trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer

Impact: enhancement to stack tracer

The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)

This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.

A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 44020f31bd81..6b0db53caa7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ static inline void ftrace_stop(void) { }
 static inline void ftrace_start(void) { }
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_TRACER
+extern int stack_tracer_enabled;
+int
+stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+                   struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+                   loff_t *ppos);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 /* asm/ftrace.h must be defined for archs supporting dynamic ftrace */
 #include <asm/ftrace.h>