linux-stable/kernel/trace
Tom Zanussi 8a062902be tracing: Add tracing error log
Introduce a new ftrace file, tracing/error_log, for ftrace commands to
log errors.  This is useful for allowing more complex commands such as
hist trigger and kprobe_event commands to point out specifically where
something may have gone wrong without forcing them to resort to more
ad hoc methods such as tacking error messages onto existing output
files.

To log a tracing error, call the event_log_err() function, passing it
a location string describing where it came from e.g. kprobe_events or
system:event, the command that caused the error, an array of static
error strings describing errors and an index within that array which
describes the specific error, along with the position to place the
error caret.

Reading the log displays the last (currently) 8 errors logged in the
following format:

  [timestamp] <loc>: error: <static error text>
    Command: <command that caused the error>
                      ^

Memory for the error log isn't allocated unless there has been a trace
event error, and the error log can be cleared and have its memory
freed by writing the empty string in truncation mode to it:

  # echo > tracing/error_log.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c2c82571fd38c5f3a88ca823627edff250e9416.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Improvements-suggested-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-04-02 18:24:06 -04:00
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blktrace.c blkcg: annotate implicit fall through 2019-03-13 14:31:12 -06:00
bpf_trace.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2019-02-28 08:27:17 +01:00
fgraph.c tracing: Fix ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to use task and not current 2018-12-22 08:21:03 -05:00
ftrace.c ftrace: Fix warning using plain integer as NULL & spelling corrections 2019-03-26 08:35:36 -04:00
ftrace_internal.h ftrace: Create new ftrace_internal.h header 2018-12-08 20:54:06 -05:00
Kconfig kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig 2019-02-27 21:43:20 +09:00
Makefile tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework 2018-12-08 20:54:09 -05:00
power-traces.c
preemptirq_delay_test.c tracing: Use trace_clock_local() for looping in preemptirq_delay_test.c 2018-10-17 15:35:33 -04:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Fix ring buffer size in rb_write_something() 2019-04-02 18:24:06 -04:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
rpm-traces.c
trace.c tracing: Add tracing error log 2019-04-02 18:24:06 -04:00
trace.h tracing: Add tracing error log 2019-04-02 18:24:06 -04:00
trace_benchmark.c rcu: Rename cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() 2018-05-15 10:27:29 -07:00
trace_benchmark.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_branch.c
trace_clock.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_dynevent.c tracing: initialize variable in create_dyn_event() 2019-03-26 08:35:36 -04:00
trace_dynevent.h tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework 2018-12-08 20:54:09 -05:00
trace_entries.h tracing: Change the function format to display function names by perf 2019-02-11 14:53:43 -05:00
trace_event_perf.c tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version 2019-02-21 10:35:10 -05:00
trace_events.c tracing: Kernel access to Ftrace instances 2019-04-02 18:24:06 -04:00
trace_events_filter.c The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code. 2019-03-11 17:01:32 -07:00
trace_events_filter_test.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events_hist.c tracing: Remove unnecessary var_ref destroy in track_data_destroy() 2019-03-26 08:34:00 -04:00
trace_events_trigger.c tracing: Fix memory leak in set_trigger_filter() 2018-12-11 13:50:19 -05:00
trace_export.c tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print 2018-05-29 08:28:53 -04:00
trace_functions.c
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: Put a margin between flags and duration for wakeup tracers 2019-02-06 11:56:19 -05:00
trace_hwlat.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code. 2019-03-11 17:01:32 -07:00
trace_kdb.c tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep 2019-03-13 09:46:10 -04:00
trace_kprobe.c This contains a series of last minute clean ups, small fixes and 2019-03-15 14:47:02 -07:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.c selftest/ftrace: Move kprobe selftest function to separate compile unit 2018-07-30 18:41:04 -04:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_mmiotrace.c
trace_nop.c
trace_output.c tracing: Simplify printf'ing in seq_print_sym 2018-12-22 08:21:06 -05:00
trace_output.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_preemptirq.c kprobes: Prohibit probing on hardirq tracers 2019-02-13 08:16:40 +01:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Trivia spelling fix containerof() -> container_of() 2018-09-26 12:21:00 +03:00
trace_probe.c tracing/probe: Check event/group naming rule at parsing 2019-03-14 19:54:11 -04:00
trace_probe.h tracing/probe: Check the size of argument name and body 2019-03-14 19:53:57 -04:00
trace_probe_tmpl.h tracing: probeevent: Correctly update remaining space in dynamic area 2019-02-11 15:58:30 -05:00
trace_sched_switch.c
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: Add conditional snapshot 2019-02-20 13:51:06 -05:00
trace_selftest.c fgraph: Add new fgraph_ops structure to enable function graph hooks 2018-12-08 20:54:07 -05:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c
trace_seq.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_stack.c tracing: Use the return of str_has_prefix() to remove open coded numbers 2018-12-22 22:52:30 -05:00
trace_stat.c
trace_stat.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_syscalls.c
trace_uprobe.c This contains a series of last minute clean ups, small fixes and 2019-03-15 14:47:02 -07:00
tracing_map.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
tracing_map.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00