Commit 380af29b authored by Steven Rostedt (Google)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Google)
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tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot up 



Add ftrace_boot_snapshot kernel parameter that will take a snapshot at the
end of boot up just before switching over to user space (it happens during
the kernel freeing of init memory).

This is useful when there's interesting data that can be collected from
kernel start up, but gets overridden by user space start up code. With
this option, the ring buffer content from the boot up traces gets saved in
the snapshot at the end of boot up. This trace can be read from:

 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent b3bc8547

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -1435,6 +1435,14 @@ 
			as early as possible in order to facilitate early

			boot debugging.



	ftrace_boot_snapshot

			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the

			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:

			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.

			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel

			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space

			start up functionality.



	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]

			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.

			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump

include/linux/ftrace.h

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@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ 
#define ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_OPS 0

#endif



#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING

extern void ftrace_boot_snapshot(void);

#else

static inline void ftrace_boot_snapshot(void) { }

#endif



#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER

struct ftrace_ops;

struct ftrace_regs;
@@ -215,7 +221,10 @@ struct ftrace_ops_hash { 
void ftrace_free_init_mem(void);

void ftrace_free_mem(struct module *mod, void *start, void *end);

#else

static inline void ftrace_free_init_mem(void) { }

static inline void ftrace_free_init_mem(void)

{

	ftrace_boot_snapshot();

}

static inline void ftrace_free_mem(struct module *mod, void *start, void *end) { }

#endif

kernel/trace/ftrace.c

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@@ -7096,6 +7096,8 @@ void __init ftrace_free_init_mem(void) 
	void *start = (void *)(&__init_begin);

	void *end = (void *)(&__init_end);



	ftrace_boot_snapshot();



	ftrace_free_mem(NULL, start, end);

}

kernel/trace/trace.c

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@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static char bootup_tracer_buf[MAX_TRACER_SIZE] __initdata; 
static char *default_bootup_tracer;



static bool allocate_snapshot;

static bool snapshot_at_boot;



static int __init set_cmdline_ftrace(char *str)

{
@@ -230,6 +231,15 @@ static int __init boot_alloc_snapshot(char *str) 
__setup("alloc_snapshot", boot_alloc_snapshot);





static int __init boot_snapshot(char *str)

{

	snapshot_at_boot = true;

	boot_alloc_snapshot(str);

	return 1;

}

__setup("ftrace_boot_snapshot", boot_snapshot);





static char trace_boot_options_buf[MAX_TRACER_SIZE] __initdata;



static int __init set_trace_boot_options(char *str)
@@ -10149,6 +10159,14 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void) 
	return ret;

}



void __init ftrace_boot_snapshot(void)

{

	if (snapshot_at_boot) {

		tracing_snapshot();

		internal_trace_puts("** Boot snapshot taken **\n");

	}

}



void __init early_trace_init(void)

{

	if (tracepoint_printk) {