From 380af29b8d7670c445965bd573ab219aff0c4c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:37:09 -0500 Subject: tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot up Add ftrace_boot_snapshot kernel parameter that will take a snapshot at the end of boot up just before switching over to user space (it happens during the kernel freeing of init memory). This is useful when there's interesting data that can be collected from kernel start up, but gets overridden by user space start up code. With this option, the ring buffer content from the boot up traces gets saved in the snapshot at the end of boot up. This trace can be read from: /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/ftrace.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index f9feb197b2da..4e29bd1cf151 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -7096,6 +7096,8 @@ void __init ftrace_free_init_mem(void) void *start = (void *)(&__init_begin); void *end = (void *)(&__init_end); + ftrace_boot_snapshot(); + ftrace_free_mem(NULL, start, end); } -- cgit v1.2.3