From bc0c38d139ec7fcd5c030aea16b008f3732e42ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:20:42 +0200 Subject: ftrace: latency tracer infrastructure This patch adds the latency tracer infrastructure. This patch does not add anything that will select and turn it on, but will be used by later patches. If it were to be compiled, it would add the following files to the debugfs: The root tracing directory: /debugfs/tracing/ This patch also adds the following files: available_tracers list of available tracers. Currently no tracers are available. Looking into this file only shows "none" which is used to unregister all tracers. current_tracer The trace that is currently active. Empty on start up. To switch to a tracer simply echo one of the tracers that are listed in available_tracers: example: (used with later patches) echo function > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer To disable the tracer: echo disable > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer tracing_enabled echoing "1" into this file starts the ftrace function tracing (if sysctl kernel.ftrace_enabled=1) echoing "0" turns it off. latency_trace This file is readonly and holds the result of the trace. trace This file outputs a easier to read version of the trace. iter_ctrl Controls the way the output of traces look. So far there's two controls: echoing in "symonly" will only show the kallsyms variables without the addresses (if kallsyms was configured) echoing in "verbose" will change the output to show a lot more data, but not very easy to understand by humans. echoing in "nosymonly" turns off symonly. echoing in "noverbose" turns off verbose. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index fa05f6d8bdb..7e344e7b0cb 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TASKSTATS) += taskstats.o tsacct.o obj-$(CONFIG_MARKERS) += marker.o obj-$(CONFIG_LATENCYTOP) += latencytop.o obj-$(CONFIG_FTRACE) += trace/ +obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/ ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y) # According to Alan Modra , the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2