tracing/events: Show real number in array fields
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:
field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.
By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:
field:char prev_comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
Something much more useful.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index 725bf6b..47e3997 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@
FILTER_PTR_STRING,
};
+#define EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE 128
+extern struct mutex event_storage_mutex;
+extern char event_storage[EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE];
+
extern int trace_event_raw_init(struct ftrace_event_call *call);
extern int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,
const char *name, int offset, int size,