Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] tracing: Make error_log per instance

[Tom Zanussi]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 14:29 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I noticed that you created an error_log file in every instance, but
> they all show the same errors. These three patches make it so that
> the errors appear in the instance directory that they happened in.
> If you write a bad error to
> 
>    /sys/kernel/tracing/instance/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/hist
> 
> It appears only in
> 
>   /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/foo/error_log
> 
> Which I think is the proper approach, especially instances should not
> affect the top directory or other instances.
> 
> For those errors that do not have an associated instance (creating a
> kprobe/uprobe event or perf), a NULL passed to tracing_log_err() will
> result in the error message in the top level error message.
> 
> Do you (or Masami) have any issues with this patch set?
> 
> If not, please add a "reviewed-by" or "acked-by" and I'll add it
> to your patch series and push them to for-next (after more testing).
> 

Looks good, thanks for doing this.  You can add my:

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FYI, I noticed one bit of trailing whitespace in 2/3 - you might want
to run it through checkpatch again before you merge ;-)

Thanks,

Tom


> If this isn't obvious, this patch series is on top of:
> 
>   http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxx
> el.com
> 
> Actually, I added it right after patch 5 of that series (before the
> selftests and documentation).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> 
> Steven Rostedt (VMware) (3):
>       tracing: Add trace_array parameter to create_event_filter()
>       tracing: Have histogram code pass around trace_array for error
> handling
>       tracing: Have the error logs show up in the proper instances
> 
> ----
>  kernel/trace/trace.c                |  55 +++++++++-----
>  kernel/trace/trace.h                |   8 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c  |  25 ++++---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c    | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> ------------
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c |   3 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c          |   2 +-
>  6 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)