tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace

Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and
latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables
user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs.

Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory.

  snapshot:
    This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the
    snapshot.

     # echo 1 > snapshot

    This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is
    not allocated), and take a snapshot.

     # cat snapshot

    This will show contents of the snapshot.

     # echo 0 > snapshot

    This will free the snapshot if it is allocated.

    Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if
    the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
[
   Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change
   that fixes the update_max_tr.
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index cdc9d284d24..36567564e22 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -253,6 +253,16 @@ config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
 	help
 	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
 
+config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
+	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
+	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+	help
+	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
+	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
+
+	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
+	      cat snapshot
+
 config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 	bool
 	select GENERIC_TRACER