linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/probes: Fix basic print type functions

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Message-ID: <20131120152245.GB24734@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:22:45 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/probes: Fix basic print type functions

On 11/18, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u8, "%x", unsigned int)
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u16, "%x", unsigned int)
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u32, "%lx", unsigned long)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u8 , "%x", unsigned char)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u16, "%x", unsigned short)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u32, "%x", unsigned int)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s8,  "%d", signed char)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s16, "%d", short)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s32, "%d", int)
> +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
>  DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u64, "%llx", unsigned long long)
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s8, "%d", int)
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s16, "%d", int)
> -DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s32, "%ld", long)
>  DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s64, "%lld", long long)
> +#else /* BITS_PER_LONG == 64 */
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u64, "%lx", unsigned long)
> +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s64, "%ld", long)
> +#endif

I must have missed something... Not only I do not understand why
do we need "#if BITS_PER_LONG", I can't understand why
DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC() needs "cast" argument.

IOW, how about the patch below instead?

Oleg.

--- x/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ x/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -40,23 +40,23 @@ const char *reserved_field_names[] = {
 #define PRINT_TYPE_FMT_NAME(type)	print_type_format_##type
 
 /* Printing  in basic type function template */
-#define DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(type, fmt, cast)			\
+#define DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(type, fmt)				\
 static __kprobes int PRINT_TYPE_FUNC_NAME(type)(struct trace_seq *s,	\
 						const char *name,	\
-						void *data, void *ent)\
+						void *data, void *ent)	\
 {									\
-	return trace_seq_printf(s, " %s=" fmt, name, (cast)*(type *)data);\
+	return trace_seq_printf(s, " %s=" fmt, name, *(type *)data);	\
 }									\
 static const char PRINT_TYPE_FMT_NAME(type)[] = fmt;
 
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u8, "%x", unsigned int)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u16, "%x", unsigned int)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u32, "%lx", unsigned long)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u64, "%llx", unsigned long long)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s8, "%d", int)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s16, "%d", int)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s32, "%ld", long)
-DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s64, "%lld", long long)
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u8, "%x")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u16, "%x")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u32, "%x")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(u64, "%Lx")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s8, "%d")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s16, "%d")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s32, "%d")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(s64, "%Ld")
 
 static inline void *get_rloc_data(u32 *dl)
 {

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