Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: show size of requested buffer

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:37:22 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry for the late reply, I was on holiday when this was sent, and I'm just
getting to looking at this email now (as my OoO email should have suggested ;-)

Anyway, this needs to be reviewed by the Perf maintainers (Cc'd)

(Lore link for patch 2: 
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210831043723.13481-2-robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx/ )

-- Steve


> If the perf buffer isn't large enough, provide a hint about how large it
> needs to be for whatever is running.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
> index 03be4435d103..26eed4b89100 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
> @@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ void *perf_trace_buf_alloc(int size, struct pt_regs **regs, int *rctxp)
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE % sizeof(unsigned long));
>  
>  	if (WARN_ONCE(size > PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE,
> -		      "perf buffer not large enough"))
> +		      "perf buffer not large enough, wanted %d, have %d",
> +		      size, PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE))
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	*rctxp = rctx = perf_swevent_get_recursion_context();