tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl

Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature

Usage example:

 mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
 cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
 echo sched_switch >current_tracer
 echo 1 >tracing_enabled
 .... run application ...
 echo 0 >tracing_enabled

Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.

To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/ftrace.txt
index 753f4de..79a80f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ftrace.txt
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ output. To see what is available, simply cat the file:
 
   cat /debug/tracing/trace_options
   print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin \
- noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree
+ noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree nouserstacktrace
 
 To disable one of the options, echo in the option prepended with "no".
 
@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ Here are the available options:
 		When a trace is recorded, so is the stack of functions.
 		This allows for back traces of trace sites.
 
+  userstacktrace - This option changes the trace.
+		   It records a stacktrace of the current userspace thread.
+
   sched-tree - TBD (any users??)