Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Jan 15 2012 - 13:30:53 EST


On 01/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Hello,

ping ;)

> Please pull from
>
> git://github.com/utrace/linux sigtrace
>
>
> Another (4th) attempt to push these simple changes, now in the form
> of a pull request (yes, github, I still can't restore my korg account).
>
> 2/2 looks like a bugfix to me, but 1/2 changes the output from
> trace_signal_generate() and removes trace_signal_overflow_fail.
> In essence the change is:
>
> - TP_printk("sig=%d errno=%d code=%d comm=%s pid=%d",
> + TP_printk("sig=%d errno=%d code=%d comm=%s pid=%d grp=%d res=%d",
>
> where
> - grp=0/1 means private or shared
>
> - res is enum {
> TRACE_SIGNAL_DELIVERED,
> TRACE_SIGNAL_IGNORED,
> TRACE_SIGNAL_ALREADY_PENDING,
> TRACE_SIGNAL_OVERFLOW_FAIL,
> TRACE_SIGNAL_LOSE_INFO,
> };
>
> Obviously this is the user visible change. But personally I do
> agree with Seiji who requested this feature. Currently
> trace_signal_generate() just records the fact that __send_signal()
> was called, you can't know whether the signal was actually sent
> or not.
>
> Steven Rostedt says:
>
> Adding more to a tracepoint is never an issue, even without a library to
> parse the data correctly (which we still need in the distros). Thus this
> change should have no issues.
>
>
>
> Oleg Nesterov (2):
> tracing: let trace_signal_generate() report more info, kill overflow_fail/lose_info
> tracing: send_sigqueue() needs trace_signal_generate() too
>
> include/trace/events/signal.h | 85 +++++++++++------------------------------
> kernel/signal.c | 28 +++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

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