Re: [PATCH] f2fs: Fix f2fs_truncate_partial_nodes ftrace event

[Jaegeuk Kim]

On 08/14, Kajetan Puchalski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Kajetan Puchalski wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 12:25:49PM +0000, Douglas RAILLARD wrote:
> > > From: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Fix the nid_t field so that its size is correctly reported in the text
> > > format embedded in trace.dat files. As it stands, it is reported as
> > > being of size 4:
> > > 
> > >         field:nid_t nid[3];     offset:24;      size:4; signed:0;
> > > 
> > > Instead of 12:
> > > 
> > >         field:nid_t nid[3];     offset:24;      size:12;        signed:0;
> > > 
> > > This also fixes the reported offset of subsequent fields so that they
> > > match with the actual struct layout.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  include/trace/events/f2fs.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/trace/events/f2fs.h b/include/trace/events/f2fs.h
> > > index 31d994e6b4ca..8d053838d6cf 100644
> > > --- a/include/trace/events/f2fs.h
> > > +++ b/include/trace/events/f2fs.h
> > > @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(f2fs_truncate_partial_nodes,
> > >  	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> > >  		__field(dev_t,	dev)
> > >  		__field(ino_t,	ino)
> > > -		__field(nid_t,	nid[3])
> > > +		__array(nid_t,	nid, 3)
> > >  		__field(int,	depth)
> > >  		__field(int,	err)
> > >  	),
> > > -- 
> > > 2.25.1
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just wanted to flag that I noticed this breaks Perfetto tracing on
> > Android, at least as of Android 13. I'm not sure if it's been fixed in newer
> > versions. Looks like the version of Perfetto in Android 13 is expecting
> > the previous (ie broken) field format to be there and its entire ftrace
> > collector fails as a result:
> > 
> > E/perfetto( 3532): ranslation_table.cc:133 Failed to infer ftrace field type for "f2fs_truncate_partial_nodes.nid" (type:"nid_t nid[3]" size:12 signed:0) (errno: 2, No such file or directory)
> > I/perfetto( 3640):            probes.cc:65 Hard resetting ftrace state.
> > 
> > For my own purposes I just reverted these two:
> > * 0b04d4c0542e8573a837b1d81b94209e48723b25 (f2fs: Fix f2fs_truncate_partial_nodes ftrace event)
> > * f82e7ca019dfad3b006fd3b772f7ac569672db55 (tracing: Error if a trace event has an array for a __field()
> > 
> > and now it works fine so not the biggest deal but this should probably
> > be addressed, I imagine more likely on the Perfetto side.
> 
> Added context here, it is just caused by the parser implementation in Perfetto
> being pretty lacking:
> 
> https://github.com/google/perfetto/blob/c36c70c1d4a72eafdd257f7a63e55f49fbc3df3d/src/traced/probes/ftrace/proto_translation_table.cc#L255

Hi, I believe this was fixed by
https://android-review.git.corp.google.com/c/platform/external/perfetto/+/2587146