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authorTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>2016-03-03 21:54:47 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-04-19 19:17:35 +0300
commite86ae9baacfa9efe957df4fc037f079772636d76 (patch)
treee07aea609d84ed0aa32db8307b2d5c5cdc453f11 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parent83e99914c9e2677d8a80f2a23eca0d215d5bfb0f (diff)
downloadlinux-e86ae9baacfa9efe957df4fc037f079772636d76.tar.xz
tracing: Add hist trigger support for clearing a trace
Allow users to append 'clear' to an existing trigger in order to have the hash table cleared. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger to this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont/clear \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae15dd0d9b2f7af07a37c1ff682063e2dbcdf160.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 7d5c63dd410a..4097cd3763f7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3837,7 +3837,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\t [:values=<field1[,field2,...]>]\n"
"\t [:sort=<field1[,field2,...]>]\n"
"\t [:size=#entries]\n"
- "\t [:pause][:continue]\n"
+ "\t [:pause][:continue][:clear]\n"
"\t [if <filter>]\n\n"
"\t When a matching event is hit, an entry is added to a hash\n"
"\t table using the key(s) and value(s) named, and the value of a\n"
@@ -3857,6 +3857,9 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\t trigger or to start a hist trigger but not log any events\n"
"\t until told to do so. 'continue' can be used to start or\n"
"\t restart a paused hist trigger.\n\n"
+ "\t The 'clear' parameter will clear the contents of a running\n"
+ "\t hist trigger and leave its current paused/active state\n"
+ "\t unchanged.\n\n"
#endif
;