2 # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
3 # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
6 config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
12 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
15 config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
18 config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
21 This gets selected when the arch tests the function_trace_stop
22 variable at the mcount call site. Otherwise, this variable
23 is tested by the called function.
25 config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
28 config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
31 config HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
34 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
44 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
50 config FUNCTION_TRACER
51 bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
52 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
53 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
57 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
59 Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
60 by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
61 instruction to the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
62 sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
63 tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
64 (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
65 small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
67 config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
68 bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
69 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
70 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
73 Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
75 It's first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
76 draw a call graph for each thread with some informations like
78 This is done by setting the current return address on the current
79 task structure into a stack of calls.
82 bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
84 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
85 depends on GENERIC_TIME
86 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
89 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
91 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
92 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
94 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
95 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
98 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
100 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
101 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
102 used together or separately.)
104 config PREEMPT_TRACER
105 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
107 depends on GENERIC_TIME
109 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
111 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
113 This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
114 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
116 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
117 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
120 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
122 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
123 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
124 used together or separately.)
126 config SYSPROF_TRACER
127 bool "Sysprof Tracer"
131 This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace
135 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
138 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
139 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
141 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
142 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
144 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
145 bool "Trace process context switches"
146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
150 This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
151 all switching of tasks.
154 bool "Trace boot initcalls"
155 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
157 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
159 This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records
160 the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity
161 of tasks that can cause boot delays, such as context-switches.
163 Its aim is to be parsed by the /scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to
164 produce pretty graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual
165 representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw
166 /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too.
168 ( Note that tracing self tests can't be enabled if this tracer is
169 selected, because the self-tests are an initcall as well and that
170 would invalidate the boot trace. )
172 config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
173 bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
174 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
177 This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros
178 in the kernel. It will display the results in:
180 /debugfs/tracing/profile_annotated_branch
182 Note: this will add a significant overhead, only turn this
183 on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
187 config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
188 bool "Profile all if conditionals"
189 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
191 This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
192 taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
193 The results will be displayed in:
195 /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch
197 This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
198 on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
203 config TRACING_BRANCHES
206 Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
207 conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
208 profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
209 when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
212 bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
213 depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
214 select TRACING_BRANCHES
216 This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
217 calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the
218 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
219 histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
220 events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
221 events happened, as well as their results.
226 bool "Trace power consumption behavior"
227 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
231 This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels
232 power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state
237 bool "Trace max stack"
238 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
239 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
240 select FUNCTION_TRACER
244 This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
245 kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace.
247 This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
248 kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
249 stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
250 then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
253 To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
254 on the kernel command line.
256 The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
257 sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
261 config HW_BRANCH_TRACER
262 depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
263 bool "Trace hw branches"
266 This tracer records all branches on the system in a circular
267 buffer giving access to the last N branches for each cpu.
269 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
270 bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
271 depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
272 depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
276 This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
277 (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them
278 with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
279 created to dynamically enable them again.
281 This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise
282 has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
284 The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
285 wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
286 were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
287 and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
289 config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
291 depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
292 depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
294 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
297 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
298 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
299 depends on TRACING && DEBUG_KERNEL && !BOOT_TRACER
300 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
302 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
303 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
304 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
308 bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
309 depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI
312 Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
313 debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
314 implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
315 default and can be enabled at run-time.
317 See Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt.
318 If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
320 config MMIOTRACE_TEST
321 tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
322 depends on MMIOTRACE && m
324 This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
325 as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
326 However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
328 Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.