tracing: add format files for ftrace default entries
Impact: allow user apps to read binary format of basic ftrace entries
Currently, only defined raw events export their formats so a binary
reader can parse them. There's no reason that the default ftrace entries
can't export their formats.
This patch adds a subsystem called "ftrace" in the events directory
that includes the ftrace entries for basic ftrace recorded items.
These only have three files in the events directory:
type : printf
available_types : printf
format : format for the event entry
For example:
# cat /debug/tracing/events/ftrace/wakeup/format
name: wakeup
ID: 3
format:
field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1;
field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1;
field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1;
field:int pid; offset:4; size:4;
field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4;
field:unsigned int prev_pid; offset:12; size:4;
field:unsigned char prev_prio; offset:16; size:1;
field:unsigned char prev_state; offset:17; size:1;
field:unsigned int next_pid; offset:20; size:4;
field:unsigned char next_prio; offset:24; size:1;
field:unsigned char next_state; offset:25; size:1;
field:unsigned int next_cpu; offset:28; size:4;
print fmt: "%u:%u:%u ==+ %u:%u:%u [%03u]"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 210e71f..4488d90 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -656,11 +656,13 @@
return -1;
}
- entry = debugfs_create_file("enable", 0644, call->dir, call,
- &ftrace_enable_fops);
- if (!entry)
- pr_warning("Could not create debugfs "
- "'%s/enable' entry\n", call->name);
+ if (call->regfunc) {
+ entry = debugfs_create_file("enable", 0644, call->dir, call,
+ &ftrace_enable_fops);
+ if (!entry)
+ pr_warning("Could not create debugfs "
+ "'%s/enable' entry\n", call->name);
+ }
/* Only let type be writable, if we can change it */
entry = debugfs_create_file("type",