Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index bb24c2a0e87..37732a220d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -183,13 +183,22 @@ The relational-operators depend on the type of the field being tested:
 
 The operators available for numeric fields are:
 
-==, !=, <, <=, >, >=
+==, !=, <, <=, >, >=, &
 
 And for string fields they are:
 
-==, !=
+==, !=, ~
 
-Currently, only exact string matches are supported.
+The glob (~) only accepts a wild card character (*) at the start and or
+end of the string. For example:
+
+  prev_comm ~ "*sh"
+  prev_comm ~ "sh*"
+  prev_comm ~ "*sh*"
+
+But does not allow for it to be within the string:
+
+  prev_comm ~ "ba*sh"   <-- is invalid
 
 5.2 Setting filters
 -------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index bfe8c29b1f1..b937c6e2163 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -2430,6 +2430,19 @@ The following commands are supported:
    echo '!schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch' > \
    	 set_ftrace_filter
 
+- dump
+  When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace
+  ring buffer to the console. This is useful if you need to debug
+  something, and want to dump the trace when a certain function
+  is hit. Perhaps its a function that is called before a tripple
+  fault happens and does not allow you to get a regular dump.
+
+- cpudump
+  When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace
+  ring buffer for the current CPU to the console. Unlike the "dump"
+  command, it only prints out the contents of the ring buffer for the
+  CPU that executed the function that triggered the dump.
+
 trace_pipe
 ----------