tracing: Add tracing error log
Introduce a new ftrace file, tracing/error_log, for ftrace commands to log errors. This is useful for allowing more complex commands such as hist trigger and kprobe_event commands to point out specifically where something may have gone wrong without forcing them to resort to more ad hoc methods such as tacking error messages onto existing output files. To log a tracing error, call the event_log_err() function, passing it a location string describing where it came from e.g. kprobe_events or system:event, the command that caused the error, an array of static error strings describing errors and an index within that array which describes the specific error, along with the position to place the error caret. Reading the log displays the last (currently) 8 errors logged in the following format: [timestamp] <loc>: error: <static error text> Command: <command that caused the error> ^ Memory for the error log isn't allocated unless there has been a trace event error, and the error log can be cleared and have its memory freed by writing the empty string in truncation mode to it: # echo > tracing/error_log. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c2c82571fd38c5f3a88ca823627edff250e9416.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Improvements-suggested-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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