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SubjectRe: ftrace not showing stack trace data during boot processes
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 06:20:35PM -0800, Subodh Nijsure wrote:
> I am trying to debug some boot sequences during kernel bootup and
> trying to use ftrace to discover function flow.
>
> I am booting kernel with following options.
>
> stacktrace trace_buf_size=30M ftrace=function

Note, the stacktrace is the stack tracer, not the tracing option of "stacktrace"
or the function trace option "func_stack_trace".

The output of the stack tracer just shows the max stack trace and is listed in

debugfs/tracing/stack_trace

> ftrace_filter=do_sync_write,usbfs*,ext2_*,vfs_write,blkdev_*,vfs_write,sys_write
> ftrace_notrace=ext2_permission
>
> I have compiled kernel with following options
>
> CONFIG_NOP_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
> CONFIG_RING_BUFFER=y
> CONFIG_TRACING=y
> CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_SYSPROF_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
> CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
>
> However when I look at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
>
> I see output similar to this and I don't see the "stack trace"
> init-1 [000] 65.317499: sys_write <-sysenter_do_call
> init-1 [000] 65.317504: vfs_write <-sys_write
> init-1 [000] 65.317617: sys_write <-sysenter_do_call
> init-1 [000] 65.317619: vfs_write <-sys_write
>
> Is there option I am missing while compiling kernel or some part of
> kernel parameters is missing? Is there way to explicitly specify
> iter_ctrl on kernel boot cmdline?

Currently there is no way to enable an option from the kernel command line. I could
write something up though.

-- Steve



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