Re: [PATCH] tracing: Kernel access to ftrace instances

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Mar 19 2019 - 16:16:58 EST


On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:35:25 -0700
Divya Indi <divya.indi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ftrace provides the feature âinstancesâ that provides the capability to
> create multiple Ftrace ring buffers. However, currently these buffers
> are created/accessed via userspace only. The kernel APIs providing these
> features are not exported, hence cannot be used by other kernel
> components.
>
> This patch aims to extend this infrastructure to provide the
> flexibility to create/log/remove/ enable-disable existing trace events
> to these buffers from within the kernel.
>
>

Thanks for sending this. I'm currently working on some other changes,
but will look in this when I'm finished with the other work. Should be
within this week.

-- Steve