Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 21:46:22 EST


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> How about something like this:
>
> From f7fa71c046bc383706bf58503c4b75e05e252152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:41:18 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] tracing: move __DO_TRACE out of line
>
> Mainly simplify linux/tracepoint.h's include dependencies (removes
> rcupdate.h), but it can't help with icache locality, since it
> definitely moves the code out of line, rather than relying on gcc
> to do it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> index 4353f3f..1052e33 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
> */
>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> -#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
>
> struct module;
> struct tracepoint;
> @@ -42,19 +41,20 @@ struct tracepoint {
> * it_func[0] is never NULL because there is at least one element in the array
> * when the array itself is non NULL.
> */
> -#define __DO_TRACE(tp, proto, args) \
> - do { \
> +#define DEFINE_DO_TRACE(name, proto, args) \
> + void __do_trace_##name(struct tracepoint *tp, TP_PROTO(proto)) \

I fear that won't work with "void" prototype. If we need this kind of
flexibility, we will need to create a special case for empty prototype.

Mathieu

> + { \
> void **it_func; \
> \
> rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(); \
> - it_func = rcu_dereference((tp)->funcs); \
> + it_func = rcu_dereference(tp->funcs); \
> if (it_func) { \
> do { \
> ((void(*)(proto))(*it_func))(args); \
> } while (*(++it_func)); \
> } \
> rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(); \
> - } while (0)
> + }
>
> /*
> * Make sure the alignment of the structure in the __tracepoints section will
> @@ -63,11 +63,13 @@ struct tracepoint {
> */
> #define DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args) \
> extern struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name; \
> + extern void __do_trace_##name(struct tracepoint *tp, \
> + TP_PROTO(proto)); \
> static inline void trace_##name(proto) \
> { \
> if (unlikely(__tracepoint_##name.state)) \
> - __DO_TRACE(&__tracepoint_##name, \
> - TP_PROTO(proto), TP_ARGS(args)); \
> + __do_trace_##name(&__tracepoint_##name, \
> + TP_ARGS(args)); \
> } \
> static inline int register_trace_##name(void (*probe)(proto)) \
> { \
> @@ -151,10 +153,7 @@ extern int tracepoint_get_iter_range(struct tracepoint **tracepoint,
> * probe unregistration and the end of module exit to make sure there is no
> * caller executing a probe when it is freed.
> */
> -static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
> -{
> - synchronize_sched();
> -}
> +extern void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void);
>
> #define PARAMS(args...) args
>
> diff --git a/include/trace/define_trace.h b/include/trace/define_trace.h
> index 980eb66..1a0502e 100644
> --- a/include/trace/define_trace.h
> +++ b/include/trace/define_trace.h
> @@ -24,14 +24,17 @@
>
> #undef TRACE_EVENT
> #define TRACE_EVENT(name, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print) \
> + DEFINE_DO_TRACE(name, TP_PROTO(proto), TP_ARGS(args)) \
> DEFINE_TRACE(name)
>
> #undef TRACE_FORMAT
> -#define TRACE_FORMAT(name, proto, args, print) \
> +#define TRACE_FORMAT(name, proto, args, print) \
> + DEFINE_DO_TRACE(name, TP_PROTO(proto), TP_ARGS(args)) \
> DEFINE_TRACE(name)
>
> #undef DECLARE_TRACE
> -#define DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args) \
> +#define DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args) \
> + DEFINE_DO_TRACE(name, TP_PROTO(proto), TP_ARGS(args)) \
> DEFINE_TRACE(name)
>
> #undef TRACE_INCLUDE
> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> index 1ef5d3a..6ac1f48 100644
> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> @@ -545,6 +545,12 @@ void tracepoint_iter_reset(struct tracepoint_iter *iter)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_iter_reset);
>
> +void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
> +{
> + synchronize_sched();
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_synchronize_unregister);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
>
> int tracepoint_module_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
>
>

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