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From:   Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:22:24 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:48 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:31:40 -0700
> Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> wrote:
>
> > @@ -2391,60 +2460,61 @@ static int check_expr_operands(struct trace_array *tr,
> >  static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
> >                                    struct trace_event_file *file,
> >                                    char *str, unsigned long flags,
> > -                                  char *var_name, unsigned int level)
> > +                                  char *var_name, unsigned int *n_subexprs)
> >  {
> >       struct hist_field *operand1 = NULL, *operand2 = NULL, *expr = NULL;
> >       unsigned long operand_flags;
> >       int field_op, ret = -EINVAL;
> >       char *sep, *operand1_str;
> >
> > -     if (level > 3) {
> > +     if (*n_subexprs > 3) {
>
> Why limit the sub expressions, and not just keep the limit of the level of
> recursion. We allow 3 levels of recursion, but we could have more than 3
> sub expressions.
>
>
> If we have:  a * b + c / d - e * f / h
>
> It would break down into:
>               -
>        +            /
>    *       /     *     h
>  a   b   c  d  e  f
>
>
> Which I believe is 6 "sub expressions", but never goes more than three deep
> in recursion:
>
>    "a * b + c / d - e * f / h"
>
> Step 1:
>
>   op = "-"
>   operand1 = "a * b + c / d"
>   operand2 = "e * f / h"
>
> Process operand1: (recursion level 1)
>
>   op = "+"
>   operand1a = "a * b"
>   operand2a = "c / d"
>
> Process operand1a: (recursion level 2)
>
>   op = "*"
>   operand1b = "a"
>   operand2b = "b"
>
> return;
>
> Process operand1b: (recursion level 2)
>
>   op = "/"
>   operand1b = "c"
>   operand2b = "d"
>
> return;
>
> return;
>
> Process operand2: (recursion level 1)
>
>   op = "/"
>   operand1c = "e * f"
>   operand2c = "h"
>
> Process operand1c: (recursion level 2)
>
>   op = "*"
>   operand1c = "e"
>   operand2c = "f"
>
> return;
>
> return;
>
>
>
> > +
> > +     /* LHS of string is an expression e.g. a+b in a+b+c */
> > +     operand1 = parse_expr(hist_data, file, operand1_str, operand_flags, NULL, n_subexprs);
> >       if (IS_ERR(operand1)) {
> >               ret = PTR_ERR(operand1);
> >               operand1 = NULL;
>
> I wonder if we should look for optimizations, in case of operand1 and
> operand2 are both constants?
>
> Just perform the function, and convert it into a constant as well.

I think we achieve something like this by propagating up the
HIST_FIELD_FL_CONST flag. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll update this
in the next version.

Thanks,
Kalesh

>
> -- Steve