On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 16:57:37 -0500
Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> wrote:

> The tracepoint infrastructure assumes statically-defined tracepoints
> and uses static_keys for tracepoint enablement.  In order to define
> tracepoints on the fly, we need to have a dynamic counterpart.

Do we?

I believe the static keys should work just fine if you don't have any
defined static keys jumps, and they should work as a simple counter.

Could we do that instead of adding another variable to a structure that
is defined over a thousand times? Save us 4k of memory.

-- Steve

> 
> Add a 'dynamic' flag to struct tracepoint along with accompanying
> logic for this purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h |  1 +
>  kernel/tracepoint.c             | 18 +++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h b/include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h
> index a031920..bc22d54 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct tracepoint {
>       int (*regfunc)(void);
>       void (*unregfunc)(void);
>       struct tracepoint_func __rcu *funcs;
> +     bool dynamic;
>  };
>  
>  #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> index 685c50a..1c5957f 100644
> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> @@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>       struct tracepoint_func *old, *tp_funcs;
>       int ret;
>  
> -     if (tp->regfunc && !static_key_enabled(&tp->key)) {
> +     if (tp->regfunc &&
> +         ((tp->dynamic && !(atomic_read(&tp->key.enabled) > 0)) ||
> +          !static_key_enabled(&tp->key))) {
>               ret = tp->regfunc();
>               if (ret < 0)
>                       return ret;
> @@ -219,7 +221,9 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>        * is used.
>        */
>       rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
> -     if (!static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
> +     if (tp->dynamic && !(atomic_read(&tp->key.enabled) > 0))
> +             atomic_inc(&tp->key.enabled);
> +     else if (!tp->dynamic && !static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
>               static_key_slow_inc(&tp->key);
>       release_probes(old);
>       return 0;
> @@ -246,10 +250,14 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>  
>       if (!tp_funcs) {
>               /* Removed last function */
> -             if (tp->unregfunc && static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
> +             if (tp->unregfunc &&
> +                 ((tp->dynamic && (atomic_read(&tp->key.enabled) > 0)) ||
> +                  static_key_enabled(&tp->key)))
>                       tp->unregfunc();
>  
> -             if (static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
> +             if (tp->dynamic && (atomic_read(&tp->key.enabled) > 0))
> +                     atomic_dec(&tp->key.enabled);
> +             else if (!tp->dynamic && static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
>                       static_key_slow_dec(&tp->key);
>       }
>       rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
> @@ -258,7 +266,7 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * tracepoint_probe_register -  Connect a probe to a tracepoint
> + * tracepoint_probe_register_prio -  Connect a probe to a tracepoint
>   * @tp: tracepoint
>   * @probe: probe handler
>   * @data: tracepoint data

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