From 06e0a548bad0f43a21e036db018e4dadb501ce8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:32:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file When opening the "trace" file, it is no longer necessary to disable tracing. Note, a new option is created called "pause-on-trace", when set, will cause the trace file to emulate its original behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.903351225@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 6 ++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 ++++++--- kernel/trace/trace.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index 99a0890e20ec..c33950a35d65 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -1125,6 +1125,12 @@ Here are the available options: the trace displays additional information about the latency, as described in "Latency trace format". + pause-on-trace + When set, opening the trace file for read, will pause + writing to the ring buffer (as if tracing_on was set to zero). + This simulates the original behavior of the trace file. + When the file is closed, tracing will be enabled again. + record-cmd When any event or tracer is enabled, a hook is enabled in the sched_switch trace point to fill comm cache diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 47889123be7f..650fa81fffe8 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4273,8 +4273,11 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot) if (trace_clocks[tr->clock_id].in_ns) iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_TIME_IN_NS; - /* stop the trace while dumping if we are not opening "snapshot" */ - if (!iter->snapshot) + /* + * If pause-on-trace is enabled, then stop the trace while + * dumping, unless this is the "snapshot" file + */ + if (!iter->snapshot && (tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_PAUSE_ON_TRACE)) tracing_stop_tr(tr); if (iter->cpu_file == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) { @@ -4371,7 +4374,7 @@ static int tracing_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (iter->trace && iter->trace->close) iter->trace->close(iter); - if (!iter->snapshot) + if (!iter->snapshot && tr->stop_count) /* reenable tracing if it was previously enabled */ tracing_start_tr(tr); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index c61e1b1c85a6..f37e05135986 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -1302,6 +1302,7 @@ extern int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf, C(IRQ_INFO, "irq-info"), \ C(MARKERS, "markers"), \ C(EVENT_FORK, "event-fork"), \ + C(PAUSE_ON_TRACE, "pause-on-trace"), \ FUNCTION_FLAGS \ FGRAPH_FLAGS \ STACK_FLAGS \