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authorFrédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2008-09-23 12:36:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-14 10:38:49 +0200
commit1f5c2abbdeb2bb07b20c6a66bfecefe6c867b1ee (patch)
tree0ba861c8817994f3c46446368b806f54c037b09d /kernel
parenttracing/ftrace: make tracing suitable to run the boot tracer (diff)
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tracing/ftrace: give an entry on the config for boot tracer
Bring the entry to choose the boot tracer on the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Kconfig12
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Makefile1
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 254328dec672..81a17ef6b942 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -116,6 +116,18 @@ config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
all switching of tasks.
+config BOOT_TRACER
+ bool "Trace boot initcalls"
+ depends on HAVE_FTRACE
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ select TRACING
+ help
+ This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records
+ the timings of the initcalls. 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.
+
config STACK_TRACER
bool "Trace max stack"
depends on HAVE_FTRACE
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile
index 73ba13f5a461..35a07f7cfa86 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile
@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER) += trace_sched_wakeup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NOP_TRACER) += trace_nop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_STACK_TRACER) += trace_stack.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MMIOTRACE) += trace_mmiotrace.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER) += trace_boot.o
libftrace-y := ftrace.o