[lttng-dev] tracepoint_enabled returns true for disabled provider, event

[Jonathan Rajotte-Julien]

Hi,

In the end this was a problem involving automatic session creation
(configuration) behind the back of Anders.

A "lttng list" helped figure out the problem.

lttng behave as expected.

Cheers

On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 02:42:22PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I troubleshooting a huge application where i experience the problem that
> even if tracepoint_enabled is used i get the huge overhead of formatting
> the output even if then the message is not sent to the lttng buffers.
> 
> The tracepoint loglevel is set to TRACE_INFO using the TRACEPOINT_LOGLEVEL
> macro. I managed to rebuild the application setting the level to
> TRACE_DEBUG instead and then i could print continuously that the
> tracepoint_enabled returned false. If i flip it back to TRACE_INFO
> tracepoint_enabled always returns true, hence do lots of string building
> but then no trace is actually sent off to lttng (which is correct since i
> haven't enabled the tracepoint). Even if i explicitly do disable event on
> the provider and tracepoint the TRACE_INFO tracepoints returns true in
> tracepoint_enabled
> 
> Is this by design that tracepoint_enabled always returns true for
> TRACE_INFO and lower values or is this configurable in any way?
> 
> I am using this inside a docker image running Wind River Linux
> bash-4.3# lttng --version
> lttng (LTTng Trace Control) 2.10.6 - KeKriek - v2.10.6-11-g8fcbf96
> bash-4.3#
> 
> Any advice are welcome!
> //Anders

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Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
EfficiOS