linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] Task Watchers v2: Task watchers v2

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Date:	Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:22:34 -0500
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>,
	LSE-Tech <lse-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Chandra S Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Task Watchers v2: Task watchers v2

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 20:22 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> +/*
> + * Watch for events occuring within a task and call the supplied
> function
> + * when (and only when) the given event happens.
> + * Only non-modular kernel code may register functions as
> task_watchers.
> + */
> +#define task_watcher_func(ev, fn) \
> +static task_watcher_fn __task_watcher_##ev##_##fn __attribute_used__
> \
> +       __attribute__ ((__section__ (".task_watchers." #ev))) = fn
> +#else
> +#error "task_watcher() macro may not be used in modules."
> +#endif 

You should make this TASK_WATCHER_FUNC() or even just TASK_WATCHER(). It
looks a little goofy in the code that uses it.

Looking at it now could you do something like,

static int __task_watcher_init 
audit_alloc(unsigned long val, struct task_struct *tsk)

Instead of a macro? Might be a little less invasive.

Daniel 


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