Instrument addr_add and del of network interfaces. Lets a tracer know the interface address changes. Those tracepoints are used by LTTng. About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for performance result detail. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: Pekka Savola CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org CC: David S. Miller CC: Alexey Kuznetsov CC: Masami Hiramatsu CC: 'Peter Zijlstra' CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" CC: 'Ingo Molnar' CC: 'Hideo AOKI' CC: Takashi Nishiie CC: 'Steven Rostedt' CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu --- include/trace/ipv6.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/net/ipv6/addrconf.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-07-15 14:51:51.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-07-15 15:16:14.000000000 -0400 @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ #include #include +#include /* Set to 3 to get tracing... */ #define ACONF_DEBUG 2 @@ -650,6 +651,8 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, co /* For caller */ in6_ifa_hold(ifa); + trace_ipv6_addr_add(ifa); + /* Add to big hash table */ hash = ipv6_addr_hash(addr); @@ -2163,6 +2166,7 @@ static int inet6_addr_del(struct net *ne in6_ifa_hold(ifp); read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock); + trace_ipv6_addr_del(ifp); ipv6_del_addr(ifp); /* If the last address is deleted administratively, Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/ipv6.h =================================================================== --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/ipv6.h 2008-07-15 15:16:14.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +#ifndef _TRACE_IPV6_H +#define _TRACE_IPV6_H + +#include +#include + +DEFINE_TRACE(ipv6_addr_add, + TPPROTO(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa), + TPARGS(ifa)); +DEFINE_TRACE(ipv6_addr_del, + TPPROTO(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa), + TPARGS(ifa)); + +#endif -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/