trace.h

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// Copyright (c) 2020-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
#ifndef BITCOIN_UTIL_TRACE_H
#define BITCOIN_UTIL_TRACE_H
 
#include <bitcoin-build-config.h> // IWYU pragma: keep
 
#ifdef ENABLE_TRACING
 
// Setting SDT_USE_VARIADIC lets systemtap (sys/sdt.h) know that we want to use
// the optional variadic macros to define tracepoints.
#define SDT_USE_VARIADIC 1
 
// Setting _SDT_HAS_SEMAPHORES let's systemtap (sys/sdt.h) know that we want to
// use the optional semaphore feature for our tracepoints. This feature allows
// us to check if something is attached to a tracepoint. We only want to prepare
// some potentially expensive tracepoint arguments, if the tracepoint is being
// used. Here, an expensive argument preparation could, for example, be
// calculating a hash or serialization of a data structure.
#define _SDT_HAS_SEMAPHORES 1
 
// Used to define a counting semaphore for a tracepoint. This semaphore is
// automatically incremented by tracing frameworks (bpftrace, bcc, libbpf, ...)
// upon attaching to the tracepoint and decremented when detaching. This needs
// to be a global variable. It's placed in the '.probes' ELF section.
#define TRACEPOINT_SEMAPHORE(context, event) \
    unsigned short context##_##event##_semaphore __attribute__((section(".probes")))
 
#include <sys/sdt.h>
 
// Returns true if something is attached to the tracepoint.
#define TRACEPOINT_ACTIVE(context, event) (context##_##event##_semaphore > 0)
 
// A USDT tracepoint with one to twelve arguments. It's checked that the
// tracepoint is active before preparing its arguments.
#define TRACEPOINT(context, event, ...)                                         \
    do {                                                                        \
        if (TRACEPOINT_ACTIVE(context, event)) {                                \
            STAP_PROBEV(context, event __VA_OPT__(, ) __VA_ARGS__);             \
        }                                                                       \
    } while(0)
 
#else
 
#define TRACEPOINT_SEMAPHORE(context, event)
#define TRACEPOINT_ACTIVE(context, event) false
#define TRACEPOINT(context, ...)
 
#endif // ENABLE_TRACING
 
 
#endif // BITCOIN_UTIL_TRACE_H