The TRACE_EVENT() macro handles dynamic strings by having:
TP_PROTO(struct some_struct *s), TP_ARGS(s), TP_STRUCT__entry( __string(my_string, s->string) ), TP_fast_assign( __assign_str(my_string, s->string); ) TP_printk("%s", __get_str(my_string)) There's even some code that may call a function helper to find the s->string value. The problem with the above is that the work to get the s->string is done twice. Once at the __string() and again in the __assign_str(). The length of the string is calculated via a strlen(), not once, but twice (using strcpy). The length is actually already recorded in the data location from __string() and here's no reason to call strcpy() in __assign_str() as the length is already known. The __string() macro uses dynamic_array() which has a helper structure that is created holding the offsets and length of the string fields. Instead of finding the string twice, just save it off in another field in that helper structure, and have __assign_str() use that instead. Steven Rostedt (Google) (2): tracing: Rework __assign_str() and __string() to not duplicate getting the string tracing: Do not calculate strlen() twice for __string() fields ---- include/trace/stages/stage2_data_offsets.h | 4 ++-- include/trace/stages/stage5_get_offsets.h | 15 ++++++++++----- include/trace/stages/stage6_event_callback.h | 14 ++++++++++---- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)