The trace buffer memory should be, mostly, freed after
the buffer has been output.
This patch is required before a future patch that will allow
the user to override the default, and specify the trace buffer
memory allocation as a command line option.
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
print('IO error setting trace buffer size ')
quit()
+def free_trace_buffer():
+ """ Free the trace buffer memory """
+
+ try:
+ open('/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb'
+ , 'w').write("1")
+ except:
+ print('IO error setting trace buffer size ')
+ quit()
+
def read_trace_data(filename):
""" Read and parse trace data """
for f in files:
fix_ownership(f)
+clear_trace_file()
+# Free the memory
+if interval:
+ free_trace_buffer()
+
os.chdir('../../')