Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing: Use seq_buf_hex_dump() to dump buffers

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu,  7 Nov 2019 13:45:38 +0100
Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/trace/trace_events.h b/include/trace/trace_events.h
> index 4ecdfe2..7089760 100644
> --- a/include/trace/trace_events.h
> +++ b/include/trace/trace_events.h
> @@ -340,6 +340,12 @@ TRACE_MAKE_SYSTEM_STR();
>  		trace_print_array_seq(p, array, count, el_size);	\
>  	})
>  
> +#undef __print_hex_dump
> +#define __print_hex_dump(prefix_str, prefix_type,			\
> +			 rowsize, groupsize, buf, len, ascii)		\
> +	trace_print_hex_dump_seq(p, prefix_str, prefix_type,		\
> +				 rowsize, groupsize, buf, len, ascii)
> +
>  #undef DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
>  #define DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print)	\
>  static notrace enum print_line_t					\

OK, so the __print_hex_dump() will be exported to the format files.

Would you be willing to add a function to handle __print_hex_dump() in
tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c, like __print_flags(),
__print_symbolic(), and other __print_*() functions are handled. This
will allow trace-cmd and perf to be able to parse the data when you
used it via the userspace tools.

This can be a separate patch, but ideally before any trace events start
using this.

Thanks,

-- Steve