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Subject[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
From: Mandeep Singh Baines <mandeep.baines@gmail.com>

In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space.
We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's
about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but
can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue.

I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice
if I could just temporarily disable markers all together.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org

CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +++++-
kernel/trace/trace.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 08acf42..1ec5c1d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(trace_wait);
unsigned long trace_flags = TRACE_ITER_PRINT_PARENT | TRACE_ITER_PRINTK |
TRACE_ITER_ANNOTATE | TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO | TRACE_ITER_SLEEP_TIME |
TRACE_ITER_GRAPH_TIME | TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD | TRACE_ITER_OVERWRITE |
- TRACE_ITER_IRQ_INFO;
+ TRACE_ITER_IRQ_INFO | TRACE_ITER_MARKERS;

static int trace_stop_count;
static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(tracing_start_lock);
@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ static const char *trace_options[] = {
"overwrite",
"disable_on_free",
"irq-info",
+ "markers",
NULL
};

@@ -3886,6 +3887,9 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
if (tracing_disabled)
return -EINVAL;

+ if (!(trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_MARKERS))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (cnt > TRACE_BUF_SIZE)
cnt = TRACE_BUF_SIZE;

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 593debe..63a2da0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ enum trace_iterator_flags {
TRACE_ITER_OVERWRITE = 0x200000,
TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE = 0x400000,
TRACE_ITER_IRQ_INFO = 0x800000,
+ TRACE_ITER_MARKERS = 0x1000000,
};

/*
--
1.7.10.4

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