ftrace: trace preempt off critical timings

Add preempt off timings. A lot of kernel core code is taken from the RT patch
latency trace that was written by Ingo Molnar.

This adds "preemptoff" and "preemptirqsoff" to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers

Now instead of just tracing irqs off, preemption off can be selected
to be recorded.

When this is selected, it shares the same files as irqs off timings.
One can either trace preemption off, irqs off, or one or the other off.

By echoing "preemptoff" into /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer, recording
of preempt off only is performed. "irqsoff" will only record the time
irqs are disabled, but "preemptirqsoff" will take the total time irqs
or preemption are disabled. Runtime switching of these options is now
supported by simpling echoing in the appropriate trace name into
/debugfs/tracing/current_tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 896df1cf6adc..6430016b98e8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -44,6 +44,31 @@ config IRQSOFF_TRACER
 
               echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
 
+          (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
+          enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
+          used together or separately.)
+
+config PREEMPT_TRACER
+        bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
+        default n
+        depends on GENERIC_TIME
+        depends on PREEMPT
+        select TRACING
+        select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+        help
+          This option measures the time spent in preemption off critical
+          sections, with microsecond accuracy.
+
+          The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
+          disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
+          via:
+
+              echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_max_latency
+
+          (Note that kernel size and overhead increases with this option
+          enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
+          used together or separately.)
+
 config SCHED_TRACER
         bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL