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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:35:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from crwood-thinkpadp16vgen1.minnmso.csb ([2601:447:c680:2b50:ee6f:85c2:7e3e:ee98]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e9e14a558f8ab-435a9056bdasm77369065ab.4.2025.11.25.09.35.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:35:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <99c2109dd8c4b65be34f5ee00575a267da10b002.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [rtla 07/13] rtla: Introduce timerlat_restart() helper From: Crystal Wood To: Wander Lairson Costa Cc: Steven Rostedt , Tomas Glozar , Ivan Pravdin , John Kacur , Costa Shulyupin , Tiezhu Yang , "open list:Real-time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tools" , open list , "open list:BPF [MISC]:Keyword:(?:\\b|_)bpf(?:\\b|_)" Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:35:30 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <20251117184409.42831-1-wander@redhat.com> <20251117184409.42831-8-wander@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 11:20 -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 9:46=E2=80=AFPM Crystal Wood = wrote: > >=20 > > On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 15:41 -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: >=20 > > > + > > > + if (timerlat_bpf_restart_tracing()) { > > > + err_msg("Error restarting BPF trace\n")= ; > > > + return -1; > > > + } > >=20 > > [insert rant about not being able to use exceptions in userspace code i= n > > the year 2025] > >=20 >=20 > I actually find exceptions an anti-pattern. Modern languages like Zig, > Go and Rust came back to error returning. Maybe I'm behind the times, but I see exceptions and error returns as complementary... not everything should be an exception and I can certainly see how they could be overused in an anti-pattern way, but they're nice for getting useful information out rather than "something failed" without having to add a bunch of debug prints. -Crystal