After commit 3087c61ed2 ("tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN"),
the content of the format file under
/sys/kernel/tracing/events/task/task_newtask was changed from
field:char comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
to
field:char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
John reported that this change breaks older versions of perfetto.
Then Mathieu pointed out that this behavioral change was caused by the
use of __stringify(_len), which happens to work on macros, but not on enum
labels. And he also gave the suggestion on how to fix it:
:One possible solution to make this more robust would be to extend
:struct trace_event_fields with one more field that indicates the length
:of an array as an actual integer, without storing it in its stringified
:form in the type, and do the formatting in f_show where it belongs.
The result as follows after this change,
$ cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/task/task_newtask/format
field:char comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y+QaZtz55LIirsUO@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230210155921.4610-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230212151303.12353-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
CC: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Fixes: 3087c61ed2 ("tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Debugged-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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