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tracing: Document tracefs gid mount option
Commit ee7f366 ("tracefs: Have new files inherit the ownership of their parent") and commit 48b27b6 ("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: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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static const char readme_msg[] =
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"tracing mini-HOWTO:\n\n"
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"By default tracefs removes all OTH file permission bits.\n"
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"When mounting tracefs an optional group id can be specified\n"
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"which adds the group to every directory and file in tracefs:\n\n"
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"\t e.g. mount -t tracefs [-o [gid=<gid>]] nodev /sys/kernel/tracing\n\n"
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"# echo 0 > tracing_on : quick way to disable tracing\n"
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"# echo 1 > tracing_on : quick way to re-enable tracing\n\n"
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" Important files:\n"

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