linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] [GIT PULL] more updates for the tag format

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:01:27 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] [GIT PULL] more updates for the tag format

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:11:40PM +0200, Frédéric Weisbecker wrote:
> Well, indeed I had worries, but I discussed about it with Steven and
> now I actually
> think this new tag format is much more powerful than printf style.
> It brings a cleaner, and much higher level way to control the data exports.
> 
> But it would be nice to read some opinions from end users (end
> developers) of TRACE_EVENT().

Maybe I'm missing something, but looks like the this new format, while
simpler and easier to read, doesn't have support for using a more
complicated C expression as a printk argument.  For example:

	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu mode %d uid %u gid %u blocks %llu",
		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev), __entry->ino, __entry->mode,
		  __entry->uid, __entry->gid, __entry->blocks)

How should I handle the "jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev)" argument to
TP_printk?  The whole point of calling jbd2_dev_to_name() at TP_printk
time is to not bloat the ring buffer with a 32 byte devname.

     	       	     	      	     	  - Ted
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