linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/7] tracing: Hist trigger snapshot and onchange additions

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Message-Id: <cover.1533753152.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu,  9 Aug 2018 09:34:10 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mhiramat@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        julia@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/7] tracing: Hist trigger snapshot and onchange additions

From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>

Hi,

This is v3 of the hist trigger snapshot and onchange additions
patchset.  It's rebased on top of the latest ftrace/core and adds a
few fixes to some handler/action problems I noticed while testing.

v2->v3 changes:

  - fixed problem where trace actions were only being allowed for
    onmatch handlers - now trace actions can be used with any handler.
  - fixed problem where no action was being assigned to onmatch
    handlers if save or snapshot actions were specified.

v1->v2 changes:

  - added missing tracing_cond_snapshot_data() definition for when
    CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT not defined
  - removed an unnecessary WARN_ON() in track_data_snapshot_print()

Original text:

This patchset adds some useful new functions to the hist
trigger code: a snapshot action and an onchange handler.

In order to make it easier to add these and in the process make the
code more generic, I separated the code into explicit 'handlers' and
'actions', handlers being things like 'onmax' and 'onchange', and
'actions' being things like 'take a snapshot' or 'save some fields'.

The first few patches do that basic refactoring, which make it easier
to add the subsequent changes that arbitrarily combine actions and
handlers.

The fourth patch adds a 'conditional snapshot' capability that via a
new tracing_snaphot_cond() function extends the existing snapshot
code.  It allows the caller to associate some user data with the
snapshot that can be checked and saved in an update() callback whose
return value determines whether the snapshot should be taken or not.

The remaining patches finally add the new snapshot action and onchange
handler functionality - please see those patches for details and some
examples.

Thanks,

Tom

The following changes since commit 5248ee85603067e62a228402afd2fb68f957746b:

  tracefs: Annotate tracefs_ops with __ro_after_init (2018-07-31 11:32:44 -0400)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zanussi/linux-trace.git ftrace/hist-snapshot-onchange-v3

Tom Zanussi (7):
  tracing: Refactor hist trigger action code
  tracing: Split up onmatch action data
  tracing: Generalize hist trigger onmax and save action
  tracing: Add conditional snapshot
  tracing: Move hist trigger key printing into a separate function
  tracing: Add snapshot action
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler

 Documentation/trace/histogram.txt   |  206 +++++++
 kernel/trace/trace.c                |  162 +++++-
 kernel/trace/trace.h                |   58 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c    | 1008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c |    2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c   |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 1163 insertions(+), 275 deletions(-)

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