aha/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
Steven Rostedt 2002c258fa tracing: add tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h
Impact: cleanup

The functions tracing_start/tracing_stop have been moved to kernel.h.
These are not the functions a developer most likely wants to use
when they want to insert a place to stop tracing and restart it from
user space.

tracing_start/tracing_stop was created to work with things like
suspend to ram, where even calling smp_processor_id() can crash the
system. The tracing_start/tracing_stop was used to stop the tracer from
doing anything. These are still light weight functions, but add a bit
more overhead to be able to stop the tracers. They also have no interface
back to userland. That is, if the kernel calls tracing_stop, userland
can not start tracing.

What a developer most likely wants to use is tracing_on/tracing_off.
These are very light weight functions (simply sets or clears a bit).
These functions just stop recording into the ring buffer. The tracers
don't even know that this happens except that they would receive NULL
from the ring_buffer_lock_reserve function.

Also, there's a way for the user land to enable or disable this bit.
In debugfs/tracing/tracing_on, a user may echo "0" (same as tracing_off())
or echo "1" (same as tracing_on()) into this file. This becomes handy when
a kernel developer is debugging and wants tracing to turn off when it
hits an anomaly. Then the developer can examine the trace, and restart
tracing if they want to try again (echo 1 > tracing_on).

This patch moves the prototypes for tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h
and comments their use, so that a kernel developer will know how
to use them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-05 10:35:56 -05:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_RING_BUFFER_H
#define _LINUX_RING_BUFFER_H
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
struct ring_buffer;
struct ring_buffer_iter;
/*
* Don't refer to this struct directly, use functions below.
*/
struct ring_buffer_event {
u32 type:2, len:3, time_delta:27;
u32 array[];
};
/**
* enum ring_buffer_type - internal ring buffer types
*
* @RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: Left over page padding
* array is ignored
* size is variable depending on how much
* padding is needed
*
* @RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND: Extend the time delta
* array[0] = time delta (28 .. 59)
* size = 8 bytes
*
* @RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: Sync time stamp with external clock
* array[0] = tv_nsec
* array[1..2] = tv_sec
* size = 16 bytes
*
* @RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA: Data record
* If len is zero:
* array[0] holds the actual length
* array[1..(length+3)/4] holds data
* size = 4 + 4 + length (bytes)
* else
* length = len << 2
* array[0..(length+3)/4-1] holds data
* size = 4 + length (bytes)
*/
enum ring_buffer_type {
RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING,
RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND,
/* FIXME: RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP not implemented */
RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP,
RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA,
};
unsigned ring_buffer_event_length(struct ring_buffer_event *event);
void *ring_buffer_event_data(struct ring_buffer_event *event);
/**
* ring_buffer_event_time_delta - return the delta timestamp of the event
* @event: the event to get the delta timestamp of
*
* The delta timestamp is the 27 bit timestamp since the last event.
*/
static inline unsigned
ring_buffer_event_time_delta(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
{
return event->time_delta;
}
/*
* size is in bytes for each per CPU buffer.
*/
struct ring_buffer *
ring_buffer_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned flags);
void ring_buffer_free(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size);
struct ring_buffer_event *ring_buffer_lock_reserve(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
unsigned long length);
int ring_buffer_unlock_commit(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
struct ring_buffer_event *event);
int ring_buffer_write(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
unsigned long length, void *data);
struct ring_buffer_event *
ring_buffer_peek(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts);
struct ring_buffer_event *
ring_buffer_consume(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts);
struct ring_buffer_iter *
ring_buffer_read_start(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
void ring_buffer_read_finish(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter);
struct ring_buffer_event *
ring_buffer_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts);
struct ring_buffer_event *
ring_buffer_read(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts);
void ring_buffer_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter);
int ring_buffer_iter_empty(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter);
unsigned long ring_buffer_size(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
void ring_buffer_reset(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
int ring_buffer_swap_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer_a,
struct ring_buffer *buffer_b, int cpu);
int ring_buffer_empty(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
int ring_buffer_empty_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
void ring_buffer_record_disable(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
void ring_buffer_record_enable(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
void ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
void ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
unsigned long ring_buffer_entries(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
unsigned long ring_buffer_overruns(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
unsigned long ring_buffer_entries_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
unsigned long ring_buffer_overrun_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
u64 ring_buffer_time_stamp(int cpu);
void ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp(int cpu, u64 *ts);
size_t ring_buffer_page_len(void *page);
void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer);
void ring_buffer_free_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, void *data);
int ring_buffer_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, void **data_page,
size_t len, int cpu, int full);
enum ring_buffer_flags {
RB_FL_OVERWRITE = 1 << 0,
};
#endif /* _LINUX_RING_BUFFER_H */