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The ftrace_boot_snapshot and alloc_snapshot cmdline options allocate the snapshot buffer at boot up for use later. The ftrace_boot_snapshot in particular requires the snapshot to be allocated because it will take a snapshot at the end of boot up allowing to see the traces that happened during boot so that it's not lost when user space takes over. When a tracer is registered (started) there's a path that checks if it requires the snapshot buffer or not, and if it does not and it was allocated it will do a synchronization and free the snapshot buffer. This is only required if the previous tracer was using it for "max latency" snapshots, as it needs to make sure all max snapshots are complete before freeing. But this is only needed if the previous tracer was using the snapshot buffer for latency (like irqoff tracer and friends). But it does not make sense to free it, if the previous tracer was not using it, and the snapshot was allocated by the cmdline parameters. This basically takes away the point of allocating it in the first place! Note, the allocated snapshot worked fine for just trace events, but fails when a tracer is enabled on the cmdline. Further investigation, this goes back even further and it does not require a tracer on the cmdline to fail. Simply enable snapshots and then enable a tracer, and it will remove the snapshot. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221005113757.041df7fe@gandalf.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 45ad21ca5530 ("tracing: Have trace_array keep track if snapshot buffer is allocated") Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.