ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions
Every so often, with a special config or a architecture change, running function or function_graph tracing can cause the machien to hard reboot, crash, or simply hard lockup. There's some functions in the function graph tracer that can not be traced otherwise it causes the function tracer to recurse before the recursion protection mechanisms are in place. When this occurs, using the dynamic ftrace featuer that allows limiting what actually gets traced can be used to bisect down to the problem function. This adds a script that helps with this process in the scripts/tracing directory, called ftrace-bisect.sh The set up is to read all the functions that can be traced from available_filter_functions into a file (full_file). Then run this script passing it the full_file and a "test_file" and "non_test_file", where the test_file will be add to set_ftrace_filter. What ftarce_bisect.sh does, is to copy half of the functions in full_f...
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