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| author | Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]> | 2020-10-09 22:05:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> | 2020-10-15 16:01:14 +0000 |
| commit | 6107742d15832011cd0396d821f3225b52551f1f (patch) | |
| tree | 3a4e9b08918430a366a89ccf92bcc44492ceea44 /lib/dump_stack.c | |
| parent | selftests/ftrace: Add test case for synthetic event syntax errors (diff) | |
| download | kernel-6107742d15832011cd0396d821f3225b52551f1f.tar.gz kernel-6107742d15832011cd0396d821f3225b52551f1f.zip | |
tracing: support "bool" type in synthetic trace events
It's common [1] to define tracepoint fields as "bool" when they contain
a true / false value. Currently, defining a synthetic event with a
"bool" field yields EINVAL. It's possible to work around this by using
e.g. u8 (assuming sizeof(bool) is 1, and bool is unsigned; if either of
these properties don't match, you get EINVAL [2]).
Supporting "bool" explicitly makes hooking this up easier and more
portable for userspace.
[1]: grep -r "bool" include/trace/events/
[2]: check_synth_field() in kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
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