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Zhaolei
b00f0b6dc1 ftrace: avoid double-free of dyn_ftrace
If dyn_ftrace is freed before ftrace_release(), ftrace_release()
will free it again and make ftrace_free_records wrong.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BA23D9.1050900@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 10:25:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
62a394eb77 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/syscalls'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into tracing/core 2009-03-13 10:23:39 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ee08c6eccb tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics
Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 06:25:43 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
899039e874 softirq: no need to have SOFTIRQ in softirq name
Impact: clean up

It is redundant to have 'SOFTIRQ' in the softirq names.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-13 00:43:33 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7f96f93f02 tracing: move binary buffers into per cpu directory
The binary_buffers directory in /debugfs/tracing held the files
to read the trace buffers in a binary format. This held one file
per CPU buffer. But we also have a per_cpu directory that holds
a way to read the pretty-print formats.

This patch moves the binary buffers into the per_cpu_directory:

 # ls /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/
trace  trace_pipe  trace_pipe_raw

The new name is called "trace_pipe_raw". The binary buffers always
acted similar to trace_pipe, except that they produce raw data.

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-13 00:37:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
bdc067582b tracing: add comment for use of double __builtin_consant_p
Impact: documentation

The use of the double __builtin_contant_p checks in the event_trace_printk
can be confusing to developers and reviewers. This patch adds a comment
to explain why it is there.

Requested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313122235.43EB.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-13 00:15:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
eb1871f343 tracing: left align location header in stack_trace
Ingo Molnar suggested, instead of:

        Depth    Size      Location    (27 entries)
        -----    ----      --------
  0)     2880      48   lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f
  1)     2832      80   __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0
  2)     2752      16   __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65

To have it be:

        Depth    Size   Location    (27 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     2880      48   lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f
  1)     2832      80   __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0
  2)     2752      16   __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-13 00:00:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5cc9854888 ring-buffer: document reader page design
In a private email conversation I explained how the ring buffer
page worked by using silly ASCII art. Ingo suggested that I add
that to the comments of the code.

Here it is.

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 22:24:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f28e55765e tracing: show event name in trace for TRACE_EVENT created events
Unlike TRACE_FORMAT() macros, the TRACE_EVENT() macros do not show
the event name in the trace file. Knowing the event type in the trace
output is very useful.

Instead of:

   task swapper:0 [140] ==> ntpd:3308 [120]

We now have:

   sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> ntpd:3308 [120]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 22:00:19 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
889a6c3672 tracing: Don't use tracing_record_cmdline() in workqueue tracer fix
commit c3ffc7a40b
"Don't use tracing_record_cmdline() in workqueue tracer"
has a race window.

find_task_by_vpid() requires task_list_lock().

LKML-Reference: <20090313090042.43CD.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:23:47 -04:00
Jason Baron
39842323ce tracing: tracepoints for softirq entry/exit - tracepoints
Introduce softirq entry/exit tracepoints. These are useful for
augmenting existing tracers, and to figure out softirq frequencies and
timings.

[
  s/irq_softirq_/softirq_/ for trace point names and
  Fixed printf format in TRACE_FORMAT macro
   - Steven Rostedt
]

LKML-Reference: <20090312183603.GC3352@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:20:58 -04:00
Jason Baron
5d592b44b2 tracing: tracepoints for softirq entry/exit - add softirq-to-name array
Create a 'softirq_to_name' array, which is indexed by softirq #, so
that we can easily convert between the softirq index # and its name, in
order to get more meaningful output messages.

LKML-Reference: <20090312183336.GB3352@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e447e1df2e tracing: explain why stack tracer is empty
If the stack tracing is disabled (by default) the stack_trace file
will only contain the header:

 # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth    Size      Location    (0 entries)
        -----    ----      --------

This can be frustrating to a developer that does not realize that the
stack tracer is disabled. This patch adds the following text:

  # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth    Size      Location    (0 entries)
        -----    ----      --------
 #
 #  Stack tracer disabled
 #
 # To enable the stack tracer, either add 'stacktrace' to the
 # kernel command line
 # or 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled'
 #

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2da03ecee6 tracing: fix stack tracer header
The stack tracer use to look like this:

 # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
         Depth  Size      Location    (57 entries)
         -----  ----      --------
  0)     5088      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18
  1)     5072     144   mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe
  2)     4928      16   scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod]

Now it looks like this:

 # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace

        Depth    Size      Location    (57 entries)
        -----    ----      --------
  0)     5088      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18
  1)     5072     144   mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe
  2)     4928      16   scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7975a2be16 tracing: export trace formats to user space
The binary printk saves a pointer to the format string in the ring buffer.
On output, the format is processed. But if the user is reading the
ring buffer through a binary interface, the pointer is meaningless.

This patch creates a file called printk_formats that maps the pointers
to the formats.

 # cat /debug/tracing/printk_formats
0xffffffff80713d40 : "irq_handler_entry: irq=%d handler=%s\n"
0xffffffff80713d48 : "lock_acquire: %s%s%s\n"
0xffffffff80713d50 : "lock_release: %s\n"

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e9fb2b6d58 tracing: have event_trace_printk use static tracer
Impact: speed up on event tracing

The event_trace_printk is currently a wrapper function that calls
trace_vprintk. Because it uses a variable for the fmt it misses out
on the optimization of using the binary printk.

This patch makes event_trace_printk into a macro wrapper to use the
fmt as the same as the trace_printks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
828275574e tracing: make bprint event use the proper event id
The bprint record is using TRACE_PRINT when it should be TRACE_BPRINT.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
48ead02030 tracing/core: bring back raw trace_printk for dynamic formats strings
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings

Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static
containers for the format strings on each callsites. But the value is
assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take dynamic
formats.

So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers
that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format
strings. The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation
for each callsite. Most of the time however, the binary implementation will
still be used.

The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old
implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't
guess here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not.

Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably
the part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
db526ca329 tracing: show that buffer size is not expanded
Impact: do not confuse user on small trace buffer sizes

When the system boots up, the trace buffer is small to conserve memory.
It is only two pages per online CPU. When the tracer is used, it expands
to the default value.

This can confuse the user if they look at the buffer size and see only
7, but then later they see 1408.

 # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7

 # echo sched_switch > /debug/tracing/current_tracer

 # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
1408

This patch tries to help remove this confustion by showing that the
buffer has not been expanded.

 # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7 (expanded: 1408)

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:14:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
8aabee573d ring-buffer: remove unneeded get_online_cpus
Impact: speed up and remove possible races

The get_online_cpus was added to the ring buffer because the original
design would free the ring buffer on a CPU that was being taken
off line. The final design kept the ring buffer around even when the
CPU was taken off line. This is to allow a user to still read the
information on that ring buffer.

Most of the get_online_cpus are no longer needed since the ring buffer will
not disappear from the use cases.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:14:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
59222efe2d ring-buffer: use CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU not CONFIG_HOTPLUG
The hotplug code in the ring buffers is for use with CPU hotplug,
not generic hotplug.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:14:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1027fcb206 tracing: protect ring_buffer_expanded with trace_types_lock
Impact: prevent races with ring_buffer_expanded

This patch places the expanding of the tracing buffer under the
protection of the trace_types_lock mutex. It is highly unlikely
that there would be any contention, but better safe than sorry.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:14:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a123c52b46 tracing: fix comments about trace buffer resizing
Impact: cleanup

Some of the comments about the trace buffer resizing is gobbledygook.
And I wonder why people question if I'm a native English speaker.

This patch makes the comments make a bit more sense.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:14:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
51b643b404 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/ftrace-merge 2009-03-12 21:12:46 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
480c93df5b Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-13 01:33:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d820ac4c2f locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]
Impact: cleanup

The naming clashes with upcoming softirq tracepoints, so rename the
APIs to lockdep_*().

Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 01:32:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3c1f67d60e Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking 2009-03-13 01:29:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
554f786e28 ring-buffer: only allocate buffers for online cpus
Impact: save on memory

Currently, a ring buffer was allocated for each "possible_cpus". On
some systems, this is the same as NR_CPUS. Thus, if a system defined
NR_CPUS = 64 but it only had 1 CPU, we could have possibly 63 useless
ring buffers taking up space. With a default buffer of 3 megs, this
could be quite drastic.

This patch changes the ring buffer code to only allocate ring buffers
for online CPUs.  If a CPU goes off line, we do not free the buffer.
This is because the user may still have trace data in that buffer
that they would like to look at.

Perhaps in the future we could add code to delete a ring buffer if
the CPU is offline and the ring buffer becomes empty.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9aba60fe6e tracing: fix trace_wait to know to wait on all cpus or just one
Impact: fix to task live locking on reading trace_pipe on one CPU

The same code is used for both trace_pipe (all CPUS) and the per_cpu
trace_pipe file. When there is no data to read, it will check for
signals and wait on the trace wait queue.

The problem happens with the per_cpu wait. The trace_wait code checks
all CPUs. Thus, if there's data in another CPU buffer, then it will
exit the wait, without checking for signals or waiting on the wait queue.

It would then try to read the empty buffer, and since that will just
return nothing, then it will try to wait again. Unfortunately, that will
again fail due to there still being data in the other buffers. This
ends up with a live lock for the task.

This patch fixes the trace_wait to be aware that the iterator may only
be waiting on a single buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1852fcce18 tracing: expand the ring buffers when an event is activated
To save memory, the tracer ring buffers are set to a minimum.
The activating of a trace expands the ring buffer size. This patch
adds this expanding, when an event is activated.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
73c5162aa3 tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used
Impact: less memory impact on systems not using tracer

When the kernel boots up that has tracing configured, it allocates
the default size of the ring buffer. This currently happens to be
1.4Megs per possible CPU. This is quite a bit of wasted memory if
the system is never using the tracer.

The current solution is to keep the ring buffers to a minimum size
until the user uses them. Once a tracer is piped into the current_tracer
the ring buffer will be expanded to the default size. If the user
changes the size of the ring buffer, it will take the size given
by the user immediately.

If the user adds a "ftrace=" to the kernel command line, then the ring
buffers will be set to the default size on initialization.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:22 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
aecfcde920 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-11 20:47:23 +01:00
Dhaval Giani
be50b8342d kernel/user.c: fix a memory leak when freeing up non-init usernamespaces users
We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function if the
user belonged to a non init usernamespace.  Due to this a lot of the
cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak.  Fix the leak.

Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-10 15:55:11 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
e2b8b28085 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-10 22:55:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4dd163a051 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/textedit' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-03-10 22:54:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
80370cb758 tracing: use raw spinlocks for trace_vprintk
Impact: prevent locking up by lockdep tracer

The lockdep tracer uses trace_vprintk and thus trace_vprintk can not
call back into lockdep without locking up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 17:16:35 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
6cc3c6e12b trace_clock: fix preemption bug
Using the function_graph tracer in recent kernels generates a spew of
preemption BUGs. Fix this by not requiring trace_clock_local() users
to disable preemption themselves.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 20:03:01 +01:00
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
0e3d0f0566 tracing: update comments to match event code macros
Impact: clean up / comments

The comments that described the ftrace macros to manipulate the
TRACE_EVENT and TRACE_FORMAT macros no longer match the code.
This patch updates them.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 13:12:58 -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
2314c4ae14 tracing: add back the available_events file
The event directory files type and available_types were no longer
needed with the new TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macros, they were deleted.
But by accident the available_events file was also removed.
This patch brings it back.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 12:04:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
40e26815fa tracing: do not allow modifying the ftrace events via the event files
Impact: fix to prevent crash on calling NULL function pointer

The ftrace internal records have their format exported via the event
system under the ftrace subsystem. These are only for exporting the
format to allow binary readers to be able to parse them in a binary
output.

The ftrace subsystem events can only be enabled via the ftrace tracers
and do not have a registering function. The event files expect the
event record to have registering function and will call it directly.
Passing in a ftrace subsystem event will cause the kernel to crash
because it will execute a NULL pointer.

This patch prevents the ftrace subsystem from being viewable to the
event enabling files.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 11:32:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ce8eb2bf05 tracing: fix printk format specifier
Impact: clean up

The offsetof and sizeof are of type size_t, and instead of typecasting
them to unsigned int for printk formatting, one could just use %zu.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 10:14:35 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
bbcd306359 tracing: Don't assume possible cpu list have continuous numbers
"for (++cpu ; cpu < num_possible_cpus(); cpu++)" statement assumes
possible cpus have continuous number - but that's a wrong assumption.

Insted, cpumask_next() should be used.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090310104437.A480.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 10:20:30 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8293dd6f86 Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/ftrace
Semantic merge:

  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 10:17:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9a1043d19c Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-10 09:57:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
12e87e36e0 Merge branches 'tracing/doc', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/printk' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-03-10 09:56:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
467c88fee5 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm', 'x86/urgent', 'linus' and 'core/percpu' into x86/core 2009-03-10 09:26:38 +01:00
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