tools lib traceevent: Add plugin for decoding syscalls/sys_enter_futex
authorJulia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Thu, 2 Jul 2020 18:53:55 +0000 (14:53 -0400)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 Jul 2020 12:01:20 +0000 (09:01 -0300)
commit5973e6ebc0f5a01b34b7da2e4f0f2fef55534ed3
tree506789564048161fbfbbee90f98094299d119b0e
parent57863623329c5f01abe64f3feaf9bdb26c31ce6a
tools lib traceevent: Add plugin for decoding syscalls/sys_enter_futex

The futex syscall is a complicated one.  It supports thirteen
multiplexed operations, each with different semantics and encodings for
the syscalls six arguments.

Manually decoding these arguments is tedious and error prone.

This plugin provides symbolic names for futex operations, futex flags,
and tries to be intelligent about the intent of specific arguments (for
example, waking operations use 'val' as an integer count, not just an
arbitrary value).

It doesn't do a full decode of the FUTEX_WAKE_OP's 'val3' argument,
however, this is a good starting point.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171207025649.12160-1-julia@ni.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20200702174950.123454-3-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
[ Ported from trace-cmd.git ]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200702185705.127175788@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/Build
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/Makefile
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_futex.c [new file with mode: 0644]