tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files

The sign info used for filters in the kernel is also useful to
applications that process the trace stream.  Add it to the format
files and make it available to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254809398-8078-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index d4ff01970547..e43c928356ee 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -397,18 +397,21 @@ int ring_buffer_print_page_header(struct trace_seq *s)
         int ret;
 
         ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "\tfield: u64 timestamp;\t"
-                               "offset:0;\tsize:%u;\n",
-                               (unsigned int)sizeof(field.time_stamp));
+                               "offset:0;\tsize:%u;\tsigned:%u;\n",
+                               (unsigned int)sizeof(field.time_stamp),
+                               (unsigned int)is_signed_type(u64));
 
         ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "\tfield: local_t commit;\t"
-                               "offset:%u;\tsize:%u;\n",
+                               "offset:%u;\tsize:%u;\tsigned:%u;\n",
                                (unsigned int)offsetof(typeof(field), commit),
-                               (unsigned int)sizeof(field.commit));
+                               (unsigned int)sizeof(field.commit),
+                               (unsigned int)is_signed_type(long));
 
         ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "\tfield: char data;\t"
-                               "offset:%u;\tsize:%u;\n",
+                               "offset:%u;\tsize:%u;\tsigned:%u;\n",
                                (unsigned int)offsetof(typeof(field), data),
-                               (unsigned int)BUF_PAGE_SIZE);
+                               (unsigned int)BUF_PAGE_SIZE,
+                               (unsigned int)is_signed_type(char));
 
         return ret;
 }