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![]() There are some code paths in the kernel that need to do some preparations before it calls a tracepoint. As that code is worthless overhead when the tracepoint is not enabled, it would be prudent to have that code only run when the tracepoint is active. To accomplish this, all tracepoints now get a static inline function called "trace_<tracepoint-name>_enabled()" which returns true when the tracepoint is enabled and false otherwise. As an added bonus, that function uses the static_key of the tracepoint such that no branch is needed. if (trace_mytracepoint_enabled()) { arg = process_tp_arg(); trace_mytracepoint(arg); } Will keep the "process_tp_arg()" (which may be expensive to run) from being executed when the tracepoint isn't enabled. It's best to encapsulate the tracepoint itself in the if statement just to keep races. For example, if you had: if (trace_mytracepoint_enabled()) arg = process_tp_arg(); trace_mytracepoint(arg); There's a chance that the tracepoint could be enabled just after the if statement, and arg will be undefined when calling the tracepoint. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140506094407.507b6435@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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events-kmem.txt | ||
events-nmi.txt | ||
events-power.txt | ||
events.txt | ||
ftrace-design.txt | ||
ftrace.txt | ||
function-graph-fold.vim | ||
kprobetrace.txt | ||
mmiotrace.txt | ||
ring-buffer-design.txt | ||
tracepoint-analysis.txt | ||
tracepoints.txt | ||
uprobetracer.txt |