Impact: display events when they arrive
Now that the events don't use wake_up() anymore, we need the nop
tracer to poll waiting for events on the pipe. Especially because
nop is useful to look at orphan traces types (traces types that
don't rely on specific tracers) because it doesn't produce traces
itself.
And unlike other tracers that trigger specific traces periodically,
nop triggers no traces by itself that can wake him.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbeckerauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2009-03-23 09:22:15 +01:00
Impact: cleanup
To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Meloauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2009-02-06 01:01:41 +01:00
Impact: give an example on how to use specific tracer flags
This patch propose to use the nop tracer to provide an
example for using the tracer's custom flags implementation.
V2: replace structures and defines just after the headers includes for
cleanliness.
V3: replace defines by enum values.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbeckerauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-11-18 11:10:59 +01:00
Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail
This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.
If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.
Note: this will be used for the return tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbeckerauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure
With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedtauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-11-08 09:51:39 +01:00
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method
With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedtauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-11-08 09:51:34 +01:00
Replace "none" tracer by the recently created "nop" tracer.
Both are pretty similar except that nop accepts TRACE_PRINT
or TRACE_SPECIAL entries.
And as a consequence, changing the size of the ring buffer now
requires that tracing has already been disabled.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frédéric Weisbeckerauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-10-14 10:38:09 +02:00
If nop tracer is selected, some old entries from the previous tracer
could still be enqueued. Tracing have to be reset.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frédéric Weisbeckerauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-10-14 10:38:04 +02:00
A no-op tracer which can serve two purposes:
1. A template for development of a new tracer.
2. A convenient way to see ftrace_printk() calls without
an irrelevant trace making the output messy.
[ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Noonanauthored and Ingo Molnarcommited 2008-10-14 10:37:43 +02:00
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