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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h samples/Makefile Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 5efeb4229ea0..06c3d5be6759 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -11,12 +11,18 @@ config NOP_TRACER
config HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
bool
@@ -28,21 +34,25 @@ config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
config HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
bool
help
- This gets selected when the arch tests the function_trace_stop
- variable at the mcount call site. Otherwise, this variable
- is tested by the called function.
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
bool
config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
bool
+ help
+ See Documentation/trace/ftrace-implementation.txt
config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
bool
@@ -73,7 +83,7 @@ config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
# 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.
+# hidding of the automatic options.
config TRACING
bool
@@ -490,6 +500,18 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
tracers of ftrace.
+config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
+ bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
+ depends on FTRACE_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 MMIOTRACE
bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI