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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-02-27 21:33:02 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-02-28 02:59:43 -0500
commit6ecc2d1ca39177edb6fbdb7412948b0e9f409d02 (patch)
tree336a12a2f3db016f967717e1cb06e9171a239ce5 /kernel/trace/events.c
parenteb594e45f6979cd10b18d87f7b3f02119e00a108 (diff)
tracing: add subsystem level to trace events
If a trace point header defines TRACE_SYSTEM, then it will add the following trace points into that event system. If include/trace/irq_event_types.h has: #define TRACE_SYSTEM irq at the top and #undef TRACE_SYSTEM at the bottom, then a directory "irq" will be created in the /debug/tracing/events directory. Inside that directory will contain the two trace points that are defined in include/trace/irq_event_types.h. Only adding the above to irq and not to sched, we get: # ls /debug/tracing/events/ irq sched_process_exit sched_signal_send sched_wakeup_new sched_kthread_stop sched_process_fork sched_switch sched_kthread_stop_ret sched_process_free sched_wait_task sched_migrate_task sched_process_wait sched_wakeup # ls /debug/tracing/events/irq irq_handler_entry irq_handler_exit If we add #define TRACE_SYSTEM sched to the trace/sched_event_types.h then the rest of the trace events will be put in a sched directory within the events directory. I've been playing with this idea of the subsystem for a while, but recently Tom Zanussi posted some patches to lkml that included this method. Tom's approach was clean and got me to finally put some effort to clean up the event trace points. Thanks to Tom Zanussi for demonstrating how nice the subsystem method is. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/trace/events.c b/kernel/trace/events.c
index 46e27ad2487..4e4e45860c5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/events.c
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
* This is the place to register all trace points as events.
*/
+/* someday this needs to go in a generic header */
+#define __STR(x) #x
+#define STR(x) __STR(x)
+
#include <trace/trace_events.h>
#include "trace_events.h"