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authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-06-14 16:21:43 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-06-19 23:32:07 -0400
commitde7edd31457b626e54a0b2a7e8ff4d65492f01ad (patch)
treefc98cad3155f6cded6192709c4cb496dd17282db /kernel/sysctl.c
parentc3e13c7c0605677a2c94957b39157f4501cea9a8 (diff)
tracing: Disable tracing on warning
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the ring buffer. This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse, by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9edcf456e0f..5b0f18c1280 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "traceoff_on_warning",
+ .data = &__disable_trace_on_warning,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(__disable_trace_on_warning),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
{