2 # Architectures that offer an FTRACE implementation should select HAVE_FTRACE:
7 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
10 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
19 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
20 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
23 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
25 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
26 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
27 instruction to the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
28 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
29 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
30 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
31 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
34 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
36 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
37 depends on GENERIC_TIME
38 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
41 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
43 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
44 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
46 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
47 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
50 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
52 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
53 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
54 used together or separately.)
57 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
59 depends on GENERIC_TIME
61 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
63 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
65 This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
66 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
68 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
69 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
72 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
74 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
75 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
76 used together or separately.)
83 This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace
87 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
88 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
90 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
91 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
93 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
94 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
96 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
97 bool "Trace process context switches"
98 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
102 This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
103 all switching of tasks.
105 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
106 bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
108 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
111 This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
112 (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them
113 with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
114 created to dynamically enable them again.
116 This way a CONFIG_FTRACE kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise
117 has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
119 The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
120 wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
121 were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
122 and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
124 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
127 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
128 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
130 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
132 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
133 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
134 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured