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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:13:09 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"
From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.
The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.
For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:
># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
Gives a misleading and wrong result.
Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.
Now we can even do:
># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
#
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 7, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 1, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 6, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 5, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 14
{ common_cpu: 4, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 26
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 0 } hitcount: 39
{ common_cpu: 2, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 184
Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94a44 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
index b71e09f745c3..f99be8062bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Documentation written by Tom Zanussi
with the event, in nanoseconds. May be
modified by .usecs to have timestamps
interpreted as microseconds.
- cpu int the cpu on which the event occurred.
+ common_cpu int the cpu on which the event occurred.
====================== ==== =======================================
Extended error information
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 16a9dfc9fffc..b3b7fd6f5a57 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ static const char *hist_field_name(struct hist_field *field,
field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
field_name = hist_field_name(field->operands[0], ++level);
else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
- field_name = "cpu";
+ field_name = "common_cpu";
else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_EXPR ||
field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) {
if (field->system) {
@@ -1991,14 +1991,24 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, struct trace_event_file *file,
hist_data->enable_timestamps = true;
if (*flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS)
hist_data->attrs->ts_in_usecs = true;
- } else if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0)
+ } else if (strcmp(field_name, "common_cpu") == 0)
*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
else {
field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name);
if (!field || !field->size) {
- hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND, errpos(field_name));
- field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- goto out;
+ /*
+ * For backward compatibility, if field_name
+ * was "cpu", then we treat this the same as
+ * common_cpu.
+ */
+ if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0) {
+ *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
+ } else {
+ hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND,
+ errpos(field_name));
+ field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ goto out;
+ }
}
}
out:
@@ -5085,7 +5095,7 @@ static void hist_field_print(struct seq_file *m, struct hist_field *hist_field)
seq_printf(m, "%s=", hist_field->var.name);
if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
- seq_puts(m, "cpu");
+ seq_puts(m, "common_cpu");
else if (field_name) {
if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF ||
hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
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