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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-23 11:25:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-23 11:25:31 +0200 |
| commit | 77a7f2e94e6998e307917fe63fa4b6d5162d44e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1db43ac215fa9eac6ebb09cb0ddea5e3d285e132 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc5' into tracing/core (diff) | |
| parent | tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e2202e93b148..21a99474df93 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -784,8 +784,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file as early as possible in order to facilitate early boot debugging. - ftrace_dump_on_oops + ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. + If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump + buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will + dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the + oops. ftrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index 03485bfbd797..52011815c905 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -1337,12 +1337,14 @@ ftrace_dump_on_oops must be set. To set ftrace_dump_on_oops, one can either use the sysctl function or set it via the proc system interface. - sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 + sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=n or - echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops + echo n > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops +If n = 1, ftrace will dump buffers of all CPUs, if n = 2 ftrace will +only dump the buffer of the CPU that triggered the oops. Here's an example of such a dump after a null pointer dereference in a kernel module: |