From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> When creating a synthetic event that is based off of the same event with two different fields, it should still work. But the assumption was that every field that has a label will have the same label, which is not true. For example, to create an event that measures the time a task is blocked, it needs to start and end on the same event (sched_switch), but just use different fields. sqlhist -n blocked 'SELECT end.next_pid AS pid,end.next_comm AS comm,(end.TIMESTAMP_USECS - start.TIMESTAMP_USECS) AS lat FROM sched_switch AS start JOIN sched_switch AS end ON start.prev_pid = end.next_pid WHERE start.prev_state = 2' But this gave the following error: Failed creating synthetic event!: Success SELECT end.next_pid AS pid,end.next_comm AS comm,(end.TIMESTAMP_USECS - start.TIMESTAMP_USECS) AS lat FROM sched_switch AS start JOIN sched_switch AS end ON start.prev_pid = end.next_pid WHERE start.prev_state = 2 ^ ERROR: 'end.next_pid' 'start.prev_pid' and 'end.next_pid' must be a field for each event: 'sched_switch' and 'sched_switch' Because the end sched_switch would already have the label "start" and it would not create one for "end" making the "end" not resolve correctly. Now it gives the correct answer: echo 's:blocked pid_t next_pid; char next_comm[16]; u64 lat;' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events echo 'hist:keys=prev_pid:__arg_21065_1=next_pid,__arg_21065_2=next_comm,__arg_21065_3=common_timestamp.usecs if prev_state == 2' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:next_pid=$__arg_21065_1,next_comm=$__arg_21065_2,lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg_21065_3:onmatch(sched.sched_switch).trace(blocked,$next_pid,$next_comm,$lat)' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger Fixes: 25446407 ("libtracefs: Added new API tracefs_sql()") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/tracefs-sqlhist.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/tracefs-sqlhist.c b/src/tracefs-sqlhist.c index 9811362..cee037b 100644 --- a/src/tracefs-sqlhist.c +++ b/src/tracefs-sqlhist.c @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ static struct expr *find_field(struct sqlhist_bison *sb, if (!strcmp(field->raw, raw)) { if (label && !field->label) field->label = label; + if (label && strcmp(label, field->label) != 0) + continue; return expr; } -- 2.35.1