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| author | Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2016-03-22 17:30:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2016-03-22 18:02:40 -0400 |
| commit | 3debb0a9ddb16526de8b456491b7db60114f7b5e (patch) | |
| tree | be00172b3228d0e2b16cb82a0d281b3925efbb42 /kernel | |
| parent | 741f3a69f101250dc6b171b88e14ea51b099b1a9 (diff) | |
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tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()
The trace_printk() code will allocate extra buffers if the compile detects
that a trace_printk() is used. To do this, the format of the trace_printk()
is saved to the __trace_printk_fmt section, and if that section is bigger
than zero, the buffers are allocated (along with a message that this has
happened).
If trace_printk() uses a format that is not a constant, and thus something
not guaranteed to be around when the print happens, the compiler optimizes
the fmt out, as it is not used, and the __trace_printk_fmt section is not
filled. This means the kernel will not allocate the special buffers needed
for the trace_printk() and the trace_printk() will not write anything to the
tracing buffer.
Adding a "__used" to the variable in the __trace_printk_fmt section will
keep it around, even though it is set to NULL. This will keep the string
from being printed in the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats section as it is
not needed.
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Fixes: 07d777fe8c398 "tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_printk.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c index 060df67dbdd1..f96f0383f6c6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ static int t_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) const char *str = *fmt; int i; + if (!*fmt) + return 0; + seq_printf(m, "0x%lx : \"", *(unsigned long *)fmt); /* |