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authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>2019-03-19 10:12:04 -0700
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2019-05-02 21:31:19 -0400
commitdbfe67334a1767bcb7be8b50bd237b22b272ef23 (patch)
treea9f25d9c3cec9d7b8919df746cfb24e864656dd0 /kernel/trace
parente8025bab7bfbd48d262c01c26c15a9d465fbb083 (diff)
downloadlinux-dbfe67334a1767bcb7be8b50bd237b22b272ef23.tar.gz
tracing: kdb: The skip_lines parameter should have been skip_entries
The things skipped by kdb's "ftdump" command when you pass it a
parameter has always been entries, not lines.  The difference usually
doesn't matter but when the trace buffer has multi-line entries (like
a stack dump) it can matter.

Let's fix this both in the help text for ftdump and also in the local
variable names.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319171206.97107-1-dianders@chromium.org

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c
index 810d78a8d14c..4b666643d69f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #include "trace.h"
 #include "trace_output.h"
 
-static void ftrace_dump_buf(int skip_lines, long cpu_file)
+static void ftrace_dump_buf(int skip_entries, long cpu_file)
 {
 	/* use static because iter can be a bit big for the stack */
 	static struct trace_iterator iter;
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ static void ftrace_dump_buf(int skip_lines, long cpu_file)
 			kdb_printf("---------------------------------\n");
 		cnt++;
 
-		if (!skip_lines) {
+		if (!skip_entries) {
 			print_trace_line(&iter);
 			trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq);
 		} else {
-			skip_lines--;
+			skip_entries--;
 		}
 
 		if (KDB_FLAG(CMD_INTERRUPT))
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ out:
  */
 static int kdb_ftdump(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	int skip_lines = 0;
+	int skip_entries = 0;
 	long cpu_file;
 	char *cp;
 
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ static int kdb_ftdump(int argc, const char **argv)
 		return KDB_ARGCOUNT;
 
 	if (argc) {
-		skip_lines = simple_strtol(argv[1], &cp, 0);
+		skip_entries = simple_strtol(argv[1], &cp, 0);
 		if (*cp)
-			skip_lines = 0;
+			skip_entries = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (argc == 2) {
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int kdb_ftdump(int argc, const char **argv)
 	}
 
 	kdb_trap_printk++;
-	ftrace_dump_buf(skip_lines, cpu_file);
+	ftrace_dump_buf(skip_entries, cpu_file);
 	kdb_trap_printk--;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static int kdb_ftdump(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 static __init int kdb_ftrace_register(void)
 {
-	kdb_register_flags("ftdump", kdb_ftdump, "[skip_#lines] [cpu]",
+	kdb_register_flags("ftdump", kdb_ftdump, "[skip_#entries] [cpu]",
 			    "Dump ftrace log", 0, KDB_ENABLE_ALWAYS_SAFE);
 	return 0;
 }