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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 29 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 08bf5da8667..d4614a8a034 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -369,8 +369,35 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte) /* * General tracing related utility functions - trace_printk(), - * tracing_start()/tracing_stop: + * tracing_on/tracing_off and tracing_start()/tracing_stop + * + * Use tracing_on/tracing_off when you want to quickly turn on or off + * tracing. It simply enables or disables the recording of the trace events. + * This also corresponds to the user space debugfs/tracing/tracing_on + * file, which gives a means for the kernel and userspace to interact. + * Place a tracing_off() in the kernel where you want tracing to end. + * From user space, examine the trace, and then echo 1 > tracing_on + * to continue tracing. + * + * tracing_stop/tracing_start has slightly more overhead. It is used + * by things like suspend to ram where disabling the recording of the + * trace is not enough, but tracing must actually stop because things + * like calling smp_processor_id() may crash the system. + * + * Most likely, you want to use tracing_on/tracing_off. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_RING_BUFFER +void tracing_on(void); +void tracing_off(void); +/* trace_off_permanent stops recording with no way to bring it back */ +void tracing_off_permanent(void); +int tracing_is_on(void); +#else +static inline void tracing_on(void) { } +static inline void tracing_off(void) { } +static inline void tracing_off_permanent(void) { } +static inline int tracing_is_on(void) { return 0; } +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING extern void tracing_start(void); extern void tracing_stop(void); |