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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-02-07 20:46:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 10:51:02 +0100 |
| commit | 2db270a80b8f2238e536876cfb3987af02684df8 (patch) | |
| tree | 352bf63f9d48cf686a2a36c157707789a29fe7d1 /kernel/trace/Kconfig | |
| parent | 44b0635481437140b0e29d6023f05e805d5e7620 (diff) | |
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tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace
Impact: cleanup
Move blktrace.c to kernel/trace, also move its config entry.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 25131a5d5e4f..4fee43c01942 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -302,6 +302,29 @@ config WORKQUEUE_TRACER For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one. +config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE + bool "Support for tracing block io actions" + depends on SYSFS + select RELAY + select DEBUG_FS + select TRACEPOINTS + select TRACING + select STACKTRACE + help + Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions + on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening + on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace + support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from: + + git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git + + Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.: + + echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable + echo blk > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer + cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe + + If unsure, say N. config DYNAMIC_FTRACE bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" |
