tracepoint: introduce *_noupdate APIs.

Impact: add new tracepoint APIs to allow the batched registration of probes

new APIs separate tracepoint_probe_register(),
tracepoint_probe_unregister() into 2 steps. The first step of them
is just update tracepoint_entry, not connect or disconnect.

this patch introduces tracepoint_probe_update_all() for update all.

these APIs are very useful for registering lots of probes
but just updating once. Another very important thing is that
*_noupdate APIs do not require module_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index c5bb39c7a770..63064e9403f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ extern int tracepoint_probe_register(const char *name, void *probe);
  */
 extern int tracepoint_probe_unregister(const char *name, void *probe);
 
+extern int tracepoint_probe_register_noupdate(const char *name, void *probe);
+extern int tracepoint_probe_unregister_noupdate(const char *name, void *probe);
+extern void tracepoint_probe_update_all(void);
+
 struct tracepoint_iter {
         struct module *module;
         struct tracepoint *tracepoint;