linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: allow disabling compilation of specific trace systems

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:39:35 +0300
From:	Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@...il.com>
To:	tal.shorer@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: allow disabling compilation of specific trace systems

Allow a trace events header file to disable compilation of its
trace events by defining the preprocessor macro NOTRACE.

This could be done, for example, according to a Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h   | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 include/trace/define_trace.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index c728513..a8ddfd3 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -103,7 +103,18 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 #define TP_ARGS(args...)	args
 #define TP_CONDITION(args...)	args
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
+/*
+ * Individual subsystem my have a separate configuration to
+ * enable their tracepoints. By default, this file will create
+ * the tracepoints if CONFIG_TRACEPOINT is defined. If a subsystem
+ * wants to be able to disable its tracepoints from being created
+ * it can define NOTRACE before including the tracepoint headers.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) && !defined(NOTRACE)
+#define TRACEPOINTS_ENABLED
+#endif
+
+#ifdef TRACEPOINTS_ENABLED
 
 /*
  * it_func[0] is never NULL because there is at least one element in the array
@@ -226,7 +237,7 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 #define EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(name)					\
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__tracepoint_##name)
 
-#else /* !CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
+#else /* !TRACEPOINTS_ENABLED */
 #define __DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args, cond, data_proto, data_args) \
 	static inline void trace_##name(proto)				\
 	{ }								\
@@ -258,7 +269,7 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 #define EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL(name)
 #define EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(name)
 
-#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
+#endif /* TRACEPOINTS_ENABLED */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
 /**
diff --git a/include/trace/define_trace.h b/include/trace/define_trace.h
index 02e1003..b763d3f 100644
--- a/include/trace/define_trace.h
+++ b/include/trace/define_trace.h
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 #undef DECLARE_TRACE
 #define DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
+#ifdef TRACEPOINTS_ENABLED
 #include <trace/ftrace.h>
 #endif
 
-- 
2.4.3

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