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| author | Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> | 2019-03-31 18:48:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2019-04-08 09:22:50 -0400 |
| commit | 26a944917989d57c0dddec284b3088fa31127717 (patch) | |
| tree | f00b6bbbc91e2b7634d8bc6c44574faf2cbd9a93 /Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | |
| parent | 4eab1cc461a6e820eddf88ac63eed98793c96a7c (diff) | |
tracing: Add tracing/error_log Documentation
Move most of the hist trigger extended error documentation to
ftrace.rst and expand on it to fully document tracing/error_log.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5d53c8f643ef6844d6ad8d0200c116936730b01.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst')
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index 7c5e6d6ab5d1..809b39d066ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -765,6 +765,37 @@ Here is the list of current tracers that may be configured. tracers from tracing simply echo "nop" into current_tracer. +Error conditions +---------------- + + For most ftrace commands, failure modes are obvious and communicated + using standard return codes. + + For other more involved commands, extended error information may be + available via the tracing/error_log file. For the commands that + support it, reading the tracing/error_log file after an error will + display more detailed information about what went wrong, if + information is available. The tracing/error_log file is a circular + error log displaying a small number (currently, 8) of ftrace errors + for the last (8) failed commands. + + The extended error information and usage takes the form shown in + this example:: + + # echo xxx > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger + echo: write error: Invalid argument + + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/error_log + [ 5348.887237] location: error: Couldn't yyy: zzz + Command: xxx + ^ + [ 7517.023364] location: error: Bad rrr: sss + Command: ppp qqq + ^ + + To clear the error log, echo the empty string into it:: + + # echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/error_log Examples of using the tracer ---------------------------- |