Re: [PATCH 6/6] eventfs: clean up dentry ops and add revalidate function

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 08:07:15 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Then tracefs could be nicely converted over to kernfs, and eventfs would be
> > its own entity.  
> 
> If so, maybe we can just make symlinks to the 'id' and 'format' from events
> under tracefs? :)

I don't think that will save anything. The files currently do not allocate
any memory. If we make symlinks, we need to allocate a path, to them. I
think that would be rather difficult to do. Not to mention, that could
cause a lot of breakage. What do you do if the other filesystem isn't
mounted?

I could possibly make a light way handle to pass back to the callbacks.

struct trace_event_light {
	unsigned long			flags
	struct trace_event_call		*event_call;
};

struct trace_event_file {
	struct trace_event_light	call;
	[..]
	// Remove he flags and event_call and have it above
};

if the callback data has:

 callback(..., void **data)
 {
	struct trace_event_light *call = *data;
	struct trace_event_file *file;

	If (strcmp(name, "id") == 0 || strcmp(name, "format") == 0) {
		*data = call->event_call;
		return 1;
	}

	/* Return if this is just a light data entry */
	if (!(data->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FULL))
		return 0;

	file = container_of(data, struct trace_event_file, call);

	// continue processing the full data
}

This way the lonely eventfs could still share a lot of the code.

-- Steve