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tracing: make ftrace_print_array_seq compute buf_len

Message ID 1430137069-859-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org
State New
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Commit Message

Alex Bennée April 27, 2015, 12:17 p.m. UTC
The only caller to this function was getting it wrong. I favoured
pushing the calculation to as close to the need as possible rather than
fixing the one caller.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Alex Bennée April 28, 2015, 2:40 p.m. UTC | #1
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:22:02 +0100
> Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:17:48PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> > The only caller to this function was getting it wrong. I favoured
>> 
>> What caller?
>> 
>> Wrong in what way?
>
> Yes, please add that info to the change log.

It was ftrace's own __print_array, I'll add the info to v2.

>
>> 
>> > pushing the calculation to as close to the need as possible rather than
>> > fixing the one caller.
>> 
>> This seems reasonable, but...
>> 
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> > ---
>> >  include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 2 +-
>> >  kernel/trace/trace_output.c  | 3 ++-
>> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
>> > index c674ee8..e6b0262 100644
>> > --- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
>> > @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const char *ftrace_print_hex_seq(struct trace_seq *p,
>> >  				 const unsigned char *buf, int len);
>> >  
>> >  const char *ftrace_print_array_seq(struct trace_seq *p,
>> > -				   const void *buf, int buf_len,
>> > +				   const void *buf, int len,
>> 
>> How is the name "len" less confusing than "buf_len"?
>> 
>> I suggest matching the name to the equivalent argument of the
>> __print_array macro -- i.e., "count".
>
> I agree, please change the variable name to "count", that will make more
> sense.

OK I'll re-spin today.

>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Steve
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diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index c674ee8..e6b0262 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@  const char *ftrace_print_hex_seq(struct trace_seq *p,
 				 const unsigned char *buf, int len);
 
 const char *ftrace_print_array_seq(struct trace_seq *p,
-				   const void *buf, int buf_len,
+				   const void *buf, int len,
 				   size_t el_size);
 
 struct trace_iterator;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index 692bf71..a42703d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -178,12 +178,13 @@  ftrace_print_hex_seq(struct trace_seq *p, const unsigned char *buf, int buf_len)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ftrace_print_hex_seq);
 
 const char *
-ftrace_print_array_seq(struct trace_seq *p, const void *buf, int buf_len,
+ftrace_print_array_seq(struct trace_seq *p, const void *buf, int len,
 		       size_t el_size)
 {
 	const char *ret = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p);
 	const char *prefix = "";
 	void *ptr = (void *)buf;
+	size_t buf_len = len * el_size;
 
 	trace_seq_putc(p, '{');