ftrace: add ftrace_off_permanent
Impact: add new API to disable all of ftrace on anomalies
It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by
lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without
grabing any locks.
This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function
tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should
only be used when something serious has been detected.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 4ee6f037..0dbfb23 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -661,6 +661,21 @@
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tracing_start_lock);
/**
+ * ftrace_off_permanent - disable all ftrace code permanently
+ *
+ * This should only be called when a serious anomally has
+ * been detected. This will turn off the function tracing,
+ * ring buffers, and other tracing utilites. It takes no
+ * locks and can be called from any context.
+ */
+void ftrace_off_permanent(void)
+{
+ tracing_disabled = 1;
+ ftrace_stop();
+ tracing_off_permanent();
+}
+
+/**
* tracing_start - quick start of the tracer
*
* If tracing is enabled but was stopped by tracing_stop,