[PATCH v6 2/4] tracing/timer: use __print_sym()

From: Johannes Berg

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 06:16:29 EST


From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Use the new __print_sym() in the timer tracing, just to show
how to convert something. This adds ~80 bytes of .text for a
saving of ~1.5K of data in my builds.

Note the format changes from

print fmt: "success=%d dependency=%s", REC->success, __print_symbolic(REC->dependency, { 0, "NONE" }, { (1 << 0), "POSIX_TIMER" }, { (1 << 1), "PERF_EVENTS" }, { (1 << 2), "SCHED" }, { (1 << 3), "CLOCK_UNSTABLE" }, { (1 << 4), "RCU" }, { (1 << 5), "RCU_EXP" })

to

print fmt: "success=%d dependency=%s", REC->success, __print_symbolic(REC->dependency, { 0, "NONE" }, { 1, "POSIX_TIMER" }, { 2, "PERF_EVENTS" }, { 4, "SCHED" }, { 8, "CLOCK_UNSTABLE" }, { 16, "RCU" }, { 32, "RCU_EXP" })

since the values are now just printed in the show function as
pure decimal values.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/timer.h | 18 +++++-------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/timer.h b/include/trace/events/timer.h
index ca82fd62dc30..9a43f4fedaf6 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/timer.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/timer.h
@@ -441,26 +441,18 @@ TRACE_EVENT(itimer_expire,
#undef tick_dep_mask_name
#undef tick_dep_name_end

-/* The MASK will convert to their bits and they need to be processed too */
-#define tick_dep_name(sdep) TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TICK_DEP_BIT_##sdep); \
- TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep);
-#define tick_dep_name_end(sdep) TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TICK_DEP_BIT_##sdep); \
- TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep);
-/* NONE only has a mask defined for it */
-#define tick_dep_mask_name(sdep) TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep);
+#define tick_dep_name(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep },
+#define tick_dep_mask_name(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep },
+#define tick_dep_name_end(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep }

-TICK_DEP_NAMES
+TRACE_DEFINE_SYM_LIST(tick_dep_names, TICK_DEP_NAMES);

#undef tick_dep_name
#undef tick_dep_mask_name
#undef tick_dep_name_end

-#define tick_dep_name(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep },
-#define tick_dep_mask_name(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep },
-#define tick_dep_name_end(sdep) { TICK_DEP_MASK_##sdep, #sdep }
-
#define show_tick_dep_name(val) \
- __print_symbolic(val, TICK_DEP_NAMES)
+ __print_sym(val, tick_dep_names)

TRACE_EVENT(tick_stop,

--
2.55.0