tracing: create automated trace defines
authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:36:00 +0000 (09:36 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:57:28 +0000 (12:57 -0400)
commita8d154b009168337494fbf345671bab74d3e4b8b
tree4097612e1a5cc8bf7658542f7d0f51b815113eaf
parentea20d9293ce423a39717ed4375393129a2e701f9
tracing: create automated trace defines

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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
16 files changed:
include/trace/define_trace.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/trace/irq.h
include/trace/kmem.h
include/trace/lockdep.h
include/trace/sched.h
include/trace/skb.h
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c
kernel/irq/handle.c
kernel/kthread.c
kernel/lockdep.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/signal.c
kernel/softirq.c
mm/util.c
net/core/net-traces.c