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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-11 19:03:54 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-11 20:35:30 +0200
commitdc4ddb4c0b7348f1c9759ae8a9e7d734dc1cda82 (patch)
tree00c0df5d9b7809a0c0cf89713c55c7e04ce6c248 /include/trace
parente8f9f4d79a677f55c8ec3acbe87b33a87e2df0de (diff)
downloadlinux-dc4ddb4c0b7348f1c9759ae8a9e7d734dc1cda82.tar.gz
tracing: Add fields format definition for syscall events
Define the format of the syscall trace fields to parse the binary
values from a raw trace using the syscall events "format" file.

This is defined dynamically using the syscalls metadata.
It prepares the export of syscall event raw records to perf
counters.

Example:

$ cat /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_sched_getparam/format
name: sys_enter_sched_getparam
ID: 39
format:
	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;
	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;
	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;
	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;
	field:int common_tgid;	offset:8;	size:4;

	field:pid_t pid;	offset:12;	size:8;
	field:struct sched_param * param;	offset:20;	size:8;

print fmt: "pid: 0x%08lx, param: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->pid)), ((unsigned long)(REC->param))

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace')
-rw-r--r--include/trace/syscall.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/syscall.h b/include/trace/syscall.h
index 3ab6dd18fa3a..0cb03625edd9 100644
--- a/include/trace/syscall.h
+++ b/include/trace/syscall.h
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ extern int reg_event_syscall_enter(void *ptr);
 extern void unreg_event_syscall_enter(void *ptr);
 extern int reg_event_syscall_exit(void *ptr);
 extern void unreg_event_syscall_exit(void *ptr);
+extern int
+ftrace_format_syscall(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct trace_seq *s);
 enum print_line_t print_syscall_enter(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags);
 enum print_line_t print_syscall_exit(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags);
 #endif