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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2009-07-01 10:47:05 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-01 15:44:24 +0200 |
| commit | 020e5f85cb087a40572c8b8b2dd06292a14fa212 (patch) | |
| tree | d1bd09885693dd9d5e9db995cb0f7f58aa0e1bb8 /Documentation | |
| parent | c5cb5a2d8d7dc872cf1504091ad0e59fe5ff7cb5 (diff) | |
tracing/events: Add trace_event boot option
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/events.txt | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d3f41db3ed49..2582e7aea29f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2478,6 +2478,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. + trace_event=[event-list] + [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order + to facilitate early boot debugging. + See also Documentation/trace/events.txt + trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt index f157d7594ea7..2bcc8d4dea29 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt @@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ When reading one of these enable files, there are four results: X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled ? - this file does not affect any event +2.3 Boot option +--------------- + +In order to facilitate early boot debugging, use boot option: + + trace_event=[event-list] + +The format of this boot option is the same as described in section 2.1. + 3. Defining an event-enabled tracepoint ======================================= |