[Asterisk-code-review] Scope Tracing: A new facility for tracing scope enter/exit (asterisk[16])

[George Joseph]

Hello Joshua Colp, Kevin Harwell, Friendly Automation, 

I'd like you to reexamine a change. Please visit

    https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/14463

to look at the new patch set (#3).

Change subject: Scope Tracing:  A new facility for tracing scope enter/exit
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Scope Tracing:  A new facility for tracing scope enter/exit

What's wrong with ast_debug?

  ast_debug is fine for general purpose debug output but it's not
  really geared for scope tracing since it doesn't present its
  output in a way that makes capturing and analyzing flow through
  Asterisk easy.

How is scope tracing better?

  Scope tracing uses the same "cleanup" attribute that RAII_VAR
  uses to print messages to a separate "trace" log level.  Even
  better, the messages are indented and unindented based on a
  thread-local call depth counter.  When output to a separate log
  file, the output is uncluttered and easy to follow.

  Here's an example of the output. The leading timestamps and
  thread ids are removed and the output cut off at 68 columns for
  commit message restrictions but you get the idea.

--> res_pjsip_session.c:3680 handle_incoming PJSIP/1173-00000001
	--> res_pjsip_session.c:3661 handle_incoming_response PJSIP/1173
		--> res_pjsip_session.c:3669 handle_incoming_response PJSIP/
			--> chan_pjsip.c:3265 chan_pjsip_incoming_response_after
				--> chan_pjsip.c:3194 chan_pjsip_incoming_response P
					    chan_pjsip.c:3245 chan_pjsip_incoming_respon
				<-- chan_pjsip.c:3194 chan_pjsip_incoming_response P
			<-- chan_pjsip.c:3265 chan_pjsip_incoming_response_after
		<-- res_pjsip_session.c:3669 handle_incoming_response PJSIP/
	<-- res_pjsip_session.c:3661 handle_incoming_response PJSIP/1173
<-- res_pjsip_session.c:3680 handle_incoming PJSIP/1173-00000001

  The messages with the "-->" or "<--" were produced by including
  the following at the top of each function:

  SCOPE_TRACE(1, "%s\n", ast_sip_session_get_name(session));

  Scope isn't limited to functions any more than RAII_VAR is.  You
  can also see entry and exit from "if", "for", "while", etc blocks.

  There is also an ast_trace() macro that doesn't track entry or
  exit but simply outputs a message to the trace log using the
  current indent level.  The deepest message in the sample
  (chan_pjsip.c:3245) was used to indicate which "case" in a
  "select" was executed.

How do you use it?

  More documentation is available in logger.h but here's an overview:

  * Configure with --enable-dev-mode.  Like debug, scope tracing
    is #ifdef'd out if devmode isn't enabled.

  * Add a SCOPE_TRACE() call to the top of your function.

  * Set a logger channel in logger.conf to output the "trace" level.

  * Use the CLI (or cli.conf) to set a trace level similar to setting
    debug level... CLI> core set trace 2 res_pjsip.so

Summary Of Changes:

  * Added LOG_TRACE logger level.  Actually it occupies the slot
    formerly occupied by the now defunct "event" level.

  * Added core asterisk option "trace" similar to debug.  Includes
	ability to specify global trace level in asterisk.conf and CLI
	commands to turn on/off and set levels.  Levels can be set
	globally (probably not a good idea), or by module/source file.

  * Updated sample asterisk.conf and logger.conf.  Tracing is
    disabled by default in both.

  * Added __ast_trace() to logger.c which keeps track of the indent
    level using TLS. It's #ifdef'd out if devmode isn't enabled.

  * Added ast_trace() and SCOPE_TRACE() macros to logger.h.
    These are all #ifdef'd out if devmode isn't enabled.

Why not use gcc's -finstrument-functions capability?

  gcc's facility doesn't allow access to local data and doesn't
  operate on non-function scopes.

Known Issues:

  The only know issue is that we currently don't know the line
  number where the scope exited.  It's reported as the same place
  the scope was entered.  There's probably a way to get around it
  but it might involve looking at the stack and doing an 'addr2line'
  to get the line number.  Kind of like ast_backtrace() does.
  Not sure if it's worth it.

Change-Id: Ic5ebb859883f9c10a08c5630802de33500cad027
---
M configs/samples/asterisk.conf.sample
M configs/samples/logger.conf.sample
M include/asterisk/logger.h
M include/asterisk/options.h
M main/asterisk.c
M main/asterisk.exports.in
M main/cli.c
M main/logger.c
M main/options.c
A tests/test_scope_trace.c
10 files changed, 605 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)


  git pull ssh://gerrit.asterisk.org:29418/asterisk refs/changes/63/14463/3
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Gerrit-Change-Number: 14463
Gerrit-PatchSet: 3
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