[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust] Improve tracelog handling, reduce exported functions

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

----- On May 20, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Norbert Lange nolange79 at gmail.com wrote:

> Am Do., 20. Mai 2021 um 18:25 Uhr schrieb Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>:
>>
>> ----- On May 20, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Norbert Lange nolange79 at gmail.com wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> >> What prevents you from linking against lttng-ust.so again ?
>> >
>> > I did not poke around enough with Lttng to be confident it wont have
>> > side effects,
>> > I really don't want it active in production. It doesn't seem there is
>> > much public knowledge with Xenomai either.
>> > lttng-ust.so will spawn threads, lttng-ust-tracepoint.so is mostly passive,
>>
>> There is indeed a split between instrumentation and runtime threads done
>> with lttng-ust-tracepoint.so vs lttng-ust.so.
>>
>> I understand that this split is missing for tracelog and tracef, and
>> would be a good thing to have.
>>
>> I would be interested to move the tracelog and tracef implementation
>> from liblttng-ust.so to liblttng-ust-tracepoint.so, even this late
>> in the -rc cycle, because all users of tracelog/tracef need to link
>> against liblttng-ust-tracepoint.so anyway. So moving these symbols
>> should not affect anyone.
>>
>> Can you give it a try and let me know if it works for you ?
> 
> Will take some time, whats the timeframe you need for feedback?

Here is the tentative commit:

https://review.lttng.org/c/lttng-ust/+/5927 Move tracef/tracelog symbols to liblttng-ust-tracepoint.so

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
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