linux-stable/include/trace
Steven Rostedt 0429578016 tracing/events: Show real number in array fields
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:

  field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];	offset:12;	size:16;	signed:1;

When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.

By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:

  field:char prev_comm[16];       offset:12;      size:16;        signed:1;

Something much more useful.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-11-19 10:18:47 -05:00
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events Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-11-18 20:07:12 +01:00
define_trace.h tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header 2010-05-05 11:46:17 -04:00
ftrace.h tracing/events: Show real number in array fields 2010-11-19 10:18:47 -05:00
syscall.h tracing: Use a global field list for all syscall exit events 2010-06-28 17:12:44 -04:00