Re: [PATCH 0/4] tracing: Improve error messages for histogram sorting

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 02:16:51 EST


On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:35:15 -0500
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> These patches add some improvements for histogram sorting, addressing
> some shortcomings pointed out by Masami.
>
> In order to address the specific problem pointed out by Masami, as
> well as add additional related error messages, the first patch
> does some simplification of assignment parsing.
>
> The second patch actually adds the new error messages.
>
> The fourth patch adds a new testcase for hist trigger parsing, similar
> to the same kind of tests for kprobes and uprobes. Additional tests
> covering all possible hist trigger errors should/will be added here in
> the future.
>
> The third patch just adds a missing hist: prefix to the error log so
> that the testcases work properly, and which should have been there
> anyway.
>
> Thanks,


Hi Tom,

These patches look good to me :)

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

for all patches. BTW, if you think there is a bug and the 1st one fixes it,
please add Fixes: tag.

Thank you,
>
> Tom
>
> The following changes since commit a124692b698b00026a58d89831ceda2331b2e1d0:
>
> ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one (2019-05-25 23:04:43 -0400)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zanussi/linux-trace.git ftrace-hist-sort-err-msgs-v1
>
> Tom Zanussi (4):
> tracing: Simplify assignment parsing for hist triggers
> tracing: Add hist trigger error messages for sort specification
> tracing: Add 'hist:' to hist trigger error log error string
> tracing: Add new testcases for hist trigger parsing errors
>
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 94 +++++++++++-----------
> .../test.d/trigger/trigger-hist-syntax-errors.tc | 32 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/trigger-hist-syntax-errors.tc
>
> --
> 2.14.1
>


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>