1) With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from
a list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set, will
have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have their
child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be traced as well.
Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in set_event_pid
exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid
2) The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very
thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
events and their fields.
Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami Hiramatsu
added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers. Also I added
a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when filters are set.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure.
- With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from a
list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set,
will have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have
their child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be
traced as well.
Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in
set_event_pid exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid
- The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very
thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
events and their fields.
Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami
Hiramatsu added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers.
Also I added a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when
filters are set"
* tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logic
tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL
tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit()
tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user
tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local
tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_user
tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctly
tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field
tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instances
tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code
kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger
tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier
kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcases
kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcases
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