tracing: Add trace_seq_buffer_ptr() helper function

There's several locations in the kernel that open code the calculation
of the next location in the trace_seq buffer. This is usually done with

  p->buffer + p->len

Instead of having this open coded, supply a helper function in the
header to do it for them. This function is called trace_seq_buffer_ptr().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140626220129.452783019@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/trace_seq.h b/include/linux/trace_seq.h
index dd85753e1bb..ea6c9dea79e 100644
--- a/include/linux/trace_seq.h
+++ b/include/linux/trace_seq.h
@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@ trace_seq_init(struct trace_seq *s)
 	s->full = 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * trace_seq_buffer_ptr - return pointer to next location in buffer
+ * @s: trace sequence descriptor
+ *
+ * Returns the pointer to the buffer where the next write to
+ * the buffer will happen. This is useful to save the location
+ * that is about to be written to and then return the result
+ * of that write.
+ */
+static inline unsigned char *
+trace_seq_buffer_ptr(struct trace_seq *s)
+{
+	return s->buffer + s->len;
+}
+
 /*
  * Currently only defined when tracing is enabled.
  */