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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#
3# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
5#
6
7config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
8 bool
9
10config NOP_TRACER
11 bool
12
13config HAVE_RETHOOK
14 bool
15
16config RETHOOK
17 bool
18 depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
19 help
20 Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
21 API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
22 features like fprobe and kprobes.
23
24config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
25 bool
26 help
27 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28
29config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
30 bool
31 help
32 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
33
34config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
35 bool
36
37config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38 bool
39 help
40 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
41
42config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
43 bool
44
45config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
46 bool
47
48config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
49 bool
50
51config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
52 bool
53 help
54 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
55 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
56 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
57 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
58 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
59
60config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
61 bool
62 help
63 If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
64 but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
65
66config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
67 bool
68 help
69 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
70
71config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
72 bool
73 help
74 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
75
76config HAVE_FENTRY
77 bool
78 help
79 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
80
81config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
82 bool
83 help
84 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
85
86config HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
87 bool
88 help
89 Arch supports objtool --mcount
90
91config HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
92 bool
93 help
94 Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
95 An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
96 of ftrace locations.
97
98config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
99 bool
100 help
101 C version of recordmcount available?
102
103config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
104 bool
105 help
106 An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
107 at build time.
108
109config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
110 bool
111 default y
112 depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
113 help
114 Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
115
116config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
117 bool
118
119config TRACE_CLOCK
120 bool
121
122config RING_BUFFER
123 bool
124 select TRACE_CLOCK
125 select IRQ_WORK
126
127config EVENT_TRACING
128 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
129 select GLOB
130 bool
131
132config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
133 bool
134
135config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
136 bool
137 help
138 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
139 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
140
141config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
142 bool
143 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
144 select TRACING
145 default y
146 help
147 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
148 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
149
150# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
151# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
152# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
153# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
154# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
155# hiding of the automatic options.
156
157config TRACING
158 bool
159 select RING_BUFFER
160 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
161 select TRACEPOINTS
162 select NOP_TRACER
163 select BINARY_PRINTF
164 select EVENT_TRACING
165 select TRACE_CLOCK
166 select NEED_TASKS_RCU
167
168config GENERIC_TRACER
169 bool
170 select TRACING
171
172#
173# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
174# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
175#
176config TRACING_SUPPORT
177 bool
178 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
179 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
180 default y
181
182menuconfig FTRACE
183 bool "Tracers"
184 depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
185 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
186 help
187 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
188
189if FTRACE
190
191config BOOTTIME_TRACING
192 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
193 depends on TRACING
194 select BOOT_CONFIG
195 help
196 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
197 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
198 initialization and boot process.
199
200config FUNCTION_TRACER
201 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
202 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
203 select KALLSYMS
204 select GENERIC_TRACER
205 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
206 select GLOB
207 select NEED_TASKS_RCU
208 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
209 help
210 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
211 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
212 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
213 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
214 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
215 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
216 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
217 x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
218
219config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
220 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
221 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
222 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
223 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
224 default y
225 help
226 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
227 and its entry.
228 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
229 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
230 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
231 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
232
233config FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
234 bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value"
235 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
236 depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
237 default n
238 help
239 Support recording and printing the function return value when
240 using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions
241 that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can
242 enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval.
243 See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
244
245config FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR
246 bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address"
247 depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
248 default n
249 help
250 Support recording and printing the function return address when
251 using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that
252 the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can
253 enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr.
254
255config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
256 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
257 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
258 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
259 default y
260 help
261 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
262 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
263 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
264 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
265 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
266 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
267 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
268 performance of the system.
269
270 See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
271 available_filter_functions
272 set_ftrace_filter
273 set_ftrace_notrace
274
275 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
276 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
277
278config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
279 def_bool y
280 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
281 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
282
283config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
284 def_bool y
285 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
286 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
287
288config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
289 def_bool y
290 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
291
292config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
293 def_bool y
294 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
295 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
296
297config FPROBE
298 bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
299 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
300 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
301 depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
302 select RETHOOK
303 default n
304 help
305 This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
306 The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
307 entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
308 fprobe.
309
310 If unsure, say N.
311
312config FUNCTION_PROFILER
313 bool "Kernel function profiler"
314 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
315 default n
316 help
317 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
318 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
319 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
320 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
321 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
322 have been hit and their counters.
323
324 If in doubt, say N.
325
326config STACK_TRACER
327 bool "Trace max stack"
328 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
329 select FUNCTION_TRACER
330 select STACKTRACE
331 select KALLSYMS
332 help
333 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
334 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
335
336 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
337 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
338 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
339 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
340 is disabled.
341
342 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
343 on the kernel command line.
344
345 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
346 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
347
348 Say N if unsure.
349
350config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
351 bool
352 help
353 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
354 and last enabled.
355
356config IRQSOFF_TRACER
357 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
358 default n
359 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
360 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
361 select GENERIC_TRACER
362 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
363 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
364 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
365 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
366 help
367 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
368 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
369
370 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
371 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
372 via:
373
374 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
375
376 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
377 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
378 used together or separately.)
379
380config PREEMPT_TRACER
381 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
382 default n
383 depends on PREEMPTION
384 select GENERIC_TRACER
385 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
386 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
387 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
388 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
389 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
390 help
391 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
392 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
393
394 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
395 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
396 via:
397
398 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
399
400 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
401 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
402 used together or separately.)
403
404config SCHED_TRACER
405 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
406 select GENERIC_TRACER
407 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
408 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
409 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
410 help
411 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
412 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
413
414config HWLAT_TRACER
415 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
416 select GENERIC_TRACER
417 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
418 help
419 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
420 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
421 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
422 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
423 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
424 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
425 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
426
427 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
428 is enabled:
429
430 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
431 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
432 iteration
433
434 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
435 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
436 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
437 continue to operate.
438
439 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
440
441 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
442 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
443 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
444 production system.
445
446 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
447 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
448 be recorded into the ring buffer.
449
450config OSNOISE_TRACER
451 bool "OS Noise tracer"
452 select GENERIC_TRACER
453 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
454 help
455 In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
456 System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
457 application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
458 context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
459 can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
460 also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
461
462 The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
463 loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
464 the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
465 note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
466 increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
467 counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
468 NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
469 observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
470 without any interference from the operating system level, the
471 hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
472 noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
473 interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
474 the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
475 available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
476
477 In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
478 facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
479
480 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
481
482 To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
483 file.
484
485config TIMERLAT_TRACER
486 bool "Timerlat tracer"
487 select OSNOISE_TRACER
488 select GENERIC_TRACER
489 help
490 The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
491 to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
492
493 The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
494 The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
495 to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
496 then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
497 the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
498 to expire.
499
500 The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
501 timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
502 activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
503 by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
504 ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
505 respective thread execution.
506
507 The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
508 events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
509 IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
510 stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
511 path that can cause thread delay.
512
513config MMIOTRACE
514 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
515 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
516 select GENERIC_TRACER
517 help
518 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
519 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
520 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
521 default and can be enabled at run-time.
522
523 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
524 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
525
526config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
527 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
528 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
529 select TRACING
530 help
531 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
532 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
533 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
534
535config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
536 bool "Trace syscalls"
537 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
538 select GENERIC_TRACER
539 select KALLSYMS
540 help
541 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
542
543config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
544 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
545 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
546 help
547 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
548 ftrace interface, e.g.:
549
550 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
551 cat snapshot
552
553config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
554 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
555 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
556 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
557 help
558 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
559 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
560 allowed:
561
562 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
563
564 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
565 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
566
567 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
568 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
569 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
570 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
571 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
572 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
573
574config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
575 bool
576 select GENERIC_TRACER
577
578choice
579 prompt "Branch Profiling"
580 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
581 help
582 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
583 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
584
585 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
586 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
587
588 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
589 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
590 profiler.
591
592 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
593 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
594
595config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
596 bool "No branch profiling"
597 help
598 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
599 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
600 Otherwise keep it disabled.
601
602config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
603 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
604 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
605 help
606 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
607 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
608
609 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
610
611 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
612 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
613
614config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
615 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
616 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
617 help
618 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
619 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
620 The results will be displayed in:
621
622 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
623
624 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
625
626 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
627 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
628 is to be analyzed in much detail.
629endchoice
630
631config TRACING_BRANCHES
632 bool
633 help
634 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
635 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
636 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
637 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
638
639config BRANCH_TRACER
640 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
641 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
642 select TRACING_BRANCHES
643 help
644 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
645 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
646 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
647 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
648 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
649 events happened, as well as their results.
650
651 Say N if unsure.
652
653config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
654 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
655 depends on SYSFS
656 depends on BLOCK
657 select RELAY
658 select DEBUG_FS
659 select TRACEPOINTS
660 select GENERIC_TRACER
661 select STACKTRACE
662 help
663 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
664 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
665 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
666 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
667
668 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
669
670 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
671
672 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
673 echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
674 cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
675
676 If unsure, say N.
677
678config FPROBE_EVENTS
679 depends on FPROBE
680 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
681 bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
682 select TRACING
683 select PROBE_EVENTS
684 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
685 default y
686 help
687 This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
688 exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
689 and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
690 transparently converted to this fprobe events.
691
692config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
693 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
694 depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
695 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
696 bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
697 default y
698 help
699 The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
700 of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
701 kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
702 This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
703
704config KPROBE_EVENTS
705 depends on KPROBES
706 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
707 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
708 select TRACING
709 select PROBE_EVENTS
710 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
711 default y
712 help
713 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
714 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
715 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
716
717 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
718 various register and memory values.
719
720 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
721 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
722
723config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
724 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
725 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
726 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
727 default n
728 help
729 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
730 using kprobe events.
731
732 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
733 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
734 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
735 crash.
736
737 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
738 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
739 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
740
741 If unsure, say N.
742
743config UPROBE_EVENTS
744 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
745 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
746 depends on MMU
747 depends on PERF_EVENTS
748 select UPROBES
749 select PROBE_EVENTS
750 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
751 select TRACING
752 default y
753 help
754 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
755 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
756 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
757 can probe, and record various registers.
758 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
759 of perf tools on user space applications.
760
761config BPF_EVENTS
762 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
763 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
764 bool
765 default y
766 help
767 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
768 tracepoint events.
769
770config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
771 def_bool n
772
773config PROBE_EVENTS
774 def_bool n
775
776config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
777 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
778 depends on BPF_EVENTS
779 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
780 default n
781 help
782 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
783 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
784
785config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
786 def_bool y
787 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
788 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
789
790config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
791 bool
792 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
793
794config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
795 def_bool y
796 depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
797 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
798 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
799
800config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
801 def_bool y
802 depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
803 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
804 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
805 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
806 select OBJTOOL
807
808config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
809 def_bool y
810 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
811 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
812 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
813 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
814
815config TRACING_MAP
816 bool
817 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
818 help
819 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
820 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
821 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
822 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
823 selected by tracers that use it.
824
825config SYNTH_EVENTS
826 bool "Synthetic trace events"
827 select TRACING
828 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
829 default n
830 help
831 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
832 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
833 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
834 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
835 by way of an in-kernel API.
836
837 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
838 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
839
840 If in doubt, say N.
841
842config USER_EVENTS
843 bool "User trace events"
844 select TRACING
845 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
846 help
847 User trace events are user-defined trace events that
848 can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace
849 events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User
850 processes can determine if their tracing events should be
851 generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
852 that reflects when it is enabled or not.
853
854 See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
855 If in doubt, say N.
856
857config HIST_TRIGGERS
858 bool "Histogram triggers"
859 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
860 select TRACING_MAP
861 select TRACING
862 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
863 select SYNTH_EVENTS
864 default n
865 help
866 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
867 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
868 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
869 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
870 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
871 using more advanced tools.
872
873 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
874 supported using hist triggers under this option.
875
876 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
877 If in doubt, say N.
878
879config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
880 bool "Trace event injection"
881 depends on TRACING
882 help
883 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
884 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
885
886 If unsure, say N.
887
888config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
889 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
890 help
891 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
892 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
893 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
894 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
895 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
896 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
897 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
898 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
899 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
900 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
901 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
902
903 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
904 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
905
906 An example of the output:
907
908 START
909 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
910 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
911 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
912 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
913 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
914 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
915 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
916
917
918config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
919 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
920 depends on RING_BUFFER
921 help
922 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
923 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
924 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
925 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
926 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
927 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
928
929 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
930 affected by processes that are running.
931
932 If unsure, say N.
933
934config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
935 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
936 depends on TRACING
937 help
938 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
939 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
940 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
941 how to convert the string to its value.
942
943 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
944 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
945 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
946
947 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
948 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
949
950 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
951 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
952 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
953 belong too.
954
955 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
956 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
957 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
958 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
959
960 If unsure, say N.
961
962config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
963 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
964 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
965 help
966 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
967 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
968 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
969 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
970 that triggered a recursion.
971
972 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
973
974 If unsure, say N
975
976config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
977 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
978 default 128
979 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
980 help
981 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
982 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
983 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
984 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
985 size at runtime.
986
987config FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING
988 bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution"
989 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
990 depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
991 help
992 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of
993 protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that
994 ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not
995 called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it
996 also has a noticeable overhead when enabled.
997
998 If unsure, say N
999
1000config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
1001 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
1002 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
1003 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
1004 default y
1005 help
1006 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
1007 recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
1008 but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
1009 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
1010 file.
1011
1012 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
1013
1014config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
1015 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
1016 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
1017 help
1018 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
1019 which functions/lines are tested.
1020
1021 If unsure, say N.
1022
1023 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
1024 run significantly slower.
1025
1026config FTRACE_SELFTEST
1027 bool
1028
1029config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1030 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
1031 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
1032 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
1033 help
1034 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
1035 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
1036 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
1037 tracers of ftrace.
1038
1039config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1040 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
1041 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1042 default y
1043 help
1044 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
1045 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
1046 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
1047 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
1048
1049config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
1050 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
1051 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1052 help
1053 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
1054 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
1055 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
1056 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
1057
1058 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
1059 events
1060
1061config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
1062 bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
1063 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
1064 depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1065 help
1066 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
1067 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
1068 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
1069 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
1070 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
1071 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
1072
1073 If unsure, say N
1074
1075config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
1076 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
1077 depends on RING_BUFFER
1078 help
1079 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
1080 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
1081 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
1082 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
1083 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
1084 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
1085 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
1086 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
1087
1088 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
1089 by at least 10 more seconds.
1090
1091 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1092 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
1093 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
1094 other similar details.
1095
1096 If unsure, say N
1097
1098config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
1099 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
1100 depends on RING_BUFFER
1101 help
1102 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
1103 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
1104 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
1105 This audit is performed for every event that is not
1106 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
1107 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
1108 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
1109 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
1110
1111 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
1112 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
1113 Do not use it on production systems.
1114
1115 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
1116 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
1117
1118config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1119 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1120 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1121 help
1122 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1123 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1124 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1125
1126 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1127
1128config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1129 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1130 depends on m
1131 help
1132 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1133 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1134 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1135 critical section.
1136
1137 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
1138 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
1139 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1140
1141 What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
1142 tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
1143 command.
1144
1145 If unsure, say N
1146
1147config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1148 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
1149 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m
1150 help
1151 This option creates a test module to check the base
1152 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
1153 generation.
1154
1155 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1156 for the generated sample events.
1157
1158 If unsure, say N.
1159
1160config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1161 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
1162 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m
1163 help
1164 This option creates a test module to check the base
1165 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
1166
1167 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1168 for the generated kprobe events.
1169
1170 If unsure, say N.
1171
1172config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
1173 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
1174 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
1175 help
1176 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
1177 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
1178 defined on that event.
1179
1180 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
1181
1182 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
1183
1184 - Provides educational information to support the details
1185 of the hist trigger internals as described by
1186 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
1187
1188 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
1189 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
1190 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
1191 running histograms.
1192
1193 If unsure, say N.
1194
1195source "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1196
1197endif # FTRACE
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#
3# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
5#
6
7config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
8 bool
9
10config NOP_TRACER
11 bool
12
13config HAVE_RETHOOK
14 bool
15
16config RETHOOK
17 bool
18 depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
19 help
20 Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
21 API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
22 features like fprobe and kprobes.
23
24config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
25 bool
26 help
27 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28
29config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
30 bool
31 help
32 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
33
34config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
35 bool
36 help
37 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
38
39config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
40 bool
41
42config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
43 bool
44
45config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
46 bool
47 help
48 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
49 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
50 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
51 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
52 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
53
54config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
55 bool
56 help
57 If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
58 but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
59
60config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
61 bool
62 help
63 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
64
65config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
66 bool
67 help
68 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
69
70config HAVE_FENTRY
71 bool
72 help
73 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
74
75config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
76 bool
77 help
78 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
79
80config HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
81 bool
82 help
83 Arch supports objtool --mcount
84
85config HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
86 bool
87 help
88 Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
89 An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
90 of ftrace locations.
91
92config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
93 bool
94 help
95 C version of recordmcount available?
96
97config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
98 bool
99 help
100 An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
101 at build time.
102
103config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
104 bool
105 default y
106 depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
107 help
108 Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
109
110config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
111 bool
112
113config TRACE_CLOCK
114 bool
115
116config RING_BUFFER
117 bool
118 select TRACE_CLOCK
119 select IRQ_WORK
120
121config EVENT_TRACING
122 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
123 select GLOB
124 bool
125
126config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
127 bool
128
129config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
130 bool
131 help
132 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
133 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
134
135config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
136 bool
137 depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
138 select TRACING
139 default y
140 help
141 Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
142 of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
143
144# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
145# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
146# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
147# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
148# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
149# hiding of the automatic options.
150
151config TRACING
152 bool
153 select RING_BUFFER
154 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
155 select TRACEPOINTS
156 select NOP_TRACER
157 select BINARY_PRINTF
158 select EVENT_TRACING
159 select TRACE_CLOCK
160 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
161
162config GENERIC_TRACER
163 bool
164 select TRACING
165
166#
167# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
168# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
169#
170config TRACING_SUPPORT
171 bool
172 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
173 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
174 default y
175
176menuconfig FTRACE
177 bool "Tracers"
178 depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
179 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
180 help
181 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
182
183if FTRACE
184
185config BOOTTIME_TRACING
186 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
187 depends on TRACING
188 select BOOT_CONFIG
189 help
190 Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
191 kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
192 initialization and boot process.
193
194config FUNCTION_TRACER
195 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
196 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
197 select KALLSYMS
198 select GENERIC_TRACER
199 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
200 select GLOB
201 select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION
202 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
203 help
204 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
205 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
206 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
207 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
208 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
209 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
210 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
211 x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
212
213config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
214 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
215 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
216 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
217 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
218 default y
219 help
220 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
221 and its entry.
222 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
223 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
224 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
225 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
226
227config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
228 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
229 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
230 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
231 default y
232 help
233 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
234 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
235 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
236 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
237 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
238 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
239 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
240 performance of the system.
241
242 See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
243 available_filter_functions
244 set_ftrace_filter
245 set_ftrace_notrace
246
247 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
248 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
249
250config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
251 def_bool y
252 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
253 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
254
255config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
256 def_bool y
257 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
258 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
259
260config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
261 def_bool y
262 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
263 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
264
265config FPROBE
266 bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
267 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
268 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
269 depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
270 select RETHOOK
271 default n
272 help
273 This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
274 The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
275 entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
276 fprobe.
277
278 If unsure, say N.
279
280config FUNCTION_PROFILER
281 bool "Kernel function profiler"
282 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
283 default n
284 help
285 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
286 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
287 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
288 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
289 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
290 have been hit and their counters.
291
292 If in doubt, say N.
293
294config STACK_TRACER
295 bool "Trace max stack"
296 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
297 select FUNCTION_TRACER
298 select STACKTRACE
299 select KALLSYMS
300 help
301 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
302 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace.
303
304 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
305 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
306 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
307 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
308 is disabled.
309
310 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
311 on the kernel command line.
312
313 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
314 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
315
316 Say N if unsure.
317
318config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
319 bool
320 help
321 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
322 and last enabled.
323
324config IRQSOFF_TRACER
325 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
326 default n
327 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
328 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
329 select GENERIC_TRACER
330 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
331 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
332 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
333 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
334 help
335 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
336 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
337
338 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
339 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
340 via:
341
342 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
343
344 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
345 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
346 used together or separately.)
347
348config PREEMPT_TRACER
349 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
350 default n
351 depends on PREEMPTION
352 select GENERIC_TRACER
353 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
354 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
355 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
356 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
357 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
358 help
359 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
360 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
361
362 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
363 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
364 via:
365
366 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency
367
368 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
369 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
370 used together or separately.)
371
372config SCHED_TRACER
373 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
374 select GENERIC_TRACER
375 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
376 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
377 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
378 help
379 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
380 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
381
382config HWLAT_TRACER
383 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
384 select GENERIC_TRACER
385 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
386 help
387 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
388 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
389 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
390 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
391 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
392 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
393 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
394
395 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
396 is enabled:
397
398 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
399 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
400 iteration
401
402 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
403 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
404 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
405 continue to operate.
406
407 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
408
409 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
410 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
411 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
412 production system.
413
414 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
415 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
416 be recorded into the ring buffer.
417
418config OSNOISE_TRACER
419 bool "OS Noise tracer"
420 select GENERIC_TRACER
421 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
422 help
423 In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
424 System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
425 application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
426 context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
427 can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
428 also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
429
430 The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
431 loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
432 the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
433 note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
434 increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
435 counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
436 NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
437 observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
438 without any interference from the operating system level, the
439 hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
440 noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
441 interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
442 the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
443 available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
444
445 In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
446 facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
447
448 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
449
450 To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
451 file.
452
453config TIMERLAT_TRACER
454 bool "Timerlat tracer"
455 select OSNOISE_TRACER
456 select GENERIC_TRACER
457 help
458 The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
459 to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
460
461 The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
462 The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
463 to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
464 then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
465 the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
466 to expire.
467
468 The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
469 timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
470 activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
471 by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
472 ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
473 respective thread execution.
474
475 The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
476 events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
477 IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
478 stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
479 path that can cause thread delay.
480
481config MMIOTRACE
482 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
483 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
484 select GENERIC_TRACER
485 help
486 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
487 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
488 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
489 default and can be enabled at run-time.
490
491 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
492 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
493
494config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
495 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
496 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
497 select TRACING
498 help
499 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
500 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
501 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
502
503config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
504 bool "Trace syscalls"
505 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
506 select GENERIC_TRACER
507 select KALLSYMS
508 help
509 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
510
511config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
512 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
513 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
514 help
515 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
516 ftrace interface, e.g.:
517
518 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
519 cat snapshot
520
521config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
522 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
523 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
524 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
525 help
526 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
527 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
528 allowed:
529
530 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
531
532 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
533 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
534
535 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
536 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
537 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
538 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
539 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
540 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
541
542config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
543 bool
544 select GENERIC_TRACER
545
546choice
547 prompt "Branch Profiling"
548 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
549 help
550 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
551 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
552
553 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
554 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
555
556 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
557 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
558 profiler.
559
560 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
561 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
562
563config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
564 bool "No branch profiling"
565 help
566 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
567 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
568 Otherwise keep it disabled.
569
570config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
571 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
572 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
573 help
574 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
575 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
576
577 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
578
579 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
580 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
581
582config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
583 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
584 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
585 help
586 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
587 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
588 The results will be displayed in:
589
590 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
591
592 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
593
594 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
595 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
596 is to be analyzed in much detail.
597endchoice
598
599config TRACING_BRANCHES
600 bool
601 help
602 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
603 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
604 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
605 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
606
607config BRANCH_TRACER
608 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
609 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
610 select TRACING_BRANCHES
611 help
612 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
613 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
614 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
615 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
616 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
617 events happened, as well as their results.
618
619 Say N if unsure.
620
621config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
622 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
623 depends on SYSFS
624 depends on BLOCK
625 select RELAY
626 select DEBUG_FS
627 select TRACEPOINTS
628 select GENERIC_TRACER
629 select STACKTRACE
630 help
631 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
632 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
633 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
634 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
635
636 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
637
638 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
639
640 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
641 echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
642 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
643
644 If unsure, say N.
645
646config KPROBE_EVENTS
647 depends on KPROBES
648 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
649 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
650 select TRACING
651 select PROBE_EVENTS
652 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
653 default y
654 help
655 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
656 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
657 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
658
659 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
660 various register and memory values.
661
662 This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
663 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
664
665config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
666 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
667 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
668 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
669 default n
670 help
671 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
672 using kprobe events.
673
674 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
675 functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
676 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
677 crash.
678
679 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
680 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
681 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
682
683 If unsure, say N.
684
685config UPROBE_EVENTS
686 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
687 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
688 depends on MMU
689 depends on PERF_EVENTS
690 select UPROBES
691 select PROBE_EVENTS
692 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
693 select TRACING
694 default y
695 help
696 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
697 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
698 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
699 can probe, and record various registers.
700 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
701 of perf tools on user space applications.
702
703config BPF_EVENTS
704 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
705 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
706 bool
707 default y
708 help
709 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
710 tracepoint events.
711
712config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
713 def_bool n
714
715config PROBE_EVENTS
716 def_bool n
717
718config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
719 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
720 depends on BPF_EVENTS
721 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
722 default n
723 help
724 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
725 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
726
727config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
728 def_bool y
729 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
730 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
731
732config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
733 bool
734 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
735
736config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
737 def_bool y
738 depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
739 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
740 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
741
742config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
743 def_bool y
744 depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
745 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
746 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
747 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
748 select OBJTOOL
749
750config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
751 def_bool y
752 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
753 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
754 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
755 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
756
757config TRACING_MAP
758 bool
759 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
760 help
761 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
762 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
763 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
764 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
765 selected by tracers that use it.
766
767config SYNTH_EVENTS
768 bool "Synthetic trace events"
769 select TRACING
770 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
771 default n
772 help
773 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
774 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
775 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
776 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
777 by way of an in-kernel API.
778
779 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
780 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
781
782 If in doubt, say N.
783
784config USER_EVENTS
785 bool "User trace events"
786 select TRACING
787 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
788 depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out
789 help
790 User trace events are user-defined trace events that
791 can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace
792 events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User
793 processes can determine if their tracing events should be
794 generated by memory mapping a tracefs file and checking for
795 an associated byte being non-zero.
796
797 If in doubt, say N.
798
799config HIST_TRIGGERS
800 bool "Histogram triggers"
801 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
802 select TRACING_MAP
803 select TRACING
804 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
805 select SYNTH_EVENTS
806 default n
807 help
808 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
809 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
810 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
811 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
812 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
813 using more advanced tools.
814
815 Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
816 supported using hist triggers under this option.
817
818 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
819 If in doubt, say N.
820
821config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
822 bool "Trace event injection"
823 depends on TRACING
824 help
825 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
826 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
827
828 If unsure, say N.
829
830config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
831 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
832 help
833 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
834 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
835 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
836 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
837 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
838 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
839 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
840 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
841 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
842 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
843 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
844
845 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
846 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
847
848 An example of the output:
849
850 START
851 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
852 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
853 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
854 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
855 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
856 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
857 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
858
859
860config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
861 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
862 depends on RING_BUFFER
863 help
864 This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
865 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
866 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
867 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
868 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
869 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
870
871 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
872 affected by processes that are running.
873
874 If unsure, say N.
875
876config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
877 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
878 depends on TRACING
879 help
880 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
881 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
882 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
883 how to convert the string to its value.
884
885 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
886 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
887 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
888
889 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
890 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
891
892 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
893 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
894 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
895 belong too.
896
897 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
898 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
899 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
900 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
901
902 If unsure, say N.
903
904config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
905 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
906 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
907 help
908 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
909 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
910 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
911 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
912 that triggered a recursion.
913
914 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
915
916 If unsure, say N
917
918config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
919 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
920 default 128
921 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
922 help
923 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
924 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
925 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
926 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
927 size at runtime.
928
929config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
930 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
931 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
932 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
933 default y
934 help
935 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
936 recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
937 but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
938 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
939 file.
940
941 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
942
943config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
944 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
945 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
946 help
947 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
948 which functions/lines are tested.
949
950 If unsure, say N.
951
952 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
953 run significantly slower.
954
955config FTRACE_SELFTEST
956 bool
957
958config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
959 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
960 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
961 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
962 help
963 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
964 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
965 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
966 tracers of ftrace.
967
968config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
969 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
970 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
971 default y
972 help
973 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
974 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
975 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
976 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
977
978config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
979 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
980 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
981 help
982 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
983 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
984 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
985 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
986
987 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
988 events
989
990config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
991 bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
992 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
993 depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
994 help
995 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
996 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
997 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
998 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
999 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
1000 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
1001
1002 If unsure, say N
1003
1004config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
1005 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
1006 depends on RING_BUFFER
1007 help
1008 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
1009 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
1010 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
1011 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
1012 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
1013 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
1014 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
1015 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
1016
1017 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
1018 by at least 10 more seconds.
1019
1020 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1021 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
1022 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
1023 other similar details.
1024
1025 If unsure, say N
1026
1027config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
1028 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
1029 depends on RING_BUFFER
1030 help
1031 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
1032 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
1033 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
1034 This audit is performed for every event that is not
1035 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
1036 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
1037 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
1038 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
1039
1040 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
1041 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
1042 Do not use it on production systems.
1043
1044 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
1045 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
1046
1047config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1048 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1049 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1050 help
1051 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1052 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1053 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1054
1055 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1056
1057config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1058 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1059 depends on m
1060 help
1061 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1062 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1063 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1064 critical section.
1065
1066 For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
1067 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
1068 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1069
1070 What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
1071 tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
1072 command.
1073
1074 If unsure, say N
1075
1076config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1077 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
1078 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
1079 help
1080 This option creates a test module to check the base
1081 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
1082 generation.
1083
1084 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1085 for the generated sample events.
1086
1087 If unsure, say N.
1088
1089config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
1090 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
1091 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
1092 help
1093 This option creates a test module to check the base
1094 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
1095
1096 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1097 for the generated kprobe events.
1098
1099 If unsure, say N.
1100
1101config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
1102 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
1103 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
1104 help
1105 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
1106 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
1107 defined on that event.
1108
1109 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
1110
1111 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
1112
1113 - Provides educational information to support the details
1114 of the hist trigger internals as described by
1115 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
1116
1117 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
1118 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
1119 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
1120 running histograms.
1121
1122 If unsure, say N.
1123
1124source "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1125
1126endif # FTRACE