[patch 16/17] LTTng instrumentation - ipv6

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 18:34:05 EST


Instrument addr_add and del of network interfaces. Lets a tracer know the
interface address changes.

Those tracepoints are used by LTTng.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to markers),
even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by Hideo Aoki on ia64
show no regression. His test case was using hackbench on a kernel where
scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code scheduler code) was added.
See the "Tracepoints" patch header for performance result detail.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: 'Hideo AOKI' <haoki@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: 'Steven Rostedt' <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/ipv6.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-07-15 14:51:51.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-07-15 15:16:14.000000000 -0400
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@

#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <trace/ipv6.h>

/* Set to 3 to get tracing... */
#define ACONF_DEBUG 2
@@ -650,6 +651,8 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, co
/* For caller */
in6_ifa_hold(ifa);

+ trace_ipv6_addr_add(ifa);
+
/* Add to big hash table */
hash = ipv6_addr_hash(addr);

@@ -2163,6 +2166,7 @@ static int inet6_addr_del(struct net *ne
in6_ifa_hold(ifp);
read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);

+ trace_ipv6_addr_del(ifp);
ipv6_del_addr(ifp);

/* If the last address is deleted administratively,
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/ipv6.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/ipv6.h 2008-07-15 15:16:14.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef _TRACE_IPV6_H
+#define _TRACE_IPV6_H
+
+#include <net/if_inet6.h>
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+
+DEFINE_TRACE(ipv6_addr_add,
+ TPPROTO(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa),
+ TPARGS(ifa));
+DEFINE_TRACE(ipv6_addr_del,
+ TPPROTO(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa),
+ TPARGS(ifa));
+
+#endif

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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