From: Tom Zanussi If the user specifies a nonexistent field 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 nonexistent fields are specified. Before: # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger -su: echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist After: # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger -su: echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist ERROR: Couldn't find field: pid Last command: keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fdc8746969d16906120f162b99dd71c741e0b62c.1524790601.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- 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 66c87be4ebb2..f231fa2a3dcd 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -2481,6 +2481,7 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, struct trace_event_file *file, else { field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name); if (!field || !field->size) { + hist_err("Couldn't find field: ", field_name); field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); goto out; } -- 2.17.0