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  1. 14 5月, 2015 8 次提交
  3. 13 5月, 2015 2 次提交
  5. 07 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  7. 17 4月, 2015 1 次提交
  9. 16 4月, 2015 4 次提交
    • J
      tracing: Fix incorrect enabling of trace events by boot cmdline · 84fce9db
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      There is a problem that trace events are not properly enabled with
boot cmdline. The problem is that if we pass "trace_event=kmem:mm_page_alloc"
to the boot cmdline, it enables all kmem trace events, and not just
the page_alloc event.

This is caused by the parsing mechanism. When we parse the cmdline, the buffer
contents is modified due to tokenization. And, if we use this buffer
again, we will get the wrong result.

Unfortunately, this buffer is be accessed three times to set trace events
properly at boot time. So, we need to handle this situation.

There is already code handling ",", but we need another for ":".
This patch adds it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429159484-22977-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ added missing return ret; ]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      84fce9db
    • R
      tracing: Handle ftrace_dump() atomic context in graph_trace_open() · ef99b88b
      由 Rabin Vincent 提交于 
      graph_trace_open() can be called in atomic context from ftrace_dump().
Use GFP_ATOMIC for the memory allocations when that's the case, in order
to avoid the following splat.

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2849
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
 Backtrace:
 ..
 [<8004dc94>] (__might_sleep) from [<801371f4>] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x160/0x238)
  r7:87800040 r6:000080d0 r5:810d16e8 r4:000080d0
 [<80137094>] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace) from [<800cbd60>] (graph_trace_open+0x30/0xd0)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:00008e28 r7:810d16f0 r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8
  r4:810d16f0
 [<800cbd30>] (graph_trace_open) from [<800c79c4>] (trace_init_global_iter+0x50/0x9c)
  r8:00008e28 r7:808c853c r6:00000001 r5:810d16e8 r4:810d16f0 r3:800cbd30
 [<800c7974>] (trace_init_global_iter) from [<800c7aa0>] (ftrace_dump+0x90/0x2ec)
  r4:810d2580 r3:00000000
 [<800c7a10>] (ftrace_dump) from [<80414b2c>] (sysrq_ftrace_dump+0x1c/0x20)
  r10:00000100 r9:809171a8 r8:808f6e7c r7:00000001 r6:00000007 r5:0000007a
  r4:808d5394
 [<80414b10>] (sysrq_ftrace_dump) from [<800169b8>] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [<80415498>] (__handle_sysrq) from [<800169b8>] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r8:808c8100 r7:808c8444 r6:00000101 r5:00000010 r4:84eb3210
 [<80415668>] (handle_sysrq) from [<800169b8>] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
 [<8042a760>] (pl011_int) from [<800169b8>] (return_to_handler+0x0/0x18)
  r10:809171bc r9:809171a8 r8:00000001 r7:00000026 r6:808c6000 r5:84f01e60
  r4:8454fe00
 [<8007782c>] (handle_irq_event_percpu) from [<80077b44>] (handle_irq_event+0x4c/0x6c)
  r10:808c7ef0 r9:87283e00 r8:00000001 r7:00000000 r6:8454fe00 r5:84f01e60
  r4:84f01e00
 [<80077af8>] (handle_irq_event) from [<8007aa28>] (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xf0/0x1ac)
  r6:808f52a4 r5:84f01e60 r4:84f01e00 r3:00000000
 [<8007a938>] (handle_fasteoi_irq) from [<80076dc0>] (generic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x4c)
  r6:00000026 r5:00000000 r4:00000026 r3:8007a938
 [<80076d84>] (generic_handle_irq) from [<80077128>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xfc)
  r4:808c1e38 r3:0000002e
 [<8007709c>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<800087b8>] (gic_handle_irq+0x34/0x6c)
  r10:80917748 r9:00000001 r8:88802100 r7:808c7ef0 r6:808c8fb0 r5:00000015
  r4:8880210c r3:808c7ef0
 [<80008784>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<80014044>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x7c)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428953721-31349-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428957012-2319-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: NRabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ef99b88b
    • J
      tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value · 962e3707
      由 Joe Perches 提交于 
      The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.

See: commit 1f33c41c ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
     seq_has_overflowed() and make public")

Miscellanea:

o Remove unused return value from trace_lookup_stack
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      962e3707
    • D
      VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations · 7682c918
      由 David Howells 提交于 
      relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own;
those two act as filesystem drivers
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      7682c918
  11. 08 4月, 2015 3 次提交
  13. 03 4月, 2015 1 次提交
  15. 02 4月, 2015 5 次提交
    • I
      bpf: Fix the build on BPF_SYSCALL=y && !CONFIG_TRACING kernels, make it more configurable · e1abf2cc
      由 Ingo Molnar 提交于 
      So bpf_tracing.o depends on CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL - but that's not its only
dependency, it also depends on the tracing infrastructure and on kprobes,
without which it will fail to build with:

  In file included from kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:14:0:
  kernel/trace/trace.h: In function ‘trace_test_and_set_recursion’:
  kernel/trace/trace.h:491:28: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘trace_recursion’
    unsigned int val = current->trace_recursion;
  [...]

It took quite some time to trigger this build failure, because right now
BPF_SYSCALL is very obscure, depends on CONFIG_EXPERT. So also make BPF_SYSCALL
more configurable, not just under CONFIG_EXPERT.

If BPF_SYSCALL, tracing and kprobes are enabled then enable the bpf_tracing
gateway as well.

We might want to make this an interactive option later on, although
I'd not complicate it unnecessarily: enabling BPF_SYSCALL is enough of
an indicator that the user wants BPF support.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      e1abf2cc
    • A
      tracing: Allow BPF programs to call bpf_trace_printk() · 9c959c86
      由 Alexei Starovoitov 提交于 
      Debugging of BPF programs needs some form of printk from the
program, so let programs call limited trace_printk() with %d %u
%x %p modifiers only.

Similar to kernel modules, during program load verifier checks
whether program is calling bpf_trace_printk() and if so, kernel
allocates trace_printk buffers and emits big 'this is debug
only' banner.
Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-6-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      9c959c86
    • A
      tracing: Allow BPF programs to call bpf_ktime_get_ns() · d9847d31
      由 Alexei Starovoitov 提交于 
      bpf_ktime_get_ns() is used by programs to compute time delta
between events or as a timestamp
Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-5-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      d9847d31
    • A
      tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes · 2541517c
      由 Alexei Starovoitov 提交于 
      BPF programs, attached to kprobes, provide a safe way to execute
user-defined BPF byte-code programs without being able to crash or
hang the kernel in any way. The BPF engine makes sure that such
programs have a finite execution time and that they cannot break
out of their sandbox.

The user interface is to attach to a kprobe via the perf syscall:

	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
		.type	= PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT,
		.config	= event_id,
		...
	};

	event_fd = perf_event_open(&attr,...);
	ioctl(event_fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF, prog_fd);

'prog_fd' is a file descriptor associated with BPF program
previously loaded.

'event_id' is an ID of the kprobe created.

Closing 'event_fd':

	close(event_fd);

... automatically detaches BPF program from it.

BPF programs can call in-kernel helper functions to:

  - lookup/update/delete elements in maps

  - probe_read - wraper of probe_kernel_read() used to access any
    kernel data structures

BPF programs receive 'struct pt_regs *' as an input ('struct pt_regs' is
architecture dependent) and return 0 to ignore the event and 1 to store
kprobe event into the ring buffer.

Note, kprobes are a fundamentally _not_ a stable kernel ABI,
so BPF programs attached to kprobes must be recompiled for
every kernel version and user must supply correct LINUX_VERSION_CODE
in attr.kern_version during bpf_prog_load() call.
Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-4-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      2541517c
    • A
      tracing: Add kprobe flag · 72cbbc89
      由 Alexei Starovoitov 提交于 
      add TRACE_EVENT_FL_KPROBE flag to differentiate kprobe type of
tracepoints, since bpf programs can only be attached to kprobe
type of PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT perf events.
Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-3-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      72cbbc89
  17. 31 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  19. 25 3月, 2015 4 次提交
  21. 23 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  23. 09 3月, 2015 3 次提交
    • S
      ftrace: Fix ftrace enable ordering of sysctl ftrace_enabled · 524a3868
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      Some archs (specifically PowerPC), are sensitive with the ordering of
the enabling of the calls to function tracing and setting of the
function to use to be traced.

That is, update_ftrace_function() sets what function the ftrace_caller
trampoline should call. Some archs require this to be set before
calling ftrace_run_update_code().

Another bug was discovered, that ftrace_startup_sysctl() called
ftrace_run_update_code() directly. If the function the ftrace_caller
trampoline changes, then it will not be updated. Instead a call
to ftrace_startup_enable() should be called because it tests to see
if the callback changed since the code was disabled, and will
tell the arch to update appropriately. Most archs do not need this
notification, but PowerPC does.

The problem could be seen by the following commands:

 # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # echo function > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

The trace will show that function tracing was not active.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.27+
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      524a3868
    • P
      ftrace: Fix en(dis)able graph caller when en(dis)abling record via sysctl · 1619dc3f
      由 Pratyush Anand 提交于 
      When ftrace is enabled globally through the proc interface, we must check if
ftrace_graph_active is set. If it is set, then we should also pass the
FTRACE_START_FUNC_RET command to ftrace_run_update_code(). Similarly, when
ftrace is disabled globally through the proc interface, we must check if
ftrace_graph_active is set. If it is set, then we should also pass the
FTRACE_STOP_FUNC_RET command to ftrace_run_update_code().

Consider the following situation.

 # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

After this ftrace_enabled = 0.

 # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Since ftrace_enabled = 0, ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() is never
called.

 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

Now ftrace_enabled will be set to true, but still
ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() will not be called, which is not
desired.

Further if we execute the following after this:
  # echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Now since ftrace_enabled is set it will call
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(), which causes a kernel warning on
the ARM platform.

On the ARM platform, when ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() is called,
it checks whether the old instruction is a nop or not. If it's not a nop,
then it returns an error. If it is a nop then it replaces instruction at
that address with a branch to ftrace_graph_caller.
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() behaves just the opposite. Therefore,
if generic ftrace code ever calls either ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller()
or ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() consecutively two times in a row,
then it will return an error, which will cause the generic ftrace code to
raise a warning.

Note, x86 does not have an issue with this because the architecture
specific code for ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() and
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() does not check the previous state,
and calling either of these functions twice in a row has no ill effect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4fbe64cdac0dd0e86a3bf914b0f83c0b419f146.1425666454.git.panand@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+
Signed-off-by: NPratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
[
  removed extra if (ftrace_start_up) and defined ftrace_graph_active as 0
  if CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is not set.
]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      1619dc3f
    • S
      ftrace: Clear REGS_EN and TRAMP_EN flags on disabling record via sysctl · b24d443b
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      When /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is set to zero, all function
tracing is disabled. But the records that represent the functions
still hold information about the ftrace_ops that are hooked to them.

ftrace_ops may request "REGS" (have a full set of pt_regs passed to
the callback), or "TRAMP" (the ops has its own trampoline to use).
When the record is updated to represent the state of the ops hooked
to it, it sets "REGS_EN" and/or "TRAMP_EN" to state that the callback
points to the correct trampoline (REGS has its own trampoline).

When ftrace_enabled is set to zero, all ftrace locations are a nop,
so they do not point to any trampoline. But the _EN flags are still
set. This can cause the accounting to go wrong when ftrace_enabled
is cleared and an ops that has a trampoline is registered or unregistered.

For example, the following will cause ftrace to crash:

 # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

As function_graph uses a trampoline, when ftrace_enabled is set to zero
the updates to the record are not done. When enabling function_graph
again, the record will still have the TRAMP_EN flag set, and it will
look for an op that has a trampoline other than the function_graph
ops, and fail to find one.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17+
Reported-by: NPratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      b24d443b
  25. 14 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  27. 11 2月, 2015 1 次提交
    • S
      ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full · 1e0d6714
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      When an application connects to the ring buffer via splice, it can only
read full pages. Splice does not work with partial pages. If there is
not enough data to fill a page, the splice command will either block
or return -EAGAIN (if set to nonblock).

Code was added where if the page is not full, to just sleep again.
The problem is, it will get woken up again on the next event. That
is, when something is written into the ring buffer, if there is a waiter
it will wake it up. The waiter would then check the buffer, see that
it still does not have enough data to fill a page and go back to sleep.
To make matters worse, when the waiter goes back to sleep, it could
cause another event, which would wake it back up again to see it
doesn't have enough data and sleep again. This produces a tremendous
overhead and fills the ring buffer with noise.

For example, recording sched_switch on an idle system for 10 seconds
produces 25,350,475 events!!!

Create another wait queue for those waiters wanting full pages.
When an event is written, it only wakes up waiters if there's a full
page of data. It does not wake up the waiter if the page is not yet
full.

After this change, recording sched_switch on an idle system for 10
seconds produces only 800 events. Getting rid of 25,349,675 useless
events (99.9969% of events!!), is something to take seriously.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Fixes: e30f53aa "tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice"
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      1e0d6714
  29. 10 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  31. 04 2月, 2015 3 次提交
    • S
      tracing: Have mkdir and rmdir be part of tracefs · eae47358
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      The tracing "instances" directory can create sub tracing buffers
with mkdir, and remove them with rmdir. As a mkdir will also create
all the files and directories that control the sub buffer the inode
mutexes need to be released before this is done, to avoid deadlocks.
It is better to let the tracing system unlock the inode mutexes before
calling the functions that create the files within the new directory
(or deletes the files from the one being destroyed).

Now that tracing has been converted over to tracefs, the tracefs file
system can be modified to accommodate this feature. It still releases
the locks, but the filesystem itself can take care of the ugly
business and let the user just do what it needs.

The tracing system now attaches a descriptor to the directory dentry
that can have userspace create or remove sub directories. If this
descriptor does not exist for a dentry, then that dentry can not be
used to create other directories. This descriptor holds a mkdir and
rmdir method that only takes a character string as an argument.

The tracefs file system will first make a copy of the dentry name
before releasing the locks. Then it will pass the copied name to the
methods. It is up to the tracing system that supplied the methods to
handle races with duplicate names and such as all the inode mutexes
would be released when the functions are called.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      eae47358
    • S
      tracing: Automatically mount tracefs on debugfs/tracing · f76180bc
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      As tools currently rely on the tracing directory in debugfs, we can not
just created a tracefs infrastructure and expect sysadmins to mount
the new tracefs to have their old tools work.

Instead, the debugfs tracing directory is still created and the tracefs
file system is mounted there when the debugfs filesystem is mounted.

No longer does the tracing infrastructure update the debugfs file system,
but instead interacts with the tracefs file system. But now, it still
appears to the user like nothing changed, except you also have the feature
of mounting just the tracing system without needing all of debugfs!

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      f76180bc
    • S
      tracing: Convert the tracing facility over to use tracefs · 8434dc93
      由 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于 
      debugfs was fine for the tracing facility as a quick way to get
an interface. Now that tracing has matured, it should separate itself
from debugfs such that it can be mounted separately without needing
to mount all of debugfs with it. That is, users resist using tracing
because it requires mounting debugfs. Having tracing have its own file
system lets users get the features of tracing without needing to bring
in the rest of the kernel's debug infrastructure.

Another reason for tracefs is that debubfs does not support mkdir.
Currently, to create instances, one does a mkdir in the tracing/instance
directory. This is implemented via a hack that forces debugfs to do
something it is not intended on doing. By converting over to tracefs, this
hack can be removed and mkdir can be properly implemented. This patch does
not address this yet, but it lays the ground work for that to be done.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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