tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print

Allow writing to the trace_markers file initiate triggers defined in
tracefs/ftrace/print/trigger file. This will allow of user space to trigger
the same type of triggers (including histograms) that the trace events use.

Had to create a ftrace_event_register() function that will become the
trace_marker print event's reg() function. This is required because of how
triggers are enabled:

  event_trigger_write() {
    event_trigger_regex_write() {
      trigger_process_regex() {
        for p in trigger_commands {
          p->func(); /* trigger_snapshot_cmd->func */
            event_trigger_callback() {
              cmd_ops->reg() /* register_trigger() */ {
                trace_event_trigger_enable_disable() {
                  trace_event_enable_disable() {
                    call->class->reg();

Without the reg() function, the trigger code will call a NULL pointer and
crash the system.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
index d842f1eadfe5..45630a76ed3a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
 
 #include "trace_output.h"
 
+/* Stub function for events with triggers */
+static int ftrace_event_register(struct trace_event_call *call,
+				 enum trace_reg type, void *data)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
 #define TRACE_SYSTEM	ftrace