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author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500 |
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committer | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500 |
commit | 82681a318f9f028ea64e61f24bbd9ac535531921 (patch) | |
tree | 529b6a5b4fd040fb54b7672b1a224ebd47445876 /kernel/trace/Kconfig | |
parent | 3860c97bd60a4525bb62eb90e3e7d2f02662ac59 (diff) | |
parent | 8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff) |
[SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts:
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 143 |
1 files changed, 110 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 417d1985e29..4a13e5a01ce 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -48,6 +48,21 @@ config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER default y +config EVENT_TRACING + select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + bool + +config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + select MARKERS + bool + +# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are +# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. +# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the +# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options +# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the +# hidding of the automatic options options. + config TRACING bool select DEBUG_FS @@ -56,6 +71,11 @@ config TRACING select TRACEPOINTS select NOP_TRACER select BINARY_PRINTF + select EVENT_TRACING + +config GENERIC_TRACER + bool + select TRACING # # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to @@ -73,14 +93,20 @@ config TRACING_SUPPORT if TRACING_SUPPORT -menu "Tracers" +menuconfig FTRACE + bool "Tracers" + default y if DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. + +if FTRACE config FUNCTION_TRACER bool "Kernel Function Tracer" depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER select FRAME_POINTER select KALLSYMS - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done @@ -104,13 +130,14 @@ config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER the return value. This is done by setting the current return address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. + config IRQSOFF_TRACER bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" default n depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT depends on GENERIC_TIME select TRACE_IRQFLAGS - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select TRACER_MAX_TRACE help This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical @@ -131,7 +158,7 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER default n depends on GENERIC_TIME depends on PREEMPT - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select TRACER_MAX_TRACE help This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical @@ -150,7 +177,7 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER config SYSPROF_TRACER bool "Sysprof Tracer" depends on X86 - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace @@ -158,40 +185,33 @@ config SYSPROF_TRACER config SCHED_TRACER bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER select TRACER_MAX_TRACE help This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. -config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER - bool "Trace process context switches" - select TRACING - select MARKERS - help - This tracer gets called from the context switch and records - all switching of tasks. - -config EVENT_TRACER - bool "Trace various events in the kernel" +config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS + bool "Trace process context switches and events" + depends on !GENERIC_TRACER select TRACING help This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they - want to trace. + want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. config FTRACE_SYSCALLS bool "Trace syscalls" depends on HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select KALLSYMS help Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. config BOOT_TRACER bool "Trace boot initcalls" - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records @@ -207,8 +227,36 @@ config BOOT_TRACER to enable this on bootup. config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + bool + select GENERIC_TRACER + +choice + prompt "Branch Profiling" + default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE + help + The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks + into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. + + The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that + are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. + + The "all branch" profiler will profile every if statement in the + kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely + profiler as well. + + Either of the above profilers add a bit of overhead to the system. + If unsure choose "No branch profiling". + +config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE + bool "No branch profiling" + help + No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. + Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. + Otherwise keep it disabled. + +config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" - select TRACING + select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros in the kernel. It will display the results in: @@ -218,11 +266,9 @@ config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING Note: this will add a significant overhead, only turn this on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. - Say N if unsure. - config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES bool "Profile all if conditionals" - depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. @@ -230,11 +276,12 @@ config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch + This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. + This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead on the system. This should only be enabled when the system is to be analyzed - - Say N if unsure. +endchoice config TRACING_BRANCHES bool @@ -261,7 +308,7 @@ config BRANCH_TRACER config POWER_TRACER bool "Trace power consumption behavior" depends on X86 - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER help This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state @@ -295,14 +342,14 @@ config STACK_TRACER config HW_BRANCH_TRACER depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER bool "Trace hw branches" - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER help This tracer records all branches on the system in a circular buffer giving access to the last N branches for each cpu. config KMEMTRACE bool "Trace SLAB allocations" - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER help kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected @@ -322,7 +369,7 @@ config KMEMTRACE config WORKQUEUE_TRACER bool "Trace workqueues" - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER help The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the @@ -338,7 +385,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE select RELAY select DEBUG_FS select TRACEPOINTS - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER select STACKTRACE help Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions @@ -375,6 +422,20 @@ config DYNAMIC_FTRACE were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS) and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace. +config FUNCTION_PROFILER + bool "Kernel function profiler" + depends on FUNCTION_TRACER + default n + help + This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created + in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. + When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a + zero is entered, profiling stops. A file in the trace_stats + directory called functions, that show the list of functions that + have been hit and their counters. + + If in doubt, say N + config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD def_bool y depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE @@ -385,7 +446,7 @@ config FTRACE_SELFTEST config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" - depends on TRACING + depends on GENERIC_TRACER select FTRACE_SELFTEST help This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup @@ -396,7 +457,7 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST config MMIOTRACE bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI - select TRACING + select GENERIC_TRACER help Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap @@ -416,7 +477,23 @@ config MMIOTRACE_TEST Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. -endmenu +config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK + tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" + depends on RING_BUFFER + help + This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and bench mark it. + It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfer with + any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates + a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for + 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events + it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. + + It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be + affected by processes that are running. + + If unsure, say N + +endif # FTRACE endif # TRACING_SUPPORT |