linux/include/trace/stages
Steven Rostedt (Google) f82e7ca019 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>
2023-04-03 11:52:51 -04:00
..
init.h
stage1_struct_define.h tracing: Add __cpumask to denote a trace event field that is a cpumask_t 2022-11-23 19:08:30 -05:00
stage2_data_offsets.h tracing: Add __cpumask to denote a trace event field that is a cpumask_t 2022-11-23 19:08:30 -05:00
stage3_trace_output.h tracing: Acquire buffer from temparary trace sequence 2023-02-07 12:42:54 -05:00
stage4_event_fields.h tracing: Fix TASK_COMM_LEN in trace event format file 2023-02-12 10:23:39 -05:00
stage5_get_offsets.h tracing: Error if a trace event has an array for a __field() 2023-04-03 11:52:51 -04:00
stage6_event_callback.h perf/tracing: Use stage6 of tracing to not duplicate macros 2023-01-25 10:31:24 -05:00
stage7_class_define.h tracing: Acquire buffer from temparary trace sequence 2023-02-07 12:42:54 -05:00