2 * Notice that this file is not protected like a normal header.
3 * We also must allow for rereading of this file. The
5 * || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
9 #if !defined(_TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
10 #define _TRACE_EVENT_SAMPLE_H
13 * All trace headers should include tracepoint.h, until we finally
14 * make it into a standard header.
16 #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
19 * If TRACE_SYSTEM is defined, that will be the directory created
20 * in the ftrace directory under /debugfs/tracing/events/<system>
22 * The define_trace.h below will also look for a file name of
23 * TRACE_SYSTEM.h where TRACE_SYSTEM is what is defined here.
24 * In this case, it would look for sample.h
26 * If the header name will be different than the system name
27 * (as in this case), then you can override the header name that
28 * define_trace.h will look up by defining TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
30 * This file is called trace-events-sample.h but we want the system
31 * to be called "sample". Therefore we must define the name of this
34 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE trace-events-sample
36 * As we do an the bottom of this file.
39 #define TRACE_SYSTEM sample
42 * The TRACE_EVENT macro is broken up into 5 parts.
44 * name: name of the trace point. This is also how to enable the tracepoint.
45 * A function called trace_foo_bar() will be created.
47 * proto: the prototype of the function trace_foo_bar()
48 * Here it is trace_foo_bar(char *foo, int bar).
50 * args: must match the arguments in the prototype.
51 * Here it is simply "foo, bar".
53 * struct: This defines the way the data will be stored in the ring buffer.
54 * There are currently two types of elements. __field and __array.
55 * a __field is broken up into (type, name). Where type can be any
57 * For an array. there are three fields. (type, name, size). The
58 * type of elements in the array, the name of the field and the size
61 * __array( char, foo, 10) is the same as saying char foo[10].
63 * fast_assign: This is a C like function that is used to store the items
64 * into the ring buffer.
66 * printk: This is a way to print out the data in pretty print. This is
67 * useful if the system crashes and you are logging via a serial line,
68 * the data can be printed to the console using this "printk" method.
70 * Note, that for both the assign and the printk, __entry is the handler
71 * to the data structure in the ring buffer, and is defined by the
76 TP_PROTO(char *foo
, int bar
),
81 __array( char, foo
, 10 )
86 strncpy(__entry
->foo
, foo
, 10);
90 TP_printk("foo %s %d", __entry
->foo
, __entry
->bar
)
94 /***** NOTICE! The #if protection ends here. *****/
98 * There are several ways I could have done this. If I left out the
99 * TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH, then it would default to the kernel source
100 * include/trace/events directory.
102 * I could specify a path from the define_trace.h file back to this
105 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH ../../samples/trace_events
107 * But the safest and easiest way to simply make it use the directory
108 * that the file is in is to add in the Makefile:
110 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(src)
112 * This will make sure the current path is part of the include
113 * structure for our file so that define_trace.h can find it.
115 * I could have made only the top level directory the include:
117 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(PWD)
119 * And then let the path to this directory be the TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH:
121 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH samples/trace_events
123 * But then if something defines "samples" or "trace_events" as a macro
124 * then we could risk that being converted too, and give us an unexpected
127 #undef TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH
128 #undef TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
129 #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH .
131 * TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE is not needed if the filename and TRACE_SYSTEM are equal
133 #define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE trace-events-sample
134 #include <trace/define_trace.h>