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authorDavid Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>2010-12-08 13:46:47 -0800
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-03-09 13:52:27 -0500
commit750912fa366312e9c5bc83eab352898a26750401 (patch)
treebb8e5cd1444a74ea283e3fa55607225e7fda4d70 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parent2a8247a2600c3e087a568fc68a6ec4eedac27ef1 (diff)
tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path. Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8dc8da6733f..85e3ee1e474 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
#include "trace.h"
#include "trace_output.h"
-#define TRACE_BUFFER_FLAGS (RB_FL_OVERWRITE)
-
/*
* On boot up, the ring buffer is set to the minimum size, so that
* we do not waste memory on systems that are not using tracing.
@@ -340,7 +338,7 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(trace_wait);
/* trace_flags holds trace_options default values */
unsigned long trace_flags = TRACE_ITER_PRINT_PARENT | TRACE_ITER_PRINTK |
TRACE_ITER_ANNOTATE | TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO | TRACE_ITER_SLEEP_TIME |
- TRACE_ITER_GRAPH_TIME | TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD;
+ TRACE_ITER_GRAPH_TIME | TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD | TRACE_ITER_OVERWRITE;
static int trace_stop_count;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tracing_start_lock);
@@ -425,6 +423,7 @@ static const char *trace_options[] = {
"sleep-time",
"graph-time",
"record-cmd",
+ "overwrite",
NULL
};
@@ -2529,6 +2528,9 @@ static void set_tracer_flags(unsigned int mask, int enabled)
if (mask == TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD)
trace_event_enable_cmd_record(enabled);
+
+ if (mask == TRACE_ITER_OVERWRITE)
+ ring_buffer_change_overwrite(global_trace.buffer, enabled);
}
static ssize_t
@@ -4555,9 +4557,11 @@ void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode)
__init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
{
int ring_buf_size;
+ enum ring_buffer_flags rb_flags;
int i;
int ret = -ENOMEM;
+
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tracing_buffer_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
goto out;
@@ -4570,12 +4574,13 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
else
ring_buf_size = 1;
+ rb_flags = trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_OVERWRITE ? RB_FL_OVERWRITE : 0;
+
cpumask_copy(tracing_buffer_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
cpumask_copy(tracing_cpumask, cpu_all_mask);
/* TODO: make the number of buffers hot pluggable with CPUS */
- global_trace.buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(ring_buf_size,
- TRACE_BUFFER_FLAGS);
+ global_trace.buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(ring_buf_size, rb_flags);
if (!global_trace.buffer) {
printk(KERN_ERR "tracer: failed to allocate ring buffer!\n");
WARN_ON(1);
@@ -4585,7 +4590,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- max_tr.buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(1, TRACE_BUFFER_FLAGS);
+ max_tr.buffer = ring_buffer_alloc(1, rb_flags);
if (!max_tr.buffer) {
printk(KERN_ERR "tracer: failed to allocate max ring buffer!\n");
WARN_ON(1);