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tracing: Do not do anything special with tracepoint_string when tracing is disabled

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When CONFIG_TRACING is not enabled, there's no reason to save the trace
strings either by the linker or as a static variable that can be
referenced later. Simply pass back the string that is given to
tracepoint_string().

Had to move the define to include/linux/tracepoint.h so that it is still
visible when CONFIG_TRACING is not set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1406318733-26754-2-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org

Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt 2014-07-25 16:05:29 -04:00
parent 19583ca584
commit 3c49b52b15
2 changed files with 44 additions and 34 deletions
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include/linux/ftrace_event.h
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@ -574,40 +574,6 @@ do { \
__trace_printk(ip, fmt, ##args); \
} while (0)
/**
* tracepoint_string - register constant persistent string to trace system
* @str - a constant persistent string that will be referenced in tracepoints
*
* If constant strings are being used in tracepoints, it is faster and
* more efficient to just save the pointer to the string and reference
* that with a printf "%s" instead of saving the string in the ring buffer
* and wasting space and time.
*
* The problem with the above approach is that userspace tools that read
* the binary output of the trace buffers do not have access to the string.
* Instead they just show the address of the string which is not very
* useful to users.
*
* With tracepoint_string(), the string will be registered to the tracing
* system and exported to userspace via the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats
* file that maps the string address to the string text. This way userspace
* tools that read the binary buffers have a way to map the pointers to
* the ASCII strings they represent.
*
* The @str used must be a constant string and persistent as it would not
* make sense to show a string that no longer exists. But it is still fine
* to be used with modules, because when modules are unloaded, if they
* had tracepoints, the ring buffers are cleared too. As long as the string
* does not change during the life of the module, it is fine to use
* tracepoint_string() within a module.
*/
#define tracepoint_string(str) \
({ \
static const char *___tp_str __tracepoint_string = str; \
___tp_str; \
})
#define __tracepoint_string __attribute__((section("__tracepoint_str")))
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
struct perf_event;

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include/linux/tracepoint.h
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@ -249,6 +249,50 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
/**
* tracepoint_string - register constant persistent string to trace system
* @str - a constant persistent string that will be referenced in tracepoints
*
* If constant strings are being used in tracepoints, it is faster and
* more efficient to just save the pointer to the string and reference
* that with a printf "%s" instead of saving the string in the ring buffer
* and wasting space and time.
*
* The problem with the above approach is that userspace tools that read
* the binary output of the trace buffers do not have access to the string.
* Instead they just show the address of the string which is not very
* useful to users.
*
* With tracepoint_string(), the string will be registered to the tracing
* system and exported to userspace via the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats
* file that maps the string address to the string text. This way userspace
* tools that read the binary buffers have a way to map the pointers to
* the ASCII strings they represent.
*
* The @str used must be a constant string and persistent as it would not
* make sense to show a string that no longer exists. But it is still fine
* to be used with modules, because when modules are unloaded, if they
* had tracepoints, the ring buffers are cleared too. As long as the string
* does not change during the life of the module, it is fine to use
* tracepoint_string() within a module.
*/
#define tracepoint_string(str) \
({ \
static const char *___tp_str __tracepoint_string = str; \
___tp_str; \
})
#define __tracepoint_string __attribute__((section("__tracepoint_str")))
#else
/*
* tracepoint_string() is used to save the string address for userspace
* tracing tools. When tracing isn't configured, there's no need to save
* anything.
*/
# define tracepoint_string(str) str
# define __tracepoint_string
#endif
/*
* The need for the DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() is to handle the prototype
* (void). "void" is a special value in a function prototype and can