It's common [1] to define tracepoint fields as "bool" when they contain
a true / false value. Currently, defining a synthetic event with a
"bool" field yields EINVAL. It's possible to work around this by using
e.g. u8 (assuming sizeof(bool) is 1, and bool is unsigned; if either of
these properties don't match, you get EINVAL [2]).
Supporting "bool" explicitly makes hooking this up easier and more
portable for userspace.
[1]: grep -r "bool" include/trace/events/
[2]: check_synth_field() in kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009220524.485102-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since synthetic event array types are derived from the field name,
there may be a semicolon at the end of the type which should be
stripped off.
If there are more characters following that, normal type string
checking will result in an invalid type.
Without this patch, you can end up with an invalid field type string
that gets displayed in both the synthetic event description and the
event format:
Before:
# echo 'myevent char str[16]; int v' >> synthetic_events
# cat synthetic_events
myevent char[16]; str; int v
name: myevent
ID: 1936
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:char str[16];; offset:8; size:16; signed:1;
field:int v; offset:40; size:4; signed:1;
print fmt: "str=%s, v=%d", REC->str, REC->v
After:
# echo 'myevent char str[16]; int v' >> synthetic_events
# cat synthetic_events
myevent char[16] str; int v
# cat events/synthetic/myevent/format
name: myevent
ID: 1936
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:char str[16]; offset:8; size:16; signed:1;
field:int v; offset:40; size:4; signed:1;
print fmt: "str=%s, v=%d", REC->str, REC->v
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6587663b56c2d45ab9d8c8472a2110713cdec97d.1602598160.git.zanussi@kernel.org
[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: wrote parse_synth_field() snippet. ]
Fixes: 4b147936fa (tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events)
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add support for synthetic event error logging, which entails adding a
logging function for it, a way to save the synthetic event command,
and a set of specific synthetic event parse error strings and
handling.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed099c66df13b40cfc633aaeb17f66c37a923066.1602598160.git.zanussi@kernel.org
[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: wrote save_cmdstr() seq_buf implementation. ]
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Call the is_good_name() function used by probe events to make sure
synthetic event and field names don't contain illegal characters and
cause unexpected parsing of synthetic event commands.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c4d4bb59d3ac39bcbd70fba0cf837d6b1cedb015.1602598160.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: 4b147936fa (tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events)
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For synthetic event dynamic fields, the type contains "__data_loc",
which is basically an internal part of the type which is only meant to
be displayed in the format, not in the event description itself, which
is confusing to users since they can't use __data_loc on the
command-line to define an event field, which printing it would lead
them to believe.
So filter it out from the description, while leaving it in the type.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b3b7baf7813298a5ede4ff02e2e837b91c05a724.1602598160.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A cut and paste error had the check to use __get_str() test "is_dynamic"
twice, instead of checking "is_string && is_dynamic".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d34dccd5-96ba-a2d9-46ea-de8807525deb@canonical.com
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, sythetic events only support static string fields such as:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[32]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
Which is fine, but wastes a lot of space in the event.
It also prevents the most commonly-defined strings in the existing
trace events e.g. those defined using __string(), from being passed to
synthetic events via the trace() action.
With this change, synthetic events with dynamic fields can be defined:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
And the trace() action can be used to generate events using either
dynamic or static strings:
# echo 'hist:keys=name:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sys.event).test_latency($lat,name)' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events
The synthetic event dynamic strings are implemented in the same way as
the existing __data_loc strings and appear as such in the format file.
[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: added __set_synth_event_print_fmt() changes:
I added the following to make it work with trace-cmd. Dynamic strings
must have __get_str() for events in the print_fmt otherwise it can't be
parsed correctly. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1601588066.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ed35b6d0e390f5b94cb4a9ba1cc18f5982ab277.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
synth_field_size() returns either a positive size or an error (zero or
a negative value). However, the existing code assumes the only error
value is 0. It doesn't handle negative error codes, as it assigns
directly to field->size (a size_t; unsigned), thereby interpreting the
error code as a valid size instead.
Do the test before assignment to field->size.
[ axelrasmussen@google.com: changelog addition, first paragraph above ]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b6946d9776b2eeb43227678158196de1c3c6e1d.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: 4b147936fa (tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events)
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Initialize boot-time tracing in core_initcall_sync instead of
fs_initcall, and initialize required tracers (kprobes and synth)
in core_initcall. This will allow the boot-time tracing to trace
__init code from the beginning of postcore_initcall stage.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159974155727.478751.7486926132902849578.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Current tracing_init_dentry() return a d_entry pointer, while is not
necessary. This function returns NULL on success or error on failure,
which means there is no valid d_entry pointer return.
Let's return 0 on success and negative value for error.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712011036.70948-5-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the addition of the in-kernel synthetic event API, synthetic
events are no longer specifically tied to the histogram triggers.
The synthetic event code is also making trace_event_hist.c very
bloated, so for those reasons, move it to a separate file,
trace_events_synth.c, along with a new trace_synth.h header file.
Because synthetic events are now independent from hist triggers, add a
new CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS config option, and have CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
select it, and have CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST depend on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d1fa1f85ed5982706ac44844ac92451dcb04715.1590693308.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Axel Rasmussen