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| author | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2020-11-05 21:32:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2020-11-06 08:42:26 -0500 |
| commit | 773c16705058e9be7b0f4ce124e89cd231c120a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 30bbb7933a0b1bc835d64cd6d61ca8e9b87f8eb7 /kernel/trace/Kconfig | |
| parent | a25d036d939a30623ff73ecad9c8b9116b02e823 (diff) | |
ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion
This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
"recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
callback to the function tracer was running.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023548.102375687@goodmis.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index a4020c0b4508..9b11c096d139 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -727,6 +727,31 @@ config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE If unsure, say N. +config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION + bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing" + depends on FUNCTION_TRACER + help + All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort + of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists, + it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs + file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions + that triggered a recursion. + + This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion. + + If unsure, say N + +config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE + int "Max number of recursed functions to record" + default 128 + depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION + help + This defines the limit of number of functions that can be + listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all + the functions that caused a recursion to happen. + This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in + size at runtime. + config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem" depends on GCOV_KERNEL |