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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index 725bf6bd39f7..47e3997f7b5c 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@ enum {
 	FILTER_PTR_STRING,
 };
 
+#define EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE 128
+extern struct mutex event_storage_mutex;
+extern char event_storage[EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE];
+
 extern int trace_event_raw_init(struct ftrace_event_call *call);
 extern int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,
 			      const char *name, int offset, int size,