Merge tag 'v4.10-rc1' into asoc-intel

Linux 4.10-rc1

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/trace.h b/include/linux/trace.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9330a58e2651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/trace.h
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+#ifndef _LINUX_TRACE_H
+#define _LINUX_TRACE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
+/*
+ * The trace export - an export of Ftrace output. The trace_export
+ * can process traces and export them to a registered destination as
+ * an addition to the current only output of Ftrace - i.e. ring buffer.
+ *
+ * If you want traces to be sent to some other place rather than ring
+ * buffer only, just need to register a new trace_export and implement
+ * its own .write() function for writing traces to the storage.
+ *
+ * next		- pointer to the next trace_export
+ * write	- copy traces which have been delt with ->commit() to
+ *		  the destination
+ */
+struct trace_export {
+	struct trace_export __rcu	*next;
+	void (*write)(const void *, unsigned int);
+};
+
+int register_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
+int unregister_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_TRACING */
+
+#endif	/* _LINUX_TRACE_H */