Merge tag 'trace-ipi-tracepoints' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull IPI tracepoints for ARM from Steven Rostedt:
 "Nicolas Pitre added generic tracepoints for tracing IPIs and updated
  the arm and arm64 architectures.  It required some minor updates to
  the generic tracepoint system, so it had to wait for me to implement
  them"

* tag 'trace-ipi-tracepoints' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ARM64: add IPI tracepoints
  ARM: add IPI tracepoints
  tracepoint: add generic tracepoint definitions for IPI tracing
  tracing: Do not do anything special with tracepoint_string when tracing is disabled

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index 2e2a5f7717e5..b1293f15f592 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -249,6 +249,50 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
+/**
+ * tracepoint_string - register constant persistent string to trace system
+ * @str - a constant persistent string that will be referenced in tracepoints
+ *
+ * If constant strings are being used in tracepoints, it is faster and
+ * more efficient to just save the pointer to the string and reference
+ * that with a printf "%s" instead of saving the string in the ring buffer
+ * and wasting space and time.
+ *
+ * The problem with the above approach is that userspace tools that read
+ * the binary output of the trace buffers do not have access to the string.
+ * Instead they just show the address of the string which is not very
+ * useful to users.
+ *
+ * With tracepoint_string(), the string will be registered to the tracing
+ * system and exported to userspace via the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats
+ * file that maps the string address to the string text. This way userspace
+ * tools that read the binary buffers have a way to map the pointers to
+ * the ASCII strings they represent.
+ *
+ * The @str used must be a constant string and persistent as it would not
+ * make sense to show a string that no longer exists. But it is still fine
+ * to be used with modules, because when modules are unloaded, if they
+ * had tracepoints, the ring buffers are cleared too. As long as the string
+ * does not change during the life of the module, it is fine to use
+ * tracepoint_string() within a module.
+ */
+#define tracepoint_string(str)                                          \
+        ({                                                              \
+                static const char *___tp_str __tracepoint_string = str; \
+                ___tp_str;                                              \
+        })
+#define __tracepoint_string     __attribute__((section("__tracepoint_str")))
+#else
+/*
+ * tracepoint_string() is used to save the string address for userspace
+ * tracing tools. When tracing isn't configured, there's no need to save
+ * anything.
+ */
+# define tracepoint_string(str) str
+# define __tracepoint_string
+#endif
+
 /*
  * The need for the DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() is to handle the prototype
  * (void). "void" is a special value in a function prototype and can