Re: [PATCH 3/3] trace: let boot trace be chosen by command line

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 04:31:20 EST


On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:38:33PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot
> tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without
> recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The
> selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/Kconfig | 7 +++----
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 +----
> kernel/trace/trace_boot.c | 11 +++++++----
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index 2780665..8115daf 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -164,9 +164,8 @@ config BOOT_TRACER
> representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw
> /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too.
>
> - ( Note that tracing self tests can't be enabled if this tracer is
> - selected, because the self-tests are an initcall as well and that
> - would invalidate the boot trace. )
> + You must pass in ftrace=initcall to the kernel command line
> + to enable this on bootup.
>
> config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
> bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
> @@ -328,7 +327,7 @@ config FTRACE_SELFTEST
>
> config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
> bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
> - depends on TRACING && DEBUG_KERNEL && !BOOT_TRACER
> + depends on TRACING && DEBUG_KERNEL
> select FTRACE_SELFTEST
> help
> This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 2c720c7..40edef4 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -3167,12 +3167,9 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
> trace_init_cmdlines();
>
> register_tracer(&nop_trace);
> + current_trace = &nop_trace;
> #ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER
> register_tracer(&boot_tracer);
> - current_trace = &boot_tracer;
> - current_trace->init(&global_trace);
> -#else
> - current_trace = &nop_trace;
> #endif
> /* All seems OK, enable tracing */
> tracing_disabled = 0;
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_boot.c b/kernel/trace/trace_boot.c
> index 0e94b3d..1f07895 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_boot.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_boot.c
> @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ void start_boot_trace(void)
>
> void enable_boot_trace(void)
> {
> - if (pre_initcalls_finished)
> + if (boot_trace && pre_initcalls_finished)
> tracing_start_sched_switch_record();
> }
>
> void disable_boot_trace(void)
> {
> - if (pre_initcalls_finished)
> + if (boot_trace && pre_initcalls_finished)
> tracing_stop_sched_switch_record();
> }
>
> @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ static int boot_trace_init(struct trace_array *tr)
> int cpu;
> boot_trace = tr;
>
> + if (!tr)
> + return 0;
> +
> for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_possible_mask)
> tracing_reset(tr, cpu);
>
> @@ -132,7 +135,7 @@ void trace_boot_call(struct boot_trace_call *bt, initcall_t fn)
> unsigned long irq_flags;
> struct trace_array *tr = boot_trace;
>
> - if (!pre_initcalls_finished)
> + if (!tr || !pre_initcalls_finished)
> return;
>
> /* Get its name now since this function could
> @@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ void trace_boot_ret(struct boot_trace_ret *bt, initcall_t fn)
> unsigned long irq_flags;
> struct trace_array *tr = boot_trace;
>
> - if (!pre_initcalls_finished)
> + if (!tr || !pre_initcalls_finished)
> return;
>
> sprint_symbol(bt->func, (unsigned long)fn);
> --
> 1.5.6.5
>
> --

Thanks, now I should turn out the initcall_debug dependency for the boot tracer
to actually trace. I should even make it trace the async calls BTW ...

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