linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Move tracepoint callbacks into DEFINE

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Message-ID: <20090821200644.GA7099@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:06:44 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, jiayingz@...gle.com,
	mbligh@...gle.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Move tracepoint callbacks into DEFINE

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:34:28PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 08/21/2009 10:52 AM, Jason Baron wrote:
> > this means that when CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING is set, the 'generic' syscall
> > enter/exit will show up as events in the debugfs, but enabling them
> > wouldn't do anything. I think we should simply drop the
> > 'CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS' 'ifdef' and 'else' clause. That will give us
> > what we want - tying these callbacks directly to tracepoint.
> 
> But only x86 and s390 have TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE, while kernel/tracepoint.c
> must still compile everywhere that has CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y.
> 

ok.

> Maybe it would be better to make that #ifdef TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE, and
> then also #ifdef the TRACE_EVENT declaration, so it will only show up on
> kernels that actually support it.
> 

hmm...maybe then we move these functions to an arch specific file, such
as arch/x86{s390}/kernel/ftrace.c, making the code contigent on
CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS? (I think that required less ifdefs...).

> Also, since this event is now usable outside of ftrace, would you object
> to renaming the flag TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT?
> 

sure.

thanks,

-Jason
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