Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace trace event: introduce assignment macros

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Dec 09 2010 - 12:00:45 EST


On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:22:11AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> This patch proposes encapsulation of the raw assignments within TP_fast_assign()
> by introducing tp_assign() and tp_memcpy() macros. This will allow us to:
>
> - generically filter from input fields,
> - redefine the field write primitives.
>
> The current macros map directly to the old code. I changed the documentation in
> tracepoint.txt to reflect these new primitives, but all TRACE_EVENT() users
> should gradually update their code to use these macro wrappers rather than raw
> "=" assignments or mempcy() calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Zhaolei <zhaolei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/tracepoint.h | 12 ++++++------
> include/trace/ftrace.h | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/trace/ftrace.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/include/trace/ftrace.h
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/trace/ftrace.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
> /*
> + * Macros mapping tp_assign() and tp_memcpy() to "=" and memcpy.
> + */
> +#define tp_assign(dest, src) __entry->dest = src
> +#define tp_memcpy(dest, src, len) memcpy(__entry->dest, src, len)

Looks good.


> +
> +/*
> * Stage 1 of the trace events.
> *
> * Override the macros in <trace/trace_events.h> to include the following:
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> @@ -306,12 +306,12 @@ static inline void tracepoint_update_pro
> * *
> *
> * TP_fast_assign(
> - * memcpy(__entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> - * __entry->prev_pid = prev->pid;
> - * __entry->prev_prio = prev->prio;
> - * memcpy(__entry->prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> - * __entry->next_pid = next->pid;
> - * __entry->next_prio = next->prio;
> + * tp_memcpy(next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> + * tp_assign(prev_pid, prev->pid);
> + * tp_assign(prev_prio, prev->prio);
> + * tp_memcpy(prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> + * tp_assign(next_pid, next->pid);
> + * tp_assign(next_prio, next->prio);
> * )
> *
> * *
>
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
> EfficiOS Inc.
> http://www.efficios.com
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