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RIOT/sys/include/trace.h

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2020 Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
* Freie Universität Berlin
* Inria
*
* This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
* General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
* directory for more details.
*/
/**
* @ingroup sys
* @brief Trace program flows
*
* This module allows recording program flow traces. It is meant for debugging
* in multi-threaded applications or when ISR's are involved.
*
* The `trace()` function takes an arbitrary (user chosen) uint32 value.
* Calling the function is safe from anywhere (user code, ISR, ...) and safely
* logs the function call time and user value in a trace buffer.
*
* At any point, `trace_dump()` can be used to print the trace buffer.
*
* The buffer has a default size of 512 entries, which can be overridden by
* defining CONFIG_TRACE_BUFSIZE. It can be cleared using `trace_reset()`.
* The trace buffer works like a ring-buffer. If it is full, it will start
* overwriting from the beginning.
*
* Tracing is made thread safe by disabling interrupts for critical sections.
*
* It does incur some overhead (at least a function call, getting the current
* time, a pair of enable/disable interrupts and a couple of memory accesses).
*
* Example:
*
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.c}
* #include "trace.h"
* ...
* trace(<user chosen uint32 value);
*
* trace_dump();
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*
* @{
*
* @brief Execution tracing module API
*
* @file
* @author Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
*
*/
#ifndef TRACE_H
#define TRACE_H
#include <stdint.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/**
* @brief Add entry to trace buffer
*
* Adds the current time (e.g., xtimer_now_usec()) and @p val to the trace
* buffer.
*
* The value parameter is not used by the trace module itself. The caller is
* supposed to provide a meaningful value.
* It could be e.g., `0` at the beginning of a task and `1`at the end.
*
* @param[in] val user defined value
*/
void trace(uint32_t val);
/**
* @brief Print the current trace buffer
*
* Will print the number of the trace log entry, the timestamp (first entry) or
* relative time since last entry, and the value supplied to the `trace()` call
* of each entry.
*
* Example output (after adding two traces, 3us apart, with values 0 and 1):
*
* n= 0 t= 1815312 v=0x00000000
* n= 1 t=+ 3 v=0x00000001
*/
void trace_dump(void);
/**
* @brief Empty the trace buffer
*/
void trace_reset(void);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* TRACE_H */
/** @} */