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| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_printk.c | 19 |
4 files changed, 62 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 69732d279e8..83e2c31e8b0 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -122,8 +122,12 @@ #define TRACE_PRINTKS() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___trace_bprintk_fmt) = .; \ *(__trace_printk_fmt) /* Trace_printk fmt' pointer */ \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt) = .; +#define TRACEPOINT_STR() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoint_str) = .; \ + *(__tracepoint_str) /* Trace_printk fmt' pointer */ \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoint_str) = .; #else #define TRACE_PRINTKS() +#define TRACEPOINT_STR() #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS @@ -190,7 +194,8 @@ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___verbose) = .; \ LIKELY_PROFILE() \ BRANCH_PROFILE() \ - TRACE_PRINTKS() + TRACE_PRINTKS() \ + TRACEPOINT_STR() /* * Data section helpers diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h index 4372658c73a..81af18a75f4 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h @@ -357,6 +357,40 @@ 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; diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index 4a4f6e1828b..ba321f12df8 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@ extern struct list_head ftrace_events; extern const char *__start___trace_bprintk_fmt[]; extern const char *__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt[]; +extern const char *__start___tracepoint_str[]; +extern const char *__stop___tracepoint_str[]; + void trace_printk_init_buffers(void); void trace_printk_start_comm(void); int trace_keep_overwrite(struct tracer *tracer, u32 mask, int set); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c index a9077c1b4ad..2900817ba65 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c @@ -244,12 +244,31 @@ static const char **find_next(void *v, loff_t *pos) { const char **fmt = v; int start_index; + int last_index; start_index = __stop___trace_bprintk_fmt - __start___trace_bprintk_fmt; if (*pos < start_index) return __start___trace_bprintk_fmt + *pos; + /* + * The __tracepoint_str section is treated the same as the + * __trace_printk_fmt section. The difference is that the + * __trace_printk_fmt section should only be used by trace_printk() + * in a debugging environment, as if anything exists in that section + * the trace_prink() helper buffers are allocated, which would just + * waste space in a production environment. + * + * The __tracepoint_str sections on the other hand are used by + * tracepoints which need to map pointers to their strings to + * the ASCII text for userspace. + */ + last_index = start_index; + start_index = __stop___tracepoint_str - __start___tracepoint_str; + + if (*pos < last_index + start_index) + return __start___tracepoint_str + (*pos - last_index); + return find_next_mod_format(start_index, v, fmt, pos); } |