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, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 0725eea..35fde09 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
 
 DEFINE_MUTEX(event_mutex);
 
+DEFINE_MUTEX(event_storage_mutex);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(event_storage_mutex);
+
+char event_storage[EVENT_STORAGE_SIZE];
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(event_storage);
+
 LIST_HEAD(ftrace_events);
 LIST_HEAD(ftrace_common_fields);