linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Add field modifier parsing hist error for hist triggers

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Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:04:49 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mhiramat@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        joel.opensrc@...il.com, joelaf@...gle.com,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, baohong.liu@...el.com,
        rajvi.jingar@...el.com, julia@...com, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Add field modifier parsing hist error for hist triggers

If the user specifies an invalid field modifier for a hist trigger,
the current code correctly flags that as an error, but doesn't tell
the user what happened.

Fix this by invoking hist_err() with an appropriate message when
invalid modifiers are specified.

Before:

  # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.junkusecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
  -su: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist

After:

  # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.junkusecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
  -su: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist
  ERROR: Invalid field modifier: junkusecs
    Last command: keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.junkusecs

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index f231fa2..b9061ed 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2466,6 +2466,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_var_ref(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
 		else if (strcmp(modifier, "usecs") == 0)
 			*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS;
 		else {
+			hist_err("Invalid field modifier: ", modifier);
 			field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 			goto out;
 		}
-- 
1.9.3