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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-11-01 19:57:37 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-03 09:12:39 +0100
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parentMerge commit 'v2.6.28-rc3' into tracing/ftrace (diff)
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ftrace: ftrace_dump_on_oops=[tracer]
Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer on the kernel boot line. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1bbcaa8982b6..4862284d3119 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -765,6 +765,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
+ ftrace=[tracer]
+ [ftrace] will set and start the specified tracer
+ as early as possible in order to facilitate early
+ boot debugging.
+
+ ftrace_dump_on_oops
+ [ftrace] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)