Re: [PATCH] scripts/tracetool: silence SystemTap dtrace(1) long long warnings

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> SystemTap's dtrace(1) prints the following warning when it encounters
> long long arguments:
> 
>   Warning: /usr/bin/dtrace:trace/trace-dtrace-hw_virtio.dtrace:76: syntax 
> error near:
>   probe vhost_vdpa_dev_start
> 
>   Warning: Proceeding as if --no-pyparsing was given.
> 
> Use the uint64_t and int64_t types, respectively. This works with all
> host CPU 32- and 64-bit data models (ILP32, LP64, and LLP64) that QEMU
> supports.
> 
> Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/tracetool/format/d.py | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/tracetool/format/d.py b/scripts/tracetool/format/d.py
> index 353722f89c..ebfb714200 100644
> --- a/scripts/tracetool/format/d.py
> +++ b/scripts/tracetool/format/d.py
> @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ def generate(events, backend, group):
>                  # Avoid it by changing probe type to signed char * 
> beforehand.
>                  if type_ == 'int8_t *':
>                      type_ = 'signed char *'
> +
> +            # SystemTap dtrace(1) emits a warning when long long is used
> +            type_ = type_.replace('unsigned long long', 'uint64_t')
> +            type_ = type_.replace('signed long long', 'int64_t')
> +            type_ = type_.replace('long long', 'int64_t')
> +
>              if name in RESERVED_WORDS:
>                  name += '_'
>              args.append(type_ + ' ' + name)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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