# # Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should # select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: # config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT bool config NOP_TRACER 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 TRACER_MAX_TRACE bool config RING_BUFFER bool config TRACING bool select DEBUG_FS select RING_BUFFER select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT select TRACEPOINTS select NOP_TRACER menu "Tracers" config FUNCTION_TRACER bool "Kernel Function Tracer" depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FRAME_POINTER 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. It's first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and draw a call graph for each thread with some informations 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 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 help This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace tool. config SCHED_TRACER bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER bool "Trace process context switches" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select TRACING select MARKERS help This tracer gets called from the context switch and records all switching of tasks. config BOOT_TRACER bool "Trace boot initcalls" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select TRACING 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. Say N if unsure. config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES bool "Profile all if conditionals" depends on 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 configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead on the system. This should only be enabled when the system is to be analyzed Say N if unsure. 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 DEBUG_KERNEL 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 STACK_TRACER bool "Trace max stack" depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FUNCTION_TRACER select STACKTRACE 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/vm/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 DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" depends on FUNCTION_TRACER depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 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 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 && DEBUG_KERNEL 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 && DEBUG_KERNEL && 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/tracers/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. endmenu