Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 75236f1972d9..15356aca938c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3081,6 +3081,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
 			section.
 
+	traceoff_on_warning
+			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
+			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
+			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
+			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
+
+			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
+			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
+			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
+
+			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
+			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
+
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