tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing
Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
Some changes result of this:
- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
developers.
- etc...
V2:
- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog
V3:
- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index ad8d361..8e4a2a6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select TRACEPOINTS
select NOP_TRACER
+ select BINARY_PRINTF
#
# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
@@ -97,12 +98,6 @@
This is done by setting the current return address on the current
task structure into a stack of calls.
-config TRACE_BPRINTK
- bool "Binary printk for tracing"
- default y
- depends on TRACING
- select BINARY_PRINTF
-
config IRQSOFF_TRACER
bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
default n