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Commit b3806b43 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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ftrace: user run time file reading



This patch creates a file called trace_pipe in the tracing
debug directory. This file is a consumer of the trace buffers.
This means that reads of this file consumes the entries from
the trace buffers so that they will not be read a second time,
as contrast to the static buffers latency_trace and trace.

Reading from the trace_pipe will remove the entries from trace
and latency_trace too.

The advantage that trace_pipe has is that it can record live
traces. It will block when there is nothing in the buffer,
and read the entries as they are entered.  An EOF happens when
tracing is disabled (tracing_enabled = 0).

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 214023c3
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