[RFC PATCH 1/7] perf/trace: Add notification for perf trace events

[Punit Agrawal]

Add a mechanism to notify listeners about perf trace event state
changes. This enables listeners to take actions requiring the event
context (e.g., attached process).

The notification mechanism can be used to reduce trace point based
profiling overhead by enabling/disabling hardware traps for specific
contexts (e.g., virtual machines).

Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/trace_events.h    |  3 +++
 kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
index be00761..5924032 100644
--- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
+++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
@@ -505,6 +505,9 @@ perf_trace_buf_submit(void *raw_data, int size, int rctx, u16 type,
 {
 	perf_tp_event(type, count, raw_data, size, regs, head, rctx, task);
 }
+
+extern int perf_trace_notifier_register(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern int perf_trace_notifier_unregister(struct notifier_block *nb);
 #endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_TRACE_EVENT_H */
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
index 562fa69..9aaaacf 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include "trace.h"
 
 static char __percpu *perf_trace_buf[PERF_NR_CONTEXTS];
+static RAW_NOTIFIER_HEAD(perf_trace_notifier_list);
 
 /*
  * Force it to be aligned to unsigned long to avoid misaligned accesses
@@ -86,6 +88,26 @@ static int perf_trace_event_perm(struct trace_event_call *tp_event,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int perf_trace_notifier_register(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	return raw_notifier_chain_register(&perf_trace_notifier_list, nb);
+}
+
+int perf_trace_notifier_unregister(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	return raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&perf_trace_notifier_list, nb);
+}
+
+static void perf_trace_notify(enum trace_reg event, struct perf_event *p_event)
+{
+	/*
+	 * We use raw notifiers here as we are called with the
+	 * event_mutex held.
+	 */
+	raw_notifier_call_chain(&perf_trace_notifier_list,
+				     event, p_event);
+}
+
 static int perf_trace_event_reg(struct trace_event_call *tp_event,
 				struct perf_event *p_event)
 {
@@ -176,6 +198,7 @@ out:
 static int perf_trace_event_open(struct perf_event *p_event)
 {
 	struct trace_event_call *tp_event = p_event->tp_event;
+	perf_trace_notify(TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN, p_event);
 	return tp_event->class->reg(tp_event, TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN, p_event);
 }
 
@@ -183,6 +206,7 @@ static void perf_trace_event_close(struct perf_event *p_event)
 {
 	struct trace_event_call *tp_event = p_event->tp_event;
 	tp_event->class->reg(tp_event, TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE, p_event);
+	perf_trace_notify(TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE, p_event);
 }
 
 static int perf_trace_event_init(struct trace_event_call *tp_event,
-- 
2.8.1