From de7edd31457b626e54a0b2a7e8ff4d65492f01ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:21:43 -0400 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/sysctl.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 9edcf456e0fc..5b0f18c12800 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 { -- cgit v1.2.3