trace: Add a basic event-tracing infrastructure.

This commit adds the src/trace directory containing the basics for our tracing
subsystem. It is not used in the code base. The "src/trace/debug.h" file
contains an example on how we can map our tor trace events to log_debug().

The tracing subsystem can only be enabled by tracing framework at compile
time. This commit introduces the "--enable-tracing-debug" option that will
make all "tor_trace()" function be maped to "log_debug()".

Closes #13802

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>

3 files changed, 90 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/trace/debug.h b/src/trace/debug.h
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+++ b/src/trace/debug.h
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+/* Copyright (c) 2017, The Tor Project, Inc. */
+/* See LICENSE for licensing information */
+
+#ifndef TOR_TRACE_LOG_DEBUG_H
+#define TOR_TRACE_LOG_DEBUG_H
+
+#include "torlog.h"
+
+/* Stringify pre-processor trick. */
+#define XSTR(d) STR(d)
+#define STR(s) #s
+
+/* Send every event to a debug log level. This is useful to debug new trace
+ * events without implementing them for a specific event tracing framework.
+ * Note that the arguments are ignored since at this step we do not know the
+ * types and amount there is. */
+
+/* Example on how to map a tracepoint to log_debug(). */
+#undef tor_trace
+#define tor_trace(subsystem, name, args...) \
+  log_debug(LD_GENERAL, "Trace event \"" XSTR(name) "\" from " \
+                        "\"" XSTR(subsystem) "\" hit. " \
+                        "(line "XSTR(__LINE__) ")")
+
+#endif /* TOR_TRACE_LOG_DEBUG_H */
diff --git a/src/trace/events.h b/src/trace/events.h
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+++ b/src/trace/events.h
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+/* Copyright (c) 2017, The Tor Project, Inc. */
+/* See LICENSE for licensing information */
+
+/**
+ * \file events.h
+ * \brief Header file for Tor event tracing.
+ **/
+
+#ifndef TOR_TRACE_EVENTS_H
+#define TOR_TRACE_EVENTS_H
+
+/*
+ * The following defines a generic event tracing function name that has to be
+ * used to trace events in the code base.
+ *
+ * That generic function is then defined by a event tracing framework. For
+ * instance, the "log debug" framework sends all trace events to log_debug()
+ * which is defined in src/trace/debug.h which can only be enabled at compile
+ * time (--enable-event-tracing-debug).
+ *
+ * By default, every trace events in the code base are replaced by a NOP. See
+ * doc/HACKING/Tracing.md for more information on how to use event tracing or
+ * add events.
+ */
+
+#ifdef TOR_EVENT_TRACING_ENABLED
+/* Map every trace event to a per subsystem macro. */
+#define tor_trace(subsystem, name, ...) \
+  tor_trace_##subsystem(name, __VA_ARGS__)
+
+/* Enable event tracing for the debug framework where all trace events are
+ * mapped to a log_debug(). */
+#ifdef USE_EVENT_TRACING_DEBUG
+#include "trace/debug.h"
+#endif
+
+#else /* TOR_EVENT_TRACING_ENABLED */
+
+/* Reaching this point, we NOP every event declaration because event tracing
+ * is not been enabled at compile time. */
+#define tor_trace(subsystem, name, args...)
+
+#endif /* TOR_EVENT_TRACING_ENABLED */
+
+#endif /* TOR_TRACE_EVENTS_H */
diff --git a/src/trace/include.am b/src/trace/include.am
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+++ b/src/trace/include.am
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+# Include the src/ so we can use the trace/events.h statement when including
+# any file in that directory.
+AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(srcdir)/src
+
+noinst_LIBRARIES += \
+  src/trace/libor-trace.a
+LIBOR_TRACE_A_SOURCES =
+
+TRACEHEADERS = \
+	src/trace/events.h
+
+if USE_EVENT_TRACING_DEBUG
+TRACEHEADERS += \
+  src/trace/debug.h
+endif
+
+# Library source files.
+src_trace_libor_trace_a_SOURCES = $(LIBOR_TRACE_A_SOURCES)
+
+noinst_HEADERS+= $(TRACEHEADERS)