[apparmor] [PATCH 03/61] trace: update VFS-layer trace events for u64 i_ino

Damien Le Moal dlemoal at kernel.org
Thu Feb 26 22:51:43 UTC 2026


On 2/27/26 00:55, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Update trace event definitions in VFS-layer trace headers to use u64
> instead of ino_t/unsigned long for inode number fields, and change
> format strings from %lu/%lx to %llu/%llx to match.
> 
> This is needed because i_ino is now u64. Changing trace event field
> types changes the binary trace format, but the self-describing format
> metadata handles this transparently for modern trace-cmd and perf.
> 
> Files updated:
>   - cachefiles.h, filelock.h, filemap.h, fs_dax.h, fsverity.h,
>     hugetlbfs.h, netfs.h, readahead.h, timestamp.h, writeback.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>

[...]

> @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(balance_dirty_pages,
>  		  __entry->pause,	/* ms */
>  		  __entry->period,	/* ms */
>  		  __entry->think,	/* ms */
> -		  (unsigned long)__entry->cgroup_ino
> +		  (unsigned long long)__entry->cgroup_ino

Do we really need this cast here ? (same comment for the following events).

Other than this, this looks OK to me.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal at kernel.org>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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