From: Steven Rostedt Impact: feature to disable all of ftrace on anomalies It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without grabing any locks. This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should only be used when something serious has been detected. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index f1af1aa..efa5f27 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ extern int ftrace_dump_on_oops; extern void tracing_start(void); extern void tracing_stop(void); +extern void ftrace_off_permanent(void); extern void ftrace_special(unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3); @@ -290,6 +291,7 @@ ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 0))); static inline void tracing_start(void) { } static inline void tracing_stop(void) { } +static inline void ftrace_off_permanent(void) { } static inline int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...) { diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 5653c6b..25b560f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -639,6 +639,21 @@ static int trace_stop_count; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tracing_start_lock); /** + * ftrace_off_permanent - disable all ftrace code permanently + * + * This should only be called when a serious anomally has + * been detected. This will turn off the function tracing, + * ring buffers, and other tracing utilites. It takes no + * locks and can be called from any context. + */ +void ftrace_off_permanent(void) +{ + tracing_disabled = 1; + ftrace_stop(); + tracing_off_permanent(); +} + +/** * tracing_start - quick start of the tracer * * If tracing is enabled but was stopped by tracing_stop, -- 1.5.6.5 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/