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bpf: clarify when bpf_trace_printk discards lines
authorPeter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:08:59 +0000 (00:08 +0100)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:17:25 +0000 (10:17 -0700)
commit55c33dfbeb831eb3ab7cc1a3e295b0d4d57f23a3
tree593b2893cd2832bbc1f7a582d9842796829adfd5
parent8050a395112db5bedb7caa6cb673e711a3c04cd9
bpf: clarify when bpf_trace_printk discards lines

I opened /sys/kernel/tracing/trace once and kept reading from it.
bpf_trace_printk somehow did not seem to work, no entries were appended
to that trace file. It turns out that tracing is disabled when that file
is open. Save the next person some time and document this.

The trace file is described in Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst, however
the implication "tracing is disabled" did not immediate translate to
"bpf_trace_printk silently discards entries".

Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h