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| author | Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> | 2008-12-31 17:34:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-03 18:53:31 +0100 |
| commit | 7eb19553369c46cc1fa64caf120cbcab1b597f7c (patch) | |
| tree | ef1a3beae706b9497c845d0a2557ceb4d2754998 /kernel/trace/Kconfig | |
| parent | 6092848a2a23b660150a38bc06f59d75838d70c8 (diff) | |
| parent | 8c384cdee3e04d6194a2c2b192b624754f990835 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
kernel/rcuclassic.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index bde6f03512d5..e2a4ff6fc3a6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -244,16 +244,21 @@ config STACK_TRACER This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and - stack-trace saved. Because this logic has to execute in every - kernel function, all the time, this option can slow down the - kernel measurably and is generally intended for kernel - developers only. + stack-trace saved. If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE + then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer + is disabled. + + To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace' + on the kernel command line. + + The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the + sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled Say N if unsure. -config BTS_TRACER +config HW_BRANCH_TRACER depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER - bool "Trace branches" + bool "Trace hw branches" select TRACING help This tracer records all branches on the system in a circular |