From 2d622719f1572ef31e0616444a515eba3094d050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:30:49 -0500 Subject: tracing: add ring_buffer_event_discard() to ring buffer This patch overloads RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING to provide a way to discard events from the ring buffer, for the event-filtering mechanism introduced in a subsequent patch. I did the initial version but thanks to Steven Rostedt for adding the parts that actually made it work. ;-) Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/ring_buffer.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h index 9e6052bd1a1c..e1b7b2173885 100644 --- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h +++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h @@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ struct ring_buffer_event { /** * enum ring_buffer_type - internal ring buffer types * - * @RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: Left over page padding - * array is ignored - * size is variable depending on how much + * @RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: Left over page padding or discarded event + * If time_delta is 0: + * array is ignored + * size is variable depending on how much * padding is needed + * If time_delta is non zero: + * everything else same as RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA * * @RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND: Extend the time delta * array[0] = time delta (28 .. 59) @@ -65,6 +68,8 @@ ring_buffer_event_time_delta(struct ring_buffer_event *event) return event->time_delta; } +void ring_buffer_event_discard(struct ring_buffer_event *event); + /* * size is in bytes for each per CPU buffer. */ -- cgit