[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/xmon: Dump ftrace buffers for the current CPU

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 3 02:21:47 AEST 2017


On 2017/08/02 11:58AM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Current xmon 'dt' command dumps the tracing buffer for all the CPUs,
> which makes it very hard to read due to the fact that most of
> powerpc machines currently have many CPUs. Other than that, the CPU
> lines are interleaved in the ftrace log.
> 
> This new option just dumps the ftrace buffer for the current CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>

LGTM.
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


> ---
>  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> index 08e367e3e8c3..0cbd910193fa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ Commands:\n\
>    "\
>    dr	dump stream of raw bytes\n\
>    dt	dump the tracing buffers (uses printk)\n\
> +  dtc	dump the tracing buffers for current CPU (uses printk)\n\
>  "
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV
>  "  dx#   dump xive on CPU #\n\
> @@ -2342,6 +2343,19 @@ static void dump_one_paca(int cpu)
>  	sync();
>  }
> 
> +static void dump_tracing(void)
> +{
> +	int c;
> +
> +	c = inchar();
> +	if (c == 'c')
> +		ftrace_dump(DUMP_ORIG);
> +	else
> +		ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
> +
> +	tracing_on();
> +}
> +
>  static void dump_all_pacas(void)
>  {
>  	int cpu;
> @@ -2507,6 +2521,11 @@ dump(void)
>  	}
>  #endif
> 
> +	if (c == 't') {
> +		dump_tracing();
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (c == '\n')
>  		termch = c;
> 
> @@ -2525,9 +2544,6 @@ dump(void)
>  		dump_log_buf();
>  	} else if (c == 'o') {
>  		dump_opal_msglog();
> -	} else if (c == 't') {
> -		ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
> -		tracing_on();
>  	} else if (c == 'r') {
>  		scanhex(&ndump);
>  		if (ndump == 0)
> -- 
> 2.13.2
> 



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