Re: [PATCH V6 11/16] Documentation/rv: Add deterministic automata instrumentation documentation

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 07:27:16PM +0200, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:

> +Looking at the automata definition, it is possible to see that the system
> +and the model are expected to return to the initial state after the
> +preempt_enable execution. Hence, it can be used to synchronize the
> +system and the model at the initialization of the monitoring section.
> +
> +The start is informed via a special handle function, the
> +"da_handle_start_event_MONITOR_event)", in this case::

da_handle_start_event_$MONITOR(event) the same as the previous version
should be right.

> +
> +  da_handle_start_event_wip(preempt_disable_wip);

I didn't see this in last version that the event should be preempt_enable_wip.

> +
> +So, the callback function will look like::
> +
> +  void handle_preempt_enable(void *data, unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
> +  {
> +        da_handle_start_event_wip(preempt_enable_wip);
> +  }
> +
> +Finally, the "handle_sched_waking()" will look like::
> +
> +  void handle_sched_waking(void *data, struct task_struct *task)
> +  {
> +        da_handle_event_wip(sched_waking_wip);
> +  }
> +
> +And the explanation is left for the reader as an exercise.
> +
> +Start and Stop functions

Start and Stop functions are changed to enable and disable functions.

> +------------------------
> +
> +dot2k automatically creates two special functions::
> +
> +  enable_MONITOR()
> +  disable_MONITOR()
> +
> +These functions are called when the monitor is enabled and disabled,
> +respectively.
> +
> +They should be used to *attach* and *detach* the instrumentation to the running
> +system. The developer must add to the relative function all that is needed to
> +*attach* and *detach* its monitor to the system.
> +
> +For the wip case, these functions were named::
> +
> + enable_wip()
> + disable_wip()
> +
> +But no change was required because: by default, these functions *attach* and
> +*detach* the tracepoints_to_attach, which was enough for this case.



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