From 7374e82771c6d5a9af2080be46f64a5826c7efb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:40:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Register the ftrace internal events during early boot All trace events including ftrace internel events (like trace_printk and function tracing), register functions that describe how to print their output. The events may be recorded as soon as the ring buffer is allocated, but they are just raw binary in the buffer. The mapping of event ids to how to print them are held within a structure that is registered on system boot. If a crash happens in boot up before these functions are registered then their output (via ftrace_dump_on_oops) will be useless: Dumping ftrace buffer: --------------------------------- <...>-1 0.... 319705us : Unknown type 6 --------------------------------- This can be quite frustrating for a kernel developer trying to see what is going wrong. There's no reason to register them so late in the boot up process. They can be registered by early_initcall(). Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c index df611a0e76c5..123b189c732c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c @@ -1325,4 +1325,4 @@ __init static int init_events(void) return 0; } -device_initcall(init_events); +early_initcall(init_events); -- 2.11.0