tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.

It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.

Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.

This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.

Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.

v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index e4cbca58536c..ab67b33300fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -789,8 +789,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         as early as possible in order to facilitate early
                         boot debugging.
 
-        ftrace_dump_on_oops
+        ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
                         [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
+                        If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
+                        buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
+                        dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
+                        oops.
 
         ftrace_filter=[function-list]
                         [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index 03485bfbd797..52011815c905 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -1337,12 +1337,14 @@ ftrace_dump_on_oops must be set. To set ftrace_dump_on_oops, one
 can either use the sysctl function or set it via the proc system
 interface.
 
-  sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1
+  sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=n
 
 or
 
-  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops
+  echo n > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops
 
+If n = 1, ftrace will dump buffers of all CPUs, if n = 2 ftrace will
+only dump the buffer of the CPU that triggered the oops.
 
 Here's an example of such a dump after a null pointer
 dereference in a kernel module: