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bpf: use canonical ftrace path

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The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

  Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
  file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
  For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
  the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

Many comments and samples in the bpf code still refer to this older
debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.  There are a few
spots where the bpf code explicitly checks both tracefs and debugfs
(tools/bpf/bpftool/tracelog.c and tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c) and I've left
those alone so that the tools can continue to work with both paths.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313205628.1058720-2-zwisler@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Ross Zwisler
2023-03-13 14:56:27 -06:00
committed by Alexei Starovoitov
parent 9e36a204bd
commit 27d7fdf06f
10 changed files with 21 additions and 21 deletions
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@@ -1647,17 +1647,17 @@ union bpf_attr {
* Description
* This helper is a "printk()-like" facility for debugging. It
* prints a message defined by format *fmt* (of size *fmt_size*)
* to file *\/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace* from DebugFS, if
* to file *\/sys/kernel/tracing/trace* from TraceFS, if
* available. It can take up to three additional **u64**
* arguments (as an eBPF helpers, the total number of arguments is
* limited to five).
*
* Each time the helper is called, it appends a line to the trace.
* Lines are discarded while *\/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace* is
* open, use *\/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe* to avoid this.
* Lines are discarded while *\/sys/kernel/tracing/trace* is
* open, use *\/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe* to avoid this.
* The format of the trace is customizable, and the exact output
* one will get depends on the options set in
* *\/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options* (see also the
* *\/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options* (see also the
* *README* file under the same directory). However, it usually
* defaults to something like:
*