Re: First implementation of logging with LTTng

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This thread is a little stale, and it looks like the PR is as well.
Did anything more happen? I was pretty happy with the direction of
work, although I haven’t fully assimilated this last email.
-Greg

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Mohamad Gebai <mgebai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2018 01:24 PM, Mohamad Gebai wrote:
>>
>> On 06/07/2018 12:52 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Mohamad Gebai wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>> Any thought about the approach? How can I move this forward?
>>> This is a huge improvement over manually writing the .tp files!  I have
>>> one thought, though.  It's still necessary both to adjust the tracepoint
>>> location, e.g.,
>>>
>>>
>>>  -      dout(30) << __func__ << " " << *(b_it->first)
>>>  -               << " expected4release=" << blob_expected_for_release
>>>  -               << " expected_allocations=" << bi.expected_allocations
>>>  -               << dendl;
>>>  +      trace_process_protrusive_extents_expected4release(*(b_it->first),
>>>  +       blob_expected_for_release, bi.expected_allocations);
>>>
>>> and also to include the line in tracing/tracetool/subsys, eg.,
>>>
>>>  + process_protrusive_extents_expected4release(Blob blob, int64_t blob_expected_for_release, int64_t expected_allocations) "%s expected4release=%llu expected_allocations=%llu" 30
>>>
>>> Do you think it's possible to declare these inline and generate the
>>> tracing/tracetool/subsys files from the source?  For example, write
>>> something like
>>>
>>>         trace(30, process_protrusive_extents_expected4release,
>>>              Blob *(b_it->first),
>>>              int64_t blob_expected_for_release,
>>>              int64_t bi.expected_allocations,
>>>              "%s expected4release=%llu expected_allocations=%llu");
>>>
>>> A macro could expand that out to the function call, and a preprocessor
>>> pass could slurp these up and generate the file for input to
>>> tracetool (or tracetool could extract them from the source
>>> directly).
>> Good point, I definitely see that as a possibility. I'll fiddle with it
>> and report back.
>
> Ok, I think I got to something that is feasible and hopefully less
> awkward. Consider the following syntax in the call site:
>
> trace_<event_name>(<loglevel>, <subsys>, <type1>, <name1>, <value1> [,
> <type2>, <name2>, <value2>, ...], <format_string>);
>
> When expanded, this macro takes everything except the values out, as such:
>
> __trace_<event_name>(<value1> [, <value2>, ...]);
>
> The example you gave goes from:
>
>    dout(30) << __func__ << " " << *(b_it->first)
>        << " expected4release=" << blob_expected_for_release
>        << " expected_allocations=" << bi.expected_allocations
>        << dendl;
>
> to:
>
>    trace_process_protrusive_extents_expected4release(30, bluestore_gc,
>        Blob, blob, *(b_it->first),
>        int64_t, blob_expected_for_release, blob_expected_for_release,
>        int64_t, expected_allocations, bi.expected_allocations,
>        "%s expected4release=%llu expected_allocations=%llu");
>
> which when expanded becomes:
>
>    __trace_process_protrusive_extents_expected4release(
>        *(b_it->first),
>        blob_expected_for_release,
>        bi.expected_allocations,
>    );
>
> We'll need not only to specify the type of each field, but also the name
> we want it to have. Otherwise, what would be the name of the first
> argument of this example (*(b_it->first))? The good thing now is that
> this syntax is self-declarative, and I'm generating valid code (and tp
> files) from it. The bad thing is that it's not straightforward. There is
> also the "parsing the entire code base" part..
>
> Thoughts? Is that something we can consider?
>
> PS: I haven't updated the PR yet.
>
> Mohamad
>
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