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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 73 |
1 files changed, 63 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 192473b22799..5e9efd4b83a4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ config IRQSOFF_TRACER 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. @@ -198,6 +200,8 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER 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 preemption-off critical sections, with microsecond accuracy. @@ -217,6 +221,7 @@ config SCHED_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. @@ -248,6 +253,27 @@ config TRACER_SNAPSHOT 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 @@ -414,24 +440,28 @@ config PROBE_EVENTS def_bool n config DYNAMIC_FTRACE - bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" + 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 ftrace dynamically - (will patch them out of the binary image and replace them - with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is - created to dynamically enable them again. + 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. - 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 DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS def_bool y depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE @@ -520,6 +550,29 @@ config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK If unsure, say N. +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 + endif # FTRACE endif # TRACING_SUPPORT |