linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing/osnoise: Allow arbitrarily long CPU string

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Message-ID: <20250425091839.343289-1-tglozar@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:18:39 +0200
From: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/osnoise: Allow arbitrarily long CPU string

Allocate kernel memory for processing CPU string
(/sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/cpus) also in osnoise_cpus_write to allow
the writing of a CPU string of an arbitrary length.

This replaces the 256-byte buffer, which is insufficient with the rising
number of CPUs. For example, if I wanted to measure on every even CPU
on a system with 256 CPUs, the string would be 456 characters long.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index e732c9e37e14..6819b93309ce 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -2302,7 +2302,7 @@ osnoise_cpus_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
  * osnoise_cpus_write - Write function for "cpus" entry
  * @filp: The active open file structure
  * @ubuf: The user buffer that contains the value to write
- * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
+ * @count: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
  * @ppos: The current position in @file
  *
  * This function provides a write implementation for the "cpus"
@@ -2320,10 +2320,11 @@ osnoise_cpus_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
 {
 	cpumask_var_t osnoise_cpumask_new;
 	int running, err;
-	char buf[256];
+	char *buf __free(kfree) = NULL;
 
-	if (count >= 256)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, count))
 		return -EFAULT;
-- 
2.49.0