263 If unsure choose "No branch profiling".
265 config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
266 bool "No branch profiling"
268 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
269 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
270 Otherwise keep it disabled.
272 config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
273 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
274 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
276 This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros
277 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
279 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/profile_annotated_branch
281 Note: this will add a significant overhead, only turn this
282 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
284 config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
285 bool "Profile all if conditionals"
286 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
288 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
289 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
290 The results will be displayed in:
292 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/profile_branch
294 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
296 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
297 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
301 config TRACING_BRANCHES
304 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
305 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
306 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
307 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
310 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
311 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
312 select TRACING_BRANCHES
314 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
315 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
316 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
317 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
318 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
319 events happened, as well as their results.
324 bool "Trace power consumption behavior"
326 select GENERIC_TRACER
328 This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels
329 power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state
334 bool "Trace max stack"
335 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
336 select FUNCTION_TRACER
340 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
341 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
343 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
344 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
345 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
346 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
349 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
350 on the kernel command line.
352 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
353 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
357 config HW_BRANCH_TRACER
358 depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
359 bool "Trace hw branches"
360 select GENERIC_TRACER
362 This tracer records all branches on the system in a circular
363 buffer giving access to the last N branches for each cpu.
366 bool "Trace SLAB allocations"
367 select GENERIC_TRACER
369 kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as
370 kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected
371 data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse
372 allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it
373 possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug
374 and profile kernel code.
376 This requires an userspace application to use. See
377 Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt for more information.
379 Saying Y will make the kernel somewhat larger and slower. However,
380 if you disable kmemtrace at run-time or boot-time, the performance
381 impact is minimal (depending on the arch the kernel is built for).
385 config WORKQUEUE_TRACER
386 bool "Trace workqueues"
387 select GENERIC_TRACER
389 The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
390 about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
391 works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help
392 to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform.
393 For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should
394 choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one.
396 config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
397 bool "Support for tracing block io actions"
403 select GENERIC_TRACER
406 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
407 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
408 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
409 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
411 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
413 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
415 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
416 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
417 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
421 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
422 bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
423 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
424 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
427 This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
428 (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them
429 with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
430 created to dynamically enable them again.
432 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise
433 has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
435 The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
436 wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
437 were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
438 and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
440 config FUNCTION_PROFILER
441 bool "Kernel function profiler"
442 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
445 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
446 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
447 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
448 zero is entered, profiling stops. A file in the trace_stats
449 directory called functions, that show the list of functions that
450 have been hit and their counters.
454 config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
456 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
457 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
459 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
462 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
463 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
464 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
465 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
467 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
468 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
469 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
473 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
474 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
475 select GENERIC_TRACER
477 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
478 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
479 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
480 default and can be enabled at run-time.
482 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt.
483 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
485 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
486 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
487 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
489 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
490 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
491 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
493 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
495 config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
496 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
497 depends on RING_BUFFER
499 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and bench mark it.
500 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfer with
501 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
502 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
503 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
504 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
506 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
507 affected by processes that are running.
513 endif # TRACING_SUPPORT