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TRACE-CMD-SNAPSHOT(1)                                  TRACE-CMD-SNAPSHOT(1)

NAME         top

       trace-cmd-snapshot - take, reset, free, or show a Ftrace kernel
       snapshot

SYNOPSIS         top

       trace-cmd snapshot [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The trace-cmd(1) snapshot controls or displays the Ftrace Linux
       kernel snapshot feature (if the kernel supports it). This is useful
       to "freeze" an instance of a live trace but without stopping the
       trace.
            trace-cmd start -p function
            trace-cmd snapshot -s
            trace-cmd snapshot
           [ dumps the content of buffer at 'trace-cmd snapshot -s' ]
            trace-cmd snapshot -s
            trace-cmd snapshot
           [ dumps the new content of the buffer at the last -s operation ]

OPTIONS         top

       -s
           Take a snapshot of the currently running buffer.
       -r
           Clear out the buffer.
       -f
           Free the snapshot buffer. The buffer takes up memory inside the
           kernel. It is best to free it when not in use. The first -s
           operation will allocate it if it is not already allocated.
       -c cpu
           Operate on a per cpu snapshot (may not be fully supported by all
           kernels)
       -B buf
           If a buffer instance was created, then the -B option will operate
           on the snapshot within the buffer.

SEE ALSO         top

       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         top

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

RESOURCES         top

       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

COPYING         top

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

NOTES         top

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

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the trace-cmd (a front-end for Ftrace) project.
       Information about the project can be found at [unknown -- if you
       know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, send it to Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository 
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git⟩
       on 2017-07-05.  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
       version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-
       date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to
       the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original
       manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
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