tracing: add ring_buffer_event_discard() to ring buffer
This patch overloads RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING to provide a way to discard
events from the ring buffer, for the event-filtering mechanism
introduced in a subsequent patch.
I did the initial version but thanks to Steven Rostedt for adding
the parts that actually made it work. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index 9e6052b..e1b7b21 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@
/**
* enum ring_buffer_type - internal ring buffer types
*
- * @RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: Left over page padding
- * array is ignored
- * size is variable depending on how much
+ * @RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: Left over page padding or discarded event
+ * If time_delta is 0:
+ * array is ignored
+ * size is variable depending on how much
* padding is needed
+ * If time_delta is non zero:
+ * everything else same as RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
*
* @RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND: Extend the time delta
* array[0] = time delta (28 .. 59)
@@ -65,6 +68,8 @@
return event->time_delta;
}
+void ring_buffer_event_discard(struct ring_buffer_event *event);
+
/*
* size is in bytes for each per CPU buffer.
*/