linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Register the ftrace internal events during early boot

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Message-Id: <20120615010338.377961366@goodmis.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:01:26 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Register the ftrace internal events during early boot

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>

All trace events including ftrace internel events (like trace_printk
and function tracing), register functions that describe how to print
their output. The events may be recorded as soon as the ring buffer
is allocated, but they are just raw binary in the buffer. The mapping
of event ids to how to print them are held within a structure that
is registered on system boot.

If a crash happens in boot up before these functions are registered
then their output (via ftrace_dump_on_oops) will be useless:

Dumping ftrace buffer:
---------------------------------
   <...>-1       0.... 319705us : Unknown type 6
---------------------------------

This can be quite frustrating for a kernel developer trying to see
what is going wrong.

There's no reason to register them so late in the boot up process.
They can be registered by early_initcall().

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index df611a0..123b189 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -1325,4 +1325,4 @@ __init static int init_events(void)

 	return 0;
 }
-device_initcall(init_events);
+early_initcall(init_events);
-- 
1.7.10

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