Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing: Add a way to have custom events in the tracefs directory

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Wed Mar 02 2022 - 11:00:47 EST


On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:28 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We would like to have in production a way to record sched wakeups and
> sched switch, and be able to save the information in a small file
> with as much available as possible. Currently the wake up and sched switch
> events are 36 and 64 bytes each (plus a 4 byte ring buffer event header).
>
> By having a custom module tap into the sched switch and waking trace points
> we can bring those events down to 16 and 14 bytes respectively.
>
> Steven Rostedt (Google) (2):
> tracing: Allow custom events to be added to the tracefs directory
> tracing: Add sample code for custom trace events

Great! I will test these out / review it in the coming week or so.

Thanks!

- Joel

>
> ----
> kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 +
> samples/Kconfig | 8 +-
> samples/Makefile | 1 +
> samples/trace_events/Makefile | 2 +
> samples/trace_events/trace_custom_sched.c | 280 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 samples/trace_events/trace_custom_sched.c