1. 04 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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      tracefs: Add new tracefs file system · 4282d606
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add a separate file system to handle the tracing directory. Currently it
      is part of debugfs, but that is starting to show its limits.
      
      One thing is that in order to access the tracing infrastructure, you need
      to mount debugfs. As that includes debugging from all sorts of sub systems
      in the kernel, it is not considered advisable to mount such an all
      encompassing debugging system.
      
      Having the tracing system in its own file systems gives access to the
      tracing sub system without needing to include all other systems.
      
      Another problem with tracing using the debugfs system is that the
      instances use mkdir to create sub buffers. debugfs does not support mkdir
      from userspace so to implement it, special hacks were used. By controlling
      the file system that the tracing infrastructure uses, this can be properly
      done without hacks.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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