Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] sched, tracing: reorganize fields of switch event struct

[Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>]

Fair point, will do it in v4 as well.

Thanks,
Ze

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 10:16 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue,  1 Aug 2023 17:01:22 +0800
> Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Report priorities in 'short' and prev_state in 'int' to save
> > some buffer space. And also reorder the fields so that we take
> > struct alignment into consideration to make the record compact.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
>
> I'd swap this patch with patch 3. That is, make the field changes first.
> I'd like this to get in regardless of if the state_char is accepted. We may
> want to get this in first to see if there's any regressions before we add a
> state_char.
>
> -- Steve
>
>
> > ---
> >  include/trace/events/sched.h | 22 +++++++++++-----------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > index e507901bcab8..36863ffb00c6 100644
> > --- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(sched_wakeup_template, sched_wakeup_new,
> >            TP_ARGS(p));
> >
> >  #ifdef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> > -static inline long __trace_sched_switch_state(bool preempt,
> > +static inline int __trace_sched_switch_state(bool preempt,
> >                                             unsigned int prev_state,
> >                                             struct task_struct *p)
> >  {
> > @@ -251,25 +251,25 @@ TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,
> >       TP_ARGS(preempt, prev, next, prev_state),
> >
> >       TP_STRUCT__entry(
> > -             __array(        char,   prev_comm,      TASK_COMM_LEN   )
> >               __field(        pid_t,  prev_pid                        )
> > -             __field(        int,    prev_prio                       )
> > -             __field(        long,   prev_state                      )
> > -             __field(        char,   prev_state_char                 )
> > -             __array(        char,   next_comm,      TASK_COMM_LEN   )
> >               __field(        pid_t,  next_pid                        )
> > -             __field(        int,    next_prio                       )
> > +             __field(        short,  prev_prio                       )
> > +             __field(        short,  next_prio                       )
> > +             __field(        int,    prev_state                      )
> > +             __array(        char,   prev_comm,      TASK_COMM_LEN   )
> > +             __array(        char,   next_comm,      TASK_COMM_LEN   )
> > +             __field(        char,   prev_state_char                 )
> >       ),
> >
> >       TP_fast_assign(
> > -             memcpy(__entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> >               __entry->prev_pid               = prev->pid;
> > -             __entry->prev_prio              = prev->prio;
> > +             __entry->next_pid               = next->pid;
> > +             __entry->prev_prio              = (short) prev->prio;
> > +             __entry->next_prio              = (short) next->prio;
> >               __entry->prev_state             = __trace_sched_switch_state(preempt, prev_state, prev);
> >               __entry->prev_state_char        = __trace_sched_switch_state_char(preempt, prev_state, prev);
> >               memcpy(__entry->prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> > -             __entry->next_pid               = next->pid;
> > -             __entry->next_prio              = next->prio;
> > +             memcpy(__entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
> >               /* XXX SCHED_DEADLINE */
> >       ),
> >
>