When debugging a crash that appears to be related to ftrace, but not for
sure, it is useful to know if a function was ever enabled by ftrace or
not. It could be that a BPF program was attached to it, or possibly a live
patch.
We are having crashes in the field where this information is not always
known. But having ftrace set a flag if a function has ever been attached
since boot up helps tremendously in trying to know if a crash had to do
with something using ftrace.
For analyzing crashes, the use of a kdump image can have access to the
flags. When looking at issues where the kernel did not panic, the
touched_functions file can simply be used.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230124095653.6fd1640e@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Li <chriscli@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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