perf trace: Pretty print buffer data

Define TRACE_AUG_MAX_BUF in trace_augment.h data, which is the maximum
buffer size we can augment. BPF will include this header too.

Print buffer in a way that'

perf trace: Pretty print buffer data

Define TRACE_AUG_MAX_BUF in trace_augment.h data, which is the maximum
buffer size we can augment. BPF will include this header too.

Print buffer in a way that's different than just printing a string, we
print all the control characters in \digits (such as \0 for null, and
\10 for newline, LF).

For character that has a bigger value than 127, we print the digits
instead of the character itself as well.

Committer notes:

Simplified the buffer scnprintf to avoid using multiple buffers as
discussed in the patch review thread.

We can't really all 'buf' args to SCA_BUF as we're collecting so far
just on the sys_enter path, so we would be printing the previous 'read'
arg buffer contents, not what the kernel puts there.

So instead of:
static int syscall_fmt__cmp(const void *name, const void *fmtp)
@@ -1987,8 +1989,6 @@ syscall_arg_fmt__init_array(struct syscall_arg_fmt *arg, struct tep_format_field
- else if (strstr(field->type, "char *") && strstr(field->name, "buf"))
- arg->scnprintf = SCA_BUF;

Do:

static const struct syscall_fmt syscall_fmts[] = {
+ { .name = "write", .errpid = true,
+ .arg = { [1] = { .scnprintf = SCA_BUF /* buf */, from_user = true, }, }, },

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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