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  1. 15 Apr, 2009 3 commits
  3. 14 Apr, 2009 8 commits
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT · 6d723736
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load

This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.

It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modules · 17c873ec
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Impact: let modules add trace events

The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow
modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the
necessary functions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link list · a59fd602
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules

The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked
in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts
the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds
the items in the section to the list.

This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as
well.

Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros,
but the change is needed for them to eventually do so.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: move the ftrace event tracing code to core · f42c85e7
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      This patch moves the ftrace creation into include/trace/ftrace.h and
simplifies the work of developers in adding new tracepoints.
Just the act of creating the trace points in include/trace and including
define_trace.h will create the events in the debugfs/tracing/events
directory.

This patch removes the need of include/trace/trace_events.h
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core include · 97f20251
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need
to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory
into include/linux.

This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernel · 9504504c
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
operations must be available for core kernel code.

These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.

The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
like the seq_file handle.

	struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);

	trace_seq_init(s);
	trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);

	printk("%s", s->buffer);

The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:

	trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
	seq_puts(m, s->buffer);
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: create automated trace defines · a8d154b0
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.

This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/mytrace.h>

This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.

Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/foo.h>
 #include <trace/bar.h>
 #include <trace/fido.h>

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.

This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: consolidate trace and trace_event headers · ea20d929
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      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: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: default avatarTheodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: default avatarJiaying 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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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  5. 13 Apr, 2009 29 commits