tracing/filters: add run-time field descriptions to TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events

This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats
exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT.  It also hooks up all the tracers
that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can
also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism.

When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me
into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were -
I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file
bug reports. ;-)

One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the
sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if
you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output
from the events without filters on them can make it look like the
filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing
what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing.

The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function
tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the
unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g.
cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in
awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the
trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file.
If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before
they disappear.

Changes from v1:

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:

- get rid of externs in functions
- added unlikely() to filter_check_discard()

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_branch.c b/kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
index e6e32912ffb8..c95c25d838ef 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static struct trace_array *branch_tracer;
 static void
 probe_likely_condition(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect)
 {
+	struct ftrace_event_call *call = &event_branch;
 	struct trace_array *tr = branch_tracer;
 	struct ring_buffer_event *event;
 	struct trace_branch *entry;
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ probe_likely_condition(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect)
 	entry->line = f->line;
 	entry->correct = val == expect;
 
+	filter_check_discard(call, entry, event);
+
 	ring_buffer_unlock_commit(tr->buffer, event);
 
  out: