From 5d1646d90e1f2cceb9f0828f4b28318cd0ec7744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:05:51 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 5.10.209. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- kernel/trace/Kconfig | 876 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 876 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kernel/trace/Kconfig (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig') diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..29db703f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,876 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +# +# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should +# select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER: +# + +config USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + bool + +config NOP_TRACER + bool + +config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER + bool + help + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst + +config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER + bool + help + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst + +config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE + bool + help + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst + +config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS + bool + +config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS + bool + +config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD + bool + help + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst + +config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS + bool + help + See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst + +config HAVE_FENTRY + bool + help + Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry + +config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT + bool + help + Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount + +config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT + bool + help + C version of recordmcount available? + +config TRACER_MAX_TRACE + bool + +config TRACE_CLOCK + bool + +config RING_BUFFER + bool + select TRACE_CLOCK + select IRQ_WORK + +config EVENT_TRACING + select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + select GLOB + bool + +config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + bool + +config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP + bool + help + Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu. + Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled. + +config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS + bool + depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS + select TRACING + default y + help + Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts + of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them. + +# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are +# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING. +# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the +# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options +# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the +# hiding of the automatic options. + +config TRACING + bool + select RING_BUFFER + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select TRACEPOINTS + select NOP_TRACER + select BINARY_PRINTF + select EVENT_TRACING + select TRACE_CLOCK + +config GENERIC_TRACER + bool + select TRACING + +# +# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to +# be able to offer generic tracing facilities: +# +config TRACING_SUPPORT + bool + depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT + depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + default y + +if TRACING_SUPPORT + +menuconfig FTRACE + bool "Tracers" + default y if DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure. + +if FTRACE + +config BOOTTIME_TRACING + bool "Boot-time Tracing support" + depends on TRACING + select BOOT_CONFIG + help + Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental + kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver + initialization and boot process. + +config FUNCTION_TRACER + bool "Kernel Function Tracer" + depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER + select KALLSYMS + select GENERIC_TRACER + select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + select GLOB + select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION + select TASKS_RUDE_RCU + 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 at 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 FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER + bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer" + depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER + depends on FUNCTION_TRACER + depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE + default y + help + Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return + and its entry. + Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and + draw a call graph for each thread with some information like + the return value. This is done by setting the current return + address on the current task structure into a stack of calls. + +config DYNAMIC_FTRACE + bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically" + depends on FUNCTION_TRACER + depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE + default y + help + This option will modify all the calls to function tracing + dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and + replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During + compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace + can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel + image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually + enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect + performance of the system. + + See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing: + available_filter_functions + set_ftrace_filter + set_ftrace_notrace + + This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but + otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active. + +config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS + def_bool y + depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE + depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS + +config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS + def_bool y + depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS + depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS + +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 "functions" file is created in + the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that + have been hit and their counters. + + If in doubt, say N. + +config STACK_TRACER + bool "Trace max stack" + depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER + select FUNCTION_TRACER + select STACKTRACE + select KALLSYMS + help + This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the + kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace. + + This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the + kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and + stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE + then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer + is disabled. + + To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' + on the kernel command line. + + The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the + sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled + + Say N if unsure. + +config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE + bool + help + Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled, + and last enabled. + +config IRQSOFF_TRACER + bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer" + default n + depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT + depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET + select TRACE_IRQFLAGS + select GENERIC_TRACER + select TRACER_MAX_TRACE + select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP + select TRACER_SNAPSHOT + select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP + 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 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + + (Note that kernel size and overhead increase 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 !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET + depends on PREEMPTION + select GENERIC_TRACER + select TRACER_MAX_TRACE + select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP + select TRACER_SNAPSHOT + select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP + select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE + 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 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + + (Note that kernel size and overhead increase 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" + select GENERIC_TRACER + select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER + select TRACER_MAX_TRACE + select TRACER_SNAPSHOT + help + This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task + to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up. + +config HWLAT_TRACER + bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)" + select GENERIC_TRACER + help + This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads, + depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread + spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by + something other than the kernel. For example, if a + System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of + time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing + if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks. + + Some files are created in the tracing directory when this + is enabled: + + hwlat_detector/width - time in usecs for how long to spin for + hwlat_detector/window - time in usecs between the start of each + iteration + + A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled + for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin + for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can + continue to operate. + + The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files. + + When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system, + but when it is running, it can cause the system to be + periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a + production system. + + To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer + file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will + be recorded into the ring buffer. + +config MMIOTRACE + bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" + depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI + select GENERIC_TRACER + 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/trace/mmiotrace.rst. + If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N. + +config ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS + bool "Trace process context switches and events" + depends on !GENERIC_TRACER + select TRACING + help + This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel, + allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they + want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin. + +config FTRACE_SYSCALLS + bool "Trace syscalls" + depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS + select GENERIC_TRACER + select KALLSYMS + help + Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events. + +config TRACER_SNAPSHOT + bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer" + select TRACER_MAX_TRACE + help + Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the + ftrace interface, e.g.: + + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot + cat snapshot + +config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP + bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU" + depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT + select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP + help + Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a + full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is + allowed: + + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot + + After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with + the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same. + + When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the + trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize + recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance + of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt + or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well + and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more). + +config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + bool + select GENERIC_TRACER + +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. + + Either of the above profilers adds 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 likely and unlikely macros + in the kernel. It will display the results in: + + /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated + + Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this + on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. + +config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES + bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE + select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + help + This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () + taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss. + The results will be displayed in: + + /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all + + 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 in much detail. +endchoice + +config TRACING_BRANCHES + bool + help + Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely + conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being + profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen + when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced. + +config BRANCH_TRACER + bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances" + depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + select TRACING_BRANCHES + help + This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition + calls in the kernel. The difference between this and the + "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a + histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling + events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the + events happened, as well as their results. + + Say N if unsure. + +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 GENERIC_TRACER + 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 KPROBE_EVENTS + depends on KPROBES + depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API + bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" + select TRACING + select PROBE_EVENTS + select DYNAMIC_EVENTS + default y + help + This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) + on the fly via the ftrace interface. See + Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details. + + Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record + various register and memory values. + + This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. + If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. + +config KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE + bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events" + depends on KPROBE_EVENTS + depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE + default n + help + This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself + using kprobe events. + + If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related + functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinit + recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel + crash. + + This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe + events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself. + Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot. + + If unsure, say N. + +config UPROBE_EVENTS + bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events" + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES + depends on MMU + depends on PERF_EVENTS + select UPROBES + select PROBE_EVENTS + select DYNAMIC_EVENTS + select TRACING + default y + help + This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace + dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace + events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes + can probe, and record various registers. + This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand + of perf tools on user space applications. + +config BPF_EVENTS + depends on BPF_SYSCALL + depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS + bool + default y + help + This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and + tracepoint events. + +config DYNAMIC_EVENTS + def_bool n + +config PROBE_EVENTS + def_bool n + +config BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE + bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function" + depends on BPF_EVENTS + depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION + default n + help + Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and + set a different return value. This is used for error injection. + +config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD + def_bool y + depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE + depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD + +config TRACING_MAP + bool + depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG + help + tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing, + separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it + to be shared between multiple tracers. It isn't meant to be + generally used outside of that context, and is normally + selected by tracers that use it. + +config SYNTH_EVENTS + bool "Synthetic trace events" + select TRACING + select DYNAMIC_EVENTS + default n + help + Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be + used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any + data source. Synthetic events can be generated indirectly + via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly + by way of an in-kernel API. + + See Documentation/trace/events.rst or + Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples. + + If in doubt, say N. + +config HIST_TRIGGERS + bool "Histogram triggers" + depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG + select TRACING_MAP + select TRACING + select DYNAMIC_EVENTS + select SYNTH_EVENTS + default n + help + Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields + to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by + reading a debugfs/tracefs file. They're useful for + gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of + event activity as an initial guide for further investigation + using more advanced tools. + + Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also + supported using hist triggers under this option. + + See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst. + If in doubt, say N. + +config TRACE_EVENT_INJECT + bool "Trace event injection" + depends on TRACING + help + Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring + buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose. + + If unsure, say N. + +config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK + bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" + help + This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". + When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that + goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks + run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time + it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that + data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint + will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. + The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes + to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of + "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first + write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. + + As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because + we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. + + An example of the output: + + START + first=3672 [COLD CACHED] + last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 + last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 + last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 + last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 + last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 + last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 + + +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 benchmark it. + It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere 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. + +config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE + bool "Show eval mappings for trace events" + depends on TRACING + help + The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names + instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools + that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know + how to convert the string to its value. + + To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used + to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then + the print fmt strings will be converted to their values. + + If something does not get converted properly, this option can be + used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert. + + This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created + in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the + names matched with their values and what trace event system they + belong too. + + Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after + boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as + they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will + increase the memory footprint of the running kernel. + + If unsure, say N. + +config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE + bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" + depends on GCOV_KERNEL + help + Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking + which functions/lines are tested. + + If unsure, say N. + + Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will + run significantly slower. + +config FTRACE_SELFTEST + bool + +config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST + bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace" + depends on GENERIC_TRACER + 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. + +config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST + bool "Run selftest on trace events" + depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST + default y + help + This option performs a test on all trace events in the system. + It basically just enables each event and runs some code that + will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables) + This may take some time run as there are a lot of events. + +config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS + bool "Run selftest on syscall events" + depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST + help + This option will also enable testing every syscall event. + It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads + with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot + up since it runs this on every system call defined. + + TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their + events + +config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST + bool "Ring buffer startup self test" + depends on RING_BUFFER + help + Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the + kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off + a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events + into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs + to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write + to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability. + If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed + and all ring buffers will be disabled. + + The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time + by at least 10 more seconds. + + At the end of the test, statics and more checks are done. + It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer. What + was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and + other similar details. + + If unsure, 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. + +config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST + tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers" + depends on m + help + Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency + tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user + configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the + critical section. + + For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three + irq-disabled critical sections for 500us: + modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3 + + If unsure, say N + +config SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST + tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation" + depends on SYNTH_EVENTS + help + This option creates a test module to check the base + functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and + generation. + + To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer + for the generated sample events. + + If unsure, say N. + +config KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST + tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation" + depends on KPROBE_EVENTS + help + This option creates a test module to check the base + functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition. + + To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer + for the generated kprobe events. + + If unsure, say N. + +config HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG + bool "Hist trigger debug support" + depends on HIST_TRIGGERS + help + Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will + dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers + defined on that event. + + The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes: + + - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken. + + - Provides educational information to support the details + of the hist trigger internals as described by + Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst. + + The hist_debug output only covers the data structures + related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't + display the internals of map buckets or variable values of + running histograms. + + If unsure, say N. + +endif # FTRACE + +endif # TRACING_SUPPORT + -- cgit v1.2.3