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authorVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>2014-02-13 19:51:48 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-31 10:05:14 -0700
commit130cfbeb76c0e6ddb36e7280e46a06fc38eb3387 (patch)
treeced3cb790cff8c3de830f3b3e5520cb01c3ee7f5 /kernel
parent2d111d8a6b8fe07955069b41d73a627549853614 (diff)
tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string
commit 87291347c49dc40aa339f587b209618201c2e527 upstream. In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations. One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values reported there have a mismatch. For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is 16. name: sched_switch ID: 301 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 prev_comm[32]; offset:8; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:24; size:4; signed:1; field:int prev_prio; offset:28; size:4; signed:1; field:long prev_state; offset:32; size:8; signed:1; field:char next_comm[32]; offset:40; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:56; size:4; signed:1; field:int next_prio; offset:60; size:4; signed:1; After bisection, the following commit was blamed: 92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and field->type assuming that all the strings passed in __trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for all array fields points to event_storage. Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string. Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not needed anymore. also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more: text data bss dec hex filename 8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787 b3804b vmlinux 8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750 b37086 vmlinux.patched Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events.c6
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_export.c7
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 2e58196e41c7..ba983dc41418 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@
DEFINE_MUTEX(event_mutex);
-DEFINE_MUTEX(event_storage_mutex);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(event_storage_mutex);
-
-char event_storage[EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE];
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(event_storage);
-
LIST_HEAD(ftrace_events);
static LIST_HEAD(ftrace_common_fields);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
index 7c3e3e72e2b6..ee0a5098ac43 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
@@ -95,15 +95,12 @@ static void __always_unused ____ftrace_check_##name(void) \
#undef __array
#define __array(type, item, len) \
do { \
+ char *type_str = #type"["__stringify(len)"]"; \
BUILD_BUG_ON(len > MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL); \
- mutex_lock(&event_storage_mutex); \
- snprintf(event_storage, sizeof(event_storage), \
- "%s[%d]", #type, len); \
- ret = trace_define_field(event_call, event_storage, #item, \
+ ret = trace_define_field(event_call, type_str, #item, \
offsetof(typeof(field), item), \
sizeof(field.item), \
is_signed_type(type), filter_type); \
- mutex_unlock(&event_storage_mutex); \
if (ret) \
return ret; \
} while (0);