On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:13:31 +0100 Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This breaks the trigger-field-variable-support.tc from the ftrace test > suite at least on s390: > > echo 'hist:keys=next_comm:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).wakeup_latency($wakeup_lat,next_pid,sched.sched_waking.prio,next_comm) if next_comm=="ping"' > linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-field-variable-support.tc: line 15: echo: write error: Invalid argument > > I added a debugging line into check_synth_field(): > > [ 44.091037] field->size 16, hist_field->size 16, field->is_signed 1, hist_field->is_signed 0 > > Note the difference in the signed field. That should not break on strings. Does this fix it (if you keep the patch)? -- Steve diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index 9555b8e1d1e3..319f9c8ca7e7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -3757,7 +3757,7 @@ static int check_synth_field(struct synth_event *event, if (strcmp(field->type, hist_field->type) != 0) { if (field->size != hist_field->size || - field->is_signed != hist_field->is_signed) + (!field->is_string && field->is_signed != hist_field->is_signed)) return -EINVAL; }