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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Thomas Preisner <linux@tpreisner.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add simple oneshot function tracer
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:52:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611175237.0ea4fa4f@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190611203312.13653-1-linux@tpreisner.de>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:33:11 +0200
Thomas Preisner <linux@tpreisner.de> wrote:

> However, due to there not being any mechanism (that I am aware of) to
> activate such stat tracers via kernel commandline this oneshot profiler
> is now always active when selected. Therefore, it is no longer possible
> to disable this tracer during runtime and thus, allocated memory is no
> longer freed.

What do you mean? The function profile has its own file to enable it:

 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/function_profile_enabled

And disable it:

 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/function_profile_enabled

-- Steve


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29  9:31 Thomas Preisner
2019-05-29 14:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-06-11 20:33   ` [PATCH v2] ftrace: add simple oneshot function profiler Thomas Preisner
     [not found]   ` <20190611203312.13653-1-linux@tpreisner.de>
2019-06-11 21:52     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-06-12 21:29   ` Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add simple oneshot function tracer Thomas Preisner
2019-06-18  0:16     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-06-23 12:05       ` Thomas Preisner
2019-06-26 16:04         ` Steven Rostedt
2019-07-09 13:53           ` Thomas Preisner

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