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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:46:38 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Allow execnames to be passed as args for
synthetic events
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:29:24 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> This looks an interesting improvement. If we can do this, can we also filter
> the event by 'comm' (or execname)?
We would be able to filter on the synthetic event, just like any other
event with a comm (or other string) But I don't think we can filter
before (that is, in the histogram code).
>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Hit a bug on freeing the histogram, found that I used "char[]" for the
> > type, and it expects to be freed. Freed the old "type" and still use
> > "char[]" but have the normal freeing use kfree_const() on type.
>
>
> BTW, if we can use this technic on the hist_field->type, we can cleanup
> other type = strdup("<any const type>", GFP_KERNEL) with type = "<any const type>" ?
>
> Anyway, that will be done in another patch (I think that should be done first,
> then we can avoid an odd kfree() in update_var_execname().)
You mean like this? It was done after the patch, but I can move it first.
-- Steve
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index bb1956efd5ef..6b9e4fb70bc1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ static void __destroy_hist_field(struct hist_field *hist_field)
kfree(hist_field->var.name);
kfree(hist_field->name);
- /* execname vars use a constant type */
+ /* Can likely be a const */
kfree_const(hist_field->type);
kfree(hist_field->system);
@@ -1648,9 +1648,7 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
if (flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_HITCOUNT) {
hist_field->fn = hist_field_counter;
hist_field->size = sizeof(u64);
- hist_field->type = kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!hist_field->type)
- goto free;
+ hist_field->type = "u64";
goto out;
}
@@ -1664,7 +1662,7 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
hist_field->fn = hist_field_log2;
hist_field->operands[0] = create_hist_field(hist_data, field, fl, NULL);
hist_field->size = hist_field->operands[0]->size;
- hist_field->type = kstrdup(hist_field->operands[0]->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hist_field->type = kstrdup_const(hist_field->operands[0]->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hist_field->type)
goto free;
goto out;
@@ -1673,18 +1671,14 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
if (flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP) {
hist_field->fn = hist_field_timestamp;
hist_field->size = sizeof(u64);
- hist_field->type = kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!hist_field->type)
- goto free;
+ hist_field->type = "u64";
goto out;
}
if (flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU) {
hist_field->fn = hist_field_cpu;
hist_field->size = sizeof(int);
- hist_field->type = kstrdup("unsigned int", GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!hist_field->type)
- goto free;
+ hist_field->type = "unsigned int";
goto out;
}
@@ -1697,7 +1691,7 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING;
hist_field->size = MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL;
- hist_field->type = kstrdup(field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hist_field->type = kstrdup_const(field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hist_field->type)
goto free;
@@ -1710,7 +1704,7 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
} else {
hist_field->size = field->size;
hist_field->is_signed = field->is_signed;
- hist_field->type = kstrdup(field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hist_field->type = kstrdup_const(field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hist_field->type)
goto free;
@@ -1796,7 +1790,7 @@ static int init_var_ref(struct hist_field *ref_field,
}
}
- ref_field->type = kstrdup(var_field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ref_field->type = kstrdup_const(var_field->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ref_field->type) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto free;
@@ -2165,7 +2159,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_unary(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
expr->operands[0] = operand1;
expr->operator = FIELD_OP_UNARY_MINUS;
expr->name = expr_str(expr, 0);
- expr->type = kstrdup(operand1->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ expr->type = kstrdup_const(operand1->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!expr->type) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto free;
@@ -2291,7 +2285,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
expr->operands[1] = operand2;
expr->operator = field_op;
expr->name = expr_str(expr, 0);
- expr->type = kstrdup(operand1->type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ expr->type = kstrdup_const(operand1->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!expr->type) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto free;
@@ -2679,10 +2673,10 @@ static struct hist_field *create_var(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
var->var.hist_data = var->hist_data = hist_data;
var->size = size;
var->var.name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
- var->type = kstrdup(type, GFP_KERNEL);
+ var->type = kstrdup_const(type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!var->var.name || !var->type) {
kfree(var->var.name);
- kfree(var->type);
+ kfree_const(var->type);
kfree(var);
var = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
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