Linux Kernel Markers

The marker activation functions sits in kernel/marker.c.  A hash table is used
to keep track of the registered probes and armed markers, so the markers
within a newly loaded module that should be active can be activated at module
load time.

marker_query has been removed. marker_get_first, marker_get_next and
marker_release should be used as iterators on the markers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

include/linux/marker.h

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_MARKER_H
+#define _LINUX_MARKER_H
+
+/*
+ * Code markup for dynamic and static tracing.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/marker.txt.
+ *
+ * (C) Copyright 2006 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPLv2.
+ * See the file COPYING for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+struct module;
+struct marker;
+
+/**
+ * marker_probe_func - Type of a marker probe function
+ * @mdata: pointer of type struct marker
+ * @private_data: caller site private data
+ * @fmt: format string
+ * @...: variable argument list
+ *
+ * Type of marker probe functions. They receive the mdata and need to parse the
+ * format string to recover the variable argument list.
+ */
+typedef void marker_probe_func(const struct marker *mdata,
+	void *private_data, const char *fmt, ...);
+
+struct marker {
+	const char *name;	/* Marker name */
+	const char *format;	/* Marker format string, describing the
+				 * variable argument list.
+				 */
+	char state;		/* Marker state. */
+	marker_probe_func *call;/* Probe handler function pointer */
+	void *private;		/* Private probe data */
+} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MARKERS
+
+/*
+ * Note : the empty asm volatile with read constraint is used here instead of a
+ * "used" attribute to fix a gcc 4.1.x bug.
+ * Make sure the alignment of the structure in the __markers section will
+ * not add unwanted padding between the beginning of the section and the
+ * structure. Force alignment to the same alignment as the section start.
+ */
+#define __trace_mark(name, call_data, format, args...)			\
+	do {								\
+		static const char __mstrtab_name_##name[]		\
+		__attribute__((section("__markers_strings")))		\
+		= #name;						\
+		static const char __mstrtab_format_##name[]		\
+		__attribute__((section("__markers_strings")))		\
+		= format;						\
+		static struct marker __mark_##name			\
+		__attribute__((section("__markers"), aligned(8))) =	\
+		{ __mstrtab_name_##name, __mstrtab_format_##name,	\
+		0, __mark_empty_function, NULL };			\
+		asm volatile("" : : "i" (&__mark_##name));		\
+		__mark_check_format(format, ## args);			\
+		if (unlikely(__mark_##name.state)) {			\
+			preempt_disable();				\
+			(*__mark_##name.call)				\
+				(&__mark_##name, call_data,		\
+				format, ## args);			\
+			preempt_enable();				\
+		}							\
+	} while (0)
+
+extern void marker_update_probe_range(struct marker *begin,
+	struct marker *end, struct module *probe_module, int *refcount);
+#else /* !CONFIG_MARKERS */
+#define __trace_mark(name, call_data, format, args...) \
+		__mark_check_format(format, ## args)
+static inline void marker_update_probe_range(struct marker *begin,
+	struct marker *end, struct module *probe_module, int *refcount)
+{ }
+#endif /* CONFIG_MARKERS */
+
+/**
+ * trace_mark - Marker
+ * @name: marker name, not quoted.
+ * @format: format string
+ * @args...: variable argument list
+ *
+ * Places a marker.
+ */
+#define trace_mark(name, format, args...) \
+	__trace_mark(name, NULL, format, ## args)
+
+#define MARK_MAX_FORMAT_LEN	1024
+
+/**
+ * MARK_NOARGS - Format string for a marker with no argument.
+ */
+#define MARK_NOARGS " "
+
+/* To be used for string format validity checking with gcc */
+static inline void __printf(1, 2) __mark_check_format(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+}
+
+extern marker_probe_func __mark_empty_function;
+
+/*
+ * Connect a probe to a marker.
+ * private data pointer must be a valid allocated memory address, or NULL.
+ */
+extern int marker_probe_register(const char *name, const char *format,
+				marker_probe_func *probe, void *private);
+
+/*
+ * Returns the private data given to marker_probe_register.
+ */
+extern void *marker_probe_unregister(const char *name);
+/*
+ * Unregister a marker by providing the registered private data.
+ */
+extern void *marker_probe_unregister_private_data(void *private);
+
+extern int marker_arm(const char *name);
+extern int marker_disarm(const char *name);
+extern void *marker_get_private_data(const char *name);
+
+#endif