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
35 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
38 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
40 This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
41 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
43 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
44 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
47 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
49 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
50 enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
51 used together or separately.)
54 bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
56 depends on GENERIC_TIME
58 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
60 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
62 This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
63 sections, with microsecond accuracy.
65 The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
66 disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
69 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
71 (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
72 enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
73 used together or separately.)
76 bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
77 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
79 select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
80 select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
82 This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
83 to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
85 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
86 bool "Trace process context switches"
87 depends on HAVE_FTRACE
91 This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
92 all switching of tasks.
95 bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
99 This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
100 (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them
101 with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
102 created to dynamically enable them again.
104 This way a CONFIG_FTRACE kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise
105 has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
107 The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
108 wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
109 were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
110 and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
112 config FTRACE_SELFTEST
115 config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
116 bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
118 select FTRACE_SELFTEST
120 This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
121 a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
122 functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured