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Usually, char * entries are dangerous in traces because the string can be released whereas a pointer to it can still wait to be read from the ring buffer. But sometimes we can assume it's safe, like in case of RO data (eg: __file__ or __line__, used in bkl trace event). If these RO data are in a module and so is the call to the trace event, then it's safe, because the ring buffer will be flushed once this module get unloaded. To allow char * to be treated as a string: TRACE_EVENT(..., TP_STRUCT__entry( __field_ext(const char *, name, FILTER_PTR_STRING) ... ) ... ); The filtering will not dereference "char *" unless the developer explicitly sets FILTER_PTR_STR in __field_ext. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7B9287.90205@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>