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authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>2012-07-17 14:26:15 -0700
committerAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>2012-09-06 22:16:58 -0700
commit65f8c95e46a1827ae8bbc52a817ea308dd7d65ae (patch)
treeadc856e8b50441b055350d8f1d83e3f641c77456 /fs/pstore/Kconfig
parentb4a871bce619dc5ca03cc6c78e1c467ceacb8e7e (diff)
downloadlinux-65f8c95e46a1827ae8bbc52a817ea308dd7d65ae.tar.bz2
pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob. It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we have: - Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one thing less to worry about; - Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register "internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end"; - When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course, still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer'). Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/fs/pstore/Kconfig b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ config PSTORE_FTRACE
bool "Persistent function tracer"
depends on PSTORE
depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
+ depends on DEBUG_FS
help
With this option kernel traces function calls into a persistent
ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot through