netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, tracing: unbreak lttng

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Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
        linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, tracing: unbreak lttng

----- On Mar 26, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Alexei Starovoitov ast@...nel.org wrote:
[...]
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
> -void *
> -for_each_kernel_tracepoint(void *(*fct)(struct tracepoint *tp, void *priv),
> +void
> +for_each_kernel_tracepoint(void (*fct)(struct tracepoint *tp, void *priv),
> 			   void *priv);
> +struct tracepoint *kernel_tracepoint_find_by_name(const char *name);
> #else
> -static inline void *
> -for_each_kernel_tracepoint(void *(*fct)(struct tracepoint *tp, void *priv),
> +static inline void
> +for_each_kernel_tracepoint(void (*fct)(struct tracepoint *tp, void *priv),
> 			   void *priv)
> {
> 	return NULL;
> }

This patch is not reverting to the old code properly. It introduces a
static inline void function that returns NULL. Please compile-test
with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=n before submitting a patch involving tracepoints.

But this patch should not even be needed in the first place, because it
partially reverts changes that were introduced in the bpf-next tree without
any Acked-by from the tracing maintainers. I don't see any need to obfuscate
the git log of tracepoint.{c,h}.

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com