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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-09 17:33:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-09 17:33:44 -0700
commitc23190c0bf1236e1eb5521a8b10d0102fbc1338c (patch)
treeeb23225a121fb56a58d69d34e7338bfe81ede644 /include/linux/ftrace_event.h
parentfc335c1b68c68f626f07f1819e57d112d666bbba (diff)
parent45ed695ac10a23cb4e60a3e0b68b3f21a8670670 (diff)
Merge tag 'trace-ipi-tracepoints' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull IPI tracepoints for ARM from Steven Rostedt: "Nicolas Pitre added generic tracepoints for tracing IPIs and updated the arm and arm64 architectures. It required some minor updates to the generic tracepoint system, so it had to wait for me to implement them" * tag 'trace-ipi-tracepoints' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ARM64: add IPI tracepoints ARM: add IPI tracepoints tracepoint: add generic tracepoint definitions for IPI tracing tracing: Do not do anything special with tracepoint_string when tracing is disabled
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diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index 06c6faa9e5c..28672e87e91 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -571,40 +571,6 @@ do { \
__trace_printk(ip, fmt, ##args); \
} while (0)
-/**
- * tracepoint_string - register constant persistent string to trace system
- * @str - a constant persistent string that will be referenced in tracepoints
- *
- * If constant strings are being used in tracepoints, it is faster and
- * more efficient to just save the pointer to the string and reference
- * that with a printf "%s" instead of saving the string in the ring buffer
- * and wasting space and time.
- *
- * The problem with the above approach is that userspace tools that read
- * the binary output of the trace buffers do not have access to the string.
- * Instead they just show the address of the string which is not very
- * useful to users.
- *
- * With tracepoint_string(), the string will be registered to the tracing
- * system and exported to userspace via the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats
- * file that maps the string address to the string text. This way userspace
- * tools that read the binary buffers have a way to map the pointers to
- * the ASCII strings they represent.
- *
- * The @str used must be a constant string and persistent as it would not
- * make sense to show a string that no longer exists. But it is still fine
- * to be used with modules, because when modules are unloaded, if they
- * had tracepoints, the ring buffers are cleared too. As long as the string
- * does not change during the life of the module, it is fine to use
- * tracepoint_string() within a module.
- */
-#define tracepoint_string(str) \
- ({ \
- static const char *___tp_str __tracepoint_string = str; \
- ___tp_str; \
- })
-#define __tracepoint_string __attribute__((section("__tracepoint_str")))
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
struct perf_event;