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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index e2a4ff6fc3a..dde1d46f77e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -264,6 +264,38 @@ config HW_BRANCH_TRACER 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 + help + kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as + kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected + data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse + allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it + possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug + and profile kernel code. + + This requires an userspace application to use. See + Documentation/vm/kmemtrace.txt for more information. + + Saying Y will make the kernel somewhat larger and slower. However, + if you disable kmemtrace at run-time or boot-time, the performance + impact is minimal (depending on the arch the kernel is built for). + + If unsure, say N. + +config WORKQUEUE_TRACER + bool "Trace workqueues" + select TRACING + help + The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations + about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the + works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help + to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform. + For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should + choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one. + + config DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" depends on FUNCTION_TRACER @@ -302,4 +334,27 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured tracers of ftrace. +config MMIOTRACE + bool "Memory mapped IO tracing" + depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && DEBUG_KERNEL && PCI + select TRACING + 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/tracers/mmiotrace.txt. + If you are not helping to develop drivers, 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. + endmenu |