- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and reading
as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace file
would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to just
disable writes to the ring buffer. This came to a surprise to the
BPF folks who complained about lost events due to reading.
This is no longer an issue. If someone wants to keep the old disabling
there's a new option "pause-on-trace" that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be traced
by the function tracer. Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the
function tracer only trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the
set_ftrace_notrace_pid does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced.
Note, sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be trace if
one of the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that
is allowed to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file
is searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
Other minor updates and fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New tracing features:
- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and
reading as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace
file would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to
just disable writes to the ring buffer.
This came to a surprise to the BPF folks who complained about lost
events due to reading. This is no longer an issue. If someone wants
to keep the old disabling there's a new option "pause-on-trace"
that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be
traced by the function tracer.
Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the function tracer only
trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the set_ftrace_notrace_pid
does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced. Note,
sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be traced if one of
the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that is allowed
to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file is
searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
And other minor updates and fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_event_notrace_pid file
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_ftrace_notrace_pid file
tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact
ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events
tracing: Have the document reflect that the trace file keeps tracing enabled
ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events
tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file
ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator
ring-buffer: Make resize disable per cpu buffer instead of total buffer
ring-buffer: Optimize rb_iter_head_event()
ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice
ring-buffer: Have rb_iter_head_event() handle concurrent writer
ring-buffer: Add page_stamp to iterator for synchronization
ring-buffer: Rename ring_buffer_read() to read_buffer_iter_advance()
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped
tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry
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