linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 1/2] tracing/histogram: Fix sorting on old "cpu" value

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Message-ID: <20220305051009.544395003@goodmis.org>
Date:   Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:09:49 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 1/2] tracing/histogram: Fix sorting on old "cpu" value

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

When trying to add a histogram against an event with the "cpu" field, it
was impossible due to "cpu" being a keyword to key off of the running CPU.
So to fix this, it was changed to "common_cpu" to match the other generic
fields (like "common_pid"). But since some scripts used "cpu" for keying
off of the CPU (for events that did not have "cpu" as a field, which is
most of them), a backward compatibility trick was added such that if "cpu"
was used as a key, and the event did not have "cpu" as a field name, then
it would fallback and switch over to "common_cpu".

This fix has a couple of subtle bugs. One was that when switching over to
"common_cpu", it did not change the field name, it just set a flag. But
the code still found a "cpu" field. The "cpu" field is used for filtering
and is returned when the event does not have a "cpu" field.

This was found by:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
  # echo hist:key=cpu,pid:sort=cpu > events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
  # cat events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist

Which showed the histogram unsorted:

{ cpu:         19, pid:       1175 } hitcount:          1
{ cpu:          6, pid:        239 } hitcount:          2
{ cpu:         23, pid:       1186 } hitcount:         14
{ cpu:         12, pid:        249 } hitcount:          2
{ cpu:          3, pid:        994 } hitcount:          5

Instead of hard coding the "cpu" checks, take advantage of the fact that
trace_event_field_field() returns a special field for "cpu" and "CPU" if
the event does not have "cpu" as a field. This special field has the
"filter_type" of "FILTER_CPU". Check that to test if the returned field is
of the CPU type instead of doing the string compare.

Also, fix the sorting bug by testing for the hist_field flag of
HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU when setting up the sort routine. Otherwise it will use
the special CPU field to know what compare routine to use, and since that
special field does not have a size, it returns tracing_map_cmp_none.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e3bac71c505 ("tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"")
Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index ada87bfb5bb8..dc7f733b4cb3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2289,9 +2289,9 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, struct trace_event_file *file,
 			/*
 			 * For backward compatibility, if field_name
 			 * was "cpu", then we treat this the same as
-			 * common_cpu.
+			 * common_cpu. This also works for "CPU".
 			 */
-			if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0) {
+			if (field && field->filter_type == FILTER_CPU) {
 				*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
 			} else {
 				hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND,
@@ -4832,7 +4832,7 @@ static int create_tracing_map_fields(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data)

 			if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE)
 				cmp_fn = tracing_map_cmp_none;
-			else if (!field)
+			else if (!field || hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
 				cmp_fn = tracing_map_cmp_num(hist_field->size,
 							     hist_field->is_signed);
 			else if (is_string_field(field))
-- 
2.34.1