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    tracing/ftrace: implement a set_flag callback for tracers · adf9f195
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    
    
    Impact: give a way to send specific messages to tracers
    
    The current implementation of tracing uses some flags to control the
    output of general tracers. But we have no way to implement custom
    flags handling for a specific tracer. This patch proposes a new
    callback for the struct tracer which called set_flag and a structure
    that represents a 32 bits variable flag.
    
    A tracer can implement a struct tracer_flags on which it puts the
    initial value of the flag integer. Than it can place a range of flags
    with their name and their flag mask on the flag integer. The structure
    that implement a single flag is called struct tracer_opt.
    
    These custom flags will be available through the trace_options file
    like the general tracing flags. Changing their value is done like the
    other general flags. For example if you have a flag that calls "foo",
    you can activate it by writing "foo" or "nofoo" on trace_options.
    
    Note that the set_flag callback is optional and is only needed if you
    want the flags changing to be signaled to your tracer and let it to
    accept or refuse their assignment.
    
    V2: Some arrangements in coding style....
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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