> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 8:29 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com>; Kevin Laatz
> <kevin.la...@intel.com>; Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>;
> Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; Sunil Kumar Kori <sk...@marvell.com>; Tyler
> Retzlaff <roret...@linux.microsoft.com>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v2 3/3] trace: fix undefined behavior in register
>
> 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 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.
To reduce the complexity of N number of variable argument, I thought reading.
SP should be fine(Not writing and corrupting it). Looks like some optimization
is dmadev
Trace not liking this. I am good with your N arguments scheme.
>
> +#define
> RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_COUNT_(_0,_1,_2,_3,_4,_5,_6,_7,_8,_9,_10,_11,_12,
> _13,_14,_15,N, ...) \
> + N
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_COUNT(...) \
> +
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_COUNT_(__VA_ARGS__,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,
> 4,3
> +,2,1,0)
> +
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_1(a) __rte_unused a #define
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_2(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_1(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_3(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_2(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_4(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_3(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_5(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_4(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_6(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_5(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_7(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_6(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_8(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_7(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_9(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_8(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_10(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_9(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_11(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_10(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_12(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_11(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_13(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_12(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_14(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_13(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_15(a, ...) __rte_unused a,
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_14(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_FUNC(a) RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_ ## a
> #define
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_EXPAND(...) __VA_ARGS__ #define
> +RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_(N, ...) \
> +
> RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_EXPAND(RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_FUNC(N))
> (__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS(...) \
> + (RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_(RTE_TRACE_POINT_ARGS_COUNT(0,
> __VA_ARGS__),
> +__VA_ARGS__))
> +
> +#define __RTE_TRACE_POINT(_mode, _tp, _args, ...) \ extern
> +rte_trace_point_t __##_tp; \ static __rte_always_inline void _tp _args
> +{ } \ static __rte_always_inline void \ _tp ## _register (void) \ { \
> + __rte_trace_point_emit_header_##_mode(&__##_tp); \
> + __VA_ARGS__ \
I have not tested this code, Will this calling __rte_trace_point_emit* version
of register?
If not, CTF spec file not generated properly.
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/main/lib/eal/include/rte_trace_point_register.h#L35
