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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index 03485bfbd797..52011815c905 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -1337,12 +1337,14 @@ ftrace_dump_on_oops must be set. To set ftrace_dump_on_oops, one can either use the sysctl function or set it via the proc system interface. - sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 + sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=n or - echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops + echo n > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops +If n = 1, ftrace will dump buffers of all CPUs, if n = 2 ftrace will +only dump the buffer of the CPU that triggered the oops. Here's an example of such a dump after a null pointer dereference in a kernel module: |