tracing: Error if a trace event has an array for a __field()

A __field() in the TRACE_EVENT() macro is used to set up the fields of the
trace event data. It is for single storage units (word, char,

tracing: Error if a trace event has an array for a __field()

A __field() in the TRACE_EVENT() macro is used to set up the fields of the
trace event data. It is for single storage units (word, char, int,
pointer, etc) and not for complex structures or arrays. Unfortunately,
there's nothing preventing the build from accepting:

__field(int, arr[5]);

from building. It will turn into a array value. This use to work fine, as
the offset and size use to be determined by the macro using the field name,
but things have changed and the offset and size are now determined by the
type. So the above would only be size 4, and the next field will be
located 4 bytes from it (instead of 20).

The proper way to declare static arrays is to use the __array() macro.

Instead of __field(int, arr[5]) it should be __array(int, arr, 5).

Add some macro tricks to the building of a trace event from the
TRACE_EVENT() macro such that __field(int, arr[5]) will fail to build. A
comment by the failure will explain why the build failed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230306122549.236561-1-douglas.raillard@arm.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230309221302.642e82d9@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Douglas RAILLARD <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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tracing: Add __cpumask to denote a trace event field that is a cpumask_t

The trace events have a __bitmask field that can be used for anything
that requires bitmasks. Although currently it is only u

tracing: Add __cpumask to denote a trace event field that is a cpumask_t

The trace events have a __bitmask field that can be used for anything
that requires bitmasks. Although currently it is only used for CPU
masks, it could be used in the future for any type of bitmasks.

There is some user space tooling that wants to know if a field is a CPU
mask and not just some random unsigned long bitmask. Introduce
"__cpumask()" helper functions that work the same as the current
__bitmask() helpers but displays in the format file:

field:__data_loc cpumask_t *[] mask; offset:36; size:4; signed:0;

Instead of:

field:__data_loc unsigned long[] mask; offset:32; size:4; signed:0;

The main difference is the type. Instead of "unsigned long" it is
"cpumask_t *". Note, this type field needs to be a real type in the
__dynamic_array() logic that both __cpumask and__bitmask use, but the
comparison field requires it to be a scalar type whereas cpumask_t is a
structure (non-scalar). But everything works when making it a pointer.

Valentin added changes to remove the need of passing in "nr_bits" and the
__cpumask will always use nr_cpumask_bits as its size.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014080456.1d32b989@rorschach.local.home

Requested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing/events: Add __vstring() and __assign_vstr() helper macros

There's several places that open code the following logic:

TP_STRUCT__entry(__dynamic_array(char, msg, MSG_MAX)),
TP_fast_assig

tracing/events: Add __vstring() and __assign_vstr() helper macros

There's several places that open code the following logic:

TP_STRUCT__entry(__dynamic_array(char, msg, MSG_MAX)),
TP_fast_assign(vsnprintf(__get_str(msg), MSG_MAX, vaf->fmt, *vaf->va);)

To load a string created by variable array va_list.

The main issue with this approach is that "MSG_MAX" usage in the
__dynamic_array() portion. That actually just reserves the MSG_MAX in the
event, and even wastes space because there's dynamic meta data also saved
in the event to denote the offset and size of the dynamic array. It would
have been better to just use a static __array() field.

Instead, create __vstring() and __assign_vstr() that work like __string
and __assign_str() but instead of taking a destination string to copy,
take a format string and a va_list pointer and fill in the values.

It uses the helper:

#define __trace_event_vstr_len(fmt, va) \
({ \
va_list __ap; \
int __ret; \
\
va_copy(__ap, *(va)); \
__ret = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, __ap) + 1; \
va_end(__ap); \
\
min(__ret, TRACE_EVENT_STR_MAX); \
})

To figure out the length to store the string. It may be slightly slower as
it needs to run the vsnprintf() twice, but it now saves space on the ring
buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220705224749.053570613@goodmis.org

Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
Cc: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Cc: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Cc: Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>
Cc: Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Rename the staging files for trace_events

When looking for implementation of different phases of the creation of the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, it is pretty useless when all helper macro
redefini

tracing: Rename the staging files for trace_events

When looking for implementation of different phases of the creation of the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, it is pretty useless when all helper macro
redefinitions are in files labeled "stageX_defines.h". Rename them to
state which phase the files are for. For instance, when looking for the
defines that are used to create the event fields, seeing
"stage4_event_fields.h" gives the developer a good idea that the defines
are in that file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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