tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers

Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers
to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the
instances directory:

This will create a directory with the following:

 # cd instances
 # mkdir foo
 # ls foo
buffer_size_kb        free_buffer  trace_clock    trace_pipe
buffer_total_size_kb  set_event    trace_marker   tracing_enabled
events/               trace        trace_options  tracing_on

Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way
to delete a buffer when one is created (yet).

Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances"
directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory
can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see
any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories
is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one
instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to
create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur
and the other will fail with -EEXIST.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 68cad7a..883fe0b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct tracer;
 struct trace_array {
 	struct ring_buffer	*buffer;
 	struct list_head	list;
+	char			*name;
 	int			cpu;
 	int			buffer_disabled;
 	struct trace_cpu	trace_cpu;	/* place holder */
@@ -999,6 +1000,7 @@ filter_check_discard(struct ftrace_event_call *call, void *rec,
 }
 
 extern void trace_event_enable_cmd_record(bool enable);
+extern int event_trace_add_tracer(struct dentry *parent, struct trace_array *tr);
 
 extern struct mutex event_mutex;
 extern struct list_head ftrace_events;