From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21185C43461 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C645D20795 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:58:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599728327; bh=AFTvUebiyRMETzn8S38/k45wbiUemiQHqeohzIX/Qck=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=W5M2HIyfzOEUZ5Ji8NojnLCU6Pxk9AnAa0im8r+/aUEgYhDhOsWf0bLLyL6YTAINX Lz8crp79a2PxVjAvaGkYkpIMy00XxKusyCzsfoE+ZpUaGX3IRnKSukFrNSkI4pFjur 6ZuAz+RFxNJtQE+CdcjjI+kCISeLtR/agSsUFXlk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730552AbgIJI6q (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:58:46 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37314 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730270AbgIJI4L (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:56:11 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (NE2965lan1.rev.em-net.ne.jp [210.141.244.193]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF4E121556; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:56:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599728171; bh=AFTvUebiyRMETzn8S38/k45wbiUemiQHqeohzIX/Qck=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Vv8tcQe7zv9uk+l9UZSlOvvWpTivIwZNWMyeR0Ille5GxORiu664nMpGfDbIcVHQv OgST9iaJ8E/CChyDqbRK0FSwFbF4+aDxaFi4W+txB/8/VxXuTC9goVeeYtxZMOW5+X dpUfQtZrGEqojNdN1MkxQ5QXmJLB8ajjY9VZ3VKE= From: Masami Hiramatsu To: Steven Rostedt , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Ingo Molnar , linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 7/8] Documentation: tracing: boot: Add an example of tracing function-calls Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:56:06 +0900 Message-Id: <159972816669.428528.12390560334549382316.stgit@devnote2> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <159972809455.428528.4737752126800169128.stgit@devnote2> References: <159972809455.428528.4737752126800169128.stgit@devnote2> User-Agent: StGit/0.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Add an example of tracing function calls on a specific function. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu --- Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst b/Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst index 1341b449acaa..c216f5695ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst @@ -168,6 +168,26 @@ is for tracing functions starting with "user\_", and others tracing The instance node also accepts event nodes so that each instance can customize its event tracing. +With the trigger action and kprobes, you can trace function-graph while +a function is called. For example, this will trace all function calls in +the pci_proc_init():: + + ftrace { + tracing_on = 0 + tracer = function_graph + event.kprobes { + start_event { + probes = "pci_proc_init" + actions = "traceon" + } + end_event { + probes = "pci_proc_init%return" + actions = "traceoff" + } + } + } + + This boot-time tracing also supports ftrace kernel parameters via boot config. For example, following kernel parameters::