From 55034cd6e648155393b0d665eef76b38d49ad6bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:48:09 -0500 Subject: tracing: Add alloc_snapshot kernel command line parameter If debugging the kernel, and the developer wants to use tracing_snapshot() in places where tracing_snapshot_alloc() may be difficult (or more likely, the developer is lazy and doesn't want to bother with tracing_snapshot_alloc() at all), then adding alloc_snapshot to the kernel command line parameter will tell ftrace to allocate the snapshot buffer (if configured) when it allocates the main tracing buffer. I also noticed that ring_buffer_expanded and tracing_selftest_disabled had inconsistent use of boolean "true" and "false" with "0" and "1". I cleaned that up too. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 6c723811c0a0..0edc409f9ede 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes + alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] + Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the + main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging + and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and + do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs + to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. + amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. Possible values are: -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522