From: Tom Zanussi Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:35:37 +0000 (-0500) Subject: tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9236eebd138aa2753f7b30fc6cee7b7202841247;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms The syntax for fully-qualified variable references in histograms is subsys.event.$var, which is parsed correctly, but not displayed correctly when printing a histogram spec. The current code puts the $ reference at the beginning of the fully-qualified variable name i.e. $subsys.event.var, which is incorrect. Before: trigger info: hist:keys=next_comm:vals=hitcount:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$sched.sched_wakeup.ts0: ... After: trigger info: hist:keys=next_comm:vals=hitcount:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-sched.sched_wakeup.$ts0: ... Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5dee9a86d062a4dd68c2214f3d90ac93811e1951.1776112478.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index b2b675c7d6638..0dbbf6cca9bc9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -1361,9 +1361,12 @@ static const char *hist_field_name(struct hist_field *field, field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) { if (field->system) { static char full_name[MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL]; + static char *fmt; int len; - len = snprintf(full_name, sizeof(full_name), "%s.%s.%s", + fmt = field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF ? "%s.%s.$%s" : "%s.%s.%s"; + + len = snprintf(full_name, sizeof(full_name), fmt, field->system, field->event_name, field->name); if (len >= sizeof(full_name)) @@ -1742,9 +1745,10 @@ static const char *get_hist_field_flags(struct hist_field *hist_field) static void expr_field_str(struct hist_field *field, char *expr) { - if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) - strcat(expr, "$"); - else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CONST) { + if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) { + if (!field->system) + strcat(expr, "$"); + } else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CONST) { char str[HIST_CONST_DIGITS_MAX]; snprintf(str, HIST_CONST_DIGITS_MAX, "%llu", field->constant); @@ -6156,7 +6160,8 @@ static void hist_field_print(struct seq_file *m, struct hist_field *hist_field) else if (field_name) { if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF || hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS) - seq_putc(m, '$'); + if (!hist_field->system) + seq_putc(m, '$'); seq_printf(m, "%s", field_name); } else if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP) seq_puts(m, "common_timestamp");