trace-cmd-stop(1) — Linux manual page

TRACE-CMD-STOP(1)           libtracefs Manual          TRACE-CMD-STOP(1)

NAME

       trace-cmd-stop - stop the Ftrace Linux kernel tracer from writing
       to the ring buffer.

SYNOPSIS

       trace-cmd stop [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       The trace-cmd(1) stop is a complement to trace-cmd-start(1). This
       will disable Ftrace from writing to the ring buffer. This does
       not stop the overhead that the tracing may incur. Only the
       updating of the ring buffer is disabled, the Ftrace tracing may
       still be inducing overhead.

       After stopping the trace, the trace-cmd-extract(1) may strip out
       the data from the ring buffer and create a trace.dat file. The
       Ftrace pseudo file system may also be examined.

       To disable the tracing completely to remove the overhead it
       causes, use trace-cmd-reset(1). But after a reset is performed,
       the data that has been recorded is lost.

OPTIONS

       -B buffer-name
           If the kernel supports multiple buffers, this will stop the
           trace for only the given buffer. It does not affect any other
           buffer. This may be used multiple times to specify different
           buffers. When this option is used, the top level instance
           will not be stopped unless -t is given.

       -a
           Stop the trace for all existing buffer instances. When this
           option is used, the top level instance will not be stopped
           unless -t is given.

       -t
           Stops the top level instance buffer. Without the -B or -a
           option this is the same as the default. But if -B or -a is
           used, this is required if the top level instance buffer
           should also be stopped.

SEE ALSO

       trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-report(1),
       trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1),
       trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>

RESOURCES

       https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git/ 

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is
       granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

NOTES

        1. rostedt@goodmis.org
           mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

COLOPHON

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libtracefs                     09/24/2023              TRACE-CMD-STOP(1)

Pages that refer to this page: trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-agent(1), trace-cmd-attach(1), trace-cmd-check-events(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-hist(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1), trace-cmd-mem(1), trace-cmd-options(1), trace-cmd-profile(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-report(1), trace-cmd-reset(1), trace-cmd-restore(1), trace-cmd-set(1), trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-stat(1), trace-cmd-stream(1), trace-cmd.dat.v6(5), trace-cmd.dat.v7(5)

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