tracing: Add __field_struct macro for TRACE_EVENT()

Currently the __field() macro in TRACE_EVENT is only good for primitive
values, such as integers and pointers, but it fails on complex data types
such as structures or unions. This is because the __field() macro
determines if the variable is signed or not with the test of:

  (((type)(-1)) < (type)1)

Unfortunately, that fails when type is a structure.

Since trace events should support structures as fields a new macro
is created for such a case called __field_struct() which acts exactly
the same as __field() does but it does not do the signed type check
and just uses a constant false for that answer.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
index 6af373236d7..4b0113f73ee 100644
--- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
+++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
  * struct:  This defines the way the data will be stored in the ring buffer.
  *    There are currently two types of elements. __field and __array.
  *    a __field is broken up into (type, name). Where type can be any
- *    type but an array.
+ *    primitive type (integer, long or pointer). __field_struct() can
+ *    be any static complex data value (struct, union, but not an array).
  *    For an array. there are three fields. (type, name, size). The
  *    type of elements in the array, the name of the field and the size
  *    of the array.