diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
index a29056d965a..07ef985ca33 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ in
 , doBenchmark ? false
 , doHoogle ? true
 , editedCabalFile ? null
-, enableLibraryProfiling ? false
+, enableLibraryProfiling ? true
 , enableExecutableProfiling ? false
+, profilingDetail ? "all-functions"
 # TODO enable shared libs for cross-compiling
 , enableSharedExecutables ? ((ghc.isGhcjs or false) || stdenv.lib.versionOlder "7.7" ghc.version)
 , enableSharedLibraries ? ((ghc.isGhcjs or false) || stdenv.lib.versionOlder "7.7" ghc.version)
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ let
     (optionalString useCpphs "--with-cpphs=${cpphs}/bin/cpphs --ghc-options=-cpp --ghc-options=-pgmP${cpphs}/bin/cpphs --ghc-options=-optP--cpp")
     (enableFeature (enableDeadCodeElimination && !hostPlatform.isArm && !hostPlatform.isAarch64 && (versionAtLeast "8.0.1" ghc.version)) "split-objs")
     (enableFeature enableLibraryProfiling "library-profiling")
+    (optionalString (enableExecutableProfiling || enableLibraryProfiling) "--profiling-detail=${profilingDetail}")
     (enableFeature enableExecutableProfiling (if versionOlder ghc.version "8" then "executable-profiling" else "profiling"))
     (enableFeature enableSharedLibraries "shared")
     (optionalString (versionAtLeast ghc.version "7.10") (enableFeature doCoverage "coverage"))