Hi David,

I tried validating series to see the trace results but babeltrace throws error 
while reading metadata file and traces can’t be generated.
Can you please have a look into this ?

Thanks.

From: Sunil Kumar Kori
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2025 5:09 PM
To: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>; Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com>; Kevin Laatz 
<kevin.la...@intel.com>; Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Tyler 
Retzlaff <roret...@linux.microsoft.com>; Andre Muezerie 
<andre...@linux.microsoft.com>; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; Stephen 
Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] trace: fix undefined behavior in 
register

Hi David,

I will look into this at earliest and provide feedback.

Thanks

From: David Marchand 
<david.march...@redhat.com<mailto:david.march...@redhat.com>>
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2025 2:20 PM
To: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com<mailto:jer...@marvell.com>>; Sunil Kumar 
Kori <sk...@marvell.com<mailto:sk...@marvell.com>>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>; Chengwen Feng 
<fengcheng...@huawei.com<mailto:fengcheng...@huawei.com>>; Kevin Laatz 
<kevin.la...@intel.com<mailto:kevin.la...@intel.com>>; Bruce Richardson 
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<roret...@linux.microsoft.com<mailto:roret...@linux.microsoft.com>>; Andre 
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Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org<mailto:step...@networkplumber.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] trace: fix undefined behavior in register

Hello Jerin, Sunil, On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3: 59 PM David Marchand <david. 
marchand@ redhat. com> wrote: > > Registering a tracepoint handler was 
resulting so far in undefined > behavior at runtime. > > The 
RTE_TRACE_POINT_REGISTER()


Hello Jerin, Sunil,



On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM David Marchand

<david.march...@redhat.com<mailto:david.march...@redhat.com>> wrote:

>

> Registering a tracepoint handler was resulting so far in undefined

> behavior at runtime.

>

> The RTE_TRACE_POINT_REGISTER() macro was casting the tracepoint handler

> (which expects arguments) to a void (*)(void).

> At runtime, calling this handler while registering resulted in

> reading the current stack with no relation to this function prototype.

>

> Instead, declare an additional inline _register() handler for each

> tracepoint and make sure that the emitting macros in

> rte_trace_point_register.h only work on arguments name and type.

>

> The original tracepoint handler prototype is adjusted by adding a

> __rte_unused for each argument (since emitting macros do nothing

> with them).

> This last part introduces an implementation limit of 15 arguments.

>

> With this change in place, the workaround in dmadev tracepoints can be

> removed.

>

> Signed-off-by: David Marchand 
> <david.march...@redhat.com<mailto:david.march...@redhat.com>>



Can I have your opinion and review on this patch?



Thanks.





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David Marchand


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