# # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: # config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT bool config NOP_TRACER bool config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER bool config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER bool config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER bool config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST bool help This gets selected when the arch tests the function_trace_stop variable at the mcount call site. Otherwise, this variable is tested by the called function. config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD bool config HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER bool config HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS bool config TRACER_MAX_TRACE bool config RING_BUFFER bool config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER bool depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER default y config EVENT_TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER bool config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER select MARKERS bool config TRACING bool select DEBUG_FS select RING_BUFFER select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT select TRACEPOINTS select NOP_TRACER select BINARY_PRINTF select EVENT_TRACING # # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to # be able to offer generic tracing facilities: # config TRACING_SUPPORT bool # PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the # tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new # exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the # irqflags tracing for your architecture. depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT default y if TRACING_SUPPORT 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 CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation instruction to the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks. config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER depends on FUNCTION_TRACER default y help Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return and its entry. Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and draw a call graph for each thread with some information like 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 TRACER_MAX_TRACE help This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical sections, with microsecond accuracy. The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started via: echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be used together or separately.) config PREEMPT_TRACER bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer" default n depends on GENERIC_TIME depends on PREEMPT select TRACING select TRACER_MAX_TRACE help This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical sections, with microsecond accuracy. The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started via: echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be used together or separately.) config SYSPROF_TRACER bool "Sysprof Tracer" depends on X86 select TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace tool. config SCHED_TRACER bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" select TRACING 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 ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER bool "Trace process context switches" select TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer gets called from the context switch and records all switching of tasks. config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING bool "Trace various events in the kernel" 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. Note, all tracers enable event tracing. This option is only a convenience to enable event tracing when no other tracers are selected. config FTRACE_SYSCALLS bool "Trace syscalls" depends on HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS select TRACING select KALLSYMS help Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. config BOOT_TRACER bool "Trace boot initcalls" select TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity of tasks that can cause boot delays, such as context-switches. Its aim is to be parsed by the /scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to produce pretty graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too. You must pass in ftrace=initcall to the kernel command line to enable this on bootup. config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING bool select TRACING 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 TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros in the kernel. It will display the results in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_annotated_branch Note: this will add a significant overhead, only turn this on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES bool "Profile all if conditionals" select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. The results will be displayed in: /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 endchoice config TRACING_BRANCHES bool help Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. config BRANCH_TRACER bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING select TRACING_BRANCHES help This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the events happened, as well as their results. Say N if unsure. config POWER_TRACER bool "Trace power consumption behavior" depends on X86 select TRACING help This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state behavior. config KSYM_TRACER bool "Trace read and write access on kernel memory locations" depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT select TRACING help This tracer helps find read and write operations on any given kernel symbol i.e. /proc/kallsyms. config PROFILE_KSYM_TRACER bool "Profile all kernel memory accesses on 'watched' variables" depends on KSYM_TRACER help This tracer profiles kernel accesses on variables watched through the ksym tracer ftrace plugin. Depending upon the hardware, all read and write operations on kernel variables can be monitored for accesses. The results will be displayed in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_ksym Say N if unsure. config STACK_TRACER bool "Trace max stack" depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER select FUNCTION_TRACER select STACKTRACE select KALLSYMS help This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace. This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer is disabled. To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' on the kernel command line. The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled Say N if unsure. config HW_BRANCH_TRACER depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER bool "Trace hw branches" select TRACING 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 help kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code. This requires an userspace application to use. See Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt for more information. Saying Y will make the kernel somewhat larger and slower. However, if you disable kmemtrace at run-time or boot-time, the performance impact is minimal (depending on the arch the kernel is built for). If unsure, say N. config WORKQUEUE_TRACER bool "Trace workqueues" select TRACING help The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform. For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one. config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE bool "Support for tracing block io actions" depends on SYSFS depends on BLOCK select RELAY select DEBUG_FS select TRACEPOINTS select TRACING select STACKTRACE help Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe If unsure, say N. config DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" depends on FUNCTION_TRACER depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE default y help This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is created to dynamically enable them again. This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls 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 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD config FTRACE_SELFTEST bool config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" depends on TRACING select FTRACE_SELFTEST help This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured tracers of ftrace. config MMIOTRACE bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI select TRACING help Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by default and can be enabled at run-time. See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt. If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. config MMIOTRACE_TEST tristate "Test module for mmiotrace" depends on MMIOTRACE && m help This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address. However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM. Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. 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