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menu "LITMUS^RT"

menu "Tracing"

config FEATHER_TRACE
	bool "Feather-Trace Infrastructure"
	depends on !RELOCATABLE
	default y
	help
	  Feather-Trace basic tracing infrastructure. Includes device file
	  driver and instrumentation point support.

	  There are actually two implementations of Feather-Trace.
	  1) A slower, but portable, default implementation.
	  2) Architecture-specific implementations that rewrite kernel .text at runtime.

	  If enabled, Feather-Trace will be based on 2) if available (currently only for x86).
	  However, if DEBUG_RODATA=y, then Feather-Trace will choose option 1) in any case
	  to avoid problems with write-protected .text pages.

	  Bottom line: to avoid increased overheads, choose DEBUG_RODATA=n.

	  Note that this option only enables the basic Feather-Trace infrastructure;
	  you still need to enable SCHED_TASK_TRACE and/or SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE to
	  actually enable any events.

config SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE
	bool "Record timestamps for overhead measurements"
	depends on FEATHER_TRACE
	default y
	help
	  Export event stream for overhead tracing.
	  Say Yes for overhead tracing.

config SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE_SHIFT
       int "Buffer size for Feather-Trace overhead data"
       depends on SCHED_OVERHEAD_TRACE
       range 15 32
       default 22
       help

         Select the buffer size for the Feather-Trace overhead tracing
         infrastructure (/dev/litmus/ft_trace0 & ftcat) as a power of two.  The
         larger the buffer, the less likely the chance of buffer overflows if
         the ftcat process is starved by real-time activity. In machines with
         large memories, large buffer sizes are recommended.

	 Examples: 16 =>   2 MB
		   24 => 512 MB
		   26 =>  2G MB

config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
	bool "TRACE() debugging"
	default n
	help
	  Include support for sched_trace_log_messageg(), which is used to
	  implement TRACE(). If disabled, no TRACE() messages will be included
	  in the kernel, and no overheads due to debugging statements will be
	  incurred by the scheduler. Disable if the overhead is not acceptable
	  (e.g. benchmarking).

	  Say Yes for debugging.
	  Say No for overhead tracing.

config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE_SHIFT
       int "Buffer size for TRACE() buffer"
       depends on SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
       range 14 22
       default 18
       help

	Select the amount of memory needed per for the TRACE() buffer, as a
	power of two. The TRACE() buffer is global and statically allocated. If
	the buffer is too small, there will be holes in the TRACE() log if the
	buffer-flushing task is starved.

	The default should be sufficient for most systems. Increase the buffer
	size if the log contains holes. Reduce the buffer size when running on
	a memory-constrained system.

	Examples: 14 =>  16KB
		  18 => 256KB
		  20 =>   1MB

        This buffer is exported to usespace using a misc device as
        'litmus/log'. On a system with default udev rules, a corresponding
        character device node should be created at /dev/litmus/log. The buffer
        can be flushed using cat, e.g., 'cat /dev/litmus/log > my_log_file.txt'.

config SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE_CALLER
       bool "Include [function@file:line] tag in TRACE() log"
       depends on SCHED_DEBUG_TRACE
       default n
       help
         With this option enabled, TRACE() prepends

	      "[<function name>@<filename>:<line number>]"

	 to each message in the debug log. Enable this to aid in figuring out
         what was called in which order. The downside is that it adds a lot of
         clutter.

	 If unsure, say No.

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