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* tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter fileLi Zefan2009-04-121-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - propagate return value of filter_add_pred() to the user - return -ENOSPC but not -ENOMEM or -EINVAL when the filter array is full Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04CF0.3010105@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filterLi Zefan2009-04-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure messages from user space are NIL-terminated strings, otherwise we could dump random memory while reading filter file. Try this: # echo 'parent_comm ==' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter # cat events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_comm == � Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C32.6060508@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT eventsTom Zanussi2009-03-261-13/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix crash (hang) when using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT filter files filters are only hooked up to the tracepoint events defined using TRACE_EVENT but not the tracers that use TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT, such as ftrace. Do not display the filter files at all for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events for the time being. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878882.8339.61.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/filters: use trace_seq_printf() to print filtersTom Zanussi2009-03-241-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Instead of just using the trace_seq buffer to print the filters, use trace_seq_printf() as it was intended to be used. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878871.8339.59.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/filters: free pred when clearing filtersTom Zanussi2009-03-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix (small) per trace filter modification memory leak Free the current pred when clearing the filters via the filter files. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878851.8339.58.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/filters: clean up filter_add_subsystem_pred()Tom Zanussi2009-03-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, memory leak fix This patch cleans up filter_add_subsystem_pred(): - searches for the field before creating a copy of the pred - fixes memory leak in the case a predicate isn't applied - if -ENOMEM, makes sure there's no longer a reference to the pred so the caller can free the half-finished filter - changes the confusing i == MAX_FILTER_PRED - 1 comparison previously remarked upon This affects only per-subsystem event filtering. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237796808.7527.40.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/events: make the filter files writableFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | We need the filter files to be writable, the current filter file permissions are only set readable. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering, kfree fixIngo Molnar2009-03-221-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix potential kfree of random data in (rare) failure path Zero-initialize the field structure. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: add per-subsystem filteringTom Zanussi2009-03-221-6/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds per-subsystem filtering to the event tracing subsystem. It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each subsystem directory. This file can be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current set of filters set for that subsystem. Basically what it does is propagate the filter down to each event contained in the subsystem. If a particular event doesn't have a field with the name specified in the filter, it simply doesn't get set for that event. You can verify whether or not the filter was set for a particular event by looking at the filter file for that event. As with per-event filters, compound expressions are supported, echoing '0' to the subsystem's filter file clears all filters in the subsystem, etc. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710677.7703.49.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: add per-event filteringTom Zanussi2009-03-221-0/+77
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds per-event filtering to the event tracing subsystem. It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each event directory. This file can be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current set of filters set for that event. Basically, any field listed in the 'format' file for an event can be filtered on (including strings, but not yet other array types) using either matching ('==') or non-matching ('!=') 'predicates'. A 'predicate' can be either a single expression: # echo pid != 0 > filter # cat filter pid != 0 or a compound expression of up to 8 sub-expressions combined using '&&' or '||': # echo comm == Xorg > filter # echo "&& sig != 29" > filter # cat filter comm == Xorg && sig != 29 Only events having field values matching an expression will be available in the trace output; non-matching events are discarded. Note that a compound expression is built up by echoing each sub-expression separately - it's not the most efficient way to do things, but it keeps the parser simple and assumes that compound expressions will be relatively uncommon. In any case, a subsequent patch introducing a way to set filters for entire subsystems should mitigate any need to do this for lots of events. Setting a filter without an '&&' or '||' clears the previous filter completely and sets the filter to the new expression: # cat filter comm == Xorg && sig != 29 # echo comm != Xorg # cat filter comm != Xorg To clear a filter, echo 0 to the filter file: # echo 0 > filter # cat filter none The limit of 8 predicates for a compound expression is arbitrary - for efficiency, it's implemented as an array of pointers to predicates, and 8 seemed more than enough for any filter... Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710665.7703.48.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filteringTom Zanussi2009-03-221-1/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes the field descriptions defined for event tracing available at run-time, for the event-filtering mechanism introduced in a subsequent patch. The common event fields are prepended with 'common_' in the format display, allowing them to be distinguished from the other fields that might internally have same name and can therefore be unambiguously used in filters. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* ftrace: event profile hooksPeter Zijlstra2009-03-201-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new tracing infrastructure feature Provide infrastructure to generate software perf counter events from tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.557364871@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* ftrace: provide an id file for each eventPeter Zijlstra2009-03-201-0/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | Since not every event has a format file to read the id from, expose it explicitly in a separate file. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.372534033@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: fix leak in event_format_read()Tom Zanussi2009-03-171-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix memory leak If event_format_read() exits early due to nonzero ppos, the previous kmalloc doesn't get freed - might as well do the check before the kmalloc and avoid the problem. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237270859.8033.141.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: have event_trace_printk use static tracerSteven Rostedt2009-03-121-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: expand the ring buffers when an event is activatedSteven Rostedt2009-03-111-0/+8
| | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: add back the available_events fileSteven Rostedt2009-03-101-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: do not allow modifying the ftrace events via the event filesSteven Rostedt2009-03-101-3/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: fix printk format specifierSteven Rostedt2009-03-101-7/+6
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: new format for specialized trace pointsSteven Rostedt2009-03-101-156/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* tracing: typecast sizeof and offsetof to unsigned intSteven Rostedt2009-03-101-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix compiler warnings On x86_64 sizeof and offsetof are treated as long, where as on x86_32 they are int. This patch typecasts them to unsigned int to avoid one arch giving warnings while the other does not. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add format files for ftrace default entriesSteven Rostedt2009-03-051-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: allow user apps to read binary format of basic ftrace entries Currently, only defined raw events export their formats so a binary reader can parse them. There's no reason that the default ftrace entries can't export their formats. This patch adds a subsystem called "ftrace" in the events directory that includes the ftrace entries for basic ftrace recorded items. These only have three files in the events directory: type : printf available_types : printf format : format for the event entry For example: # cat /debug/tracing/events/ftrace/wakeup/format name: wakeup ID: 3 format: field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:unsigned int prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:unsigned char prev_prio; offset:16; size:1; field:unsigned char prev_state; offset:17; size:1; field:unsigned int next_pid; offset:20; size:4; field:unsigned char next_prio; offset:24; size:1; field:unsigned char next_state; offset:25; size:1; field:unsigned int next_cpu; offset:28; size:4; print fmt: "%u:%u:%u ==+ %u:%u:%u [%03u]" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add trace name and id to event formatsSteven Rostedt2009-03-021-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | To be able to identify the trace in the binary format output, the id of the trace event (which is dynamically assigned) must also be listed. This patch adds the name of the trace point as well as the id assigned. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add ftrace headers to event format filesSteven Rostedt2009-03-021-1/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch includes the ftrace header to the event formats files: # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:int prev_prio; offset:16; size:4; field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:20; size:16; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:36; size:4; field:int next_prio; offset:40; size:4; A blank line is used as a deliminator between the ftrace header and the trace point fields. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add format file to describe event struct fieldsSteven Rostedt2009-03-021-1/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the "format" file to the trace point event directory. This is based off of work by Tom Zanussi, in which a file is exported to be tread from user land such that a user space app may read the binary record stored in the ring buffer. # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:int prev_prio; offset:16; size:4; field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:20; size:16; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:36; size:4; field:int next_prio; offset:40; size:4; Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add protection around modify trace event fieldsSteven Rostedt2009-03-021-0/+7
| | | | | | | | The trace event objects are currently not proctected against reentrancy. This patch adds a mutex around the modifications of the trace event fields. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add raw fast tracing interface for trace eventsSteven Rostedt2009-02-281-25/+174
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the interface to enable the C style trace points. In the directory /debugfs/tracing/events/subsystem/event We now have three files: enable : values 0 or 1 to enable or disable the trace event. available_types: values 'raw' and 'printf' which indicate the tracing types available for the trace point. If a developer does not use the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro and just uses the TRACE_FORMAT macro, then only 'printf' will be available. This file is read only. type: values 'raw' or 'printf'. This indicates which type of tracing is active for that trace point. 'printf' is the default and if 'raw' is not available, this file is read only. # echo raw > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/type # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable Will enable the C style tracing for the sched_wakeup trace point. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add raw trace point recording infrastructureSteven Rostedt2009-02-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: lower overhead tracing The current event tracer can automatically pick up trace points that are registered with the TRACE_FORMAT macro. But it required a printf format string and parsing. Although, this adds the ability to get guaranteed information like task names and such, it took a hit in overhead processing. This processing can add about 500-1000 nanoseconds overhead, but in some cases that too is considered too much and we want to shave off as much from this overhead as possible. Tom Zanussi recently posted tracing patches to lkml that are based on a nice idea about capturing the data via C structs using STRUCT_ENTER, STRUCT_EXIT type of macros. I liked that method very much, but did not like the implementation that required a developer to add data/code in several disjoint locations. This patch extends the event_tracer macros to do a similar "raw C" approach that Tom Zanussi did. But instead of having the developers needing to tweak a bunch of code all over the place, they can do it all in one macro - preferably placed near the code that it is tracing. That makes it much more likely that tracepoints will be maintained on an ongoing basis by the code they modify. The new macro TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is created for this approach. (Note, a developer may still utilize the more low level DECLARE_TRACE macros if they don't care about getting their traces automatically in the event tracer.) They can also use the existing TRACE_FORMAT if they don't need to code the tracepoint in C, but just want to use the convenience of printf. So if the developer wants to "hardwire" a tracepoint in the fastest possible way, and wants to acquire their data via a user space utility in a raw binary format, or wants to see it in the trace output but not sacrifice any performance, then they can implement the faster but more complex TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro. Here's what usage looks like: TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(name, TPPROTO(proto), TPARGS(args), TPFMT(fmt, fmt_args), TRACE_STUCT( TRACE_FIELD(type1, item1, assign1) TRACE_FIELD(type2, item2, assign2) [...] ), TPRAWFMT(raw_fmt) ); Note name, proto, args, and fmt, are all identical to what TRACE_FORMAT uses. name: is the unique identifier of the trace point proto: The proto type that the trace point uses args: the args in the proto type fmt: printf format to use with the event printf tracer fmt_args: the printf argments to match fmt TRACE_STRUCT starts the ability to create a structure. Each item in the structure is defined with a TRACE_FIELD TRACE_FIELD(type, item, assign) type: the C type of item. item: the name of the item in the stucture assign: what to assign the item in the trace point callback raw_fmt is a way to pretty print the struct. It must match the order of the items are added in TRACE_STUCT An example of this would be: TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_wakeup, TPPROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int success), TPARGS(rq, p, success), TPFMT("task %s:%d %s", p->comm, p->pid, success?"succeeded":"failed"), TRACE_STRUCT( TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, pid, p->pid) TRACE_FIELD(int, success, success) ), TPRAWFMT("task %d success=%d") ); This creates us a unique struct of: struct { pid_t pid; int success; }; And the way the call back would assign these values would be: entry->pid = p->pid; entry->success = success; The nice part about this is that the creation of the assignent is done via macro magic in the event tracer. Once the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is created, the developer will then have a faster method to record into the ring buffer. They do not need to worry about the tracer itself. The developer would only need to touch the files in include/trace/*.h Again, I would like to give special thanks to Tom Zanussi for this nice idea. Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: make the set_event and available_events subsystem awareSteven Rostedt2009-02-281-3/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes the event files, set_event and available_events aware of the subsystem. Now you can enable an entire subsystem with: echo 'irq:*' > set_event Note: the '*' is not needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add subsystem level to trace eventsSteven Rostedt2009-02-281-0/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a trace point header defines TRACE_SYSTEM, then it will add the following trace points into that event system. If include/trace/irq_event_types.h has: #define TRACE_SYSTEM irq at the top and #undef TRACE_SYSTEM at the bottom, then a directory "irq" will be created in the /debug/tracing/events directory. Inside that directory will contain the two trace points that are defined in include/trace/irq_event_types.h. Only adding the above to irq and not to sched, we get: # ls /debug/tracing/events/ irq sched_process_exit sched_signal_send sched_wakeup_new sched_kthread_stop sched_process_fork sched_switch sched_kthread_stop_ret sched_process_free sched_wait_task sched_migrate_task sched_process_wait sched_wakeup # ls /debug/tracing/events/irq irq_handler_entry irq_handler_exit If we add #define TRACE_SYSTEM sched to the trace/sched_event_types.h then the rest of the trace events will be put in a sched directory within the events directory. I've been playing with this idea of the subsystem for a while, but recently Tom Zanussi posted some patches to lkml that included this method. Tom's approach was clean and got me to finally put some effort to clean up the event trace points. Thanks to Tom Zanussi for demonstrating how nice the subsystem method is. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: make event directory structureSteven Rostedt2009-02-241-5/+132
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the directory /debug/tracing/events/ that will contain all the registered trace points. # ls /debug/tracing/events/ sched_kthread_stop sched_process_fork sched_switch sched_kthread_stop_ret sched_process_free sched_wait_task sched_migrate_task sched_process_wait sched_wakeup sched_process_exit sched_signal_send sched_wakeup_new # ls /debug/tracing/events/sched_switch/ enable # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched_switch/enable 1 # cat /debug/tracing/set_event sched_switch Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: add event trace infrastructureSteven Rostedt2009-02-241-0/+280
This patch creates the event tracing infrastructure of ftrace. It will create the files: /debug/tracing/available_events /debug/tracing/set_event The available_events will list the trace points that have been registered with the event tracer. set_events will allow the user to enable or disable an event hook. example: # echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable the sched_wakeup event (if it is registered). # echo "!sched_wakeup" >> /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable the sched_wakeup event (and only that event). # echo > /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable all events (notice the '>') # cat /debug/tracing/available_events > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable all registered event hooks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>