From: Steven Rostedt To save memory, the tracer ring buffers are set to a minimum. The activating of a trace expands the ring buffer size. This patch adds this expanding, when an event is activated. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 +++ kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 0c1dc18..35ee63a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2357,6 +2357,26 @@ static int tracing_resize_ring_buffer(unsigned long size) return ret; } +/** + * tracing_update_buffers - used by tracing facility to expand ring buffers + * + * To save on memory when the tracing is never used on a system with it + * configured in. The ring buffers are set to a minimum size. But once + * a user starts to use the tracing facility, then they need to grow + * to their default size. + * + * This function is to be called when a tracer is about to be used. + */ +int tracing_update_buffers(void) +{ + int ret = 0; + + if (!ring_buffer_expanded) + ret = tracing_resize_ring_buffer(trace_buf_size); + + return ret; +} + struct trace_option_dentry; static struct trace_option_dentry * diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index c5e1d88..336324d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -737,6 +737,9 @@ static inline void trace_branch_disable(void) } #endif /* CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER */ +/* set ring buffers to default size if not already done so */ +int tracing_update_buffers(void); + /* trace event type bit fields, not numeric */ enum { TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_PRINTF = 1, diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 769dfd0..ca624df 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ ftrace_event_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, if (!cnt || cnt < 0) return 0; + ret = tracing_update_buffers(); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + ret = get_user(ch, ubuf++); if (ret) return ret; @@ -331,6 +335,10 @@ event_enable_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, if (ret < 0) return ret; + ret = tracing_update_buffers(); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + switch (val) { case 0: case 1: -- 1.6.1.3 -- -- 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/