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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-05-28 15:50:13 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2009-06-01 23:23:30 -0400
commit5e0a093910876882f91f1d4b8a1635a099e6c7ba (patch)
tree2e9fb5caa629c2f1f77f82a78863366b82ad05f6 /kernel/trace
parent2af15d6a44b871ad4c2a651302374cde8f335480 (diff)
tracing: fix config options to not show when automatically selected
There are two options that are selected by all tracers, but we want to have those options available when no tracer is selected. These are The event tracer and sched switch tracer. The are enabled by all tracers, but if a tracer is not selected we want the options to appear. All tracers including them select TRACING. Thus what we would like to do is: config EVENT_TRACER bool "prompt" depends on TRACING select TRACING But that gives us a bug in the kbuild system since we just created a circular dependency. We only want the prompt to show when TRACING is off. This patch adds GENERIC_TRACER that all tracers will select instead of TRACING. The two options (sched switch and event tracer) will select TRACING directly and depend on !GENERIC_TRACER. This solves the cicular dependency. [ Impact: hide options that are selected by default ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Kconfig43
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index a508b9d2adb..6e55cc3ac49 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
select MARKERS
bool
+# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
+# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
+# 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.
+
config TRACING
bool
select DEBUG_FS
@@ -66,6 +73,10 @@ config TRACING
select BINARY_PRINTF
select EVENT_TRACING
+config GENERIC_TRACER
+ bool
+ select TRACING
+
#
# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
@@ -95,7 +106,7 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select FRAME_POINTER
select KALLSYMS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
@@ -126,7 +137,7 @@ config IRQSOFF_TRACER
depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
depends on GENERIC_TIME
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
help
This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
@@ -147,7 +158,7 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER
default n
depends on GENERIC_TIME
depends on PREEMPT
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
help
This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
@@ -166,7 +177,7 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER
config SYSPROF_TRACER
bool "Sysprof Tracer"
depends on X86
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
This tracer provides the trace needed by the 'Sysprof' userspace
@@ -174,7 +185,7 @@ config SYSPROF_TRACER
config SCHED_TRACER
bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
help
@@ -183,6 +194,7 @@ config SCHED_TRACER
config ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
bool "Trace process context switches"
+ depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACING
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
@@ -191,6 +203,7 @@ config ENABLE_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
bool "Trace various events in the kernel"
+ depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
select TRACING
help
This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel
@@ -204,14 +217,14 @@ config ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
bool "Trace syscalls"
depends on HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select KALLSYMS
help
Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
config BOOT_TRACER
bool "Trace boot initcalls"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
This tracer helps developers to optimize boot times: it records
@@ -228,7 +241,7 @@ config BOOT_TRACER
config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
bool
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
choice
prompt "Branch Profiling"
@@ -308,7 +321,7 @@ config BRANCH_TRACER
config POWER_TRACER
bool "Trace power consumption behavior"
depends on X86
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
This tracer helps developers to analyze and optimize the kernels
power management decisions, specifically the C-state and P-state
@@ -342,14 +355,14 @@ config STACK_TRACER
config HW_BRANCH_TRACER
depends on HAVE_HW_BRANCH_TRACER
bool "Trace hw branches"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
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
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as
kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected
@@ -369,7 +382,7 @@ config KMEMTRACE
config WORKQUEUE_TRACER
bool "Trace workqueues"
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
@@ -385,7 +398,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
select RELAY
select DEBUG_FS
select TRACEPOINTS
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
select STACKTRACE
help
Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
@@ -446,7 +459,7 @@ config FTRACE_SELFTEST
config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
- depends on TRACING
+ depends on GENERIC_TRACER
select FTRACE_SELFTEST
help
This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
@@ -457,7 +470,7 @@ config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
config MMIOTRACE
bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
- select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
help
Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap