From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" There's a few places that ftrace uses trace_printk() for internal use, but this requires context (normal, softirq, irq, NMI) buffers to keep things lockless. But the trace_puts() does not, as it can write the string directly into the ring buffer. Make a internal helper for trace_puts() and have the internal functions use that. This way the extra context buffers are not used. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++---- kernel/trace/trace.h | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 1b9a791..fa740e5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -443,16 +443,16 @@ void tracing_snapshot(void) unsigned long flags; if (!tr->allocated_snapshot) { - trace_printk("*** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED ***\n"); - trace_printk("*** stopping trace here! ***\n"); + internal_trace_puts("*** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED ***\n"); + internal_trace_puts("*** stopping trace here! ***\n"); tracing_off(); return; } /* Note, snapshot can not be used when the tracer uses it */ if (tracer->use_max_tr) { - trace_printk("*** LATENCY TRACER ACTIVE ***\n"); - trace_printk("*** Can not use snapshot (sorry) ***\n"); + internal_trace_puts("*** LATENCY TRACER ACTIVE ***\n"); + internal_trace_puts("*** Can not use snapshot (sorry) ***\n"); return; } diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index 98dd79d..c729843 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -1034,6 +1034,17 @@ extern const char *__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt[]; void trace_printk_init_buffers(void); void trace_printk_start_comm(void); +/* + * Normal trace_printk() and friends allocates special buffers + * to do the manipulation, as well as saves the print formats + * into sections to display. But the trace infrastructure wants + * to use these without the added overhead at the price of being + * a bit slower (used mainly for warnings, where we don't care + * about performance). The internal_trace_puts() is for such + * a purpose. + */ +#define internal_trace_puts(str) __trace_puts(_THIS_IP_, str, strlen(str)) + #undef FTRACE_ENTRY #define FTRACE_ENTRY(call, struct_name, id, tstruct, print, filter) \ extern struct ftrace_event_call \ -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/