include/linux/tracehook.h

   1 /*
   2  * Tracing hooks
   3  *
   4  * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
   5  *
   6  * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
   7  * modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
   8  * of the GNU General Public License v.2.
   9  *
  10  * This file defines hook entry points called by core code where
  11  * user tracing/debugging support might need to do something.  These
  12  * entry points are called tracehook_*().  Each hook declared below
  13  * has a detailed kerneldoc comment giving the context (locking et
  14  * al) from which it is called, and the meaning of its return value.
  15  *
  16  * Each function here typically has only one call site, so it is ok
  17  * to have some nontrivial tracehook_*() inlines.  In all cases, the
  18  * fast path when no tracing is enabled should be very short.
  19  *
  20  * The purpose of this file and the tracehook_* layer is to consolidate
  21  * the interface that the kernel core and arch code uses to enable any
  22  * user debugging or tracing facility (such as ptrace).  The interfaces
  23  * here are carefully documented so that maintainers of core and arch
  24  * code do not need to think about the implementation details of the
  25  * tracing facilities.  Likewise, maintainers of the tracing code do not
  26  * need to understand all the calling core or arch code in detail, just
  27  * documented circumstances of each call, such as locking conditions.
  28  *
  29  * If the calling core code changes so that locking is different, then
  30  * it is ok to change the interface documented here.  The maintainer of
  31  * core code changing should notify the maintainers of the tracing code
  32  * that they need to work out the change.
  33  *
  34  * Some tracehook_*() inlines take arguments that the current tracing
  35  * implementations might not necessarily use.  These function signatures
  36  * are chosen to pass in all the information that is on hand in the
  37  * caller and might conceivably be relevant to a tracer, so that the
  38  * core code won't have to be updated when tracing adds more features.
  39  * If a call site changes so that some of those parameters are no longer
  40  * already on hand without extra work, then the tracehook_* interface
  41  * can change so there is no make-work burden on the core code.  The
  42  * maintainer of core code changing should notify the maintainers of the
  43  * tracing code that they need to work out the change.
  44  */
  45
  46 #ifndef _LINUX_TRACEHOOK_H
  47 #define _LINUX_TRACEHOOK_H      1
  48
  49 #include <linux/sched.h>
  50 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
  51
  52 #endif  /* <linux/tracehook.h> */