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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 97 |
1 files changed, 93 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index e2a4ff6fc3a6..07877f4b5233 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT config NOP_TRACER bool +config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER + bool + config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER bool @@ -37,6 +40,11 @@ config TRACER_MAX_TRACE config RING_BUFFER bool +config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER + bool + depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER + default y + config TRACING bool select DEBUG_FS @@ -52,6 +60,7 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FRAME_POINTER + select KALLSYMS select TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help @@ -126,6 +135,7 @@ config SYSPROF_TRACER bool "Sysprof Tracer" depends on X86 select TRACING + select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace tool. @@ -164,9 +174,8 @@ config BOOT_TRACER representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too. - ( Note that tracing self tests can't be enabled if this tracer is - selected, because the self-tests are an initcall as well and that - would invalidate the boot trace. ) + 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" @@ -238,6 +247,7 @@ config STACK_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FUNCTION_TRACER select STACKTRACE + select KALLSYMS help This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace. @@ -264,6 +274,62 @@ config HW_BRANCH_TRACER 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 BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE + bool "Support for tracing block io actions" + depends on SYSFS + depends on BLOCK + select RELAY + select DEBUG_FS + select TRACEPOINTS + select TRACING + select STACKTRACE + help + Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions + on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening + on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace + support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: + + git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git + + Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: + + echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable + echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer + cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe + + If unsure, say N. + config DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" depends on FUNCTION_TRACER @@ -294,7 +360,7 @@ config FTRACE_SELFTEST config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" - depends on TRACING && DEBUG_KERNEL && !BOOT_TRACER + depends on TRACING && DEBUG_KERNEL select FTRACE_SELFTEST help This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup @@ -302,4 +368,27 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST 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 |