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| author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2008-11-05 16:05:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-11-06 07:50:51 +0100 |
| commit | 60a7ecf42661f2b22168751298592da6ee210c9e (patch) | |
| tree | 050fd052c546c92f8aac10ee71d5bb6d98a21fc8 /include | |
| parent | 79c81d220c8e25163f56edcdfaf23f83a4c88e6b (diff) | |
ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer
This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().
It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.
The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.
x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ftrace.h | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index 4642959e5bda..794ab907dbfe 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -23,6 +23,34 @@ struct ftrace_ops { struct ftrace_ops *next; }; +extern int function_trace_stop; + +/** + * ftrace_stop - stop function tracer. + * + * A quick way to stop the function tracer. Note this an on off switch, + * it is not something that is recursive like preempt_disable. + * This does not disable the calling of mcount, it only stops the + * calling of functions from mcount. + */ +static inline void ftrace_stop(void) +{ + function_trace_stop = 1; +} + +/** + * ftrace_start - start the function tracer. + * + * This function is the inverse of ftrace_stop. This does not enable + * the function tracing if the function tracer is disabled. This only + * sets the function tracer flag to continue calling the functions + * from mcount. + */ +static inline void ftrace_start(void) +{ + function_trace_stop = 0; +} + /* * The ftrace_ops must be a static and should also * be read_mostly. These functions do modify read_mostly variables @@ -41,6 +69,8 @@ extern void ftrace_stub(unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1); # define unregister_ftrace_function(ops) do { } while (0) # define clear_ftrace_function(ops) do { } while (0) static inline void ftrace_kill(void) { } +static inline void ftrace_stop(void) { } +static inline void ftrace_start(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */ #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE |