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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 15372a9f2399..f05671609a89 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -428,17 +428,22 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE If unsure, say N. -config KPROBE_TRACER +config KPROBE_EVENT depends on KPROBES depends on X86 - bool "Trace kprobes" + bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events" select TRACING - select GENERIC_TRACER + default y help - This tracer probes everywhere where kprobes can probe it, and - records various registers and memories specified by user. - This also allows you to trace kprobe probe points as a dynamic - defined events. It provides per-probe event filtering interface. + This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly + via the ftrace interface. See Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt + for more details. + + Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record + various register and memory values. + + This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. If + you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended. config DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" |