[lttng-dev] LTTng wrapper cleanup

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Wed Nov 30 14:13:20 EST 2011


* Greg KH (greg at kroah.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Here is the cleanup of the LTTng wrappers that used kallsyms to lookup
> > some kernel symbols. I introduce the missing symbols in the mainline
> > kernel, trying to follow the local exports already in place when it
> > comes to choosing between EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. I also
> > removed wrappers that deal with API changes across kernel versions (for
> > older kernels). Only few wrapper files are left at this point (TODO),
> > but those are less repulsive than those that used kallsyms:
> > 
> > - inline_memcpy.h: ensures that inline_memcpy is declared on all
> >   architectures.
> > - poll.h: see TODO file, "Features" section.
> > - trace-clock.h: see TODO file, "Features" section.
> > - ringbuffer: those are internal to the driver. They were there to make
> >   it easier to switch between the ringbuffer deployed in my own kernel
> >   tree and the module-specific ringbuffer.
> > 
> > The 3 first patches are small cleanups recommended to me by a static
> > checker.
> > 
> > Diffstat:
> > 
> >  b/drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c |    6 
> >  b/drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_mmap.c     |    3 
> >  drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_mmap.c       |    3 
> 
> Hm, try 'diffstat -p1' next time please, for a cleaner "real" version of
> what is going on here.

I knew there was something funny with this diff, but you pointed out the
solution. Thanks! Here is the update:

 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c |    6 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_mmap.c     |    6 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_vfs.c      |    3 
 mm/nommu.c                                                  |    1 
 mm/vmalloc.c                                                |    1 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/kallsyms.h                    |   32 --
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_backend.c  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-context.c                         |    1 
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-debugfs-abi.c                     |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-events.c                          |   14 
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-ring-buffer-client.h              |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-ring-buffer-metadata-client.h     |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-nice.c                  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-perf-counters.c         |   12 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-pid.c                   |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-ppid.c                  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-prio.c                  |   26 -
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-procname.c              |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-tid.c                   |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-vpid.c                  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-vppid.c                 |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-context-vtid.c                  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lttng-syscalls.c                      |    2 
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/lttng-events.h                 |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/lttng-ftrace.c                 |  192 ------------
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/lttng-kprobes.c                |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/lttng-kretprobes.c             |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/lttng-types.c                  |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/vmalloc.h                     |   49 ---
 fs/splice.c                                                 |    1 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/Makefile                          |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_splice.c   |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/splice.c                      |   46 --
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/splice.h                      |   23 -
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/perf.h                        |   32 --
 drivers/staging/lttng/README                                |    4 
 drivers/staging/lttng/probes/Makefile                       |    4 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/ftrace.h                      |   70 ----
 drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/frontend_types.h       |    1 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/spinlock.h                    |   26 -
 drivers/staging/lttng/ltt-events.h                          |    3 
 drivers/staging/lttng/wrapper/uuid.h                        |   29 -
 kernel/sched.c                                              |    1 
 43 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 595 deletions(-)


-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com



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