Re: [PATCH V3 07/11] notifiers: Add tracepoints to the notifiers infrastructure

From: Guilherme G. Piccoli
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 09:31:02 EST


On 19/08/2022 19:17, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> Currently there is no way to show the callback names for registered,
> unregistered or executed notifiers. This is very useful for debug
> purposes, hence add this functionality here in the form of notifiers'
> tracepoints, one per operation.
>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> V3:
> - Yet another major change - thanks to Arjan's great suggestion,
> refactored the code to make use of tracepoints instead of guarding
> the output with a Kconfig debug setting.
>
> V2:
> - Major improvement thanks to the great idea from Xiaoming - changed
> all the ksym wheel reinvention to printk %ps modifier;
>
> - Instead of ifdefs, using IS_ENABLED() - thanks Steven.
>
> - Removed an unlikely() hint on debug path.
>
>
> include/trace/events/notifiers.h | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/notifier.c | 6 +++
> 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 include/trace/events/notifiers.h
>

Hi Arjan / Xiaoming / all, monthly ping heh

If there's any advice on how to move things here, I would appreciate!
Thanks in advance and apologies for the re-pings.

Cheers,


Guilherme