tracing: Add hook to function tracing for other subsystems to use

Currently Function traces can be only exported to the ring buffer. This
adds a trace_export concept which can process traces and export
them to a registered destination as an addition to the current
one that outputs to Ftrace - i.e. ring buffer.

In this way, if we want function traces to be sent to other destinations
rather than only to the ring buffer, we just need to register a new
trace_export and implement its own .write() function for writing traces to
storage.

With this patch, only function tracing (trace type is TRACE_FN)
is supported.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479715043-6534-2-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/trace.h b/include/linux/trace.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9330a58e2651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/trace.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_TRACE_H
+#define _LINUX_TRACE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
+/*
+ * The trace export - an export of Ftrace output. The trace_export
+ * can process traces and export them to a registered destination as
+ * an addition to the current only output of Ftrace - i.e. ring buffer.
+ *
+ * If you want traces to be sent to some other place rather than ring
+ * buffer only, just need to register a new trace_export and implement
+ * its own .write() function for writing traces to the storage.
+ *
+ * next		- pointer to the next trace_export
+ * write	- copy traces which have been delt with ->commit() to
+ *		  the destination
+ */
+struct trace_export {
+	struct trace_export __rcu	*next;
+	void (*write)(const void *, unsigned int);
+};
+
+int register_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
+int unregister_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_TRACING */
+
+#endif	/* _LINUX_TRACE_H */