On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 2:01 PM John Stultz [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:27:38AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:

quoted

As the sched:sched_switch tracepoint args are derived from the kernel,
we'd better make it same with the kernel. So the macro TASK_COMM_LEN is
converted to type enum, then all the BPF programs can get it through BTF.

The BPF program which wants to use TASK_COMM_LEN should include the header
vmlinux.h. Regarding the test_stacktrace_map and test_tracepoint, as the
type defined in linux/bpf.h are also defined in vmlinux.h, so we don't
need to include linux/bpf.h again.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <redacted>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <redacted>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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 include/linux/sched.h                                   | 9 +++++++--
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c | 6 +++---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tracepoint.c     | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Hey all,
  I know this is a little late, but I recently got a report that
this change was causiing older versions of perfetto to stop
working.

Apparently newer versions of perfetto has worked around this
via the following changes:
  https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/perfetto/+/c717c93131b1b6e3705a11092a70ac47c78b731d%5E%21/
  https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/perfetto/+/160a504ad5c91a227e55f84d3e5d3fe22af7c2bb%5E%21/

But for older versions of perfetto, reverting upstream commit
3087c61ed2c4 ("tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16
with TASK_COMM_LEN") is necessary to get it back to working.

I haven't dug very far into the details, and obviously this doesn't
break with the updated perfetto, but from a high level this does
seem to be a breaking-userland regression.

So I wanted to reach out to see if there was more context for this
breakage? I don't want to raise a unnecessary stink if this was
an unfortuante but forced situation.

Let me understand what you're saying...

The commit 3087c61ed2c4 did

-/* Task command name length: */
-#define TASK_COMM_LEN                  16
+/*
+ * Define the task command name length as enum, then it can be visible to
+ * BPF programs.
+ */
+enum {
+       TASK_COMM_LEN = 16,
+};


and that caused:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/task_newtask/format

to print
field:char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];    offset:12;    size:16;    signed:0;
instead of
field:char comm[16];    offset:12;    size:16;    signed:0;

so the ftrace parsing android tracing tool had to do:

-  if (Match(type_and_name.c_str(), R"(char [a-zA-Z_]+\[[0-9]+\])")) {
+  if (Match(type_and_name.c_str(),
+            R"(char [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*\[[a-zA-Z_0-9]+\])")) {

to workaround this change.
Right?

And what are you proposing?