On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:35 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > [ > This is a treewide change. I will likely re-create this patch again in > the second week of the merge window of v6.10 and submit it then. Hoping > to keep the conflicts that it will cause to a minimum. > ] > > With the rework of how the __string() handles dynamic strings where it > saves off the source string in field in the helper structure[1], the > assignment of that value to the trace event field is stored in the helper > value and does not need to be passed in again. > > This means that with: > > __string(field, mystring) > > Which use to be assigned with __assign_str(field, mystring), no longer > needs the second parameter and it is unused. With this, __assign_str() > will now only get a single parameter. > > There's over 700 users of __assign_str() and because coccinelle does not > handle the TRACE_EVENT() macro I ended up using the following sed script: > > git grep -l __assign_str | while read a ; do > sed -e 's/\(__assign_str([^,]*[^ ,]\) *,[^;]*/\1)/' $a > /tmp/test-file; > mv /tmp/test-file $a; > done > > I then searched for __assign_str() that did not end with ';' as those > were multi line assignments that the sed script above would fail to catch. > > Note, the same updates will need to be done for: > > __assign_str_len() > __assign_rel_str() > __assign_rel_str_len() > > I tested this with both an allmodconfig and an allyesconfig (build only for both). > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222211442.634192653@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> # for thermal
