From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out to the console before it continues. Format is: :dump echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter To remove this: echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 7 +++++ kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index bfe8c29..cc9ec57 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -2430,6 +2430,13 @@ The following commands are supported: echo '!schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch' > \ set_ftrace_filter +- dump + When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace + ring buffer to the console. This is useful if you need to debug + something, and want to dump the trace when a certain function + is hit. Perhaps its a function that is called before a tripple + fault happens and does not allow you to get a regular dump. + trace_pipe ---------- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c b/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c index c4d6d71..d7c8719 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c @@ -290,6 +290,13 @@ ftrace_stacktrace_count(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, void **data) trace_dump_stack(STACK_SKIP); } +static void +ftrace_dump_probe(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, void **data) +{ + if (update_count(data)) + ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL); +} + static int ftrace_probe_print(const char *name, struct seq_file *m, unsigned long ip, void *data) @@ -327,6 +334,13 @@ ftrace_stacktrace_print(struct seq_file *m, unsigned long ip, return ftrace_probe_print("stacktrace", m, ip, data); } +static int +ftrace_dump_print(struct seq_file *m, unsigned long ip, + struct ftrace_probe_ops *ops, void *data) +{ + return ftrace_probe_print("dump", m, ip, data); +} + static struct ftrace_probe_ops traceon_count_probe_ops = { .func = ftrace_traceon_count, .print = ftrace_traceon_print, @@ -342,6 +356,11 @@ static struct ftrace_probe_ops stacktrace_count_probe_ops = { .print = ftrace_stacktrace_print, }; +static struct ftrace_probe_ops dump_probe_ops = { + .func = ftrace_dump_probe, + .print = ftrace_dump_print, +}; + static struct ftrace_probe_ops traceon_probe_ops = { .func = ftrace_traceon, .print = ftrace_traceon_print, @@ -425,6 +444,19 @@ ftrace_stacktrace_callback(struct ftrace_hash *hash, param, enable); } +static int +ftrace_dump_callback(struct ftrace_hash *hash, + char *glob, char *cmd, char *param, int enable) +{ + struct ftrace_probe_ops *ops; + + ops = &dump_probe_ops; + + /* Only dump once. */ + return ftrace_trace_probe_callback(ops, hash, glob, cmd, + "1", enable); +} + static struct ftrace_func_command ftrace_traceon_cmd = { .name = "traceon", .func = ftrace_trace_onoff_callback, @@ -440,6 +472,11 @@ static struct ftrace_func_command ftrace_stacktrace_cmd = { .func = ftrace_stacktrace_callback, }; +static struct ftrace_func_command ftrace_dump_cmd = { + .name = "dump", + .func = ftrace_dump_callback, +}; + static int __init init_func_cmd_traceon(void) { int ret; @@ -450,13 +487,25 @@ static int __init init_func_cmd_traceon(void) ret = register_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceon_cmd); if (ret) - unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceoff_cmd); + goto out_free_traceoff; ret = register_ftrace_command(&ftrace_stacktrace_cmd); - if (ret) { - unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceoff_cmd); - unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceon_cmd); - } + if (ret) + goto out_free_traceon; + + ret = register_ftrace_command(&ftrace_dump_cmd); + if (ret) + goto out_free_stacktrace; + + return 0; + + out_free_stacktrace: + unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_stacktrace_cmd); + out_free_traceon: + unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceon_cmd); + out_free_traceoff: + unregister_ftrace_command(&ftrace_traceoff_cmd); + return ret; } #else -- 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/