[PATCH v5 1/2] serial: qcom-geni: trace: Drop redundant len field from geni_serial_data

From: Praveen Talari

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 10:17:35 EST


The dynamic array stored in the ring buffer already carries its own
length in the array metadata. There is no need to also store it as a
separate scalar field in the entry struct.

Drop __field(unsigned int, len) and the corresponding __entry->len
assignment, and use __get_dynamic_array_len(data) in the TP_printk for
both the len=%u format argument and the __print_hex() size argument.
This saves 4 bytes per event on the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Praveen Talari <praveen.talari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/qcom_geni_serial.h | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/qcom_geni_serial.h b/include/trace/events/qcom_geni_serial.h
index 417ec01f9fc8..e1aa551d525e 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/qcom_geni_serial.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/qcom_geni_serial.h
@@ -97,18 +97,17 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(geni_serial_data,
TP_ARGS(dev, buf, len),

TP_STRUCT__entry(__string(name, dev_name(dev))
- __field(unsigned int, len)
__dynamic_array(u8, data, len)
),

TP_fast_assign(__assign_str(name);
- __entry->len = len;
memcpy(__get_dynamic_array(data), buf, len);
),

TP_printk("%s: len=%u data=%s",
- __get_str(name), __entry->len,
- __print_hex(__get_dynamic_array(data), __entry->len))
+ __get_str(name), __get_dynamic_array_len(data),
+ __print_hex(__get_dynamic_array(data),
+ __get_dynamic_array_len(data)))
);

DEFINE_EVENT(geni_serial_data, geni_serial_tx_data,

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