linux/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
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   1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
   2/*
   3 * If TRACE_SYSTEM is defined, that will be the directory created
   4 * in the ftrace directory under /sys/kernel/tracing/events/<system>
   5 *
   6 * The define_trace.h below will also look for a file name of
   7 * TRACE_SYSTEM.h where TRACE_SYSTEM is what is defined here.
   8 * In this case, it would look for sample-trace.h
   9 *
  10 * If the header name will be different than the system name
  11 * (as in this case), then you can override the header name that
  12 * define_trace.h will look up by defining TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
  13 *
  14 * This file is called trace-events-sample.h but we want the system
  15 * to be called "sample-trace". Therefore we must define the name of this
  16 * file:
  17 *
  18 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE trace-events-sample
  19 *
  20 * As we do an the bottom of this file.
  21 *
  22 * Notice that TRACE_SYSTEM should be defined outside of #if
  23 * protection, just like TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.
  24 */
  25#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
  26#define TRACE_SYSTEM sample-trace
  27
  28/*
  29 * TRACE_SYSTEM is expected to be a C valid variable (alpha-numeric
  30 * and underscore), although it may start with numbers. If for some
  31 * reason it is not, you need to add the following lines:
  32 */
  33#undef TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR
  34#define TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR sample_trace
  35/*
  36 * But the above is only needed if TRACE_SYSTEM is not alpha-numeric
  37 * and underscored. By default, TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR will be equal to
  38 * TRACE_SYSTEM. As TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR must be alpha-numeric, if
  39 * TRACE_SYSTEM is not, then TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR must be defined with
  40 * only alpha-numeric and underscores.
  41 *
  42 * The TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR is only used internally and not visible to
  43 * user space.
  44 */
  45
  46/*
  47 * Notice that this file is not protected like a normal header.
  48 * We also must allow for rereading of this file. The
  49 *
  50 *  || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
  51 *
  52 * serves this purpose.
  53 */
  54#if !defined(_TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
  55#define _TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_H
  56
  57/*
  58 * All trace headers should include tracepoint.h, until we finally
  59 * make it into a standard header.
  60 */
  61#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
  62
  63/*
  64 * The TRACE_EVENT macro is broken up into 5 parts.
  65 *
  66 * name: name of the trace point. This is also how to enable the tracepoint.
  67 *   A function called trace_foo_bar() will be created.
  68 *
  69 * proto: the prototype of the function trace_foo_bar()
  70 *   Here it is trace_foo_bar(char *foo, int bar).
  71 *
  72 * args:  must match the arguments in the prototype.
  73 *    Here it is simply "foo, bar".
  74 *
  75 * struct:  This defines the way the data will be stored in the ring buffer.
  76 *          The items declared here become part of a special structure
  77 *          called "__entry", which can be used in the fast_assign part of the
  78 *          TRACE_EVENT macro.
  79 *
  80 *      Here are the currently defined types you can use:
  81 *
  82 *   __field : Is broken up into type and name. Where type can be any
  83 *         primitive type (integer, long or pointer).
  84 *
  85 *        __field(int, foo)
  86 *
  87 *        __entry->foo = 5;
  88 *
  89 *   __field_struct : This can be any static complex data type (struct, union
  90 *         but not an array). Be careful using complex types, as each
  91 *         event is limited in size, and copying large amounts of data
  92 *         into the ring buffer can slow things down.
  93 *
  94 *         __field_struct(struct bar, foo)
  95 *
  96 *         __entry->bar.x = y;
  97
  98 *   __array: There are three fields (type, name, size). The type is the
  99 *         type of elements in the array, the name is the name of the array.
 100 *         size is the number of items in the array (not the total size).
 101 *
 102 *         __array( char, foo, 10) is the same as saying: char foo[10];
 103 *
 104 *         Assigning arrays can be done like any array:
 105 *
 106 *         __entry->foo[0] = 'a';
 107 *
 108 *         memcpy(__entry->foo, bar, 10);
 109 *
 110 *   __dynamic_array: This is similar to array, but can vary its size from
 111 *         instance to instance of the tracepoint being called.
 112 *         Like __array, this too has three elements (type, name, size);
 113 *         type is the type of the element, name is the name of the array.
 114 *         The size is different than __array. It is not a static number,
 115 *         but the algorithm to figure out the length of the array for the
 116 *         specific instance of tracepoint. Again, size is the number of
 117 *         items in the array, not the total length in bytes.
 118 *
 119 *         __dynamic_array( int, foo, bar) is similar to: int foo[bar];
 120 *
 121 *         Note, unlike arrays, you must use the __get_dynamic_array() macro
 122 *         to access the array.
 123 *
 124 *         memcpy(__get_dynamic_array(foo), bar, 10);
 125 *
 126 *         Notice, that "__entry" is not needed here.
 127 *
 128 *   __string: This is a special kind of __dynamic_array. It expects to
 129 *         have a null terminated character array passed to it (it allows
 130 *         for NULL too, which would be converted into "(null)"). __string
 131 *         takes two parameter (name, src), where name is the name of
 132 *         the string saved, and src is the string to copy into the
 133 *         ring buffer.
 134 *
 135 *         __string(foo, bar)  is similar to:  strcpy(foo, bar)
 136 *
 137 *         To assign a string, use the helper macro __assign_str().
 138 *
 139 *         __assign_str(foo, bar);
 140 *
 141 *         In most cases, the __assign_str() macro will take the same
 142 *         parameters as the __string() macro had to declare the string.
 143 *
 144 *   __string_len: This is a helper to a __dynamic_array, but it understands
 145 *         that the array has characters in it, and with the combined
 146 *         use of __assign_str_len(), it will allocate 'len' + 1 bytes
 147 *         in the ring buffer and add a '\0' to the string. This is
 148 *         useful if the string being saved has no terminating '\0' byte.
 149 *         It requires that the length of the string is known as it acts
 150 *         like a memcpy().
 151 *
 152 *         Declared with:
 153 *
 154 *         __string_len(foo, bar, len)
 155 *
 156 *         To assign this string, use the helper macro __assign_str_len().
 157 *
 158 *         __assign_str(foo, bar, len);
 159 *
 160 *         Then len + 1 is allocated to the ring buffer, and a nul terminating
 161 *         byte is added. This is similar to:
 162 *
 163 *         memcpy(__get_str(foo), bar, len);
 164 *         __get_str(foo)[len] = 0;
 165 *
 166 *        The advantage of using this over __dynamic_array, is that it
 167 *        takes care of allocating the extra byte on the ring buffer
 168 *        for the '\0' terminating byte, and __get_str(foo) can be used
 169 *        in the TP_printk().
 170 *
 171 *   __bitmask: This is another kind of __dynamic_array, but it expects
 172 *         an array of longs, and the number of bits to parse. It takes
 173 *         two parameters (name, nr_bits), where name is the name of the
 174 *         bitmask to save, and the nr_bits is the number of bits to record.
 175 *
 176 *         __bitmask(target_cpu, nr_cpumask_bits)
 177 *
 178 *         To assign a bitmask, use the __assign_bitmask() helper macro.
 179 *
 180 *         __assign_bitmask(target_cpus, cpumask_bits(bar), nr_cpumask_bits);
 181 *
 182 *
 183 * fast_assign: This is a C like function that is used to store the items
 184 *    into the ring buffer. A special variable called "__entry" will be the
 185 *    structure that points into the ring buffer and has the same fields as
 186 *    described by the struct part of TRACE_EVENT above.
 187 *
 188 * printk: This is a way to print out the data in pretty print. This is
 189 *    useful if the system crashes and you are logging via a serial line,
 190 *    the data can be printed to the console using this "printk" method.
 191 *    This is also used to print out the data from the trace files.
 192 *    Again, the __entry macro is used to access the data from the ring buffer.
 193 *
 194 *    Note, __dynamic_array, __string, and __bitmask require special helpers
 195 *       to access the data.
 196 *
 197 *      For __dynamic_array(int, foo, bar) use __get_dynamic_array(foo)
 198 *            Use __get_dynamic_array_len(foo) to get the length of the array
 199 *            saved. Note, __get_dynamic_array_len() returns the total allocated
 200 *            length of the dynamic array; __print_array() expects the second
 201 *            parameter to be the number of elements. To get that, the array length
 202 *            needs to be divided by the element size.
 203 *
 204 *      For __string(foo, bar) use __get_str(foo)
 205 *
 206 *      For __bitmask(target_cpus, nr_cpumask_bits) use __get_bitmask(target_cpus)
 207 *
 208 *
 209 * Note, that for both the assign and the printk, __entry is the handler
 210 * to the data structure in the ring buffer, and is defined by the
 211 * TP_STRUCT__entry.
 212 */
 213
 214/*
 215 * It is OK to have helper functions in the file, but they need to be protected
 216 * from being defined more than once. Remember, this file gets included more
 217 * than once.
 218 */
 219#ifndef __TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_HELPER_FUNCTIONS
 220#define __TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_HELPER_FUNCTIONS
 221static inline int __length_of(const int *list)
 222{
 223        int i;
 224
 225        if (!list)
 226                return 0;
 227
 228        for (i = 0; list[i]; i++)
 229                ;
 230        return i;
 231}
 232
 233enum {
 234        TRACE_SAMPLE_FOO = 2,
 235        TRACE_SAMPLE_BAR = 4,
 236        TRACE_SAMPLE_ZOO = 8,
 237};
 238#endif
 239
 240/*
 241 * If enums are used in the TP_printk(), their names will be shown in
 242 * format files and not their values. This can cause problems with user
 243 * space programs that parse the format files to know how to translate
 244 * the raw binary trace output into human readable text.
 245 *
 246 * To help out user space programs, any enum that is used in the TP_printk()
 247 * should be defined by TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro. All that is needed to
 248 * be done is to add this macro with the enum within it in the trace
 249 * header file, and it will be converted in the output.
 250 */
 251
 252TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TRACE_SAMPLE_FOO);
 253TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TRACE_SAMPLE_BAR);
 254TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TRACE_SAMPLE_ZOO);
 255
 256TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
 257
 258        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar, const int *lst,
 259                 const char *string, const struct cpumask *mask),
 260
 261        TP_ARGS(foo, bar, lst, string, mask),
 262
 263        TP_STRUCT__entry(
 264                __array(        char,   foo,    10              )
 265                __field(        int,    bar                     )
 266                __dynamic_array(int,    list,   __length_of(lst))
 267                __string(       str,    string                  )
 268                __bitmask(      cpus,   num_possible_cpus()     )
 269        ),
 270
 271        TP_fast_assign(
 272                strlcpy(__entry->foo, foo, 10);
 273                __entry->bar    = bar;
 274                memcpy(__get_dynamic_array(list), lst,
 275                       __length_of(lst) * sizeof(int));
 276                __assign_str(str, string);
 277                __assign_bitmask(cpus, cpumask_bits(mask), num_possible_cpus());
 278        ),
 279
 280        TP_printk("foo %s %d %s %s %s %s (%s)", __entry->foo, __entry->bar,
 281
 282/*
 283 * Notice here the use of some helper functions. This includes:
 284 *
 285 *  __print_symbolic( variable, { value, "string" }, ... ),
 286 *
 287 *    The variable is tested against each value of the { } pair. If
 288 *    the variable matches one of the values, then it will print the
 289 *    string in that pair. If non are matched, it returns a string
 290 *    version of the number (if __entry->bar == 7 then "7" is returned).
 291 */
 292                  __print_symbolic(__entry->bar,
 293                                   { 0, "zero" },
 294                                   { TRACE_SAMPLE_FOO, "TWO" },
 295                                   { TRACE_SAMPLE_BAR, "FOUR" },
 296                                   { TRACE_SAMPLE_ZOO, "EIGHT" },
 297                                   { 10, "TEN" }
 298                          ),
 299
 300/*
 301 *  __print_flags( variable, "delim", { value, "flag" }, ... ),
 302 *
 303 *    This is similar to __print_symbolic, except that it tests the bits
 304 *    of the value. If ((FLAG & variable) == FLAG) then the string is
 305 *    printed. If more than one flag matches, then each one that does is
 306 *    also printed with delim in between them.
 307 *    If not all bits are accounted for, then the not found bits will be
 308 *    added in hex format: 0x506 will show BIT2|BIT4|0x500
 309 */
 310                  __print_flags(__entry->bar, "|",
 311                                { 1, "BIT1" },
 312                                { 2, "BIT2" },
 313                                { 4, "BIT3" },
 314                                { 8, "BIT4" }
 315                          ),
 316/*
 317 *  __print_array( array, len, element_size )
 318 *
 319 *    This prints out the array that is defined by __array in a nice format.
 320 */
 321                  __print_array(__get_dynamic_array(list),
 322                                __get_dynamic_array_len(list) / sizeof(int),
 323                                sizeof(int)),
 324                  __get_str(str), __get_bitmask(cpus))
 325);
 326
 327/*
 328 * There may be a case where a tracepoint should only be called if
 329 * some condition is set. Otherwise the tracepoint should not be called.
 330 * But to do something like:
 331 *
 332 *  if (cond)
 333 *     trace_foo();
 334 *
 335 * Would cause a little overhead when tracing is not enabled, and that
 336 * overhead, even if small, is not something we want. As tracepoints
 337 * use static branch (aka jump_labels), where no branch is taken to
 338 * skip the tracepoint when not enabled, and a jmp is placed to jump
 339 * to the tracepoint code when it is enabled, having a if statement
 340 * nullifies that optimization. It would be nice to place that
 341 * condition within the static branch. This is where TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION
 342 * comes in.
 343 *
 344 * TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION() is just like TRACE_EVENT, except it adds another
 345 * parameter just after args. Where TRACE_EVENT has:
 346 *
 347 * TRACE_EVENT(name, proto, args, struct, assign, printk)
 348 *
 349 * the CONDITION version has:
 350 *
 351 * TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION(name, proto, args, cond, struct, assign, printk)
 352 *
 353 * Everything is the same as TRACE_EVENT except for the new cond. Think
 354 * of the cond variable as:
 355 *
 356 *   if (cond)
 357 *      trace_foo_bar_with_cond();
 358 *
 359 * Except that the logic for the if branch is placed after the static branch.
 360 * That is, the if statement that processes the condition will not be
 361 * executed unless that traecpoint is enabled. Otherwise it still remains
 362 * a nop.
 363 */
 364TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION(foo_bar_with_cond,
 365
 366        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 367
 368        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 369
 370        TP_CONDITION(!(bar % 10)),
 371
 372        TP_STRUCT__entry(
 373                __string(       foo,    foo             )
 374                __field(        int,    bar                     )
 375        ),
 376
 377        TP_fast_assign(
 378                __assign_str(foo, foo);
 379                __entry->bar    = bar;
 380        ),
 381
 382        TP_printk("foo %s %d", __get_str(foo), __entry->bar)
 383);
 384
 385int foo_bar_reg(void);
 386void foo_bar_unreg(void);
 387
 388/*
 389 * Now in the case that some function needs to be called when the
 390 * tracepoint is enabled and/or when it is disabled, the
 391 * TRACE_EVENT_FN() serves this purpose. This is just like TRACE_EVENT()
 392 * but adds two more parameters at the end:
 393 *
 394 * TRACE_EVENT_FN( name, proto, args, struct, assign, printk, reg, unreg)
 395 *
 396 * reg and unreg are functions with the prototype of:
 397 *
 398 *    void reg(void)
 399 *
 400 * The reg function gets called before the tracepoint is enabled, and
 401 * the unreg function gets called after the tracepoint is disabled.
 402 *
 403 * Note, reg and unreg are allowed to be NULL. If you only need to
 404 * call a function before enabling, or after disabling, just set one
 405 * function and pass in NULL for the other parameter.
 406 */
 407TRACE_EVENT_FN(foo_bar_with_fn,
 408
 409        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 410
 411        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 412
 413        TP_STRUCT__entry(
 414                __string(       foo,    foo             )
 415                __field(        int,    bar             )
 416        ),
 417
 418        TP_fast_assign(
 419                __assign_str(foo, foo);
 420                __entry->bar    = bar;
 421        ),
 422
 423        TP_printk("foo %s %d", __get_str(foo), __entry->bar),
 424
 425        foo_bar_reg, foo_bar_unreg
 426);
 427
 428/*
 429 * Each TRACE_EVENT macro creates several helper functions to produce
 430 * the code to add the tracepoint, create the files in the trace
 431 * directory, hook it to perf, assign the values and to print out
 432 * the raw data from the ring buffer. To prevent too much bloat,
 433 * if there are more than one tracepoint that uses the same format
 434 * for the proto, args, struct, assign and printk, and only the name
 435 * is different, it is highly recommended to use the DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
 436 *
 437 * DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() macro creates most of the functions for the
 438 * tracepoint. Then DEFINE_EVENT() is use to hook a tracepoint to those
 439 * functions. This DEFINE_EVENT() is an instance of the class and can
 440 * be enabled and disabled separately from other events (either TRACE_EVENT
 441 * or other DEFINE_EVENT()s).
 442 *
 443 * Note, TRACE_EVENT() itself is simply defined as:
 444 *
 445 * #define TRACE_EVENT(name, proto, args, tstruct, assign, printk)  \
 446 *  DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(name, proto, args, tstruct, assign, printk); \
 447 *  DEFINE_EVENT(name, name, proto, args)
 448 *
 449 * The DEFINE_EVENT() also can be declared with conditions and reg functions:
 450 *
 451 * DEFINE_EVENT_CONDITION(template, name, proto, args, cond);
 452 * DEFINE_EVENT_FN(template, name, proto, args, reg, unreg);
 453 */
 454DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(foo_template,
 455
 456        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 457
 458        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 459
 460        TP_STRUCT__entry(
 461                __string(       foo,    foo             )
 462                __field(        int,    bar             )
 463        ),
 464
 465        TP_fast_assign(
 466                __assign_str(foo, foo);
 467                __entry->bar    = bar;
 468        ),
 469
 470        TP_printk("foo %s %d", __get_str(foo), __entry->bar)
 471);
 472
 473/*
 474 * Here's a better way for the previous samples (except, the first
 475 * example had more fields and could not be used here).
 476 */
 477DEFINE_EVENT(foo_template, foo_with_template_simple,
 478        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 479        TP_ARGS(foo, bar));
 480
 481DEFINE_EVENT_CONDITION(foo_template, foo_with_template_cond,
 482        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 483        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 484        TP_CONDITION(!(bar % 8)));
 485
 486
 487DEFINE_EVENT_FN(foo_template, foo_with_template_fn,
 488        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 489        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 490        foo_bar_reg, foo_bar_unreg);
 491
 492/*
 493 * Anytime two events share basically the same values and have
 494 * the same output, use the DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT()
 495 * when ever possible.
 496 */
 497
 498/*
 499 * If the event is similar to the DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, but you need
 500 * to have a different output, then use DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT() which
 501 * lets you override the TP_printk() of the class.
 502 */
 503
 504DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT(foo_template, foo_with_template_print,
 505        TP_PROTO(const char *foo, int bar),
 506        TP_ARGS(foo, bar),
 507        TP_printk("bar %s %d", __get_str(foo), __entry->bar));
 508
 509#endif
 510
 511/***** NOTICE! The #if protection ends here. *****/
 512
 513
 514/*
 515 * There are several ways I could have done this. If I left out the
 516 * TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH, then it would default to the kernel source
 517 * include/trace/events directory.
 518 *
 519 * I could specify a path from the define_trace.h file back to this
 520 * file.
 521 *
 522 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH ../../samples/trace_events
 523 *
 524 * But the safest and easiest way to simply make it use the directory
 525 * that the file is in is to add in the Makefile:
 526 *
 527 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(src)
 528 *
 529 * This will make sure the current path is part of the include
 530 * structure for our file so that define_trace.h can find it.
 531 *
 532 * I could have made only the top level directory the include:
 533 *
 534 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(PWD)
 535 *
 536 * And then let the path to this directory be the TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH:
 537 *
 538 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH samples/trace_events
 539 *
 540 * But then if something defines "samples" or "trace_events" as a macro
 541 * then we could risk that being converted too, and give us an unexpected
 542 * result.
 543 */
 544#undef TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH
 545#undef TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 546#define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH .
 547/*
 548 * TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE is not needed if the filename and TRACE_SYSTEM are equal
 549 */
 550#define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE trace-events-sample
 551#include <trace/define_trace.h>
 552