[PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"

[PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"

[Steven Rostedt]

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.

The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.

For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger

Gives a misleading and wrong result.

Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.

Now we can even do:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
 ># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
 # event histogram
 #
 # trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
 #

 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          2 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          4 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          7, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          5 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          1, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          6, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          5, cpu:          5 } hitcount:         14
 { common_cpu:          4, cpu:          4 } hitcount:         26
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          0 } hitcount:         39
 { common_cpu:          2, cpu:          2 } hitcount:        184

Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.

I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94a44 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Changes since v2:
  compile tested :-p and found I missed a '"' in the README.

 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c              |  4 ++++
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
index b71e09f745c3..f99be8062bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Documentation written by Tom Zanussi
                                 with the event, in nanoseconds.  May be
 			        modified by .usecs to have timestamps
 			        interpreted as microseconds.
-    cpu                    int  the cpu on which the event occurred.
+    common_cpu             int  the cpu on which the event occurred.
     ====================== ==== =======================================
 
 Extended error information
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 14f56e9fa001..e6074040c977 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5619,6 +5619,10 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
 	"\t            [:name=histname1]\n"
 	"\t            [:<handler>.<action>]\n"
 	"\t            [if <filter>]\n\n"
+	"\t    Note, special fields can be used as well:\n"
+	"\t            common_timestamp - to record current timestamp\n"
+	"\t            common_cpu - to record the CPU the event happened on\n"
+	"\n"
 	"\t    When a matching event is hit, an entry is added to a hash\n"
 	"\t    table using the key(s) and value(s) named, and the value of a\n"
 	"\t    sum called 'hitcount' is incremented.  Keys and values\n"
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 16a9dfc9fffc..34325f41ebc0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ static const char *hist_field_name(struct hist_field *field,
 		 field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
 		field_name = hist_field_name(field->operands[0], ++level);
 	else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
-		field_name = "cpu";
+		field_name = "common_cpu";
 	else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_EXPR ||
 		 field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) {
 		if (field->system) {
@@ -1991,14 +1991,24 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, struct trace_event_file *file,
 		hist_data->enable_timestamps = true;
 		if (*flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS)
 			hist_data->attrs->ts_in_usecs = true;
-	} else if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0)
+	} else if (strcmp(field_name, "common_cpu") == 0)
 		*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
 	else {
 		field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name);
 		if (!field || !field->size) {
-			hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND, errpos(field_name));
-			field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-			goto out;
+			/*
+			 * For backward compatibility, if field_name
+			 * was "cpu", then we treat this the same as
+			 * common_cpu.
+			 */
+			if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0) {
+				*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
+			} else {
+				hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND,
+					 errpos(field_name));
+				field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 	}
  out:
@@ -5085,7 +5095,7 @@ static void hist_field_print(struct seq_file *m, struct hist_field *hist_field)
 		seq_printf(m, "%s=", hist_field->var.name);
 
 	if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
-		seq_puts(m, "cpu");
+		seq_puts(m, "common_cpu");
 	else if (field_name) {
 		if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF ||
 		    hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"

[Tom Zanussi]

Hi Steve,

On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 11:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
> event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.
> 
> The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
> as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
> impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.
> 

Yes, you're absolutely right, it should have been named "common_cpu"
from the start, not only for this reason but also just for the sake of
consistency.

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>