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    tracing/ftrace: provide the base infrastructure for histogram tracing · dbd0b4b3
    Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
    Impact: extend the tracing API
    
    The goal of this patch is to normalize and make more easy the
    implementation of statistical (histogram) tracing.
    
    It implements a trace_stat file into the /debugfs/tracing directory where
    one can print a one-shot output of statistics/histogram entries.
    
    A tracer has to provide two basic iterator callbacks:
    
      stat_start() => the first entry
      stat_next(prev, idx) => the next one.
    
    Note that it is adapted for arrays or hash tables or lists.... since it
    provides a pointer to the previous entry and the current index of the
    iterator.
    
    These two callbacks are called to get a snapshot of the statistics at each
    opening of the trace_stat file because. The values are so updated between
    two "cat trace_stat". And the tracer is free to lock its datas during the
    iteration to keep consistent values.
    
    Since it is almost always interesting to sort statisticals values to
    address the problems by priority, this infrastructure provides a "sorting"
    of the stat entries too if desired. A tracer has just to provide a
    stat_cmp callback to compare two entries and the stat tracing
    infrastructure will build a sorted list of the given entries.
    
    A last callback, called stat_headers, can be implemented by a tracer to
    output headers on its trace.
    
    If one of these callbacks is changed on runtime, it just have to signal it
    to the stat tracing API by calling the init_tracer_stat() helper.
    
    Changes in V2:
    
    - Fix a memory leak if the user opens multiple times the trace_stat file
      without closing it. Now we always free our list before rebuilding it.
    Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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