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authorEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>2009-03-23 15:12:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-31 17:45:02 +0200
commitbdd6df6af98ce7e70702edfb5fd5dbbd8d1b0453 (patch)
treed590d52a6837e0201abf8fd4461fa177d3658a5a /kernel/trace
parent2a4efa42450762cbfa5c5712aa4cc9f06924c9fd (diff)
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
trace_seq_reserve() allows a caller to reserve space in a trace_seq and write directly into it. This makes it easier to export binary data to userspace via the tracing interface, by simply filling in a struct. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_output.c13
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_output.h1
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index 19261fdd2455..6595074cbac5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -167,6 +167,19 @@ int trace_seq_putmem_hex(struct trace_seq *s, void *mem, size_t len)
return trace_seq_putmem(s, hex, j);
}
+void *trace_seq_reserve(struct trace_seq *s, size_t len)
+{
+ void *ret;
+
+ if (len > ((PAGE_SIZE - 1) - s->len))
+ return NULL;
+
+ ret = s->buffer + s->len;
+ s->len += len;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
int trace_seq_path(struct trace_seq *s, struct path *path)
{
unsigned char *p;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.h b/kernel/trace/trace_output.h
index 35c422fb51a9..0ae20b83eec8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ int trace_seq_puts(struct trace_seq *s, const char *str);
int trace_seq_putc(struct trace_seq *s, unsigned char c);
int trace_seq_putmem(struct trace_seq *s, void *mem, size_t len);
int trace_seq_putmem_hex(struct trace_seq *s, void *mem, size_t len);
+void *trace_seq_reserve(struct trace_seq *s, size_t len);
int trace_seq_path(struct trace_seq *s, struct path *path);
int seq_print_userip_objs(const struct userstack_entry *entry,
struct trace_seq *s, unsigned long sym_flags);