tracing: Disable tracing on warning

Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.

This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9edcf456e0fc..5b0f18c12800 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                 .mode           = 0644,
                 .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
         },
+        {
+                .procname       = "traceoff_on_warning",
+                .data           = &__disable_trace_on_warning,
+                .maxlen         = sizeof(__disable_trace_on_warning),
+                .mode           = 0644,
+                .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+        },
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
         {