commit 60295b944f upstream.
Tracing tools like perf and trace-cmd read the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/*/*/format
files to know how to parse the data and also how to print it. For the
"print fmt" portion of that file, if anything uses an enum that is not
exported to the tracing system, user space will not be able to parse it.
The GFP flags use to be defines, and defines get translated in the print
fmt sections. But now they are converted to use enums, which is not.
The mm_page_alloc trace event format use to have:
print fmt: "page=%p pfn=0x%lx order=%d migratetype=%d gfp_flags=%s",
REC->pfn != -1UL ? (((struct page *)vmemmap_base) + (REC->pfn)) : ((void
*)0), REC->pfn != -1UL ? REC->pfn : 0, REC->order, REC->migratetype,
(REC->gfp_flags) ? __print_flags(REC->gfp_flags, "|", {( unsigned
long)(((((((( gfp_t)(0x400u|0x800u)) | (( gfp_t)0x40u) | (( gfp_t)0x80u) |
(( gfp_t)0x100000u)) | (( gfp_t)0x02u)) | (( gfp_t)0x08u) | (( gfp_t)0)) |
(( gfp_t)0x40000u) | (( gfp_t)0x80000u) | (( gfp_t)0x2000u)) & ~((
gfp_t)(0x400u|0x800u))) | (( gfp_t)0x400u)), "GFP_TRANSHUGE"}, {( unsigned
long)((((((( gfp_t)(0x400u|0x800u)) | (( gfp_t)0x40u) | (( gfp_t)0x80u) |
(( gfp_t)0x100000u)) | (( gfp_t)0x02u)) | (( gfp_t)0x08u) | (( gfp_t)0)) ...
Where the GFP values are shown and not their names. But after the GFP
flags were converted to use enums, it has:
print fmt: "page=%p pfn=0x%lx order=%d migratetype=%d gfp_flags=%s",
REC->pfn != -1UL ? (vmemmap + (REC->pfn)) : ((void *)0), REC->pfn != -1UL
? REC->pfn : 0, REC->order, REC->migratetype, (REC->gfp_flags) ?
__print_flags(REC->gfp_flags, "|", {( unsigned long)((((((((
gfp_t)(((((1UL))) << (___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM_BIT))|((((1UL))) <<
(___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM_BIT)))) | (( gfp_t)((((1UL))) << (___GFP_IO_BIT)))
| (( gfp_t)((((1UL))) << (___GFP_FS_BIT))) | (( gfp_t)((((1UL))) <<
(___GFP_HARDWALL_BIT)))) | (( gfp_t)((((1UL))) << (___GFP_HIGHMEM_BIT))))
| (( gfp_t)((((1UL))) << (___GFP_MOVABLE_BIT))) | (( gfp_t)0)) | ((
gfp_t)((((1UL))) << (___GFP_COMP_BIT))) ...
Where the enums names like ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM_BIT are shown and not their
values. User space has no way to convert these names to their values and
the output will fail to parse. What is shown is now:
mm_page_alloc: page=0xffffffff981685f3 pfn=0x1d1ac1 order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=0x140cca
The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro was created to handle enums in the print fmt
files. This causes them to be replaced at boot up with the numbers, so
that user space tooling can parse it. By using this macro, the output is
back to the human readable:
mm_page_alloc: page=0xffffffff981685f3 pfn=0x122233 order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116214438.749504792@goodmis.org
Reported-by: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87be5f7c-1a0-dad-daa0-54e342efaea7@redhat.com/
Fixes: 772dd03427 ("mm: enumerate all gfp flags")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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