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Jason Baron 8f7b50c514 jump label: Tracepoint support for jump labels
Make use of the jump label infrastructure for tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <a9ba2056e2c9cf332c3c300b577463ce66ff23a8.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:31:01 -04:00
Wu Zhangjin b70e4f0529 tracing: Fix undeclared ENOSYS in include/linux/tracepoint.h
The header file include/linux/tracepoint.h may be included without
include/linux/errno.h and then the compiler will fail on building for
undelcared ENOSYS. This patch fixes this problem via including <linux/errno.h>
to include/linux/tracepoint.h.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1277118549-622-1-git-send-email-wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-21 12:23:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 38516ab59f tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks
This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.

The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)

Will create the register function:

int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
                                void *data);

As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:

void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}

The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.

This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.

	void mycallback(void *data, int value);

	register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);

Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.

A more detailed example:

  DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

  /* In the C file */

  DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

  [...]

       trace_mytracepoint(status);

  /* In a file registering this tracepoint */

  int my_callback(void *data, int status)
  {
	struct my_struct my_data = data;
	[...]
  }

  [...]
	my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
	init_my_data(my_data);
	register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:

	unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:

  DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());

will cause an error.

If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:

  DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);

Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.

This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4914025	1088868	 861512	6864405	 68be15	vmlinux.class
4918492	1084612	 861512	6864616	 68bee8	vmlinux.tracepoint

Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.

 v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.

 v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
     #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
     cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
     Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.

 v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
     all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
     This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.

     Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().

 v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
     and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
     do not need any arguments.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 09:50:34 -04:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 53da59aa6d tracepoints: Add check trace callback type
This check is meant to be used by tracepoint users which do a direct cast of
callbacks to (void *) for direct registration, thus bypassing the
register_trace_##name and unregister_trace_##name checks.

This permits to ensure that the callback type matches the function type at the
call site, but without generating any code.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100430165959.GA25605@Krystal>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
CC: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 09:34:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2e26ca7150 tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
When more than one header is included under CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
the DECLARE_TRACE() macro is not defined back to its original meaning
and the second include will fail to initialize the TRACE_EVENT()
and DECLARE_TRACE() correctly.

To fix this the tracepoint.h file moves the define of DECLARE_TRACE()
out of the #ifdef _LINUX_TRACEPOINT_H protection (just like the
define of the TRACE_EVENT()). This way the define_trace.h will undef
the DECLARE_TRACE() at the end and allow new headers to start
from scratch.

This patch also requires fixing the include/events/napi.h

It currently uses DECLARE_TRACE() and should be converted to a TRACE_EVENT()
format. But I'll leave that change to the authors of that file.
But since the napi.h file depends on using the CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
and does not define its own DEFINE_TRACE() it must use the define_trace.h
method instead.

Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-05 11:46:17 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan 7f5b774275 rcu: Fix tracepoints & lockdep false positive
tracepoint.h uses rcu_dereference(), which triggers this warning:

[    0.701161] ===================================================
[    0.702211] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[    0.702716] ---------------------------------------------------
[    0.703203] include/trace/events/workqueue.h:68 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[    0.703971] [ 0.703990] other info that might help us debug this:
[    0.703993]
[    0.705590]
[    0.705604] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[    0.706712] 1 lock held by swapper/1:
[    0.707229]  #0:  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0142f54>] cpu_maps_update_begin+0x14/0x20
[    0.710097]
[    0.710106] stack backtrace:
[    0.712602] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1-tip-01613-g72662bb #168
[    0.713231] Call Trace:
[    0.713997]  [<c017174d>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xb0
[    0.714746]  [<c015a117>] create_workqueue_thread+0x107/0x110
[    0.715353]  [<c015aee0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x340
[    0.715845]  [<c015a8e8>] __create_workqueue_key+0x138/0x240
[    0.716427]  [<c0142f92>] ? cpu_maps_update_done+0x12/0x20
[    0.717012]  [<c086b12f>] init_workqueues+0x6f/0x80
[    0.717530]  [<c08576d2>] kernel_init+0x102/0x1f0
[    0.717570]  [<c08575d0>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1f0
[    0.718944]  [<c01030fa>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B9F48AD.4000404@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16 10:10:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 091ad3658e events: Rename TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE() to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
It is not quite obvious at first sight what TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE
does: does it define an event as well beyond defining a template?

To clarify this, rename it to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, which follows
the various 'DECLARE_*()' idioms we already have in the kernel:

  DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(class)

    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event1)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event2)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event3)

To complete this logic we should also rename TRACE_EVENT() to:

  DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT(single_event)

... but in a more quiet moment of the kernel cycle.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:04:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e5bc972168 tracing: Create new DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
After creating the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE I started to look at other
trace points to see what duplication was made. I noticed that there
are several trace points where they are almost identical except for
the name and the output format. Since TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE was successful
in bringing down the size of trace events, I added a DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT.

DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT is used just like DEFINE_EVENT is. That is, the
DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT also uses a TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE, but it allows the
developer to overwrite the print format. If there are two or more
TRACE_EVENTS that are identical except for the name and print, then
they can be converted to use a TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE. Since the
TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE already does the print output, the first trace event
would have its print format held in the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE and
be defined with a DEFINE_EVENT. The rest will use the DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
and override the print format.

Converting the sched trace points to both DEFINE_EVENT and
DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT. Five were converted to DEFINE_EVENT and two were
converted to DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT.

I was able to get the following:

$ size kernel/sched.o-*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  79299	   6776	   2520	  88595	  15a13	kernel/sched.o-notrace
 101941	  11896	   2584	 116421	  1c6c5	kernel/sched.o-templ
 104779	  11896	   2584	 119259	  1d1db	kernel/sched.o-trace

sched.o-notrace is the scheduler compiled with no trace points.
sched.o-templ is with the use of DEFINE_EVENT and DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
sched.o-trace is the current trace events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 18:23:53 -05:00
Steven Rostedt ff038f5c37 tracing: Create new TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE
There are some places in the kernel that define several tracepoints and
they are all identical besides the name. The code to enable, disable and
record is created for every trace point even if most of the code is
identical.

This patch adds TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE that lets the developer create
a template TRACE_EVENT and create trace points with DEFINE_EVENT, which
is based off of a given template. Each trace point used by this
will share most of the code, and bring down the size of the kernel
when there are several duplicate events.

Usage is:

TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE(name, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print);

Which would be the same as defining a normal TRACE_EVENT.

To create the trace events that the trace points will use:

DEFINE_EVENT(template, name, proto, args) is done. The template
is the name of the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE to use. The name is the
name of the trace point. The parameters proto and args must be the same
as the proto and args of the template. If they are not the same,
then a compile error will result. I tried hard removing this duplication
but the C preprocessor is not powerful enough (or my CPP magic
experience points is not at a high enough level) to not need them.

A lot of trace events are coming in with new XFS development. Most of
the trace points are identical except for the name. The following shows
the advantage of having TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE:

$ size fs/xfs/xfs.o.*
    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
  452114          2788    3520  458422   6feb6 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old
  638482         38116    3744  680342   a6196 fs/xfs/xfs.o.template
  996954         38116    4480 1039550   fdcbe fs/xfs/xfs.o.trace

xfs.o.old is without any tracepoints.
xfs.o.template uses the new TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE.
xfs.o.trace uses the current TRACE_EVENT macros.

Requested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 17:52:11 -05:00
Li Hong 8cd09a5984 tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h
Fix the tracepoint documentation path in tracepoints headers and
a misaligned tabulation.

Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <3a3680030909220300h7cf18849q4d4702b9d4feaa67@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-22 23:14:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 35dce1a99d Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/tracepoint.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-26 08:29:02 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 7cb2e3ee2a tracing: add comments to explain TRACE_EVENT out of protection
The commit:
  commit 5ac35daa93
  Author: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
  tracing/events: fix the include file dependencies

Moved the TRACE_EVENT out of the ifdef protection of tracepoints.h
but uses the define of TRACE_EVENT itself as protection. This patch
adds comments to explain why.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:37 -04:00
Xiao Guangrong 5ac35daa93 tracing/events: fix the include file dependencies
The TRACE_EVENT depends on the include/linux/tracepoint.h first
and include/trace/ftrace.h later, if we include the ftrace.h early,
a building error will occur.

Both define TRACE_EVENT in trace_a.h and trace_b.h, if we include
those in .c file, like this:

#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
include <trace/events/trace_a.h>
include <trace/events/trace_b.h>

The above will not work, because the TRACE_EVENT was re-defined by
the previous .h file.

Reported-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A937F5E.3020802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:09 -04:00
Josh Stone 9741987586 tracing: Move tracepoint callbacks from declaration to definition
It's not strictly correct for the tracepoint reg/unreg callbacks to
occur when a client is hooking up, because the actual tracepoint may not
be present yet.  This happens to be fine for syscall, since that's in
the core kernel, but it would cause problems for tracepoints defined in
a module that hasn't been loaded yet.  It also means the reg/unreg has
to be EXPORTed for any modules to use the tracepoint (as in SystemTap).

This patch removes DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK, and instead introduces
DEFINE_TRACE_FN which stores the callbacks in struct tracepoint.  The
callbacks are used now when the active state of the tracepoint changes
in set_tracepoint & disable_tracepoint.

This also introduces TRACE_EVENT_FN, so ftrace events can also provide
registration callbacks if needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-4-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:36:41 +02:00
Jason Baron 63fbdab315 tracing: Add DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK() macro
Introduce a new 'DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK()' macro, so that
tracepoints can associate an external register/unregister function.

This prepares for the syscalls tracer conversion to trace events. We
will need to perform arch level operations once a syscall event is
turned on/off, such as TIF flags setting, hence the need of such
specific callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:26 +02:00
GeunSik Lim 156f5a7801 debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/"
directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to
./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file.

And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is
existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation,
Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem.

debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah
hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name
of debugfs filesystem.
- debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/

Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem.

* From Steven Rostedt
  - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by     : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by  : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by  : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Steven Rostedt b8e65554d8 tracing: remove deprecated TRACE_FORMAT
The TRACE_FORMAT macro has been deprecated by the TRACE_EVENT macro.
There are no more users. All new users must use the TRACE_EVENT macro.

[ Impact: remove old functionality ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 11:50:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt ea20d9293c tracing: consolidate trace and trace_event headers
Impact: clean up

Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up
into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out
the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used.
It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the
TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined.

The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not
then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates
all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file.

Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 09:43:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt ef18012b24 tracing: remove funky whitespace in the trace code
Impact: clean up

There existed a lot of <space><tab>'s in the tracing code. This
patch removes them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 14:13:14 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 823f9124fb tracing: document TRACE_EVENT macro in tracepoint.h
Impact: clean up / comments

Kosaki Motohiro asked about an explanation to the TRACE_EVENT macro.
Ingo Molnar replied with a nice description.

This patch takes the description that Ingo wrote (with some slight
modifications) and adds it to the tracepoint.h file.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 12:58:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 30a8fecc2d tracing: flip the TP_printk and TP_fast_assign in the TRACE_EVENT macro
Impact: clean up

In trying to stay consistant with the C style format in the TRACE_EVENT
macro, it makes more sense to do the printk after the assigning of
the variables.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 12:41:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 157587d7ac tracing: remove obsolete TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro
Impact: clean up

The TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro is no longer used by trace points
and only the DECLARE_TRACE, TRACE_FORMAT or TRACE_EVENT macros should
be used by them. Although the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro is still used
by the internal tracing utility, it should not be used in core
kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 00:35:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt da4d03020c tracing: new format for specialized trace points
Impact: clean up and enhancement

The TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro looks quite ugly and is limited in its
ability to save data as well as to print the record out. Working with
Ingo Molnar, we came up with a new format that is much more pleasing to
the eye of C developers. This new macro is more C style than the old
macro, and is more obvious to what it does.

Here's the example. The only updated macro in this patch is the
sched_switch trace point.

The old method looked like this:

 TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_switch,
        TP_PROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,
                struct task_struct *next),
        TP_ARGS(rq, prev, next),
        TP_FMT("task %s:%d ==> %s:%d",
              prev->comm, prev->pid, next->comm, next->pid),
        TRACE_STRUCT(
                TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, prev_pid, prev->pid)
                TRACE_FIELD(int, prev_prio, prev->prio)
                TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL(char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN],
                                    next_comm,
                                    TP_CMD(memcpy(TRACE_ENTRY->next_comm,
                                                 next->comm,
                                                 TASK_COMM_LEN)))
                TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, next_pid, next->pid)
                TRACE_FIELD(int, next_prio, next->prio)
        ),
        TP_RAW_FMT("prev %d:%d ==> next %s:%d:%d")
        );

The above method is hard to read and requires two format fields.

The new method:

 /*
  * Tracepoint for task switches, performed by the scheduler:
  *
  * (NOTE: the 'rq' argument is not used by generic trace events,
  *        but used by the latency tracer plugin. )
  */
 TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,

	TP_PROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,
		 struct task_struct *next),

	TP_ARGS(rq, prev, next),

	TP_STRUCT__entry(
		__array(	char,	prev_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__field(	pid_t,	prev_pid			)
		__field(	int,	prev_prio			)
		__array(	char,	next_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__field(	pid_t,	next_pid			)
		__field(	int,	next_prio			)
	),

	TP_printk("task %s:%d [%d] ==> %s:%d [%d]",
		__entry->prev_comm, __entry->prev_pid, __entry->prev_prio,
		__entry->next_comm, __entry->next_pid, __entry->next_prio),

	TP_fast_assign(
		memcpy(__entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
		__entry->prev_pid	= prev->pid;
		__entry->prev_prio	= prev->prio;
		memcpy(__entry->prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
		__entry->next_pid	= next->pid;
		__entry->next_prio	= next->prio;
	)
 );

This macro is called TRACE_EVENT, it is broken up into 5 parts:

 TP_PROTO:        the proto type of the trace point
 TP_ARGS:         the arguments of the trace point
 TP_STRUCT_entry: the structure layout of the entry in the ring buffer
 TP_printk:       the printk format
 TP_fast_assign:  the method used to write the entry into the ring buffer

The structure is the definition of how the event will be saved in the
ring buffer. The printk is used by the internal tracing in case of
an oops, and the kernel needs to print out the format of the record
to the console. This the TP_printk gives a means to show the records
in a human readable format. It is also used to print out the data
from the trace file.

The TP_fast_assign is executed directly. It is basically like a C function,
where the __entry is the handle to the record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 00:35:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2939b0469d tracing: replace TP<var> with TP_<var>
Impact: clean up

The macros TPPROTO, TPARGS, TPFMT, TPRAWFMT, and TPCMD all look a bit
ugly. This patch adds an underscore to their names.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 00:35:04 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 629928041c tracing: create the C style tracing for the sched subsystem
This patch utilizes the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro to enable the C style
faster tracing for the sched subsystem trace points.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-28 04:04:13 -05:00