tree d23113ca6d30c229e2d2c00f91c1eb65193ac23f
parent 69a0200c2e25d61c50091549d00cfeb426c258f5
author Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> 1457031293 -0600
committer Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 1461106500 -0400

tracing: Support string type key properly

The string in a trace event is usually recorded as dynamic array which
is variable length.  But current hist code only support fixed length
array so it cannot support most strings.

This patch fixes it by checking filter_type of the field and get
proper pointer with it.  With this, it can get a histogram of exec()
based on filenames like below:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec
  # cat 'hist:key=filename' > trigger
  # ps
   PID TTY       TIME CMD
     1 ?     00:00:00 init
    29 ?     00:00:00 sh
    38 ?     00:00:00 ps
  # ls
  enable  filter  format  hist  id  trigger
  # cat hist
  # trigger info: hist:keys=filename:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]

  { filename: /usr/bin/ps                         } hitcount:          1
  { filename: /usr/bin/ls                         } hitcount:          1
  { filename: /usr/bin/cat                        } hitcount:          1

  Totals:
      Hits: 3
      Entries: 3
      Dropped: 0

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/610180d6df0cfdf11ee205452f3b241dea657233.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added (unsigned long) typecast to fix compile warning ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>