Commit fa17cb4b authored by Kalesh Singh's avatar Kalesh Singh Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)
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tracing: Document tracefs gid mount option 

Commit ee7f3666 ("tracefs: Have new files inherit the ownership of
their parent") and commit 48b27b6b ("tracefs: Set all files to the
same group ownership as the mount option") introduced a new gid mount
option that allows specifying a group to apply to all entries in tracefs.

Document this in the tracing readme.

Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Ali Zahraee <ahzahraee@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241030171928.4168869-3-kaleshsingh@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent e4d32142

kernel/trace/trace.c

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static const char readme_msg[] =

	"tracing mini-HOWTO:\n\n"

	"By default tracefs removes all OTH file permission bits.\n"

	"When mounting tracefs an optional group id can be specified\n"

	"which adds the group to every directory and file in tracefs:\n\n"

	"\t e.g. mount -t tracefs [-o [gid=<gid>]] nodev /sys/kernel/tracing\n\n"

	"# echo 0 > tracing_on : quick way to disable tracing\n"

	"# echo 1 > tracing_on : quick way to re-enable tracing\n\n"

	" Important files:\n"