select MARKERS
bool
+# 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
+# hidding of the automatic options options.
+
config TRACING
bool
select DEBUG_FS
select BINARY_PRINTF
select EVENT_TRACING
+config GENERIC_TRACER
+ bool
+ select TRACING
+
#
# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select FRAME_POINTER
select KALLSYMS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
depends on GENERIC_TIME
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
help
This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
via:
- echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
+ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/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
default n
depends on GENERIC_TIME
depends on PREEMPT
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
help
This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
via:
- echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
+ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/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
config SYSPROF_TRACER
bool "Sysprof Tracer"
depends on X86
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace
config SCHED_TRACER
bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
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 ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- bool "Trace process context switches"
- select TRACING
- select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- help
- This tracer gets called from the context switch and records
- all switching of tasks.
-
-config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
- bool "Trace various events in the kernel"
+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.
-
- Note, all tracers enable event tracing. This option is
- only a convenience to enable event tracing when no other
- tracers are selected.
+ want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
bool "Trace syscalls"
depends on HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select KALLSYMS
help
Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
config BOOT_TRACER
bool "Trace boot initcalls"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records
config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
bool
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
choice
prompt "Branch Profiling"
This tracer profiles all the the likely and unlikely macros
in the kernel. It will display the results in:
- /debugfs/tracing/profile_annotated_branch
+ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/profile_annotated_branch
Note: this will add a significant overhead, only turn this
on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
The results will be displayed in:
- /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch
+ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/profile_branch
This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
config POWER_TRACER
bool "Trace power consumption behavior"
depends on X86
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels
power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state
select KALLSYMS
help
This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
- kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace.
+ 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
config HW_BRANCH_TRACER
depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
bool "Trace hw branches"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
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
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as
kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected
config WORKQUEUE_TRACER
bool "Trace workqueues"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
select RELAY
select DEBUG_FS
select TRACEPOINTS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select STACKTRACE
help
Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
- depends on TRACING
+ depends on GENERIC_TRACER
select FTRACE_SELFTEST
help
This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
config MMIOTRACE
bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
- select TRACING
+ 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
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