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ftrace: add ftrace_off_permanent
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Impact: add new API to disable all of ftrace on anomalies

It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by
lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without
grabing any locks.

This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function
tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should
only be used when something serious has been detected.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored and Ingo Molnar committed Nov 23, 2008
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/ftrace.h
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Expand Up @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ extern int ftrace_dump_on_oops;

extern void tracing_start(void);
extern void tracing_stop(void);
extern void ftrace_off_permanent(void);

extern void
ftrace_special(unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3);
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static inline void tracing_start(void) { }
static inline void tracing_stop(void) { }
static inline void ftrace_off_permanent(void) { }
static inline int
ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
{
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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions kernel/trace/trace.c
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Expand Up @@ -660,6 +660,21 @@ static void trace_init_cmdlines(void)
static int trace_stop_count;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tracing_start_lock);

/**
* ftrace_off_permanent - disable all ftrace code permanently
*
* This should only be called when a serious anomally has
* been detected. This will turn off the function tracing,
* ring buffers, and other tracing utilites. It takes no
* locks and can be called from any context.
*/
void ftrace_off_permanent(void)
{
tracing_disabled = 1;
ftrace_stop();
tracing_off_permanent();
}

/**
* tracing_start - quick start of the tracer
*
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