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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5c2295b29f2c --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +# +# Architectures that offer an FTRACE implementation should select HAVE_FTRACE: +# +config HAVE_FTRACE + bool + +config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE + bool + +config TRACER_MAX_TRACE + bool + +config TRACING + bool + select DEBUG_FS + select STACKTRACE + +config FTRACE + bool "Kernel Function Tracer" + depends on HAVE_FTRACE + 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 IRQSOFF_TRACER + bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" + default n + depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT + depends on GENERIC_TIME + depends on HAVE_FTRACE + 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 HAVE_FTRACE + 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 SCHED_TRACER + bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer" + depends on HAVE_FTRACE + 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 HAVE_FTRACE + select TRACING + select MARKERS + help + This tracer gets called from the context switch and records + all switching of tasks. + +config DYNAMIC_FTRACE + bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" + depends on FTRACE + depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE + 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_FTRACE 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_SELFTEST + bool + +config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST + bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" + depends on TRACING + 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. |