2 # Architectures that offer an FTRACE implementation should select HAVE_FTRACE:
7 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
16 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
17 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
20 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
22 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
23 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
24 instruction to the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
25 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
26 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
27 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
28 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
31 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
33 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
34 depends on GENERIC_TIME
37 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
39 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
40 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
42 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
43 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
46 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
48 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
49 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
50 used together or separately.)
53 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
55 depends on GENERIC_TIME
58 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
60 This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
61 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
63 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
64 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
67 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
69 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
70 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
71 used together or separately.)
74 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
76 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
77 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
79 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
80 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
82 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
83 bool "Trace process context switches"
87 This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
88 all switching of tasks.
91 bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
95 This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
96 (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them
97 with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
98 created to dynamically enable them again.
100 This way a CONFIG_FTRACE kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise
101 has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
103 The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
104 wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
105 were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
106 and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
108 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
111 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
112 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
114 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
116 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
117 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
118 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured