On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 02:32:15PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Steven Rostedt wrote on Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 11:15:24PM -0500:
> > > Also, for custom tracepoints e.g. bpftrace the program needs to know how
> > > many bytes can be read safely even if it's just for dumping -- unless
> > > dynamic_array is a "fat pointer" that conveys its own size?
> > > (Sorry didn't take the time to check)
> > 
> > Yes, there's also a __get_dynamic_array_len(line) that will return the
> > allocated length of the line. Is that what you need?
> 
> Yes, thanks! So the lower two bytes of the field are its position in
> the entry and the higher two bytes its size; ok.
> It doesn't look like bpftrace has any helper for it but that can
> probably be sorted out if someone wants to dump data there.
> 
> 
> Let's update the event to use a dynamic array and have printk fomrat to
> use %*ph with that length.
> 
> JP Kobryn, does that sound good to you? I'm not sure what you were
> trying to do in the first place.
> Do you want to send a v2 or shall I?

Sounds good. I'll send out a v2. Thanks Steve for recommending the
dynamic array macros.

JP
> 
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> Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus

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