tracing: Add support for 'field variables'
Users should be able to directly specify event fields in hist trigger 'actions' rather than being forced to explicitly create a variable for that purpose. Add support allowing fields to be used directly in actions, which essentially does just that - creates 'invisible' variables for each bare field specified in an action. If a bare field refers to a field on another (matching) event, it even creates a special histogram for the purpose (since variables can't be defined on an existing histogram after histogram creation). Here's a simple example that demonstrates both. Basically the onmatch() action creates a list of variables corresponding to the parameters of the synthetic event to be generated, and then uses those values to generate the event. So for the wakeup_latency synthetic event 'call' below the first param, $wakeup_lat, is a variable defined explicitly on sched_switch, where 'next_pid' is just a normal field on sched_switch, and prio is a normal field on sched_waking. Since the mechanism works on variables, those two normal fields just have 'invisible' variables created internally for them. In the case of 'prio', which is on another event, we actually need to create an additional hist trigger and define the invisible variable on that, since once a hist trigger is defined, variables can't be added to it later. echo 'wakeup_latency u64 lat; pid_t pid; int prio' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0: onmatch(sched.sched_waking).wakeup_latency($wakeup_lat,next_pid,prio) >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8e8dcdac1ea180ed7a3689e1caeeccede9dc42b3.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>