ftrace: ftrace_dump_on_oops=[tracer]

Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option

In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1bbcaa8982b6c2445fcfdd852f9e33702129cd8b..4862284d31191841fcde8c2b6aa803c43b741117 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -765,6 +765,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
                        ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
 
+       ftrace=[tracer]
+                       [ftrace] will set and start the specified tracer
+                       as early as possible in order to facilitate early
+                       boot debugging.
+
+       ftrace_dump_on_oops
+                       [ftrace] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
+
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                        support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index bdb1df00fb1051875f896d492ff6926cdcb6803f..482583eb80018c59ca3a338855595ae5a1f47aed 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -79,6 +79,15 @@ static int tracing_disabled = 1;
  */
 int ftrace_dump_on_oops;
 
+static int tracing_set_tracer(char *buf);
+
+static int __init set_ftrace(char *str)
+{
+       tracing_set_tracer(str);
+       return 1;
+}
+__setup("ftrace", set_ftrace);
+
 static int __init set_ftrace_dump_on_oops(char *str)
 {
        ftrace_dump_on_oops = 1;
@@ -2394,29 +2403,11 @@ tracing_set_trace_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
        return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, r);
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
-                       size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
+static int tracing_set_tracer(char *buf)
 {
        struct trace_array *tr = &global_trace;
        struct tracer *t;
-       char buf[max_tracer_type_len+1];
-       int i;
-       size_t ret;
-
-       ret = cnt;
-
-       if (cnt > max_tracer_type_len)
-               cnt = max_tracer_type_len;
-
-       if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt))
-               return -EFAULT;
-
-       buf[cnt] = 0;
-
-       /* strip ending whitespace. */
-       for (i = cnt - 1; i > 0 && isspace(buf[i]); i--)
-               buf[i] = 0;
+       int ret = 0;
 
        mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
        for (t = trace_types; t; t = t->next) {
@@ -2440,6 +2431,33 @@ tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
  out:
        mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
+       return ret;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
+                       size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+       char buf[max_tracer_type_len+1];
+       int i;
+       size_t ret;
+
+       if (cnt > max_tracer_type_len)
+               cnt = max_tracer_type_len;
+
+       if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt))
+               return -EFAULT;
+
+       buf[cnt] = 0;
+
+       /* strip ending whitespace. */
+       for (i = cnt - 1; i > 0 && isspace(buf[i]); i--)
+               buf[i] = 0;
+
+       ret = tracing_set_tracer(buf);
+       if (!ret)
+               ret = cnt;
+
        if (ret > 0)
                filp->f_pos += ret;