From patchwork Sat Dec 9 22:10:58 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Steven Rostedt X-Patchwork-Id: 13486116 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B78C1C68D for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2023 22:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4A4D4C433C7; Sat, 9 Dec 2023 22:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 17:10:58 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: LKML , Linux Trace Kernel Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Mark Rutland , Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Have large events show up as '[LINE TOO BIG]' instead of nothing Message-ID: <20231209171058.78c1a026@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" If a large event was added to the ring buffer that is larger than what the trace_seq can handle, it just drops the output: ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:8 # # _-----=> irqs-off/BH-disabled # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / _-=> migrate-disable # |||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | ||||| | | <...>-859 [001] ..... 141.118951: tracing_mark_write <...>-859 [001] ..... 141.148201: tracing_mark_write: 78901234 Instead, catch this case and add some context: ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:8 # # _-----=> irqs-off/BH-disabled # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / _-=> migrate-disable # |||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | ||||| | | <...>-852 [001] ..... 121.550551: tracing_mark_write[LINE TOO BIG] <...>-852 [001] ..... 121.550581: tracing_mark_write: 78901234 This now emulates the same output as trace_pipe. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index fbcd3bafb93e..aa8f99f3e5de 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4722,7 +4722,11 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) iter->leftover = ret; } else { - print_trace_line(iter); + ret = print_trace_line(iter); + if (ret == TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE) { + iter->seq.full = 0; + trace_seq_puts(&iter->seq, "[LINE TOO BIG]\n"); + } ret = trace_print_seq(m, &iter->seq); /* * If we overflow the seq_file buffer, then it will