linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 05/11] tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields

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Message-Id: <156113392998.28344.16677403249383913005.stgit@devnote2>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jun 2019 01:18:50 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 05/11] tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields

Make the synthetic event accepts a different type field to record.
However, the size and signed flag must be same.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index ca6b0dff60c5..a7f447195143 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -4063,8 +4063,11 @@ static int check_synth_field(struct synth_event *event,
 
 	field = event->fields[field_pos];
 
-	if (strcmp(field->type, hist_field->type) != 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (strcmp(field->type, hist_field->type) != 0) {
+		if (field->size != hist_field->size ||
+		    field->is_signed != hist_field->is_signed)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }