Some tracepoints have a registration function that gets enabled when the
tracepoint is enabled. There may be cases that the registraction function
must fail (for example, can't allocate enough memory). In this case, the
tracepoint should also fail to register, otherwise the user would not know
why the tracepoint is not working.
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add to samples/trace_events/ the macros DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and
DEFINE_EVENT() and recommend using them over multiple TRACE_EVENT()
macros if the multiple events have the same format.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If a function should be called before a tracepoint is enabled
and/or after it is disabled, the TRACE_EVENT_FN() serves this
purpose. But it is not well documented. Having it as a sample would
help developers to know how to use it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The sample code lacks an example of TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION, and it
has been expressed to me that this feature for TRACE_EVENT is not
well known and not used when it could be.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The sample code in samples/trace_events/ is extremely out of date and does
not show all the new fields that have been added since the sample code
was written. As most people are unaware of these new fields, adding sample
code and explanations of those fields should help out.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The sample is useful for testing, and I'm using it. But after
loading the module, it keeps saying hi every 10 seconds, this may
be disturbing.
Also Steven said commenting out the "hi" helped in causing races. :)
[ Impact: make testing a bit easier ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F6AD.2070008@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a sample to the samples directory on how to create
and use TRACE_EVENT trace points.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)