Re: [PATCH 1/4] tracing: add DEFINE_TRACE_FMT to tracepoint.h

[Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> This patch creates a DEFINE_TRACE_FMT to map to DECLARE_TRACE.
> This allows for the developers to place format strings and
> args in with their tracepoint declaration. A tracer may now
> override the DEFINE_TRACE_FMT macro and use it to record
> a default format.
> 

Hi Steven,

How comes does a DEFINE_* maps to a DECLARE_* ?

Usually, DEFINE_* are meant to be put in .c files. DECLARE_* are in
headers. I don't see how the mapping you propose here can be
semantically correct ?

Mathieu

> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/tracepoint.h |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> index 7570054..34ae464 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> @@ -153,4 +153,7 @@ static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
>  	synchronize_sched();
>  }
>  
> +#define DEFINE_TRACE_FMT(name, proto, args, fmt)		\
> +	DECLARE_TRACE(name, TPPROTO(proto), TPARGS(args))
> +
>  #endif
> -- 
> 1.5.6.5
> 
> -- 
> 

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