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ec8f24b7 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
16444a8a 2#
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3# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
16444a8a 5#
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7config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
8 bool
9
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10config NOP_TRACER
11 bool
12
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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
606576ce 24config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
16444a8a 25 bool
555f386c 26 help
5fb94e9c 27 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
bc0c38d1 28
fb52607a 29config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
15e6cb36 30 bool
555f386c 31 help
5fb94e9c 32 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
15e6cb36 33
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34config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
35 bool
36
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37config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
38 bool
555f386c 39 help
5fb94e9c 40 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
677aa9f7 41
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42config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
43 bool
44
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45config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
46 bool
47
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48config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
49 bool
50
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51config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
52 bool
53 help
54 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
94d095ff 55 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
02a474ca 56 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
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57 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
58 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
02a474ca 59
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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
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66config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
67 bool
555f386c 68 help
5fb94e9c 69 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
8da3821b 70
66700001 71config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
ee08c6ec 72 bool
555f386c 73 help
5fb94e9c 74 See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
ee08c6ec 75
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76config HAVE_FENTRY
77 bool
78 help
79 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
80
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81config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
82 bool
83 help
84 Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
85
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86config HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
87 bool
88 help
89 Arch supports objtool --mcount
90
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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
cf4db259 98config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
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99 bool
100 help
101 C version of recordmcount available?
102
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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
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109config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
110 bool
111 default y
4ed308c4 112 depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
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113 help
114 Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
115
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116config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
117 bool
118
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119config TRACE_CLOCK
120 bool
121
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122config RING_BUFFER
123 bool
ea632e9f 124 select TRACE_CLOCK
22287688 125 select IRQ_WORK
7a8e76a3 126
5f77a88b 127config EVENT_TRACING
b11c53e1 128 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
fc809bc5 129 select GLOB
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130 bool
131
132config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
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133 bool
134
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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
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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
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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
40892367 155# hiding of the automatic options.
5e0a0939 156
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157config TRACING
158 bool
7a8e76a3 159 select RING_BUFFER
c2c80529 160 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
5f87f112 161 select TRACEPOINTS
f3384b28 162 select NOP_TRACER
769b0441 163 select BINARY_PRINTF
5f77a88b 164 select EVENT_TRACING
ea632e9f 165 select TRACE_CLOCK
02b3c5fc 166 select NEED_TASKS_RCU
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168config GENERIC_TRACER
169 bool
170 select TRACING
171
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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
0ea5ee03 178 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
40ada30f 179 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
422d3c7a 180 default y
40ada30f 181
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182menuconfig FTRACE
183 bool "Tracers"
de32951b 184 depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
65b77242 185 default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
4ed9f071 186 help
40892367 187 Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
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188
189if FTRACE
17d80fd0 190
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191config BOOTTIME_TRACING
192 bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
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193 depends on TRACING
194 select BOOT_CONFIG
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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
606576ce 200config FUNCTION_TRACER
1b29b018 201 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
606576ce 202 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
4d7a077c 203 select KALLSYMS
5e0a0939 204 select GENERIC_TRACER
35e8e302 205 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
0598e4f0 206 select GLOB
02b3c5fc 207 select NEED_TASKS_RCU
e5a971d7 208 select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
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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
40892367 212 instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
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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
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216 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
217 x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
35e8e302 218
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219config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
220 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
221 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
15e6cb36 222 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
eb4a0378 223 depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
764f3b95 224 default y
15e6cb36 225 help
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226 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
227 and its entry.
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228 Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
229 draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
40892367 230 the return value. This is done by setting the current return
692105b8 231 address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
15e6cb36 232
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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
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245config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
246 bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
247 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
248 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
249 default y
250 help
251 This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
252 dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
253 replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
254 compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
255 can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
256 image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
257 enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
258 performance of the system.
259
2455f0e1 260 See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
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261 available_filter_functions
262 set_ftrace_filter
263 set_ftrace_notrace
264
265 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
266 otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
267
268config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
269 def_bool y
270 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
271 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
272
273config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
274 def_bool y
60c89718 275 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
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276 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
277
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278config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
279 def_bool y
280 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
281
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282config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
283 def_bool y
284 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
285 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
286
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287config FPROBE
288 bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
289 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
290 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
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291 depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
292 select RETHOOK
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293 default n
294 help
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295 This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
296 The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
297 entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
298 fprobe.
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299
300 If unsure, say N.
301
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302config FUNCTION_PROFILER
303 bool "Kernel function profiler"
304 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
305 default n
306 help
307 This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
308 in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
309 When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
310 zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
311 the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
312 have been hit and their counters.
313
314 If in doubt, say N.
315
316config STACK_TRACER
317 bool "Trace max stack"
318 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
319 select FUNCTION_TRACER
320 select STACKTRACE
321 select KALLSYMS
322 help
323 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
2455f0e1 324 kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
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325
326 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
327 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
328 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
329 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
330 is disabled.
331
332 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
333 on the kernel command line.
334
335 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
336 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
337
338 Say N if unsure.
339
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340config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
341 bool
342 help
343 Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
344 and last enabled.
bac429f0 345
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346config IRQSOFF_TRACER
347 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
348 default n
349 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
81d68a96 350 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
5e0a0939 351 select GENERIC_TRACER
81d68a96 352 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
85bac32c 353 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
22cffc2b 354 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
0b85ffc2 355 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
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356 help
357 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
358 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
359
360 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
361 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
362 via:
363
2455f0e1 364 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
81d68a96 365
40892367 366 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
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367 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
368 used together or separately.)
369
370config PREEMPT_TRACER
371 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
372 default n
30c93704 373 depends on PREEMPTION
5e0a0939 374 select GENERIC_TRACER
6cd8a4bb 375 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
85bac32c 376 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
22cffc2b 377 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
0b85ffc2 378 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
c3bc8fd6 379 select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
6cd8a4bb 380 help
40892367 381 This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
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382 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
383
384 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
385 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
386 via:
387
2455f0e1 388 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
6cd8a4bb 389
40892367 390 (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
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391 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
392 used together or separately.)
393
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394config SCHED_TRACER
395 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
5e0a0939 396 select GENERIC_TRACER
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397 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
398 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
22cffc2b 399 select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
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400 help
401 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
402 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
403
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404config HWLAT_TRACER
405 bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
406 select GENERIC_TRACER
e25e43a4 407 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
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408 help
409 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
c5c1ea75 410 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
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411 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
412 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
413 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
414 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
415 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
416
417 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
418 is enabled:
419
420 hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for
421 hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each
422 iteration
423
424 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
c5c1ea75 425 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
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426 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
427 continue to operate.
428
429 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
430
431 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
432 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
433 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
434 production system.
435
436 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
437 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
438 be recorded into the ring buffer.
439
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440config OSNOISE_TRACER
441 bool "OS Noise tracer"
442 select GENERIC_TRACER
e25e43a4 443 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
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444 help
445 In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
446 System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
447 application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
448 context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
449 can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
450 also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
451
452 The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
453 loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
454 the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
455 note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
456 increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
457 counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
458 NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
459 observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
460 without any interference from the operating system level, the
461 hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
462 noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
463 interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
464 the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
465 available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
466
467 In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
468 facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
469
470 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
471
472 To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
473 file.
474
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475config TIMERLAT_TRACER
476 bool "Timerlat tracer"
477 select OSNOISE_TRACER
478 select GENERIC_TRACER
479 help
480 The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
481 to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
482
483 The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
484 The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
485 to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
486 then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
487 the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
488 to expire.
489
490 The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
491 timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
492 activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
493 by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
494 ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
495 respective thread execution.
496
497 The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
498 events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
499 IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
500 stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
501 path that can cause thread delay.
502
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503config MMIOTRACE
504 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
505 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
506 select GENERIC_TRACER
507 help
508 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
509 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
510 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
511 default and can be enabled at run-time.
512
513 See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
514 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
515
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516config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
517 bool "Trace process context switches and events"
5e0a0939 518 depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
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519 select TRACING
520 help
40892367 521 This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
b77e38aa 522 allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
897f17a6 523 want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
a7abe97f 524
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525config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
526 bool "Trace syscalls"
66700001 527 depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
5e0a0939 528 select GENERIC_TRACER
0ea1c415 529 select KALLSYMS
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530 help
531 Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
532
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533config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
534 bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
535 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
536 help
537 Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
538 ftrace interface, e.g.:
539
2455f0e1 540 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
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541 cat snapshot
542
0b85ffc2 543config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
fc809bc5 544 bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
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545 depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
546 select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
547 help
548 Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
549 full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
550 allowed:
551
2455f0e1 552 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
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553
554 After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
555 the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
556
557 When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
558 trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
559 recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
560 of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
561 or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
562 and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
563
2ed84eeb 564config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
9ae5b879 565 bool
5e0a0939 566 select GENERIC_TRACER
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567
568choice
569 prompt "Branch Profiling"
570 default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
571 help
572 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
573 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
574
575 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
576 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
577
40892367 578 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
9ae5b879 579 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
40892367 580 profiler.
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582 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
583 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
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585config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
586 bool "No branch profiling"
587 help
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588 No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
589 Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
590 Otherwise keep it disabled.
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591
592config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
593 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
594 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
1f0d69a9 595 help
59bf8964 596 This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
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597 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
598
2455f0e1 599 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
1f0d69a9 600
40892367 601 Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
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602 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
603
2bcd521a 604config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
68e76e03 605 bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
9ae5b879 606 select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
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607 help
608 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
609 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
610 The results will be displayed in:
611
2455f0e1 612 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
2bcd521a 613
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614 This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
615
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616 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
617 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
40892367 618 is to be analyzed in much detail.
9ae5b879 619endchoice
2bcd521a 620
2ed84eeb 621config TRACING_BRANCHES
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622 bool
623 help
624 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
625 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
626 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
627 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
628
2ed84eeb 629config BRANCH_TRACER
52f232cb 630 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
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632 select TRACING_BRANCHES
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633 help
634 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
635 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
636 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
637 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
638 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
639 events happened, as well as their results.
640
641 Say N if unsure.
642
2db270a8 643config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
40892367 644 bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
2db270a8 645 depends on SYSFS
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647 select RELAY
648 select DEBUG_FS
649 select TRACEPOINTS
5e0a0939 650 select GENERIC_TRACER
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651 select STACKTRACE
652 help
653 Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
654 on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
655 on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
656 support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
657
658 git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
659
660 Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
661
662 echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
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663 echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
664 cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
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666 If unsure, say N.
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668config FPROBE_EVENTS
669 depends on FPROBE
670 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
671 bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
672 select TRACING
673 select PROBE_EVENTS
674 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
675 default y
676 help
677 This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
678 exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
679 and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
680 transparently converted to this fprobe events.
681
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682config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
683 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
684 depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
685 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
686 bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
687 default y
688 help
689 The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
690 of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
691 kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
692 This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
693
6b0b7551 694config KPROBE_EVENTS
413d37d1 695 depends on KPROBES
f850c30c 696 depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
77b44d1b 697 bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
413d37d1 698 select TRACING
8ab83f56 699 select PROBE_EVENTS
6212dd29 700 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
77b44d1b 701 default y
413d37d1 702 help
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703 This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
704 on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
5fb94e9c 705 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
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707 Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
708 various register and memory values.
709
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711 If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
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713config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
714 bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
715 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
7bb83f6f 716 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
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717 default n
718 help
719 This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
720 using kprobe events.
721
722 If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
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724 recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
725 crash.
726
727 This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
728 events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
729 Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
730
731 If unsure, say N.
732
6b0b7551 733config UPROBE_EVENTS
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734 bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
735 depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
736 depends on MMU
09294e31 737 depends on PERF_EVENTS
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738 select UPROBES
739 select PROBE_EVENTS
0597c49c 740 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
f3f096cf 741 select TRACING
61f35d75 742 default y
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743 help
744 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
745 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
746 events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
747 can probe, and record various registers.
748 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
749 of perf tools on user space applications.
750
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751config BPF_EVENTS
752 depends on BPF_SYSCALL
6b0b7551 753 depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
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754 bool
755 default y
756 help
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757 This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
758 tracepoint events.
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760config DYNAMIC_EVENTS
761 def_bool n
762
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764 def_bool n
765
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767 bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
768 depends on BPF_EVENTS
540adea3 769 depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
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770 default n
771 help
772 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
773 set a different return value. This is used for error injection.
774
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775config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
776 def_bool y
777 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
778 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
779
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780config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
781 bool
782 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
783
784config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
785 def_bool y
786 depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
787 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
788 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
789
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791 def_bool y
792 depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
793 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
794 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
795 depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
03f16cd0 796 select OBJTOOL
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798config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
799 def_bool y
800 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
801 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
22c8542d 802 depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
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804
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806 bool
807 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
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809 tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
810 separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
811 to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be
812 generally used outside of that context, and is normally
813 selected by tracers that use it.
814
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816 bool "Synthetic trace events"
817 select TRACING
818 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
819 default n
820 help
821 Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
822 used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
823 data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
824 via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
825 by way of an in-kernel API.
826
827 See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
828 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
829
830 If in doubt, say N.
831
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833 bool "User trace events"
834 select TRACING
835 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
836 help
837 User trace events are user-defined trace events that
838 can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace
839 events are generated by writing to a tracefs file. User
840 processes can determine if their tracing events should be
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841 generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
842 that reflects when it is enabled or not.
7f5a08c7 843
72357590 844 See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
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845 If in doubt, say N.
846
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848 bool "Histogram triggers"
849 depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
850 select TRACING_MAP
7ad8fb61 851 select TRACING
7bbab38d 852 select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
726721a5 853 select SYNTH_EVENTS
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854 default n
855 help
856 Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
857 to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
858 reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for
859 gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
860 event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
861 using more advanced tools.
862
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864 supported using hist triggers under this option.
865
ea272257 866 See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
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867 If in doubt, say N.
868
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870 bool "Trace event injection"
871 depends on TRACING
872 help
873 Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
874 buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
875
876 If unsure, say N.
877
81dc9f0e 878config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
fc809bc5 879 bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
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880 help
881 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
882 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
69268094 883 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
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884 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
885 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
886 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
887 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
888 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
889 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
890 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
891 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
892
893 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
894 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
895
896 An example of the output:
897
898 START
899 first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
900 last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
901 last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
902 last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
903 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
904 last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
905 last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
906
907
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909 tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
910 depends on RING_BUFFER
911 help
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913 It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
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914 any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
915 a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
916 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
917 it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
918
919 It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
920 affected by processes that are running.
921
40892367 922 If unsure, say N.
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924config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
925 bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
926 depends on TRACING
927 help
928 The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
929 instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
930 that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
931 how to convert the string to its value.
932
933 To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
934 to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
935 the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
936
937 If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
938 used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
939
940 This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
941 in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
942 names matched with their values and what trace event system they
943 belong too.
944
945 Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
946 boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
947 they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
948 increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
949
950 If unsure, say N.
951
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952config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
953 bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
954 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
955 help
956 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
957 of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
958 it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
959 file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
960 that triggered a recursion.
961
962 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
963
964 If unsure, say N
965
966config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
967 int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
d96c3600 968 default 128
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970 help
971 This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
972 listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
973 the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
974 This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
975 size at runtime.
976
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977config FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING
978 bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution"
979 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
980 depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
981 help
982 All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of
983 protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that
984 ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not
985 called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it
986 also has a noticeable overhead when enabled.
987
988 If unsure, say N
989
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990config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
991 bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
992 depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
993 # default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
994 default y
995 help
996 The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
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998 but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
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999 place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
1000 file.
1001
1002 This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
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1004config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
1005 bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
1006 depends on GCOV_KERNEL
1007 help
1008 Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
1009 which functions/lines are tested.
1010
1011 If unsure, say N.
1012
1013 Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
1014 run significantly slower.
1015
1016config FTRACE_SELFTEST
1017 bool
1018
1019config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1020 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
1021 depends on GENERIC_TRACER
1022 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
1023 help
1024 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
1025 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
1026 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
1027 tracers of ftrace.
1028
1029config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1030 bool "Run selftest on trace events"
1031 depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1032 default y
1033 help
1034 This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
1035 It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
1036 will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
1037 This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
1038
1039config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
1040 bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
1041 depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
1042 help
1043 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
1044 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
1045 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
1046 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
1047
1048 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
1049 events
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1051config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
1052 bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
1053 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
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1055 help
1056 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
1057 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
1058 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
1059 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
1060 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
1061 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
1062
1063 If unsure, say N
1064
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1065config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
1066 bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
1067 depends on RING_BUFFER
1068 help
fc809bc5 1069 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
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1071 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
1072 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
1073 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
1074 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
1075 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
1076 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
1077
1078 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
1079 by at least 10 more seconds.
1080
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1082 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
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1083 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
1084 other similar details.
1085
1086 If unsure, say N
1087
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1088config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
1089 bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
1090 depends on RING_BUFFER
1091 help
1092 This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
1093 buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
1094 events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
1095 This audit is performed for every event that is not
1096 interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
1097 is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
1098 that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
1099 add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
1100
1101 NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
1102 and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
1103 Do not use it on production systems.
1104
1105 Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
1106 still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
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1109 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1110 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1111 help
1112 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1113 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1114 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1115
1116 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1117
f96e8577 1118config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
a48fc4f5 1119 tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
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1120 depends on m
1121 help
1122 Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1123 tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1124 configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1125 critical section.
1126
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1128 irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
1129 modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
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1132 tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
1133 command.
1134
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1136
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1138 tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
726721a5 1139 depends on SYNTH_EVENTS
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1141 This option creates a test module to check the base
1142 functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
1143 generation.
1144
1145 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1146 for the generated sample events.
1147
1148 If unsure, say N.
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1151 tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
1152 depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
1153 help
1154 This option creates a test module to check the base
1155 functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
1156
1157 To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
1158 for the generated kprobe events.
1159
1160 If unsure, say N.
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1163 bool "Hist trigger debug support"
1164 depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
1165 help
1166 Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
1167 dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
1168 defined on that event.
1169
1170 The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
1171
1172 - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
1173
1174 - Provides educational information to support the details
1175 of the hist trigger internals as described by
1176 Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
1177
1178 The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
1179 related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
1180 display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
1181 running histograms.
1182
1183 If unsure, say N.
1184
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1186
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