linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: Ignore mmiotrace from kernel commandline

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:31:34 +0800
From:   "Ziqian SUN (Zamir)" <zsun@...hat.com>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, karolherbst@...il.com, ppaalanen@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ziqian Sun <zsun@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: Ignore mmiotrace from kernel commandline


On 09/11/2017 02:26 PM, Ziqian SUN (Zamir) wrote:
> From: "Ziqian SUN (Zamir)" <zsun@...hat.com>
> 
> The mmiotrace tracer cannot be enabled with ftrace=mmiotrace in kernel
> commandline. With this patch, noboot is added to the tracer struct,
> and when system boot with a tracer that has noboot=true, it will print
> out a warning message and continue booting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ziqian SUN (Zamir) <zsun@...hat.com>
> --
> v1 -> v2 : remove unessential comment
> v2 -> v3 : Use tracer struct instead of a separate list to store noboot
> ---
>   kernel/trace/trace.c           | 7 +++++++
>   kernel/trace/trace.h           | 2 ++
>   kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c | 1 +
>   3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 5360b7a..48c474f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -5358,6 +5358,13 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(struct trace_array *tr, const char *buf)
>   	if (t == tr->current_trace)
>   		goto out;
>   
> +	/* Some tracers won't work on kernel command line */
> +	if (system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING && t->noboot) {
> +		pr_warn("Tracer '%s' is not allowed on command line, ignored\n",
> +			t->name);
I feel the core trace printed by WARN is not so meaningful, so I use 
pr_warn instead.
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
>   	/* Some tracers are only allowed for the top level buffer */
>   	if (!trace_ok_for_array(t, tr)) {
>   		ret = -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index fb5d54d..652c682 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -444,6 +444,8 @@ struct tracer {
>   #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
>   	bool			use_max_tr;
>   #endif
> +	/* True if tracer cannot be enabled in kernel param */
> +	bool			noboot;
>   };
>   
>   
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c b/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
> index cd7480d..dca78fc 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
> @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ static enum print_line_t mmio_print_line(struct trace_iterator *iter)
>   	.close		= mmio_close,
>   	.read		= mmio_read,
>   	.print_line	= mmio_print_line,
> +	.noboot		= true,
>   };
>   
>   __init static int init_mmio_trace(void)
> 

This patch passed my own test on top of Fedora kernel 4.13.0-1.fc26.x86_64.
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