Re: [PATCH 02/11] tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_INJECT

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Feb 05 2010 - 09:47:54 EST


On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:14 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> TRACE_EVENT_INJECT macro is the same as TRACE_EVENT but takes one

> #undef DEFINE_EVENT
> #define DEFINE_EVENT(template, call, proto, args) \
> static void ftrace_profile_##call(proto) \
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index 189b09b..5c75cc7 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ static int ftrace_event_enable_disable(struct ftrace_event_call *call,
> break;
> }
> call->enabled = 1;
> +
> + if (call->inject)
> + call->inject();
> }
> break;
> }

With the proposal I'm suggesting:

register_event_command(event, NULL, NULL, inject_me, inject_me, data);

The above would do basically what this patch does. When ever the event
is enabled or disabled the inject_me function will be called.

Would this work?

-- Steve


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