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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
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On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:17:59PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> More precisely, it's the piece of code that copies the trace into an
> __entry pointer.  In my case, __entry has nothing to do with the ring
> buffer.

Well, it should be the ring buffer.  If you want to do something more
fancy rewrite it in proper C code and submit a patch for discussion to
lkml.