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+Deterministic Automata Instrumentation
+======================================
+
+The RV monitor file created by dot2k, with the name "$MODEL_NAME.c"
+includes a section dedicated to instrumentation.
+
+In the example of the wip.dot monitor created on [1], it will look like::
+
+ /*
+ * This is the instrumentation part of the monitor.
+ *
+ * This is the section where manual work is required. Here the kernel events
+ * are translated into model's event.
+ *
+ */
+ static void handle_preempt_disable(void *data, /* XXX: fill header */)
+ {
+ da_handle_event_wip(preempt_disable_wip);
+ }
+
+ static void handle_preempt_enable(void *data, /* XXX: fill header */)
+ {
+ da_handle_event_wip(preempt_enable_wip);
+ }
+
+ static void handle_sched_waking(void *data, /* XXX: fill header */)
+ {
+ da_handle_event_wip(sched_waking_wip);
+ }
+
+ static int enable_wip(void)
+ {
+ int retval;
+
+ retval = da_monitor_init_wip();
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
+
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_preempt_disable);
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_preempt_enable);
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_sched_waking);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+The comment at the top of the section explains the general idea: the
+instrumentation section translates *kernel events* into the *model's
+event*.
+
+Tracing callback functions
+--------------------------
+
+The first three functions are the starting point of the callback *handler
+functions* for each of the three events from the wip model. The developer
+does not necessarily need to use them: they are just starting points.
+
+Using the example of::
+
+ void handle_preempt_disable(void *data, /* XXX: fill header */)
+ {
+ da_handle_event_wip(preempt_disable_wip);
+ }
+
+The preempt_disable event from the model connects directly to the
+preemptirq:preempt_disable. The preemptirq:preempt_disable event
+has the following signature, from include/trace/events/preemptirq.h::
+
+ TP_PROTO(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
+
+Hence, the handle_preempt_disable() function will look like::
+
+ void handle_preempt_disable(void *data, unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
+
+In this case, the kernel event translates one to one with the automata
+event, and indeed, no other change is required for this function.
+
+The next handler function, handle_preempt_enable() has the same argument
+list from the handle_preempt_disable(). The difference is that the
+preempt_enable event will be used to synchronize the system to the model.
+
+Initially, the *model* is placed in the initial state. However, the *system*
+might or might not be in the initial state. The monitor cannot start
+processing events until it knows that the system has reached the initial state.
+Otherwise, the monitor and the system could be out-of-sync.
+
+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_NAME)(event)", in this case::
+
+ da_handle_start_event_wip(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.
+
+enable and disable functions
+----------------------------
+
+dot2k automatically creates two special functions::
+
+ enable_$(MONITOR_NAME)()
+ disable_$(MONITOR_NAME)()
+
+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.
+
+Instrumentation helpers
+-----------------------
+
+To complete the instrumentation, the *handler functions* need to be attached to a
+kernel event, at the monitoring enable phase.
+
+The RV interface also facilitates this step. For example, the macro "rv_attach_trace_probe()"
+is used to connect the wip model events to the relative kernel event. dot2k automatically
+adds "rv_attach_trace_probe()" function call for each model event in the enable phase, as
+a suggestion.
+
+For example, from the wip sample model::
+
+ static int enable_wip(void)
+ {
+ int retval;
+
+ retval = da_monitor_init_wip();
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
+
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_preempt_enable);
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_sched_waking);
+ rv_attach_trace_probe("wip", /* XXX: tracepoint */, handle_preempt_disable);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+The probes then need to be detached at the disable phase.
+
+[1] The wip model is presented in::
+
+ Documentation/trace/rv/deterministic_automata.rst
+
+The wip monitor is presented in::
+
+ Documentation/trace/rv/da_monitor_synthesis.rst
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