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Kalesh Singh 52cfb37353 tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
Currently hist trigger expressions don't support the use of numeric
literals:
	e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=$y-1234'
		--> is not valid expression syntax

Having the ability to use numeric constants in hist triggers supports
a wider range of expressions for creating variables.

Add support for creating trace event histogram variables from numeric
literals.

	e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=1234,y=size-1024' >> event/trigger

A negative numeric constant is created, using unary minus operator
(parentheses are required).

	e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:z=-(2)' >> event/trigger

Constants can be used with division/multiplication (added in the
next patch in this series) to implement granularity filters for frequent
trace events. For instance we can limit emitting the rss_stat
trace event to when there is a 512KB cross over in the rss size:

  # Create a synthetic event to monitor instead of the high frequency
  # rss_stat event
  echo 'rss_stat_throttled unsigned int mm_id; unsigned int curr;
	int member; long size' >> tracing/synthetic_events

  # Create a hist trigger that emits the synthetic rss_stat_throttled
  # event only when the rss size crosses a 512KB boundary.
  echo 'hist:keys=keys=mm_id,member:bucket=size/0x80000:onchange($bucket)
      .rss_stat_throttled(mm_id,curr,member,size)'
        >> events/kmem/rss_stat/trigger

A use case for using constants with addition/subtraction is not yet
known, but for completeness the use of constants are supported for all
operators.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-2-kaleshsingh@google.com

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-26 20:27:19 -04:00
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