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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h
index e718a91..e16610c 100644
--- a/include/trace/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h
@@ -296,13 +296,19 @@ static struct trace_event_functions ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call = {	\
 
 #undef __array
 #define __array(type, item, len)					\
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(len > MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);				\
-	ret = trace_define_field(event_call, #type "[" #len "]", #item,	\
+	do {								\
+		mutex_lock(&event_storage_mutex);			\
+		BUILD_BUG_ON(len > MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);			\
+		snprintf(event_storage, sizeof(event_storage),		\
+			 "%s[%d]", #type, len);				\
+		ret = trace_define_field(event_call, event_storage, #item, \
 				 offsetof(typeof(field), item),		\
 				 sizeof(field.item),			\
 				 is_signed_type(type), FILTER_OTHER);	\
-	if (ret)							\
-		return ret;
+		mutex_unlock(&event_storage_mutex);			\
+		if (ret)						\
+			return ret;					\
+	} while (0);
 
 #undef __dynamic_array
 #define __dynamic_array(type, item, len)				       \