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