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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 89 |
1 files changed, 80 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 417d1985e29..50f62a296e1 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ config FTRACE_NMI_ENTER depends on HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER default y +config EVENT_TRACING + bool + config TRACING bool select DEBUG_FS @@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ config TRACING select TRACEPOINTS select NOP_TRACER select BINARY_PRINTF + select EVENT_TRACING # # Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to @@ -73,7 +77,12 @@ config TRACING_SUPPORT if TRACING_SUPPORT -menu "Tracers" +menuconfig FTRACE + bool "Tracers" + help + Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. + +if FTRACE config FUNCTION_TRACER bool "Kernel Function Tracer" @@ -104,6 +113,7 @@ config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER 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 @@ -173,7 +183,7 @@ config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER This tracer gets called from the context switch and records all switching of tasks. -config EVENT_TRACER +config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING bool "Trace various events in the kernel" select TRACING help @@ -181,6 +191,10 @@ config EVENT_TRACER allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they want to trace. + Note, all tracers enable event tracing. This option is + only a convenience to enable event tracing when no other + tracers are selected. + config FTRACE_SYSCALLS bool "Trace syscalls" depends on HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS @@ -207,8 +221,36 @@ config BOOT_TRACER to enable this on bootup. config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING - bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" + bool select TRACING + +choice + prompt "Branch Profiling" + default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE + help + The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks + into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes. + + The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that + are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro. + + The "all branch" profiler will profile every if statement in the + kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely + profiler as well. + + Either of the above profilers add a bit of overhead to the system. + If unsure choose "No branch profiling". + +config BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE + bool "No branch profiling" + help + No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead. + Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior. + Otherwise keep it disabled. + +config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES + bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" + select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros in the kernel. It will display the results in: @@ -218,11 +260,9 @@ config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING 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 + select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. @@ -230,11 +270,12 @@ config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch + This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler. + 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. +endchoice config TRACING_BRANCHES bool @@ -375,6 +416,20 @@ config DYNAMIC_FTRACE were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS) and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace. +config FUNCTION_PROFILER + bool "Kernel function profiler" + depends on FUNCTION_TRACER + default n + help + This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created + in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero. + When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a + zero is entered, profiling stops. A file in the trace_stats + directory called functions, that show the list of functions that + have been hit and their counters. + + If in doubt, say N + config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD def_bool y depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE @@ -416,7 +471,23 @@ config MMIOTRACE_TEST Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. -endmenu +config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK + tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" + depends on RING_BUFFER + help + This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and bench mark it. + It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfer with + any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates + a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for + 10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events + it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took. + + It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be + affected by processes that are running. + + If unsure, say N + +endif # FTRACE endif # TRACING_SUPPORT |