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tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corrupted

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As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
modification.

Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
know that their data may be incomplete.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt
2011-09-29 21:26:16 -04:00
committed by Steven Rostedt
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@ -579,11 +579,13 @@ static inline int ftrace_trace_task(struct task_struct *task)
return test_tsk_trace_trace(task);
}
extern int ftrace_is_dead(void);
#else
static inline int ftrace_trace_task(struct task_struct *task)
{
return 1;
}
static inline int ftrace_is_dead(void) { return 0; }
#endif
/*