tree 17cbf62b89bcbc38b600027cc61eda50469a796b
parent 49440828ad7b809e9d31f6108875e3b1e974690c
author Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> 1401765616 -0400
committer Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> 1402176817 +0200

tools lib traceevent: Added support for __get_bitmask() macro

Coming in v3.16, trace events will be able to save bitmasks in raw
format in the ring buffer and output it with the __get_bitmask() macro.

In order for userspace tools to parse this, it must be able to handle
the __get_bitmask() call and be able to convert the data that's in
the ring buffer into a nice bitmask format. The output is similar to
what the kernel uses to print bitmasks, with a comma separator every
4 bytes (8 characters).

This allows for cpumasks to also be saved efficiently.

The first user is the thermal:thermal_power_limit event which has the
following output:

 thermal_power_limit:  cpus=0000000f freq=1900000 cdev_state=0 power=5252

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140506132238.22e136d1@gandalf.local.home

Suggested-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140603032224.229186537@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>