Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
  changes with this pull request.

   1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility

  This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
  years.  I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
  I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
  create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
  events go to different buffers.  This way, a low frequency event will
  not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.

  Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
  (ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
  be written to the main buffer.

   2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.

  The function tracer had two triggers.  One to enable tracing when a
  function is hit, and one to disable tracing.  Now you can record a
  stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
  buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
  an event to be traced when a function is hit.

   3) A perf clock has been added.

  A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing.  This will cause
  ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
  make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."

* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
  tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
  tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
  tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
  ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
  tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
  tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
  tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
  tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
  kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
  tracing: Update debugfs README file
  tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
  tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
  tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
  tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
  tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
  tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
  tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
  ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
  tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
  tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
  ...

Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
	kernel/trace/trace.c

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8ccbf27aead4..5abc09a93bc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
                         off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
 
+        alloc_snapshot  [FTRACE]
+                        Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
+                        main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
+                        and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
+                        do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
+                        to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
+
         amd_iommu=      [HW,X86-64]
                         Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
                         Possible values are: